Good Job, Brain! - 95: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #19

Episode Date: January 23, 2014

We all made quizzes that are a little wackier and more off-the-beaten path this week! Colin hosts a round of "BRAD PITT.....OR LASERS?!" and quizzes us on famous things named after a who, a what, or a where. Dana treats us to some dangerously tasting traditional candy from Sweden while we try to guess the flavor. Karen invites everyone to explore American regional dialects with a vocab test, and Chris came up with questions about strange airline facts while on an airplane. ALSO: Karen tells the classic tale, "How My Mom Got Punched in the Face." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, dudes and do debts and do gooders. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 95, and of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your trying troupe of troubadours tracking down trivia treasure troves. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And I'm Chris.

And today is episode 95. It's our all-quiz bonanza. We do an all-quist show every fifth episode where we don't really have a topic. We each prepare different quizzes and fun puzzles to try to stump each other. and stump you guys, listeners. So without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment. Pop Quiz, Hot Shot. This is a weird card.

I'm going to say that. It's my disclaimer. It's a weird card. We're not trying to stump everybody. I mean, you know. It's fun to say. I want you to get someone right. Here we go.

Flu Wedge for geography. What German car company name means people's car. Everybody Volkswagen Volkswagen All right Pink Wedge for pop culture What

Where did a tribe called Quest Leave their wallet They left their wallet in El Segundo Yes From a very famous Tribe Call Quest song Okay I left my wallet in El Segundo

Yeah you can Yeah that's okay I gotta get it I gotta get it You could be making that up And I would have no idea I was like, aren't there multiple members? Do they all have collectively...

They share a wallet. What's why it's so important? They get it back, wasn't it? Three IDs in there. Whoever wrote that question, thought they were being clever. Yeah. Oh, oh. You think that.

Wait a while I see this? Until we get to the purple wedge. All right. Yellow wedge. Who comes after the U.S. Vice President in the line of presidential succession? Chris. I believe this is the Speaker of the House.

I believe that's right. Correct. And then it's like the Secretary of State or something like that. Doesn't stay on the cards. Oh, okay. All right, so let's not talk about it. All right. Purple Wedge.

What species of whale is Moby Dick? Colin. The white whale, right? Great white whale? Or are they looking for the scientific? Is it sperm whale? It's a sperm whale. It's a sperm whale.

I watched blackfish today, which is not about sperm whales. Oh, that's the documentary about killer whales, right? I don't know. It feels like it's going to make me sad. It will. Okay. It makes you look at them really differently. Okay.

All right. Green Wedge for Science. What was the first text message ever sent to a cell phone in December 1992? What you wearing? You up? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Real guesses? Nobody wants to give me a real.

The first text message ever sent to a cell phone in 1992. I'll guess, I'll guess, hello world. Test. Test, test. It is Merry Christmas, sent by a British engineer to a colleague. Huh. So that colleague must. It was sent in June, though.

Yeah. We'll head away for the colleague to get a cell phone. Right, right, right. The first text message was received in 1993. Oh, that dry British humor. All right. Orange Wedge. Last question. How much did the U.S. birth rate of twins climb from 1980 to 2004? Multiple choice. Okay. Good.

40%, 70% or 85%. Whoa. 40%. Yeah. 80%. What? 70%. What are we doing?

That's because of fertility drugs. Oh. That's a big part of it, but I would not have guessed 70%. Yeah, yeah, because now they get... It says here, older age at childbirth and fertility enhancement have increased multiple births. That makes a lot more sense. Older age at childbirth. All right.

All quiz. Yes. 19. Oh, yes. 19. Good math. Yeah, because I know next one is 20. No.

Yeah. All right. Who wants to go first? I'll go first. Oh, all right. All right. I had a good time putting together this quiz for you guys. Oh.

This quiz is called Brad Pitt or Lasers. Interesting So What? That's not obvious to you what the quiz is about? This quiz is going to be sets of pairs of wildly unrelated things. Okay. And you need to tell me which is older. So in every pair that I will be giving you, they are separated by at most six years.

Okay. Sometimes a matter of months. So these are all very close to each other. So you each have a pad of paper. You guys will all be providing an answer here. So let's start off with the namesake question of this quiz. Which is older? Brad Pitt or lasers?

Answers up. Karen and Chris say Brad Pitt. Dana says lasers. It is actually lasers. Oh, that was a trick question. They're very close. Brad Pitt was born in 1963. The first functioning laser.

was operated in 1960. Wow. I knew Brad Pitt turned 50. He did. Recently. He just did. Which is older? Oreo cookies or the Model T. Ford.

Oh. Oreo cookies. Originally induced as Oreo Bistitz or the Model T. Ford. I feel like we've talked about Oreos before. I bet Hydrox came out first. Yeah, maybe I'm thinking of hydrogs. I think they did, yeah, but. But they were close.

Oh, you're keeping score? Just for the archives, for the archives. All right. Answers up. Dana and Chris say Oreos. Karen says Model T Ford. It is the Model T for. No trick questions so far.

No trick questions. Yes, there will be no trick questions. The Model T was introduced in 1908. Oreos were introduced in 1912. Four years. It was the 100-year anniversary recent life. And I was like, I was like, they had all those cute ads and stuff. Okay.

Which is older. The saxophone or Salt Lake City, Utah. Did you just like pick two things and you're like? I had a lot of fun putting this one together. How do you? Answers up. Dana and Chris say saxophone. Karen says Salt Lake City.

It is, in fact, The saxophone. I'm on the board. The saxophone invented in 1841 by Adolf Sachs. What? Yes. A Belgian music. Mr. Sacks.

Yes, Mr. Sacks. And Salt Lake City, or great Salt Lake City, as it was originally known, founded in 1847 by Brigham Young at all. Which is older? Justin Bieber or the Sony Playwright? PlayStation. Wait. PlayStation 1. The original

Sony PlayStation before it had a number appended. And Chris, in case you're curious, this would be when it was released in Japan. Because I know you

have very fine-grained knowledge of such things. Yeah, this is close. It's very close. I know the year Justin B. It is very close.

It is very close, but I think I got this. Okay. All right. Answers up. Everyone says Sony PlayStation, everyone is wrong. Oh, what? Justin Bieber was born March 1st, 1994.

The Sony PlayStation was introduced December 3rd, 1994. Yes. By a hair. Yes. Great, great year for entertainment. Well, that was also the year Kirk Cobain died. Oh, way to bring us down. Maybe he, was he revived as, was he, yeah, was he reverted?

Is the PlayStation or Justin Bieber? Which is older? The Mouse Trap or the game of basketball. Oh. By the Mousetrap, you mean the classic spring-loaded one? Yep. She's included or not included. She's not included.

Just the trap. All right. All right. Answers up. Karen and Chris say Mousetrap. Dana says basketball. It is, in fact, basketball. Whoa.

Yes. Basketball invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith. The Mousetrap invented and patented in 1894 by William C. Hooker. That's by William Mousetrap.

By William James. It's pronounced Mousetrap. Mouset. Which is older? Betty White or penicillin. Oh. That's good.

She. answers up Karen says Penicillin Chris and Dana both say Betty White Betty White is in fact older than Penicillian

Betty White was born in 19202 Penicillin was discovered and isolated in 1988 she's a lot older than penicillin yeah she was yeah good

she was a little girl holy cow and of course they did have some idea that mold was involved, but yes, Sir Alexander Fleming coined the name and concentrated it it in 1928. All right. Last one here, guys. We'll close this out. Which is older? The first episode of The Simpsons for the earliest known webpage. Interesting. Known web page. The oldest known web page. Answers up. Karen says Simpsons. Chris and Dana

say first web page. Karen is correct. Whoa. The Simpsons Christmas episode aired in 1989. Yes. And the generally accepted date for the oldest known web page is 1991. It is... What was it?

It is possible there were web pages as early as 1990, but the Simpsons would still be earlier. Be earlier. Yes. What was the first web page? It's a long and not very interesting story. Tim Berners-Lee has a copy of it on a disc. It's just, it's a super, super nerdy story. Okay.

Yeah. All right. Well done, guys. Let's tally up our scores here. All right. And our winner coming out on top is Dana with a whopping four points. The winner of... The winner of... Brad Pitt or Lasers. I'll take both, please. Well done, guys. So I went to Sweden a few weeks ago. I heard stories about their candy from my mom randomly when I was a little kid. And she'd tell me about the flavors they had and we'd laugh, which was such a weird jerky thing to do.

It sounds like a one-sided conversation. So I brought back a taste of Sweden for you guys. But I'm not going to tell you what the flavors are. Okay, all right, okay. But I'm going to give it to you. So some of these are traditional. Some of them are new. I found out.

Okay. We'll be kind of a blind taste test, except you can see the candy. It's okay for you to look at it. Okay. You just taste it. tell me what you think it is and then I'll tell you So we can look and we can taste But we can't know

We must simply guess. I won't tell you Right. Are you going to tell us the name of the candy beforehand? I can tell you the Swedish name Yeah, sure. All right. I've been trying to practice my Swedish pronunciation of these. I said it's better than ours. Well, it still might not be right. So sorry for the Swedish listener for laughing at your candy and also

for mispronouncing. We're not laughing at your candy. We're laughing with York. We're laughing because it's that. Okay, here you go. Yeah. The first one is called saltam mice knicks. Yeah. Salty mice nuts.

Salty mice nuts. Delicious salty mice nuts. Well, they look like those Ritter bars. It looked like chocolate. This does not look. This looks like we're getting off to an easy start here. Yeah, I'm starting you guys. Yeah.

I'm gently, I'm gently easing you into the. experience. So there's nuts in here. Okay, so it's chocolate, and there are things that look like. Yeah, crunchy things inside. There are size of nuts, but they're not nuts. It tastes corny.

It does. It almost has like a corn nuts. It's a familiar flavor for sure. So it's basically, it's a bar of chocolate with... Are they peas or is it corn? They can't identify what it is. I vote corn. Yeah, I vote corn.

It's corn nuts. They're salted corn. That's good. Chocolate bar. I like it Yeah pretzels and chocolate This one is called

Turkish I'm not pronouncing it correctly It's actually made in Finland But it's super common In Sweden and in Denmark I don't trust black colored candy Hard candy

And if you bite into it I'm told Whoa Wow Oh my I'm scared I'm so scared Do it just by the end of it

Oh Alright so liquorish on the outside for sure That was It's like a burst of salt Yeah It's like salt Is it also hot Oh maybe some pepper

Oh god It's so salty It's like salt and pepper Wrapped in licorice Usually when there's like salt in your mouth It goes away after a while Yeah But it just keeps building and building.

It's a tsunami. It's a salt grenade. It is. I think I have now fired all of these salt receptors off my tongue. That's bracing. Oh, God, my toes are curling. Wow. I did not enjoy that.

So my friend was like, oh, no, they're really interesting when you bite into it. But I'll be honest with you, I couldn't make it to the bite into it part of that candy. I was like, oh, no, I'm taking it. You have not had the experience. It was in my mouth for a while. And I was like, nope, nope. You foisted this on us. I have a pallet cleanser for you guys, though.

Yeah, that was a pallet cleanser in the sense. Everything's wiped out. A little boy were household cleaners. It's like you when you burn your tongue and your taste buds are kind of numb. Yeah. It feels like that. Your mouth is just like a void of sensation. Okay.

This is Bilar. Balar? Do you say it's Bugar? Bilar. Oh, okay. What are they shaped like? They're shaped like little animals?

Sharks. Are they Swedish fish? They're either, they're either cars or sharks. Oh, I'm there's Swedish fish? They're in pastel colors. No, they probably taste like burning.

Bular is Swedish for a... I think it's a little race car. They're a little race car. Yeah, Belar is Swedish for a car. I have one of each color. It kind of looks like someone took normal marshmallows. and squish them into little cars.

It does. Like someone made these. Yeah. Wow, that's remarkably resilient. You're squished down, aren't it, it returns to its original state. Yeah. They call these Sweden's most purchased car, because Bilar means car in Swedish. This is Sweden's most tasteless candy.

It's because we don't have tasteless. Yeah. They're actually quite savory if you haven't just eaten the salt grenade. It feels like it's in the same. family is like circus peanuts. It's like a marshmallow. You know those rings, gummy rings, sometimes they have a white

underside? Like they're two-sided? It tastes like the white part. It does. You're right. Yes, it totally does. Yep. All right. So this is the last candy. It's been described as like, oh, you have to try this. This is the classic Swedish candy. Everybody's had. It's really old. Old type of candy.

It's called Younger Roll, which means Jungle Roar. You know what I'm scared. by is the fact that it's so small. I'm scared that it's the color black because it always means licorice. This looks like a poisonous fish. You know what I mean? Like on like the nature channel

they're like, it's markings indicate its deadliness. It's black with white stripes. Yeah. Oh, they're little squirrels. Maybe monkeys. The package has monkey. Oh, you know what? Yeah, it's like a monkey profile and it's covered in sugar.

Oh, my. Wow. That packs a punch. I don't want to do it. You can take it out. It's so salty. Do they need to get their sodium from their candy? It tastes like Plato.

Yes. Oh, ma'am. Once you get past the cahoiding. How is this candy? Once you get past the cahoning of table salt on this thing. Yeah, I thought it was sugar. It is at least just a piece of sticky licorice. Now it's fine.

This thing is now taking the shape of one of my molars and will be there forever. After the initial salt wears off, it's actually kind of tasty. No. That's my least favorite out of all of them for sure. No, I don't know. That is, oh God, yeah, that whatever, what is that one called? The Turkish pepper? The Turkish pepper?

Yeah, peber. Pepper? Turkish pepper is what batteries taste like. It's sold everywhere. It's actually, I think, a finish, or from Finland. Well, there you go. Can I have some more corn, nuts, chocolate? Yeah, you started out with the most delicious.

Oh, things started out so good. This is going to be a great segment. These are awesome. Wow. It's trick candy. No, they eat it sincerely. They don't even, their eyes don't even tear up when they're eating it. Like, they've built up some kind of immunity.

Unlike you babies. Yeah. I mean, we're wusses. We're told wusses. We're used to a different flavor profile. Mm-hmm. We're just used to crap a load of sugar. Sugar, sugar, sugar.

Anyway, there you guys go. All right. Yay. Good job. Thank you, Sweden. Thank you, Sweden. Sorry. You're kidding.

I made his cry. I guess I'll go next. During the holiday break, I don't know if you guys came across a special quiz slash article on New York Times. It's a quiz that you can take. It asks you 25 questions, and it will pinpoint you just by answering questions, where you're from. Oh, okay. Dialect or language Where your American English speech is from

What region within the United States? Right. One popular example is soda. Right. Different parts of America, you call soda different things. Soda, pop, fizzy. Some people call Coke, even though you're drinking a Sprite, still call Coke. Right.

And all of those terms and vocabulary is tied to the regional dialect of American English. There's a great study done at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, that had a list of a lot of these kind of vocabulary tests and whatnot. So I'm going to ask you guys, you guys have pads of paper, I'm going to ask you guys a couple questions, vocab quiz. First question, and this is a callback. Oh, so there's no wrong answers. Just tell me what you think, what you call us. Oh, pressure's off, you know. First question, what do you call the drink?

made with milk and ice cream. And as you guys are writing this down, I just want to say on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee linguistics dialect website, they actually show a map, like a map of dots, you know, say this word and how many people in this other color of dots say this word. Right. All right, everybody answers up. You got to pick one, Chris. Primarily, primarily the first one that I wrote down.

So Chris says milkshake, Dana says milkshake, Colin says milkshake. Of course, milkshake slash shake, 96%. Where I grew up, that FRAP was a synonym for milkshake. Yeah, absolutely. 2%. And within the map, you see, it's like a very small area. Right. Centred on Chris's home.

Even a smaller area of people, cabinet. Cabinette. Cabin. That you are from Rhode Island. Rhode Island. Right? Yeah. That you can pinpoint you.

It's like there are a bunch of dots for milkshake all over place and then like two dots for Cabinet. All right. Next question. What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining? If you don't have a word for any of these questions, you can just say no word. There's a phrase. Phrase is fine. What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining? Answers up. I thought you said milkshake again. Colin says, sad face. Dana says, devil's beating his wife.

And Chris says, sunshower. Yeah. So here's some acceptable answers. Sunshower is primarily an East Coast term. There we go. The devil beating his wife is a term used in the South. Another one. The wolf is giving birth.

He is in the Midwest, primarily Wisconsin, Indiana. And there are other terms, too. Monkey's Wedding, Fox's Wedding, Pineapple Rain, Liquid Sun. Like you, Colin, I had no term for this. No. I was like, I didn't even know that happens. Yeah. I've heard the expression, devil beating his wife.

I must have missed. I always thought that was like a thunderstorm or something like that. But it has a very specific meaning, clearly. Wow, yeah. And our word for it is so literal. Yeah. Sun, right, yeah. I like liquid sun.

Liquid Sun is good. Can I start calling it Liquid Sun? Just a small population. A lot of these are like small places. My dad's from the South and he told me. Oh, really? I was like, that's not very nice. He's like, yeah, that's not very nice.

But you started saying it. I was like, well, that's what it's called. That's what my dad says. I guess it's okay. All right. What do you call the small gray bug that curls up into a ball when it's touched? Uh-huh. All right.

Answers up. Colin says pill bug. Dana says potato bug. What'd you say? Question mark, question mark. Question mark. Prentices. This is out of.

ignorance. Like you don't, you've never seen something. We might have a regional word for it, but I don't know what that is. But what do you call it? I stayed inside and played video games as a child. I didn't go poking bugs. But you know what an animal like this exists? I guess. Yeah, okay. Sure. Okay. A doodle bug. I call it a roly-poly. I've also heard roly-poly. I had friends who, as kids would call it roly-poly. There's also basketball bug, twiddle-bug, and roll-up bug. I've heard doodle bug. Yeah. I didn't know that was a name for the thing. Me neither.

I thought it was just a gentle turn. You doodle bug? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What do you call the miniature lobster that one finds in lakes in streams? All right. Answers. You have to just pick one answer, Chris.

Well, my top answer is always the answer. Interchangeable. Chris and Dana both say crayfish. Yeah. And Colin says crawfish. Right. I say crawfish as well. Codoo.

Some of the answers are crayfish, crawfish, craw, crowfish, and crawdad. Crawdad is more of a Midwest term. Ah, okay. Okay. What do you call the long sandwich that contains cold cuts, lettuce, and soft? Oh, man. Okay, all right. First answer comes to mind.

Yes, okay, yes. This one I have a definite, yeah. Answers up. both Dana and Colin say sub-submarine and Chris S. Hoagie. I do, yes. Which is very regional. Highly.

Primarily in Pennsylvania, but also in other East Coast states. Yep. Other answers are Grindr. Grindr. I've never heard of heard that. Hero. Grinder roll. Hero.

Hero sandwich. A poor boy. Poor boy. From the south. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. What do you call the insect that flies around in the summer and has a rear section that glows in the dark?

Oh, yeah. I didn't know the other name for it. Actually, I'm changing my answer. What? Well, I'm thinking about what did we say when I was a kid. Just say what you call it now. They don't have them in the Bay Area. I think that's the funny thing.

I was reading more about this. A lot of these, you know, like the sun shower question in this question, there are some places that just you don't see it. That's why they don't really have a turn for it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's one of the ways they pinpoint where you are, too. You know. Like, no answer it means.

Yeah, you might have not seen it. Okay. Uh, answers up. Chris says lightning bug. Dana says lightning bug. And Colin says firefly. Yeah. Lightning bug is predominantly an east coast turn. Uh-huh. And, uh, firefly is more common than towards the west. Right. Now, it had firefly, because I think I've switched over to firefly since my childhood. I didn't even know a lightning bug was a turn for it. All right. Next one. All right. Okay. What is, off top your head. What is your general term for rubber sold sheds?

shoes worn in gym class for athletic activities, et cetera. Answers up. Wow. Okay. Chris and Dana both say sneakers. Colin says tennis shoes. I'm on your camp. I call them tennis shoes.

Even though it's not, you're not playing tennis. You just call tennis shoes. Screw up with that. Some people just call them shoes. Gym shoes, sand shoes. That's like a 0.03%. jumpers tennis shoes which is more of a west coast term running shoes runners trainers I never really felt like I had a good term for those yeah that's how I thought tennis shoes

that's how I thought of tennis shoes like oh you're playing tennis yeah all right here's a good one what do you call the gooey or dry matter that collects in the corner of your eyes especially while you're sleeping what do you call delicious And while they're writing, listeners, I encourage you to, you know, just search for New York Times dialect quiz, and you can take this test and see where you get placed. All right. Yeah. Wow.

Okay. So, Chris and Dana on the same wavelength. Yep. Eye boogers. I call them eyepugers, too. Oh, okay. But I mostly call them creed. Yeah.

Oh, okay. Crud or gunk, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Colin, you said sleep. Sleep. Like, wipe the sleep out of your eyes. Right, right, right. Um, here's some, some terms sleep definitely made the list, I-Bugger.

Eye-Bugger. A majority of people call it eye-bigger. There we go. Yeah. Like, it's like boogers, but from your eyes. Um, other names include crackling, sleeper, sleepy, sleepies, sleepy, sleepies, sleepy bugs, eye-crunchy, eye-crusties, and sand. Uh-huh. Very, sand is more poetic.

All right. Last question. And so the thing is with, with this test. really interested in where they place me because I, you know, my American English is from the Bay Area, but also from whatever English training I had back in Asia. And a lot of these questions, they ask me things that I've never seen or experienced before. So I didn't have a lot of terms for this. So this is the last question. I'm going to end it here. I've never seen anything that is described in this question. Okay. What do you call a drive-thru liquor store?

Oh, yeah, we don't have those in California We don't have those in Connecticut, I don't think They could, you know There's a good question of, well, okay, how about this? What do you call a liquor store? Like, that is it? Oh, a liquor store. Yeah.

Well, yeah, but I don't have answers for them. Oh, you don't? Oh, okay. This is specifically drive through a liquor store. Wow. Huh, I mean, I've seen. I've seen pictures of these things, yeah. All right, so it looks like we all don't have no answer.

It also sounds like a horrible idea. So, heaven. Is it like a booze and cruise? What is it? Dive and drive. That's not bad. Gulp and blow. 48% of American said, I've never heard of such a thing.

Okay. All right. This must be a way of further narrow you down into, yeah. The two big ones, East Coast brew through. A brew through. Wow. And in the south, beer barn or beverage barn or party barn. So I will tell you that where I am from when I was growing up,

they called liquor stores, package stores. Huh. Package stores. How many think I've heard that before. And if you were like a college kid, like packy, no one was packy. There you go. Yeah. I love that.

I love those kind of things. Really interesting. Take the quiz and see where you place. Mm-hmm. All right. Let's take a quick ad break. A word from our sponsor. No frills, delivers.

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That's the IGN Daily Update, wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back. You're listening to Good Job, Brain, and this week is our all-quiz episode. I have assembled a quiz for you guys called Who, What, or Where? And I will be naming for you very specific types of inventions or foods or substances. and they are named after a person, a place, or a thing.

Okay. So, for example, we'll start with an easy one. If I were to say, who, what, or where is Kobe Beef named after? You would, of course, say, After a place. Kobe Bryant. Yes. Bad trivia.

Don't give out of bad news. Sorry, yes. Yes, in fact, let's approach this as a two-tiered answer. I said Kobe Bryant was named after. Yeah. Person, place, or thing. So it is a place. So, Chris, please.

Chris, who, what are where is Kobe or where is Kobe? Kobe beef is named after Kobe Japan, the hometown of Kobe Bryant. Right. So, even if you don't have a guess is the exact answer, you got to try and give me a who, what, or where. And then for the full answer, give me. For the bonus point.

Yeah, there we go. All right. Who, what, or where? And I should say, and before I began. When I was a young boy, I should say, I noticed, you know, a lot of these will be, luxury items or gourmet foods because it's often a way of distinguishing oh there's regular

beef and there's co-le beef you'll notice perhaps some themes here okay who what or where is dijon mustard named after caram oops it is a place yes jean france it is the city of djean france where this style of mustard was invented in 1856 and now do you know what makes Dijon mustard, different from other types of mustard? Is it champagne? These days most... Or monks?

They use real monk in the mustard. These days, most Dijon is made with white wine instead of vinegar, but originally they used what's called Verjuice. Oh. Which is like just a really acidic juice from unripe fruit.

Got some right here. Well, there you go. Chris and Dita's a bottle of Verge. Verju. Verju. Do you just drink it? It is Verju, pronounced Verju. Verju is the tart

unfermented juice of unripe wine grapes with high acidity and a tart apple-like flavor. It literally means green juice. Yes. Why would you want it? As an alternative to vinegar and lemon juice. Oh, thank you for answering my question label. So if you made some mustard with that instead of vinegar,

you'd have Dijon. Who, what, or where is the diesel engine named after? Chris. It is named after a who. It is. Yes, Bob Diesel. The diesel engine is named after

Rudolf Diesel. Of course, it's always Rudolf or Adolf. Rudolph, Adolf Sax, Adolf Dostler, Rudolph Dostler, Rudolph Dostler, Rudolph. Place is lousy with Adolfs and Rudolph. Yeah, right. Huh. Who, what, or where is Angus Beef

named after. Angus Beef. You see it everywhere in these days. Yep, yep, yep. Oh, it's Angus Beef? Angus Beef. Angus. Angus.

What? Well, we haven't gotten a what. Yeah. I don't know what an Angus is. Chris has loved him. You know, I was going to say that it is named after a place. It is named after a place. Oh, snap.

Would you care to guess? You can maybe from the sound. You might think Texas because, you know, cattle. Is it Scotland? It is Scotland. Okay. Yes. Ongus County.

Yes. The Angus beef steer cattle are a type of cow. But the marketing is so Texan. It really is very Texan, at least here in the States. Angus beef, you can find them all over the world, and they're named after Angus County. That type of cow was originally bred there. They come in two varieties. Typically, there are Red Angus, and there are Black Angus.

Yes, and here we have the Stuart Anderson's Black Angus restaurant. They serve that type of beef. It is, in fact, the most common type of bee cow in the States. Too bad when the G blacks out on that time. I'm mentally dropping all the Gs from this conversation. It's pretty funny. Yeah, sorry. So we just came out of dungeon-ass-crab season, or I think we're still in it, actually.

So tell me, who, what, or where is dungeon-s-crab named after? A female dungeon. Chris. I'm going to see a place. It is a place. Is it like Dungeoness Bay or something like that where they found the crab? Yeah. It's a dungeon-ass Washington.

Oh, okay. Yes, Dungeon-S was the first commercial fishery on the West Coast, established in 1848, serving up primarily dungeon-est crabs. Right. Well, that's the idea behind food, right? It's that, oh, what comes from this place? Yeah. Who, what, or where are Bing Cherries.

named after Karen immediately. It is a who. It is a who. It is named after, I believe, a Chinese person who, I think was a cherry farmer or somehow ended up with a Bing variety, and they named it after. You have it essentially right. Yeah, they're named after a man named Ah, Bing, A-H, B-I-N-G. He was indeed born in China, moved to the U.S. in the 1850s. and worked at the Luelling Family Orchards in Oregon.

He worked there for years and years and years. It's a little unclear whether he developed the cultivar or whether it was named after him in honor of him. But he was well-loved, well-known there in the orchard. Sadly, I was reading a little bit about him. So, as I say, he was in the States for years and years and years in the late 1800s. He went home for a visit in China in 1889 and ended up being unable to return because of the restrictions in the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Yeah, it's kind of a bummer story. But his legacy lives on in the name of the Bing Cherry. All right, we'll close out with one last food-related one here. Who, what, or where is the Caesar salad named after? It is named after a person. It is. But it is not named after Julius Caesar. It is named after the chef who created it.

That's right. Not Julius, not Augustus. None of the Roman Caesars. Eid all Caesar. It also is her. It was actually his first name. It was named after Caesar Cardini. Yes. And there's Cardini's Caesar dressing, I think you can buy in bottles. He has several restaurants, yeah.

So in around the 1920s, he was living in San Diego, California. He had restaurants both in the States and in Mexico so he could avoid prohibition during the time of prohibition. And yeah, he invented and certainly at least named after the Caesar salad. This is one of those food items where. the exact origin and circumstances have probably been romanticized. You know, sort of the official company story that his daughter tells is, you know, it was the 4th of July 1924, and they were overwhelmed. It was a rush of customers.

You know, my father had to put together a salad with whatever ingredients were on hand. You hear this about a lot of things. You do hear this about a lot of things. I believe it, though. Mother is the... Necessity is the mother of invention. Mother is the necessity of... Right.

Yeah, the necessity of salad mothers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, good job, guys. There weren't any whatts. Yeah, well, that was my way of kind of just throwing out. Oh, my God. There were no once at all in that sneaky way. Because I know you like to do the frequency analysis.

That's part of the game. That is part of the game. Well, the game just changed. Just the elevated game just changed. Yeah. Okay. There are really many reasons. to listen to our podcast, Big Picture Science.

It's kind of a challenge to summarize them all, Molly. Okay, here's a reason to listen to our show, Big Picture Science, because you love to be surprised by science news. We love to be surprised by science news. So, for instance, I learned on our own show that I had been driving around with precious metals in my truck before it was stolen. That was brought up in our show about precious metals and also rare metals, like most of the things in your catalytic converter,

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So the podcast is called Big Picture Science, and you can hear it wherever you get your podcasts. We are the host. Seth is a scientist. I'm a science journalist, and we talk to people smarter than us. We hope you'll take a listen. So I, like many of you, traveled home for the holidays and just got back to the San Francisco area, and I rode on an aeroplane to get here. And while I was on this, it is amazing how plane travel has changed. changed so much since I started flying like 10, 11, 12 years ago.

Like, you know, I get on the plane, I got satellite TV, I got internet, it is totally sweet. Before I used to just have my Game Boy, and the batteries would run out, and that's it. That's it. And then it's like, oh, well, I read the whole in-flight magazine, so I guess it's just sit here and... Time for a Sky Mall the second time. And I'll be alone with my thoughts, and I'm 13, so I don't think of that much. That happened to me, too. But I wrote a quiz, on the airplane, using the magic.

in-flight internet. And I started thinking about... Oh, like, like writing on your electronic... On my laptop, on the plane, wrote a quiz. Not on the vomit bag with a pen. I actually wrote a quiz on the plane. And I started like, what topic should I write about? And I decided, apropos of absolutely nothing, to write a quiz about air travel.

Okay. Didn't take me long to come up with the idea. And here is just a bunch of random questions that I thought of. the Australian airline Qantas What does the Q stand for? I don't know it was Kant. Oh, is it Contis?

No. I think it's Qantas. Quantis. You know there's no you? I believe it's Queensland. It stands for Queensland. Yes. Yeah, there you go.

Because I think the whole name is Queensland and Northern Territory. Airline surface. Something like that. Yeah, it's definitely Queensland and then Northern Territory and then I forget the rest. What airline was formed when William Boeing merged his company with Pratt And Whitney.

Karen. Pratt and Whitney. Oh, no. TWA? No. William Boeing merged his company. You might say that he formed a union with Pratt and Whitney. Allen?

United Airlines. Wamp-womp. Okay. They used to say about air travel that you should always ask for the kosher meal. This was because it was probably prepared separately or was probably fresher. I've heard that. This airline established in 1948. only serves kosher meals.

Colin. What is El Al? What is El Al? Yes. Bonus points. What does El Al mean? Yeah, we had this. Oh, it means like, to heaven or to the sky.

It means to the skies. Yeah. Okay. Yes. Yes. Yes. To heaven. Yeah, maybe not.

Yeah. Can I just carry yourself? One way or the other. To the skies. Yes, to the skies. Not that far. This short-lived. Low-Cost airline, operated by Delta in the early 2000s, was marketed mainly towards women.

What? I did fly this once, I think. Colin. Was this, uh, Lillith Air? Lilith Air? Like, Bob or something like that? Hold on, I just want to pause for a second. Lilith Air.

That's pretty fun. That's like Lilith Fair. Oh, I didn't think of that. Lilith Air. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, that's good. That's fun. Okay.

No, you know. But no. I was thinking of Ted, but that was United. I don't know. Her. Her airlines. It was song. Song Airlines.

They shut that down. What made it women friendly? They were marketing it to, it was supposed to be like airline flown by like professional women. I mean, you know, it wasn't just only women, but they were trying to like, you know, it had like, you know, sort of like, or pastel or sort of natural kind of colors and the logo and that kind of stuff. And, you know, the music on the on air. the radio and the seats and all that kind of stuff. The $10 million getaway and The Big Heist are films about a multi-million dollar cash robbery that really took place of what airline?

Oh, really? Oh. Was this the Lufthansa? This is the Lufthansa heist. Also immortalized in the movie Goodfellas, but had other films made up. about it as well. At the time, it was the biggest cash robbery committed on American soil.

They broke into the Lufthansa the vault, essentially, where things were being held and made away with about $5 million. And all the leg room on the place. And then everyone died, as you know, if you watch Goodfellon. Who said

this? If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline. Karen? Sir Richard Branson. Yes. Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and Virgin America. And now Virgin Galactic.

Yes. I don't know if you're going to get these. This is A-U-E-E-E-E-ither. No way there you don't. But these are hilarious. Early in 2013, after a passenger on Iceland, Island Airlines downed an entire bottle of alcohol from the duty

free store and started being belligerent and assaulting other passengers. The other passengers on the flight did what to him. Dana. Duck tape him to a chair? They duct taped him and used zip ties also to

restrain him in his seat. Perfect. Good old Icelandic ingenuity. Yeah. Also... I like how the staff is like, sure. Let's do that.

It's time. I'll do it. There's nowhere to go. We have nowhere to go. And finally, an American Airlines flight in May 2013 going from Los Angeles to New York City was forced to make an emergency landing after a female passenger refused to stop singing what? Oh. Oh, man.

Wow. What was she singing? I vaguely remember this story. I vaguely remember this. What year was this? This year, this past year. It was like she was listening. Oh my God.

I've really loved the story. She refused to stop singing Whitney Houston songs, apparently at the top of her voice. I think there's a video of her getting hauled off the plane after it's emergency landing. Still singing it? Still singing, belting out, I will always love you. Why? Just needs a lot of attention. Yeah.

Have you guys ever been in a flight that has had to make like an emergency landing or got diverted and had to go somewhere else? No, I actually haven't. I have to go somewhere else. Because of weather, but only because of weather. Yeah, I had, once I was flying into Tokyo and had to go to a different airport because of weather, but then the airport that it landed in wasn't an international airport. So we couldn't get off the plane because there was no customs, there was no immigration. So we had to wait until the weather.

got better and then take off and fly again. Yep. I have a crazy story. We were on a family vacation to Paris. So from New York to Paris, we were in coach class with a class of young French high schoolers who just went to America for vacation or maybe a school trip or something. Yeah. But we were seated, like me and my parent seated in different seats in between all these French teenagers. Yeah. A girl fell asleep and one of her friends, he drew like penises and random stuff on her face. She's sitting next to like my mom.

My mom was in between these two kids. The girl with all the stuffed on her face wakes up and then got really angry at her friend. Yeah. And decided to punch him. him, he moved, and she ended up punching my mom. Oh, my. No. In the face?

In the face. Oh, my God. So I went to go complain. Yeah. Well, not complain, but I was like, do you guys have, like, a bag of ice for my mom's face? Because she just got punched by some teenager. Yeah. The whole crew got up in our business, in a good way, and was like, are you okay?

asking my mom if, you know, what happened. And, of course, like, the kids felt really bad because now it's like, they asked us if we need to make an emergency landing for this to get her to a hospital. Right. Obviously, we didn't need to, but they asked us. Right. Then. Well, they're sensing, like, impending potential customer relations disaster.

It's like, oh, do they have any seats in first class? And they've been serving all of this. We got moved to first class. The remainder of the flight. I feel that if you get punched in the face by a drunk teenager, you deserve getting moved to first class. I don't mind getting punched the face if I get to move on to first class for a huge flight. So if you guys were ever on a flight with Karen, you guys now know. Right in the kisser.

To the moon. Right up. Just punch her. You could just buy a first class ticket and then punch her in the face and get rid of the ticket. come bam here's your ticket I'm just saying okay I'm just saying all right

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