The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 462: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia LXX

Episode Date: July 26, 2023

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Janis Putelis, Sam James, Cory Calkins, Austin “Chilly” Chleborad, Randall Williams, Maddy Lehman, Mackenzie Elmquist, and Phil Taylor. Connect with MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Trivia MerchSee 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. It's a meat-eater podcast. Welcome to Meat-Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host, Spencer Newharth, and today we're joined by Yanis Poutelis, Randall Williams, Corey Calkins, Mackenzie Elmquist, Chili, Sam James, and Maddie Lehman.

Maddie, this is your first time on the show. Tell folks what you do here at Meat Eater. Yeah, hello. I'm on the email marketing do here at Meat Eater. Yeah, hello. I'm on the email marketing team here at Meat Eater. So I just send emails out for all of our brands. I kind of design them, write them, and build them. And if you ever received an email from me and there's a spelling error, now you know who to blame. There's nobody checking your work before it goes out. That's a lot of pressure. We've got a little bit of a check process, but things slip through the cracks now and then. How do you feel about your chances at meat eater trivia?

I think if it's a question about the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, I can do really well. Other than that, it's going to be a complete guess. Did Mackenzie have to twist your arm to come in and play today? Absolutely. Really? I was dragged, yes. Mackenzie, do you feel good about it? Yeah, I voluntold her when I messaged you. Good on you. If you're not familiar, this is a 10-round quiz show with questions from Meadeater's four verticals, which are hunting,

fishing, conservation, and cooking, and there is a prize. Meadeater will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winner's choosing. Each week here on Trivia, we reveal a new stat. For the stat of the week this week, we're looking at the price of Meat Eater Trivia, the board game. Now the game comes out this fall and it will cost $25. That purchase gets you seven whiteboards, seven markers, a timer, and most importantly, 800 questions from our four verticals. That means each question costs you just three cents. Here are some other things that you can buy with three pennies. These are real prices, by the way. Three teaspoons of unleaded gasoline.

Two McDonald's french fries. Three hours of a Netflix subscription. 56 yards of an Uber ride. Or two flushes of a toilet. How do you feel about that, Yanni? A lot of value in that board game that you're putting out there. How many are you going to buy for Christmas this year, you think?

That's a good question. A few? Everyone in my life is getting one. If you're listening to this and you know me and you normally get a Christmas present, mom, dad, they're going to get me to do a trivia board game this year. Hmm. Are they going to enjoy it?

We'll see. I think in future iterations of that list, you should leave off the two flushes of a toilet because that actually seems eminently more. Pretty good value, actually. There's a lot of utility in that compared to one question. Stay out of this, Randall. Are you going to hand out the trivia board game to your contestants that partake?

We'll see. Maybe if you win a game, Chili, you could get one. So I'm never going to get one. Randall, I think that makes it seem that there's still a lot of value to each question. That's right. Because you're placing so much value on those two flushes. Well, they just threw me for a loop

because 50 yards of an Uber or Lyft does not get you much, but two flushes of a toilet goes a long way. Depends on when you need them. So I don't know if he's trying to make a claim. Yeah, I thought that the- He should have maybe left the Uber one out. I thought that the other comparisons were to show what a great deal relative to the rest that a question was. Now, Meat Eater Trivia, the board game, will be out this fall for the low, low price of an 18-inch Apple phone charger, USB port not included.

Now, here's our Zero Percenter Question of the Week, which tests how much knowledge players have retained from previous games. This question was from episode 378. The topic was wildlife, and nobody got it right. If you know the answer, you can just shout it out. How many continents have penguins? What are your guesses? Three. Two.

Two. Wrong and wrong. One. One. Wrong. Wrong. The correct answer is four the incorrect answers given in that game were two three and five the four continents are antarctica south america africa and australia africa africa has them i think it's every continent in the southern hemisphere has penguins.

Madagascar, right? I think that's right. Not a continent, but right part of Africa. Are you basing that off of the movie? The kids. The kids, yeah. Figured. We have some housekeeping to get to.

In a previous game of trivia, we had a question about what color of bell pepper is the sweetest. The correct answer was red, and that remains true, but my explanation of bell pepper colors afterwards was not. Here's what I got terribly wrong. It is a myth that bell peppers mature by going from green to yellow to orange to red. Green, yellow, orange, and red bell peppers all come from different plants, but they do all start out as the color green and turn one of those other colors when they're mature. There are some exceptions to the rule, like if a yellow bell pepper gets too much sun, it can turn orange. But for the most part, each color of bell pepper

is its own variety. Now, again, the answer remains the same. Red bell peppers are the sweetest bell peppers, but they do not turn yellow or orange before reaching that color. How's that hit you, Yanni? Does that seem right? What have you known that? I don't think you were here for that game. I wasn't here for that game, and I probably would have guessed that it went from green to yellow to orange to red. But the question was, what is the sweetest color of bell pepper?

What have you known it was red? No, I would have guessed. It also has to do with male or female bell pepper. Did you know that? I don't know if that dictates the sweetness. That could be. Not in terms of colors, but in terms of if you have two red ones

and one's a male and one that's a female. One's better for cooking and one's better for eating raw. I think there's something with male and female. I'm probably getting this wrong and it's going to be a future correction, so I shouldn't even bring it up. But I think there's something with lobes on the bottom. Yeah, that is.

It's like three versus four. I don't remember which one's which. The Shelby Index for today's round is a five. So I'm officially putting us on perfect score alert. With that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil. Wow. Mood.

This is new for a lot of folks in the room. Very impressive. Game on, suckers! Listen, after being at Chester's show last night, I could see we could have a little smoke machine and some of those lights that make lights do this, different directions, and then all the lights drop. Bill, what do you think?

What would it take for all that? Yeah, that same guy you were going to talk about, about kickball, you should go talk to him about that. I'll put it on my JBList. I think Phil would also need another hand or two over there to be running all these things. He's already maxed out. He uses all 10 fingers and toes to,

to get all the right levers and buttons. Question one, the topic is hunting and this will be multiple choice. Which of these predators is not tracked in the Boone and Crockett record books? Is it cougar, polar bear, wolf, or grizzly bear? Which of these predators is not tracked in the Boone and Crockett record books? Cougar, polar bear, wolf, grizzly bear. Randall and Chili with quick answers. Chili, do you have this one right?

Oh, I'm about 93% positive. Okay, Randall, you have this one with certainty. Never certain. Well, certain in very rare circumstances. Feel pretty good about this. Again, your choices are cougar, polar bear, wolf, or grizzly bear. Yanni, how about you? You have this one, right?

I think so. Randall, have you ever entered an animal into the Boone and Crockett record books? No, I haven't. I've gotten one measured. Did it not score or you didn't? It was shy. It was shy. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers we have sam saying polar bear chili saying wolf randall saying wolf cory saying grizzly maddie

saying wolf mckenzie saying grizzly bear yanni saying wolf the correct answer is wolf. The room did very well. Suck it, Corey. The minimum score for a cougar is 14 and 8 sixteenths. For a grizzly bear is 23 and for a polar bear is 27. Pope and Young also tracks records for these three animals. And similar to Boone and Crockett it does not have a scoring system for wolves but some game agencies like the alberta fish and game association do track wolf sizes they score wolves the same way they score bears or cougars which is by taking length and width measurements

of the skull did you when you were researching this did it does sci do it? I don't know. I'm not sure. It's a good question. I would guess they don't. I'm not sure. Question two. The topic is conservation. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Titus McKenty for sending this great question. Titus is going to get a book

signed by Steve. According to the USGS, there are eight states that have glaciers. Name five of them. According to the USGS, there are eight states that have glaciers. I need you to name five of them. Yanni on your phone over here. Yanni, I don't think you would stand for that if, say,

Chili was on his phone. I need to do the follow-up for about SCI Wolves. Oh yeah, here's a little peek behind the curtain. We teased it on last episode. Yanni is going to host an episode himself coming up very soon, and I'm going to play.

What else did you tease about that i'm showing my answer pretty much the exact same thing said um well i think people want to know why we're gonna do that and if you're excited i i am nervous i would prefer i would prefer to host i don't have to prove anything about my own knowledge being on this side of the table. I think there's a chance, Yanni. You could do a poor job and that makes me look really good. So I'm excited if that happens. Either way, I win.

Either I get to take an episode off and not host and it goes really well, or I get to take an episode off and it goes terribly. And then everyone's like wow Spencer's pretty good at this but what about just the personal enjoyment of getting to play meat eater trivia I will enjoy watching you host more than I will

enjoy playing listen I guarantee you I'm going to be more nervous really hosting than you are going to be playing okay again the question is according to the USGS, there are eight states that have glaciers. I need you to name five of them.

How's it going, Mackenzie? Feel good about your five? No. Can I do more? Nope. Do more and you will get it wrong. Randall, I think you and Corey are the only ones done, maybe. You have this one right, Randall? I think so. I've gone back ones done, maybe. You have this one right, Randall? I think so.

I've gone back and forth on which state I wanted to include for my fifth slot. Okay. So four of the five you're confident in. Well, I'm pretty confident in five as well. I just wasn't sure if I wanted to go for like a reach or like a safe one that I'm not, you know, it's just. Yanni, I think we are waiting on you, which is my fault. I distracted you with all the host talk. No, we're doing good.

I'm close. I've got four. I've got four. Oh, come to me, baby. Isn't there typically a time limit on questions? There is not. You mentioned that there's a timer in the board game. There is a timer in the board game. There is a timer in the board game.

When you said that, I found that interesting. Now, personally, Randall, if it was me and I was playing the board game, I'd throw that timer out. But it's in there if you'd like to. I imagine, Randall, you're a stickler for board game rules. Would that be true? Oh yeah, absolutely. He would use the timer. It's your choice.

We were actually just talking about my penchant for following and observing and knowing rules at board games last night. Good on you. Does everybody have five answers? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Sam saying Alaska, Washington, Montana, Oregon, California. Chili saying Alaska, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Idaho. Randall saying Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Washington, Oregon.

Corey saying Washington, California, Montana, Oregon, and Alaska. Maddie saying Alaska, Montana, Washington, Colorado, Wyoming. Mackenzie saying Alaska, Montana, Washington, Idaho, Colorado. Giannis saying Alaska, Colorado, Montana, Washington, Oregon. The eight states are Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Nevada. I think where a few folks went wrong is they included Idaho, which is not on the list. That was the one that I was questioning. Nevada, interesting.

Utah and Idaho used to have a glacier, but both have shrunk to a size that no longer meets the USGS definition of a glacier. There are about 100,000 glaciers in the United States, with the biggest being the Bering Glacier in Alaska. The glacier and its associated ice fields cover about 2,000 square miles. Question three. The topic is cooking. Anthony Bourdain once told Oprah that the reason restaurant food tastes better than home food is because chefs use so much of this.

Here's the question again. The topic is cooking. Anthony Bourdain once told Oprah that the reason restaurant food tastes better than home food, and that is a quote, is because chefs use so much of this. A confident answer from Yanni. Yanni, do you know this one or you just have an educated guess? Educated guess. You'll have to tell us about your restaurant days after this and see if it rings true for you.

Randall without an answer. I think you should open up a restaurant. Do you feel like you have a few things you're torn between over there? Yeah, I've got a few different ideas, but I have no way of choosing between them. Anthony Bourdain once told Oprah that the reason restaurant food tastes better than home food is because chefs use so much

of this. Has anyone in this room been to a glacier? We do have some in Montana. I've been to a glacier. Glacier National Park or somewhere else? Been to Stone Glacier. Good one, Chili. Which one did you visit, Sam?

I've been to Glacier National Park. I've been to glaciers in Chile in South America. Whoa. Been to glaciers in British Columbia, skiing. You skied on the glacier? Whoa. Oh, yeah. Very cool.

Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Sam saying butter. Chili saying MSG. Randall saying butter. Corey saying MSG. Maddie saying salt. Mackenzie saying salt.

Giannis saying salt. We have a correct answer in the room. It's butter. A few people got that right. I think Randall and Sam. Here is one minute of that interview from 2001. Take it away, Phil. I think one of the things you said that you say in that piece is that we would be shocked at how much butter goes into everything. Yeah, I hope I haven't frightened anyone away, but it is usually the first thing and the last

thing in just about every pan. Really? Yeah. That's why restaurant food tastes better than home food a lot of the times. Butter. Even when you say, look, I'm really, I don't want any butter or I don't want any... No, if you say absolutely no butter, just about every chef I know will, of course, refrain from using it.

But most things have butter because butter makes things taste better. Yeah. It's a chef's secret. It mellows sauces. It gives it that restaurant sheen and a emulsified consistency that we love. And it's, you know, it's classic. We're... And it tastes good. Yeah. Nothing like it. And it tastes good. So you say that by... The average person, when they go out to dinner,

eats about a quarter stick of butter and doesn't know it. Well, assuming... assuming you're going to a French restaurant... Yeah....a classic French restaurant, and you have a quarter stick of butter and doesn't know it. Well, assuming you're going to a French restaurant, a classic French restaurant, and you have a little bread and butter waiting for your appetizer to come on. But by the time you leave the restaurant, you've probably eaten about a stick plus. A stick plus. Oh, that's foul. Yanni, in your restaurant days, did you see an obscene amount of butter used?

I would not say obscene. More than maybe the average home cook, though? Well, it's tough because now if you go to my house, we have butter reserves. We don't mess around. We go through easily a stick of butter a day at our house. Really? Do you guys make it yourself?

No. Oh. So I agree with him, but in my restaurant experience, that was not the case. Who else has worked in a restaurant here? Corey, did you for a bit? Did you see a lot of butter used there? Yeah, but nothing out of the ordinary. I use a lot at home as well, probably because of the restaurant influence, though.

That's right. Yeah, putting a pat of butter on a steak right off the grills, pretty common. Got it. Question four. The topic is gear. This next great question comes to us via Tom Christian. If you have a question you think is right for MeatEater Trivia, you can send it to trivia at themeateater.com. What pastel-colored candy was originally made with machines that pressed gunpowder into pellets?

The room is stumped. What pastel-colored candy was originally made with machines that pressed gunpowder into pellets? I'm having a hard time thinking of what pastel looks like, for some reason. Is pastel a single color? It's like multi-colored. I'm having a hard time thinking of what pastel looks like. For some reason.

Is pastel a single color? It's like multi-colored. It looks like Easter. It's a tone. It's a tone, yeah. Oh. Not going to give you any hints. You can take what the room has just told you. No, I think we're looking for a clarification.

Because is pastel a single color? Can you answer that? It's not. That is not a single color. But there Can you answer that? It's not, right? That is not a single color. But there are pastels. There's yellow pastel. I think it'd be the equivalent, Yanni, if I said like this gothic colored candy

or something like that. Neon. Neon colored. There you go. In this case, they are pastel colored. Here's the question again. What pastel colored candy was originally made with machines that pressed gunpowder into pellets.

Oh. You now know it, Chili? Well, I know, I know, I don't know the exact, like, given name. I know what it is. Okay. Which is, like, common, like, there's a lot of them out there. Okay. But I don't know, like, what the given name is.

Yanni, are you now changing your answer? Yes. My first answer was just kind of what first came to mind, but now I think I have a better answer. Randall, how's it going for you over there? It's not going well, Spencer. Okay, this may

ruin a perfect game, which I will feel bad about if it happens on a question that is on the very edge of the Mediator universe. I'm upset in anticipation of that happening. The topic is gear what pastel-colored candy was originally made with machines that pressed gunpowder into pellets. Sam, are you going to come up with an answer? I feel like you also have a perfect game going. I missed the first question.

Oh, okay. Take it back then. Pressure's off. But I've got a couple ideas. I'm just trying to think. I think we might be waiting on you. Okay. I got it.

Time to choose one is what that means. Randall, do you have an answer? Oh, shit. No, I've got a better answer. Okay. Oh, yeah. I feel good about that. Is everybody ready? Phil, what have you gotten this one right?

I don't think so. No. Hang on, I need a second. Okay, we're going to give Sam his second. What pastel-colored candy was originally made with machines that pressed gunpowder into pellets? I know like three pastel-colored candies that are pretty popular, and I probably could have like, you know, got a pretty good shot there, but not based on the history. Sam, are you ready?

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Sam saying Pez, Chili saying Mints, Randall saying Pez, Corey saying Nerds, Maddie saying Smarties, Mackenzie saying Nerds, Giannis saying Good and Plenty. We have a correct answer in the room. It's Smarties. Or for our Canadian friends, rockets.

After World War I, there was a surplus of gunpowder press machines, which the Smarties inventor repurposed for candy making as they learned the exact same process that created gunpowder pellets could be used to make sweets. Although today's machines don't resemble what they had in 1949, the shape has stayed the same. Now in America, they're called Smarties, but Smarties in Canada are different.

So their version are called Rockets. I was thinking Altoids almost. I know they're not candy and I know they're not really pastel. There's just the cinnamon ones that are pastel. But I like where Matty went with Smarties, like that little hard candy. Well, you should. It was a correct answer. Once they really saw Matty's answer, they knew.

I appreciated how she got there. I was going to go with candy hearts with the little messages on them. But then I couldn't envision gunpowder pellets having the inscription, I love you or whatever. Other friendly greetings they have on them. Question five. The topic is fishing. This is a visual question.

If you want to see what the room is seeing, then head over to Meat Eater's YouTube channel to watch this episode. Phil is showing the room a picture of a shark hunter played by Robert Shaw in Jaws. You need to tell me this character's name. I just watched this a couple weeks ago. You should be in the pole position to get this right then, Sam. Yeah, but. Randall, it seems like you do have this correct. I feel pretty good.

Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain. He's even doing the accent. Thank you. Keep going, Randall. We're going to need to kill some time. That's all I got. That's all I got.

I think you give Phil a run for his money in show tunes. Oh, yeah. Again, this is the shark hunter played by robert shaw in jaws you need to tell me this character's name cory are you going to get this one right oh that's a hard no seems as though randall may be the only one maybe there's no certainty in this one. Okay. Yanni, how many times do you think you've seen Jaws?

Two or three. Okay. Not giving you any confidence, though, in coming up with an answer. No. Rand, when's the last time you saw Jaws? Oh, I don't know. It's been some time. You just know this just because of your trivia brain.

You got this one right. I just had a name that came to mind immediately. There's no point in the movie where I can, you know, recall someone using this name in dialogue, but it just came to me. But I do sing the fair spanish ladies song quite often in my serenade your wife no no it's just something i sing to myself okay serenade yourself yeah is everybody who's going to come up with an answer have an answer

go ahead and reveal your answers we have sam sang o O'Malley. Chili without an answer. Randall saying Quint. Corey saying Schmidt. Maddie saying Bill. McKenzie saying Ronnie. Giannis saying Captain Jim. The correct answer is Quint. I don't

think we're going to give it to Randall. Suck it, Randall! Randall went C-E instead of T at the end. In certain cultures, you pronounce the C-E with a T. You're so confident. It's believed that Quint was based on Captain Ahab from Moby Dick. Some of the similarities include that they're both obsessive captains with enemies that live in the sea and they both die after getting pulled underwater spielberg's original screenplay

actually included quint watching moby dick in a movie theater but they couldn't use the scene because of copyright laws phil would have you gotten that one right yes yes i would have okay point with a t with a t Solid one out of five or four there, yeah. Yeah, with a T. I got the hardest sound. Uh-huh. The Q-U. Phil has won.

Took the wind out of your sails there a little bit. His heart rate was through the roof, he just threw red. Pure anger. I'm humiliated. You were the closest in the room. So we've got McKenzie with zero points. Chili and Corey are tied up with one apiece. Giannis and Sam have two. Maddie has three.

And in first place is Randall with four. Nice. Should have been five. Maddie. Should have been five. Randall, you should have three, I think, though. You didn't get Smarties and you didn't get Quint. Oh, yeah.

Ooh. So I didn't look. Should have been four. I didn't look at his whiteboard when you were going around the room, and I heard Quint, and then I gave him a point, and I did not take it away. I will do that right now. Okay.

Phil, how many points does Randall have? Randall now has three, and it's tied for first with Maddie. Ooh. Wow. Good on you. Anybody's game. Anybody's game. I feel sick to my stomach. now has three and is tied for first with Maddie. Anybody's game. Anybody's game. I feel sick to my stomach.

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Question six. The topic is conservation. East blank Ohio is where the infamous train derailment happened on February 3rd, 2023. This is a fill in the blank. The town is not called East Blank. Here it is again. East Blank, Ohio is where the infamous train derailment happened on February 3rd, 2023. Corey is the only confident player in the room. Corey, you have this one, right? Yeah, I watch the news. Is this a cooking question? This is conservation.

Do you not recall this happening, Yanni? It's not an actual city, though? I think I was lion hunting. You were lion hunting on February 3rd so you missed the coverage of this enormous event? I feel like it's like something funky.

East Funky, Ohio is where the infamous train jam happened. I have an idea of what it is in my head, but I feel like I'm going to get made fun of if it's wrong. On February 3rd, 2023. I don't like the guess that's coming to mind. That's where I'm at. But I just, like, it's so random that I feel like it has to be right. I was worried this question would be too easy and we'd have a 100 percenter.

Corey may be the only one, though. We're failing against the old Shelby. She may take a victory on this one. Will she ever come in and do an actual episode? She has hosted an episode that we did with the spouses of Meat Eater. I think it would be unfair for her to play. She has too much access to my brain where these questions come from. Not that she would win very often, but she would certainly have an advantage.

But conservation always wins. That's right. East blank Ohio is where the infamous train derailment happened on February 3rd, 2023. Oh, I just went with a, I came down to a few towns in Ohio that I know, and I picked one of them. I've never even been to Ohio. Is everybody ready? Big buck country. Mm-hmm. Spencer, you ever hunted big bucks in Ohio?

Not in Ohio. Kentucky and Illinois would be the closest that I have come to Ohio. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Sam saying Peoria. Chili saying Cincinnati. Randall saying Palestine. Corey saying Palestine.

Maddie saying Dayton. Mackall saying Palestine. Corey saying Palestine. Maddie saying Dayton. McKenzie saying Palestine. Giannis saying Salem. The correct answer is Palestine. The room did pretty well, despite them not thinking they would. The 51 car derailment was considered one of the worst train accidents in modern history. The train was carrying hundreds of thousands of gallons of hazardous chemicals, some of which were set on fire in a controlled burn. It's estimated the cleanup will cost about $400 million, although

that number is still growing. As of June, there have been 20 million gallons of liquid wastewater removed from East Palestine. How about the one that fell into the Yellowstone? Mm-hmm. Oh, the beer? I think they had, what was it, asphalt that was leaking out of that one?

Globs of asphalt. Bridge collapsed? It was like right before the 4th. Made the river look very disgusting. Question seven. The topic is cooking. This brand has the best-selling mason jar at Walmart, Target, and Amazon. This brand has the best-selling mason jar at Walmart, Target, and Amazon.

A pretty confident room. Besides chili. It's a stretch, Chili. Don't worry about it. Just give up now. She's consoling me in my efforts. This brand has the best-selling mason jar at Walmart, Target, and Amazon. Randall, do you have this one right? I'm trying to remember it.

I'm just going with the first word that came to mind. Okay. Maddie, do you have this one right? No. Yanni, you seem confident. I've got two answers written down. Okay. You know two Mason brand jars?

I do. Mason jar brands. Really? Do you do a lot of canning? I wouldn't say a lot, but that's what we use for our drinking vessels in our house

for a long, long time. Oh, okay. But you have cups now or not? No. We'll buy a set and within months they're all broken

and then we're like, ah, back to the mason jars. What are you doing when you're breaking all of these? That's what I was going to ask. Is it just like classic dropping on the ground, or what's going on? No, they're just like little tinks and dinks here and there, and I don't know, loading the dishwasher probably is how often, most often it happens.

You get mad watching the nuggets, and you hurl one across the room? That's the most common way. No, that's the thing. I like to buy like a nice low ball glass, you know, be able to serve my guests a nice drink. And then sure enough, there's only three out of four left within weeks. Again, this is question seven. Phil, good on you going back to the Jaws question.

I meant to send you a picture. I never did. Phil is so professional and so prepared that he had one ready for us anyway. Yeah, I tried to find one where he looks kind of regal standing there. Is everybody ready for the brand of the best-selling mason jar? Come on, Chili. Just write a word. Oh, I don't know.

I don't know any brands. Uh. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Sorry, Chili. Sam says ball. Chili says jelly. Randall says ball. Corey says smugglers.

Maddie says country kitchen. Mackenzie saying ball. Giannis saying ball. The correct answer is ball. Gianni would have been the other brand, Kerr. Is that what you're thinking of? The Mason jar was invented by John Landis Mason in 1858 at the age of 26 years old. Ball Corporation licensed his design and started making their own home canning jars in 1884. Along with salt and refrigerators, the mason jar is considered one of the greatest achievements in food preservation in human history.

Question eight. The topic is wildlife. This next great question comes to us via Justin LaPlay. If you have a question you think is right for MeatEater Trivia, you can send it to trivia at themeateater.com. This animal was declared the official national mammal of the United States

in 2016. Mammal? This animal was declared the official national mammal of the United States in 2016. Randall, do you have this one right? Randall?

You're going to bust out in the song again about it? I think so. Randall is the only person confident. I don't have a good song for it, though. National mammal. In 2016, this animal was declared the official national mammal of the United States in 2016. Ooh, stumper. Who came up with it? what was this guy's name?

Just in the play, the topic is wildlife and this is question eight. We will get a scoreboard update from Phil the Engineer after this. Again, looking for the official national mammal. I'm just still shocked that mason jars are named after the inventor.

I always assumed that there was some sort of utilitarian prior life before they became... If I had to guess, I would have guessed like, oh, it's something to do with the Mason-Dixon line. Maybe this guy was associated with the Mason-Dixon line. Or maybe they used to be. Yeah, I don't know. Randall may be the only one. It's like Count Stroganoff. That still sticks with me.

Does anybody besides Randall feel confident about their answer? I didn't know we had national mammals. Since 2016, we have. Only recently. Recently. Yanni, I think we may be waiting on you. Oh, you're waiting on me? I think we're waiting on you.

What do you think? I'm going to show you these two. Am I close? I'm not going to give you any hints. Let me see what you got. What do you think? Okay. All right, go.

That was actually one of my thoughts. Corey, are you ready? Yeah. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Sam saying buffalo. Chili without an answer. Randall saying bison. Corey saying grizzly bear. Maddie saying black bear. Mackenzie saying bison.

Giannis saying dog. The correct answer is bison. Chili did have an answer. Chili said dog. It's a mammal. It is a mammal. Randa would not let him not reveal his board.

Buffalo is incorrect. Buffalo, we will give you Buffalo, Sam. The American buffalo. That counts. That's how Steve likes to call it. The American bison joined the bald eagle as an official United States symbol when the National Bison Legacy Act was signed in 2016. The cause was championed by the Wildlife Conservation

Society, who said the species perfectly represents American history, American culture, and American conservation. I was looking at that guy right over there. Oh yeah, that guy right there. Oh yeah, that one too. It's a Canadian

bison national symbol. Yeah, this room can actually give you a lot of hints. A lot of help. Randall, do you remember when that happened or how did you know that bison was the right answer? I remember that happening and I also just knew it. Phil, we have two questions left. Not a great explanation. Give us a leaderboard update.

I'm about to break a bunch of hearts chili cory maddie mckenzie and yannis i've all been eliminated but we've got sam with four points and randall in first place with a uh a tight six he's he's got two points on sam i was trying to die tight scratch that pretend I didn't say tight six, whatever the hell that means. A hot six for Randall. Hot six. Deep six. We would need Randall to get these last two wrong.

And who's in second place? Sam. Sam to get these last two right to go to a tiebreaker. Question nine. The topic is fishing. What frequently mimics mayfly goes by the acronym PMD? Oh, I just... What frequently mimicked mayfly goes by the acronym PMD?

I'm going to lose some respect. In the confident room, You need to tell me What a PMD is Maddie and Chili do not look so confident Mackenzie did you get this one right Yes Yanni you got this one right I'm going to tell you all about my favorite

PMD imitation Okay You know what I learned right Some memories Some memories from like last year Or what imitation. That brings back some memories. Some memories? Like last year or what? No, I used to guide. We used to fish a pretty heavy PMD hatch

mid to late summer. If you had the right fly, it was stellar. Is everybody ready for the folks who are going to come up with an answer? I learned last night that the shortest mayfly life cycle is five minutes. I knew they were like a day usually, but the shortest one is five minutes. Which one was that, Mackenzie?

Oh, I don't know. Okay. But I learned that the shortest one. It was short. Yeah. That's pretty crazy. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers.

We have Sam saying pale morning done. Chili without an answer. Randall saying pale morning done. Corey saying pale morning done. Maddie saying white fly. Mackenzie saying pale morning done. Giannis saying pale morning done. They got it.

The correct answer is pale morning done. For trout and trout anglers this is considered one of the most important bugs in north america the pale morning done is almost unmatched when it comes to sheer numbers wide distribution and hatch duration pmds are known for being some of the first hatches that appear after runoff in late spring and early summer take it away yanni what do you got for us can you guess what it is for all the fly anglers parachute pmd no sparkle done the patriot the patriot yeah it's like a kind of an orangish reddish body and just a little bit of a like a shiny clear midsection tied like a wolf so it's done killer it's an adult pattern not like a rusty spinner for instance which would be a pmd yeah when did the pmd hatch happen in montana

was it like right now okay has anyone thrown a pmd well depends on what river you're on down here it's right now question 10 randall has it wrapped up he has seven points which is too big of a lead for him to be caught we'll finish the game anyway the topic is public lands this last great question comes to us via justin patterson if you have a question you think is right for me dealer trivia you can send it to trivia at the me dealer.com new river gorge became this landlocked state's first national park in 2020 are you right now new river gorge became this landlocked state's first national park in 2020 Randall do you have this one right I do why do you know this one right? I do. Why do you know this one? You just remember

the news hitting? Well, I know where New River Gorge is. Okay, well that helps. Phenomenal bungee jumping. That helps. And base jumping. Have you bungee jumped there? No. Okay, did you base jump there? I've rafted the New River. It's one of the oldest rivers in the world. Wow, keep going

here. It used to be the Tees River. Tee, I don't know used to be the Tees River. I don't know if that's the correct pronunciation. Confidently handing out hints to the room, but that's fine. You've won the game. Keep going. T-E-A-Y-S. Uh-huh. And I can't describe its course because I think that would be giving away too much.

Okay. Really interesting river. New River Gorge became this landlocked state's first national park in 2020. Is anybody else going to get this right? I have a solid guess. I have like a 150th chance.

It's important to remember that Randall was also very positive about quints. So we'll see. He did throw some doubt out there. To be fair, he said there's nothing assured in this game.

He said maybe I have it all. Listen, you've already won. I'm just trying to take you down just a little bit. I mean, this is the kind, I will be laying in bed tonight thinking about how stupid

I sound. Well, at least you didn't say tight six. That's your new catchphrase I'll refrain from tight six when this is released I'll go on YouTube and I'll look at the comments and I'll just wait for somebody to say what an idiot

what an idiot and I know it's coming and I'll look for it and then I'll just feel that wave of humiliation and embarrassment wash over me once again this is just this is how my mind works. This is how I live. And that's why you're good at trivia. I love how you thought this through already.

Cave of misery. Is everybody ready? Corey? One second, sorry. I like how you two are twinning. It's cute. We called each other. Oh, you went three in a row there, actually,

with the one-eater shirts. Oh, look at those. A little Randall sandwich. In case you guys didn't know. I don't know. You might have just stolen the tight six. I just became the Randall sandwich. Corey, are you ready?

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Sam saying Illinois. Chili saying North Carolina, not landlocked. Randall saying West Virginia. Corey saying Missouri. Maddie saying Missouri. Mackenzie saying Kansas. Giannis saying West Virginia.

The correct answer is West Virginia. Giannis and Randall got it right. The New River Gorge was established by Jimmy Carter as a national river in 1978 and redesignated by Donald Trump as a national park in 2020. The park is 53 miles long and follows the New River Gorge through southern West Virginia. The area is known for some of the best whitewater rafting and rock climbing in the east. Randall wins with a sexy eight points.

Well done, Randall. Nice one, Randall. I'm actually glad that you did quints instead of quint because then I would have felt devastated that you got the Smarties question wrong and it would have cost you a perfect game. Yeah, sometimes it is nice to fall two rungs short of the objective. Randall, as the winner, you get to choose

where the $500 donation from MeDeeter goes. What's it going to be? I'd like this donation to go to the organization Keep It Public, which does a number of hands-on conservation projects around the country. And just this past weekend, they were on the CMR here in Montana, pulling fence. CMR. The Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge.

And they've been doing fence pulls there for the past seven years. And I was unable to participate this year. So. You just did by giving them $500. In lieu of my sweat equity, I will send some cold hard cash their way. Well done, Randall. That is a new organization, I believe, for this show.

We've not given to them before. Keep it public. $500 coming their way from Randall and Meat Eater. Join us next time for more Meat Eater trivia. The only game show where conservation always wins. Hey folks, exciting news for those who live or hunt in Canada. You might not be able to join our raffles and sweepstakes and all that because of raffle and sweepstakes law, but hear this.

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