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Ep 245: 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 pout right in the quizzer.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Anny Flora, I'm David Flora, and we're here to
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  Speaker 1: teach you more about trivia than there are false endings
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  Speaker 1: to songs in opera.
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  Speaker 2: Just extended endings.
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  Speaker 1: Extended endings in opera songs. You don't know when to clap.
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  Speaker 1: We just want to announce and let everyone know that
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  Speaker 1: we won't be doing Zoom Trivia in August. We will
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  Speaker 1: be back on track in September, but we had something
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  Speaker 1: come up and we couldn't figure out how to reschedule it,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll just wait until September and it will be
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  Speaker 1: oh the sweeter for it.
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  Speaker 2: With that said, I think and jump in. So here's
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  Speaker 2: how the show works. Quiz Quiz Bang Bang's format is
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  Speaker 2: four rounds of four questions, each followed by the answers.
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  Speaker 2: After round two, we'll ask a quick fire bang Bang
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  Speaker 2: question where you'll have a time limit to give multiple answers.
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  Speaker 2: After the fourth round, the show culminates with the big Bang,
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  Speaker 2: a final round with three questions whose answers are all
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  Speaker 2: clues to one final question. Round one. Question one, The
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  Speaker 2: category is space. What is at the center of the
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  Speaker 2: Milky Way Galaxy? Question two? Category anatomy? What is it
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  Speaker 2: called when a baby is born? But first? Question three
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  Speaker 2: category fashion? This one comes to us from Major Data.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you Major, Thank you Major. Which athletic apparel brand's
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  Speaker 2: name was chosen by its found Chip Wilson partly because
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  Speaker 2: he believed having three l's in the name would add
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  Speaker 2: a level of perceived Western authenticity and prestige. Question four
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  Speaker 2: category video games. The design of the iconic creeper from
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  Speaker 2: Minecraft was the result of a failed attempt to create
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  Speaker 2: which other Minecraft creature? And now the answers a round one?
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  Speaker 2: Question one, what is at the center of the Milky
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  Speaker 2: Way Galaxy? A supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A and
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  Speaker 2: fun fact with this. According to new findings from NASA's
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  Speaker 2: Imaging X ray Polarimetry Explorer, this black hole apparently woke
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  Speaker 2: some two hundred years ago to devour cosmic debris.
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  Speaker 1: I want to devour cosmic debris.
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  Speaker 2: Question two, what is it called when a baby is born? Butt? First,
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  Speaker 2: breach baby. About three to five percent of pregnant women
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  Speaker 2: at term have a breach baby. It's not a good thing, right.
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  Speaker 1: No, the ideal thing is headfirst.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, really diving into life. Question three. Which athletic apparel
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  Speaker 2: brand's name was chosen by its founder, Chip Wilson because
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  Speaker 2: three l's gave it perceived Western authenticity and prestige. That's
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  Speaker 2: Lululemon full name Lululemon Athletica Incorporated. Question four. The design
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  Speaker 2: of the iconic creeper from Minecraft was the result of
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  Speaker 2: a failed attempt to create which other Minecraft creature a pig?
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great villain to have.
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  Speaker 1: I know, the creepers so iconic. So it's funny that
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  Speaker 1: it was like a code mess up and was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be a pig, and instead of being like, oops,
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  Speaker 1: that's not what a pig looks like, he's like, let's
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  Speaker 1: make it green and blow up round two. Question five
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  Speaker 1: The category is film. This question comes from listener May
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  Speaker 1: Think You May, Thank You May, author Winston Groom, based
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  Speaker 1: which now famous and much parodied character on both a
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  Speaker 1: sixty minute segment on savants and a boy his father
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  Speaker 1: had known as a child in Mobile County, Alabama. Question six,
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  Speaker 1: the category is geography. Which Port City has surpassed? Port
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  Speaker 1: of Singapore to be the biggest port in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Question seven. The category is food and drink. This question
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  Speaker 1: comes from listener jen.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you Jenkin.
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  Speaker 1: Typically fried or roasted with a similar to peanuts. What
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  Speaker 1: Columbian snack are you eating? If you order? Or miga colonnas.
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  Speaker 1: Question eight, the category is television. In which borough of
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  Speaker 1: New York City do the vampires live in? What we
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  Speaker 1: do in the shadows and now? The answer is to
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  Speaker 1: round two. Question five? Which famous character did author Winston
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  Speaker 1: Groom create Forrest Gump? So? I guess some adventures that
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  Speaker 1: didn't make it to the movie include being recruited as
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  Speaker 1: a NASA astronaut for his talent at math, being taught
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  Speaker 1: chess by the chief of a tribe of New Guinea cannibals,
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  Speaker 1: and working as a pro wrestler by the name of
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  Speaker 1: the Dunce. So I've never read the book.
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  Speaker 2: Probably good choice?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, one, good choice?
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  Speaker 2: I mean maybe the screenplay writer.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, probably. Question six? Which port city has passed
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  Speaker 1: Port of Singapore to be the biggest port in the world?
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  Speaker 1: Port of Shanghai. Question seven, Typically fried or roasted with
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  Speaker 1: a taste similar to peanuts. What Colombian snack are you
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  Speaker 1: eating if you order or mega colonnas fat bottom ants.
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  Speaker 1: There are local superstitions and beliefs regarding the ants as aphrodisiacs. Yummy, yummy,
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  Speaker 1: fat bottom ants.
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  Speaker 2: Bottom answer can get in your pants and fry.
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  Speaker 1: Question eight. In which borough of New York City do
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  Speaker 1: the vampires live in? What we do in the shadows
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  Speaker 1: Staten Island.
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  Speaker 2: That's it for the first half. That means it's time
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  Speaker 2: for the Bang Bang Round. The category for this week's
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  Speaker 2: Bang Bang Round is Sports. You'll have thirty seconds to
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  Speaker 2: give as many answers as you can to the following.
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  Speaker 2: What are the six metal events in the men's gymnastics
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  Speaker 2: at the twenty twenty four Summer Olympics. Your time starts now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's time. The six events are the floor exercise, vault,
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  Speaker 1: pommel horse, still rings, horizontal bar, and parallel bars.
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  Speaker 2: Round three. Question nine. The category is society and culture.
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  Speaker 2: This one comes to us from listener Bobby. Thank you, Bobby,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you Bobby. What is the name for the Uncle
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  Speaker 2: Sam equivalent in the UK? Question ten, category history? In
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  Speaker 2: which century did Chi chi Huang, the first emperor of China,
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  Speaker 2: connect northern border fortifications, effectively creating the first Great Wall
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  Speaker 2: in China? Question eleven category games and hobbies. To a
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  Speaker 2: Dungeons and Draigens player, what is an akasahedron? Question twelve
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  Speaker 2: category music Rebel Rebel and Sound and Vision are singles
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  Speaker 2: from which British musician? And now the answer is a
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  Speaker 2: round three? Question nine? What is the name for the
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  Speaker 2: Uncle Sam equivalent in the UK? John Bull? The old
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  Speaker 2: cock and Bowl? Question ten? In which century did Chin
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  Speaker 2: shi Huang, the first emperor of China connect northern border fortifications,
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  Speaker 2: effectively creating the first Great Wall in China the third
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  Speaker 2: century BCE. That's old to twenty one. I think if
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  Speaker 2: you look at a picture of all the dynasties that
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  Speaker 2: have built on or of wall stuff, if they that
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  Speaker 2: built the quote unquote great wall, it looks like you
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  Speaker 2: gave a pigeon a pencil and told it to draw bone, Lisa, Like,
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  Speaker 2: there's so many different parts and pieces, and it's not
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  Speaker 2: just one long thing. It's like a bunch of different walls.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes they're not connected a lot of times, and
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  Speaker 2: some dynasties did connect them, and so it's it's wild.
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  Speaker 2: I had I had no idea.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Question eleven to a Dungeons and dragons player, what is
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  Speaker 2: an cosahedron? It's a twenty sided die?
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  Speaker 1: And what is it to non dungeon and dragon players?
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  Speaker 2: It's a twenty sided die? Question twelve. Rebel, Rebel and
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  Speaker 2: Sound and Vision are singles from which British musician David Bowie?
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  Speaker 1: Round four Question three fifteen The categories food and drink.
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  Speaker 1: This question comes from listener.
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  Speaker 2: Dean, Thank you Dean.
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  Speaker 1: Indian dishes with the word aloo in their name, share
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  Speaker 1: which ingredient? Question fourteen. The category is literature. Who was
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  Speaker 1: the original author of Goldilocks in the Three Bears? Question fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: The category is mythology. This question comes from listener Nolan,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Nolan. In Homer's Odyssey, what two legendary sea
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  Speaker 1: monsters did Odysseus and his men sail between? One a
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  Speaker 1: tentacle beast, in the other a ravenous whirlpool? Question sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: The category is history. This question comes from listener Jeff.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Jeff. How many US Vice presidents have served
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  Speaker 1: under two different presidents? And now the answers to Round
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  Speaker 1: four question thirteen. Indian dishes with the word aloo in
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  Speaker 1: their name share which ingredient? Potato? Question fourteen who was
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  Speaker 1: the original author of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Robert Salde.
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  Speaker 1: Robert was an English poet of the Romantic School and
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  Speaker 1: poet laureate from eighteen thirteen until his death. He's known
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  Speaker 1: for Goldilocks and the Three Bears and also the poem
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  Speaker 1: after Blenheim. So I just thought it was interesting that
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  Speaker 1: the author of the original version of Goldilocks and the
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  Speaker 1: Three Bears was a poet laureate.
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  Speaker 2: I would contend he is not known for Goldilocks in
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  Speaker 2: the Three.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody knows that.
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  Speaker 2: I think very few. If you knew this, a kudos
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  Speaker 2: to you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true, Bravo. Question fifteen in Homer's Odyssey, what
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  Speaker 1: two legendary sea monsters did Odysseus and his men sail between?
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  Speaker 1: That is Scylla and Charybdis. I don't know why we
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  Speaker 1: say between a rock and a hard place when we
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  Speaker 1: could say between a tentacled beast and a ravenous whirlpool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Scilla lived in a rock face on the side
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  Speaker 2: of a cliff, so maybe that's the rock and then
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  Speaker 2: the hard places the whirlpool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I just feel like we could up.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm a mythology apologist, mythologist.
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  Speaker 1: That's you every day, all day. Question sixteen, how many
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  Speaker 1: US Vice presidents have served under two different presidents? Two
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  Speaker 1: George Clinton, he served under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison,
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  Speaker 1: and John C. Calhoun who served under John Quincy Adams
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  Speaker 1: and Andrew Jackson.
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  Speaker 2: That's it for the regular rounds. That means it's time
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  Speaker 2: for the Big Bang Round. The category for this Big
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  Speaker 2: Bang round is theater. We're going to give you three questions,
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  Speaker 2: the answers of which are all clues to the final question.
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  Speaker 2: Keep in mind the clue questions may not be from
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  Speaker 2: the same category as the final question One which country
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  Speaker 2: occupies the majority of a peninsula called Jutland?
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  Speaker 1: Question two? Which famous actor and director was married three times? Two?
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  Speaker 1: Jill Esmond, Vivian Lee, and Joan Plowwright.
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  Speaker 2: Question three Tony Morrison's beloved Charles Dickens at Christmas, Carol
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  Speaker 2: and Dafty de Maries Rebecca all have at least one
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  Speaker 2: character with what distinguished characteristic?
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  Speaker 1: And your Big Bang question. James Imes won the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two Pulitzer for a modern day adaptation of What
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  Speaker 1: William Shakespeare Play?
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  Speaker 2: And Now the answers to the Big Bang Round. Question one?
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  Speaker 2: Which country occupies the majority of a peninsula called Gentland Denmark?
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  Speaker 1: Question two? Which famous actor and director was married three
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  Speaker 1: times to Jill Esmond, Vivian Lee and Joan Plowright Lawrence Olivier.
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  Speaker 2: Question three. Tony Morrison's beloved Charles Dickens a Christmas Carol,
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  Speaker 2: and Daphne du Marier's Rebecca all have at least one
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  Speaker 2: character with what distinguishing characteristic? They all have a ghost.
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  Speaker 2: We'll also accept a dead character and.
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  Speaker 1: Your Big Bang question. James Imes won the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: two Pulletzer for a modern day adaptation of what William
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  Speaker 1: Shakespeare play taking place in Denmark, winning Laurence Olivier an
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  Speaker 1: oscar for his performance and also featuring a ghost. It
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  Speaker 1: is Hamlet. The modern adaptation by James Imes is called
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  Speaker 1: Fat ham and it takes the idea of Hamlet and
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  Speaker 1: puts it in a southern barbecue with a queer black family.
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  Speaker 2: And it's great.
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  Speaker 1: It's a really I haven't seen it yet. I've only
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  Speaker 1: read it, but the script is amazing and I really
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  Speaker 1: hope to see it live one day, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you read adaptations and you're like, what was the
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  Speaker 1: point of that, you know, because like there's nothing new,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the playwright isn't saying anything new or different,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just like okay, and especially when you're taking
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  Speaker 1: on Shakespeare, it's like what did you just do? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: But of course there's all those great movie adaptations like
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  Speaker 1: Ten Things I Hate About You or does tell a
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  Speaker 1: New story and it is fun kind of yeah okay,
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  Speaker 1: and this yeah clueless, So.
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  Speaker 2: Which is Jane Austen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but say, you know, same thing where it's
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  Speaker 1: like it is original enough where it's just like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was that was a spin on it and it
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  Speaker 1: worked well. And uh yeah, his take on it is great.
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  Speaker 2: When did that come out?
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  Speaker 1: He won the Pulitcher in twenty twenty two, so I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if that means he it was out in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty recent.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So if you get a chance to see it,
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  Speaker 1: it's great.
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