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Ep 254: 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: I'm David Flora.
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  Speaker 2: And I am Annie Flora, and we're here to teach
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  Speaker 2: you more about trivia than Star Trek. The Next Generation
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  Speaker 1: Are big regrets by that actress? I guess Denise Crosby right. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: friend Sarah brought that to us and I was talking
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  Speaker 2: to her and there's a perfect moment to do the
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  Speaker 2: prempire sound effect, but the button was upstairs. So she's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: so what you're saying is you need more buttons. You
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  Speaker 2: I think everyone needs up button in each room.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a good time hanging out playing some trivia
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  Speaker 1: and hope to see you there and let's get into
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  Speaker 1: this trivia. Here's how the show works. Wiz Quiz Bang
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  Speaker 1: Bang's format. It's four rounds of four questions, each followed
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  Speaker 1: by the answers. After round two, we'll ask a quick
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  Speaker 1: fire bang bang question where you'll have a time limit
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  Speaker 1: to give multiple answers. After the fourth round, the show
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  Speaker 1: culminates with the big bang, a final round with three questions,
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  Speaker 1: whose answers are all clues to one final question.
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  Speaker 2: Round one. Question one, the category is of vexillology, adopted
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen eighteen after the country declared independence in nineteen seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: Which country's flag features colors representing its lakes and snow?
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  Speaker 2: Question two? Category is television? Who played Will in Will
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  Speaker 2: and Grace? Question three? The category is film. This question
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  Speaker 2: comes from Major Data.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Major, Hey, you're Major.
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  Speaker 2: Alan Cumming played which god in Son of the Mask.
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  Speaker 2: A few years before that same god got a major
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  Speaker 2: starring role in a different franchise Question four, The category
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  Speaker 2: is society and culture. What wedding anniversary is represented by
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  Speaker 2: gifts of fine China? And now the answer is to
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  Speaker 2: round one? Question one? Which country flag features colors representing
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  Speaker 2: its lakes and snow? Well, lakes are blue and snow
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  Speaker 2: is white. Finland it's a blue cross and a white background.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the country where I want to be with.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't know the Monty Python song, go check
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  Speaker 2: it out. Question two? Who played Will and Will and Grace?
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  Speaker 2: Eric McCormick. Question three? Alan Cumming played which god in
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  Speaker 2: Son of the Mask? Loki. I've never seen this movie,
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  Speaker 2: so the first time I read it, my brain immediately
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  Speaker 2: jumped to thor. I was just like, I can't picture
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  Speaker 2: Alan coming as Thor. So when the answer was Loki,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, that makes so much more sense. I
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  Speaker 2: can totally see him playing Loki. Question four, What wedding
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  Speaker 2: anniversary is represented by gifts of fine China? The twentieth
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  Speaker 2: We're failing on our wedding anniversary gifts, David. We don't
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  Speaker 2: have any paper or china or whatever else there is.
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  Speaker 1: About twentieth anniversary? Round two. Question five, The category is geography.
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  Speaker 1: The more than four thousand foot long Grand Cooley Dam
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  Speaker 1: in Washington State spans which river. Question six, Category architecture.
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  Speaker 1: This one comes from listener May, Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: May, Thank you May.
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  Speaker 1: In the the southeast corner of the second floor of
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  Speaker 1: sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue is a space now divided into
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  Speaker 1: two famous rooms named for the president who used it
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  Speaker 1: as an office. What are their names? Question seven? Category
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  Speaker 1: theater Which twenty twenty four production broke the record for
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  Speaker 1: most Tony nominations for a play with thirteen. Question eight
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  Speaker 1: category Games and Hobbies. This one comes to us from
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  Speaker 1: listener Jin, Thank you Jin, Thank you Jen. The initial
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  Speaker 1: five thousand box run of Which board games sold out
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  Speaker 1: so quickly that inventor Klaus Tuber didn't even have a
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  Speaker 1: copy of it, And now the answers to round two.
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  Speaker 1: Question five. The more than four thousand foot long Grand
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  Speaker 1: Cooley Dam in Washington State spans which river the Columbia River.
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  Speaker 1: Question six. The southeast corner of the second floor of
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  Speaker 1: sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue is divided into two famous rooms.
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  Speaker 1: What are their names? They are the Lincoln Rooms, the
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln Bedroom and Sitting Room. And fun fact, President Lincoln
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  Speaker 1: signed the emancipation proclamation in this space on January first,
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  Speaker 1: eighteen sixty three. Very cool question seven, which twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: four production broke the record for most Tony nominations for
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  Speaker 1: a play with thirteen stereophonic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that it won all these things for best play
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  Speaker 2: because it wasn't play, but it was also pretty musical, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because the premise of it. I haven't seen it. It
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  Speaker 2: seems like a cool show, but it's like a recording
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  Speaker 2: room that, like a Fleetwood Mac type band is recording
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  Speaker 2: an album and so like all the drama that goes
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  Speaker 2: into it and everything like that, but there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: lot of music throughout it. So I'm just like, you're
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  Speaker 2: kind of a musical.
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  Speaker 1: Question eight. The initial five thousand bucks run of which
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  Speaker 1: Board Games sold out so quickly that inventor Klaus Tuber
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  Speaker 1: didn't even have a copy of it. Settlers of Katan.
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  Speaker 2: That's it for the first half, which 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 Animals. You will have thirty seconds
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  Speaker 2: to answer the following question, what are the top seven
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  Speaker 2: closest animal relatives to humans in terms of DNA general
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  Speaker 2: species not specifics. Your time starts.
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  Speaker 1: Now, and that's time. The top seven closest animal relatives
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  Speaker 1: to humans in terms of DNA and general species not
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  Speaker 1: specific species are chimpanzee, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, gibbons, monkeys, and
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  Speaker 1: lemurs in that order. Do you know what the next
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  Speaker 1: one is? Apparently what cats meow?
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  Speaker 2: Makes sense that humans are more like cats than dogs?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Round three? Question nine. The category is sports. Which great
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  Speaker 2: rebounder in the NBA was known as the worm? Question ten?
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  Speaker 2: The category is film. This question comes from listener Bobby.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you Bobby and Bobby, who are the only two
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  Speaker 2: living directors to have directed two best pictures. Question eleven.
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  Speaker 2: The category is video games? Which video game series features
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  Speaker 2: the Master Chief? Question twelve? The category is music. This
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  Speaker 2: question comes from Brian the Language Guy.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Brian, Thank you Brian.
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  Speaker 2: What song by the Cure is based on? Albert Camus
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  Speaker 2: The Stranger? And now the answer is to round three?
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  Speaker 2: Question nine. Which great rebounder in the NBA was known
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  Speaker 2: as the worm? Dennis Rodman because he just would lay
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  Speaker 2: there and wriggle around through I guess because he'd worm
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  Speaker 2: his way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because he'd worm his way to get that rebound
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  Speaker 1: in between all the other players. He was a great rebounder.
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  Speaker 1: That was his thing.
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  Speaker 2: Question ten, who are the only two living directors to
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  Speaker 2: have directed two best pictures? This is a tricky one,
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  Speaker 2: This is great. It's Clint Eastwood and Francis Ford Coppola.
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  Speaker 2: So Eastwood did it for Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby,
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  Speaker 2: and Coppola did it for Godfather and Godfather Part Two.
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  Speaker 2: And if you said Spielberg, he's only one best picture
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  Speaker 2: for Schindler's List and Scorsese only got it for The Departed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Scorsese famous for getting nominated a lot and then
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  Speaker 1: finally winning for The Departed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and hasn't.
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  Speaker 1: Won since yet.
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  Speaker 2: So I thought that was very interesting. Question eleven. Which
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  Speaker 2: video game series features the master Chief? Halo? Master Chief
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  Speaker 2: Petty Officer John one, one seven or one seventeen and
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  Speaker 2: follow Halo colloquially known as master Chief, is the protagonist
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  Speaker 2: of the Halo video game series and its spin off media.
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  Speaker 2: Question twelve. What song by the Cure is based on
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  Speaker 2: Albert Camus The Stranger killing an Arab? So that song
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  Speaker 2: title is obviously controversial because critics described it as promoting
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  Speaker 2: violence against Arabs, which songwriter Robert Smith pinned on the
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  Speaker 2: public's lack of knowledge regarding the novel. So, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you can't assume that the general public has
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  Speaker 2: read Albert Kumuz The Stranger.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going a little hard in the paint with
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  Speaker 1: that deep cut. Round four, Question thirteen. The category is
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  Speaker 1: Food and Drink and math. Gotcha, I had you in
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  Speaker 1: the first half. How many tablespoons are in a cup?
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  Speaker 1: Question fourteen, category literature. This one comes to us from
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  Speaker 1: listener Vincent. Thank you, Vincent, Thank give inncn oh London's
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  Speaker 1: treating you well these days, yee. Name the character from
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  Speaker 1: a famous twentieth century American novel who was the mother
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  Speaker 1: of the character Wade Hamilton. Question fifteen, category history, Sobic
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  Speaker 1: Nephrew or Nephrew so Beck was the first confirmed female
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  Speaker 1: leader of What Ancient Civilization? Question sixteen category fashion in
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  Speaker 1: the mid nineteen seventies, which fashion mogul had created a
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  Speaker 1: designer jeans craze by putting his name on the back
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  Speaker 1: pocket of his products, And now they answers to round
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  Speaker 1: four Question thirteen, how many tablespoons are in a cup? Sixteen?
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  Speaker 1: Question fourteen named the character from a famous twentieth century
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  Speaker 1: American novel who was the mother of the character Wade Hamilton.
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  Speaker 1: That's Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind, following her
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  Speaker 1: brief and doomed marriage to Charles Hamilton. Brief and doomed.
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  Speaker 1: No fine china for her?
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  Speaker 2: Oh No.
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  Speaker 1: Question fifteen. Sobec Nepheru or Nephru. Sobec was the first
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  Speaker 1: confirmed female leader of what ancient civilization Egypt, the Egyptian civilization.
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  Speaker 1: Sobec was a crocodile headed god, and Nepheru meant beauty
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  Speaker 1: in jancient Egyptian. You know what I like to picture
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful crocodile. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That they just put in an address and then they're like,
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  Speaker 2: look at our leader.
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  Speaker 1: Question sixteen. In the mid nineteen seventies, which fashion mogul
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  Speaker 1: had created a designer Jen's craze by putting his name
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  Speaker 1: on the back pocket of his products. Calvin Klein, Oh
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  Speaker 1: there's a name on the pocket.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be better buy these genes.
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  Speaker 1: I'm crazy crazy for jeans.
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  Speaker 2: That's it for the regular rounds, which means it's time
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  Speaker 2: for the Big Bang Round. The category for this week's
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  Speaker 2: Big Bang Round is what is science? We'll give you
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  Speaker 2: three clue questions, which are all hints to one final question.
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  Speaker 2: The clue questions may not fall under the same category.
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  Speaker 2: Question one, what was the second country Germany invaded in
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  Speaker 2: World War two?
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  Speaker 1: Question two? Who wrote the Emperor's new clothes? The Ugly
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  Speaker 1: Duckling and Thumbolina?
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  Speaker 2: Question three? Which Pelsner beer was first brewed by J. C.
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  Speaker 2: Jacobsen in eighteen forty seven?
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  Speaker 1: And your Big Bang question? Again the category is science,
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  Speaker 1: which interpretation of quantum mechanics is named after the European
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  Speaker 1: city in which Nils Borr and Werner Heisenberg formulated it
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen twenty seven?
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  Speaker 2: And now the answers to the Big Bang round. Question one,
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  Speaker 2: What was the second country Germany invaded in World War two? Denmark?
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  Speaker 1: Question two? Who wrote the Emperor's new clothes? The Ugly
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  Speaker 1: Duckling and Thumbo? Lina Hans Christian Andersen?
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  Speaker 2: Question three, which Pilsner beer was first brewed by J. C.
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  Speaker 2: Jacobsen in eighteen forty seven.
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  Speaker 1: Carlsburg, and which interpretation of quantum mechanics is named after
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  Speaker 1: the European city in which Nils Boor and Werner Heisenberg
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  Speaker 1: formulated it in nineteen twenty seven, it's the home of
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  Speaker 1: Carlsberg Beer and Hans Christian Andersen and capital of Denmark, Copenhagen.
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  Speaker 2: There's a play called Copenhagen that deals with this, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure the playwright is also the guy who
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  Speaker 2: wrote Noises.
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  Speaker 1: Off, Michael Frayne.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, And it's just really interesting because Noises Off is
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  Speaker 2: one of the best comedies ever written. If you ever
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  Speaker 2: get a chance to see the play, you'll be so happy.
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  Speaker 2: So then it's just like, oh, I should read more
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  Speaker 2: things by Michael Frayne because that's just such a perfect
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  Speaker 2: play and it won the Tony for our Best Play,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a good play, but it's it's so different.
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  Speaker 2: It's just he's an incredible writer that he can write
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  Speaker 2: the funniest comedy of all time and then this like
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  Speaker 2: very heavy science meeting play. I just think it's a
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  Speaker 2: it's a very good range she has as a writer.
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  Speaker 2: I can't tell you anything about actual Copenhagen. I can
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  Speaker 2: only tell you about.
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  Speaker 1: The super helpful Cycling's big. There a lot of Michelin
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  Speaker 1: starred restaurants like fifteen There.
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  Speaker 2: Let's all move to Denmark.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of Tivoli Gardens? Nope, I haven't either,
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  Speaker 1: so that's why I didn't put it as a But
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  Speaker 1: that's apparently a big amusement park there that Walt Disney
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  Speaker 1: based disney World on.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. That's cool.
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  Speaker 1: Anyways, don't forget. We've got Zoom Trivia Saturday the ninth noon,
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