Latest / Quiz Quiz Bang Bang Trivia Podcast / Ep 244: General Trivia
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- 0:15Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Quiz Quiz Bang Bang, the pub
- 0:19Speaker 1: quiz practice show that hits you pal right in the quizzard.
- 0:22Speaker 2: I'm David Flora and I'm Mandy Flora, and we're here
- 0:25Speaker 2: to teach you more about trivia than there are emotions
- 0:27Speaker 2: that we learn about through Pixar movies.
- 0:31Speaker 1: Five.
- 0:32Speaker 2: That's right, we'll teach you six trivia.
- 0:36Speaker 1: Nice No news is good news. Let's jump into this trivia.
- 0:40Speaker 1: Here's how the show works. Quiz Quiz Bang Bang's format
- 0:43Speaker 1: is four rounds of four questions, each followed by the answers.
- 0:47Speaker 1: After round two, we'll ask a quick fire bang bang
- 0:49Speaker 1: question where you'll have a time limit to give multiple answers.
- 0:53Speaker 1: After the fourth round, the show culminates with the big Bang,
- 0:57Speaker 1: a final round with three questions, whose answers are are
- 1:00Speaker 1: all clues to one final question. Here we go around one.
- 1:06Speaker 1: Question one, the category is pop culture. What is the
- 1:12Speaker 1: name of the California facility that serves as a workplace
- 1:15Speaker 1: for director, writer, and producer George Lucas who owns it,
- 1:19Speaker 1: had it built, and doesn't necessarily live there. Question two,
- 1:27Speaker 1: the category is entertainment. This one comes to us from
- 1:30Speaker 1: listener Bobby thank you, Bobby, Thank you, Bobby. In the
- 1:33Speaker 1: American entertainment industry, actors who have won a competitive Oscar,
- 1:37Speaker 1: Emmy and Tony Award in the acting categories have achieved
- 1:41Speaker 1: what's called a triple crown. The English triple crown is
- 1:45Speaker 1: baff To Film, baff To TV and Lawrence Olivier Awards.
- 1:49Speaker 1: Who is the only performer to obtain both the American
- 1:53Speaker 1: and British Triple crowns of acting? Question three? The category
- 2:02Speaker 1: is cartoons. Who was Olive Oil's tasty sounding boyfriend before
- 2:08Speaker 1: she met Popeye? Question four category literature? In Alice's Adventures
- 2:17Speaker 1: in Wonderland, who taught Alice the Lobster Quadrille and now they?
- 2:26Speaker 1: Answers to round one? Question one? What is the name
- 2:29Speaker 1: of the California facility that serves as a workplace for director,
- 2:33Speaker 1: writer and producer George Lucas who owns it and had
- 2:37Speaker 1: it built and yet does not live there. It is
- 2:42Speaker 1: Skywalker Ranch? So yeah, I just assumed he lived there,
- 2:45Speaker 1: but apparently he does not.
- 2:48Speaker 2: He can't. He has to have two more rooms. Is
- 2:52Speaker 2: a rule if you become a certain level of rich?
- 2:56Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, sometimes when you aren't. Question two, who is
- 3:01Speaker 1: the only performer to obtain both the American and British
- 3:04Speaker 1: Triple Crowns of Acting. Helen Mirren.
- 3:10Speaker 2: I love her.
- 3:11Speaker 1: She's great and that's a great question, Bobby. Thanks for
- 3:14Speaker 1: sending that.
- 3:15Speaker 2: Thank you, Bobby.
- 3:17Speaker 1: Question three, who was Olive Oil's tasty sounding boyfriend before
- 3:22Speaker 1: she met Popeye? Ham Gravy.
- 3:28Speaker 2: I'm Gravy at Olive Oil, A.
- 3:33Speaker 1: Match made in Sweet Haven. I saw a making of
- 3:39Speaker 1: the movie Popeye recently and it was interesting. A lot
- 3:43Speaker 1: of those things usually are, but I don't think people
- 3:46Speaker 1: gave a credit, especially for the amount of work and
- 3:49Speaker 1: thought that went into it. And they built a legitimate
- 3:53Speaker 1: whole town and it's still there today and people still
- 3:58Speaker 1: like give tours and oh that's fun stuff.
- 4:01Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 4:03Speaker 1: Question four in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, who taught Alice
- 4:06Speaker 1: the lobster quadrille? The mock turtle? Any? What's a mock turtle?
- 4:15Speaker 2: What's a my turnal.
- 4:18Speaker 1: It's the thing mock turtle soups.
- 4:20Speaker 2: Made from around two. Question five. The category is space.
- 4:28Speaker 2: This question comes from listener Dean think you dee Perihelion,
- 4:34Speaker 2: the closest point in Earth's orbit to the Sun occurs
- 4:38Speaker 2: in which month Question six, The category is the language.
- 4:46Speaker 2: What is a ship's diary called? Question seven? The category
- 4:56Speaker 2: is sports. Which current Premier League football club plays their
- 5:01Speaker 2: home games at Saint James Park? Question eight category is animals.
- 5:13Speaker 2: As a defense mechanism, the Texas horned lizard has the
- 5:17Speaker 2: ability to shoot what substance from its eyes and sometimes mouth?
- 5:27Speaker 2: And now the answer is to round two. Question five, Perihelium,
- 5:32Speaker 2: the closest point in Earth's orbit to the Sun occurs
- 5:35Speaker 2: in which month? January?
- 5:41Speaker 1: I did not know that the Apohelian? Which is what
- 5:44Speaker 1: it's the furthest away, it's the opposite, so that's in July.
- 5:49Speaker 2: All right? Question six? What is a ship's diary called? Well,
- 5:57Speaker 2: if you like Star Trek the next Generation or any
- 6:01Speaker 2: of the Star Treks, really it's a long captain's log
- 6:07Speaker 2: or is it the actual ship that's riding the diary?
- 6:13Speaker 2: New diary? Humans? Am I right? Question seven? Which current
- 6:21Speaker 2: Premier League football club plays their home games at Saint
- 6:24Speaker 2: James Park? Newcastle United FC? Question eight. As a defense mechanism,
- 6:35Speaker 2: the Texas horned lizard has the ability to shoot what
- 6:38Speaker 2: substance from its eyes and sometimes mouth. Blood. That seems handy, Yeah, yes, it.
- 6:51Speaker 1: Does get away. I'm tired. That's it for the first half.
- 6:56Speaker 1: That means it's time for the Bank Bang Round. The
- 7:01Speaker 1: category for this week's Bang Bang Round is US Presidents,
- 7:06Speaker 1: and this one is brought to you by Major Data.
- 7:09Speaker 1: Thank you Major, Thank you Major. You'll have forty five
- 7:13Speaker 1: seconds to give as many answers as you can to
- 7:15Speaker 1: the following. There are nine US presidents who took office
- 7:20Speaker 1: before the age of fifty. Name them. Your time starts now.
- 7:55Speaker 2: And that's time. The nine US presidents who took office
- 8:00Speaker 2: before the age of fifty. It were James K. Polk.
- 8:05Speaker 2: He came in at forty nine, James Garfield also forty nine,
- 8:11Speaker 2: James Franklin Pierce just just Franklin Piers forty eight.
- 8:17Speaker 1: Let's see James Franco.
- 8:22Speaker 2: Grover Cleveland forty seven, Barack Obama forty seven, Ulysses S.
- 8:29Speaker 2: Grant forty six, Bill Clinton forty six, John F. Kennedy
- 8:36Speaker 2: forty three, and Theodore Roosevelt forty two. I didn't know
- 8:45Speaker 2: Teddy was such a strapping young man. I everybody always
- 8:49Speaker 2: talks about baby JFK. But look at Teddy.
- 8:53Speaker 1: He was baby here.
- 8:54Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 8:55Speaker 1: Round three. Question nine. The category is geography. What is
- 9:01Speaker 1: the third largest US state? Question ten? Category television? Which
- 9:12Speaker 1: of the following American Idol contestants did not win the contest?
- 9:18Speaker 1: Carrie Underwood, David Archiletta, Taylor Hicks. Question eleven category music,
- 9:30Speaker 1: Hangin Tough was the first album to hit platinum status
- 9:33Speaker 1: in the US for which musical group? Question twelve category
- 9:41Speaker 1: comic books. This one comes to us from listener Nolan.
- 9:44Speaker 1: Thank you, Nolan, Thank you, Nolan. Usagi Yojimbo, a comic
- 9:50Speaker 1: series started in nineteen eighty four by Stan Sakai, is
- 9:54Speaker 1: the tale of a samurai. That is what animal? And
- 10:01Speaker 1: now they answers to round three? Question nine? What is
- 10:05Speaker 1: the third largest US state?
- 10:09Speaker 2: California, after Alaska and Alaska. That's how big Alaska is.
- 10:16Speaker 1: Take Alaska and I'll tell you Texas. That's not Delaware.
- 10:24Speaker 1: Sit down.
- 10:27Speaker 2: For Delaware.
- 10:29Speaker 1: Question ten. Which of the following American Idol contestants did
- 10:32Speaker 1: not win it? Carrie Underwood, David Archiletta or Taylor Hicks.
- 10:38Speaker 1: David Archiletta. He was season seven's runner up to David
- 10:44Speaker 1: Cook in the Battle of the David's.
- 10:49Speaker 2: Well. As long as it David wins, I'm happy.
- 10:53Speaker 1: Question eleven Hanging Tough was the first studio album to
- 10:56Speaker 1: hit platinum status in the US, for which musical grew
- 11:02Speaker 1: new kids on the Block.
- 11:06Speaker 2: They're old kids on the block? Now, am I right?
- 11:09Speaker 1: That is correct? Still got it?
- 11:12Speaker 2: Any thanks? Come see my stand up tour.
- 11:20Speaker 1: Question twelve. Usagi yo jimbo is the tale of a samurai.
- 11:24Speaker 1: That is what animal rabbit? Usagi translates to rabbit or
- 11:31Speaker 1: hair in English? What does your jimbo translate to samurai bodyguard?
- 11:40Speaker 2: Oh?
- 11:40Speaker 1: That makes sense, yep, especially with the rabbit part.
- 11:47Speaker 2: Round four Question thirteen. The category is mythology in our
- 11:52Speaker 2: theoryan legend? Which night of the round table was an
- 11:56Speaker 2: illegitimate son of Lancelot? Question fourteen. The category is art.
- 12:06Speaker 2: What nationality was the graphic artist M? C Escher? Question
- 12:15Speaker 2: fifteen the category is geography. This question comes from listener
- 12:19Speaker 2: Colin Thank you call it for five points each named
- 12:24Speaker 2: the two states that are both east and west of
- 12:27Speaker 2: the Mississippi River states the river flows through as opposed
- 12:32Speaker 2: to being a border of Question sixteen. The category of science.
- 12:42Speaker 2: The inspiration for a popular band's name from the late sixties,
- 12:47Speaker 2: which English scientists refined the seed drill in the seventeen
- 12:52Speaker 2: oh one Agricultural Revolution, and now the answers to around four.
- 13:00Speaker 2: Question thirteen an Arthurian legend, which night of the round
- 13:04Speaker 2: table was an illegitimate son of Lancelot Galahad Galahad, I
- 13:14Speaker 2: wish he had a Gala Dad Gala.
- 13:22Speaker 1: Would be so Gali sad?
- 13:26Speaker 2: What you said? Gali mad about? Are you having a
- 13:29Speaker 2: gallipad day?
- 13:30Speaker 1: You order some galipad tie?
- 13:35Speaker 2: Question fourteen? What nationality was the graphic artist mc esher Dutch?
- 13:44Speaker 2: Question fifteen four five points each named the two states
- 13:48Speaker 2: that are both east and west of the Mississippi River,
- 13:53Speaker 2: Minnesota and Louisiana. That's a great question, yeah. Question sixteen.
- 14:02Speaker 2: Inspiration for a popular's band's name from the late sixty
- 14:06Speaker 2: Which English scientists refine the seed drill in the seventeen
- 14:09Speaker 2: oh one Agricultural Revolution? Jethrow Tall. I did not realize
- 14:17Speaker 2: they named themselves after a scientist. It's amazing.
- 14:21Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and say I don't think I
- 14:23Speaker 1: did either. It sounds like a farmer name, though, Yeah.
- 14:28Speaker 2: It sounds like somebody who knows their agricultural seed.
- 14:31Speaker 1: Drills almost as good as that famous farmer Cornrow Till.
- 14:41Speaker 2: Almost as famous as that farmer Boston.
- 14:48Speaker 1: You laugh, but there's probably a ton of farmers name
- 14:52Speaker 1: Boston now these days. That's it for the regular rounds,
- 14:57Speaker 1: and that means it's time for the Big Bang Round.
- 15:07Speaker 1: The category for this week's Big Bang is history. I'm
- 15:11Speaker 1: gonna ask you three questions, answers of which are all
- 15:13Speaker 1: clues to the final question. Keep in mind the clue
- 15:17Speaker 1: questions may not be from the same category as the
- 15:20Speaker 1: final question. Question one, which Best Picture Oscar winner? Directed
- 15:26Speaker 1: by Roman Polanski was based on the memoirs of Vladislav Spielmann.
- 15:35Speaker 2: Question two. In eighteen seventy, the US Congress made which
- 15:40Speaker 2: Day an unpaid holiday for federal employees?
- 15:48Speaker 1: Question three? Which film had a tagline, among others that said,
- 15:53Speaker 1: meet the Italian Stallion, a small time guy with big
- 15:57Speaker 1: time guts who yearns to be a hero just once?
- 16:05Speaker 2: And your big bang question, who was the only Englishman
- 16:10Speaker 2: to have been Pope? We're looking for the popol name?
- 16:19Speaker 1: And now the answers to the Big Bang Round. Question one,
- 16:22Speaker 1: which Best Picture Oscar winner? Directed by Roman Polanski was
- 16:26Speaker 1: based on the memoirs of Vladislav Spielman, The Pianist?
- 16:33Speaker 2: Question two In eighteen seventy, the US Congress made which
- 16:37Speaker 2: day and unpaid holiday for federal employees in the Pendence Day.
- 16:44Speaker 1: Question three? Which film had a tagline that said, meet
- 16:47Speaker 1: the Italian Stallion, a small time guy with big time
- 16:50Speaker 1: guts who yearns to be a hero. Just once, Rockey.
- 16:58Speaker 2: And your big bang question. Who was the only Englishman
- 17:01Speaker 2: to have been Pope? And we're looking for the pop
- 17:04Speaker 2: pell name sharing a name with the Oscar winning actor
- 17:08Speaker 2: of the Pianist Rocky's Girlfriend and Independence Day's day of
- 17:14Speaker 2: the month, it was Pope Adrian the Fourth. His real
- 17:22Speaker 2: name was Nicholas break Spear.
- 17:25Speaker 1: I love this idea that there's just a bunch of
- 17:27Speaker 1: families who were trying to one up each other. So
- 17:31Speaker 1: they had like Shakespeare break Spear, Brake Spear, Jonathan frake Spear,
- 17:41Speaker 1: and everybody's favorite which everyone else lived up to Benjamin
- 17:46Speaker 1: cake Spear, Hmm tasty. He baked cakes with spears in them.
- 17:54Speaker 2: His business didn't last very long and he got.
- 17:56Speaker 1: Very sad no, but he did successfully sue a jibb
- 18:00Speaker 1: Diya bake Spear for trying to copy. They had a
- 18:07Speaker 1: long time feud with the Galahad family.
- 18:13Speaker 2: So much potential with names if you just rhyme them.
- 18:18Speaker 1: And they are you a galach head.
- 18:21Speaker 2: I'm galla glad to say I am.
- 18:26Speaker 1: Hit the break spear.
- 18:31Speaker 2: Well. Thank you everyone for listening, writing, patroning, coffeeing, liking
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- 18:40Speaker 2: We hope you're enjoying your summer. For this episode of
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- 18:48Speaker 2: quiz h People should name their kids galahead Question fourteen.
- 19:02Speaker 1: I think we've proved they should not