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Ep 341: 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 pow! Right in the quizzer.
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  Speaker 1: I'm David Flora.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Annie Flora. And we're here to teach you more
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  Speaker 2: about trivia than Whittles Bay cleaned up at the Emmys! Uh-oh!
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  Speaker 2: It's a great show. If you haven't seen it, it's...
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  Speaker 2: Probably one of the best combinations of horror and comedy
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  Speaker 2: I've ever seen. I don't really like horror, but the
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  Speaker 2: comedy is so good. And it's not this isn't gross slasher.
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  Speaker 2: It's just creepy, which I'm better with. It's so good.
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  Speaker 2: It's so well written. The cast is perfect. Check it out.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently this has turned into an ad for Widow's Bay. Hey, David. Huh?
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  Speaker 2: We want to thank O.R. Mike and Richard for getting
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  Speaker 2: us some coffees. Thanks for the coffees. Glug, glug, glug.
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  Speaker 1: Glurp, glurp.
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  Speaker 2: And we did Zoom trivia. And we want to give
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  Speaker 2: a shout out to third place HelloDorkness, my old friend. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Second place, Pleasanton Cleveland. Yeah. And first place, KCT. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Great job, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for coming and playing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And thanks to FWD Trivia for hanging out. That
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  Speaker 2: was super fun. Follow them on socials because FWD Trivia
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  Speaker 2: is where it's at. Hey, David.
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  Speaker 1: Hi.
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  Speaker 2: I also want to just mention Wales. It's a country.
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  Speaker 1: It's true.
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  Speaker 2: We accidentally said it wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's in reference to last week's Bang Bang question.
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  Speaker 1: We'll go back and fix that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so if you're listening to this in the future,
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  Speaker 2: you don't even know what we're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Wales has been and always will be a country.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Always will be.
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  Speaker 2: And like the great... Welsh singer Tom Jones said, it's
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  Speaker 2: not unusual to see me cry.
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  Speaker 1: I wanna die.
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  Speaker 2: We're sorry, and we love you, Wales. And otherwise, let's
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  Speaker 2: just get into the show.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds good to me. Here's how the show works.
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  Speaker 1: Whiz Quiz Bang Bang's format is four rounds of four
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  Speaker 1: questions each, followed by the answers. After round two, we'll
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  Speaker 1: ask a quick-fire bang-bang question where you'll have a time
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  Speaker 1: limit to give multiple answers. After the fourth round, the
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  Speaker 1: show culminates with the Big Bang, a final round with
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  Speaker 1: three questions whose answers are all clues to one final question.
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  Speaker 2: Round one, question one. The category is Geography. What is
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  Speaker 2: the only Central American country without a Pacific coastline? Question two,
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  Speaker 2: the category is television. Which actor just made Emmy history
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  Speaker 2: by being the first male performer ever to take home
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  Speaker 2: lead acting Emmys in multiple categories in the same year? Hint,
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  Speaker 2: he won for Widow's Bay and The Beast in Me.
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  Speaker 2: Question three, the category is music. Two members of which
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  Speaker 2: American rock band, which formed in Los Angeles in 1982,
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  Speaker 2: played the guitar and bass for the recording of Alanis
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  Speaker 2: Morissette's hit song, You Ought to Know? Question four. The
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  Speaker 2: category is film. This question comes from listener Jost. Thank you, Jost.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Jost.
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  Speaker 2: In which movie does Doris Day sing Secret Love? And
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  Speaker 2: now the answers to round one. Question one. What is
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  Speaker 2: the only Central American country without a Pacific coastline? Belize.
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  Speaker 2: It's also the only Central American country to have English
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  Speaker 2: as an official language. These are your Belize facts. Question two,
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  Speaker 2: which actor just made Emmy history by being the first
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  Speaker 2: male performer ever to take home lead acting Emmys in
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  Speaker 2: multiple categories in the same year? Matthew Rhys. You know
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  Speaker 2: where he's from, David?
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  Speaker 1: Wales.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. He's amazing. He has won also for the Americans,
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  Speaker 2: which means he is the only lead performer to win
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  Speaker 2: all three genres. He's the first man to do so.
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  Speaker 2: He's good at both comedy and drama, so yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed him in Perry Mason, too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Question three. Two members of which American rock band
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  Speaker 2: performed on Alanis Morissette's hit song, You Ought to Know?
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  Speaker 2: Red Hot Chili Peppers. It's guitarist Dave Navarro and the
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  Speaker 2: bassist Flea. Question four, in which movie does Doris Day
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  Speaker 2: sing Secret Love? Calamity Jane. We like her in Deadwood.
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  Speaker 1: Can't do very many quotes from her on this show.
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  Speaker 2: Not if we're keeping it family friendly.
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  Speaker 1: Round two, question five. The category is vexillology. The California
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  Speaker 1: state flag features which animal that has gone extinct in California?
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  Speaker 1: Question six, category Mythology. In Greek mythology, what is the
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  Speaker 1: name of the son of Daedalus, the master craftsman that
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  Speaker 1: made something for himself and his son to escape a tower?
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  Speaker 1: Question seven, category Transportation. The road from Alaska to Chile
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  Speaker 1: is called what? Question eight, category Language. Which two titular
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  Speaker 1: Shakespeare characters lend their names to the NATO phonetic alphabet,
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  Speaker 1: although one is spelled differently? And now the answers to
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  Speaker 1: round two. Question five. The California state flag features which
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  Speaker 1: animal that has gone extinct in California? The California grizzly.
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  Speaker 2: It was overhunted.
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  Speaker 1: Question six. What is the name of the son of Daedalus?
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  Speaker 2: Icarus.
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  Speaker 1: Question seven. The road from Alaska to Chile is called what?
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  Speaker 1: The Pan-American Highway. And it doesn't go all the way.
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  Speaker 1: It's interrupted at one point at the Darien Gap. which
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  Speaker 1: is a roadless, dense rainforest area between Panama and Colombia.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a pretty gnarly place from what I've read.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of treacherous terrain, harsh wilderness, and stuff that's
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  Speaker 1: just not even out to get you. It'll just get you.
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 1: Good?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I like hearing about areas that don't
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  Speaker 2: have highways.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. They've tried for a long time to figure out
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  Speaker 1: how to build through there, and it's just too expensive
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  Speaker 1: and too hard to do. Yeah. Question eight. Which two
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  Speaker 1: titular Shakespeare characters lend their names to the NATO phonetic alphabet?
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  Speaker 1: Romeo and Juliet. And Juliet in this case is spelled
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  Speaker 1: with two Ts as opposed to one.
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  Speaker 2: And that's it for the first half, which means it's
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  Speaker 2: time for the Bang Bang Round. The category for this
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  Speaker 2: week's Bang Bang Round is theater. You will have 30
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  Speaker 2: seconds to answer the following question. While several performers have
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  Speaker 2: won Tonys for roles that have involved cross-dressing, only six
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  Speaker 2: have won for playing a character in the opposite sex.
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  Speaker 2: This does not include non-binary performers, trans performers, or trans characters.
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  Speaker 2: Name them. Your time starts now.
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  Speaker 1: And that's time. The six performers who have won Tony's
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  Speaker 1: are Mary Martin in the title role of Peter Pan, 1955.
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  Speaker 1: Harvey Fierstein as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, 2003. Mark Rylance
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  Speaker 1: as Olivia in Twelfth Night 2014. If you can see
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  Speaker 1: that performance, see it.
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  Speaker 2: So good.
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  Speaker 1: Lena Hall as Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2014.
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Snook as Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian
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  Speaker 1: Gray 2025. and Jack Malone as Hester Leggett in Operation
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  Speaker 1: Mincemeat 2025. In 2000, Australian actor Barry Humphreys won the
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  Speaker 1: Special Tony Award for a live theatrical event at the
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  Speaker 1: 55th Annual Tony Awards for Dame Edna, The Royal Tour.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a special one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you said Cole for Oh Mary, that
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  Speaker 2: goes under the non-binary, but... Good news for fans of
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  Speaker 2: that show. It's coming to HBO. We all get to
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  Speaker 2: see it. It's going to be amazing. Round three, question nine.
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  Speaker 2: The category is art. Which Italian Renaissance painter who painted
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  Speaker 2: The Feast of the Gods and Saint Jerome in the
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  Speaker 2: Desert has a cocktail made with Prosecco and peach puree
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  Speaker 2: or nectar named after him? Question 10. The category is
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  Speaker 2: food and drink. What Greek cheese is made from sheep's
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  Speaker 2: milk or a mixture of sheep and 30% goat's milk
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  Speaker 2: from the same area? Question 11. The category is geography.
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  Speaker 2: What is the name of the monolithic limestone mountain that
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  Speaker 2: dominates the western entrance of the Mediterranean Sea? Question 12.
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  Speaker 2: The category is medicine. What is the main ingredient in
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  Speaker 2: smelling salts which can help to restore consciousness after fainting?
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  Speaker 2: And now the answers to round three. Question nine. Which
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  Speaker 2: Italian Renaissance painter painted the Feast of the Gods and
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  Speaker 2: has a cocktail made with Prosecco and peach puree or
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  Speaker 2: nectar named after him? Giovanni Bellini. The cocktail's just called Bellini,
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  Speaker 2: so if you just said that, that is acceptable. Also,
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  Speaker 2: if you haven't seen St. Jerome in the Desert, I
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  Speaker 2: highly recommend. It's a guy talking to a lion, and
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  Speaker 2: the lion's like, what?
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  Speaker 1: He's totally lecturing that lion.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Question 10. What Greek cheese is made from sheep's
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  Speaker 2: milk or a mixture of sheep and 30% goat's milk?
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  Speaker 2: Question 11. What is the name of the monolithic limestone
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  Speaker 2: mountain that dominates the western entrance of the Mediterranean Sea?
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  Speaker 2: The Rock of Gibraltar. Question 12. What is the main
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  Speaker 2: ingredient in smelling salts?
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  Speaker 1: Ammonia.
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  Speaker 2: Anytime I think about smelling salts, I just think about
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  Speaker 2: old-timey shows where a woman sees something startling and faints,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and they're like, oh, come tune, and she's like, ah, murder.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what I think about, but apparently it's used
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  Speaker 2: a lot on athletes. And smelling salts is now banned
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  Speaker 2: in most boxing competitions because of the concern to the
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  Speaker 2: health to the boxer. Okay, not as fun in real life.
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  Speaker 2: More fun in fiction.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's made from ammonium carbonate, which is a solid.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes they combine it with other nice smelling stuff,
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  Speaker 1: like eucalyptus.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Round four, question 13. The category is fashion. Designed as
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  Speaker 1: replicas to a famous film costume piece, a pair of
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  Speaker 1: slippers by Harry Winston sold for $ 3 million and featured 1,500
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  Speaker 1: carats of what gemstone? Question 14. Category Games and Hobbies.
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  Speaker 1: The name of what cross and circle board game is
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  Speaker 1: derived from the Hindu word for 25? Question 15. Category Science.
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  Speaker 1: As proved by Don Pettit in 2012, you can use
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  Speaker 1: what toy in space? Question 16, category sports. Pete Sampras
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  Speaker 1: and Tracy Austin are the two youngest people, 19 and
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  Speaker 1: 16 respectively, to win the title for what event? And
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  Speaker 1: now the answers to round four, question 13. Designed as
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  Speaker 1: replicas to a famous film costume piece, a pair of
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  Speaker 1: slippers by Harry Winston sold for $ 3 million and featured 1,500
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  Speaker 1: carats of what gemstone? Ruby. They were to mark the
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  Speaker 1: 50th anniversary of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
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  Speaker 1: And what size were.
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  Speaker 2: They, Annie? Five.
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  Speaker 1: Four.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's even small for me.
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  Speaker 1: Question 14. The name of what cross and circle board
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  Speaker 1: game is derived from the Hindu word for 25? Pachizhi.
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  Speaker 2: And in the U.S., you might know Parcheesi, but that
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  Speaker 2: was taking that idea and trademarking it.
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  Speaker 1: Not just saying the same thing in Boston.
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  Speaker 2: Parcheesi.
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  Speaker 1: Play some Parcheesi. They're like, oh, it obviously has an
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  Speaker 1: R in it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Parcheesi and have it yad. Question 15. As proven by
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  Speaker 1: Don Pettit in 2012, you can use what toy in space?
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  Speaker 1: A yo-yo. Question 16. Pete Sampras and Tracy Austin are
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  Speaker 1: the two youngest people, 19 and 16, to win the
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  Speaker 1: title for what event? The U.S. Open.
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  Speaker 2: And that's it for the regular rounds, which means it's
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  Speaker 2: time for the Big Bang Round. The category for this
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  Speaker 2: week's Big Bang Round is history. We'll give you three
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  Speaker 2: clue questions which are all hints to one final question.
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  Speaker 2: The clue question may not fall under the same category.
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  Speaker 2: Question one. Which European country is not the largest beer
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  Speaker 2: drinking country despite hosting the biggest beer festival in the world?
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  Speaker 1: Question two. Einstein's A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions, Paul
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  Speaker 1: Dirac's Quantum Mechanics, and The Significance of the Frontier in
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  Speaker 1: American History by Frederick Turner are famous examples of what?
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  Speaker 2: Question 3. What is the world's largest monotheistic religion?
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  Speaker 1: And your Big Bang question, get in the categories history.
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  Speaker 1: In 1525, defying the Roman Catholic Church's decree for celibacy
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  Speaker 1: amongst the priesthood, who married former nun, Caterina von Bora?
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  Speaker 2: And now the answers to the Big Bang round. Question one,
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  Speaker 2: which European country is not the largest beer drinking country
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  Speaker 2: despite hosting the biggest beer festival in the world?
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  Speaker 1: Question two. A new determination of molecular dimensions, quantum mechanics,
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  Speaker 1: and the significance of the frontier in American history are
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  Speaker 1: famous examples of what? Theses.
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  Speaker 2: Question three. What is the world's largest monotheistic religion? Christianity. Christianity.
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  Speaker 1: And finally in 1525, defying the Roman Catholic Church's decree
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  Speaker 1: for celibacy amongst the priesthood, who married former nun Katharina
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  Speaker 1: von Bora? The famous Christian German known for his theses,
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  Speaker 1: Martin Luther.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah. You don't think of him as being married,
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  Speaker 2: but he is. Or he was.
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  Speaker 1: Speak for yourself, Fanny. The married man Martin Luther is
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  Speaker 1: how I always refer to him. The married monk.
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  Speaker 2: The married monk.
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  Speaker 1: Priest who got married. The priest with a ring.
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  Speaker 2: My uncle was a priest who got married. Oh. He
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  Speaker 2: wasn't a priest after that.
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  Speaker 1: Was Martin Luther?
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  Speaker 2: My uncle was Martin Luther. I mean, was Martin Luther. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Did they kick him out?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he was Catholic after that anymore.
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  Speaker 1: There was quite a bit of angst there. But there's
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of angst here. because we appreciate you
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  Speaker 1: all listening and just as a heads up our zoom
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  Speaker 1: trivia for october is going to be probably the third
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  Speaker 1: saturday because we'll be traveling.
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  Speaker 2: That is correct yeah lots of travels ahead just for
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  Speaker 2: work and things like that and then we plan to
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  Speaker 2: settle down for.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of the year Go into hibernation.
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  Speaker 2: Go into hibernation. Looking forward to it. Hibernation sounds amazing.
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  Speaker 1: It sure does. Well, you can hibernate until the next
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  Speaker 1: episode comes out next week. For this episode of Quiz
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  Speaker 1: Quiz Bang Bang, I've been David Flora.
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  Speaker 2: I've been Annie Flora. Here's looking at you, Quiz!