Latest / Quiz Quiz Bang Bang Trivia Podcast / Ep 348: General Trivia
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- 0:16Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Quiz Quiz Bang Bang, the pub
- 0:18Speaker 1: quiz practice show that hits you pow, right in the quizzer.
- 0:21Speaker 1: I'm David Flora.
- 0:22Speaker 2: And I'm Annie Flora, and we're here to teach you
- 0:25Speaker 2: more about trivia than there are years since. The Brewers
- 0:29Speaker 2: won the World Series. Zero trivia. Oh, yeah. They just won. Congratulations,
- 0:36Speaker 2: Brewers and those who support you. That's how I refer
- 0:40Speaker 2: to fans now.
- 0:41Speaker 1: Those who support the Brewers.
- 0:44Speaker 2: Are they the ones with the slide? Yeah. So that's
- 0:47Speaker 2: one of the few stadiums I have been in.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 0:50Speaker 2: All right. Go Brewers. Hi, David. Guess what?
- 0:56Speaker 1: I don't know if I can.
- 0:57Speaker 2: We have Zoom trivia next Saturday, November 14th at noon
- 1:02Speaker 2: Mountain Time.
- 1:03Speaker 1: Oh.
- 1:04Speaker 2: Be there. Or be square. Great.
- 1:09Speaker 1: That's it, David. I probably could have guessed that.
- 1:11Speaker 2: Yeah, you probably could have. You'll be there.
- 1:14Speaker 1: Anyway, here's how the show works. Whiz Quiz Bang Bang's
- 1:17Speaker 1: format is four rounds of four questions each, followed by
- 1:20Speaker 1: the answers. After round two, we'll ask a quick-fire Bang
- 1:23Speaker 1: Bang question where you'll have a time limit to give
- 1:26Speaker 1: multiple answers. After the fourth round, the show culminates with
- 1:30Speaker 1: The Big Bang, a final round with three questions whose
- 1:33Speaker 1: answers are all clues to one final question.
- 1:38Speaker 2: Round one, question one. The category is music. David Bowie
- 1:43Speaker 2: and Iggy Pop are part of what two-word musical genre
- 1:48Speaker 2: known for its flamboyant clothing, including platform shoes and glitter?
- 1:57Speaker 2: Question two, the category is fashion. This question comes from
- 2:01Speaker 2: FWD Trivia. Thank you, FWD.
- 2:03Speaker 1: Thank you, FWD.
- 2:06Speaker 2: This one is a little lateral thinking. Someone who has
- 2:11Speaker 2: tinnitus is experiencing what cosmetic accessory? Question three, the category
- 2:22Speaker 2: is history. Which Aztec ruler, who was the ninth emperor,
- 2:28Speaker 2: was killed by Spanish conquistadors in 1520? Question four. The
- 2:37Speaker 2: category is food, drink, and film. In The Big Lebowski,
- 2:42Speaker 2: what drink that consists of vodka, coffee, liqueur, and cream
- 2:47Speaker 2: is the dude's drink of choice? And now the answers
- 2:55Speaker 2: to round one. Question one. David Bowie and Iggy Pop
- 2:59Speaker 2: are part of what two-word musical genre known for its
- 3:02Speaker 2: flamboyant clothing, including platform shoes and glitter? Glam rock. It's
- 3:12Speaker 2: also sometimes known as glitter rock, so we thought glitter
- 3:15Speaker 2: would be a nice, strong clue there. And for those
- 3:20Speaker 2: of you who are like, You can't just confine David
- 3:23Speaker 2: Bowie like that. Don't worry. He can be anything you
- 3:27Speaker 2: want him to be. He's just also included in this list. Oh, yeah.
- 3:32Speaker 1: Part of the description is performers were often camp or
- 3:35Speaker 1: androgynous and have been described as playing with other gender roles.
- 3:39Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 3:39Speaker 1: Oh, that's David Bowie.
- 3:41Speaker 2: I know. And makeup on the face? Yes. Question two.
- 3:47Speaker 2: Someone who has tinnitus is experiencing what cosmetic accessory? Well,
- 3:54Speaker 2: it's when you have a ringing in the air, so
- 3:56Speaker 2: it is an ear ring. Question three. Which Aztec ruler
- 4:05Speaker 2: who was the ninth emperor was killed by Spanish conquistadors
- 4:08Speaker 2: in 1520? Montezuma. Montezuma. Question four. In The Big Lebowski,
- 4:17Speaker 2: what drink that consists of vodka, coffee liqueur, and cream
- 4:20Speaker 2: is the dude's drink of choice? White Russian. In the movie,
- 4:26Speaker 2: sometimes he refers to it as a Caucasian. So if
- 4:29Speaker 2: you said that, that works too because that is what
- 4:31Speaker 2: he says in the film. It's a tasty little drink.
- 4:36Speaker 1: Round two, question five. The category is Mythology and Theater.
- 4:41Speaker 1: Which mythological daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta was the subject
- 4:45Speaker 1: of three tragic plays by Sophocles known collectively as the
- 4:50Speaker 1: Three Theban Plays? Question six, category Architecture. Who is the
- 5:00Speaker 1: only architect to have designed multiple Guggenheim museums? Question seven,
- 5:09Speaker 1: category Language. This comes to us from Dan the Unoriginal
- 5:14Speaker 1: Language Guy. Thank you, Dan.
- 5:16Speaker 2: Thank you, Dan.
- 5:18Speaker 1: Whence does the name Brian originate? Question eight, category math.
- 5:28Speaker 1: This one comes from Howard the Math Geek. Thank you, Howard.
- 5:31Speaker 2: Thank you, Howard.
- 5:33Speaker 1: Between January 1st, 1850 and January 1st, 2850, How many
- 5:39Speaker 1: February 29th or leap year days are there? And now
- 5:49Speaker 1: the answers to round two. Question five. Which mythological daughter
- 5:52Speaker 1: of Oedipus and Jocasta was the subject of three tragic
- 5:56Speaker 1: plays by Sophocles? Antigone.
- 6:01Speaker 2: Yeah, one of the plays is called Antigone.
- 6:05Speaker 1: She loved staying home because she was anti-gawn. Question six,
- 6:10Speaker 1: who is the only architect to have designed multiple Guggenheim museums?
- 6:16Speaker 1: Frank Gehry. Question seven, whence does the name Brian originate?
- 6:26Speaker 1: Irish or Celtic language? Dan says the name comes from
- 6:31Speaker 1: the old Celtic root brixus or brixus or the old
- 6:35Speaker 1: Irish word bri- meaning might or power. Braxis means hill
- 6:41Speaker 1: or high. He also has a message for Brian, the
- 6:44Speaker 1: original language guy. He says, Bri, I love your language contributions.
- 6:50Speaker 1: Your question on I, Greek, was like dawn coming up
- 6:53Speaker 1: over two years of high school French. Totally B.A. Word
- 6:58Speaker 1: nerds forever.
- 7:00Speaker 2: Aw, that's very sweet, Dan. Yeah.
- 7:04Speaker 1: And question eight, between January 1st, 1850 and January 1st, 2850,
- 7:09Speaker 1: how many February 29ths are there? 243. The leap years
- 7:17Speaker 1: start in 1852. And that's it for the first half,
- 7:22Speaker 1: which means it's time for the Bang Bang Round.
- 7:27Speaker 2: The category for this week's Bang Bang Round is Geography. Geography.
- 7:32Speaker 2: You will have 30 seconds to answer the following question.
- 7:36Speaker 2: Name the seven people with the most square miles of
- 7:40Speaker 2: Earth's surface named after them. This includes land and water.
- 7:47Speaker 2: Think about explorers and royalty. Your time starts now!
- 8:24Speaker 1: And that's time. The seven people with the most square
- 8:27Speaker 1: miles of the Earth's surface named after them are.
- 8:33Speaker 1: At seven, Vetus Bering, for the Bering Sea. Six is
- 8:39Speaker 1: Christopher Columbus, with Columbia, British Columbia, Columbia Plateau, District of Columbia,
- 8:47Speaker 1: ten U.S. counties, Cologne Department in Honduras, and the Cologne
- 8:52Speaker 1: Department in Panama. Number five is Abel Tasman, with the
- 8:57Speaker 1: Tasman Sea, Tasmania, and the Tasman Peninsula. Number four is
- 9:04Speaker 1: James Weddell, who has the Weddell Sea near Antarctica. Number three,
- 9:10Speaker 1: Queen Maud, who has Queen Maud Land in Antarctica, Queen
- 9:16Speaker 1: Maud Mountains in Antarctica, and Queen Maud Gulf in Canada.
- 9:23Speaker 1: Number two is Queen Victoria with Queensland in Australia, Victoria
- 9:29Speaker 1: in Australia, Great Victoria Desert in Australia, Victoria Island in Canada,
- 9:38Speaker 1: Victoria Island, Antarctica, Lake Victoria in Africa, and Victorian Strait
- 9:44Speaker 1: in Canada. And number one with North and South America,
- 9:51Speaker 1: Amerigo Vespucci.
- 9:56Speaker 2: Yeah, if you didn't do well on that, don't worry.
- 9:59Speaker 2: It's a hard list, but we just thought it was
- 10:01Speaker 2: an interesting thing to think about. So it's tough, but
- 10:05Speaker 2: we hope you at least found it interesting.
- 10:08Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was a cool question.
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- 11:22Speaker 2: All right. Round three, question nine. The category is literature.
- 11:28Speaker 2: On October 27th, Sarah J. Mass released the sixth book
- 11:33Speaker 2: in her A Court of Thorn and Roses series, which
- 11:36Speaker 2: is titled What? Question 10. The category is geographical history.
- 11:46Speaker 2: This question comes from listener Joss. Thank you, Joss.
- 11:49Speaker 1: Thank you, Joss.
- 11:50Speaker 2: The Chinese port of Macau is a former colony of
- 11:55Speaker 2: which European country? Question 11. The category is science. Which
- 12:05Speaker 2: colorless corrosive acid with a distinctive smell has the chemical
- 12:10Speaker 2: formula HCL? Question 12. The category is technology. This question
- 12:18Speaker 2: comes from listener Sierra. Thank you, Sierra.
- 12:21Speaker 1: Thank you, Sierra.
- 12:23Speaker 2: While China has been known for many innovations, there is
- 12:26Speaker 2: a specific collection from the imperial era that China calls
- 12:30Speaker 2: the Four Great Inventions. Name two of them. And now
- 12:39Speaker 2: the answers to round three. Question nine. On October 27th,
- 12:43Speaker 2: the sixth book in the Court of Thorn and Roses
- 12:46Speaker 2: series was released and was titled what? A Court of
- 12:52Speaker 2: Splintered Harmony. Congrats all there to all the fans who
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- 13:01Speaker 2: I need to play catch up. I only have read
- 13:03Speaker 2: the first two in this series, so I need to
- 13:05Speaker 2: keep going. I got four to go. Question ten. The
- 13:11Speaker 2: Chinese port of Macau is a former colony of which
- 13:14Speaker 2: European country? Portugal. Question 11. Which colorless corrosive acid with
- 13:24Speaker 2: a distinctive smell has the chemical formula HCL? Hydrochloric acid.
- 13:33Speaker 2: Also known as muriatic acid or spirits of salt. Question 12.
- 13:40Speaker 2: While China has been known for many innovations, there is
- 13:43Speaker 2: a specific collection from the imperial era that China calls
- 13:47Speaker 2: the Four Great Inventions. Name two of them. Well, here
- 13:53Speaker 2: are the four so you can pick which two you
- 13:55Speaker 2: got right. Paper making, compass, gunpowder, and printing. Those are
- 14:03Speaker 2: four pretty big inventions.
- 14:05Speaker 1: Pretty cool.
- 14:06Speaker 2: Yeah. Not as big as.
- 14:11Speaker 1: Not as big as... Round four, question 13. The category
- 14:17Speaker 1: is sports. Which team just won the 2026 WNBA finals?
- 14:27Speaker 1: Question 14, category animals. What can sea cucumbers do with
- 14:33Speaker 1: their internal organs when they are feeling threatened? Question 15, category, history.
- 14:43Speaker 1: This one comes to us from Major Data. Thank you, Major.
- 14:46Speaker 2: Thank you, Major.
- 14:48Speaker 1: The largest gathering in U.S. history was to celebrate what
- 14:52Speaker 1: person being relieved of his duties in 1951? Question 16, category,
- 15:03Speaker 1: tasty flicks. This is a before and after involving a
- 15:08Speaker 1: film and a food item. This is a play on
- 15:11Speaker 1: our tasty licks, which is music and food. And an
- 15:14Speaker 1: example of that would be this chocolate confection would have
- 15:16Speaker 1: you living on a prayer. And the answer would be
- 15:19Speaker 1: Bon Bon Jovi. This one is a film and food.
- 15:23Speaker 1: Here we go. Young Portuguese-American women working as waitresses in
- 15:28Speaker 1: a Connecticut fishing town serve bite-sized frozen snack pockets in
- 15:34Speaker 1: this film. And now the answers to round four. Question 13.
- 15:41Speaker 1: Which team just won the 2026 WNBA finals? Golden State Valkyries.
- 15:50Speaker 1: It's their first championship in franchise history. Question 14. What
- 15:56Speaker 1: can sea cucumbers do with their internal organs when they're
- 15:59Speaker 1: feeling threatened? Eject them. Evisceration. is a method involving the
- 16:08Speaker 1: ejection of internal organs. As a defensive strategy, sea cucumbers
- 16:14Speaker 1: eject parts of their gut in order to scare and
- 16:17Speaker 1: defend against potential predators such as crabs and fish. The
- 16:21Speaker 1: organs are regenerated in a few weeks by cells in
- 16:24Speaker 1: the interior of the sea cucumber.
- 16:27Speaker 2: How great would that be if you're being threatened by
- 16:30Speaker 2: someone if you just pull out an organ and throw
- 16:32Speaker 2: it in their face and be left alone? Yeah.
- 16:36Speaker 1: I would presume that the attacker would go after that
- 16:40Speaker 1: organ and gobble it up?
- 16:41Speaker 2: Is that the plan here? Yeah, I'm guessing that's the plan.
- 16:44Speaker 2: It's like, here's the tasty bit, leave me alone.
- 16:46Speaker 1: Or just smack it in the face so it offends
- 16:48Speaker 1: it and it just leaves? How dare you? Question 15.
- 16:52Speaker 1: The largest gathering in U.S. history was to celebrate what
- 16:55Speaker 1: person being relieved of his duties in 1951? Douglas MacArthur.
- 17:04Speaker 1: And question 16. Young Portuguese-American women working as waitresses in
- 17:08Speaker 1: a Connecticut fishing town serve bite-sized frozen snack pockets in
- 17:13Speaker 1: this film. That's Mystic Pizza Rolls.
- 17:20Speaker 2: Nice.
- 17:24Speaker 1: I didn't actually see them.
- 17:25Speaker 2: I haven't either. Let us know if it's worth watching.
- 17:29Speaker 2: And that's it for the regular rounds, which means it's
- 17:31Speaker 2: time for the Big Bang Round. The category for this
- 17:38Speaker 2: week's Big Bang Round is television. We will give you
- 17:42Speaker 2: three clue questions, which are all hints to one final question.
- 17:46Speaker 2: The clue questions may not fall under the same category.
- 17:50Speaker 2: Question one. For which film, released in 2013, did Julia
- 17:56Speaker 2: Louis-Dreyfus receive her first Golden Globe nomination for a film role?
- 18:06Speaker 1: Question 2. A blend of dried aromatic herbs that primarily
- 18:11Speaker 1: includes basil, oregano, rosemary, thyme, and marjoram is known as
- 18:16Speaker 1: what seasoning?
- 18:22Speaker 2: Question 3. What medical condition is a brief episode of
- 18:27Speaker 2: intense anxiety which causes the physical sensations of fear?
- 18:37Speaker 1: And your Big Bang question, again, the category is television.
- 18:42Speaker 1: When Steve Carell left the office, which actor who was
- 18:46Speaker 1: going to replace him was paid $ 3 million by HBO
- 18:51Speaker 1: to not take the part?
- 18:57Speaker 2: And now the answers to the Big Bang round. Question one.
- 19:02Speaker 2: For which film, released in 2013, did Julia Louis-Dreyfus receive
- 19:06Speaker 2: her first Golden Globe nomination for a film role? Enough said.
- 19:15Speaker 1: Question two. Italian. Question three.
- 19:28Speaker 2: What medical condition is a brief episode of intense anxiety
- 19:33Speaker 2: which causes the physical sensations of fear? Panic attack.
- 19:41Speaker 1: And finally, when Steve Carell left the office, which actor
- 19:44Speaker 1: who was going to replace him was paid $ 3 million
- 19:47Speaker 1: by HBO to not take the part? Known for starring
- 19:53Speaker 1: in Enough Said and as an Italian character suffering from
- 19:57Speaker 1: panic attacks in The Sopranos, it was James Gandolfini.
- 20:04Speaker 2: What's that all about, David? Apparently....
- 20:08Speaker 1: James Gandolfini hadn't worked in a while and wanted to
- 20:12Speaker 1: take this part, you know, and I think they said
- 20:15Speaker 1: he was going to be paid $ 4 million to do
- 20:18Speaker 1: a season of The Office. And HBO wanted to protect
- 20:22Speaker 1: his legacy, his and theirs, for The Sopranos because I
- 20:25Speaker 1: think they thought that him doing comedy would lessen his,
- 20:29Speaker 1: I guess, impact or whatever they thought for The Sopranos.
- 20:33Speaker 1: And so they paid him $ 3 million to not do it.
- 20:37Speaker 2: That's hilarious. I mean, that's a easy paycheck. Right? But
- 20:41Speaker 2: it is really funny that they were so concerned because
- 20:46Speaker 2: Jon Hamm did Mad Men. Mad Men also had a
- 20:49Speaker 2: lot of hype. You know, it has some legacy to
- 20:52Speaker 2: it as one of the best shows. And he, since
- 20:56Speaker 2: Mad Men, has gone out and done all sorts of
- 21:00Speaker 2: goofy comedies.
- 21:01Speaker 1: All comedies, yeah. Yeah.
- 21:03Speaker 2: I don't think anyone was like, well, that ruined Mad
- 21:06Speaker 2: Men for me. You know what I mean? Like, we
- 21:08Speaker 2: understand that actors, generally speaking, go from one role to another. Yeah.
- 21:16Speaker 2: Like Bryan Cranston. He did Malcolm in the Middle before
- 21:19Speaker 2: Breaking Bad. And nobody's like, well, I can't get into
- 21:23Speaker 2: Breaking Bad because that's just the goofy dad from Malcolm
- 21:26Speaker 2: in the Middle.
- 21:27Speaker 1: I bet some people were, but he was just so good. Yeah.
- 21:30Speaker 2: You know?
- 21:31Speaker 1: Yeah. I think there's no better example than Robin Williams,
- 21:34Speaker 1: you know?
- 21:35Speaker 2: Right.
- 21:35Speaker 1: And that's something I've always hated about acting and the
- 21:39Speaker 1: industry is they try to pigeonhole you and typecast you
- 21:43Speaker 1: in one specific type of role. And I'm like, but
- 21:49Speaker 1: what about people who can do both?
- 21:51Speaker 2: Right.
- 21:51Speaker 1: Get you an actor who can do both. Like comedy,
- 21:54Speaker 1: you know, is harder to do than drama for a
- 21:58Speaker 1: lot of people. Yeah. Because some people can do both.
- 22:01Speaker 2: Yeah, because either James Gandolfini would have crushed it. It
- 22:04Speaker 2: would have been interesting to see him.
- 22:05Speaker 1: I bet it would have been fine.
- 22:06Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 22:07Speaker 1: I mean, he did the Enough Said, which that was
- 22:09Speaker 1: a comedy, wasn't it?
- 22:10Speaker 2: I think it was a dramedy. A romantic dramedy. So
- 22:14Speaker 2: it had comedy, but also the drama-y. But yeah, so
- 22:22Speaker 2: I just feel like if he had done The Office,
- 22:26Speaker 2: people would have either loved him or hated him, but.
- 22:30Speaker 1: They still would have been like he was great in
- 22:32Speaker 1: The Sopranos.
- 22:33Speaker 2: Yeah. Like if he was awful in it, everyone would
- 22:36Speaker 2: have been like, well, that's too bad. I guess he
- 22:38Speaker 2: should have stuck with The Sopranos. And so it could
- 22:41Speaker 2: have maybe, I guess, hurt his legacy. But almost all
- 22:46Speaker 2: actors are in some sort of movie or TV show
- 22:48Speaker 2: where they're not great or it's not a great product.
- 22:52Speaker 2: But you're not remembered for that if you have done
- 22:55Speaker 2: something great. Like there's a lot of actors who have
- 22:58Speaker 2: won both Oscars and Razzies. Oh, yeah. And it doesn't take.
- 23:02Speaker 1: Sandra Bullock's one of them. Right?
- 23:04Speaker 2: It doesn't take away her Oscar. Halle Berry is one
- 23:07Speaker 2: of them for sure. Yeah, so it's just... Yeah, yeah.
- 23:11Speaker 1: I never think, oh, she didn't deserve that Oscar because
- 23:14Speaker 1: she did Catwoman.
- 23:15Speaker 2: Right?
- 23:17Speaker 1: But, you know, we're not billion-dollar executives.
- 23:21Speaker 2: No, no.
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- 24:13Speaker 1: For this episode of Quiz Quiz Bang Bang, I've been
- 24:15Speaker 1: David Flora.
- 24:16Speaker 2: I've been Annie Flora. Here's looking at you, Quiz!
- 24:27Speaker 1: Just smack it in the face so it fins it
- 24:28Speaker 1: and it just leaves? How dare you? A kidney in
- 24:32Speaker 1: my face? Again? A succulent Chinese meal?