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Ep 278: 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 a quizzer.
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  Speaker 1: I'm David Flora.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm Annie Flora, and we're here to teach you
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  Speaker 2: more about trivia than there are people who are trying
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  Speaker 2: to get reservations to Casabonata.
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  Speaker 1: Go in the morning on Mother's Day. Was it very full?
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  Speaker 2: Then? Yeah? Go for the cliff divers, stay for Man
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  Speaker 2: Bear pig. Hey, David, huh. We want to give a
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  Speaker 2: nice shout out to Gemma Jama for her birthday, birthday,
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  Speaker 2: My birthday, Gemma. And we have trivia tomorrow, Saturday, the
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  Speaker 2: twenty first, starting at noon Mountain time. Shoot us a
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  Speaker 1: It's free, it's casual, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Fun, everyone's super nice and.
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  Speaker 1: Other than that, don't have anything else. So here's how
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  Speaker 1: the show works. Wiz Quiz Bang Bang's format is four
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  Speaker 1: rounds of four questions, each followed by the answers. After
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  Speaker 1: round two, we'll ask a quick fire bang Bang question
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  Speaker 1: where you'll have a time limit to give multiple answers.
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  Speaker 1: After the fourth round, the show culminates with the big bang,
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  Speaker 1: a final round with three questions, whose answers are all
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  Speaker 1: clues to one final question.
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  Speaker 2: Round one. Question one, the category is science. A magnifying
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  Speaker 2: glass features what kind of lens? Question two, the category
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  Speaker 2: is theater. Give any of the three types of animals
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  Speaker 2: in the titles of surviving plays by ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes.
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  Speaker 2: Question three, the category is language, though it might evoke
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  Speaker 2: a different meaning now, at least in America. What term
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  Speaker 2: meant an elected lord and head of state in several
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  Speaker 2: Italian city states during the Medieval and Renaissance periods. Question
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  Speaker 2: four the category is music. This question comes from listener
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  Speaker 2: major Data. Thank you Major Data. What a Grammy nominated
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  Speaker 2: singer and pianist won a full scholarship to the Peabody
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  Speaker 2: Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five,
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  Speaker 2: becoming the youngest ever, but got kicked out at eleven
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  Speaker 2: for musical insubordination and going on to release the singles Cornflake,
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  Speaker 2: Girl and God and Now. The answer is to round one.
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  Speaker 2: Question one, A magnifying glass features what kind of lens?
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  Speaker 2: Convex that's curved outwards? Question two? What are the three
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  Speaker 2: types of animals? And titles of surviving plays by Aristophanes.
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  Speaker 2: You've got the birds, the frogs and the wasps. So
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  Speaker 2: it's not the birds and the bees, that's the birds.
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  Speaker 1: In the wasps and the frogs. Just watch a.
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  Speaker 2: Question three, though it might evoke a different meaning. Now,
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  Speaker 2: what terment an elected lord and head of state in
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  Speaker 2: several Italian city states during the Medieval and Renaissance periods? Doge?
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  Speaker 2: Question four? What Grammy nominated singer and pianist won a
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  Speaker 2: full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University
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  Speaker 2: at age five, who got kicked out at age eleven
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  Speaker 2: and went on to release the singles corn Flake Girl
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  Speaker 2: and God Tory Amos. That's a great background story. I
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  Speaker 2: did not know that. Thank you. Major data.
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  Speaker 1: Round two. Question five. The category is fashion. Tyrian purple
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  Speaker 1: aka royal or imperial purple was once a highly valued
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  Speaker 1: die secreted by several species of what kind of animal?
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  Speaker 1: Question six Categori's history. The Second Temple period in Jewish
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  Speaker 1: history ended with the Roman siege of what city? Question
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  Speaker 1: seven category science and engineering. This one comes from listener Nolan,
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  Speaker 1: think you Nolan, heyk you Nolan. In mechanical terms, what
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  Speaker 1: are the toothed discs? On a conventional bicycle referred to
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  Speaker 1: Question eight Category art.
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  Speaker 2: LAO.
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  Speaker 1: Cohen and his sons, The Winged Victory of Samothrace and
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  Speaker 1: the Venus Demilo are Hellenistic examples of what branch of art?
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  Speaker 1: And now the answers to round two? Question five. In
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  Speaker 1: purple aka royal or imperial purple was once a highly
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  Speaker 1: valued dye secreted by several species of what kind of animal? Snails? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's interesting, specifically predatory sea snails. And it was expensive
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  Speaker 1: because extracting the dye involved tens of thousands of snails
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  Speaker 1: and substantial.
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  Speaker 2: Labor snail labor.
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  Speaker 1: Question six. The Second Temple period in Jewish history ended
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  Speaker 1: with the Roman siege of what city? Jerusalem? Question seven?
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  Speaker 1: In mechanical terms, what are the toothed discs on a
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  Speaker 1: conventional bicycle referred to sprockets? Gears intermesh with each other
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  Speaker 1: while sprockets mesh with a chain or belt Question eight.
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  Speaker 1: While Cohen and his sons the Winged Victory of Samothrace
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  Speaker 1: send the venus to Milo or Hellenistic examples of what
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  Speaker 1: branch of art? Sculpture?
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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 of this week's
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  Speaker 2: Bang Bang Round is geography. You will have thirty seconds
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  Speaker 2: to answer the following question. There are seven countries located
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  Speaker 2: on the Indo Chinese Peninsula. Name them. Your time starts now.
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  Speaker 1: And that's time. The seven countries located on the Indo
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  Speaker 1: Chinese Peninsula are Cambodia, Laos, Me and mar Singapore, Thailand,
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  Speaker 1: Vietnam and Peninsular Malaysia. And oddly enough no China.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, huh, I think you got.
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  Speaker 1: The South China Sea next to it? Maybe?
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  Speaker 2: Round three. Question nine. The category is food and drink.
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  Speaker 2: The grape variety known in France as Sarah is called
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  Speaker 2: by which name in Australia, Chile and other wine regions.
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  Speaker 2: Question ten the category of sports. This question comes from
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  Speaker 2: listener Bobby, Thank you, Bobby.
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  Speaker 1: Hey you, Bobby.
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  Speaker 2: What state has all four major sports teams and uses
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  Speaker 2: the name of the state rather than the city as
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  Speaker 2: its origin. Question eleven. The category is comics. Comics or
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  Speaker 2: graphic novels originating from Japan are known by what collective term?
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  Speaker 2: Question twelve the category is pop culture. An Italian museum
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  Speaker 2: has been in the news recently after security footage showed
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  Speaker 2: a woman photographing a man doing what to a crystal
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  Speaker 2: encrusted object? And now the answer is to round three.
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  Speaker 2: Question nine. The grape variety known in France as Sarah
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  Speaker 2: is called by which name? In Australia, Chile and other
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  Speaker 2: places chiras. Question ten? What state has all four major
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  Speaker 2: sports teams and uses the state rather than the city
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  Speaker 2: as its origin? Minnesota? So New York's tricky because there's
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  Speaker 2: New York Yankees and all that, but it is actually
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  Speaker 2: named after New York City where Minnesota is clearly the state.
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  Speaker 1: Twins, Vikings, timberwolves, and wild.
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  Speaker 2: What are the wilds the hockey team?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay, the NHL so according to their team info,
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  Speaker 1: the logo depicts a forced landscape in the silhouette of
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  Speaker 1: a wild animal. The eye of the animal is the
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  Speaker 1: North Star. The mouth of the animal represents the Mississippi River,
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  Speaker 1: of course, and Nordy is the official mascot aw for leto,
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  Speaker 1: which is the state motto, the Star of the North.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is very thought out.
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  Speaker 1: It is what animal is it? It's like a wolverine
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  Speaker 1: bear mix. What is that?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what to visit Minnesota, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: say it's a badger.
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  Speaker 1: Wisconsin would like a word.
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  Speaker 2: Question eleven. Comics or graphic novels originating from Japan and
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  Speaker 2: Rome by what collective term manga? Question twelve. An Italian
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  Speaker 2: museum has been in the news recently after security footage
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  Speaker 2: showed a woman photographing a man doing what to a
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  Speaker 2: crystal encrusted object, sitting on and breaking it. It was
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  Speaker 2: a chair.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Italian artist made this chair as a kind of
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  Speaker 1: inspired by ron homage to Vincent van Go's painting of
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  Speaker 1: a simple chair, and he coated it in Swarowski crystals.
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  Speaker 1: So it was on display clearly, you know, in this museum,
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  Speaker 1: and this couple came in there and took turns sitting
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  Speaker 1: on it and taking pictures laughing, ha haha. When the
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  Speaker 1: guy sat on it, it completely just kind of folded
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  Speaker 1: and collapsed, and then they ran away and they still
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  Speaker 1: don't know who did it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, And.
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  Speaker 1: I guess they have restored the chair or done their
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  Speaker 1: best job to do it. But this is why we
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  Speaker 1: can't have nice things Round four. Question thirteen the categories architecture.
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  Speaker 1: This one comes from listener Jos, Thank you, Jos, Thank
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  Speaker 1: you Joe. The Louver pyramid, the large glass and metal
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  Speaker 1: entrance way and skylight was designed by which Chinese American architect?
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  Speaker 1: Question fourteen, category medicine. What term refers to an increase,
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  Speaker 1: often sudden, in the number of cases of a disease
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  Speaker 1: above what is normally expected in that population in that area,
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  Speaker 1: often a large area. Question fifteen category television. Who voiced
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  Speaker 1: Miss Frizzle on the children's television series The Magic school Bus?
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  Speaker 1: Question sixteen category film. Martin Scorsese's first Best Director Oscar
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  Speaker 1: nomination was for which movie? And now they answers to
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  Speaker 1: round four? Question thirteen. The louver pyramid, the large glass
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  Speaker 1: and metal entrance way, and the skylight was designed by
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  Speaker 1: which Chinese American architect? I am Pay.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's a conspiracy theory that six hundred and
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  Speaker 2: sixty six glass panes were used to make it. Mm hmm,
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  Speaker 2: and since that's the number of the devil, and Dan
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  Speaker 2: Brown actually says that in the Da Vinci Code, But
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  Speaker 2: it's not true.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say. And if you take the letters
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  Speaker 1: of I Am Pay and rearrange them in spells satan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's over. It's six hundred and seventy three glass pains.
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  Speaker 2: Oh so close yet so not satan.
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  Speaker 1: It's like you missed out on a pretty good payday.
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  Speaker 1: I am payday. Question fourteen. What term refers to an increase,
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  Speaker 1: often sudden, in the number cases of a disease above
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  Speaker 1: what is normally expected in that population in that area,
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  Speaker 1: Often a large area epidemic. I will give you half
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  Speaker 1: points if you said outbreak, but outbreak is more limited
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  Speaker 1: in area. I would count pandemic as incorrect because that
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  Speaker 1: would involve several countries, so a much bigger area. Question fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Who voiced Miss Frizzle on the children's television series The
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  Speaker 1: Magic School Bus? Lily Tomlin?
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  Speaker 2: That's fun?
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  Speaker 1: Question sixteen. Martin Scorsese's first Best Director Oscar nomination was
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  Speaker 1: for which movie Raging Bull? Yeah, Taxi Driver came out
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  Speaker 1: before that, but he didn't get a nomination for director
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  Speaker 1: for it. Robert de Niro got an Oscar nomination for
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  Speaker 1: Taxi Driver. Ody Foster I think did as the choild prostitute,
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  Speaker 1: and Bernard Herman, who did the soundtrack, got a nomination
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  Speaker 1: and he finished the score of the movie just hours
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  Speaker 1: before he died. Oh wow, Yeah, it was his last work.
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  Speaker 1: Bernard Herman was big in the sixties through early eighties
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  Speaker 1: for scoring things including The Twilight Zone and several other
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  Speaker 1: movies center Escaping me right now. But if you listen
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  Speaker 1: to the music on the Twilight Zone, you'll be like, Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of like the quintessential orchestral soundtrack of that time,
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  Speaker 1: that time. Yeah, especially like mystery stuff I feel like.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, he was pretty talented.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very talented. And that's it for the regular round,
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  Speaker 2: which means it's time for the Big Bang Round. The
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  Speaker 2: category for this week's Big Bang Round is Literature. We
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  Speaker 2: will give you three clue questions, which are all hints
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  Speaker 2: to one final question. The clue questions may not fall
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  Speaker 2: under the same category. Question one, what word for a
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  Speaker 2: senior member of staff or a grand household comes from
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  Speaker 2: the old French word for officer in charge of the
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  Speaker 2: king's wine bottles.
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  Speaker 1: Question two, give the first and last name of the
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  Speaker 1: figure skater turned broadcaster who teamed up with fellow skater
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Weir for several correspondent gigs.
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  Speaker 2: Question three, which novel marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes.
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  Speaker 1: And your Big Bang question again the category's literature, which
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  Speaker 1: novel had proposed titles including Bugles Sang True, Not in
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  Speaker 1: Our Stars and Tote the Weary Load, And now.
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  Speaker 2: The answers to the big bang round. Question one, what
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  Speaker 2: word for a senior member of staff of a grand
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  Speaker 2: household comes from the old French word for officer in
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  Speaker 2: charge of the king's wine bottles?
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  Speaker 1: Butler goes back to Buttelier for the guy who gets
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  Speaker 1: the wine nice. Question two, give the first and last
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  Speaker 1: name of the figure skater turned broadcaster who teamed up
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  Speaker 1: with Johnny Weir for several correspondent gigs, Tara Lipinsky. They're
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  Speaker 1: a fun duo, they are.
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  Speaker 2: Question three, which novels the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes
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  Speaker 2: a study in Scarlet?
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  Speaker 1: And finally, which novel had proposed titles including Bugles Sing True,
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  Speaker 1: Not in Our Stars and Tote the Weary Load featuring
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  Speaker 1: the characters Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler at the Plantation
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  Speaker 1: Terra It was Gone with the Wind. I think that
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  Speaker 1: was a good choice for titles. Out of that bunch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, out of those four, I think Gone with the
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  Speaker 2: Window is definitely the Catchest set of Toads and Spoils
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  Speaker 2: or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: For the purists out there, I will point out Scarlett
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  Speaker 1: O'Hara has two teas in scarlet. A study in scarlet
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  Speaker 1: only has one tea. Ah, but it sounds the same even.
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