The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 414: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XLVII

Episode Date: February 15, 2023

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Carmen Vanbianchi, Chris Carlson, Ken Carlson, Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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without cell phone service as a special offer. You can get a free three months to try out OnX if you visit onxmaps.com slash meat. Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host, Spencer Newarth, and today we're joined by Steve Rinella, Brody Henderson, Giannis Poutelis, Corinne Schneider, Chris Carlson, Ken Carlson, and Carmen Van Bianchi. Chris and Ken, this is your first time on the show, so how do you feel about playing trivia?

Very excited. Oh yeah, I'm just about wetting myself. Wetting yourself. You're scared or you're excited? A little bit of both. Okay. How do you think you'll do on this? I've never seen it done so I don't know what kind of questions you're whipping out here. We'll see.

Carmen, same goes for you. How do you think you're going to do on meat eater trivia? I have no idea. I've played along a couple times. How do you normally do? Well, it goes, it depends on the type of questions that I go on. I'm not, I'm not real strong on any sort of history stuff, but if you, if there's some bio ones,

then I can do okay. You played along from home? Yes. And kept score? Yeah. If you're not familiar, this is a 10 round quiz show with questions from meat eaters 4 Verticals,

which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. And there is a prize. Meat Eater will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winner's choosing. And the stat of the week this week, we're updating the Meat Eater Trivia Donation Tracker. We just surpassed $22,000 and with every penny going towards conservation. Oh, you know what? If I win today, I'm donating to

Carmen's nonprofit. What is that nonprofit? Anybody that doesn't donate to Carmen's nonprofit is a dick. What is that? There you go. Carmen, can you tell us about what that nonprofit is? Yeah, so it's Home Range Wildlife Research, and we sort of have three pillars where we're doing research. Right now it's lynx and wildfire research.

We have field skills training courses for young bios that want to get some experience, maybe learn how to snowmobile before they're having to do it on the fly on the job. And then we've got a community science component as well. We're doing some bear work and utilizing our local community to help us figure out what's going on with bears and our trash. That's great. Now, the show has spread that $22,000 across 26 different nonprofits, with the most common recipients being TRCP, the National Wild Turkey Federation, Howl.org, with the most common recipients being TRCP,

the National Wild Turkey Federation, Howell.org, and the Meat Eater Land Access Initiative. At this pace, by the end of 2023, the show will have given over $50,000 to conservation. Now we have some housekeeping to get to. In a previous game of trivia, we had a question about what word describes a man-made stack of rocks that's used to mark trails or graves. The correct answer was cairn, but several listeners wrote in to ask if a nook shook would also work. A nook shook, which is a word I'd never heard of, is defined as a figure made of piled stones or boulders constructed to communicate with humans in the arctic basically it's the inuit version of a cairn so i'd count that as a correct answer uh yeah okay

steve i was wondering last time are you the kind of person that when you're walking along a stream and you see one of those things that someone built you kick it over on a stream yeah yeah okay yeah mark an efficient hole thing i don't when it's when you're entering an alpine area and you're trying and they're trying to prevent people from dispersing all across uh like you know alpine tundra and it's meant to be like here's the trail let's let's keep traffic confined i'm all for that but just people piling up rocks. Recreational Cairns. But are you the kind of person that where you see where some kids made a sand castle

that you stomp on it? No, not kids stuff. But I don't like those ones you see along creeks and rivers. My wife was disappointed when we talked about Cairns that I didn't tell the story of we were in Canyonlands National Park. And it was a spot on the hike where it's pretty interpretive. There were hundreds of Cairns around, and I started kicking them over because I was annoyed that folks were just building them and you're not supposed to.

She said, at one point, I even said, take that, hippies, when I kicked them over. We got back. I like you even more now. Well, we got back to the trailhead, and there was a sign that said, the Cairns mark the trail. So I was actually the evil I still like you. I was the jerk. Those were

meant to be there. Take that. You know what man, I got you a present that you're not going to believe. Okay. I wasn't going to tell you. I was going to tell you. Then I thought well I'll just tell him when I give it to him. But I'm so excited. This is like when I proposed to my wife. I was going to make a plan but as soon as I got the ring I had to set it because I was going to be like a f my wife. I didn't, I was going to make a plan, but I want to, as soon as I got the ring, I had

to set it because I was going to be like a fiesta theme. I don't know. But instead I just- What was the plan for your wife? I hadn't really thought it through. As soon as I got the ring, I just asked her. Okay. I thought, well, I'll take the ring home and hide it and they'll think of something.

Yep. But I just got, we got a little drunk that night and I just did it. That's the way to do it. I got you a hell of a present. Okay. I found you, I'm going to bring it to you and give it to you. That's the way to do it. I got you a hell of a present. Okay. I found you, I'm going to bring it to you and give it to you, a pretty good hunk. It's big around, the size of your hand, if you cut your fingers off, wide, maybe four or five inches tall, jet black petrified wood.

Oh, that's great. From where? Mexico. Jet black. Beautiful. Like it was burned? Yeah. I believe.

That's cool. I believe that what you'll be holding when you hold it, this is our interpretation of what we- Dinosaur bone. No, I think that it was a burnt, I think a tree burnt and got petrified. That's great. Yeah.

Thank you. Sounds like a chunk of coal to me. That's like something Chris would give out. Yeah, I don't think it's coal, man. No, you can't break it. It's too hard for that, right? No, it's not coal. I thought, I hope I'm not giving him a hunk of coal.

The more I looked at it, I was like, the more I looked at it, I think it's legit, but I'm going to show it to him. He can throw in his little rock tumbler or something. It's probably from when the big meteor hit and made the dinosaurs extinct. The Chicxulub strike? Yeah, that's the one. The Southwest has very pretty petrified wood.

They have a lot of different colors. There's some that are opalized. You have the straight black, like you're talking. I'm looking forward to it. You're in for a real treat when I give this to you. We also had Jake Diebel, among others, write in with feedback about Steve's homunculus. The issue with Steve's use that the homunculus has nothing to do with memory, but rather your motor or sensory cortex. Homunculus, which is Latin for little person, is a term referring to a distorted human figure that represents how much area of the cerebral cortex is devoted to a particular

body location. For example, the cortical homunculus has large lips but a tiny back because your lips are much more sensitive to touch than your back. Therefore, there is a larger portion of your brain devoted to the stimulus coming from your lips than your back. This guy doesn't know my homunculus. You know, I've heard this from other folks, but I didn't want to correct you because I like the use so much. Your version is much cooler than this other one. Well, I mean, you just said the word means little person.

Sure. But there used to be a belief, and I still believe it, that there is a little person that lives in you. Okay. I'll try to track this down. He has his own information. That's good. That's far better than the Latin one.

The Shelby Index for this round of trivia is a 3.5, so our winner should get seven correct answers. And with that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil. Look, I need to know what I stand to win. Everything. How's that? You stand to win everything. How's that? You stand to win everything.

Game on, suckers! Question one. The topic is cooking, and this is multiple choice. Which of these phrases gets Googled the most in America? Is it salmon recipe, catfish recipe, trout recipe, or crab recipe? Which of these phrases gets Googled the most in America? Is it salmon recipe, catfish recipe, trout recipe, or crab recipe? Some quick answers from most of the room. Steve with no answer quite yet. Your four choices, salmon, catfish, trout, or crab.

Steve, what do you think your chances are on this one? 25%. Okay. Exactly. Brody, you were quick to draw. You know this one? I'm higher than 25. I mean, I think I do.

I know it's one of two. Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying salmon. Corinne saying salmon. Chris saying catfish. Brody saying salmon. Ken saying salmon.

Giannis saying salmon. And Carmen saying catfish. The correct answer is salmon. Oh, perfect game so far. The room did pretty well. Perfect game. The phrases catfish recipe, trout recipe, and crab recipe all get Googled about 100,000 times each month.

The phrase salmon recipe gets Googled about 1 million times each month. It's the most Googled recipe in states like Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey. But instead of going to Google, those folks should go to TheMeatEater.com and check out Danielle Pruitt's recipe called the best grilled salmon. He's a company man. He was even telling me how he's a company man. We recently had a text exchange and I told Steve I'm a company man. I mean, you find new ways to do it. That was impressive. Thank you. Question two. The topic is hunting.

What country has the world record for a non-typical mule deer? What country has the world record for a non-typical mule deer? What was that word? This is so weird. Frust word? This is so weird.

Frustration. This is so weird. That's what I was going to say. I know the answer. What about your homunculus? No, my kid. Oh. He had to pick a research topic at school,

and we had to look up a couple things. His research topic was mule deer. Okay. So he had these little questions, and I had to look up a couple things. His research topic was mule deer. Okay. So he had these little questions, and I had to look one up. I happened to look this up. I got lucky is what you're saying. I think you could have done this one in multiple

choice, and it would have been just as fun. If not, even better. I agree. What country has the world record for a non-typical mule deer? Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying Canada. Corinne saying New Zealand.

Corinne! New Zealand, North America. Brody saying U.S. Ken saying Canada. Giannis saying Canada. And Carmen saying Canada. See, look, I crossed it out. The correct answer is Canada.

I decided to be contrarian. He had no idea. He cut a track, was following it, and then ran into a moose track and thought, man, I should probably follow that moose track.

Then he got to thinking, I don't have that long and moose tend to cover ground pretty quick. I'm just going to stay with my deer track because I'm afraid I'll never catch up with the moose track. Then he got to thinking, I don't have that long and moose tend to cover ground pretty quick. I'm just going to stay with my deer tracks. I'm afraid I'll never catch up with the moose. Caught up with it, saw it and thought, wow, that looks like a big buck and shot it. Your son's going to do okay on this book report, huh?

What's that? Your son's going to do okay on this report, huh? I'll just talk you off to hear about it. The two biggest mule deer in the world have been killed in Canada.

One was a 355-inch buck killed in 1926 in Alberta. The other was a 339-inch buck killed in British Columbia in 1890. The biggest mule deer ever killed in America was 330 inches, which is third in the world. The biggest mule deer ever killed in America was 330 inches, which is third in

the world. The biggest mule deer ever killed in Mexico was 252 inches, which is 354th in the world. That's net. Correct. That'd be gross. What's the one that comes after?

Oh, really? Those aren't net numbers? Well, for non-typical, you'd be getting your gross number. Oh. There's no way a bigger one than that hasn't come out of Mexico. Shells, look at those ones. Jay Scott's been getting down there. They're bigger than that. They probably don't have the Wisconsin culture.

The Wisconsin culture of entering in the Boone and Crockett record book. Question three. The topic is wildlife. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Thomas Garcia. For sending this great question, Thomas is going to get a signed book by Steven Rinella. If you want a chance to win our listener question of the week, then send it to trivia at TheMeatEater.com. What animal causes the most power outages in the United States? This is how specific I expect you to be if you thought the answer was white-tailed deer,

which it's not. You could just write deer. What animal causes the most power outages in the United States? A lot of quick answers in the room. Steve's still thinking. Yanni, you got this one? I don't know if I... Did Brody write quick or write slow?

I didn't notice. There's a lot of choices here. I might be too vague. I wrote quick because Spencer said we could be. Hold on, can you give me that little bit again about specificity? If you think the answer is white-tailed deer, you can just write deer. That's as specific as you need to be.

What animal causes the most power outages in the United States? Does everybody have an answer? No, I would change my answer. After that explanation. Steve's made the room nervous. You ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers.

We have Steve saying squirrel. Corinne saying Canada goose. Chris saying squirrel. Brody saying birds. Ken saying squirrel. Giannis saying birds. Carmen saying raptors. The correct answer is squirrels.

Oh, man. The Woodyard Boys tearing it up. I was going to go to birds after he did that. I said gray squirrel. But no, no, because his little tidbit there, birds wouldn't work, man. Well, in the record keeping. Because you had it down like a family, right? In the record keeping, here's what it is.

Since 2019, squirrels have caused nearly 1,300 power outages. That's nearly twice as many as birds, which are second on the list. In third place is snakes. In fourth place is raccoons. And in fifth place is rats. Other animals on the list include cats, weasels, jellyfish, foxes, and frogs.

How does a snake, what does a snake climb it up there and cross some wires? That's right. I think there's been many photos in the last decade that have gone viral of snakes that have been stuck. Up on a transformer. And he gets himself laid over the... I'd heard at one point that they were hunting birds up there or something.

And that's what caused this problem. That's an industrial snake, man. Jellyfish. I don't buy that. Don't ask me to explain that one. I don't know. Someone threw a jellyfish up on a wire. Question four.

The topic is public lands. Located in California, this is the tallest mountain in the lower 48. No one with an answer quite yet. Located in California, this is the tallest mountain in the lower 48. Corinne and Giannis got this one. No one else has created an answer quite yet. I know it. I know it. Steve's Humunculus working hard pulling strings. Located in California.

This is the tallest mountain in the lower 48. Janice, you got this one. Pretty sure. Corinne, you got this one? Maybe. I need five minutes. Five minutes. We got to have some interesting filler content for five minutes. Phil, how much can you talk about Pokemon for five minutes? Well, I'm sitting next to Brody, so I don't think I want to even start. Within reaching distance. He'll make it 60 seconds and then get stabbed.

If you can work a clue into it, you can talk about Pokemon all day. Again, located in California. I know what it is. just give me a second. This is the tallest mountain in the lower 48. Brody, do you have this one? No, but I'm enjoying seeing Steve squirm over there. I know it, dude. I know it.

Literal squirming going on. What do you think about this? Should we consider adding trapping as another vertical to Meat Eater? That would help me a lot. I'll tell you this. We have a trapping question another vertical to meat eater? That would help me a lot. I'll tell you this. We have a trapping question coming up later. Oh, I figured.

Steve, how we doing? He looks like he's in pain. I am. I'm physically in pain. I know the answer. So is this like a one peak, one name of one place? Yes.

I don't even know if mine's in California. I got nothing, man. It's like called... Does everybody have an answer? You're just giving Steve more time because none of us know. Steve, we're about 10 seconds away from Phil talking Pokemon. Count it down. Eight, seven, six, five.

Pokemon called Mountain Moon, and that's not the answer. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We've got Steve saying, what's that say? Good, I'm not the only one. Some shit like Snowcrest or Buttercup or something like that. Corinne saying Mount Tam. I just made a joke. I have no clue.

Chris doesn't have an answer. Brody sang Mount Shasta. Ken without an answer. Giannis sang Whitney. And Carmen sang Shasta. The correct answer is Mount Whitney. Gianni got it. I was even close.

Never heard of it. I was even close. You perfect game, Gianni? Never heard of it. No. Despite being the tallest mountain in the lower 48, Mount Whitney is shorter than 10 different mountains in Alaska. Its elevation is 14,500 feet,

which is 65 feet taller than the lower 48's next biggest mountain, Colorado's Mount Elbert. That's a good question. Question five. I want to clarify something. You know, I was like squirming saying I knew it. I didn't know it. Okay.

Very honest of you. Question five. We'll get a scoreboard update from Phil the Engineer after this. This next great question comes to us via Bradley Gates. If you have a question you think is right for Meat Eater Trivia, you can send it to trivia at themeateater.com. What is the phenomenon that describes how an arrow's path differs from a bow's aim point? What is the phenomenon that describes how an arrow's path differs from a bow's aim point? The room is thinking hard.

Steve and Corinne have answers. Brody coming up with one. Again, the question is, what is the phenomenon that describes how an arrow's path differs from a bow's aim point? Steve, you got this one? Yeah, probably. Okay. I don't know. Probably.

This is question five. The topic is hunting. Yanni, how you feeling? 50-50? Okay. Probably. This is question five. The topic is hunting. Yanni, how you feeling? 50-50? Okay. Brody's just sitting over there like a little lump on a log. No, man, I'm having a rough day. Oh, are you?

Yeah, I just want to leave. Again, this is the phenomenon that describes how an arrow's path differs from a bow's aim point. Does everybody have an answer? No. Sorry. I know I've heard this word from my husband, but I can't. Steve's looking cocky over there. No, no, no, no, no, I'm not.

I'm not. I don't think I got it. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying Archer's Paradox. Corinne saying Minutes of Angle. Chris saying Parallax. Brody saying Trajectory. Ken saying Trajectory. Giannis saying Archer's Paradox. Carmen without saying trajectory. Ken saying trajectory.

Giannis saying archer's paradox. Carmen without an answer. No, she has O. Yeah. O. No. The correct answer is archer's paradox. Ooh, man, Giannis.

I was in a range. That's not the same as trajectory? Most think that the archer's paradox is the bending of an arrow, but the reality is that bending is how an arrow overcomes the archer's paradox is the bending of an arrow, but the reality is that bending is how an arrow overcomes the archer's paradox. This is why it's important for bow hunters to have an arrow that has the correct spine for their setup. Phil, we're halfway through the game of trivia. Give us a scoreboard update.

With one point apiece, we have Carmen, Corinne, and Brody Henderson. Brody, holy shit. That is some to my level. Spencer, the index, he's not even at index. Yeah, he's going to have to work hard to hit the Shelby index here. Chris has two points, Ken has three, and Steve and Giannis are tied in first place with four points. Man, the guests are doing good.

Anyone's game. We haven't even thrown them their bone yet. Man, the guests are doing good. Anyone's game. We haven't even thrown them their bone yet. Oh, you haven't thrown them bone yet? Question six. The topic is woodsmanship. Hey, folks. Exciting news for those who live or hunt in Canada. And boy, my goodness do we hear from the Canadians whenever we do a raffle or a sweepstakes.

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What do you call the valuable outgrowth on a tree in which the grain is deformed with knots? Quick answers from every person in the room. This may be a seven for seven. Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We've got Steve saying burl, burl, burl, burl, burl, burl. Everybody got it. The correct answer is burl

or burr. Carmen did something I'm not comfortable with. I did a quick spelling correction. She did a quick spell correction, but I feel that any kind of thing of like altering an answer like that is not...

That's like a warning. But don't mess with your answer. What was the spelling again? You know, I'm too embarrassed to say. She could have done any number. She could have done any number of manipulations. I'll keep it clean. Burls are often the result of some sort of stress, such as an injury, disease, or fungus.

They are sought after by woodworkers because of their unique colors, swirls, and textures. Pat Durkin covered the subject of tree burr poachers in a 2021 article on TheMeatEater.com called Black Market Burl, the Underworld of Illegal Timber Heist. That's good. There's a nice buck boat and burl bowl right behind you, Spencer. I would have talked about that. Did you hear about that mouse that was living in that bowl? I didn't know he was living in the bowl.

Is that determined that was his home range? That's where I saw him. He's up there messing around. I thought he was caught. He's dead. He's dead. Okay. I didn't think they should have trapped him.

They should have just left him alone. Question seven. The topic is trapping. Three states have a bobcat population over 200,000. Name one of them. Oh. Three states have a bobcat population over 200,000. Name one of those states.

Very confident, Steve. Very cocky. Carmen, do you think you're going to get this one? Uh, no. Okay. Come on, Carmen. I think you are. Corinne, I think you are too. Oh, this is the bone for Carmen, so I feel bad.

Oh, no. I feel bad if she doesn't get this. This is not a bone. Three states have a bobcat population over 200,000. Name one of those states. Does everybody have an answer? I can't change because I saw yours, so I'm not going to do it. All right, let's go.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying California. Corinne saying Arizona. Chris saying Nebraska. Brody saying California. Ken saying New Mexico. Giannis saying California. Carmen saying New Mexico. Giannis saying California. Carmen saying Arizona.

Nobody got it. No! What? The three states are Florida, Georgia, and Texas. What? I almost thought Texas. The rest of you, though, were in the top ten. I think all the states you mentioned were in the

60,000 range. So not quite 200,000. Florida has 200,000. Just crawling with them. These numbers are based on a 2010 article in the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. They estimate that there are 300,000 bobcats in Texas and Florida and 200,000 bobcats in Georgia. It's estimated that there are about 3 million bobcats in America, which means those three states contain 25% of the country's population.

That's remarkable because it's like that thickly, like densely vegetated stuff. It must just be that they're just there. I don't know what I'm talking about. Got a lot of food down there. I'm just surprised by that. I just picture them like, you know. I was thinking down that way.

I was trying to pick, you know, like Alabama, Georgia. I was there. The thing is, we're all thinking of Western cats. That's your high dollar cats. That's for everybody who wants a trap cat. Them cats aren't worth much. They're not quality fur cats. So the question is flawed.

Well, I'm just going to say you wouldn't think of it because people don't brag about trapping cats in those states. If you had, he said low-dollar cats. Yes. I would have been there. I've thought about it across my mind. So much of Florida is covered in parking lots, though, and shit like that. There's a lot of wild life. A lot of swamps, though.

A lot of feed. Urban cats. They've got easy vittles of your own. Does it have from 2010? That's from a 2010 article in the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. That's great. Question eight, the topic is fishing. This next great question comes to us via Matthew Baca.

If you have a question you think is right for Meat Eater Trivia, you can send it to trivia at themeateater.com. This fishing brand, which used to be known as the Zero Hour Bomb Company, invented the world's first spin cast reel in 1949. Brody. Which used to be known as the Zero Hour Bomb Company, invented the world's first spin cast reel in 1949. Very quick answer from Brody and Steve. Oh, I'm sitting here with a large smile. Okay, you got this one? This is question eight, and we will get a scoreboard update after this. Is Yanni doing a Labian smirk right now?

I feel like it's like... We don't have to spell perfectly, do we? Don't have to spell, right? I can't tell. Sometimes a shit-eating grin and a Labian smirk, I can't tell them apart. They're different? Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers.

We have Steve saying Zebco. Corinne without an answer. Chris saying Shimano. Brody saying Zebco. Ken saying Diowa. Diowa. Diowa. Gianna saying Zebco.

Carmen without an answer. The correct answer is Zebco. Iowa. Iowa. I don't know. Jan is saying Zebco. Carmen, without an answer. The correct answer is Zebco. No. The brand changed its name from Zero Hour Bomb Company to Zebco in 1956. This was after a reel was sent to the White House for President Eisenhower and confiscated by security. The bomb squad took the package and threw it into a tub of water, not realizing that Zero Hour Bomb Company made fishing gear. So they thought that a

bomb company had mailed him a bomb. And put on the package, Zero Hour Bomb Company. Were they always a fishing company? Does that name come from some World War II? They used to make small bombs for oil rigs when folks were prospecting.

And then they had a politician from Texas that saw a deli counter guy who was pulling the number tickets out of a little can. And then he thought, oh, that's something that maybe a fishing company could make. So he went to the Zero Hour Bomb Company. They made the first one. You lost me. This, this politician saw at a deli counter how he was pulling tabs from a little bottle, right?

Like how it was, you know what I'm talking about? Can you picture it? Yeah, like you pull a number. And that made him think, hey. Like at the DMV or at a butcher shop. That made him think maybe that could apply to a fishing reel.

So then he went to the zero hour bomb. Oh, like that apparatus. That's right. He went to the Zero Hour Bomb Company, asked them to make something, and they actually messed around. One of the first prototypes was made of a beer can. I think it's interesting how they went with a combination of an abbreviation and an acronym to come up with the new name.

Zebco from Zero Hour Bomb Company. And then, yeah, because then they got rid of the H. It works. It's like, well, let's just take out like, you know, 80% of the letters, bam. Phil, we have two questions left. Give us a scoreboard update. With two points apiece,

Corrine and Carmen have been eliminated from the game. He said that kind of mean, Phil. As well as Chris and Brody. Oh! Who have three points apiece. This has never happened. Chris and Brody are free. It happened once before. I had a real bad game once.

Each time it happens, Steve declares it's never happened. I've been eliminated. This is the late elimination. What's the rest of the leaderboard? Ken, Giannis, and Steve are still in the game. Ken has four points. Steve and Giannis are tied with six.

Okay. Question nine. The topic is cooking. What is the maximum number of Michelin stars a restaurant can get? What is the maximum number of Michelin stars a restaurant can get? What is the maximum number of Michelin stars a restaurant can get? Brody and Steve with quick answers. I thought Brody's out. Yeah, but I'm still playing.

You can still play. You're punsies. I should have watched you write because I bet if I saw you write the number, I would know what number it is. I did extra strokes. Corinne also with a quick answer. Corinne, are you going to get this one right? Back and forth between two options.

Giannis, how are you feeling? Well, I mean... Looking for the maximum number of Michelin stars a restaurant can get. Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying three,

Corinne saying four, Chris saying five, Brody saying three, Ken saying five, Giannis saying three, and Carmen saying four. The correct answer is three. Here is the Michelin scale.

One star means, quote, it's a very good restaurant in this category. One star means, quote, it's a very good restaurant in this category. Two stars means, quote, it has excellent cooking worth a detour. And three stars means, quote, it has exceptional cuisine worth a special journey. Do you know that that actually is? The tire company. Yeah, the tire company. They were trying to promote.

What a great scam. They were trying to promote driving. They're scam. They were trying to promote driving. They're real stingy with those three-star ratings. Oh, yeah. Just to hold a star is astounding. Have you eaten at many Michelin restaurants? No, not many. A couple times I have.

Did it hold up? Was it worth the hype? Worth the special journey? We ate at one together, didn't we? Wasn't that a three-star? Yeah. Well, Cezanne, right? They had awe or Multiple or

Three. I'd say that was pretty special. And doesn't French Laundry have been there? I don't like... I can't answer that. Because there's so much sort of... There's so much... Pump? Yeah, but when we ate at one,

we kind of ate at one sort of like in a friend scenario, and it made a lot of fun. Phil, we have one question left. Give us a scoreboard update. Two players left in the game are Steven Ranella and Giannis Putelis with seven points apiece. It's tied up.

Question 10. The topic is hunting. This next great question comes to us via Dakota Bolton. If you have a question you think is right for MeatEater Trivia, you can send it to trivia at themedeater.com. This is my vertical expertise, Steve. Drake-hooded mergansers, Drake redheads, and Drake northern shovelers all have this eye color.

Drake-hooded mergansers, Drake redheads, and Drake northern shovelers all have this eye color. I'm sensing the same amount of confidence from Giannis and Steve coming up with an answer, which seems like,

what do you boys think? 70%? 50. I have two colors in my head. All I know is Giannis has a very good track record in overtime. Okay. Steve, how are you feeling about this? Not great.

Not great. Again, looking for the eye color of hooded mergansers, redheads, and northern shovelers when it comes to drakes. Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and... Can I modify it real quick? No, I don't need to. Go ahead and... Can I modify it real quick? No, I don't need to.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Oh, we are different. We have Steve saying yellow. Unless we both get them wrong. Corinne saying yellow. Chris saying red. Brody saying yellow. The room is split. Ken saying red.

Giannis saying red. And Carmen saying red. One of you is the winner. The correct answer is yellow. I won. Giving Steve eight correct answers. one of you is the winner the correct answer is yellow giving Steve correct answer and the victory not hooded northern shovelers are the only puddle duck with yellow eyes it's far more common in diving ducks in addition to all the ones listed ring necked ducks scops and of course golden eyes all have yellow eyes.

I'm giving my money. Oh, sorry. What happens next is you get to choose where the $500 donation goes, which you've already teased. So what's it going to be? My donation will go to, are you able to take, you know when someone donates money and it has to go to a specific category? Is that too annoying for you?

Oh, it can go to a... We'll take it however... No, I'll do general funds. Okay. I was going to make it specific to your snowmobile problem. Oh. So the Home Range Wildlife Research... Home Range Wildlife Research has a problem right now where they're doing their operation

on 25-year-old snowmobiles. They need to upgrade. They're trying to upgrade to like 10-year-old used snowmobiles. I was going to earmark my $500 donation for home range wildlife research. I was going to earmark it for snowmobiles, but I don't want to be burdensome. So it's just for the general slush fund.

I like it. Thank you. Well done, Steve. Yeah. Thank you. Carmen, thank you for coming. Ken, Chris, thank you for coming. Hope you enjoyed Meat Eater Trivia.

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