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Ep 338: 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 right in the quizzer.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Annie Flora.
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  Speaker 2: I'm David Flora.
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  Speaker 1: And we're here to teach you more about trivia than
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  Speaker 1: there are people going, what? Pumpkin spice latte season already?
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  Speaker 1: One question. There's one person doing that. It's me.
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  Speaker 3: It's you.
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  Speaker 1: How are you, David?
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 1: You want to do some trivia?
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 1: Here's how the show works.
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  Speaker 2: Quiz Quiz Bang Bang's format is four rounds of four
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  Speaker 2: questions each, followed by the answers. After round two, we'll
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  Speaker 2: ask a quick-fire bang-bang question where you'll have a time
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  Speaker 2: limit to give multiple answers. After the fourth round, the
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  Speaker 2: show culminates with the Big Bang, a final round with
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  Speaker 2: three questions whose answers are all clues to one final question.
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  Speaker 1: Round one, question one. The category is geography. Which U.S.
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  Speaker 1: state has the only American diamond field open to the public?
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  Speaker 1: Question two. The category is music. This question comes from
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  Speaker 1: listener Bobby. Thank you, Bobby.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Bobby.
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  Speaker 1: The piano is said to be the most popular musical
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  Speaker 1: instrument in the world. In which country was it invented?
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  Speaker 1: Question three. The category is theater and film. In the
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  Speaker 1: musical Grease, Danny Zuko, Kaniki, and Sonny are all members
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  Speaker 1: of what group? Question four. The category is food and drink.
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  Speaker 1: This question comes from listener Jeff Bates. Thank you, Jeff.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Jeff.
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  Speaker 1: Saffron is a spice derived from which flower? And now
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  Speaker 1: the answers to round one, question one. Which U.S. state
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  Speaker 1: has the only American diamond field open to the public? Arkansas,
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  Speaker 1: which has the Crater of Diamonds State Park? All right, David,
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  Speaker 1: new get-rich-quick plan. Nope.
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  Speaker 2: People are regulars to this place, and they have all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of ways to do it for themselves, and people
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  Speaker 2: find some pretty large carrots. It's rare that you find
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  Speaker 2: something really substantial, but, you know, there have been, like,
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  Speaker 2: diamonds of 20 grand in value that have been found, so.
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  Speaker 1: So you're saying my plan is foolproof. So you're saying
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  Speaker 1: there's a chance, yeah. Question two. In which country was
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  Speaker 1: the piano invented? Italy! The invention of the piano is
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  Speaker 1: credited to Bartolomeo Cristofori of Padua, Italy, who was employed
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  Speaker 1: by Ferdinando de' Medici... The Grand Prince of Tuscany as
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  Speaker 1: the Keeper of the Instruments. I love stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds made up. It's lovely.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a hint.
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  Speaker 1: It is. Question three. In the musical Grease, Danny Zuko, Kaneki,
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  Speaker 1: and Sonny are all members of what group? The T-Birds.
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  Speaker 1: Question four. Saffron is a spice derived from which flower?
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  Speaker 1: The crocus sativus, commonly known as the saffron crocus, is
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  Speaker 1: in the iris family.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know how many things I've read. I've
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  Speaker 2: read on the internet, I've read it in books that
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  Speaker 2: say saffron comes from orchids and made the mistake of
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  Speaker 2: saying that at the live trivia and Jeff quite rightly
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  Speaker 2: corrected me on that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because that's how we learn.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and I go back and I'm like, does
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  Speaker 2: saffron come from orchids? And the internet's like, no, you fool.
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  Speaker 2: It comes from crocuses.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, where did I see this? And
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  Speaker 2: why is it in my head? And why is that sticking,
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  Speaker 2: you know?
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  Speaker 1: Right? I hate it when wrong facts stick.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I like the wrong facts. It implies there's still facts.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Round two, question five. The category is language. In the
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  Speaker 2: NATO phonetic alphabet, what word represents the letter G? Question six,
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  Speaker 2: category history. This one comes from listener Joss.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Joss.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Joss.
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  Speaker 2: Which war lasted from 1936 to 1939? Question seven, category,
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  Speaker 2: pop culture. Who recently made headlines saying they'll be returning
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  Speaker 2: to the UK by the end of the month? Question eight, category, literature.
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  Speaker 2: This one comes from listener Major Data. Thank you, Major.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Major.
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  Speaker 2: Eric Larson's book, The Splendid and the Vile, is a
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  Speaker 2: biography of which person during 1940? And now the answers
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  Speaker 2: to round two. Question five. In the NATO phonetic alphabet,
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  Speaker 2: what word represents the letter G?
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  Speaker 3: Gulf.
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  Speaker 2: Question six. Which war lasted from 1936 to 1939? The
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  Speaker 2: Spanish Civil War. Question seven. Who recently made headlines saying
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  Speaker 2: they'll be returning to the UK by the end of
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  Speaker 2: the month? Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Question eight. Eric
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  Speaker 2: Larson's book The Splendid and the Vile is a biography
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  Speaker 2: of what person during 1940? Winston Churchill.
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  Speaker 1: And that's it for the first half, which means it's
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  Speaker 1: time for the Bang Bang Round. The category for this
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  Speaker 1: week's Bang Bang Round is... Comics. This question comes from
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  Speaker 1: listener Mammy. Thank you, Mammy.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Mammy.
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  Speaker 1: You will have 30 seconds to answer the following question.
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  Speaker 1: There are seven original members of the D.C. Justice League.
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  Speaker 1: Name them. Your time starts now.
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  Speaker 2: And that's time. The seven original members of the DC
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  Speaker 2: Justice League are Superman, or Clark Kent, Batman, Bruce Wayne,
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  Speaker 2: Wonder Woman, Diana Prince, The Flash, Barry Allen, Green Lantern,
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  Speaker 2: Hal Jordan, Aquaman, Arthur Curry, and Martian Manhunter, or John Jotun.
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  Speaker 1: Round three, question nine. The category is games and hobbies.
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  Speaker 1: Popular in the 70s and 80s, what is the edible
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  Speaker 1: term for the device used for amateur non-commercial communication? Question 10.
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  Speaker 1: The category is history. This question comes from listener Lila.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Lila.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Lila.
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  Speaker 1: Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel
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  Speaker 1: Peace Prize in 1931? Question 11. The category is mythology.
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  Speaker 1: In Norse mythology, Fenrir is destined to break free and
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  Speaker 1: devour Odin during Ragnarok. What type of creature is Fenrir?
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  Speaker 1: Question 12. The category is television. This question comes from
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  Speaker 1: Knife and Turkey. Thank you, Knife and Turkey.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Knife and Turkey.
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  Speaker 1: And I dream of genie. Besides the obvious, what part
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  Speaker 1: of Barbara Eden's body did censors demand her genie costume
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  Speaker 1: cover up? And now the answers to round three. Question nine.
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  Speaker 1: Popular in the 70s and 80s, what is the edible
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  Speaker 1: term for the device used... For amateur, non-commercial communication? Ham radio.
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  Speaker 2: The ham part comes from a pejorative term that used
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  Speaker 2: to be used by people who didn't like people using
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  Speaker 2: these radios because it would interfere with you know something
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  Speaker 2: here or there and so it's like the term ham
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  Speaker 2: actor which is a pejorative but the name stuck and
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  Speaker 2: they had they embraced it and and so by the
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  Speaker 2: 70s and 80s people were like it's just a ham
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  Speaker 2: radio that's all it.
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  Speaker 1: Is yeah i guess if you don't get offended by
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  Speaker 1: it question 10 Who was the first American woman to
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  Speaker 1: win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931? Jane Addams. Addams
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  Speaker 1: was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree from Yale
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  Speaker 1: University in 1910, becoming the first woman to receive an
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  Speaker 1: honorary degree from the school.
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  Speaker 2: There's a Jane Addams Hull House in Chicago, now a museum,
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  Speaker 2: but it was set up to help immigrants escape. get
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  Speaker 2: established in America and spread all over the country.
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  Speaker 3: So it's good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they did great work. Question 11. In Norse mythology,
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  Speaker 1: Fenrir is destined to break free and devour Odin during Ragnarok.
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  Speaker 1: What type of creature is Fenrir? A wolf. Question 12.
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  Speaker 1: And I dream of genie. Besides the obvious, what part
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  Speaker 1: of Barbara Eden's body did censors demand her genie costume
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  Speaker 1: cover up? Belly button. Part of an apparent NBC no-navel edict.
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  Speaker 1: In Gilligan's Island, CBS censors would apparently allow belly button
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  Speaker 1: exposure in one scene as long as the character covered
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  Speaker 1: her navel in another scene, even if she was wearing
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  Speaker 1: the same outfit.
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  Speaker 2: That was the show's creator, Gilligan's Island's creator, said that
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  Speaker 2: CBS had kind of a looser policy for it, but
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  Speaker 2: it was kind of ridiculous at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: I think people say you can't say what part of
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  Speaker 1: her body did you never see because a couple of
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  Speaker 1: times the pants did slip a little and a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of her belly button is seen in a couple
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  Speaker 1: of episodes.
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  Speaker 2: And even Barbara Eden later said, They made me cover
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  Speaker 2: it up, but then they'd have a scene where a
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  Speaker 2: minor character had it fully showing and nobody said anything. Yeah. So, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So they were a little inconsistent. Man. What if the
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  Speaker 1: no naval edict was still in place across the board, but, like,
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  Speaker 1: everything still progressed to where we are now? So, like,
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  Speaker 1: you'd have a Game of Thrones scene.
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  Speaker 3: And there's, like, a pasty right on their stomach.
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  Speaker 2: Right on their stomach.
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  Speaker 1: Ha ha.
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  Speaker 2: Round four, question 13. The category is comics. This one
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  Speaker 2: comes from listener Nolan. Thank you, Nolan.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Nolan.
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  Speaker 2: Cartoonist Gary Larson won four awards in 10 years from
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  Speaker 2: the National Cartoonist Society for what surrealist single panel strip?
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  Speaker 2: Question 14, category music. This one comes to us from
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  Speaker 2: Brian the Language Guy. Thank you, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Brian.
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  Speaker 2: In the film version of Little Shop of Horrors, Audrey II,
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  Speaker 2: the carnivorous plant, is voiced by Levi Stubbs, lead vocalist
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  Speaker 2: of which legendary Motown group? Question 15. Category.
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  Speaker 1: Space.
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  Speaker 2: The stars Elnath and Tianguan represent the horns in which constellation?
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  Speaker 2: Question 16, category, science. On the periodic table, element 111
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  Speaker 2: is named after which German physicist, the first to win
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  Speaker 2: the Nobel Prize in physics? And now the answers to
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  Speaker 2: round four, question 13. Gary Larson won four awards in
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  Speaker 2: 10 years for what surrealist single panel strip? The Far Side.
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  Speaker 1: That's such a good comic.
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  Speaker 2: Chef's kiss. Question 14. In the film version of Little
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  Speaker 2: Shop of Horrors, Audrey 2 is voiced by Levi Stubbs,
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  Speaker 2: lead vocalist of which legendary Motown group? The Four Tops.
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  Speaker 1: He is the perfect voice for Audrey 2.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. 100%.
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  Speaker 2: If they did it now, I think I'd like Keith
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  Speaker 2: David to be the voice.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh.
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  Speaker 2: He'd be fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if he can sing, that'd be perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Question 15. The stars Elnath and Tianguan represent the horns
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  Speaker 2: in which constellation? Taurus. And question 16. On the periodic table,
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  Speaker 2: element 111 is named after which German physicist? Wilhelm Röntgen.
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  Speaker 2: In recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by
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  Speaker 2: the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him.
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  Speaker 2: That's why he won the Nobel Prize.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the X-rays is the rays that were named after him. So,
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  Speaker 1: pretty cool. That's it for the regular rounds, which means
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  Speaker 1: it's time for the Big Bang round. The category for
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  Speaker 1: this week's Big Bang Round is religion. We will give
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  Speaker 1: you three clue questions which are all hints to one
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  Speaker 1: final question. The clue questions may not fall under the
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  Speaker 1: same category. Question one. Which shortened prefix comes from the
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  Speaker 1: Greek for six?
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  Speaker 2: Question two. Which League of Legends character shares their name
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  Speaker 2: with the name of the 2015 documentary about the life
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  Speaker 2: and deaths of Robert Durst?
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  Speaker 1: Question 3. Agrolytes is when comic symbols or typographical characters
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  Speaker 1: represent what?
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  Speaker 2: And your Big Bang question, again, the category is religion.
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  Speaker 2: What is the last word in the Old Testament of
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  Speaker 2: the King James Bible?
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  Speaker 1: And now the answers to the Big Bang round. Question one.
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  Speaker 1: Which shortened prefix comes from the Greek for six? Hex. Hex.
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  Speaker 1: The full prefix is hexa, but the shortened hex can
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  Speaker 1: be used when combined with words or word elementals that
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  Speaker 1: begin with a vowel.
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  Speaker 2: Question two. Which League of Legends character shares their name
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  Speaker 2: with the name of the 2015 documentary about the life
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  Speaker 2: and deaths of Robert Durst? Jinx or The Jinx. The
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  Speaker 2: Jinx was the first part of the title of the
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  Speaker 2: life and deaths of Robert Durst.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Her character is just Jinx.
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  Speaker 1: Question three. Agraulics is when comic symbols or typographical characters
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  Speaker 1: represent what? Swear words.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, what is the last word in the Old
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  Speaker 2: Testament in the King James Bible? The synonym for hex, jinx,
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  Speaker 2: or swear, as in bad word, curse. This comes from
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  Speaker 2: Malachi 4.6.
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  Speaker 3: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to
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  Speaker 3: the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers,
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  Speaker 3: lest I come and smite the earth.
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  Speaker 2: With a curse.
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  Speaker 1: Earth and curse is kind of a slang rhyme. It
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  Speaker 1: looks like it's like a poetry threat.
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  Speaker 3: Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo. Turn the hearts of the fathers skibbidi-bop to the children.
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  Speaker 3: Smite the scooby-dobby ding-dong earth with the gobble-gobble curse.
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  Speaker 1: And people were scared of the gobble gobble curse.
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  Speaker 3: I would be.
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  Speaker 1: Not that.
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  Speaker 3: Not the gobble gobble curse.
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  Speaker 1: The vaguer the curse, the scarier it is.
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  Speaker 2: The gobble the curse, the gobble more it is. The gobblier.
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  Speaker 2: The gobblier.
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  Speaker 1: David.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Our favorite new thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Banana fact.
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  Speaker 3: Banana fact.
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  Speaker 1: We got a message from Katie. Hi, Katie.
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  Speaker 2: Aloha, Katie.
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  Speaker 1: She says, hi. I found all the information you had
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  Speaker 1: about the gross Michelle banana. Very interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Us too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I would like to add, as someone who was
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  Speaker 1: born and raised in Hawaii and now lives on the mainland,
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  Speaker 1: I have never had one of those bananas. But one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite things to get when I go back
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  Speaker 1: home is the apple banana. I am not a huge
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  Speaker 1: fan of regular Cavendish bananas and hate banana flavoring. But
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  Speaker 1: the apple banana is a horse of a different color
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  Speaker 1: and is delicious. So next time you're in Hawaii, look
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  Speaker 1: for the Gross Michelle, but make sure you have an
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  Speaker 1: apple banana. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like we have to go to Hawaii just to
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  Speaker 1: go on a banana tour. We'll have to go visit
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  Speaker 1: Paul and be like, hey, Paul.
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  Speaker 3: Give us the bananas.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go get some bananas. Everyone else has other touristy
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  Speaker 1: plans when they go to Hawaii. We're just like, let's
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  Speaker 1: check out all the grocery stores.
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  Speaker 2: Give us your apple bananas and your gross ones.
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  Speaker 1: Get out of here, Cavendish. Get out of here, Snickers.
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  Speaker 2: Mahalo, Katie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, Katie. That's awesome. And otherwise, we just
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  Speaker 2: For this episode of Quiz Quiz Bang Bang, I've been
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  Speaker 2: David Flora.
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  Speaker 1: I've been Annie Flora.
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  Speaker 3: Here's looking at you, quiz!