Latest / Quiz Quiz Bang Bang Trivia Podcast / Ep 300: General Trivia
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- 0:15Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Quiz Quiz Bang Bang, the pub
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- 0:21Speaker 1: I'm Anny Flora, I'm David Flora, and we're here to
- 0:23Speaker 1: teach you more about trivia than people have said. This
- 0:27Speaker 1: is Sparta and then pretend to kick someone down a hole.
- 0:32Speaker 1: So many people have said this is Sparta since the
- 0:34Speaker 1: movie three hundred came out.
- 0:36Speaker 2: David, Oh, I see what you've done in this instance.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Time. This ties into anything. Three hundred episodes.
- 0:47Speaker 2: By back, three hundred episode wow, wow wow.
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- 1:27Speaker 1: Yeah. Every listener question that has been sent to the
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- 1:36Speaker 2: So you kind of crept up on us in a
- 1:39Speaker 2: way because we've been busy lately or else we would
- 1:42Speaker 2: have done maybe a three hundred themed episode somehow or another.
- 1:46Speaker 1: Yeah, but we were busy because we were getting ready
- 1:49Speaker 1: for a Plunger Day, which is tomorrow. Today's Thanksgiving? Everybody
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- 1:56Speaker 1: So what we're thankful this Thanksgiving? Is you? Thankful that
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- 3:09Speaker 2: let's get to our three hundredth episode of trivia. This
- 3:12Speaker 2: is how the three hundredth episode of trivia works. Wiz
- 3:17Speaker 2: Quiz Bang Bang's format is four rounds of four questions
- 3:20Speaker 2: each followed by the answers. After round two, we'll ask
- 3:23Speaker 2: a quick fire bang Bang question where you'll have a
- 3:26Speaker 2: time limit to give multiple answers. After the fourth round,
- 3:30Speaker 2: the show culminates with the Big Bang, a final round
- 3:33Speaker 2: with three questions, whose answers are all clues to one
- 3:36Speaker 2: final question. Round one Question one, The category is anatomy, hinge, pivot,
- 3:46Speaker 2: and saddle are three types of what skeletal structure? Question two?
- 3:55Speaker 2: Category geography in what Canadian province is the capital city located?
- 4:02Speaker 2: That's the capital of Canada. Question three category history. Stanislaw
- 4:12Speaker 2: the second August ruled from seventeen sixty four to seventeen
- 4:16Speaker 2: ninety five and was the last king of which country
- 4:21Speaker 2: the fifth largest EU country? Question four Category science. This
- 4:31Speaker 2: one comes from listener Brandon. Thank you Brandon, Thank you Brandon.
- 4:35Speaker 2: What element has the highest melting point? And now the
- 4:43Speaker 2: answers to round one? Question one? Hinge, pivot and saddle
- 4:47Speaker 2: are three types of what skeletal structure. Those are joints.
- 4:55Speaker 2: Question two, in which Canadian province is the capital city located?
- 5:02Speaker 2: That is Ontario? Ontario is the province and Ottawa is
- 5:09Speaker 2: the capital. Both Ottawa and the most populous city, Toronto,
- 5:15Speaker 2: are in Ontario. Question three. Stanislav the second August ruled
- 5:22Speaker 2: from seventeen sixty four to seventeen ninety five and was
- 5:26Speaker 2: the last king of which country Poland? Question four? What
- 5:33Speaker 2: element has the highest melting point? Tungsten of all metals
- 5:43Speaker 2: in pure form, Tungsten has the highest melting point at
- 5:47Speaker 2: three four hundred and twenty two celsius or one ninety
- 5:51Speaker 2: two fahrenheit. It also has the lowest vapor pressure and
- 5:56Speaker 2: the highest tinsil strength pencil strength.
- 6:00Speaker 1: That's great for Christmas time.
- 6:04Speaker 2: Tensile round two.
- 6:09Speaker 1: Question five the category is sports. In nineteen twenty six,
- 6:15Speaker 1: Gertrude utterly swam what in fourteen and a half hours,
- 6:20Speaker 1: breaking the men's record by two hours, and is the
- 6:25Speaker 1: inspiration for the Daisy Ridley film Young Woman and the Sea.
- 6:34Speaker 1: Question six, the category is theater which Aristophanes comedy shares
- 6:41Speaker 1: its name with, a nineteen sixty three natural horror film
- 6:46Speaker 1: directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Question seven, The category is film.
- 6:55Speaker 1: This question comes from listener Bobby.
- 6:57Speaker 2: Thank you, Bubby, Thank you Bobby.
- 7:00Speaker 1: What was the first horror film to be nominated for
- 7:04Speaker 1: Best Picture? Question eight? The category is Food and Drink.
- 7:15Speaker 1: What is the process of folding butter or other fats
- 7:19Speaker 1: into dough and rolling it repeatedly to create many thin
- 7:24Speaker 1: layers called and now the answers to round two? Question five?
- 7:34Speaker 1: What did Gertrude utterly swim? In nineteen twenty six? The
- 7:41Speaker 1: English Channel? Question six? Which Aristophanes comedy shares its name
- 7:50Speaker 1: with a nineteen sixty three natural horror film directed by
- 7:54Speaker 1: Alfred Hitchcock. Well, there's nothing more terrifying in nature than birds.
- 8:00Speaker 1: It's the birds. Question seven. What was the first horror
- 8:07Speaker 1: film to be nominated for Best Picture? The Exorcist? That's
- 8:15Speaker 1: a good question. I think it lost to the Sting
- 8:20Speaker 1: They got nominated for like around nine I think like
- 8:23Speaker 1: nine ten awards. Question eight. What is the process of
- 8:29Speaker 1: folding butter or other fats into dough to create many
- 8:32Speaker 1: thin layers called lamination?
- 8:39Speaker 2: That's it for the first half. That means it's time
- 8:42Speaker 2: for the Bang Bang round. The category for this week's
- 8:47Speaker 2: Bang Bang round is animals. This one comes to us
- 8:52Speaker 2: from listener Major Data.
- 8:54Speaker 1: Thank you Major, Thank you Major.
- 8:56Speaker 2: You'll have thirty seconds to give as many answers as
- 8:59Speaker 2: you can to the follow What are the seven rat
- 9:03Speaker 2: heites a polyphyletic group consisting of all birds within the
- 9:09Speaker 2: infraclass Palaeognathi that lack keels and cannot fly, that have
- 9:15Speaker 2: ever existed. I'll break it down for you. Name some
- 9:19Speaker 2: big old birds that can't fly. There's seven of them
- 9:24Speaker 2: living and extinct. Your time starts.
- 9:26Speaker 1: Now, that's time. Seven rat tights that have ever existed
- 10:04Speaker 1: and still some exist are the ostriche Emu, cassowary, Kiwi, moa, reya,
- 10:17Speaker 1: and elephant bird. And to be fair to Major Data,
- 10:24Speaker 1: I was like, well, I don't know if everyone knows
- 10:27Speaker 1: what a rat tight is. Let's sort of the definition
- 10:28Speaker 1: in and then the definition I threw and was not helpful.
- 10:32Speaker 1: So thanks Stavin for the breakdown.
- 10:35Speaker 2: Even I failed because Kiwi's not that big.
- 10:38Speaker 1: Well, yeah, they all are very big, except the He's like, guys,
- 10:45Speaker 1: it's a fun question though, yeah.
- 10:48Speaker 2: Round three. Question nine the category is language. The word
- 10:52Speaker 2: alphabet comes from the first two letters of what language.
- 11:00Speaker 2: Question ten category transportation. This one comes to us from
- 11:04Speaker 2: listener Mami, thank you, maymy.
- 11:06Speaker 1: Thank you, mama.
- 11:08Speaker 2: In operation since nineteen thirty, London's Great West Aerodrome later
- 11:13Speaker 2: became the site of what. Question eleven category Games and hobbies.
- 11:23Speaker 2: Traditionally what color are the community chest cards in the
- 11:27Speaker 2: game of Monopoly? Question twelve category television in the office
- 11:38Speaker 2: the American version, what does Michael Scott eat at lunch
- 11:42Speaker 2: to make him fall asleep? And now the answers to
- 11:48Speaker 2: round three. Question nine. The word alphabet comes from the
- 11:52Speaker 2: first two letters of what language. It comes from alpha
- 11:58Speaker 2: and beta in Greek. Question ten. In operation since nineteen thirty.
- 12:05Speaker 2: London's Great West Aerodrome later became the site of what.
- 12:11Speaker 2: Heathrow Airport I think it operated from nineteen thirty to
- 12:17Speaker 2: the mid forties, was I think controlled by the military,
- 12:21Speaker 2: and then kind of was off and on after that,
- 12:25Speaker 2: and the land was in dispute here and there and
- 12:28Speaker 2: blah blah blah. But it eventually got taken over by
- 12:32Speaker 2: the civil authority and they made it into he Throw
- 12:35Speaker 2: International Airport. That's fun aerodrome. You don't hear that as
- 12:39Speaker 2: much anymore. We should bring that back.
- 12:41Speaker 1: Yeah, and name your child that.
- 12:45Speaker 2: Question eleven. Traditionally, what color are the community chess cards
- 12:49Speaker 2: in Monopoly? Yellow? The chance cards are orange?
- 12:58Speaker 1: I haven't played Monopoly in a minute, You.
- 13:00Speaker 2: Don't need to. Question twelve in the office, What does
- 13:04Speaker 2: Michael Scott eat at lunch to make him fall asleep?
- 13:08Speaker 2: An entire family sized chicken pot pie.
- 13:13Speaker 1: That'll do it, yeah, Round four. Question thirteen. The category
- 13:18Speaker 1: is technology. This question comes from listener Patrag. Thank you, Patra,
- 13:22Speaker 1: Thanks Patrick. Completely automated public truring tests to tell Computers
- 13:28Speaker 1: and Humans Apart is better known as what Question fourteen?
- 13:38Speaker 1: The category is music. What is the best selling album
- 13:43Speaker 1: of the twenty first century thus far? Question fifteen? The
- 13:53Speaker 1: category is science? What element is named after the Greek
- 13:58Speaker 1: word for green, something many kids with blonde hair are
- 14:03Speaker 1: familiar with. In the summertime? Question sixteen, the category is literature.
- 14:14Speaker 1: In twenty ten, Jonathan Franzen was the first American novelist
- 14:20Speaker 1: to appear on the cover of Time Since what legendary
- 14:24Speaker 1: and prolific American writer? And now? The answer is around
- 14:33Speaker 1: for question thirteen. Completely automated public turing test to tell
- 14:38Speaker 1: Computers and Humans Apart has better known as whatcha cap?
- 14:45Speaker 1: Tcha capha. So when you get those, I'm not our robot.
- 14:53Speaker 2: Yeah, you just have to check a box.
- 14:55Speaker 1: Yeah. Question fourteen, what is the best selling album of
- 15:00Speaker 1: the twenty first century thus far? It is twenty one
- 15:08Speaker 1: by Adele and we thought this was interesting. In second place,
- 15:12Speaker 1: it's The Eminem Show by Eminem. Third place is Come
- 15:17Speaker 1: Away with Me by Nora Jones, In fourth place twenty
- 15:23Speaker 1: five by Adele, and in fifth place Back to Black
- 15:28Speaker 1: by Amy Winehouse. I would have expected, you know, like
- 15:32Speaker 1: Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift and Beyonce. You know those
- 15:35Speaker 1: names you hear yeah all the time. Those would have
- 15:39Speaker 1: been my guesses. So it's just interesting. I mean, Adele
- 15:42Speaker 1: makes sense, but it's crazy that she's on there twice.
- 15:45Speaker 1: Good for her. And I wouldn't have expected Nora Jones
- 15:49Speaker 1: up there, so interesting.
- 15:51Speaker 2: List are those Starbucks locations at bottom?
- 15:54Speaker 1: That's true? Question fifteen. What element is named after? The
- 16:00Speaker 1: Greek word for greenish yellow, something many kids with blonde
- 16:03Speaker 1: hair are familiar with in the summertime chlorine? Question sixteen.
- 16:13Speaker 1: Jonathan Franzen was the first American novelist to appear in
- 16:16Speaker 1: the cover of Time since what legendary and prolific American writer.
- 16:22Speaker 1: It is Stephen King.
- 16:28Speaker 2: Well, that's it for the regular rounds. That means it's
- 16:31Speaker 2: time for the Big Bang Round. The category for this
- 16:39Speaker 2: week's Big Bang Round is Society and Culture. We'll ask
- 16:44Speaker 2: you three questions, the answers of which we're all clues
- 16:47Speaker 2: to the final question. Keep in mind if three clue
- 16:50Speaker 2: questions may not be from the same category as the
- 16:53Speaker 2: final question. Question one, which company made an acquisition of
- 16:59Speaker 2: twenty first century Fox in March of twenty nineteen?
- 17:07Speaker 1: Question two? What's twenty ten film flop? Has the character
- 17:12Speaker 1: Dave learned that he can do magic? And stars Nicholas Cage,
- 17:16Speaker 1: j Barruko and Alfred Molina?
- 17:23Speaker 2: Question three? Which actress starred in Gross point blank? Goodwill
- 17:29Speaker 2: Hunting and Phantom of the Opera.
- 17:36Speaker 1: And here's your Big Bang question again the category of
- 17:39Speaker 1: society and culture. Who did Romanian authorities ban in nineteen
- 17:45Speaker 1: thirty five due to worries that he would give children nightmares?
- 17:55Speaker 2: And now the answers to the Big Bang Round. Question one?
- 17:58Speaker 2: Which company made an acquisition of twenty five first century
- 18:00Speaker 2: Fox in twenty nineteen? Disney?
- 18:07Speaker 1: Question two? What twenty ten film flop has the character
- 18:12Speaker 1: Dave learned that he can do magic and stars Nicholas Cage,
- 18:16Speaker 1: Jay Barukal and Alfred Molina The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
- 18:26Speaker 2: Question three? Which actress starred in Gross point Blank, Goodwill
- 18:29Speaker 2: Hunting and Phantom of the Opera? Mini Driver? And she
- 18:37Speaker 2: was she Christine in that?
- 18:39Speaker 1: Uh?
- 18:39Speaker 2: No?
- 18:39Speaker 1: Emmy Rosom played Christine? Mini Driver was Carlota?
- 18:47Speaker 2: Isn't a rassam? The one in Shameless?
- 18:50Speaker 1: Sure? Is? Huh?
- 18:52Speaker 2: Good for her?
- 18:53Speaker 1: Yeah? She's great? And your big bang question? Who did
- 18:57Speaker 1: a Romanian Authorities band in nineteen three five due to
- 19:01Speaker 1: worries that he would give children nightmares? The mascot of
- 19:06Speaker 1: Disney who starred as The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Fantasia and
- 19:10Speaker 1: Minnie's Boyfriend. It's Mickey Mouse.
- 19:16Speaker 2: Horrific.
- 19:19Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of nice that they just wanted
- 19:22Speaker 1: to ban him, just because they're like, no, this is terrifying,
- 19:26Speaker 1: This is terrifying for children. Nobody wants this. Keep them away,
- 19:31Speaker 1: you know, like there's something kind of wholesome about it.
- 19:36Speaker 1: They weren't saying he was a communist. They weren't, you know,
- 19:39Speaker 1: it wasn't like banned books, where it's always like for
- 19:41Speaker 1: terrible reasons. It was like, don't let me around them.
- 19:48Speaker 2: Oh boy, time to eat their souls. One two, Mickey's
- 19:55Speaker 2: coming for you. Well, thanks for listen and through three
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- 20:44Speaker 1: of Quiz Quiz Bang Bang. I've been Andy Flora, I've.
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- 20:56Speaker 1: And there hasn't been another author on the time cover
- 21:00Speaker 1: since Jonathan Friends. And because literature is dying, everything's dying.
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