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Ep 340: General Trivia · Quiz Quiz Bang Bang Trivia Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Quiz Quiz Bang Bang, the pub
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  Speaker 1: quiz practice show that hits you right in the quizzer.
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  Speaker 1: 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 than
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  Speaker 1: there are dollar amounts attached to the new iPhone.
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  Speaker 3: Just kidding. You're not about to learn 2,000 trivias. Hey, David.
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  Speaker 1: Huh? We got a coffee.
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  Speaker 3: From Richard. Thanks, Richard.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. And we hope you guys stick around until
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  Speaker 1: the end of the show because we had a fun
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  Speaker 1: writing about our Superman question. And I found it very interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Listen for that. And don't forget, there's Zoom Trivia this Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Noon Mountain Time.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll actually have a prize this time because I
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  Speaker 1: have a new favorite thing.
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  Speaker 2: Uh-oh. What could it be? It remains unseen.
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  Speaker 1: And with all that, shall we dive in?
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  Speaker 2: I'm up for it.
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  Speaker 1: 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 Geography. Geography. Which
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  Speaker 1: country is the 18th largest in the world at 1,564,116
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  Speaker 1: square kilometers or 603,909 square miles and has only around 3.6
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  Speaker 1: million people in it, making it one of the least
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  Speaker 1: densely populated countries in the world? Question two. The category
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  Speaker 1: is space. This question comes from listener Bobby. Thank you, Bobby.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Bobby.
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  Speaker 1: What is the brightest star in the Northern Hemisphere?
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  Speaker 3: Question three.
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  Speaker 1: The category is landmarks. The tallest statue of the ancient
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  Speaker 1: world colossally depicted which god? Question four of the category
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  Speaker 1: is animals. Which land mammal has the strongest absolute bite force?
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  Speaker 1: And now the answers to round one. Question one. Which
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  Speaker 1: country is the 18th largest but only has around 3.6
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  Speaker 1: million people in it? That is Mongolia. Mongolia.
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  Speaker 2: Whew, kudos to you.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to get without much context, but yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Question two. What is the brightest star in the Northern Hemisphere? Arcturus.
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  Speaker 1: Question three. The tallest statue of the ancient world colossally
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  Speaker 1: depicted which god?
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  Speaker 3: Helios.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Zeus had a pretty big statue by Olympus, but
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't as big as the Colossus of Rhodes. Question four.
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  Speaker 1: Which land mammal has the strongest absolute bite force? We
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  Speaker 1: said land and we said mammal, making it a hippopotamus.
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  Speaker 2: Lammel. Hippo, no.
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  Speaker 1: Hippo.
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  Speaker 2: Round two, question five. The category is technology. Before rubber
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  Speaker 2: erasers became standard on pencils, what food was often used
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  Speaker 2: to erase lead pencil markings? Question six, category language. This
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  Speaker 2: one comes from listener Joss. Thank you, Joss.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Joss.
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  Speaker 2: In the sport of archery, what name is given to
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  Speaker 2: a person who makes arrows? Question 7. Category. Sports. Darts
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  Speaker 2: players Anastasia Dobromyslova and James Wade both had stage or
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  Speaker 2: nicknames inspired by what long-running film franchise? Question 8. Category.
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  Speaker 1: Music.
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  Speaker 2: What was the name of the charitable music festival that
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  Speaker 2: Olivia Rodrigo founded? And now the answers to round two.
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  Speaker 2: Question five. Before rubber erasers were standard on pencils, what
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  Speaker 2: food was often used to erase lead pencil markings? Bread.
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  Speaker 2: Make a mistake. Unhealthy snack. Question six. In the sport
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  Speaker 2: of archery, what name is given to a person who
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  Speaker 2: makes arrows? A fletcher.
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  Speaker 1: JB. JB.
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  Speaker 2: Question seven. Darts players Anastasia Dobromyslova and James Wade both
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  Speaker 2: had stage or nicknames inspired by what long-running film franchise?
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  Speaker 2: James Bond. Anastasia's name came from Russia with Love, and
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  Speaker 2: James Wade was called 009.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear that he got that nickname after he.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: If he won the tournament doing this, but he hit two...
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  Speaker 1: Nines in a row. So for a few games after that.
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  Speaker 1: So I think he's retired that name. And it seems
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  Speaker 1: like in darts, there are stage names and nicknames and
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  Speaker 1: unofficial ones and official ones.
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  Speaker 3: So it's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of names floating around in the darts world.
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  Speaker 2: They throw a lot of nicknames at the wall and
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  Speaker 2: see what sticks, I guess. Sounds like none of them
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  Speaker 2: hit the bullseye, Annie.
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  Speaker 1: Hey-o. What if they all were just named Bullseye?
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  Speaker 2: Then they'd be contractually obligated to hit one every throw.
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  Speaker 2: Question eight. What was the name of the charitable music
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  Speaker 2: festival that Olivia Rodrigo founded? Daisy Chain Fields.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she raised $ 20 million for charitable funds, so good job.
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  Speaker 1: That's wonderful. And that's it for the first half, which
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  Speaker 1: means it's time for the Bang Bang Round. The category
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  Speaker 1: for this week's Bang Bang Round is geography. This question
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  Speaker 1: comes from listener Majordata.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Majo.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Major.
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  Speaker 1: You'll have 45 seconds to answer the following question. Besides Wales,
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  Speaker 1: there are no other countries that begin with W or X.
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  Speaker 1: But roughly 30 First Order geopolitical divisions beginning with those
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  Speaker 1: letters begin Have populations exceeding 1 million. Name the 10
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  Speaker 1: most populous. Your time starts now.
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  Speaker 2: And that's time. The ten most populous geopolitical divisions beginning
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  Speaker 2: with W or X are the U.S. state of Washington,
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  Speaker 2: the Indian state of West Bengal, the Indonesian province of
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  Speaker 2: West Java, the Indonesian province West Kalimantan, the Indonesian province
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  Speaker 2: of West Nusa Tenggara, the Indonesian province of West Sumatra,
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  Speaker 2: the Sri Lankan province of Western Province, the U.S. state
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  Speaker 2: of Wisconsin, the Chinese Autonomous Regions of Xinjiang, and the
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  Speaker 2: Filipino region of Western Visayas. Apologies on the pronunciation of those.
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  Speaker 1: The word West is helping out.
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  Speaker 2: What? Northwest is doing all the lifting.
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  Speaker 1: Round three, question nine. The category is awards. Established in
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  Speaker 1: 1940 by the National Association of Broadcasters, which award was
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  Speaker 1: created to honor excellence in radio broadcasting? Question 10. The
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  Speaker 1: category is Society and Culture. Course and morally incorrect or
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  Speaker 1: irreverent humor is often described as what color comedy? Question 11.
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  Speaker 1: The category is Literature. Who wrote the poems The Book
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  Speaker 1: of the Duchess, Parliament of Fowls, and The Legend of
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  Speaker 1: Good Women? Question 12. The category is Games and Hobbies.
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  Speaker 1: A 1989 match in Belgrade that lasted 20 hours and
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  Speaker 1: 269 moves That ended in a draw happened for what
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  Speaker 1: board game? And now the answers to round three. Question nine.
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  Speaker 1: Established in 1940 by the National Association of Broadcasters, which
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  Speaker 1: award was created to honor excellence in radio broadcasting? The
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  Speaker 1: Peabody Awards. Question ten. Of course, in morally incorrect or
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  Speaker 1: irreverent humor is often described as what color comedy? Blue.
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  Speaker 1: Numerous origins, including 18th century itinerant Parisian booksellers who covered
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  Speaker 1: their seditious or obscene material with blue paper, a.k.a.
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  Speaker 3: Ribaldry.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is... It's one of those things where they
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  Speaker 2: talk about blue humor. It's, you know, when you're basically
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  Speaker 2: telling dirty jokes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when it's a show you shouldn't take your mom to.
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  Speaker 2: And I tried to look up, well, where does that
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  Speaker 2: term come from? There's a lot of thought on it.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the more agreed upon versions, I would say.
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  Speaker 2: But it's really murky.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: On where that term comes from.
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  Speaker 1: Question 11. Who wrote the poems The Book of the Duchess,
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  Speaker 1: Parliament of Fowls, and The Legend.
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  Speaker 3: Of Good Women? Joffrey Chaucer.
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  Speaker 1: Of Canterbury Tales fame.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of ribaldry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a bodied little man. Question 12. A 1989
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  Speaker 1: match in Belgrade that lasted 20 hours and 269 moves
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  Speaker 1: that ended in a draw happened for what board game?
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  Speaker 2: Chess.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine doing something for 20 hours and ending
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  Speaker 1: in a draw? I mean, that's even worse than soccer.
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  Speaker 2: How old am I, Annie? That's my chess game.
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  Speaker 3: Just year after year of ending in a draw.
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  Speaker 1: It's a life.
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  Speaker 2: How many hours, how many moves? It's going to end
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  Speaker 2: in a draw.
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  Speaker 1: Eventually, it'll end in a loss.
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  Speaker 2: Harsh but fair. Round four, question 13. The category is
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  Speaker 2: video games. In Super Mario Brothers, a famous glitch that
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  Speaker 2: can be accessed from World 1-2 is known by what
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  Speaker 2: mathematical moniker? Question 14. The category is science. Place these
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  Speaker 2: in order from least hot to most hot in terms
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  Speaker 2: of temperature. Magma. Air around a lightning bolt. The surface
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  Speaker 2: of the sun. Question 15. The category is film. What
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  Speaker 2: film surpassed Deadpool and Wolverine to become the highest grossing
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  Speaker 2: rated R film? Question 16. Category. Language. This one comes
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  Speaker 2: from Brian the Language Guy. Thank you, Brian.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Brian.
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  Speaker 2: The Japanese written characters known as kanji take their name
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  Speaker 2: from what ethnic group? And now the answers to round four,
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  Speaker 2: question 13 in Super Mario Brothers. A famous glitch that
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  Speaker 2: can be accessed from World 1-2 is known by what
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  Speaker 2: mathematical moniker? Minus World. It's a world that just keeps
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  Speaker 2: repeating forever, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then after you stop playing it, you unlock
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  Speaker 1: all the other worlds.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you can choose which one you want to
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  Speaker 2: go to after.
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  Speaker 1: That, right? Yeah, so there's a Bonus to it.
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  Speaker 2: Question 14. Place these in order from least hot to
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  Speaker 2: most hot. Magma, air around a lightning bolt, surface of
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  Speaker 2: the sun. Least hot is magma at 2,282 degrees Fahrenheit.
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  Speaker 1: That's hot.
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  Speaker 2: At its max. The surface of the sun is next.
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  Speaker 2: That can get up to 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. And then
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  Speaker 2: the air around a lightning bolt is... Can get up
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  Speaker 2: to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Five times the sun.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty wild.
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  Speaker 2: The surface of the sun. Technically, lightning itself is the
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  Speaker 2: movement of electrical charges and doesn't have a temperature. That's
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  Speaker 2: why I said the air around it. Because resistance to
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  Speaker 2: the movement of these electrical charges causes the materials that
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  Speaker 2: the lightning is passing through to heat up. It's just
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  Speaker 2: energy going through a conductor. Air being the conductor, it
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  Speaker 2: is one of the worst conductors because all that heat
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  Speaker 2: is given off. If you have a good conductor, it
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  Speaker 2: will take that heat and not a lot of it
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  Speaker 2: will be released. Air doesn't really have that. The air
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  Speaker 2: around it heats up so much because of all the
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  Speaker 2: heat that's lost from the movement of these charged particles.
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  Speaker 2: That's why it gets so hot. It's a bad insulator.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, fair.
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  Speaker 2: Don't use air to insulate your electricity.
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  Speaker 1: Your personal lightning bolts.
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  Speaker 2: Question 15. What film surpassed Deadpool and Wolverine to become
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  Speaker 2: the highest grossing rated R film? The Odyssey. And question 16.
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  Speaker 2: The Japanese written characters known as Kanji take their name
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  Speaker 2: from what ethnic group? The Han. That's the majority ethnic
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  Speaker 2: group of China and Taiwan.
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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 U.S. History. 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 1. Which show won the Tony Award for Best
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  Speaker 1: Musical in 2003?
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  Speaker 2: Question 2. Which American crime drama series that ran for
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  Speaker 2: five seasons is often hailed as one of the greatest
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  Speaker 2: TV series of all time, though it was only nominated
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  Speaker 2: for two writing Emmys and one neither?
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  Speaker 1: Question three. Who wrote the 1847 poem, Oolaloom?
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  Speaker 2: And your Big Bang Question, the category again, is U.S. History.
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  Speaker 2: With 22,726 dead, wounded, or missing, the bloodiest battle of
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  Speaker 2: the Civil War took place in which state?
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  Speaker 1: And now the answers to the Big Bang Round. Question one.
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  Speaker 1: Which show won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2003? Hairspray.
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  Speaker 2: Question two. Which American crime drama series that ran for
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  Speaker 2: five seasons is often hailed as one of the greatest
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  Speaker 2: TV series of all time, though it was only nominated
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  Speaker 2: for two writing Emmys and one neither? The Wire.
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  Speaker 1: It was very well written.
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  Speaker 3: Question three.
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  Speaker 1: Who wrote the 1847 poem, Oolaloo? Edgar Allan Poe!
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  Speaker 2: And finally, with 22,726 dead, wounded, or missing, the bloodiest
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  Speaker 2: battle of the Civil War took place in which state?
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  Speaker 2: The state where Hairspray, The Wire, and Edgar Allan Poe
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  Speaker 2: took place... Maryland.
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  Speaker 1: I like that Edgar Allan Poe took place.
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  Speaker 2: So that was the Battle of Antietam, a.k.a. Battle of Sharpsburg.
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  Speaker 2: And it was a rough one. But that was in Maryland.
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  Speaker 2: You don't think of Maryland when you think of the
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  Speaker 2: Civil War, I feel like. You think of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, David.
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  Speaker 3: Huh? We got a.
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  Speaker 1: And listener right in from Brian.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Brian.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: He says, thanks for another show. I didn't seek it out,
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  Speaker 1: but my comic book guy moment has arrived. You asked
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  Speaker 1: what the name of the Oscar winning writer of Superman
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  Speaker 1: and Superman 2 was, and you gave the answer as
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  Speaker 1: Mario Puzo. This is half correct. Puzo did indeed win
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  Speaker 1: a screenplay Oscar, and yes, he worked on both films. However,
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  Speaker 1: the Salkind brothers were notorious, attempting to film two movies
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  Speaker 1: worth of footage and trying to pay actors for one.
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  Speaker 1: They did this with The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers.
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  Speaker 2: Which, due to budget constraints, had to be down to
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  Speaker 2: two musketeers.
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  Speaker 1: Right? The one musketeer that will still put up with us.
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  Speaker 1: This time around... It was agreed that they would film
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  Speaker 1: both simultaneously, so one hopes that they did a better
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  Speaker 1: job of paying people this time around. The first screenplay
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  Speaker 1: by Puzo was deemed good but too heavy, so they
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  Speaker 1: brought in Tom Mankiewicz to rewrite him, and then Leslie Newman,
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  Speaker 1: David Newman, and Robert Benton were brought in to rewrite Mankiewicz.
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  Speaker 1: Benton won two Oscars for writing and one for Best Director.
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  Speaker 1: This brings up the second part of the question. Superman 2.
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  Speaker 1: Benton isn't credited. Well, maybe he should have been. The
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  Speaker 1: production of Superman 2 hit an impasse when Richard Donner
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  Speaker 1: was fired from the sequel. And in order to garner
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  Speaker 1: a bona fide director's credit, the new hire, Richard Lester,
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  Speaker 1: completed the film and reshot Donner's parts. This meant yet
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  Speaker 1: another rewrite of the script, this time by the Newmans,
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  Speaker 1: but they still used some of Benton's material. So, even
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  Speaker 1: though he wasn't credited, Benton should have been, which means
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  Speaker 1: that the films had two Oscar-winning writers, Puzo and Benton.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I mean, that's fascinating. Also wild about just
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  Speaker 1: being like, let's just shoot two movies worth of material
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  Speaker 1: and edit it together and just pay the actors and
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  Speaker 1: everyone else for one.
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  Speaker 3: That's a nice little trick right there.
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  Speaker 1: But it is funny because when I looked it up,
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  Speaker 1: it said Puzo and then it listed the two creators
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  Speaker 1: of Superman. So I did try and fact check and
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  Speaker 1: I that completely slipped through the cracks. So. Thank you, Brian,
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  Speaker 1: for your amazing comic book guy moment because this is great.
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  Speaker 1: We learned a lot and also, I mean, a pretty
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  Speaker 1: wild story that's entertaining. So my favorite kind of education.
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  Speaker 2: Wild and entertaining.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Very cool. Well, once again, you can join us for
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  Speaker 2: And for this episode of Quiz Quiz Bang Bang, I've
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  Speaker 2: 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.
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  Speaker 1: Quiz!
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  Speaker 2: And ribaldry, or ribaldry, there's a couple different ways you
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  Speaker 2: could say that, but that's just coarse blue humor. In itself,
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  Speaker 2: it's bawdy humor. That's an English term for it.
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  Speaker 3: Very quaint.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a word worth the $ 50 you'd spend
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  Speaker 2: on saying it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I like it because heated rivalry is very big right now.
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  Speaker 2: And heated ribaldry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and heated ribaldry because it works.