The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 511: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XCIV

Episode Date: January 10, 2024

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Mackenzie Elmquist, Hanzi Deschermeier, Chester Floyd, and Logan Dove. Connect with MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Trivia MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.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. It's a meat eater podcast. 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 Brody Henderson, Giannis Poutelis, Chester Floyd, Randall Williams, Mackenzie Elmquist,

Hansi Dershermeyer, and Logan Dove. This is a 10-round quiz show with questions from Meat Eaters 4 Verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. And there's a prize. Meadeater will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winner's choosing. For the stat of the week this week, we're looking at average points per game. You guys have a guess as to who leads us in average points per game. Brody.

Brody. Number one. They're in agreement that it's Brody. The leaders are Randall and Brody, who average 6.7 points per game. That's followed by Tony Peterson with 6.5, Steve Rinello with 6.3, Tyler Jones and Giannis with 6.0,

and Cal with 5.5. The average score for all Meat Eater Trivia players is 4.1. Back in the average score for all meat eater trivia players is 4.1. Back in the old days, like, 67% was like a D. Back in grade school. Now you can win a championship.

I feel like it still is. Still in the modern days, it is. I've got feedback from the board game. Two different people in the last week that got it for Christmas and then played it since. And both said that it was hard. Well, in a few years, we hope to have a kid's version, which would be all multiple choice. And so if folks felt like that was hard, maybe that would be more their speed. Were these two people children or should they be insulted by that?

Is there any chance you'd ever include the flavor text on the card uh that's something i heard too people are missing flavor tech honestly no it's like that like it triples the amount of work at some point so to come up with 10 questions is one thing to come up with 10 questions that each have a paragraph of flavor text um um, that like triples what I need to put into it. So no, you listen, if you're a consumer, you can choose between having like 800 questions with no flavor text or like 300 questions with flavor text. I think if I was them, I would pick the 800 questions.

At that point, you're writing an encyclopedia. That's right. Yeah. Or Spencer, we played with the family over over christmas and ike my brother i think on the first one got eight right wow the next one he almost had a perfect game he had nine he kicked all of our butts okay let us know next time ike is in town we'll get him a seat in the trivia room would he like to come and play yeah he'd play'd play. He's a smart fella. I don't know. I don't have that. Don't know where it came from.

Now here's our new segment, which is FAQs. If you have a question for our crew related to MeatEater Trivia, you can send it to trivia at themeateater.com with the subject line FAQ. Here's what Brent Simmons wants to know. I feel like I have a good idea about what most people do at Meat Eater, but have no clue what role Brody and Randall have besides playing trivia. Nobody does. Are they in accounting,

writers, video editors, maintenance guys, or something else? Listen, this guy needs to pay more attention. I feel like... Yeah, Brody, what do you do? So go ahead. That's really a frequently asked question.

No, but it was one person wrote in. I feel like anyone that has listened to the Meat Eater podcast. So Brody, just go ahead and tell folks what you do. I'm a writer. I write books with Steve. Been doing it for a long time. I think if you even open up our most recent book, the Catch a Crayfish Count the Stars,

you'll see by Steven Rinella with Brody Henderson. And on the survival book. There you go. Randall, what do you do here at Meat Eater? Are you a maintenance guy? No, I'd say I do the same thing as Brody. Working on the Meat Eater's American History series. It's my primary day job, which-

Plug it! By the time of this release, it should be out there and available for sale. Goes on sale Tuesday, January 9th, wherever you get your audio books. Thank you, Giannis. And, uh, yeah, we're hard at work on volume two. There you go, Brent.

What's volume two about? Mountain Men. Mm-hmm. Is your secondary day job, uh, we're hard at work on volume two. There you go, Brent. What's volume two about? Mountain men. Is your secondary day job, uh, maintenance or this? I wish. I mean, I had really, you know, I just keep showing up and they tell me different stuff to do and I just keep doing it. There you go, Brent. Brody and Randall work with Steve on our books and audio projects.

We have some housekeeping to get to in a previous game of trivia i told brody that ehd and blue tongue are different diseases even though people refer to them as the same thing brody then asked how they differ to which i didn't have an answer at the time but i do now no you did have an answer you said it wasn't worth explaining well i felt like my answer was um yeah it yeah, it's not worthy of correcting somebody. If you're talking to a rancher in Eastern Montana and he's like, boy, these deer sure got crushed by blue tongue this year, you wouldn't be like, well, actually, let me explain it to you. Here's a quote from the Institute of Agriculture. Quote, blue tongue and EHD are

similar viral diseases spread by biting nets, which result in similar clinical signs. Blue Tongue typically results in severe disease and death in sheep, while cattle have reproductive losses. EHD, on the other hand, affects all ages of deer and is highly infectious and often results in many fatalities. However, EHD in cattle is unusual, and the clinical signs are milder than in whitetail deer. The Montana FWP adds a bit more clarity, saying that EHD has been reported in whitetails, muleys, bighorn sheep, elk, and pronghorn,

and that blue-tongue has been reported in all of those species, as well as black-tailed deer, sheep, cattle, and goats. So simply put, EHD is more often associated with wild animals, while blue tongue is more often associated with domestic animals. There you go, Brody. Thank you. Very clear. So when we have those big die-offs that you'll see out east and whatnot, or everywhere, it's

most likely EHD and not blue tongue. Correct. But again, if you were like talking to a Montana rancher, I wouldn't go out of my way to be like, well, yeah, see here, buddy. Especially if you're trying to get permission. That's exactly right, Chester. That's a person you want to be sucking up to. Now the Shelby index for today's round is a four.

So our winner should get eight 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 just tend to win everything Game on, suckers! Question one. The topic is woodsmanship. This first great question comes to us via Tim Brown. Which of these states has the most native species of venomous snakes?

Is it Arkansas, Georgia, Nebraska, or Arizona? Topic is woodsmanship. Hansi writing his answer for the whole world to see over here. Which of these states has the most native species of venomous snakes? Arkansas, Georgia, Nebraska, Arizona. I do feel like I regressed to the elementary school days of hiding my test answers when I'm playing trivia. Okay, don't trust Chester and Hansi. No, like I'm going to get some folders and put them up at like the 90 degree angle.

There you go. Which of these states has the most native species of venomous snakes? Arkansas, Georgia, Nebraska, Arizona. Is everybody ready? Logan shaking his head no. Randall, are you confident? Not confident in the slightest. Okay.

No. Brody, I don't have to ask if he's confident. He does not look it right now. Arkansas, Georgia, Nebraska, Arizona. Is everybody ready? Brody? Does the Cobra live in any of everybody ready? Brody? Does the cobra live in any of those states? Brody?

That's all right. I'll stick with it. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Hansi saying Georgia. Mackenzie saying Georgia. Chester saying Georgia. Brody saying Georgia. The whole room said Georgia.

The whole room is wrong. The whole room is wrong. The correct answer is Arizona. You know, the native descriptor in there kind of gave me a little bit of hesitancy after the fact.

What changed your mind there, Hansi? It seemed like a possibility that Georgia would have a high likelihood of introduced species being in a temperate, relatively temperate. Like cobras and black mambas? Yeah, like stuff coming out of aquariums.

People were releasing stuff, like them taking hold. I don't know. Arizona is home to 19 native species of venomous snakes, which is the most in the United States. That's followed by Texas with 15. Alabama with 11.

And California, Georgia, New Mexico, and Oklahoma with 10. Arkansas is home to six. And Nebraska is home to four. Is Arizona just a bunch of different rattlers? I believe it is. It's every variety of rattlesnake exists there. Now, if the question didn't have the native descriptor, would the answer have changed? I would imagine you'd see something like a Florida way up there or a Texas already has, you know, 15 native species versus Arizona having 19.

I would assume that Texas would then surpass them if you added in the non-native ones. This question was just about the native species. That is a zero percenter, a rare zero percenter on a multiple choice question. I'm going to remember that one, though. Question two. The topic is cooking. These three words describe the St. Patrick's Day staple that consists of sausage, potatoes, and onion gravy.

The topic is cooking. These three words describe the St. Patrick's Day staple that consists of sausage, potatoes, and onion gravy. Randall is confident. Randall, how much Irish do you have in you? Very little. Okay. Very little.

Much to the surprise of many based on my physiognomy that's a fun word yeah i've never heard that one can i get a definition uh you know someone would probably correct me if i gave a definition but i believe it's like it refers to generally the expression of your genes as they appear on here i don't know these three words describe the saint patrick's day staple that consists of sausage potatoes and onion gravy randall and yanni i don't know the definition either but i think yours suffice for me yanni and randall are the only ones who look confident now brody you were torn on that last one between uh your answer georgia and something else you gotta got to stop talking.

Okay, we're not going to acknowledge Brody. Nobody look at Brody. We just had a light incident. I did that on purpose. Really? I only keep them on for the light show at the beginning, and even then they don't look very impressive. It's funny. I've been staring at the light this whole time.

Don't do that. Trying to figure out whether or not it was a new thing for me. I was like, why is this so distracting? Turns out my instinct's dead on. Does everybody have an answer for the three words that describe the St. Patrick's Day staple that consists of sausage, potatoes, and onion gravy? Everybody ready? Yanni is grinning. Yanni, you like your answer?

I feel like it's the only dish I know that could fit in. Mackenzie, I think we're waiting on you. Okay. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Hansi saying bangers and mash. Mackenzie saying poutine, poutine, poutine. Chester saying beans and mash. Brody saying bangers and mashers.

Logan saying the Holy Trinity. Giannis saying bangers and mash. Randall saying bangers and mash. The correct answer is bangers and mash. Are we going to give it to Brody who said mashers? I think we would give it to him. I think so. Yeah, I think we will.

Man, is it also British? I remember. You're right that it is British. Now Randall. But the Irish have sort of claimed it is their own. Okay. I advocated for you getting that answer a couple games back. Oh, I know, I know. And that's why I'm abstaining rather than

saying no. So we're going to give Brody the point for saying bangers and mashers. I just ordered this the other day and it puts down beans. You were so close, Chester. Now the history of this dish dates back to World War I. There's no beans. I know, but

I couldn't think of it. I was like, something with a B? The history of this dish dates back to World War I when meat shortages caused Brits to make sausage links that were disproportionately high in water. Because of the excess moisture, the sausages would pop and hiss when cooked, which led them to being called bangers. To learn how to make the perfect sausage for bangers and mash, go to TheMeatEater.com and check out Justin Townsend's recipe called venison Irish breakfast sausage. Question three, the topic is hunting. What is the second most popular objective lens size for binoculars at Bass Pro Shops and Shields. Why'd you have to do second? We're not looking for the first most popular.

We're looking for the second most popular objective lens size for binoculars at Bass Pro Shops and Shields. Do you think you know first, Mackenzie? Yeah. Yanni, you feel good about your answer? Yes, I do. Yanni, when's the last time you had bangers and mash? Hmm.

I don't know. Within two years. Really? What was the occasion? Oh, just make it at home. I don't make like a special onion gravy, but if I just cook up sausages and mashed potatoes, then I call it bangers and mash. I had bangers and mash on december 27th also like a week ago 2023 yep well what was the occasion

wrapped the dinner at the uh the fainting goat pub okay are they like uh very specifically irish they have yeah they have some some some irish themed dishes would you have gotten that right if you didn't just order that a week ago? Oh, most certainly. Okay. Fainting goat, is that in Missoula? Hey, Chad, sorry, really quick. I got to put on my electrician's hat and fix that after this show,

but can you and Mackenzie share a mic for the rest of the show? Sorry, thank you. Does everybody have an answer for the second most popular objective lens size? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Hansi saying 10 by 60. Mackenzie saying 10 by 50. Chester saying 12 by 42. Brody saying 50 millimeter. Logan saying 50 millimeter. Giannis

saying 50. Randall saying 50 millimeter. The correct answer is 50. The room did very well. Mackenzie will give it to you. Even though you added in the magnification, you got the right objective lens size. At Shields, there are 67 binoculars available with an objective lens size of 42 millimeters. That's followed by 32 available in 50 millimeters, 25 available in 32 millimeters, and 22 available in 25 millimeters. The objective lens size affects the physical size of the binos and the amount of light they can gather. So you weren't talking about units sold, but what they carry. I would imagine they go hand in hand, but yes. Which ones? their forecasting team is good that's right question

four the topic is conservation this next great question comes to us via lyle mccormick the ccc which was established by frank D. Roosevelt, stands for what? The room is looking very confident minus Logan. Brody, Hansi, Randall, quick to answer. You need to tell us what the CCC stands for. Brody, do you have any binoculars in your gear shed that aren't a 42 or a 50 millimeter bino? No, but I'm wanting to get some smaller ones for turkey season.

Some little guys. Because you don't really need great big jumbos for that. How about you, Yanni? Anything that's not a 42 or a 50? Yeah, I got an 8 by 25, I believe, that I use for deer stand hunting and turkey hunting. There you go.

Some of the sizes I wasn't even aware existed. I know there were 32 or 25s available. Remember those little teeny Tascos? Yeah, just like the straight tube. When I see those, I'm like, I don't even know who they're for, Like some specific birders. The opera. They're for people who don't want to spend money on binoculars.

Dude, for tree stand hunting in the Midwest, and when you can't see past 100 yards anyways, that's all you need. Oh, I think I have it wrong, but I can't think of another answer. Again, this is question four. We're looking for what the CCC stands for. Oh, no. I got it.

Oh, another late one from Giannis. Which of those C's are you changing, Gianni? All three of them or just one of them? I guess I think I only have to change the first one. Change all three. That's a good tip. Go with your gut. We're waiting on you Yanni

I almost forgot the word this is a good attempt Randall to distract him is everybody ready go ahead and reveal your answers we have Hansi saying civilian conservation corps McKenzie saying captain's conservation club Chester saying conservation coalition commission saying Civilian Conservation Corps. Mackenzie, saying Captain's Conservation Club.

Chester, saying Conservation Coalition Commission. Really good alliteration. Just great alliteration that should exist. Brody, saying Civilian Conservation Corps. Logan, saying Conservation Capitalism C.

Giannis, saying Civilian Conservation Corps. Randall saying civilian conservation core. The correct answer is the civilian conservation core. The civilian conservation core was created in 1933 as a way to help lift America out of the Great Depression. It allowed single men between ages 18 to 25 to enlist in work programs that were designed to improve the country's public lands. Enlisters made $30 per month and had meals and lodging provided. Brody, do you think you'd have been part of the CCC if you were a single man between ages 18 and 25? I probably would have needed the work. So yeah, I mean, I'm sure.

They built a lot of dams and stuff like that. I think a lot of things you look at on our federal lands, you could probably have something related to the CCC. And a cool thing that's been blasted into the side of a mountain. They probably had a hand in it. And I think of that $30 a month, they had to send $25 back to their family. So they only got like $5 of that to keep around. Question five.

The topic is gear. This synthetic rubber that's resistant to oil, heat, and weathering was invented by DuPont chemists in 1931. Topic is gear. topic is a gear this synthetic rubber that's resistant to oil heat and weathering was invented by dupont chemists in 1931 this is question five we will get a scoreboard update from phil after this randall already has his board down with an answer yanni has not picked up his board yet. Randall, you know this one. I feel okay about it. I wrote down my first best guess and now I'm working on my second guess

and then I'll weigh the two. This synthetic rubber that's resistant to oil, heat, and weathering was invented by DuPont chemists in 1931. Randall is back to his whiteboard. Brody is covering his face with his whiteboard.

Yanni, how do you feel about your answer? I have a good guess. Okay. I'm going to keep working on it. Randall keeps writing. Yanni, we recently did some more kids trivia, which you'll hear later this year. And I think I observed that your daughter, Mabel,

liked to watch what the other players in the room would do after the answer was read. She wanted to see their confidence in their answer, if they were quick to write down, if they were slow, if they scratched their head. And I said that your dad does the exact same thing. Did you know you do that? Yeah. Yeah, you like to sit there and just drink it all in.

Well, yeah, because if they sit there and write for 10 seconds, then you got a pretty good idea. That's a long answer. That's a good hint. You know, what else she was doing is she said they both were pushing to go squirrel hunting. I was like, what's the big interest in going squirrel hunting? She's like, well, I want to go squirrel hunting. But another thing is that last time we did kids trivia, Spencer asked me what I like to do. And she said that I had said hammocking. She said that's a

stupid answer. It made no sense. So this time when he asked me I'm going to say I like to go squirrel hunting and I want to make sure that I've done it recently so that I'm not fibbing. That's amazing. Love that. So did you go squirrel hunting yet? We did go squirrel hunting

the Henderson family and my family went and love that so did you go squirrel hunting yet we did go squirrel hunting uh the henderson family and my family went and uh we saw my crew saw two i think brody's crew saw a few more we only killed one squirrel on our expedition not a lot of movement that day so next time we ask what they like to do in the outdoors uh is she still going to say squirrel hunting? I expect so. Okay. If she says hammocking again, she's going to beat herself up for a while. Does everybody have an answer for the synthetic rubber

that's resistant to oil, heat, and weathering that was invented by DuPont chemists in 1931? Mackenzie, I believe we're waiting on you. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Hansi saying vulcanized. Mackenzie saying neoprene. Chester saying vibram. Brody saying PVC.

Logan saying neoprene. Giannis saying PVC. Randall saying silicone. We have a correct answer in the room. It's neoprenerene Hansi got it right And Logan got it right Logan and Mackenzie got it right Well done Logan and Mackenzie

Neoprene was originally used In telephone wires and automobile Engines and was later turned Into gloves and shoe soles It wasn't until the 1950s When the first neoprene wetsuit was created. About a decade later, the modern wetsuit was invented

when elastic nylon was added to the neoprene. Phil, we're halfway through the game of trivia. Give us a scoreboard update. We've got Chester Floyd in last place with zero points. Mackenzie, Logan, and Hansi all have two points a piece. And all tied up in first place. Brody, Giannis, and Randall. They all have three points.

Now the PBC answer. I don't blame you boys because I make the meat eater trivia universe pretty wide. But what did you think that was related to meat eater trivia that PBC would be an answer? Why does it have to do with anything to do uh meat eater trivia that pvc would be an answer why does it have to do with anything do with meat eater trivia you have questions all the time that have nothing to do with me yeah what kind of question is that question six the topic is conservation this next great question comes to us via john but i get what you're getting at the neoprene makes sense now. Yeah.

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onxmaps.com slash meet. Welcome to the OnX club, y'all. Ambergris, which is a waxy substance that's sometimes used to make perfume, is produced by this animal. How specific, Spencer. You don't need to be specific. No. If you think the answer is... I think it should be because it's... Ambergris, which is a waxy substance that's sometimes used to make perfume, is produced by this animal.

Brody is confident. Hansi, you have this one right? Yeah. Randall, you have this one. Very much arguing in favor of specificity. Brody, yeah, you're throwing me off with that though, i don't think it wouldn't matter brody it wouldn't matter you know how specific you need to go randall brody just wants to separate the wheat from the chat that's right unless i'm yeah unless and i totally i'll make an argument after this

makes my case even better don't need to be that specific. Ambergreen, which is a waxy substance that sometimes used to make perfume is produced by this animal. Yanni, you got a chance to observe the room in their writing down of answers. Did that help you any? No.

Okay. I think your question gives some hints hmm I think you should check your pronunciation too hmm okay you think the yes should be on there I'm just saying check okay how would you do you have to correct that's one of those words I've never heard spoken I think I could be wrong I think I'm right here. I can check for you while we do this. Maybe fill us in with some banter there, Yanni.

Brody, does this animal live in a place that both of us have fished of the same name? What? Google is going to tell us how to pronounce it ambergris you're right brody i thought it was ambergris ambergris which is a waxy substance that's sometimes used to make perfume it's produced by this animal that is spelled a m b e r g r i s spencer you've had um ai like chat GPT, come up with poems and things before. Would you ever have an AI play trivia with us? I feel like that'd be kind of...

Oh, so we've had somebody write in about this before. And trivia has like a 90... Or excuse me, AI, chat GPT specifically, gets like 95% of answers correct. The category it struggled with the most was hunting. I believe that was where it had a batting average of like 70%. Everything else, cooking, conservation,

fishing was nearly 100%. Now here, this says Webster says you can pronounce it Ambergris or Ambergris. So there we go. Either way will work. Looking to confirm. Checkmate. Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead

and reveal your answers. We have Hansi saying whale. Mackenzie saying beaver. Chester saying otter. Brody saying sperm whale. Logan saying whale. Giannis saying turtle. Randall saying whale. The correct answer is sperm whale or just whale. Giannis saying turtle. Randall saying whale.

The correct answer is sperm whale or just whale. Ambergris or floating gold is created when secretions form around squid beaks in the intestines of sperm whales. The Endangered Species Act prohibits people from collecting or selling ambergris because it's considered part of a protected animal the largest ambergris ever found weighed 220 pounds and was worth about three million dollars yeah the only thing that threw me off in the phrasing of this question was the the present tense and i was beginning to doubt myself like if it it had said, if it had said like, which has historically been used to make perfume. So it's, it's still used in some,

but only like the most expensive of perfume. I think it's used in like the preservation of the scent and it's less about the scent itself. Gotcha. It's more about like making it long lasting. So when you spray it on yourself, you're still going to smell it the next day. To answer your question, you honest. going to smell it the next day. To answer your question,

Giannis. Yes. Yeah. Ambergris K. Key. However, K or key. Belize.

K? They must've been a huge trafficker. They were. That's why, that's why. What are you talking about there, Brody? I'm not, not familiar.

In Belize, there's an Island called Ambergris K or key, however you want to pronounce it. And it was a British, British colon In Belize, there's an island called Ambergris Cay, or Cay, however you want to pronounce it. And it was a British, British colonized Belize. And Ambergris was a big reason why they were there. Yeah. Finding one of those could change your life if it was legal to keep. Question seven.

The topic is biology. Fertility is a synonym for this nine-letter word, which is defined as, quote, an animal's ability to produce a lot of babies. The topic is biology. Brody and Randall already have an answer. Mackenzie is joining them. Fertility is a synonym for this nine-letter word, which is defined as an animal's ability to produce a lot of

babies. Nine, baby! Nine letters! Can I give a hint to people who don't know? The word Steve makes a lot of sense. I was going to say, it's one of Steve's favorite words. He feels very proud of whenever he uses it.

I don't know if that helped anybody, though. I feel like it's a fair hit. Didn't already know it. It is. That's a good one. And he doesn't slide over it. He hits it. He looks you in the eye.

You heard me use that word, right? Yeah, I did. Chester, did that help you at all? No. Steve uses a lot of words to be fair. I just cannot think today. Efficacy instead of efficiency. You know, it's like that.

Does everybody have an answer for this question, which is question seven. Fertility is a synonym for this nine-letter word, which is defined as, quote, an animal's ability to produce a lot of babies. It's not the same

thing, too, but I love his pronunciation of bagel and vague and vague yeah bagel we shouldn't be bad we shouldn't be attacking him behind his back come on he also uh goes out of his way to listen to this show to say teddy roosevelt instead of roosevelt um which is yeah i feel like that's fair, though. That's correct, right? I don't know. I just noticed that he hammers that one. Like, he wants you to know that he intentionally said it. He read somewhere that the family prefers Roosevelt. Does everybody have an answer for question seven?

I gotta count my letters. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is easy. Okay. You have this one right, Mackenzie? I'm just going to erase one. I knew my first one was wrong.

I knew it was wrong, but it got me to the second one. Is everybody ready? I'm just ready. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Hansi saying fecundity. Mackenzie saying fruitful. Chester without an answer. Brody saying fecundity

Logan saying procreate And he drew out like hangman little dashes to make sure he hit nine letters Giannis saying fecundity Randall saying fecundity The correct answer is fecundity Fecundity rates are often tied to parental care So animals with a high fecundity rate produce a lot of offspring, but put very little energy into raising them.

And an example of this is a trout and animals with a low fecundity rate produce few offspring, but put a lot of energy into raising them. An example of this is an elephant and some humans. Question eight. The topic is public lands. What is the only national park in Oregon? This is question eight.

The topic is public lands. Randall is quick to come up with an answer. What is the only national park in Oregon? We will get a scoreboard update after this. Have you ever been here, Dr. Randall? I have not. I have not. Is it near?

California and Washington? Yes. What is the only national park in Oregon? Hansi, you have an answer? But is it closer to? I do, but Randall's, that makes me change my thought a little bit. Really? What if I had used the Pacific Ocean in Idaho?

Now he's just flexing his geography muscle. Hansi, do you think you've been to this place? If it's what I have written down, I've been there. What is the only national park in Oregon? Oregon feels like a place that should have like a half dozen national parks.

It's such a beautiful state. It's only got one national parks. It's such a beautiful state. It's only got one national park. It's crazy. Brody is frustrated. The hat is low. The hat is low and the board is high. He currently looks like, is it a home improvement? What's the neighbor's name?

Wilson? Yeah, Wilson. He currently is doing the Wilson look over there there logan do you have an answer i do but it's probably not right okay and you just made me think of uh flashbacks to home improvement i was watching a lot of tim allen stuff over the holidays really yeah like what santa claus he's gotta put it yeah he's like the main i was thinking of some of his newer work. I was thinking of some of his more recent projects. Phil, did you like Home Improvement?

Oh, yeah. A lot of sound effects, like... I was just going to ask if you could hit that one more time. Everyone be quiet. That was too much pressure. Phil went cross-eyed when he did that. He had to reach down deep to make that Tim Allen noise. The second one was better, by the way, too.

A little grunt to it. That was bad. I can't do it again. It's like a grunt and a slide whistle at once. Doing those is like a cigarette. It takes like 11 minutes off your life when you try to hit one of those. I wish I knew that when I was nine. What is the only

national park in Oregon? Well, he did a lot of cocaine, I think, in the 80s that offset it. So that's, as you know, adds minutes to your life. Let me do the math. Does everybody have an answer? Brody?

Go ahead. Yanni? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Hansi saying Smith Rock. Mackenzie saying Crater Lake. Chester saying Sequoia. Brody saying Fossils. Logan saying Redwoods.

Giannis saying Health Canyon. Giannis saying Hell's Canyon. Randall saying Crater Lake. We have a correct answer in the room. It's Crater Lake National Park. Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States at nearly 2,000 feet deep. It lies inside the collapsed remnants of an ancient volcano known as Mount Mazama. Biologists believe there are no native fish to the lake, but it does have kokanee salmon and rainbow trout that were stocked there about 100 years ago. Isn't Crater Lake the one with the giant log that's floating?

That is the old man of Crater Lake. Okay. Posted about that on Instagram before. It's a very old piece of driftwood that stays perfectly buoyant. It's similar to a glacier where you only see like 10% of it on the surface. It moves around the lake. Scientists tried to study it once before and they chained it up to like an island and then a huge storm hit. So it was believed that it was bad luck to try to

contain the old man of crater lake. So they just let him drift after that. There's like some algae on him that's only observed in that spot. Did you guys rehearse this? No. I have aspirations to go to Crater Lake later this year,

and I'd love to see the old man. I think the island is called Merlin Island or Wizard Island. It's a cool name. Philly Engineer, give us a scoreboard update. Chester, McKenzie, and Logan have been eliminated from the game. Logan and McKenzie have three points, though. That's nice.

Giannis and Hansi have four points apiece. Brody has five. And in first place is Randall with six points. Question nine. What is that intonation there? It's hunting. I put more enthusiasm into your name than anyone else's. Question there? The topic is hunting. I put more enthusiasm into your name than anyone else's. Question nine.

The topic is hunting. What holiday was the blizzard of 1940 that killed 85 Midwestern duck hunters? I feel like I know this. What holiday was the blizzard of 1940 that killed 85 Midwestern duck hunters? Brody, you have this one, right? Yeah, I do. He appears to be the only one with any confidence. What holiday was the blizzard of 1940 that killed 85 Midwestern duck hunters?

Now, is this a real holiday or is this like Arbor Day? Why don't you like Arbor Day, Randall? You got something against trees? I don't know. Well, dude, we had a tiebreaker once about Arbor Day. We did, indeed. I think it was, and you were about four months off. We did, indeed.

Correct answer. Yeah. So, uh, Randall is the only person on earth who is taking a stance against Arbor Day. He is anti Arbor Day. Don't come after me. This is question nine.

What holiday was the blizzard of 1940 that killed 85 Midwestern duck hunters? Is everybody ready? Randall has erased his entire board. Did you change your mind, or do you just need to write in prettier handwriting? I don't know. I'll just write. Here we go.

Mackenzie, are you ready? Yes. Now explain what's going on here again, Randall. Randall has totally erased his board for a second time. Now, is this answer going to be your first answer, or is it your third answer? It's my first answer, and I don't like it. Okay. But I didn't like the other one either.

Mackenzie? Just guess a holiday. I realized I said something like it. Okay. But I didn't like the other one either. Mackenzie? Just guess a holiday. I realized I said something really stupid. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Hansi saying Columbus Day. Mackenzie saying President's Day. Chester saying Christmas. Brody saying Armistice Day.

Logan saying Armistice Day. Giannis saying Armistice. Randall saying President's Day. The correct answer is Armistice Day or Veterans Day prior to 1954. It was Armistice Day, but if you said Veterans Day, we would give you credit for that.

The blizzard unexpectedly hit the upper Midwest on the afternoon before Armistice Day, which caused hundreds of duck hunters to get stranded on the water. The storm brought two, which caused hundreds of duck hunters to get stranded on the water. The storm brought two feet of snow, 80 mile per hour winds, and a 30 degree temperature swing. It's estimated the blizzard killed 210 people, 65 of which were sailors on Lake Michigan. For more on this story, read my article on TheMeteor.com called Armistice Day,

the day 85 duck hunters died. Phil, we have one question left. Who is left in the game? We have three players left in the game. Giannis has five points, so he can technically catch up. And then tied up are Randall and Brody with six points.

Question 10. The topic is fishing. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Adam McQueary for sending this great question. Adam is going to get a board game signed by the crew. If you want a chance to win our listener question of the week, then send your question to trivia at themeateater.com. What fish has a magnolia hybrid that's created when crossing a white species with a black species? The room is stumped.

This is our final question. We would need Giannis to get this right, Randall and Brody to get this wrong, to go to a three-way tiebreaker, or we could just have Brody and Randall get it right. They would go to a tiebreaker. We could have them get it wrong, Gianni get it wrong,

and they would just go to a tiebreaker. A lot have them get it wrong. Yanni get it wrong. And they would just go to a tiebreaker. A lot of options to go to an 11th question. This is one of those man-made jobbies. Not going to help you out there. What fish has a magnolia hybrid that's created when crossing a white species with a black species? Yanni, how do you feel about your answer? I might have to argue that it's correct. I think you're

headed the right direction, Yannis. Okay. So make for an exciting finish to the game. Yeah, it wouldn't be a game of trivia without this. What fish has a magnolia hybrid that's created when crossing a white species with a black species?

This is question 10. Randall, just came up with an answer. How do you feel about it? There's a white species and a black species. Okay. Don't know about this magnolia business. Okay. Are you, I don't know about this magnolia business. Okay. Are you, I don't understand. Are you looking for the name of the fish, like the hybrid, or are you looking for.

I'm telling you the hybrid is a magnolia. This would be like, if you cross a white lab with a black lab, you would get a magnolia lab. And the answer would be lab. Lab would be the correct answer there. Oh, Mackenzie is throwing gear across the room. Tensions are high. She really wants to see this three-way tiebreaker come to fruition. I was paid to do that.

What fish has a magnolia hybrid that's created when crossing a white species with a black species brody is hitting that wilson pose again come up with an answer quite yet we are waiting on him no i have an answer you have an answer is everybody else ready let's go go ahead and reveal your answers we have hansi saying what's that say hansi? Roy? Roy. I don't know. Mackenzie saying carp. Chester saying marlin. Brody saying bass. Logan saying koi fish.

Giannis saying goldfish. Randall saying crappie. We have a correct answer in the room. It's crappie. Randall got it right. Well done, Randall, with seven correct answers, he gets the victory. Thank you. A magnolia crappie is created when crossing a female white crappie with a male black crappie. This sterile hybrid was created by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks in the 1990s.

They wanted to have a panfish that could be stocked in small lakes and wouldn't be a threat to take them over. Now, Brody was writing down bass because the species at large is a black bass, but there are white bass that are also a species. And he was ready to argue that one of them is a species. One of them is what? Probably a class or something like that. Is that what you were going to go for? That black bass aren't bass. But the correct answer was crappie,

so Randall's our winner. Now, down in Tennessee, in a small region, they call crappie goldfish. There you go. That's a good one. Swimming gold. Randall, you get to choose where the five one of them got.

I'm convinced, actually. Let's go to that. Well, okay, even if you get that right yanni it doesn't matter uh because randall also got it right he got seven you got six i thought we had one more question this was question 10 oh randall where is the 500 donation from me you're going to go um let's give it to the rocky mountain goat alliance we haven't done them in quite a while. What do you like about them? Well, goats are cool animals and they, you know, they sponsor a lot of citizen science field work and then also support a lot of research. That you've been part of, right?

You've went and done the goat count. Yes. And, you know, thinking ahead to applications in fall of 2024, I'd really like to have a goat tag in my pocket. So just the, again, it's all about me. I wasn't planning that, but now it requires

some introspection, but I've been thinking about goats a lot lately. Well done, Randall. I was hoping for a tiebreaker there. We were primed to have one, but Brody couldn't do it.

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