The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 919: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CCXXX

Episode Date: August 19, 2026

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Janis Putelis, Mark Kenyon, Max Barta, Jon Montressor, Logan Dove, and Brianna Stroebe. Connect with MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and YouTube Clips Subscribe to MeatEater Podcast Network on YouTube Shop Trivia MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Meat Deeder trivia is brought to you by one of my favorite beers. Bush Light. Bush Light. Head for the mountains. Bush! Brianna, first time on the show. Tell folks what you do here at Me Deeder. I am executive assistant to Stephen Rinella here and also the philanthropy coordinator.

So I take care of Meat Eater gives. I do a lot of odd tasks for Steve. Like painting a podcast studio? I did. I painted a podcast studio. Wow, nice work. Very powerful person in the office. office here is Brianna control you know she controls Steve uh more than Steve controls Steve

yeah if you need something done you can go to Brianna yeah hey and she's kicking butt on the philanthropy stuff thank you for all your help yeah the auction house has been fun we earned a lot of money through that so I'm sending everything out great and it's wrapped up you're done with that now yep good for you hunting fishing conservation cooking strengths and weaknesses for you cooking Strength. Conservation. Middle of the ground. I would say hunting. I've never been hunting. I've been fishing a lot, but what was the other one? All right. That's all four. You got it. Okay. Yeah. Welcome to the show, Brianna. Max also joining us. He was gone for a while playing dad. How you doing Max? Doing well. Welcome back.

Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Being a dad's great. It's a lot of fun. Is it what you expected? No. I'll say. I don't think no one prepared me for like the lack of sleep. Yeah. I feel like that's something that everybody knows about. Yes. I mean, they'll tell you that. And you're like, oh, yeah, like, whatever.

When you're actually experiencing it, though, it's a different ride. Like, just last night, I was up from like 2 to 3.30. Yeah, so it was like, it's pretty typical. So, but yeah, he's doing great. Eating, sleeping, pooping, doing all the good things. So it's like that. We'll see if Max had. dad brain on trivia or not.

Alex told me I could use that for excuses. I'm not gonna try that. That'll work a while. We'll see. All right, we're starting today's show with a mailbag question. If you have a question you want the crew to answer, then send your question to trivia at the meat eater.com with the subject line mailbag. Adam E says, I'm going on a four day hunting trip into the mountains of the PNW for Blacktail

and Bear with a buddy in late October. He's an experienced outdoorsman and I'm a greenhorn when it comes to backpacking. I'm a self-taught hunter, but have never done in over-neaubering. Nider. He's been a great mentor, but what advice can you give me that I can have preloaded in my head for the trip? Yanni, what do you got for Adam? I wish I knew if Adam was looking for haunting advice for, you know, deep in the backcountry or more for backpacking advice. He didn't ask about gear, but I imagine he would take any gear advice, any mental advice you have for him. What did you take it? What kind of advice do you think he's looking for? I think he just wants

like a couple tips that he hasn't read online that, you know, he's not something from someone who spent a lot of nights in the mountains like Yu-Yanni. That's what he wants. Well, on the topic of gear, less is more. Okay.

Ditch the crocs. You don't need camp shoes because when you go to bed, you're just going to take your boots off and get in your ditch all the extras. Really look at every piece of gear and think, do I have a really good two or maybe three reasons to bring this item along and if you can't come up with at least two then just leave it you can probably just

look at all your clothes and take away two layers you're still going to be fine because you have a sleeping bag with you um less is more you're going to be carrying it around all the time and pound what do they say ounces add up to pounds and pounds add up to pain okay that's perfect advice yanni well done oh thanks spencer uh marcus logan what do you got for adam i got one uh bring a book maybe not physical if you want to watch weight. Bring an e-book on your phone or something, but you're liable to get rained in at least one day, possibly, and you're stuck in your tent all day long.

If for some reason it's nasty, gnarly and you're not going out there, especially, I guess, Pacific Northwest. PNW in late October. That could be up there. So have a little something if you get stuck in the tent for an extended period. There you go. Logan? You know, honestly don't do too much backpacking hunting.

I have seen some places other people choose to can. and it's like right where all the elk are. And I feel like that tends to throw them off, like your sense in that area. So like I don't know, for me personally, I try not to camp like where I know the elk are. I'm not like camping in them. I'm camping kind of like off to the side

where my scent's not blown into them. Personally, I don't know if that's, you know. Any other advice for Adam on his first backpacking overnighter? Download your on-x maps. There you go. Yep. Scout out potential water sources. Don't camp too far away from water source if that's possible.

Scout out hunt areas. Even get boots on the ground beforehand before the actual hunt days would be best case scenario. There you go. All right. Good luck, Adam. Okay, we have some housekeeping to get to on a previous episode. We had a trivia question about the price of a federal duck stamp. The correct answer was what, Maxwell?

$25. $25. But a couple dozen listeners wrote in saying that it costs more than that, with prices ranging from $29 to $31. Some even sent pictures of their receipts to prove it. But those listeners were buying their duct stamps through state agencies, which tend to charge administrative fees that extra $4 to $6 is not part of the price of a duck stamp. If you want to pay the flat $25 price, then go get your duct stamp in person at the post office

or buy the digital duct stamp through duckstamp.com. You can even see on this year's duck stamp in the last few years, they just put $25,000, $25 right on there. That's a $25 item. Maxwell, have you bought your duck stamp yet? I have not, but that's a great reminder.

You like to go into the physical location and buy yours? Yeah, I like to get physical ones and I always just grab a couple extra because there's always that one buddy that will text you the night before you go on. Hey, I don't have a duck stamp. Good for you.

And like, yeah, you can just have them sign it, have them, BEMO you 25 bucks, or he can just always buy it online. But yeah, I typically buy one for,

Me, my wife, and my dog every year. There you go. And now Rocky at home. Oh, yeah. 98% of fees. A good conservation. Are buying for Rocky. All right, today's episode is brought to you by Canham.

And thanks to them, you are getting some extra trivia this week between questions five and six. Next to our friends at Canham. All right, the Shelby Index for today is a five. So I'm putting us on perfect score alert. Whoa. 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. Suckers. Question one, the topic is hunting. Which of these states has the most elk? Nevada,

Kentucky, New Mexico, Oregon. Ooh. Which of these states has the most elk? Your four choices. Nevada, Kentucky, New Mexico, or Oregon?

Here's something else relevant for today's episode. The Phil index is a nine, he told me. Geez. The best game Phil would say he's ever done in, what, 250 episodes now. That's right. So this is maybe either the easiest episode or the filliest episode. We'll find out. Of these states, which has the most elk, Nevada, Kentucky, New Mexico, Oregon.

No quick answers in the room. This one seems like a little tricky. I'm surprised that this is included in this like gimmee perfect score. Mark, this was the one I got incorrect. Oh, no. All right. Hot tip. Is everybody ready?

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Yanni says New Mexico. Mark, Oregon. Logan. Oregon. John, Oregon. Brianna, Oregon. Maxwell, Oregon.

The correct answer? is Oregon Everybody by Yanni Everybody but the elk on her In the hole There are as many elk in Oregon as the other states combined Oregon has 133,000 elk

New Mexico has 80,000 Nevada has 18,000 and Kentucky has 13,000 Oregon has the third most elk in the United States I was just thinking about all those mountains and we were just talking about Yeah, get him, Brian.

Phil, what'd you say? I said New Mexico. Yeah. I just feel like a lot of residents of Oregon get tags pretty regularly. It seems like those other states you have to apply. A lot of L habitat there. Question two, the topic is conservation. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Adam Smith for sending this great question.

Adam is going to get a $150 first light gift card. If you want a chance to win the listener question of the week, then send your question to trivia at the meeditor.com. Historians say that the construction of this Italian stadium contributed to the extinction of several animal species across Europe and Africa. Max and Mark already have their answers. Historians say that the construction of this Italian stadium contributed to the extinction of several animal species across Europe and Africa. See, I feel like now that Mark lives here, there's going to be some, I don't know how many rounds of trivia of one. Mark, but I feel like we've got a new heavy hitter. Yeah.

We could use a shake-up. Don't put that kind of pressure on it. I'd slide, Mark, in there right at the Yanni level of competitiveness and trivia. So, it's fun that we've added that kind of player to the mix. This is the first time that I've ever been able to defend my title. I've never been in a back-to-back

trivia games for it. Again, we're on question to you. Historians say that the construction of this Italian stadium contributed to the extinction of several animal species across Europe and Africa. Is everybody ready? See how my spelling works.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Yanni saying the Pantheon, Marty and Logan and John and Brianna and Maxwell say the Coliseum. They got it. Coliseum came into my brain, right? Is the Coliseum. Yes. For spelling, it's C-O-L-O-S-E-U-M.

Coliseum. Is the Pantheon also a great big John? stadium? Probably, but I don't think it's... I think it's smaller and it's in a different country. The Coliseum was built about 2,000 years ago. Large animals played a significant role in Coliseum Entertainment with the stadium hosting staged hunts,

Animal versus Animal Combat, and Human versus Animal Combat. Romans shipped in exotic wildlife from across the world, including leopards, rhinos, hippos, tigers, bears, wolves, elephants, and more. It's estimated that 9,000 animals, died in the arena within the first 100 days. Some now extinct species that performed in the Coliseum include the North African elephant, Caspian Tiger, Barbary Lion, and Atlas Bear. There is the last photo ever taken of a Barbary Lion in the wild.

I was taken in the Atlas Mountains in 1925. There's a few left today in captivity, but in the wild, they are extinct, and those lions played a lot of games in the Coliseum. for some very entertained Romans. Wow. I looked it up. The Pantheon is in Italy, but it's a temple,

not a... Question three, the topic is fishing. Fly Fisherman Magazine says that fishing from a S-U-P, which stands for blank, blank, blank, is, quote, about as pure a form of fly-fishing

from a floating craft as you can get. This has been so far the easiest round of I'm ever playing. I'm in luck. I was nervous. Fly Fisherman magazine says that fishing from a

SUP, which stands for blank, blank, blank, is about as pure a form of fly fishing from a floating craft as you can get. I feel like knowing that this is a 10 hypothetical score put so much pressure on every

single question. If you get one wrong, they might be out. Well, imagine getting too wrong right off the bat. Who could that? Sorry, buddy. What do you have written on the back of your shirt there? Oh, it's a custom t-shirt.

Yeah, you want to show the camera? I don't know. Yeah, I should. Probably should. Right there, Bill. Oh, Drake's don't quack. Oh, that's cool, too. And a bush light sign.

Yeah. Yeah, over my month paternity leave, I had some spare time on my hands, and I decided to get a creative. There you go. S-U-P. Is everybody ready? Oh, my answer is showing.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Stand-up paddleboard. The whole room says stand-up paddleboard. The whole room got it right. It's a stand-up paddle board. According to 2019 data, about 11 million Americans own a kayak, 9 million own a canoe, and 4 million own a paddle board. The modern stand-up paddle board was created in Hawaii in the 1940s.

Its popularity has grown so much in the last decade that it's now being considered as a potential Olympic sport for 2032. I didn't know that. What are you doing this sport? Have you ever fished out? Yeah. Okay. Not well, but a little bit. Yeah.

Did you fall in? Uh, I have fallen in not while fishing. Okay. But I was on my way to fish and I was standing up trying to see my son. He was off on a kayak. So I'm looking around, trying to see my son, wasn't paying attention to the, to a wave coming my way from a speedboat going by. Yeah, caught me unaware and went right in my right in the lake. S-U-P, stand-up paddleboard.

Question for the topic is woodsmanship. This next great question is via Kurt Hostedler. This 12-letter word is defined as, quote, a person who draws or produces maps. 12-letter word is defined as a person who draws or produces maps. Brianna was very excited when she heard that question. coming back to stand up paddle boards i have also fallen off on one of those but i caught a fish and it was it was the coolest experience because i caught a fish and it was like way bigger than i was

expecting it to be and i yeah just fell off still had the fish on the line lost this hat this is the third hat i don't know this exact one of them one of them is lost in a lake somewhere um but it was pretty incredible it was literally pulling me around what you catch it was like a big trout But like it's momentum, like literally pulled me on a paddleboard. It was pretty cool. That's great. This 12-letter word is defined as a person who draws or produces maps. Sounds real pure, Logan.

Was it on a fly? No. Oh, good. No, no, no. It was a spinning rod. Max and Logan. Max, I think on your spare time you had you would have gone for some, like, ducks roosts and maybe listen to ducks make duck sounds.

I do that on my sleep. Is everybody ready? Yeah. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Janis, cartographer. Mark, cartographer. Logan, cartographer. John without an answer.

Brianna, cartographer, Maxwell, mapologists. The correct answer is cartographer. Shoot. A modern cartographer mostly works with interactive digital maps. The largest employers of cartographers are government agencies, tech companies, engineering. firms defense specialists and academic institutions. The average salary for a cartographer in the United States is $78,000. Question five, the topic is cooking. This next great question is via Joe

Fruceth. This term is defined as, quote, the specific temperature at which a cooking oil stops shimmering and begins to produce visible fumes. This term is defined as the specific temperature at which a cooking oil stops shimmering and begins to produce visible fumes. Brianna got her cooking question. Do you have this one right, Brianna?

I think so. Okay. Mark, who has a perfect game going currently has a blank whiteboard. I'm not going to change me either. The perfect game's done. Logan also has a perfect game going. He has his whiteboard down. Do you have this one, Logan? I should, yeah. I

talk about it a lot, so. Can't wait to hear more. This is a hobby of Logan's. All about healthy cooking. This term is defined as the specific temperature at which a cooking oil stops shimmering and begins to produce visible fumes. Yanni, you got this one?

I do. I've been cooking with a jar of bear grease that Jimmy Rinella gave me that he won after I was shooting all of us. He gave it to you. I saw you drive away with it, but I was like, what's going on there? Mm-hmm. I said, are you going to use that?

And he's like, ah, I'm like, I don't want to see it to go to waste. And then his dad was like, give it to him. We got plenty. Big win for you. How long is bear grease good for? I don't know. I've never had one to go bad. Well, I've got a bunch of bear grease that if anyone wants some.

Oh, I would like some. You're not cooking with it? No, I'm not the biggest fan. Because of what? I don't know. Like, I've seared some. stakes in it and I think like when I rendered it down like it just had a smell to me I had Clay Newcomb smell it and he was like no it smells great but like for me there's just I don't know

what color is it when it's just sit in the jar white pretty well I want to turn it into some I'll take all of it no I'll give you some of it yeah seriously I've just got it's kind of sitting around I don't really use it this term is defined as the specific temperature at which a cooking oil stops shimmering and begins to produce visible fumes marked you give up. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Yanni says, smoke point. Mark without an answer.

Logan, smoke point. John without an answer. Brianna, smoke point. Maxwell, smoke point. The correct answer is smoke point. High heat oils have a smoke point over 400 degrees. These include peanut oil and beef tallow. Medium heat oils have a smoke point between 320 and 400 degrees.

These include extra. extra virgin olive oil and vegetable oil. Low heat oils have a smoke point below 320 degrees. These include almond oil and flaxseed oil. All right. And now it's time for our Can-Am question of the week. Thanks to Can-Am. You get some bonus trivia in this week's episode.

This does not count towards your score. It's just for bragging rights. Here's the question. The topic is hunting. Can-Am was founded in this province, which also has a subspecies of caribou named after it is it manitoba nova scotia or quebec canaan was founded in this province which also has a subspecies of caribou named after it your three choices manitoba nova scotia or

quebec maxwell didn't even need the choices he just knows but then i thought about it and i was like no that's not it changed my answer i'm going with the gut. Can-Am bonus question. Yanni owns like three can-ams. That's not true. But he doesn't know where their HQ is. Is everybody ready? You want a hint? Go ahead and reveal your answers.

Yanni, Quebec, Marcus. Says what, Nova Scotia, Logan, Nova Scotia, John, Manitoba, Brianna, Manitoba, Maxwell, Quebec, the correct answer is Quebec. That is the Quebec, Labrador caribou subspecies. There are only about 9,000 of them left in the world. That was our Can-Am question of the week. Can-Am? Unstoppable. Art, Phil. Give us a scoreboard update.

Good question. We got quite the game going here, Spencer. We've got Janis and John. Tight up and last with three points. Mark and Max have four. And in first place, with perfect games, our Logan, Dove, and Brianna. All right. Five points. Very impressive. Okay. Nice. You should play more often. We had it coming in a hot. Anybody's game.

Anybody's game. I know. Yeah, really, you know, weighted the easier questions towards the beginning. Let's see how hard it gets in the second half. We'll see. Get Bell, Pure Fiber Internet with Crave Netflix and Disney Plus from $94 a month. Price guaranteed for two years on internet with a two-year term and auto pay credit.

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like backstrap brew, campfire crust, and backcountry bart. Or get the six-pack to try them all. Our favorite time of year is right around the corner. Head over to the meat eater store.com to check out our season opener sale. Question six, the topic is public lands. Bulldozers began work on border patrol roads and barriers earlier this month in this Texas National Park. It's all downhill from here. Bulldozers began work on border patrol roads and barriers earlier this month in this

Texas National Park. This is included in this week's Meteeter Weekly Field Brief. If you're not following the Meteor News Instagram account already. Go check that out for your conservation updates. You'll do better on meat eater trivia. Max, do you have this one right?

I got a good guess. Okay. Brianna, do you have this one right? I believe so. Logan, perfect game going. No, I'm going to think of some Texan words. I did a couple of those. Okay, good luck. El Dorado.

I don't think there's a yon. National Park. Lone Star. John Dyev this one. Nothing comes to mind right now, but I know when I see it, it'll all come back. Bulldozers began work on Border Patrol roads and barriers earlier this month in this Texas National Park. I thought this national park was somewhere else. I thought it was like Utah.

You may not have it right then. I, oh, yeah, I'll explain later. My guess would make sense. Okay. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Yanni says, Big Bend. Mark, Big Bend.

Logan, Alamo. John, without an answer. Brianna, Big Bend, Maxwell, Rio Grande. That answer makes sense. The correct answer is Big Bend National Park. Bulldozers began clearing vegetation in the park near the Rio Grande on August Sixth. The construction is part of a $1.7 billion project that will build roads, barriers, lights, towers, and surveillance platforms in Big Bend. The National Wildlife Federation said while it supports a secure border, it believes the Big Bend ecosystem is too fragile for this kind of infrastructure. There's a picture of that work going on. Bulldozer clearing some land there. That construction company is actually from Bozeman here, and its founder donated $1 million to President Trump before it won this bid. Really?

Suspect Interesting. Question 7. The topic is fishing. A six-year-old boy tells his tiger-stuffed animal that, quote, fishing is the most boring sport

in the world in this 1987 comic strip. A six-year-old boy tells his tiger-stuffed animal that fishing is the most boring sport in the world in this 1987 comic strip. Logan, you have this one right?

I think so, yeah. Mark and Yanni, they look confident. Their whiteboards are down. Brianna still has a perfect game going. Do you have this one? I think so. Okay, seven for seven. Man, what a start.

Does anyone come in here with a perfect game? No, I don't think, I think first timers are usually performing below average. Not Brianna. A six-year-old boy tells his tiger-stuffed animal that fishing is the most boring sport

in the world in this 1987 comic strip. Breanna, if you win, you get to choose where the donation goes from Meat Eat Eater. So start thinking about that. And if you get a perfect game, it's a double donation. It's a thousand dollars. I was thinking about that and I was like, there's no way I'm in a way.

I don't even think about anything. Maybe everyone else is going to throw the game for you. Oh, that would be kind, but unnecessary. I'm doing it on purpose. A six-year-old boy tells his tiger-stuffed animal that fishing is the most boring sport in the world. this 1987 comic strip.

Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Yanni, Kelvin and Hobbs. Mark, Kelvin and Hobbs. Logan, Kelvin and Hobbs. John, Charlie Brown. Brianna, Kelvin and Hobbs. Maxwell, without an answer.

The correct answer is Kelvin and Hobbs. I don't even think I've ever heard of that. Slight magazine called Kelvin and Hobbs, quote, the last great newspaper comic. It was printed in over 2,000 newspapers in 50 countries during its run from 1985 to 1995, Kelvin generally found fishing to be miserable. In one comic strip, Kelvin gets bit by a fish right before Hobbs shows up and asks if the fish are biting.

In another, his dad tells him he's wasting the day away by not going small-mouth fishing at 6 a.m. And in another, Kelvin complains that fishing is boring because nothing exciting ever happens. So Hobbs throws him in the lake. Question eight, the topic is gear. This next great question is via Brian Tanner. Outdoor apparel made of this acronym, which is commonly referred to as, quote, Forever Chemicals is banned in New York and California.

Outdoor apparel made of this acronym, which is commonly referred to as Forever Chemicals, is banned in New York and California. That was a very sketchy. I know it. I have a concept of the acronym, but I think that I'm going to get it wrong. She is the only player with a blank whiteboard. It consists of all capital letters. As most acronyms do.

This is question eight. We'll get a scoreboard update from Phil after this. Yes. Your rainwear will never be as waterproof as it once was if you grew up. That's what we keep hearing. In our lifetimes. Outdoor apparel made of this acronym, which is commonly referred to as forever chemicals, is banned in New York and California.

It's probably for the best, though, Janus. Oh, it is. And hopefully it will drive some innovation to make other, you know, as waterproof materials. The rainwear you're referring to has been, that deadline's been pushed out the furthest among the outdoor apparel when they're saying, you can't use this anymore. But they gave people making this product, you know, rainwear, the longest lead time to fall in line. Is everybody ready? Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Yanni and Mark and Logan and John say P-FAS. Brianna says Gortex, Maxwell, P-FAS, the correct answer is P-FAS. Seth would have loved that answer. I was going to put an M in there for some reason. I knew that was wrong. P-FAS stands for per and polyfluoral alkalylcal substances. Both states created laws to ban P-FAS.

bass in apparel in 2022 with those regulations rolling out through 2028. The crackdown on Forever Chemicals is because, as the name implies, they don't break down in nature or the human body. Phil, scoreboard update. Everyone except for John is still contending. Got Max with five points. Cianus has six. Now tied up with seven points a piece or three players since Brianna slipped up on that last

question. We've got Mark Logan and Brianna with seven. points. Very exciting. Hi drama. Is question nine. The topic is wildlife. Urban Dictionary defines this nine-letter word as, quote, an excessive or irrational fear of encountering bears while outdoors.

You got this one right, huh, Phil? I did, yeah. Urban Dictionary defines this nine-letter word as, quote, an excessive or irrational fear of encountering bears. while outdoors. Logan, Mark, and Brianna can't slip up, or they're going to lose to fill in this episode. Urban Dictionary defines this nine-letter word

as an excessive or irrational fear of encountering bears while outdoors. We've got two questions left. Mark, you have this one right? I think so. Okay, you found a nine-letter word? Came to me. He's the only player with his whiteboard down right now.

Oh, Max, okay. you like your answer? Yeah, I made it up, but it's nine letters. Urban Dictionary defines this nine-letter word as an excessive or irrational fear of encountering bears while outdoors. Urban Dictionary, I think, is a lot of crowdsourcing, Max, so you could just go and create this

before the episode comes out and then give yourself the point. Yeah, give me one thing. You've got the amount of time to do it. Before I reveal the answers. I'm going to tell you to check your facts again. The room is struggling on this one. Only Mark has any confidence.

Brianna, do you have this one right? No, I think there's some scientific word for bears that I can't think about right now. Okay. Nine-letter word, an excessive or irrational fear of encountering bears while outdoors. Is everybody ready? No. Yes. Give us 60 seconds.

Okay. 60 seconds. Wow. Yanni needs Brianna, Logan, and Mark to slip up to stay in the game here. That's wrong question nine. Logan, do you have this one?

No, I don't think so. Okay. Got some ideas, but... Do you usually grant this long of extension in time? If I ask for it, yeah. You did ask nicely. Yeah, but I think it's coming to an end here.

Almost never in that extension does he come up with the answer. that's not true I think there was an episode recently where right at the end it came to me go ahead and reveal your answers Yanni says bear fears

Mark Baranoia Beron grizzle file John without an answer Brianna says bear phobia Maxwell furphobia

The correct answer is Baranoia or baranoid It's believed that the word baranoia sprang up in Alaska in the early 1990s. An article from the Los Angeles Times used the term in July of 1992. Then in September of that same year, baronoya showed up again in a Washington Post story. Both articles were quoting reps from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game when using the word. All right, here's a correct answer review. Number one was Oregon, two, the Coliseum, three, stand-up pedal bowl.

forward. Four, cartographer, five, smoke point, six, Big Bend National Park, seven, Kelvin and Hobbs, eight, PFS, nine, Baranoia, Phil, scoreboard update. Mark Kenney has pulled ahead. He has eight points. Logan and Brianna are one point behind him with seven. Question 10, the topic is outdoors. Name the two countries whose border crosses the peak of Mount Everest. Mark gets this one right He will have wrapped up the victory Defending his title Going into question 10

Going against Logan who has never won Is that correct? Going against Brianna who has never played Name the two countries Whose border crosses the peak of Mount Everest Yanni you got this one right I believe so I feel like it's a stretch for our four verticals

Spencer I don't know The tallest mountain in the world what countries are there I think it flies I had a question about Kelvin and Hobbs a little bit ago Yanni About them fishing

A lot of fishing showed up in those 3,000 comic strips Oh I loved it I even had like the books You know the anthologies Yeah those are sweet I've seen some of those like hard cover books And they've got some really cool comics

Comics in there I missed the Sunday comics in the newspaper I got when I was a kid Name the two countries whose border crosses the peak of Mount Everest. Mark, do you have this one right? Man, there's three countries, three possible answers, and I just am unsure of which of the two of the three flip in there.

Logan, do you have this one? I don't think so. I'd have to think about it for a long time. Brianna, do you have this one? I don't think so, unless it comes to me in the next 10 seconds. You sniffing that, Mike? Mm-hmm. Waiting on Brianna to come up with an answer so she can tie Mark Kenyon and go to overtime.

Name the two countries whose border crosses the peak of Mount Everest. Just got one. It's everybody ready. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Yanni says Nepal and Tibet. Mark, Nepal and Tibet. Logan, without an answer. John without an answer, Brianna, China and India, Max says Nepal and blank. The two countries are

Nepal and China or Tibet. Oh, those are right. The summit of Mount Everest is shared by both nations with China to the north and Nepal to the south. The two countries disagreed on Mount Everest height until recently. China measured to the bottom of the snow camp, while Nepal measured to top of it, this resulted in a 15-foot discrepancy. But in 2020, they made a joint decision that the mountain should be measured to the peak of the snow cap, giving it an agreed-upon height of 29,031 feet. And there it is in the world if you're trying to figure out where Mount Everest is. All right, Mark Kenyon, he is the winner with nine correct answers today. What are you going to do with that $500 donation? We're going to Trout Unlimited.

Okay. Yeah. Big summer for them across the West, as you'll hear about on Me Deeder News this week. Yes. We, with the Trout, need a little help right now, so we'll send a few dollars their way. Okay. Well done, Mark. Well done, Brianna.

The best performance we've ever seen from a first-time player. Good job, man. Join us next week for more Meat-Eater trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. Thanks, Spencer. You text Steve right now and tell Steve how you did. Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota. he's the host. Using those smooth, mellow tones, he lays them questions down.

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