Is It Just Me? - TALKBACK TINGZ: Dumbest Quizzes Ever 📻

Episode Date: October 3, 2021

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You know we like to play the weird shit we hear on radio between the host and caller. So today we're talking about the good old radio quiz, okay? Which I do on my show. A quiz on radio, if you're not in the industry, because we are in radio, it's just a tried and true. We don't explain quizzes to people who aren't in radio. We know what a quiz is.

No, but every radio show does a quiz. Jonesy and Amanda do a quiz, don't they? Magnificent Seven. Mag Seven. I do the last quiz of the day. And sometimes they make it hard because there's a lot of money on the line or a big prize, but sometimes they're super easy because it's like the prize is nothing major, right?

Correct, correct. But I think you'll find even easy quizzes people stuff up, okay? So first I'm going to show you one of my faves. This happened on 2CH, you know, the old people music station in Sydney. Love it, love it. This caller was trying to win, I think it was a CD, nothing major, and they clearly had no one else lined up because he really persisted with this one woman who got stuck on a very simple question.

Here it is. It's 20 minutes past 5 o'clock, Sydney's 2CH. Ian Rogerson here with you on a very sunny Tuesday afternoon and Jean Trotman joins us. How are you, Jean? I'm very well, thank you, Ian. Now, Jean, I want to give you some CDs and all I need to do is for you to answer a question that's going to be, of course, in the Thousand Dollar Minute tomorrow morning. Right.

Which is the nearest star to Earth? Now, just interrupting for a sec, you guys know the answer, the nearest star to Earth? Now, just interrupting for a sec. You guys know the answer. The nearest star to Earth? Is the sun. There we go. Okay. I was just making sure that it was obvious to everyone. It's the sun. It's the one you can freaking see all the time. Yeah, that's the biggest star.

Nah, it wasn't obvious to Jean. I thought it was a trick question, but no. Oh, yeah, the sun. Now, think about it, Jean. Which is the nearest star to Earth? The moon. No, no, star. Star. Star. think about it, Jean. Which is the nearest star to Earth? The moon. No, no, star, star. Star. Star. Think about it.

It's up there. I can see it right now. Oh, can you? Yeah, yeah. What do you think it'll be? It's very warm, that star that's keeping us warm at the moment, Jean. Mars. No, a star, not a planet.

A star. Oh, my brain's coddled today. We're looking at it right now. It rises in the morning and sets in the evening. Oh, the evening star. No, we're not going to get this. I know, Jean. No, I give up.

The sun. Oh, there you are. I've learned something today. You have, Jean. You certainly have. I'm going to send you a CD, all right? Thank you very. You have, Jean. You certainly have. I'm going to send you a CD, all right? Thank you very much. Okay, have a great Arvo.

See you. Bye. We should get surprised we're getting it wrong. I know. She's still got the prize even though she said the moon. The evening star. What does that even mean? She just made that up.

Hold on. But you know what? When you're on air, when you're live, the pressure is different. You freak out. Yeah. As in the caller or the host? Oh, not as the host. The callers freak out like there's no tomorrow.

The amount of callers I get that get stage fright, they're great. Off the air when I'm prepping them, I go, are you ready for the quiz? Oh, they're pumped. But you get them on air, oh, my God, they crumble. What happens? Is it just the knowledge that it's live and that whatever they say can't be undone? Stage fright is to air. Also, they're talking to the host, not as much with me,

but when you have Kyle and Jackie O or you're talking to a Jonesy and Amanda or a big talent. Or Mitch and Mitch. Or Mitch and Mitch. Oh, they go to pieces. They just melt. Yeah. I see Sam's finger quivering over the button.

Now. I really like you guys. Exactly right. There was one call on Jonesy and Amanda and the question was something about name an Australian city, something, something, something. And they kept giving clues. And then Jonesy was like, please just name any city. She couldn't name a city.

Oh, you're kidding. Oh, God. God love her. She's like, Brenda Baroline just starts making things up like you. She's like, oh, brain freeze. I'm doing a quiz on my show currently. Lil Nas X are sponsoring the show. Sony Music. Oh, that's good of him. Yeah. She's like, oh, brain freeze. I'm doing a quiz on my show currently. Lil Nas X is sponsoring the show. Sony Music.

Oh, that's good of him. Yeah. That's so nice. Supporting fellow gays. Very sweet. And we're doing Lil Nas X, Y, Z, which is a spelling bee. And I thought I'm going to trick the first ever person and I'm going to make the first word tiger.

So the first word was tiger. But I said to them, you have one question you can ask me and one question only in the spelling bee, and that is to use it in a sentence. So use your lifelines wisely. Jenna, good evening. Spell tiger. All right.

T-I-G-E-R. Wrong. Next caller, Hala Mitchell. What was it in a sentence? Oh, I'm glad you asked. My favourite rapper is tiger. Oh, you bitch. You know, Jenna, Mitch called me the other night and he goes,

what's the word I can use for this spelling bee? Oh, yeah, I called you. And I said, anti-disestablishmentarianism. And he goes, that's too hard. But you fucked someone over with the wrong tiger. It was for 500 bucks too, poor thing. God, lover. I wonder what she was thinking.

No, that's how you spell tiger. I'm getting that wrong. Now, the next one, Sam, you might have actually heard this. You used to work at Triple M. This question is even easier. So it happened on Triple M and they were giving away a motorbike, I believe. And all you had to do to get in the draw was answer a very easy question about the band ACDC. Here's what happened.

For the Harley Davidson 883 Sportster, it's all thanks to ACDC's new album, Stiff Upper Lip and Fraser Motorcycles. Okay, hello, Triple M. Yes, hi. Hello, what's your name? Mark. G'day, Mark, Upper Lip, and Fraser Motorcycles. Okay, hello, Triple M. Yes, hi. Hello, what's your name? Mark. G'day, Mark, how you doing? Not too foul. Now, listen, Mark, are you an ACDC fan?

Yeah. Do you have a motorcycle license? No, but I'll get one if I win it. Okay. I'm going to win it. You're going to win it, Mark. You're going to win it. I like that confidence.

Well, okay, we've got to ask you a question, mate, before we can put you in the barrel. Yeah. Okay, spell ACDC. A-C-D-C. A-D-A-C. I'm going to ask you again. Hang on. How do you spell A-C-D-C? A-D-A-C.

Mark. One more time, Mark. How do you spell A-C-D-C? I'll kill you in a minute. Marcus. Yeah. Mark. Mark, yeah? Yeah you spell A-C-D-C? I'll tell you in a minute. Marcus. Mark. Mark. Mark, yeah?

Yeah, say A-C-D-C. How do you spell A-C-D-C? How do you spell A-A-A-D-D-C? A-A-D-A-A. I'm getting this all wrong. You are, Mark. Just spell A-C-D-C. A-D-D-C.

No, you idiot. It's A-C-D-C. A-C-A-C-D-C. A-C-D-C. A-C. wrong you are mark just spell acdc acdc acdc acdc acdc acdc just say that acdc yes mark it wasn't that hard okay mark not only that we're going to give you a copy of your favourite ACDC album. Do you have a favourite copy? Anything ADDC is good. That is, that just sounds set up. Oh, do you reckon? It was just too funny. It was too good.

I can confirm 100% real. Really? Yeah. Were you actually there when it happened? It sounded very old. It's one of the Hall of Fame things for Triple M. They're very proud. Yeah. Poor bastard.

You know what? He was probably dyslexic. Because your dyslexia makes all your words get jumbled around. You can't spell. That's true. I didn't even think of that. Now I feel bad. No, I don't feel bad.

All he had to do was say the band's name, ACDC. But that's the thing. When someone says ACDC, you don't think it's a word. Like A-S-E-E-D-E-E-S-E-E, you know, like a seducer. Yeah, right, I'm with you. I struggle to keep up with that. Sorry, but it's hard to be honest. I know, right?

But anyway, these people struggled to answer rather easy trick questions and we thought, okay, who is the most intelligent, university-educated bitch on our team? The answer is Jenna. So we're going to hit you with a couple of what I think are easy trick questions. See if you hoity-toity educator type can figure it out. Mitch, is there any quiz music or something you can get me? I mean, I can get one.

Why don't we use the quiz music I used for my show, the last quiz of the day? Oh, I thought something a little bit more old school. Like, you know that, what's that? Is it Jeopardy or something? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. What about this?

This is nice. Yeah, this works. All right, Jenna. I'm scared. Yes. What gets wetter the more it dries? Now, come on, June. Come on, Jenna.

What gets wetter the more it dries? Correct. Think about it. Maybe we should do a bloody 20-second-on-the-clock thing, Mitch. We could be here all fucking day. Jenna, you've got 15 seconds, I'd say. Yeah, bring up your fancy countdown sound effects, would you? What gets wetter the more it dries?

No. Hit us. Oh, she looks like she's got a migraine now. Just take a guess. Take a guess. Her eyebrows and forehead are all screwed up. She's got no idea. It's a towel. A towel.

The more you use it to dry something, it gets wetter. Get it? All right, next one, Mitchell. What word is spelled incorrectly in every single dictionary? Incorrectly. Oh, she got that one. Oh, Jenna! Well done.

Our little genius. Correct. That's not our tick. No, it's not. We're the Idjim tick. Because I'm on the show page. Too many movements happening. Oh, fuck it.

Forget about it. All right, next one. Next one. All right, this one's in your wheelhouse, Jenna. The answer. If I drink, I die. If I eat, I'm on the show page. Too many movements happening. Oh, fuck it. Forget about it. All right, next one. Next one. All right, this one's in your wheelhouse, Jenna. The answer. If I drink, I die. If I eat, I'm fine. What am I?

Would you be able to repeat it? Oh, shut that thing up, Mitch. Okay. Then pause. Okay, you ready? Yes. If I drink, I die. If I eat, I'm fine.

What am I? What is it? A fire. You're an arsonist. It was either a fire or mass murder. Also, could you like maybe, I'm sorry to be selfish, but could you like think out loud because the silence is very deafening. No. No one can see you.

It's going on in my head. She's just straining. I can't. Yeah, you should see her. It's like her eyebrows are trying to meet each other. Her forehead looks very strained. It's like someone's got a lead pencil and they're slowly jabbing her in the knee. She's like.

Yeah. All right. Come on, Jenny. You can still win this. One out of three so far, dumbass. All right. Shut up. All right. Come on, Jenny. You're still win this. One out of three so far, dumbass. Shut up. All right, come on, Jenna.

You're the smartest one here. You should get this. This is a bit of a long one. Okay, ready? If it takes eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long does it take four men? Ten hours, did you say? Yeah. Five hours.

Incorrect, because the wall is already built. It takes no time. Oh, I didn't... The eight guys already made it, so why would the other four need to make another one? Come on, if you win this, Jenna, it's worth 1,000 points and you'll win the whole competition. 1,000 points for what?

Oh, the contest. Like fly-by points? What are we talking? Yeah, everyday rewards. Okay. Is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sister? Is it legal? For a man to marry his widow's sister?

Yeah. No, because he is dead. It would be quite hard to marry someone, Jenna. He's widow's sister. He's dead. He's dead. He's Widow. But couldn't it be she's dead? I thought she's dead.

No, he's Widow. He's the lover he left behind. Is it legal for a man to marry his Widow's sister? Can a man be widowed as well? Yeah. Maybe he's gay. I don't give a fuck. Oh, yeah.

Widow's sister. Yeah, Widow's sister. Don't question me on the trick questions. I didn't write them. Yeah, sorry. That give a fuck. Oh, yeah. Widow's sister. Yeah, widow's sister. Don't question me on the trick questions. I didn't write them. That was a trick. Anyway, Jenna, it's nice to know that you're as stupid as us. Yep. I got one.

Well done. Thank you. Wow. People freak out under pressure. Casey. I can't even breathe. Jenna is so dead. Is it just me?

You should follow these idiots online. Search Couple of Mitches.