Latest / Quiz Quiz Bang Bang Trivia Podcast / Ep 242: General Trivia
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- 0:15Hello, and welcome to Quiz Quiz Bang Bang, the pub quiz practice show
- 0:18that hits your pow right in the quizzer. I'm David Flora and I'm Annie
- 0:24Flora, and we're here to teach you more about trivia than NASA astronauts trying
- 0:29to give Sally Ride tampons. For those of you who have never heard the
- 0:35song one hundred tampons, it is a delight and it's based off of a
- 0:39true story where when Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut to go into
- 0:45space, was getting ready to go, she was asked if for those six
- 0:49days, if one hundred tampons would be enough, And in case there's any
- 0:58men out there who have no idea how tampons women need during a day,
- 1:02one hundred in six days is very much. Is a couple too many a
- 1:07couple, to be fair, they had never spoken with a woman who went
- 1:15into space. How did they know how it would affect that's true. I
- 1:21don't know if going into space and having this gravity means your period will be
- 1:25heavier. That's that is true. I'm pretty sure the Cold War was still
- 1:32on and they didn't talk to Valentina, who was the first woman in space,
- 1:38but the first American woman. They're like, just just take it all.
- 1:42Yeah, anyway, great story, amazing. Hey, don't forget.
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- 2:28Saturday, Friday the thirteenth at noon mountain It's on Saturday. Here's how the
- 2:37show works. Quiz Quiz Bang Bang's format is four rounds of four questions each
- 2:42followed by the answers. After round two, we'll ask a quick fire bang
- 2:46Bang question where you'll have a time limit to give multiple answers. After the
- 2:51fourth round, the show culminates with the big Bang, a final round with
- 2:54three questions whose answers are all clues to one final question. Round one.
- 3:00Question one, the category is inventions. Who invented a reading system for the
- 3:07blind in the eighteen twenties? Question two. The category is animals. This
- 3:17question comes from Major Data. Thank you, Major, Thank you. The
- 3:22Imperial Amazon or sizarou parrot is endemic to which Caribbean island? Question three.
- 3:34The category is medicine. What is the world's most widely consumed psychoactive drug?
- 3:46Question four? The category is business. This question comes from listener Bobby.
- 3:51Thank you, Bobby, Thank you, Bobby. What was the first product
- 3:55to have a jingle? And now the answer is to round one. Question
- 4:02one? Who invented a reading system for the blind in the eighteen twenties?
- 4:11Louis Braille. They just came out with a Braille lego set, so that's
- 4:16exciting. Question two. The Imperial Amazon or cicerou parrot is endemic to which
- 4:26Caribbean island? It is Dominica. It's the only island where you can find
- 4:33it on and it is their national bird and it's also is featured on their
- 4:40flag. So yay, let's protect that pretty parrot because it is endangered.
- 4:47Question three, what is the world's most widely consumed psychoactive drug? Caffeine.
- 4:59Pretty crazy it it is a mood alterarer that is true. At least it
- 5:05just makes things I don't know work better. It is the best. Question
- 5:15four, What was the first product to have a jingle? Wheaties in nineteen
- 5:24twenty six. This is the first known radio jingle and the catchy line was
- 5:30have you tried Wheaties? And David? Since it's from nineteen twenty six,
- 5:33do you think we can play a small clip? Yeah? Why not?
- 5:35Here it is I have you try Wheaties their whole week with all of the
- 5:45brand, won't you try Wheaties or wheat is the best food? Man?
- 5:56They're crispy and crunchy the whole You're through the keys never tire on them,
- 6:03and neither will you Old Josh Weedes the best breakfast food in a line now
- 6:15with extra lad round two. Question five The category is music, which nineteen
- 6:26eighty song by Kylie Minogue was the first to top the charts in both the
- 6:30UK and Australia. Question six category math. This one comes from listener Stuart.
- 6:42Thank you Stuart, Thank you Stewart. How many ways can you make
- 6:46change for one dollar with American currency? Question seven category literature. The Mill
- 7:00on the Floss Silas, Marner and middle March were written by whom. Question
- 7:10eight Category Sports, which club has suffered the most relegations in the history of
- 7:16the Premier League? Heading down the metaphorical coal mine six times? And now
- 7:27they answers round two? Question five which nineteen eighty seven Kyla Minogue song was
- 7:31the first to top the charts in both the UK and Australia. I should
- 7:36be so lucky and she was guess so Question six how many ways can you
- 7:45make change for a dollar? So if you're using pennies, nickels, dimes,
- 7:50quarters, fifty cent pieces and dollar coins, there's a whopping total of
- 7:58two hundred and ninety three way to make change for a dollar. But if
- 8:03you went to a store and you had somebody a dollar, you said,
- 8:05can you make change for this? And they had to do a gold dollar
- 8:07back? It's a smart one. Question seven the Mill on the Floss Silas,
- 8:18Marner and middle March were written by whom George Elliott aka Mary Ann Evans.
- 8:26She was famous for being hideous. She was apparently very ugly, but
- 8:35she had a great personality and so people loved her and she was talented.
- 8:39So I mean, what a world. She's so ugly, but that personality
- 8:46and talent, I guess we like her. It's just like, well,
- 8:50maybe stop like going on and on about how ugly she is. Henry James
- 8:54wrote a scathing remark about how ugly she was and ended it with how great
- 9:01her personality was and how charming, and that's why he loved her. And
- 9:03it's like, well, you kind of went a little hard in the paint
- 9:07for the second part there, right, Yeah, it's like, I love
- 9:09you. Here's why you're hideous. Let me count the ways. Question eight,
- 9:15Which club has suffered the most relegations in the history of the Premier League?
- 9:18Heading down the metaphorical coal mine six times? Pardon the terrible clue.
- 9:24I tried to shoehorn into this one. It's the North City Canaries. Yeah,
- 9:31makes sense, Canaries minds, perfect clue, Dave, But I don't
- 9:33know what you're talking about. It's terrible. It's a terrible clue. Premier
- 9:39League fans are like, shot up, what kind of clue is that?
- 9:43Nord City? And that's it for the first half, which means it's time
- 9:48for the Bang Bang Round. The category for this week's Bang Bang Round is
- 9:54food and drink. You will have thirty seconds to answer the following question.
- 10:01There are six categories based on the oxidation process of tea production. Name them.
- 10:07Your time starts now and that's time. The six categories based on the
- 10:45oxidation process of tea production, which means when you dry the tea leaves,
- 10:50how dry do they get corresponds to which category they're put in. From I
- 10:56believe the least oxidated to the mostated. You have white tea, yellow tea,
- 11:05green tea, oolong tea, black or red tea, and post fermented
- 11:11or dark or poor air tea. Have you ever had yellow tea? I
- 11:20don't think so. I don't know if I have. I feel like it's
- 11:22always they say black or green. Yeah, we need to expand our tea.
- 11:28I've seen white a lot. White's usually pretty good. They'll put it
- 11:31with like blueberry or something ye. Round three, Question nine. The category
- 11:37is science. The use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination
- 11:45for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see or by disguising
- 11:50them as something else, is known as what question Gloria's geography. This question
- 12:01comes from listener Dean thank you Day, Named after a popular spice. What
- 12:07is the coastal area around Liberia called question eleven? The category is games and
- 12:18hobbies. In the game trouble or Frustration in the UK or Kimball in Finland,
- 12:26what is the name of the device in the center of the board that
- 12:30is used to roll the die? Question twelve. The category is world records.
- 12:39This question comes from listener May thank you, May, thank you.
- 12:41May. Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle assembly building boaths the largest building feature in the
- 12:48world, each of which measures four hundred and fifty six feet or one hundred
- 12:54and thirty nine meters tall. What is this feature? But now the answers
- 13:03around three? Question nine. The use of any combination of materials, colorations,
- 13:09or illuminations for concealment, either by making animal or objects hard to see
- 13:13or by disguising them as something else, is known as what camouflage. The
- 13:22best is when people work camouflage in a city and they really just can't see
- 13:28them because they look like they belong in the forest floating. Question ten,
- 13:37Named after a popular spice. What is the coastal area around Liberia called the
- 13:45Pepper Coast? Sometimes it's also called the Grain Coast. Question eleven, what's
- 13:52the device in the center of a trouble boar that you used to roll your
- 13:56day? The pop oh matic bubble. Question twelve, Kennedy Space Center Vehicle
- 14:07Assembly Building, both the largest building features in the world. What is this
- 14:11feature? The exterior doors. So this building, completed in nineteen sixty six,
- 14:20is designed to assemble massive space vehicle components and stack them vertically onto mobile
- 14:28launcher platforms. The doors themselves take forty five full minutes to open or close.
- 14:35The doors are taller than the Statue of Liberty, which is three hundred
- 14:39and five feet and the gray Pyramid of Giza, which is four hundred and
- 14:43fifty five feet. And again, these doors are four hundred and fifty six
- 14:48feet. That is a tall taller than one hundred and fifty washing machines.
- 14:56There's a lot of washing machines. That's a lot of appons. That's almost
- 15:03one hundred tampons at tall Round four. Question thirteen. The category is film
- 15:11which actress played Cynthia in the film Sex Lies and Videotape and Kit de Luca
- 15:18in Pretty Woman. Question fourteen, Category botany. What fabric is made from
- 15:30the same plant that produces linseed oil. Question fifteen Category food and drink.
- 15:41This one comes to us from listener Gin. Thank you Jin, Thank you
- 15:43Gin. What type of pastry dough is used to make profiterols Eclaire's and croken
- 15:52bushes? Question sixteen category art with examples dating back to the fifth century CE.
- 16:03A formally prepared document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as borders
- 16:08and miniature illustrations is known as what kind of manuscript? And now they answers
- 16:18to round four? Question thirteen. Which actress played Cynthia in Sex Lies and
- 16:23Videotape and Kit de Luca in Pretty Woman? Laura Sanjakomo. Well, that's
- 16:32a blast from the past. Yeah, that I still don't know. She
- 16:36was one of the leads in Just Shoot Me? Oh okay? Was she
- 16:41the friend to Julia Roberts at the beginning? Yeah, she's the hooker buddy
- 16:48or hooker buddy? Question fourteen, What fabric has made from the same plant
- 16:55that produces linseed oil. I shouldn't emphasize plan. We're looked for the fabric.
- 17:00It's linen comes from the flax plant. Lin seed oil. Oh,
- 17:08a clue there. Question fifteen, what type of pastry doughs used to make
- 17:14Profederols e Claire's and croken bushes. Shoe dough. Question sixteen a formally prepared
- 17:22document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations.
- 17:26It's known as what kind of manuscript illuminated? That's it for the regular rounds.
- 17:36That means it's time for the Big Bang Round. The category for this
- 17:45week's Big Bang Round is music, and this Big Bang is brought to you
- 17:51by listener Nolan. Thank you Nolan, Thank you know Lan. We're going
- 17:55to ask you three questions, the answers of which were all clues to a
- 17:59final qu question, and keep in mind the clue questions may not be from
- 18:03the same category as the final question. Question one as of this recording,
- 18:11who is second in line for the English throne after William, Prince of Wales?
- 18:19Question two? Who were the first and second US presidents to only serve
- 18:26one term? Question three? Who made his memorable film debut at age twenty
- 18:37nine in The Rocky Horror Picture Show? And Big Bang? Question of the
- 18:47only four film soundtracks to win Album of the Year at the Grammys, which
- 18:52was the only one from the twenty first century and now the answers to the
- 19:02Big Bang Round. Question one as of this recording, who is second in
- 19:06line for the English throne after William, Prince of Wales Prince George. Question
- 19:15two? Who was the first and second US presidents to only serve one term?
- 19:22Well, like fatherlake Son, it's John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
- 19:29Question three? Who made his memorable film debut at age twenty nine in the
- 19:33Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tim Curry, I Love Him, Timothy, Jimothy
- 19:41Curry and Your Big Bang. Question of the only four film soundtracks to win
- 19:48Album of the Year at the Grammys, which was the only one from the
- 19:52twenty first century, starring George Clooney, John to and Tim Blake Nelson.
- 20:02The only twenty first century soundtrack to win the Best Album Grammy was from Oh
- 20:08Brother, Where art thou? Hmmm? Yes? Do you want to guess
- 20:14what the other ones are? Titanic Noop, Grease, No, but getting
- 20:21closer West Side Story. It's not any musicals. You were close with Grease
- 20:29because of John Oh Oh Oh. Saturday Night Lie Fever. Saturday Night Live
- 20:34Fever is correct from the original movie soundtrack from nineteen seventy nine, and there's
- 20:41one more. There's two more. I'll give you one because I don't know
- 20:45how you could possibly get this. What year is it? Nineteen fifty nine?
- 20:49The Lion in Winter the music from Peter gunn Oh no, no,
- 20:55no, no, no, no oh you know oh no no, no,
- 20:57no no, no, wow? Wow? All right one Peter Gunned
- 21:07Down. Wow. Okay, well I wouldn't guess, but the other one
- 21:14on the other one I think you can get. It's nineteen ninety four Force
- 21:18Gump. No, it's the best selling soundtrack of all time. Oh,
- 21:22the Bodyguard. There you go. Interesting. Hope you guys are around this
- 21:29Saturday to hang out at noon and watch David on TV. You're not going
- 21:34to be doing that on Saturday at noon, no, I hope for your
- 21:38sake. David was on Beyond Skinwalker Ranch on the History Channel, so if
- 21:47you want to catch him with that. It's promoting his new movie, Shadows
- 21:51in the Desert, So you can see that on all the streaming devices.
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- 22:41Bang Bang, I've been David Flora, I've been Ai Flora. He is
- 22:45looking at you. One hundred tampons tampons, I guess they also we're going
- 22:56to give her a makeup kit, which is also funny, just because you
- 22:59know, they always talk about the weight of every little thing that they want
- 23:03to put in the ship, so that they're like, okay, so how
- 23:06much does a makeup kid plus lipstick in mescara? How much foundation does she
- 23:11need? One hundred? Does she need her vacuum and dishwashing detergent? All
- 23:18right? How many sandwiches will she be able to make? The mail Astronauts?
- 23:26Oh boy, aprons? Can we get us some aprons? Well, that's hilarious