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Ep 342: General Trivia · Quiz Quiz Bang Bang Trivia Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Hello, and welcome to Quiz Quiz Bang Bang,
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  Speaker 1: the pub quiz practice show that hits you pow right
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  Speaker 1: in the quizzer. I'm Annie Flora.
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  Speaker 2: I'm David Flora.
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  Speaker 1: And we're here to teach you more about trivia. And
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  Speaker 1: there are people who are excited for the next season
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  Speaker 1: of Traitors with the UK celebrities. Ooh, Michael Sheen. And others. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they have a lot of really fun people being on
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  Speaker 1: the cast. I hear we won't be able to watch
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  Speaker 1: it in the U.S. until after it's wrapped up in
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  Speaker 1: the U.K., so we'll just have to plug our ears.
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  Speaker 2: At least we have Taskmaster to hold us over.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, news. Taskmaster. So fun. If you haven't checked it out,
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  Speaker 1: it's free on YouTube. It's super silly and fun. Hey, David.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Should we just dive in?
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  Speaker 2: I would like to.
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  Speaker 1: Me too. Here's how the show works.
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  Speaker 2: Quiz Quiz Bang Bang's format is four rounds of four
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  Speaker 2: questions each, followed by the answers. After round two, we'll
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  Speaker 2: ask a quick-fire Bang Bang question, where you'll have a
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  Speaker 2: time limit to give multiple answers. After the fourth round,
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  Speaker 2: the show culminates with The Big Bang, a final round
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  Speaker 2: with three questions whose answers are all clues to one
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  Speaker 2: final question.
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  Speaker 1: Round one, question one. The category is Theater. Sit down, John.
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  Speaker 1: In Piddle, Twiddle, and Resolve, are songs from a musical
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  Speaker 1: based on the events leading up to the signing of
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  Speaker 1: the Declaration of Independence fittingly called what? Question two. The
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  Speaker 1: category is transportation. This question comes from listener Kendall. Thank you, Kendall.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Kendall.
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  Speaker 1: The Volkswagen Tiguan, T-I-G-U-A-N, is a portmanteau of the German
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  Speaker 1: words for what two animals? Question three. The category is business.
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  Speaker 1: The second largest card payment organization, which is debit and
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  Speaker 1: credit cards combined, was originally called Bank AmeriCard and changed
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  Speaker 1: its name to what in 1976? Question four. The category
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  Speaker 1: is sports. Stephen Bradbury won the gold medal in what
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  Speaker 1: event when all his competitors crashed out on the final corner?
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  Speaker 1: And now the answers to round one. Question one. Sit
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  Speaker 1: Down John and Piddle Twiddle and Resolve are songs from
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  Speaker 1: a musical based on the events leading up to the
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  Speaker 1: signing of the Declaration of Independence of fittingly called what? 1776.
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  Speaker 1: Question two. The Volkswagen Tiguan is a portmanteau of the
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  Speaker 1: German words for what to animals? Tiger, which is tiger
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  Speaker 1: in German, and Leguan, which is iguana in German.
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  Speaker 2: Good old tiger iguana.
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  Speaker 1: My favorite combo. Ah, what would that be like? Just
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  Speaker 1: a massive tail, little stubby legs. Oh, would it be
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  Speaker 1: like a corgi, but kind of a tiger lizard combo? Ah,
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  Speaker 1: love it. That's what's in my head now. Question three.
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  Speaker 1: The second largest card payment organization, which is debit and
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  Speaker 1: credit cards combined, was originally called Bank AmeriCard and changed
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  Speaker 1: its name to what in 1976? Visa. Visa. Question four.
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Bradbury won the gold medal in what event when
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  Speaker 1: all his competitors crashed out on the final corner? Short
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  Speaker 1: track speed skater. He specifically won for the 1,000 meter.
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  Speaker 2: Round two, question five. Category is history. Which King of England,
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  Speaker 2: who ruled from 1272 to 1307, was known as the
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  Speaker 2: Hammer of the Scots? Question six, category Geography. This one
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  Speaker 2: comes to us from listener Bobby. Thank you, Bobby.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Bobby.
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  Speaker 2: Which African country was previously known as Rhodesia? Question seven,
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  Speaker 2: category Landmarks. Which site in St. Petersburg served as the
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  Speaker 2: official residence of the House of Romanov and was stormed
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  Speaker 2: by revolutionaries in 1917? Question eight, category television. Which television
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  Speaker 2: show just won the Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program the
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  Speaker 2: first time it has won since 2013? And now the
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  Speaker 2: answers to round two, question five. Which King of England
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  Speaker 2: who ruled from 1272 to 1307 was known as the
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  Speaker 2: Hammer of the Scots? Edward I. a.k.a. Edward Longshanks. The
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  Speaker 2: trip of Scotland is that it's full of Scots. Question six.
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  Speaker 2: Which African country was previously known as Rhodesia? Zimbabwe. Question seven.
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  Speaker 2: Which site in St. Petersburg served as the official residence
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  Speaker 2: of the House of Romanov, stormed by revolutionaries in 1917?
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  Speaker 2: That was Winter Palace. And question eight, which TV show
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  Speaker 2: just won the Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program? First time
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  Speaker 2: it's won it since 2013? South Park. Sorry, South America.
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  Speaker 2: It also won the award in.
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  Speaker 1: 2005, 2007, 2008, and 2009.
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  Speaker 2: That's it for the first half, which means it's time
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  Speaker 2: for the Bang Bang Round. Bang!
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  Speaker 1: The category for this week's Bang Bang Round is literature.
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  Speaker 1: This question comes from Major Data. Thank you, Major.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Major.
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  Speaker 1: You will have 30 seconds to answer the following question.
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  Speaker 1: Author Mary Roach has written eight New York Times bestsellers
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  Speaker 1: based on popular science and humor. Name them. Your time
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  Speaker 1: starts now. Bang!
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  Speaker 2: And that's time. Mary Roach's eight New York Times bestsellers
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  Speaker 2: are Stiff, Bonk, Packing for Mars, Gulp, Grunt, Spook, Fuzz,
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  Speaker 2: and Replaceable You. She also has a book called My Planet,
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  Speaker 2: which is all essays, I think. Personal stuff. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think that was a bestseller.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you enjoy humorous nonfiction where it's both educational, quirky, weird,
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  Speaker 1: and funny, she's the author for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we saw her talk live.
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  Speaker 1: The other day. Yeah, if you get a chance to
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  Speaker 1: see her live, she's also.
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  Speaker 2: She was a delight. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Round three, question nine. The category is animals. What is
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  Speaker 1: the loudest insect in the world on record? a bug
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  Speaker 1: that's probably only measured annually or perhaps every 17 years.
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  Speaker 1: Question 10. The category is Film. What was Walt Disney's
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  Speaker 1: first live-action comedy, which was remade in 1994 and again
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  Speaker 1: in 2006 with Tim Allen? Question 11. The category is Science.
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  Speaker 1: What law states that the total energy of an isolated
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  Speaker 1: system remains constant? It is said to be conserved over time.
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  Speaker 1: Question 12. The category is pop culture. This question comes
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  Speaker 1: from listener Mamay. Thank you, Mamay.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Mamay.
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  Speaker 1: Which actor who had an Amazon show that you could
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  Speaker 1: watch in black and white or in color just had
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  Speaker 1: a 30 by 30 foot sinkhole open up at his
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  Speaker 1: Malibu mansion, swallowing up his driveway? And now the answers
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  Speaker 1: to round three. Question nine. What is the loudest insect
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  Speaker 1: in the world on record? A bug that's probably only
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  Speaker 1: measured annually or perhaps every 17 years? Shrill thorn tree cicada.
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  Speaker 2: That's so crazy. It's mom named it that. And then
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  Speaker 2: it turned out to be that.
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  Speaker 1: Turned into being very shrill. Question 10. What was Walt
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  Speaker 1: Disney's first live action comedy? Shaggy Dog. They did at
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  Speaker 1: least like 10 drama or adventures before they did a
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  Speaker 1: comedy because I was looking at all their.
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  Speaker 2: With Shaggy Dog?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no. Just Walt Disney live action films. They did,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like Treasure Island. Black Hole, I think, is
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  Speaker 1: probably one of them. Why did you give me that look?
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  Speaker 2: You never heard of Black Hole?
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  Speaker 1: No, it's Black Hole.
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  Speaker 2: It's a Disney movie.
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  Speaker 1: Should I see it? No. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Question 11.
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  Speaker 1: Question 11. What law states that the total energy of
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  Speaker 1: an isolated system remains constant and is said to be
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  Speaker 1: conserved over time? The law of conservation of energy. And
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  Speaker 1: question 12. Which actor who had a black and white
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  Speaker 1: or color TV show on Amazon just had his driveway
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  Speaker 1: fall into a sinkhole? Nicolas Cage. Oh no. He was
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  Speaker 1: very fine with Spider Noir being canceled.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because he was very proud of this show. And he
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  Speaker 1: was like, one season's perfect. We made a perfect season
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  Speaker 1: of that show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It was like complete. Yeah. And I think he
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  Speaker 2: said as much. And by the way, I just looked
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  Speaker 2: it up and Black, the Black Hole came out in 1979.
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  Speaker 2: So that was 20 years after Shaggy Dog. So. Never mind.
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  Speaker 1: Fair enough. You just probably remember as a kid being like,
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  Speaker 1: this movie's ancient.
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  Speaker 2: I just watched it a couple weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, and you're like, this movie's ancient. Man, but if
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  Speaker 1: you've seen that Shaggy Dog sequence where the dog punches
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  Speaker 1: the guy in the face, that's so good.
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  Speaker 2: Round four, question 13. The category is Space. Which planet's
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  Speaker 2: axis of rotation is tilted just two degrees with respect
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  Speaker 2: to the plane of its orbit around the sun, resulting
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  Speaker 2: in spinning nearly perfectly upright and does not experience seasons
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  Speaker 2: as some other planets do? Question 14. Category. Literature. This
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  Speaker 2: one comes from listener Jost. Thank you, Jost.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Jost.
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  Speaker 2: The phrase tilting at windmills, i.e. fighting imagined rivals, comes
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  Speaker 2: from an adventure of which fictional knight? Question 15. Category.
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  Speaker 2: Games and Hobbies. The Adventure Game, The Crystal Maze, and Nightmare,
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  Speaker 2: with a K, are all television shows that have elements
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  Speaker 2: which helped inspire the format for what live-action cooperative activity?
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  Speaker 2: Question sixteen. Category. Language. Which adjective means dizzy, whirling rapidly,
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  Speaker 2: or light-hearted silly, and originally meant possessed by a god?
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  Speaker 2: And now the answers to round four. Question thirteen. Which
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  Speaker 2: planet's axis of rotation is tilted just two degrees? Mercury.
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  Speaker 2: Question fourteen. The phrase tilting at windmills comes from an
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  Speaker 2: adventure of which fictional knight? Don Quixote. Question 15. The
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  Speaker 2: Adventure Game, The Crystal Maze, and Nightmare are all TV
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  Speaker 2: shows that have elements that helped inspire the format for
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  Speaker 2: what live-action cooperative activity? Escape Rooms.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, so fun.
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  Speaker 2: A.K.A. Puzzle Room, Exit Room, Exit Game, Riddle Room. Ha
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  Speaker 2: ha ha. They're escape rooms. Come on. Question 16. Which
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  Speaker 2: adjective means dizzy, whirling rapidly, or lighthearted, silly, and originally
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  Speaker 2: meant possessed by a god? Giddy. Hadn't heard that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so next time you're feeling giddy, say out.
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  Speaker 2: Get out of here, Zeus.
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  Speaker 1: That's it for the regular rounds, which means it's time
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  Speaker 1: for the Big Bang Round. The category for this week's
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  Speaker 1: Big Bang Round is music. This question comes from listener Nolan.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Nolan. Thank you, Nolan. We will give you
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  Speaker 1: three clue questions, which are all hints to one final question.
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  Speaker 1: The clue questions may not fall under the same category.
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  Speaker 1: Question one. Until the fourth edition of Dungeons & Dragons,
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  Speaker 1: the alignment of paladin characters was always lawful what?
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  Speaker 2: Question 2. In the saga of Oedipus, what does the
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  Speaker 2: Sphinx do to anyone who couldn't answer its riddle?
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  Speaker 1: Question 3. In 2000, the New York Times called what
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  Speaker 1: Japanese TV show a rococo blend of highbrow and low,
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  Speaker 1: of culinary artistry and wrestling match vulgarity? Question 4.
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  Speaker 2: And your Big Bang question, getting the categories music. Who
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  Speaker 2: was the director of photography for R.E.M. 's 1987 video,
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  Speaker 2: The One I Love, two years after leaving the University
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  Speaker 2: of Georgia, one credit short of graduation?
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  Speaker 1: And now the answers to the Big Bang round. Question one.
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  Speaker 1: Until the fourth edition of Dungeons & Dragons, the alignment
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  Speaker 1: of paladin characters was always lawful what? Good.
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  Speaker 2: Question two. In the Saga of Oedipus, what does the
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  Speaker 2: Sphinx do to anyone who couldn't answer its riddle? It
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  Speaker 2: eats them.
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  Speaker 1: Question three. In 2000, the New York Times called what
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  Speaker 1: Japanese TV show a rococo blend of highbrow and low,
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  Speaker 1: of culinary artistry and wrestling match vulgarity? Iron Chef.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, who was the director of photography for REM's
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  Speaker 2: 1987 video, The One I Love? The creator of the
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  Speaker 2: Food Network show, Good Eats, and longtime play-by-play announcer of
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  Speaker 2: Iron Chef America, Alton Brown.
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  Speaker 1: I love Iron Chef. It's just so fun.
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  Speaker 2: Why would you not try and get one more credit?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, surely to goodness, there's a way to, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: But also if you, I don't know, if you take
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  Speaker 1: off and you're doing Iron Chef America and directing music
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  Speaker 1: videos and this and that, you're probably like, I guess
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  Speaker 1: I don't need it. No reason to figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I wonder if he ever went back
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  Speaker 2: and got a credit and tried to graduate. We'll never know.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way to look it up.
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  Speaker 2: There's no way to find out.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that was a great question, Nolan. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And thanks to all our other listener questions. We love them.
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  Speaker 1: Send them our way if you want us to read
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  Speaker 1: a question because we love listener questions.
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  Speaker 2: And don't forget, we're doing Zoom trivia on the third
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  Speaker 2: Saturday of October.
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  Speaker 1: We hope you can make it.
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  Speaker 2: That is the 17th. That's the plan right now. Oh, yeah. So,
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  Speaker 2: thanks again for listening, and for this episode of Quiz
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  Speaker 2: Quiz Bang Bang, I've been David Flora.
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  Speaker 1: I've been Annie Flora.
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  Speaker 2: Here's looking at you, Quiz.