310: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #62

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You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, Bankable Bantamwave Bandersnatches brandishing bandoliers from Bandy Wallop. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 310. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen. And we are your naturally knavish narrators of knowledge about narwhals.

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I'm Colin.

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And I'm Chris. What do you got about narwhals? Karen, you got anything?

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They got a horn.

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Yep.

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Okay.

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And their horn.

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Yes.

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Is actually a tooth.

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Oh, okay, there we go.

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We got the payoff is a crazy tooth that busts out. Well, everybody, it's Good Job Brain. And I gotta share something, what I call the Good Job Brain effect.

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Oh, yeah.

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Good Job Brain effect.

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Love it.

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It's something that we've discussed or learned about on the show, and now I can't unsee it. I can't unhear it. I cannot uncouple myself from it. And for this one, it's all thanks to Colin. I cannot not look at license plates now when I'm sitting in the passenger seat.

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It's.

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It's almost a plague. So there's obviously a lot of really cool, colorful license plate trivia that we've done on the show. State mottos, state imagery. Colin, you had a quiz specifically about specialty plates.

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Yes.

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Not custom plates where you can, like, spell funny words with numbers and letters like specialty government state sanctioned specialty plates, which is like a different version or a different art.

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I mean, you know, there's been a proliferation of them too, in recent years. And these. So these are very often special interests or environmental causes, you know, universities or historical locations within the state. And they'll issue a plate that also raises funds for some cause or some organization.

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And after that quiz, I would see them everywhere.

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The veil has been lifted.

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We see so many. It's almost like a game when we're out in the car, like, oh, are we going to see any specialty plates today?

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That's great.

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I want to share a news article here from the Seattle Times. I live in Washington state now. Title. Washington drivers drop nearly $6 million on special plates. Plates. Yes. Recently legislature approved a bunch of new specialty designs. Washington has a lot. There's. There's pickleball, There's. There's, you know, the Seattle Seahawks, and there's kraken, there's bees. And so they did a data story about the most popular and the least popular specialty plates. Number one for the state of Washington is not a sports team. It is Washington State University. Not even University of Washington. Washington State university. By far, 24,000 vehicles.

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That's really interesting.

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Versus the least popular is Square dancer.

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Not 5,000.

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Five vehicles.

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Five.

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All right, let's jump in to our first general trivia segment. Pop quiz, hotshot. Let's answer some questions. Chris versus Colin. You guys got your barnyard buzzers here? I have two random Trivial Pursuit cards. We got genus 4 and R and R singles. Here you go. Let's do genus four first. First question. Blue wedge. What city is called the Pearl of the Adriatic?

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Oh, boy.

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Don't know.

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I've heard. I've heard that before, but, yeah, I recall the city. I have heard the Pearl of the. Okay, all right.

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I get my, oh, my European seas mixed up. I just.

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Yeah.

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This is where, like, in pub quiz, we turn to you, Karen, and, like, you draw your little map.

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Chris.

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Athens.

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No. Oh, close.

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Kind of close.

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They're all in that area, I guess. Not in Greece. It's Venice.

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Ah.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Of the Adriatic.

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Okay, file that one away.

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Pink wedge for Arts and Entertainment. Whose Genghis Khan did the LA Times call History's most improbable piece of casting? Unless Mickey Rooney were to play Jesus.

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Wow.

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It could be anybody.

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Colin.

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Charlton Heston.

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Close it. It really happened. It was John Wayne.

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Oh, Mr.

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Cowboy.

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John Wayne with manicured eyebrows and a Fu Manchu beard called with the.

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The greatest of cultural sensitivities.

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Yeah.

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Yellow edge for history. What were Texas prisoners able to do legally, for the Last time on February 28, 1995? Last day of February. All right, Colin.

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Vote no,

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Chris.

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Drink alcohol.

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You're close.

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Smoke.

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Oh, okay. All right. Okay.

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Purple wedge. Science of Nature. What powered a Philadelphia fire engine for the last time on New year's Eve in 1927? Chris?

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Steam.

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Incorrect.

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Colin, what was the year again? What Was the date?

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1927. What powered a Philadelphia fire engine for the last time?

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Was it. Was this a wood burning?

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Is it one one or more Horses?

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It's horses.

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Horses.

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Yes.

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Fire.

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Yeah.

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Greenwich for Sports and leisure, who earned $32 million of his $36 million. 1993. Earnings from endorsements.

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1990. Okay.

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I know. Yeah.

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Chris.

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Oh, I get to. I get to take a chance at the sports question. All right.

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Take a stab at it. 1993. I believe in you, Chris.

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I believe in you, too.

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I believe I can fly. Michael Jordan.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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He plays basketball ball.

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Yeah. Yeah. I believe.

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Space jam in there.

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It's great.

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All right. Orange wedge. Wild card.

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What?

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Occupation has the appropriate anagram. Moon starer.

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Wow, that's good. Astronomer.

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Astronomer. Astronomer.

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Very good Moon. That's good. I like.

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All right, good job. Next card, RNR singles, blue wedge. Holy crap. Who was the first Latino to be named a World Series MVP in 1971, if you remember precisely in the last segment of the last episode, I had a segment, and I said, if anything comes out of this, I will know who won the World Series in 1971.

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That's right. And it was the Pittsburgh Pirates. Right. Isn't that what we're. Yes. All right. Uh, Roberto Clemente.

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Yes.

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Thank goodness. Pretty low.

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That's.

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Again, good job. Brain effect. Right, Karen? I mean, wow.

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Okay. Pink wedge. What race car star hit 110mph driving the wiener Mobile at the Indy track?

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Oh, man. I wonder what year. Yeah.

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What race car star hit 110 mph driving the wiener Mobile at the Indy track?

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I don't know. Dale Earnhardt Jr.

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There is a junior in this name. But it's not.

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But it's not that. Okay.

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Okay.

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Ricky Bobby.

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Oh, man. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Okay. All right.

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They've all got video games.

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Oh, really?

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Yeah.

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Yellow wedge. What? Bistro Serving Addie's cookies and Kaya's scones. Has special seating for dolls.

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What bistro?

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Oh, Chris.

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I mean, what, like the American Girl bistro.

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Oh, okay.

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American Girl Cafe.

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Well, that's not a bistro.

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Is it a cafe or bistro? Come on.

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Come on.

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Your story straight.

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It's the difference.

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It's a brasserie. Actually, it's bistro.

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So is outside.

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Bistro is a. Because they have, like, different classifications of, like, you know, restaurant, you know, of different places to eat in Europe. You know, so it's like. It's not fancy. Like, a bistro is like, just like a restaurant. Like a regular go in your casual clothes, eat your food. Restaurant.

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American Girl is a bistro.

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Yeah. Yeah. I would give that one to me.

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Yes, I would.

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Yes. Purple wedge. What fruity malt liquors got Anheuser Busch in trouble for their underage appeal?

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Ooh.

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Never heard of this.

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Yes. You've never heard of this? Oh, my gosh. No, I remember these. What was it? Oh, God. Oh, I'm so mad with myself when you.

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It's not Zima, right? Like, that was something else. Zima did not appeal to anyone.

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No, these were like. Like actual.

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We were adults. But, I mean, we were.

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Sorry.

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No, we were adults. We were old adults.

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Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I vaguely remember this, but I. I couldn't tell you.

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What was it, Karen? I'm so mad.

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Spike. Spike.

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Yes, Spike with the Y.

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Okay, well, that, of course, Green wedge.

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Who. What was Martin Luther King's room number at the Ill Fated Lorraine Hotel in Memphis?

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We have had this.

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Yeah, I think we had the Lorraine Hotel.

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I don't think the Lorraine Hotel is.

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306.

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That's it. 306.

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Last question for pop quiz, hotshot. Orange wedge. What's the name of Tori Spelling's hip bed and breakfast north of San Diego?

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Come on. All right, Chris.

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I have an answer.

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Okay, okay. I'm sure you have an answer.

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I do. It's Tori sleeping. Oh.

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You know why. Okay, okay, okay. This Tori Spelly had a reality show running the inn or starting the. That's why. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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That's why you might know this, right?

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Yes, yes, yes. And as of 2008, looks like it is no more.

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Yeah.

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It is called Chateau Larue.

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Okay.

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Chateau. The street.

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Yeah.

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What was the show called?

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In Love. In I N n. Love.

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In love. I get it.

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My gosh.

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Oh, man.

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Man.

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Boy. Just a moment in pop culture time there.

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All right, well, this Week's episode number three. 10. 310 longtime listeners of the show know that usually an episode of Good Job Brain. We have a topic or a theme and we make quizzes and segments all about that theme. But every fifth episode that goes out the door, it's all quiz. We've all prepared our own games and quizzes to stump each other and stump you guys, listeners. So this week, it's our all quiz bonanza, number 62.

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Wow. I'll start us off here for a little quiz Bonanza.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Go.

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I. I was recently in Tempe, Arizona. That was my first time there. I don't know if you guys have been there. Yes, as I like to do, whenever I visit a new city, I will typically, on the first night that I'm there, you know, in my hotel bed, I will fire up the Wikipedia page for the city that I am in and I will go to town and just see where the adventure takes me.

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Oh, my gosh.

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So among the things that I learned is, yes, it's Tempe. It's not Tempe. It's not Tempe. And I learned many interesting things about the city, including the origin of the city's name, which inspired me to put together a quiz for you guys all about us city namesakes.

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Okay?

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The.

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The people, the places, the Things that famous. Maybe some less famous US cities are named after all.

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Right.

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You know, like US cities all over the map. I mean, literally, but also, you know, figuratively speaking in terms of where they get their names. So I, I pulled together some of the more interesting to me ones. I hope they are interesting to you. In any case, I think these are all very valuable bits of trivia to file away. So let's do this.

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I'm very confident because I do the same thing too. Oh, boy. Her up the Wikipedia entry for when I travel.

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I don't do it before I get there. I mean, to be clear, like, I. It's a thing I do. I love. I'm like, I'm again laying down that first night of sleep. I'm like, ah, let me learn about the place I just arrived.

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Yes.

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Wow.

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High murder rate.

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Oh, this very hotel. You don't say.

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Right, right, right.

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All right, let's do this as a write down quiz. Let's do. Let's get out a writing implement. And right down.

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You reminded me of the fact when we stayed in Seattle, there was a. There was a 13th floor in the hotel and we were on it. You're like, we're on the 13th floor. It's like, there's a 13th floor in this hotel. I mean, typically they don't do that. You know, we get in the elevator and the, you know, there's a guy in the elevator already is like, what floor? I'm like, 13. It's like, there's. You're on the 13th floor. Well, nice knowing you.

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I'm like, yeah, good luck, buddy.

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Like, there's no 13th floor. We met a guy who was going there. What? He died 20 years ago this very night. Yes.

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Our work has a floor 13.

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Well, hotels, people don't want to stay on the 13th floor.

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Okay.

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Right.

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I've stayed in some hotels before. Maybe a little older ones. Yeah. That didn't have a. Yeah.

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I wonder. Hold on. I wonder if they discount it.

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No.

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What do you mean no?

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They just don't want to do it. Why would you do that when you could just not have a 13th floor?

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Well, they just change the floor numbers on the, like they do. Oh, okay.

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No, no, I'm not saying there's like a gap.

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Yeah, yeah. Furnished rooms that don't run out.

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They call the 13th floor floor 14 and so on.

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Right. We clean them every day. Yeah. They change them.

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Yeah.

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Changing the sheets every day. Yeah. Okay, here we go. We'll start it off here. I'm gonna get right into it. The cities of Tempe, Arizona and Ithaca, New York are both named after classic places in what modern day country? I'm gonna give you a little lifeline here on this one. Tempe, Arizona, Ithaca, New York. Yeah. Both named after classic places. All right, Give us clues. I want to warm you up here a little bit. Okay. Maybe you, I don't know, answers up. You have both said the correct answer. It is Greece. Yes, Ithaca, of course, as you classical literature fans may remember, named after the island of Ithaca, home of Odysseus from Homer's Odyssey. And as for Tempe, I learned, I learned that in the early days of the city, one of the pioneers suggested they name the city that after the veil of Tempe near Mount Olympus in Greece. And the veil of Tempe is a grand, you know, gorge valley area, V A L E, the Vale of Tempe. And I learned it was a allusion to a place in Greece. These small. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to try and give you guys, you know, not too many softballs, but not too many crazy hard ones here. Here we go. The small town of Elsinore, Utah, under 1,000 residents, takes its name from Kronberg Castle, more famously known as Elsinore in what Shakespeare play? Oh,

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okay. It's the one I'm sure happens in a castle. So.

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Okay. All right. Trust your gut. Karen says Hamlet. Chris says Hamlet. You both got it. That's right. Yes. As, as seen in, as seen in Hamlet.

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The, the person who named the city just really like Shakespeare.

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So this, this town, this area in Utah was originally settled by Danish. Oh, Danish origin. Mormon converts. And so, yeah, they were, you know. Yeah. Slipping in a little reference. Right, yeah. Yeah. All right, moving on to a, to a slightly bigger city here from Elsner, Utah to Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis, a very lively, fun city. Memphis is named after the ancient capital of what country? Memphis, Tennessee. And if you like, if you know, if you know. Yes, the country, the country, modern day country. But it has been, it is a, the little clue there. It's, it's been around for a while. The ancient capital of what modern day country? If you know anything about some of the Memphis landmarks, this might clue you to the answer. All right, answers up, Chris. Chris says Italy. Karen. Karen has the answer with Egypt. Yes, Egypt. That's right. Yeah. Memphis, the ancient capital there on the Nile. Right. What, what the Greeks called it called the city of Memphis. Right. And there is a famous pyramid, of course, in Memphis was what I was trying to allude to. Karen didn't need the hint. All right. Likely famous to most Americans as the home of the Pro Football hall of Fame, also called the birthplace of the NFL. I am talking about Canton, Ohio. Canton, Ohio. Named after a city in what country? The city now goes by a different name.

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Okay, okay, if that.

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If that helps you, I'm gonna go

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on a limb here.

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Okay. I like it. I like going on limbs. Chris says China. Karen. Karen. Karen says Hong Kong. I asked for the country.

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Oh, Chris.

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Chris got a Karen. Yeah. Very, very close. Spiritually, Right? Yes, it is. I never knew this. I've heard Canton, Ohio.

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Cantonese.

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Yes.

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I was like, oh, my God. Canton, Cantonese. This blew my mind. This was a very.

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Karen.

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Good job, Braden. You're blowing my mind. Moment. Troy, New York, and Troy, Michigan, both owe their name to the classical city of Troy, as in hell and of. As in the Trojan War, etc. In what modern country is the ancient site of Troy? Somewhere close enough to Greece to be fighting in the Trojan War Here. Okay, answers up. Oh, Chris going for Italy again. Hoping that Italy's gonna hit at some point. Karen has the correct answer with turkey. Oh, wow. Turkey. Turkey or turkey. Yes, that is right. Karen. Karen knows her. Knows her ancient cities.

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I just read this. I just read Turkey.

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A.

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Used to be called Anna. I don't know how to pronounce it. Anatoly. Anatolian. Because there's a dog like Anatolian something. That's. What area is that? It's like.

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It's Turkey. Yeah.

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Okay, keeping in mind, this is a quiz about namesakes. What do the towns of Fargo, North Dakota, Houston, Texas, and Denver, Colorado, have in common?

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Oh, interesting. I'm just going to write it.

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Denver, Denver, Houston, Fargo. What do they have in common? Answers up. Chris says named after Italy. No, I'm sorry. Chris says named after people, and he's got it. Karen says rich men. Karen is not wrong. Karen's. Yeah.

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More specific than I am.

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Yeah, you probably not.

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Named after poor people.

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That's right. That's right. Yes. Named after people. Yes. Houston. Named after Sam Houston, the legendary figure in Texas history. Denver, Colorado, named after James Denver, who was, among other things, the governor of the Kansas Territory at the time they founded the city. And Fargo, North Dakota. Another one. I can't believe. I can't believe I'm just learning this. That's right. Named after William Fargo, who, among many other things, was the founder of the Wells Fargo Express Company and the director of the Northern Pacific Railway. And on and on and on. Yeah, Fargo. Same. Same guy. Fargo. He's got his Name everywhere named after people. Speaking of cities named after people, we specifically have a lot of cities in the U.S. named after saints. We have a lot of Saint this, Santa this, San that. Especially when you're out west, you see a lot more sand cities. What is the largest US city by population that begins with San S A N. That's right. That begins with a saint name. Largest by population.

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By population.

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What could I know? You can think of several.

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I mean, okay, I have three in mind, which is San Jose and San Diego.

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Okay, not San Francisco. I will tell you it is not San Francisco. Yes, yes. Maybe not too huge a hint there. San Francisco. Not, not that huge a city. Yeah.

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Okay, okay, okay, okay.

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This is the seventh largest city in the US by population. Answers up. It is the great, great city of San Antonio. Chris. Chris has put the correct answer. San Antonio. Karen, you're very close with San Diego though. San Diego is number eight. Like we're talking about the number seven and number eight city. So you're very close. No shame in San Diego. Yeah, yeah. San Antonio. Eking out, eking out the number seven spot there just ahead of San Diego if you're curious. San Jose clocking it at number 12. 12 largest city. Yeah. And then San Francisco, I mean, look, no slouch. San Francisco still top 20. But number 17, another one that you should probably know. The 10th largest city in the United States. This Florida city is named after a former president. Florida, 10th largest city named after president city in the.

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In the United States.

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In the United States. Okay, answers up. You have both written the correct answer. Jacksonville. Yes. In the US that kind of blew my mind a little bit. Yeah. 10th largest city in the University town too. Yeah, yeah. Over a million people. Yeah. Just, just behind Dallas, just ahead of Fort Worth. Yeah. Big city. And indeed named after the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, who was the first military governor of the Florida territory. So he had some connection there. Carlsbad, New Mexico, famous for Carlsbad Caverns National Park, I learned was early in its history known as Eddy Eddy, New Mexico. It was named after Charles, Charles Eddy, another rich, rich man with the development of mineral springs that had medicinal properties. They changed the name of the town to Carlsbad after a famous European spa named Carlsbad in Bohemia. We have had this on the show before. This is knowable and gettable. In what modern day country is the historical region known as Bohemia? Yeah, so the, the, the original one, Carlsbad with a K, they changed it to a C to you know, suit American tastes. A Little bit more, perhaps. Bohemia. Go with your gut. Go with your gut. I know it's in the punch bowl.

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It's not in my punch bowl.

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Answers up. Chris has put Bulgaria. I'm sorry? Karen has put Czechia. Yes, I will give you that. Czechia. Czech Republic. Same place. You got it. Yes. Yes. Bohemia. Part of the Czech Republic. Or Czechia, if you prefer. Yes, yes.

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From Rent.

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Nice.

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Oh, Rent is based on La Boheme. Where was the Bohem.

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All right, last one, last one. Here we go. The name of this US capital city translates to English as sheltered harbor or protected bay. So it is a US capital city. The name is not an English name. It translates as sheltered harbor or protected bay.

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Wow.

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Karen is doing the Animaniacs song in her head.

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I know. I'm doing capitals, right?

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Oh, I don't know.

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All right, answers up. Chris with the correct answer has put Honolulu, Hawaii. And Karen is mad that she did not get it. Yes.

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Picturing the entire contiguous.

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Yep.

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And you're looking at all the ones that are around water and then.

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Yes.

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Ah.

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And it's a bae.

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It is. Oh, it totally is.

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Well done. And file some stuff away for future rounds. Yay.

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All right, my turn, guys. I. I need you to be on a journey with me and transport back into the days when we were younger, let's say maybe mid-20s, you know?

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Sounds great.

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Remember, like, having the energy to leave the house and go do stuff. Maybe.

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Remember, like, leaving the house at, like, 8:00'? Clock?

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Yeah.

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Leave the house at 8:00 clock to go do something. Yeah.

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Maybe you go to a local bar and club and meet with friends and who are also underpaid, you know, 20 something year olds. And here's the scenario. Maybe it's very relatable. It's Wednesday night, so not a big party night. Your friend calls you or text you on a flip phone and pleads, hey, please come out with me tonight. My boyfriend's roommate is an aspiring mashup dj. Got a gig tonight at a small club. They got nickel shots. PBR is $4. Please, let's go. Come with me and support their budding DJ career. You already know what kind of night

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this is gonna be. Yes.

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But you're like, you know what? It beats doing nothing. Right? And you go, and the dj, who is, again, your friend's boyfriend's roommate, is just dropping the absolute worst mashups, and they're thinking they're killing it. Now, this quiz we're about to play is inspired by this scenario, but also by a very super funny DJ guy called Snow Dream. DJ Snow Dream. He's on TikTok and on Instagram. Snow Dream is a real producer and a real DJ from the uk, but in his content, he takes on this Persona, what I call the friends boyfriend's roommate DJ Persona, where, like, he just plays insanely awful stuff. But he's up there and he's just like, man, this is great. I'm feeling the music. And you're like, oh, crikeys. So here I have six clips of Snow Dreams mashups. Not only do you have to survive the segment listening to them, but for each clip, you have to identify what two songs are being mashed together.

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Okay. Okay.

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Let's pretend we're at a club. We're drinking watered down, off brand fireball shots and sticky floor. There's like a lot of air horns, you know, on his mixing board and we're just all waiting for the beat to drop. So here we go. Here is our music quiz and I need you to identify the two. Two songs in each clip. Bet you guys can work together and figure it out. They're very famous songs. Mashup number one.

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Was that some Earth, Wind and Fire there in the background?

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Yeah, it's Earth, Wind and Fire. September. Right. But like, I don't know, the, the vocals that are.

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Yeah, I couldn't place the vocals either. Yeah, it has a hard time. Can we get one more? Can we get one more bite at that one?

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So much more.

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Oh, man. Wow.

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It takes a real.

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It does, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Forge to forge something. Yeah, yeah. The lyrics were tickling something, but I. I'm not. I'm not pulling it.

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I don't know. Sorry.

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Oh, man. People are throwing tomatoes at you.

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No. What is it through.

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Through their headphones? It is. Yes, you're right. It's September. Earth, Wind and Fire and Numb by Lee Do Park.

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Big. Yes. Wow.

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The issue is, I have never listened to a Linkin park song in my life.

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There was a period where even if you didn't choose to, you would have heard some of these songs.

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Oh, sure. I guess involuntarily. Maybe I have. Yeah.

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Yes. All right, here we go. Beed Drop number two.

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Okay, that's a little John Denver. Country roads.

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Johnny D. Country road. Take me home, country roads.

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And.

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And was. Was. Was that the beat? Sounded like a little Will Smith beat to me. Yeah, right.

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You were right. Yeah.

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Someone could chime in and say, hey, but doesn't getting jiggy with it sample another song called he's the Greatest Dancer by Sister Sledge. While that is true, the clip that was used there is from getting jiggy with it because you can hear him say, whoo.

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Ha.

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You know, and breathing noises.

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Excellent clarification.

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All right, all right. Worst mashups of your life at this club. Number three.

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We. Okay, that is.

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Wow.

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That's. That's. Well, it's. Junior Senior. Move your feet. Is. Is the song. And is that Lip Biscuit?

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Yeah, Biscuit. Rolling, Rolling, roll and rolling.

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I have to, like, have half my brain just focus on the lyrics for the first half of the clip and then, like, direct my brain to the other. It's funny. You have to do a little switch.

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Do you know how I know that? Now, somebody should be very surprised at this and say, chris, how do you. How would you possibly know? I did not know it until he said, now I know y' all be loving this next thing is like, lamp Biscuit is right here or something like that. Right? Because I know that from the Spider man comic rewrites that the comedian Jay Pinkerton, who went on to write, like, Portal used to do great. Slum Dog Millionaire.

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This dj's got another banger. Be Drop four. Here it comes.

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Wow. Wow, that is pretty good.

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Imagine if this got played and, like,

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you have to, like. You're, like, looking at your friends and you're like, it's. Is he for real? It's like. It's like. It's. It's done so well, like, technically, like, on the level of production that you're like, is this a bit. Yeah, that's great. So that. That's, of course, the. The. The sound. The music is from the Office, The American version of the Office opening credits.

C

And of course, Mr. Brightside by the Killers. Yes. That's very good.

B

That's.

C

I would listen to that. I would listen to that.

A

All right, here we go. Beat Drop five.

C

Oh, I've heard the. The instrumental, but I. I can't think of what song it's from, but that's. Wouldn't it be nice from. From the Beach Boys, from Pet Sounds. Over.

B

Yeah. Who is that? Is that Nelly? Who is that?

A

Yeah, Usher, Usher, Usher. Poor Usher. That's right.

B

Did. It sounded to me like the Beach Boys was sl.

C

A little bit.

B

Or maybe it's just. Yeah.

A

To match.

B

Okay. To match the beat.

A

Oh, so good. All right, last one, last one. We gotta survive tonight. Here we go. Go.

B

Oh, my God. Man, talk about giving yourself a challenge.

C

That's really fantastic.

B

Yeah, I'm gonna. I'm gonna make the Seinfeld bopping and bipping on the jazz. You know, bas work here. Well, I think I was maybe a little early, right, that, that, that one. That was one question early. That was Nelly hot and her with, with a little bit of Seinfeld riffing.

C

Incredible.

A

He matches up like Wii Sports commercials, anything. Oh, it's so amazing. Snow Dream music on Instagram. His band camp is Snow Dream Digital, where he has volumes of these that you can listen.

B

Awesome.

A

Oh, my God. When his stuff shows up in my algorithm, it's just the anticipation and I just like fall over from laughing because

B

you're like, thank you for that one.

C

We did it. We made it through.

A

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C

You're listening to Good Job Brain. All the best questions, all the best answers. Good Job Brain.

A

And we're back. It's our all quiz number 62. All right, so spring cleaning. I'm doing some spring cleaning, guys. We still have boxes that we have not opened since we moved here three years ago. We all have those boxes of shame. So I found a box of things of Good Job Brain, things that I have not opened for, for 12 years.

C

Whoa.

A

There are things that were sent to our old, old P.O. box that I haven't even opened. And, you know, I, I, I feel really bad, listeners. I was going through a divorce. It was weird. I had to move really quickly. And so these boxes just travel with me. I never got to, like, open. We have letters that I haven't read. We have, like, gifts that we haven't opened, including this one dated August 14, 2014.

B

I love it. I love it. It's like the the Good Job Brain mailbox here. Going back in time. It's great.

C

Enclosed are 12 Omaha steaks.

A

And so I'll read a bit here of this letter. Dear Karen, Dana, Colin, and Chris, my family really loves your show. I download your podcast and we listen to your show as my mom drives us to school in the mornings during Pop Quiz Hotshot, we all try to be the first one to answer the questions correctly. And if I were on your show, I would want my buzzer to sound like an explosion. And then do you have a collection of interesting beaver oddities? If so, please add this gift to your collection. Sincerely, wyatt Paul, age 14. P.S. can you please give me a shout out on your next show and let me know if you thought the shirt was funny?

C

Yeah, sure we can.

B

Here's your shout out, Wyatt.

C

Oh, there was a shirt.

A

Oh my gosh on it. Now, this is not the end of the story because I have the address here. And I was like, oh, this guy is from Washington state. Oh, this city is not that far from me. Oh, I wonder if I can find this guy online. And I did. And turns out Wyatt Pole, who, you know, wrote this letter at age 14, is now 26. Follows Good job brain on Instagram.

B

Yes.

A

So I messaged him and let me share our exchange here.

C

Oh, my gosh.

A

I said, I deeply apologize. That's taken me 12 years to respond back. I was unpacking a box and found a lot of forwarded mail. At the height of Good Job brand, I was going through a divorce and moving around, and I missed this package. I'm super sorry it took me this long, but I'm very happy to see that you're like an adult doing cool stuff. Wyatt wrote back, and he's like, I'm 26 now. Lmao. Graduated high school and college and a whole pandemic, and this is a cool thing to ever happen. Wow, that's great. They're all grown up.

B

It's, it's, it is legitimately emotional and movie. It is. It's like, I'm so glad you were able to find Wyatt. I'm so glad he could see the humor in it. He got a shout out and like,

C

yeah, got the shout out. The shirt's great.

A

I tell you, this shirt, I'm smelling the shirt right now. It's in the box full of, like, kind of like, good job bringing goodies that we made for our, like, live shows or like, you know, when we have meet up. Including I had made, I had those beaver butt air fresheners we made to give out.

B

Yes.

A

That's like vanilla scented or raspberry scented. It.

C

Is that what the shirt smells like?

A

It was in a box for 12 years with those air fresheners.

C

Oh, yeah.

B

It's only appropriate that you have now made the beaver T shirt.

C

Beaver shirt now smells like vanilla. That's fantastic.

B

That's true.

A

Thank you, Wyatt.

B

Thank you, Wyatt. Thank you, Wyatt.

C

Are you gonna now are you gonna open any of the other letters or are you just gonna stop there?

A

There's so many I, I, I, I have to go through.

C

Okay. All right.

B

I, I feel like, like, you could just select a random one every now and then and, and we open it. Yeah.

A

I mean, this is a surprise, but, but now I'm gonna tell you because I think it's such a good idea. I'm so proud of myself. Okay, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna listener mail and stuff.

C

Yeah.

A

And I'm gonna make it into a coffee table book and I'll, I'll give Chris you a copy calling copy of Dana.

B

Oh, that is a good idea. That is great.

C

That's a great idea. I would love that.

B

Yeah, that's very sweet.

A

All right, Chris has a game for us.

C

I have a game. I'd like you to take out your writing surface. Karen, you're not. The phone is not gonna work on this one. You're gonna need, like, okay, some kind of a piece of paper. Yeah, a nice, nice sheet of eight and a half by 11. Some kind of printer paper or, you know, Colin, whatever notebook you might be using, just give yourself some. Some room. I've got my little half size kind of notebook here. That's, that's fine.

B

All right.

C

You know, room to operate. But Karen's, Karen's like, notes app is not gonna, it's not gonna cut it for this one, unfortunately. Here she come back. Okay. All right, Karen. Well, we're already on question three. You missed a lot.

A

You guys did that last time.

C

Well, we'll just keep doing it. Okay, so, Karen, you've got, you've got your. You've got your piece of paper. Listeners at home, you can also get yourself a notebook or a piece of paper or something along those very lines. Because what I want you to do is take your nice blank piece of paper and basically across the lower third of this paper, you're just going to draw an oval. It's a big oval that takes up like the lower third of whatever your. Your surface is kind of like that. So just give yourself like 2/3 on the top of the piece of paper. Then you have the lower third on the bottom. All right, good, great. You have drawn the pit. That is the pit. P I, T with one T. We have been watching the show the Pit with two T's. The wonderful medical drama sort of following on the success of er. Noah Wiley back again in the, in the emergency department.

A

Well, you know, the show, the Pit was originally going to be a continuation of his er.

C

I think that. Yeah, maybe originally they were trying to do that and then they. Yeah, yeah, they didn't get the rights or whatever it was, so they're like, well, we'll just do something new. So, yeah, we, you know, many people around the world have been really enjoying the Pit. So this is a wordplay game for you all that is called the Pit. Open parenthesis T, close parenthesis, the pit, Pit. Here is how it works. I will give you, and you should probably write down the first or last name of a fictional medical care provider on the show the Pit. And then also I will give you the definition of a word, the name that I give you can be anagrammed to the word matching that definition with one extra letter. Once you determine what that extra letter is, that letter falls into the pit.

B

Into the pit.

C

And you should write it in the pit.

B

Okay?

C

Yes.

A

Hold on.

C

Go on.

A

I don't watch.

C

No problem. You are not at an advantage or a disadvantage for watching the show or not watching the show. I am simply going to give you a name, somebody's name, and then I'm going to give you the definition of a totally unrelated word. And that name can be anagrammed into that word plus an extra letter. And once you figure out what the extra letter is, drop it into the pit by writing it in the pit. Once we are, the answers include, I should say, one hyphenate word. Just throwing that out there. One of the words is a hyphenate. And once we're done, the letters in the pit will anagram to a certain group of people who you might find around the pit. Okay, so let's just jump into it. The first name, you should write all these down because you're going to be. Remember, you're going to be anagramming them and removing a letter. So the first name for you is Kwon K. W O n Cooking vessel. So when you get it, feel free to buzz in and tell me that you got it. Colin.

B

So the cooking vessel would be a walk W O K. And the letter I'm kicking in the pit would be the end.

C

Correct. Correct. Now you got it. Now you got it. Okay, Next.

A

Name.

C

Evans. E V a n S Glassware. Colin. Again, fast on the buzzer.

B

Would that be a vase? V a S e. And I'm sending another end to the pit.

C

You are? Yes.

B

Okay.

C

Your next name. Langdon. La n G D O N. Actor from Little House on the Prairie. Colin.

B

What is it? Landon. As in Michael Landon. And I'm just dropping the g out of the middle.

C

It is indeed. This one was really easy if you know. Yes. Michael Landon. So it's just Landon. And the g indeed falls into the pit. All right, here we go. Donahue. D O N A H U E. A type of collision.

A

Head on.

B

Head on.

C

With a hyphen. A head on collision. So the letter U falls into the pit. Head on.

B

And you.

C

All right. Heather. H e a T H e R A place where families traditionally gather. Karen.

A

A hearth. So you kick the e out.

C

You kick the e into the pit. Yes. A hearth. Peters. P E T E R S to control movement. Colin.

B

So that steer, that is. And I drop the p in the pit.

C

That is steer and drop the P in the pit. Yes. Shamsi S H a m S I to destroy.

A

Why buzz in if I already know what the pit is?

C

No, you don't. Just let us go. All right.

A

Okay, okay, okay.

B

Colin, that is smash. Rather, rather than saying I smash, I will send the eye into the pit.

C

Good idea. Good idea. The I goes into the pit. Finally, Samira. S a M I R A a song from west side Story.

B

Karen.

A

Maria. Sending the s. Sending the S into the pit.

C

The pit is now full of letters. Karen says she already has it. You want to let Colin try to figure it out too?

A

I think Benedict Cumberbatch's favorite animal.

B

Penguins.

C

Penguins.

A

Penguins.

C

A group, a group of people that you might see around the pit. The Pittsburgh Penguins. Love it.

A

I was just, like, thinking of, like, like an Icelandscape.

C

Sure. Right, right, right.

B

Black and yellow. Karen.

A

Oh, my gosh. What a callback to last.

C

Oh, man. That's another one of those. Wow. That took me a really long time to make. Not a very long time to run through on the show, but yeah, I,

B

I, I know, I know that the, the real word puzzle heads out there know that. That's, those take a long time to put together. Yeah, yeah, that was, that was good. That was really good.

C

It's, it's very much the, I like the NPR Sunday puzzles. You know that, the real shorts ones, you know, those are, that's what I'm trying to, that's what I'm trying to get at with these. Glad you enjoyed.

A

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C

Chris, heated rivalry.

A

Yes, heated rivalry. Good one. What clued you in?

C

Because I. Because I know who wrote the book.

A

Probably the hockey romance.

B

Yeah.

A

There was a point in my life where I watched the entire season every day. Like I would have it on and. And it would just play. I mean, it's only six episodes, but

B

like, my wife was pretty into it too. Yeah.

C

Really?

B

Oh, my God.

A

I wish you told me because then we could talk about it. I. I joined discussion groups. Oh, I've. I've read so much fanfiction that has been written.

B

Your browser history is just permanently, permanently just set, right?

A

Oh, they're private tabs, but yes, yes, it's incognito.

B

Come on.

C

But have you read the books?

A

I've read the book.

C

The whole series. I guess if you got into fan fiction, you must have read the book.

B

Did you see, Karen? I'm sure you did. You saw that. You can now rent the cabin on Airbnb.

C

Yes.

A

Their price per night is their hockey jersey numbers together.

B

Great. Great branding. Right? Right. Yes.

A

Yes. Thank you, Canada for gifting us this gift. I love it. All right. K pop group and my parents, social friends, bts.

B

Yes.

A

Released their long awaited album, started their world tour.

B

Oh, man.

A

That I'm gonna be going to six times.

B

How many times? Yeah, I thought it was at least three or four.

A

Well, one of them, I'm bringing a. A make a wish family. I love. It's great new tour after fulfilling their military duty. So it was a big comeback.

B

Right?

A

Very exciting. How many members are there in bts?

B

Okay. Chris.

A

Chris.

C

Six.

B

I think it's four or five, but I'm leaning. I'm leaning more toward four.

A

The answer is seven. Seven. Lucky number seven.

C

Shooting a little high, you know what I mean? But I thought I felt it Was something around there would not have said seven.

A

Seven.

C

You think that's too many?

A

You're like, that's a lot, people.

C

That's a lot. I think you've got your tight compact boy group, which is a four, and then you've got. Just pushing the edge of it, which is a five.

B

Okay.

C

And then six is probably too many. I think you got to stick around. New kids on the block size, you know, five.

A

Well, you know, K pop. K pop. Different system. They have a three rappers, four vocal dudes.

C

Okay, okay.

A

I'm not gonna go through their names, but you. You bet your bippy that. I know.

B

I. I know. Yeah.

A

And their dog's name.

B

I think you probably know the order that they did their military service, I'm sure. Yeah, yeah. No question. I know the birth order.

A

Yeah. Anyways, follow up question, this might come up a trivia. What color is associated with BTS fandom? What color? What one color. If we were to guess a color.

C

Blue.

A

Red it is. Add them together, you get Purple.

B

Purple. Purple.

A

Well, another thing I was deeply into. We just did our first ever family trip to Disney World. So I fell deep into planning, budgeting, reviewing maps, reading reviews. My favorite Disney World park is Epcot. In case you don't know. Half of the Epcot park is what you call the World Showcase, where different countries have their own pavilions. Kind of like. Like a world's Fair. What country's pavilion had the most recent expansion?

C

Oh.

A

To include an additional plaza area, an eatery, and a ride based on a Pixar film. What country's pavilion had the most recent expansion?

C

Okay, Chris, Mexico. No, In. No, no, no, no.

B

I was. I was gonna guess Mexico, too. Most recent expansion, a ride.

C

Right, right.

A

To include an additional plaza area, an eatery, and a ride based on a Pixar film. Oh, you're thinking Coco, huh?

C

Yeah. Right, right.

A

The answer is France.

C

The Ratatouille ride, which I went on, but I just didn't. I didn't know that that was the latest thing they put in. Yeah.

A

Yep. Another question about World Showcase. France might have had the most recent expansion, but what was the last Country Pavilion to be built there?

B

Huh?

A

Okay, they debuted with a couple countries and they kind of added on. Which one was the most recent? The latest full country pavilion. They debuted 1988.

B

Oh, okay. That's the. Okay, 1980.

A

They have not. They have not created a new pavilion.

B

Australia.

A

There is no Australia, Chris. There's also a ride at this place.

C

Oh, is it Norway?

A

It's Norway. Norway.

C

Which Was like, not very popular. And then Frozen came out.

A

Really interesting history about how these pavilions get built, the relationships with different governments and embassies and how to upkeep and the money. I'm not going to go into it, but that's a great hole to be sucked into. All right. Another thing that consumed me for consecutive days was the Artemis 2 fly by moon voyage. I watched the transmissions, I listened to their wake up songs. I cried in the women's bathroom at work regularly that week because I was so overwhelmed with emotions and what they were doing. Naming moons after their wife. So I have two questions here. At the time of the mission Artemis 2 mission, only about one fourth of the global population of was old enough to have witnessed the previous crewed mission to lunar space. What was the name of the last crude lunar mission

B

they were talking about it on the coverage to?

A

When was the last time it happened? I'll tell you. I was not old enough to have witnessed the previous crewed mission to lunar space.

B

Yeah, it was.

A

Chris wasn't either.

B

I think I was. Even if I was young.

A

Yeah, that's pretty crazy to think like a quarter of the world's population was old enough to catch the last mission.

B

Oh, man. Was it in like 82, 83, 72. Okay. I was not alive for that. All right, okay.

A

Apollo 17, 1972.

B

Wow.

A

But here we are. We got to experience it or witness it in our lifetimes with Artemis too.

B

And they did something new, you know, like getting views that we haven't seen. Right? Yeah, it's.

A

Oh, they did a bunch of new stuff. There are a lot of. A lot of firsts. A lot of firsts. During one of the transmissions, the world got to see a certain branded food item just nonchalantly fly by in the cabin. What was it, Colin?

B

This was the Nutella, right?

A

Yes, it was a chart.

B

It's kind of just no gravity.

A

They're doing important space work and you just see this Nutella just kind of

B

floating talk about product placement.

A

I know you cannot buy that marketing. That's so crazy. And that's it for my quiz.

B

Just a few things that I was

A

really, really into recently.

B

Little grab bag from your brain.

A

And that's our show. Thank you all for joining me and thank you listeners for listening in. Hope you learned stuff today about the pit, American cities, about bad mashups. You can find us on all major podcast apps and on our website, goodjobbrain.com this podcast is part of Airwave Media podcast network. Visit airwavemedia.com to listen and subscribe to other shows like the Historian, Table, IGN Movies Podcast, and Unspookable, and we'll see you next week.

C

Bye.

A

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