Latest / Quiz Quiz Bang Bang Trivia Podcast / Ep 334: General Trivia
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- 0:15Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Quiz Quiz, Bang Bang, the pub
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- 1:09Speaker 1: And that's all the business we have for the moment.
- 1:12Speaker 1: So let's get to the trivia we have for.
- 1:16Speaker 2: The moment, this magic moment.
- 1:18Speaker 1: For after the moment. Here's how the show works. Whiz
- 1:23Speaker 1: Quiz Bang Bang's format is four rounds of four questions,
- 1:26Speaker 1: each followed by the answers. After round two, we'll ask
- 1:29Speaker 1: a quick fire bang bang question where you'll have a
- 1:32Speaker 1: time limit to give multiple answers. After the fourth round,
- 1:36Speaker 1: the show culminates with the Big Bang, a final round
- 1:39Speaker 1: with three questions, whose answers are all clues to one
- 1:42Speaker 1: final question. Round one. Question one, the category is geography.
- 1:49Speaker 1: Which European country is made of sixteen voivodeships or provinces? Two?
- 2:00Speaker 1: Category Religion, The Pope gets appointed by a college of
- 2:05Speaker 1: what rank in the Catholic Church? Question three? Category language?
- 2:16Speaker 1: What compound term denotes a term at least partly assimilated
- 2:20Speaker 1: from one language into another language through the process of
- 2:24Speaker 1: borrowing at no fixed interest rate? Question four category Sports.
- 2:34Speaker 1: This one comes to us from listener Leila. Thank you Leila,
- 2:37Speaker 1: Thank you La, who was the first Saint Louis Cardinal
- 2:41Speaker 1: to win the home run derby? And now they answers
- 2:49Speaker 1: to round one. Question one, Which European country is made
- 2:52Speaker 1: of sixteen voivodeships or provinces Poland? Question two? The Pope
- 3:01Speaker 1: gets appointed by a college of what rank in the
- 3:04Speaker 1: Catholic Church? Cardinal? Question three? What compound term denotes a
- 3:13Speaker 1: term at least partly assimilated from one language into another
- 3:17Speaker 1: language through the process of borrowing at no fixed interest rate?
- 3:23Speaker 2: Loanword, so when we use the word from another language,
- 3:28Speaker 2: we don't get charged interest not.
- 3:31Speaker 1: Anymore any Hey, what a time to be alive? The
- 3:37Speaker 1: Fed drop those interestries for an example. Kindergarten would be
- 3:44Speaker 1: an example in English. It's a word borrowed from German.
- 3:48Speaker 1: Now it's used in English. Question four. Who was the
- 3:53Speaker 1: first Saint Louis Cardinal to win the home run derby?
- 3:58Speaker 1: Jordan Walker? He won the twenty twenty six home run
- 4:04Speaker 1: derby just switch and then he went and voted for
- 4:06Speaker 1: the pope.
- 4:09Speaker 2: It's a cardinal theme round two. Question five the category
- 4:16Speaker 2: is history. Which group of Celtic peoples of mainland Europe
- 4:24Speaker 2: reached their zenith around the third century BCE. Question six
- 4:33Speaker 2: the category is literature. Which Shakespeare play depicts a military
- 4:39Speaker 2: commander who is manipulated by his junior officer into suspecting
- 4:44Speaker 2: his wife of infidelity. Question seven. The category is society
- 4:53Speaker 2: and culture. This question comes from listener Kentucky Amy, Thank you,
- 4:57Speaker 2: Kentucky Amy.
- 4:58Speaker 1: You Kentucky Amy.
- 5:00Speaker 2: Having just wrapped up for the year and dating back
- 5:03Speaker 2: to eighteen twenty eight, what is the oldest continuous fair
- 5:09Speaker 2: and horse show in the United States? Question eight? The
- 5:17Speaker 2: category is science. What is the term for a substance
- 5:22Speaker 2: that dissolves a solute resulting in a solution? And now
- 5:32Speaker 2: the answer is to round two? Question five? Which group
- 5:36Speaker 2: of Celtic peoples of mainland Europe reached their zenith around
- 5:40Speaker 2: the third century BCE The Galls? Question six, which Shakespearean
- 5:51Speaker 2: play depicts a military commander who is manipulated by his
- 5:55Speaker 2: junior officer into suspecting his wife of infidelity. Ohthello, Luckily
- 6:04Speaker 2: Othello talked to his wife and they worked it out
- 6:06Speaker 2: and there wasn't any problems.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Get thee to a marriage counselor.
- 6:13Speaker 2: Question seven, Having just wrapped up for the year and
- 6:17Speaker 2: dating back to eighteen twenty eight, what is the oldest
- 6:21Speaker 2: continuous fair in horse show in the United States? The
- 6:27Speaker 2: Mercer County Fair and Horse Show, located in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
- 6:33Speaker 2: That seems like fun. I like horses. Question eight? What
- 6:41Speaker 2: is the term for a substance that dissolves a solute
- 6:44Speaker 2: resulting in a solution? Solvent? Very sol heavy.
- 6:52Speaker 1: Question It's got soul. Hey, that's it for the first half.
- 6:59Speaker 1: That means it's time for the bank background. The category
- 7:05Speaker 1: for this week's bank background is classical music. You're gonna
- 7:11Speaker 1: have thirty seconds to give as many answers as you
- 7:13Speaker 1: can to the following fringe. Composer Camille Saint Sons wrote
- 7:18Speaker 1: a musical suite called The Carnival of the Animals. Its
- 7:22Speaker 1: movements include nine specific non human animals. Name them Your
- 7:28Speaker 1: time starts now.
- 8:00Speaker 2: And that's time. The nine specific non human animals are lion, hens, roosters, onagers,
- 8:14Speaker 2: we will accept, wild donkeys, domesticated donkeys, get out of here, tortoises, elephant, kangaroos, cuckoo,
- 8:26Speaker 2: and swan. There are fourteen movements total, with other pieces
- 8:33Speaker 2: including aviary, aquarium, characters with long ears, fossils, and pianists.
- 8:42Speaker 1: The last one is a joke. His joke, okay, but
- 8:47Speaker 1: it is. There is a movement called Pianists.
- 8:49Speaker 2: That's amazing, and it's.
- 8:51Speaker 1: Basically just like exercises for your fingers, like and it's
- 8:59Speaker 1: just meant to show show off.
- 9:01Speaker 2: That's fun.
- 9:02Speaker 1: And what the characters with long ears do you think?
- 9:08Speaker 2: Well, we already have wild donkeys, so I'll say domesticated donkeys.
- 9:14Speaker 2: You're a backet.
- 9:15Speaker 1: You're right, really, that's right. But since it's not named
- 9:22Speaker 1: in the title of the movement. I can't accept donkey
- 9:27Speaker 1: a domesticated donkey. Honagers are Asian donkeys. Basically they're about
- 9:32Speaker 1: the size of a horse and they're pretty fast, So
- 9:36Speaker 1: snickers they might be friends with sniggers. There's a lot
- 9:42Speaker 1: to that. And if you want another fun fact, he
- 9:45Speaker 1: didn't want it played publicly in his lifetime because he
- 9:50Speaker 1: thought it would sully his image as a composer because
- 9:53Speaker 1: it was so fun.
- 9:54Speaker 2: Oh, he's just like no, I am very serious.
- 9:57Speaker 1: Apparently, and yet he did perform it with chamber orchestras
- 10:02Speaker 1: he did perform it privately for some oks. Round three.
- 10:07Speaker 1: Question nine. The category is mythology. The month of June
- 10:11Speaker 1: is named after which Roman goddess. Question ten, Category literature.
- 10:21Speaker 1: This one comes from listener Jose, Thank you, Jose, thank
- 10:24Speaker 1: you Jess, which French philosopher and author wrote bonjour tristees.
- 10:34Speaker 1: Question eleven, Category technology. The auto industry designates vehicle airbag
- 10:41Speaker 1: tech by the acronym SRS, which stands for what. Question twelve,
- 10:51Speaker 1: Category medicine. What alternate name for tetanus comes from severe
- 10:57Speaker 1: muscle spasms, particularly those used in chewing and now the
- 11:05Speaker 1: answer is to Round three Question nine. The month of
- 11:09Speaker 1: June is named after which Roman goddess you don't have
- 11:14Speaker 1: to go far juneo. Question ten. Which French philosopher and
- 11:20Speaker 1: author wrote bonjour tricesse Francois Sagon, author was eighteen and
- 11:27Speaker 1: it was an overnight sensation.
- 11:29Speaker 2: Sensation sensation. It's a movie to now it's a woman, right, Yes,
- 11:34Speaker 2: it's the og Ca Bush just writing something as a
- 11:38Speaker 2: teenager and becoming an overnight sin satan. I think this
- 11:43Speaker 2: was written around nineteen fifty four.
- 11:48Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, I enjoyed this academic awesome about the fuffers.
- 11:59Speaker 1: Question eleven. The auto industry designates a vehicle airbag tech
- 12:03Speaker 1: by the acronym SRS, which stands for what supplemental restraint systems.
- 12:12Speaker 1: It's called supplemental because it's in addition to seat belts,
- 12:15Speaker 1: not as a replacement, which they thought at one point
- 12:19Speaker 1: airbags would replace seat belts. But seat belts perform much better,
- 12:23Speaker 1: and so these are in addition to seat belts. They
- 12:27Speaker 1: help keep you safe, so they're supplemental. Question twelve. What
- 12:31Speaker 1: alternate name for tetanus comes from severe muscle spasms, particularly
- 12:36Speaker 1: those used in chewing lockjaw round four?
- 12:43Speaker 2: Question thirteen. The category is language. This question comes from
- 12:47Speaker 2: Brian the Language Guide. Thank you Brian and Brian. What
- 12:52Speaker 2: adjective meaning lasting for a short time comes from an
- 12:57Speaker 2: ancient Greek word for of or for the day? Question fourteen.
- 13:07Speaker 2: The category is animals. Fire bellied toads are one of
- 13:12Speaker 2: the few species in the animal kingdom with pupils that
- 13:16Speaker 2: are what shape A fact you just have to love.
- 13:24Speaker 2: Question fifteen. The category is food and drink. What kind
- 13:28Speaker 2: of food is hallomi? Question sixteen the category is sports.
- 13:38Speaker 2: From the back end of one end zone to the
- 13:41Speaker 2: back end of the other end zone? What is the
- 13:44Speaker 2: length of a regulation American football field in feet?
- 13:53Speaker 1: And now?
- 13:53Speaker 2: The answer is to round four Question thirteen. What adjective
- 13:57Speaker 2: meaning lasting for a short time comes from an ancient
- 14:00Speaker 2: Greek word for of or for the day? Ephemeral? That's
- 14:08Speaker 2: a great word, Pretty great. Question fourteen. Fire bellied toads
- 14:13Speaker 2: are one of the few species in the animal kingdom
- 14:15Speaker 2: with pupils that are watch shape A fact you just
- 14:18Speaker 2: have to love. Heart This feature is in a few species,
- 14:26Speaker 2: mostly frogs and toads. Do you think that's why women
- 14:29Speaker 2: kiss them thinking they'll turn into princes?
- 14:32Speaker 1: No, scientists don't know why or if it helps or
- 14:37Speaker 1: does anything in shape yet it looks great, looks great,
- 14:42Speaker 1: let's feeling.
- 14:44Speaker 2: Question fifteen. What kind of food is halloumi cheese? It's
- 14:51Speaker 2: a traditional Cypriot cheese made from a mixture of goats
- 14:55Speaker 2: and sheep's milk and sometimes also cow's milk. I mean
- 14:59Speaker 2: if it's cheese. Question sixteen. From the back end of
- 15:04Speaker 2: one end zone to the back end of another end zone?
- 15:07Speaker 2: What is the length of our regulation American football field
- 15:10Speaker 2: and feet? Three hundred and sixty feet.
- 15:16Speaker 1: That is a one hundred yard field and two end
- 15:21Speaker 1: zones that are ten each, so one hundred and twenty yards.
- 15:24Speaker 1: It's three sixty.
- 15:28Speaker 2: There you go.
- 15:29Speaker 1: That's it for the regular rounds. That means it's time
- 15:34Speaker 1: for the Big Bang round. The category for this week's
- 15:41Speaker 1: Big Bang is film. We'll give you three questions, the
- 15:46Speaker 1: answers of which are all clues to the final question.
- 15:49Speaker 1: Keep in mind the three clue questions may not be
- 15:52Speaker 1: from the same category as the final but they also
- 15:56Speaker 1: may question.
- 16:01Speaker 2: According to Rotten Tomatoes, which two thousand and three Richard
- 16:06Speaker 2: Curtis romcom is a sugary tale overstuffed with too many stories. Still,
- 16:13Speaker 2: the cast charms.
- 16:19Speaker 1: Question two in the Harry Potter series, which Professor of
- 16:24Speaker 1: Divination at Hogwarts is fired by Dolores Umbridge.
- 16:33Speaker 2: Question three, which two thousand and five film centers on
- 16:38Speaker 2: a mysterious woman with special powers hired to be governess
- 16:43Speaker 2: to seven children of their recently widowed mister Brown.
- 16:52Speaker 1: And your Big Bang question again the category is film.
- 16:56Speaker 1: Who is the only person to have won competitive Academy
- 16:59Speaker 1: Awards in both an acting category and a writing category,
- 17:05Speaker 1: having won Best Actress in nineteen ninety three and Best
- 17:08Speaker 1: Adapted Screenplay in nineteen.
- 17:10Speaker 2: Ninety six, And now the answer is to the Big
- 17:17Speaker 2: Bang round? Question one according to Rotten Tomatoes, which two
- 17:22Speaker 2: thousand and three Richard Curtis romcom is a sugary tale
- 17:26Speaker 2: overstuffed with too many stories. Still the cast charms love actually.
- 17:37Speaker 1: Question two in the Harry Potter series, which professor of
- 17:41Speaker 1: Divination at Hogwarts is fired by Dolores Umbridge Sybil Trelawney.
- 17:50Speaker 2: Question three, which two thousand and five film centers on
- 17:54Speaker 2: a mysterious woman with special powers hired to be governess
- 17:58Speaker 2: to seven children of their recently widowed mister Brown, Nanny McPhee.
- 18:07Speaker 1: And finally, who is the only person to have won
- 18:09Speaker 1: competitive Academy Awards in both acting and writing, having won
- 18:13Speaker 1: Best Actress in ninety three and Best Adapted Screenplay in
- 18:17Speaker 1: ninety six, starring in Love Actually, Nanny McPhee and Harry
- 18:23Speaker 1: Potter as Sybil. It's Emma Thompson.
- 18:27Speaker 2: She's pretty great. Her adaptation of sense and sensibility I
- 18:30Speaker 2: think is very good.
- 18:33Speaker 1: That's what she won for. Yeah, and then she won
- 18:38Speaker 1: acting for Howard's End, which was another Edwardian period.
- 18:43Speaker 2: I haven't seen that one yet, but now I want to,
- 18:45Speaker 2: because Yeah, she's great in Love Actually.
- 18:48Speaker 1: The she's great and pretty much everything.
- 18:50Speaker 2: Yeah, she's just very talented. Yeah, she's an amazing actor
- 18:54Speaker 2: and writer.
- 18:56Speaker 1: I think she co wrote Nanny McPhee. Hmm, she's a gym.
- 19:00Speaker 1: It's an amazing feat too, winning writing and acting. Now,
- 19:04Speaker 1: there have been a few people who've been nominated for both.
- 19:09Speaker 1: Matt Damon for Goodwill Hunting. He won screenplay but didn't win. Actor,
- 19:16Speaker 1: Woody Allen I think was another. Sylvester Stallone was another,
- 19:21Speaker 1: and Charlie Chaplin, oh yeah it was one. Owen Orson Welles.
- 19:27Speaker 1: She's in good company, right, I mean none of them
- 19:31Speaker 1: won acting though, Yeah, they only won writing, I think,
- 19:34Speaker 1: or vice versa. But she's the only one to have
- 19:38Speaker 1: won both.
- 19:39Speaker 2: Matt Damon hasn't won a Best Actors He has not.
- 19:41Speaker 2: That is interesting.
- 19:42Speaker 1: It might change with The Odyssey, sure, but yeah, but I.
- 19:45Speaker 2: Think I'll at least get it nominated for I think
- 19:48Speaker 2: he will too. I don't know if he'll win, but
- 19:50Speaker 2: I think he'll get at least a nomination.
- 19:51Speaker 1: Who's he up against this year so far?
- 19:54Speaker 2: He Man, He's up against he Man. The Avengers is
- 19:58Speaker 2: coming out later. A movie that is coming out is Digger,
- 20:03Speaker 2: which is Tom Cruise is in that.
- 20:06Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I saw that.
- 20:07Speaker 2: That might make some buzz around it.
- 20:10Speaker 1: I can't tell what it's trying to be from that look.
- 20:13Speaker 2: Maybe like dark comedy, you know, political satire.
- 20:17Speaker 1: Yeah, well there's that's a that's a good point.
- 20:19Speaker 2: He might yeah, Project till Mary Ryan Gosling was good
- 20:22Speaker 2: in it. I don't know if that's getting sort of
- 20:25Speaker 2: yeah right, amazing, amazing.
- 20:30Speaker 1: Anyways, welcome to our spin off film film bang.
- 20:35Speaker 2: Oh and wild Horse at nine is gonna come out,
- 20:37Speaker 2: which is a Martin McDonough and that usually gets his
- 20:40Speaker 2: movies usually get buzz around them, and they'll have John Malkovich,
- 20:43Speaker 2: So we'll see.
- 20:45Speaker 1: I mean, oh, the the one with him and Sam Rockwell,
- 20:48Speaker 1: whether C I A or whatever looks good might pull
- 20:53Speaker 1: that one out.
- 20:54Speaker 2: Yeah, so there are some good movies coming up, so.
- 20:58Speaker 1: We'll see, we'll see.
- 21:00Speaker 2: I mean, the good news is either Matt Damon gets
- 21:02Speaker 2: to win an oscar good for him, or question remains yes,
- 21:06Speaker 2: unchanged and the trivia can stay memorized.
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