Latest / Quiz Quiz Bang Bang Trivia Podcast / Ep 303: General Trivia
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- 0:15Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Quiz Quiz Bang Bang, the pub
- 0:18Speaker 1: quiz practice show that hits you. Yeah right in the quizzer.
- 0:21Speaker 1: I'm Annie Flora, I'm David Flora, and we're here to
- 0:24Speaker 1: teach you more about trivia than There are new AI
- 0:27Speaker 1: videos of animals cropping up trying to make you think
- 0:30Speaker 1: that they're real animals, but they're not.
- 0:32Speaker 2: They're AI and they make you so.
- 0:37Speaker 1: I hate it.
- 0:39Speaker 3: It's awful. There's always a tell, yeah, there's something that
- 0:43Speaker 3: you can see that it's just not right.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's just but eventually you won't be able
- 0:48Speaker 1: to tell the difference, except for it won't have a soul,
- 0:53Speaker 1: so pretty.
- 0:54Speaker 3: Much they are already. Why do people do that?
- 0:57Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 0:58Speaker 1: I don't know what the point of it is because
- 1:00Speaker 1: there's so many real pet videos. It has to just
- 1:04Speaker 1: be a money making thing, right, like if you're dump
- 1:06Speaker 1: it into that much money, I don't know how it
- 1:09Speaker 1: works or why.
- 1:10Speaker 3: The saddest part is the comments of them though.
- 1:12Speaker 1: Oh, because everyone thinks they're real.
- 1:14Speaker 3: Everyone thinks they're real, and then I'm like, okay, now
- 1:18Speaker 3: I'm not sure if these people are real.
- 1:20Speaker 1: Oh that's true.
- 1:21Speaker 3: They could just be boughts and it's all just kind
- 1:23Speaker 3: of like the snake. Well, something that's not fake that
- 1:32Speaker 3: we can celebrate, or some new coffee.
- 1:38Speaker 2: Got one from gwhen.
- 1:43Speaker 1: And oh urm are and thanks to everyone who's listening,
- 1:49Speaker 1: because somebody was telling me that like now three thousand
- 1:53Speaker 1: AI podcasts are being released to day, like there's already
- 1:59Speaker 1: so many podcast done by people. We don't need a podcasts, right,
- 2:05Speaker 1: So anyway, we're not here to judge you. If you
- 2:08Speaker 1: love AI, we're not, like, obviously that's maybe a direction
- 2:12Speaker 1: we're heading, but we're not AI. And we appreciate you
- 2:19Speaker 1: supporting us and listening to a non AI show and
- 2:23Speaker 1: any other non AI shows you listen to because humans
- 2:26Speaker 1: support humans. What a weird thing to have to say.
- 2:30Speaker 3: We all knew it was coming, but thank you guys
- 2:35Speaker 3: for sending those coffees. If anyone else would like to
- 2:38Speaker 3: keep us meat bags going, well he requires caffeine, so
- 2:45Speaker 3: ko dash fi dot com, slash Quizbang pod and keep
- 2:50Speaker 3: the skin jobs well, skin jobs are cylons that look
- 2:56Speaker 3: like people, aren't they, So that doesn't work working there,
- 3:01Speaker 3: We'll stick with meat sacks.
- 3:03Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a cold meat sacks I want to do
- 3:06Speaker 1: some trivia.
- 3:07Speaker 3: Couple bags of wet meat running on electricity.
- 3:12Speaker 1: But I just don't like it.
- 3:14Speaker 3: Here's how the show works. Wiz Quiz Bang Bang's format
- 3:18Speaker 3: is four rounds of four questions, each followed by the answers.
- 3:21Speaker 3: After round two, we'll ask a quick fire bang Bang
- 3:24Speaker 3: question where you'll have a time limit to give multiple answers.
- 3:28Speaker 3: After the fourth round, the show culminates with the Big Bang,
- 3:31Speaker 3: a final round with three questions whose answers are all
- 3:34Speaker 3: clues to one final question.
- 3:38Speaker 2: Round one.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Question one, the category is food and drink. What candy
- 3:44Speaker 1: saw a sixty five percent increase in sales within two
- 3:48Speaker 1: weeks of the release of the movie et? Question two?
- 3:56Speaker 1: The category is pop culture. Which d morning talk show
- 4:01Speaker 1: host was the spokesperson for Carnival cruise Line from the
- 4:05Speaker 1: late eighties to early nineties with the catchphrase if my
- 4:09Speaker 1: friends could see me now. Question three, the category is geography.
- 4:20Speaker 1: What is the name of Latvia's capital that shares its
- 4:23Speaker 1: name with the Gulf It lies? On?
- 4:30Speaker 2: Question four?
- 4:31Speaker 1: The category is society and culture and religion. This question
- 4:36Speaker 1: comes from Major Data. Thank you, Major Data. You.
- 4:40Speaker 3: Major Carl Bushby.
- 4:43Speaker 1: An English ex paratrooper, has been walking since November nineteen
- 4:48Speaker 1: ninety eight, in an attempt to be the first person
- 4:52Speaker 1: to walk a completely unbroken path around the world by
- 4:58Speaker 1: what large biblical name does his expedition go by? And
- 5:07Speaker 1: now the answer is to round one. Question one, what
- 5:10Speaker 1: candy saw sixty five percent increase in sales within two
- 5:13Speaker 1: weeks of the release of E. T. Reese's Pieces? I
- 5:21Speaker 1: guess Originally Steven Spielberg wanted to use em and M's
- 5:25Speaker 1: and he approached M and MS to be like, Hey,
- 5:27Speaker 1: I want to use you in the movie, but I think,
- 5:31Speaker 1: you know, give me some money for the product placement
- 5:32Speaker 1: or whatever. And Eminem was like, yeah, no, that's okay,
- 5:38Speaker 1: we'll pass. And then Reese's Pieces, that was kind of
- 5:41Speaker 1: struggling to like break into the market, was like, we'll
- 5:43Speaker 1: do it. What do you want? Count us in? And
- 5:46Speaker 1: it worked out great for them.
- 5:48Speaker 3: Nice Reese's Pieces infinitely superior to Eminems.
- 5:52Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, dam down.
- 5:57Speaker 1: Question two. Which morning time show host was a spokesperson
- 6:01Speaker 1: for Carnival Cruise Line from the late eighties to the
- 6:03Speaker 1: early nineties with the catchphrase if my friends could see
- 6:07Speaker 1: me now? It was Kathy Lee give heard How did
- 6:13Speaker 1: you say it?
- 6:13Speaker 3: David, No, I think that was it? Okay, very much
- 6:17Speaker 3: like Kathy Lee hepburn there.
- 6:19Speaker 1: Oh. If my friends could see me now, they would say,
- 6:24Speaker 1: great job, Kathy.
- 6:25Speaker 2: Let's all go out for some momo sauce.
- 6:28Speaker 1: Question three, What is the name of Lafia's capital that
- 6:32Speaker 1: shares its name with the golf? It lies on Riga,
- 6:38Speaker 1: which means it lies on the Gulf of Riga.
- 6:43Speaker 3: That's math yep.
- 6:45Speaker 1: Question for Carl Bushby, who has been walking since November
- 6:50Speaker 1: of nineteen ninety eight and attempt to be the first
- 6:52Speaker 1: person to walk a completely unbroken path around the world.
- 6:56Speaker 1: Has his expedition go by what large biblical name the
- 7:02Speaker 1: Goliath Expedition. He began his journey on November one of
- 7:08Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight and originally expected to finish his trek
- 7:11Speaker 1: of thirty six thousand miles or fifty eight thousand kilometers
- 7:14Speaker 1: in eight years, so that implies he'd be done by
- 7:18Speaker 1: two thousand and six. But David in October of twenty
- 7:22Speaker 1: five he had entered Romania and is now one thousand,
- 7:26Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy five miles or two two or
- 7:29Speaker 1: thirteen kilometers from the United Kingdom, so like he's getting there.
- 7:35Speaker 1: So good for him for not giving up good grief.
- 7:39Speaker 3: Yeah, but good I mean probably got held up trying
- 7:42Speaker 3: to walk on water.
- 7:45Speaker 1: Yeah, probably that.
- 7:46Speaker 3: Uh well, I've got more questions, but.
- 7:49Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess we'll keep going with a trivia. But
- 7:52Speaker 1: it's interesting.
- 7:53Speaker 3: Look it up round two. Question five. The category is
- 7:57Speaker 3: sports baseball player Kai Cobb had what fruity nickname? Owing
- 8:03Speaker 3: to his home state origin. Question six, Category art. Maya
- 8:13Speaker 3: Linn was an undergraduate at Yale University when she won
- 8:16Speaker 3: the contest to design which memorial? Question seven? Category science?
- 8:27Speaker 3: What is the term for the broad group of organic
- 8:30Speaker 3: compounds that include fats, waxes, sterols, and fat soluble vitamins?
- 8:41Speaker 3: Question eight, Category Film. This one comes to us for
- 8:44Speaker 3: my listener, Bobby. They give Bobby, then you, Bubby, go ahead,
- 8:50Speaker 3: make my day was spoken by Clint Eastwood in Which Movie?
- 8:59Speaker 1: And now the.
- 9:00Speaker 3: Answers around two. Question five, Ty Cobb had what fruity nickname?
- 9:05Speaker 3: Owing to his home state origin Georgia. Page Question six.
- 9:14Speaker 3: Maya Lynn was an undergraduate at Yale University when she
- 9:17Speaker 3: won the contest to design which memorial the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?
- 9:25Speaker 3: Question seven, what's the term for the broad group of
- 9:28Speaker 3: organic compounds that include fats, waxes, sterols, and fat soluble vitamins.
- 9:35Speaker 3: Those are lipids. Question eight, go ahead, make my day
- 9:44Speaker 3: was spoken by Clint Eastwood, and which movie A bit
- 9:49Speaker 3: of a head fake on this one? It was Sudden Impact.
- 9:53Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought the name of the movie was Dirty Harry.
- 9:56Speaker 3: Well, I think there is a Dirty Harry and he
- 9:58Speaker 3: plays Dirty Harry Sudden Impact. But it's two different movies.
- 10:03Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it for the first half, which means it's
- 10:06Speaker 1: time for the Bang Bang Round. The category for this
- 10:12Speaker 1: week's Bang Bang Round is math. Language. You will have
- 10:18Speaker 1: thirty seconds answer the following question. In modern notation, there
- 10:24Speaker 1: are seven letters that represent the seven basic Roman numerals.
- 10:29Speaker 2: What are they? Your time starts now.
- 11:02Speaker 3: And that's time. The seven letters that represent these seven
- 11:07Speaker 3: basic Roman numerals are I, V, X, L, C, D,
- 11:18Speaker 3: and M. He goes one, five, ten, fifty, one hundred,
- 11:26Speaker 3: five hundred and a thousand.
- 11:29Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad we do Arabic numbers. Round three. Question nine.
- 11:35Speaker 1: The category is literature. The creatures outside looked from pig
- 11:41Speaker 1: to man, and from man to pig, and from pig
- 11:45Speaker 1: to man again. But already it was impossible to say
- 11:50Speaker 1: which was which is the last line from which novel?
- 12:00Speaker 1: Question ten, The category is history. Which international agreement of
- 12:08Speaker 1: eighteen sixty four regulated the treatment of those wounded in war?
- 12:18Speaker 1: Question eleven, The category is mythology. In Nari is the
- 12:24Speaker 1: god of what grain in Japanese mythology. Question twelve, the
- 12:34Speaker 1: category is geography. This question comes from listener Brandon.
- 12:39Speaker 3: Thank you Brandon.
- 12:41Speaker 1: What country has the most islands in the world? And
- 12:50Speaker 1: now the answer is to round three. Question nine. The
- 12:54Speaker 1: creatures outside look from pig to man, and from man
- 12:57Speaker 1: to pig, and from pig to man again. But already
- 13:00Speaker 1: it was impossible to say which was which is the
- 13:03Speaker 1: last line from which novel animal farm? Question ten? Which
- 13:12Speaker 1: international agreement of eighteen sixty four regulated the treatment of
- 13:16Speaker 1: those wounded in war? Geneva Convention. Kudos if you said
- 13:24Speaker 1: the first Geneva Convention, because there were four and this
- 13:27Speaker 1: was the first treaty, and then they revised it in
- 13:29Speaker 1: nineteen oh six, nineteen twenty nine and nineteen forty nine,
- 13:34Speaker 1: and we can thank the Red Cross for instigating it.
- 13:38Speaker 1: Question eleven. In Nari is the god of what grain?
- 13:42Speaker 1: In Japanese mythology, Rice Innari is the Japanese kami of foxes, fertility, rice, tea, sak,
- 13:52Speaker 1: agriculture and industry. Question twelve, What country has the most
- 13:59Speaker 1: islands in the world? Old Sweden. Here's a crazy like
- 14:04Speaker 1: little layout. Sweden two hundred and sixty seven thousand islands,
- 14:11Speaker 1: Norway two hundred and thirty nine thousand, Finland one hundred
- 14:16Speaker 1: and seventy eight thousand, and then we drop dramatically to
- 14:19Speaker 1: Canada fifty two thousand, Chili forty three thousand, the US
- 14:25Speaker 1: eighteen thousand.
- 14:27Speaker 3: Wild round four. Question thirteen. The category is society and culture.
- 14:34Speaker 3: On the London underground map, what color is the circle line?
- 14:44Speaker 3: Question fourteen Category transportation. This one comes to us from
- 14:48Speaker 3: listener Jos, Thank you, Jose, Thank you Jos. On Swiss cars,
- 14:53Speaker 3: there are stickers with the letters CCH. What does CCH
- 14:58Speaker 3: stand for? Question fifteen Category space To help them develop
- 15:08Speaker 3: better spacesuits, NASA studied the newborns of what animal whose
- 15:14Speaker 3: leg blood vessels thicken quickly, allowing them to walk within
- 15:18Speaker 3: the first hour after birth? Question sixteen, Category animals. This
- 15:27Speaker 3: one comes to us from listener Maymi, Thank you, maymy.
- 15:30Speaker 1: Thank you, maymy.
- 15:32Speaker 3: Which bird has the largest egg to body ratio, and
- 15:41Speaker 3: now the answer is to round four Question thirteen on
- 15:44Speaker 3: the London underground map, what color is the circle line? Yellow?
- 15:53Speaker 3: Question fourteen? On Swiss cars, there are stickers with the
- 15:56Speaker 3: letters what does that H stand for? Confederatio Helvetica. It's
- 16:04Speaker 3: the official Latin name for Switzerland. Question fifteen. To help
- 16:11Speaker 3: them develop better spacesuits, NASA studied the newborns of what
- 16:15Speaker 3: animal giraffes? And question sixteen, Which bird has the largest
- 16:23Speaker 3: egg to body ratio? That's the Kiwi. Apparently, one female
- 16:31Speaker 3: Kiwi weighing one point seven kilograms or three pounds twelve
- 16:36Speaker 3: ounces laid an egg weighing four hundred and six grams
- 16:40Speaker 3: or fourteen ounces, which is almost one quarter of her
- 16:44Speaker 3: total body mass, and weights of up to five hundred
- 16:48Speaker 3: and ten grams or one pound have been reliably reported
- 16:53Speaker 3: for other Kiwi eggs.
- 16:55Speaker 1: That's it for the regular rounds, which means it's time
- 16:58Speaker 1: for the Big Bang Round. The category for this week's
- 17:06Speaker 1: Big Bang Round is art. We will give you three
- 17:10Speaker 1: clue questions, which are all hents to one final question.
- 17:14Speaker 1: The clue questions may not fall under the same category.
- 17:17Speaker 1: Question one Wild lions can only be found on what
- 17:23Speaker 1: two continents?
- 17:29Speaker 3: Question two, one thousand, one hundred and two pounds or
- 17:34Speaker 3: five hundred kilograms is equivalent to half of what unit
- 17:39Speaker 3: of measurement?
- 17:45Speaker 1: Question three? What airloom was last used by Borimir on
- 17:50Speaker 1: the slopes of aman Hen before being broken in two
- 17:55Speaker 1: right before his death?
- 18:00Speaker 3: And finally your big bang question again the categories art.
- 18:06Speaker 3: Which animal's European arrival did printmaker and painter Aubrecht Durer
- 18:12Speaker 3: depict in a fifteen to fifteen woodcut.
- 18:20Speaker 1: And now the answer is to the Big Bang round.
- 18:22Speaker 1: Question one, Wild lions can only be found on what
- 18:27Speaker 1: too continents Africa and Asia?
- 18:33Speaker 3: Question two and two pounds or five hundred kilograms is
- 18:38Speaker 3: equivalent to half of white unit of measurement a ton.
- 18:46Speaker 1: Question three? What heirloom last used by Boromere was broken
- 18:52Speaker 1: in two right before his death?
- 18:55Speaker 2: The horn of gondor.
- 19:00Speaker 3: Which animals European arrival did printmaker and painter Allbrecht Durer
- 19:04Speaker 3: depict in a fifteen fifteen woodcut native to Africa and Asia,
- 19:11Speaker 3: with adults weighing at least half a ton in adulthood,
- 19:15Speaker 3: and known for its distinctive horn, It was a rhino.
- 19:22Speaker 1: Yay I have to say some of my favorite art
- 19:28Speaker 1: is terrible medieval art, especially when is people depicting things
- 19:33Speaker 1: that they've never seen before, like or like that taxi
- 19:37Speaker 1: dermy lion that's just so goofy looking, like I love
- 19:41Speaker 1: that this rhino, I mean because he saw it legitimately,
- 19:46Speaker 1: very well done.
- 19:46Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Dura's awesome.
- 19:49Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 19:49Speaker 3: I love the memes where they're like, oh, this is
- 19:53Speaker 3: a great illustration for this book. Hey do you think
- 19:56Speaker 3: you could do the horse from a head on? He's like, wait,
- 20:00Speaker 3: what horse head on? What does that look? It just
- 20:06Speaker 3: looks like the dopiest blob thing.
- 20:10Speaker 1: Little blob bodies and ridiculouses. I love those, like the
- 20:16Speaker 1: cat and armor.
- 20:18Speaker 3: A lot of them had pretty interesting ties to to
- 20:22Speaker 3: like what they meant and stuff snails fighting people. There
- 20:27Speaker 3: are a lot of snails that fight people. It's it's
- 20:29Speaker 3: interesting to look up, like what what all that meant? Yeah,
- 20:32Speaker 3: it's just wild what they came up with back then.
- 20:37Speaker 1: Medieval art amazing, all break Durer, amazing. Yay for everybody,
- 20:44Speaker 1: and yay for you guys. You listen to two humans
- 20:48Speaker 1: talk with their mouths.
- 20:52Speaker 3: With their human mouths that are now on the backs
- 20:55Speaker 3: of their necks.
- 20:56Speaker 1: Why hope everyone's surviving and thriving in this holiday season,
- 21:03Speaker 1: and we wish everybody happy holidays. We will be doing
- 21:09Speaker 1: a twenty twenty five recap Zoom trivia the second Saturday.
- 21:14Speaker 1: So if you're around and you want to do trivia,
- 21:18Speaker 1: but you don't want to do any of that pesky
- 21:20Speaker 1: history stuff, and don't worry. We had someone ask us
- 21:24Speaker 1: once like, oh, how political do you get. We're not.
- 21:27Speaker 1: It's going to just be happy and silly. There's much
- 21:31Speaker 1: more likely to hear about a drunk raccoon than you
- 21:34Speaker 1: are to hear about a drunk politician.
- 21:38Speaker 3: So yeah, we try to keep it pretty light. There's
- 21:41Speaker 3: plenty of trivia out there. Yeah, So for this episode
- 21:45Speaker 3: of Quiz, Quiz, Bang Bang, I've been David Flora, I've.
- 21:48Speaker 1: Been any Flora. Here's looking at you.
- 21:51Speaker 3: Quiz