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Matt, Neil and Jeff.

1:12

This is Triviality. Hello

1:19

and welcome to Triviality, the game where

1:21

lack of seriousness meets a little bit of knowledge.

1:23

My name is Ken. I'm here in the studio

1:26

with my beloved Jeff. How you doing? Good. I'm

1:28

a man full of carbonated drink,

1:30

so I'm very happy. Yeah. And

1:33

what's going on in your world right now besides carbonated drinks? Not

1:36

much. Didn't you just get back from a trip? I did. I

1:38

left town for a few days. Tell

1:40

me about it. I wasn't even

1:42

supposed to be here today, but you know. Just

1:44

like in Clerks? Just

1:46

like in Clerks. But you know when you're called

1:49

up to the big leagues, you

1:51

know, you take your shots. So here I am. You

1:53

know. Is that how it works? I

1:55

guess. I was never demoted either, so. We

1:58

do that every week to Jeff. He doesn't know if he's going to make

2:00

it. the show. This is going to

2:02

make me a bigger roster. You have to

2:04

call five minutes before. Well the voice you're

2:06

hearing online there is

2:08

the inventor of the copper bracelets.

2:10

Matt, what's up? It's

2:12

not a scam, I swear. You got

2:15

nothing to say about it? You got no

2:17

defense? No, I have no defense. It's not

2:19

a scam. That's all? Yeah. Okay. I think

2:21

you have to defend yourself. Okay.

2:24

Results. I don't know if they do anything, but

2:27

Triviald has no official comment on the copper

2:29

bracelets. We

2:31

do have a great episode lined up for you

2:33

people today. First we have

2:36

our guest. He's a not a

2:38

robot supporter on Patreon. We thank

2:40

him for that. He's from Arlington, Virginia,

2:42

and that is Dan Felsenheld. Nice

2:44

to meet you today and thanks for coming on the

2:47

show. I'm really excited. My first

2:49

time on the show, I've been a listener for a

2:51

while and I just recently became a patron, so I'm

2:53

really happy to be here. Yeah,

2:55

so happy to meet you. We love when

2:58

long-time listeners come out of the woodwork and

3:00

finally come on the show or join us

3:02

on Patreon. Thank you so much for your

3:04

support and again, great to have you. Why

3:06

don't you tell us a little bit more

3:08

about yourself? Well, I

3:10

live in Arlington, Virginia. I'm originally from New

3:12

Jersey. Go. I'm wearing my giant

3:15

hoodie today. But I've lived in D.C. for over

3:17

30 years now. I have two children who are

3:20

in their

3:25

20s now. One of them lives in South Korea

3:27

now teaching English over there. The other

3:30

one's still in college and

3:32

I am currently a contractor for

3:34

the federal government for our

3:36

U.S. Navy. And we

3:38

can't say anything more about that. We'll

3:42

be taken out in a burlap sack. We've

3:45

had quite a few contractors.

3:47

Is there an official title on the show?

3:51

Yeah, that's as far as I can go. Seems

3:53

fair. Well, Dan, nice to have you

3:55

on the show here. And we can't have a

3:57

game without a host. me

4:00

love them. Brian Boyd from New Zealand, Kerry

4:04

Kerry New Zealand, which is a really cool name. I

4:06

love it. He's a Savage Superstar. So thank you so

4:08

much, Ryan. Thanks. Yeah, Kiora. Thanks for having

4:10

me. This is my first

4:12

time ever hosting a game of trivia with

4:15

a online or in real life. I

4:17

really like that. Thanks for trusting

4:19

me with the opportunity to see what

4:21

it's like. Now

4:23

you've been on at least two or

4:25

three regular episodes though, right? Yep. Yeah.

4:27

And in addition to several bonuses. Yeah,

4:30

we were doing still in the middle

4:32

of Bloodsport. Taking a while,

4:34

but we're getting there. We're still doing

4:37

it. It turns out that time zone

4:39

scheduling is harder than we

4:41

thought. We were very optimistic. A world tournament

4:43

sounded really great in our heads until we

4:46

realized we had a schedule. Yeah,

4:49

a bit you'll be, don't worry, I won't

4:51

last too much longer in the tournament, so once I'm gone

4:53

it'll make scheduling a bit easier. I

4:56

kind of forgot about it. If you make it all the

4:58

way to the end, we would be happy to accommodate you.

5:01

Trust me. That's right, Ryan. One of our favorite guests. Thanks

5:03

again for coming on the show today. And

5:05

without further ado, we can get to the game.

5:07

So Matt and Dan are going to team up.

5:09

What do you guys got? I

5:11

think we're getting really excited for baseball

5:13

season, much like new LA

5:15

Dodgers players were betting it's going to be

5:17

a really good one. So we're going

5:20

to be, we're excited for baseball season.

5:23

Okay. And on the flip side of that

5:25

coin, we're going to be football season is

5:27

over. And

5:30

let's get the rules and we'll get this game going. The

5:33

rules of the game are simple.

5:35

20 questions split into two rounds

5:37

worth 10 points apiece. At halftime,

5:39

there'll be a special swing round

5:42

designed by this week's host. After

5:44

regulation, players will enter the final round with

5:46

the points that they've accumulated and will have

5:49

a chance to wager 0 to 30 points

5:52

on five categorized questions. At the end

5:54

of the game, someone will be named

5:56

the cream of the crop. Alright,

6:01

so it's Matt and Dan versus me

6:03

and Jeff. Ryan, take it away and

6:05

we'll find out who will be today's Cream of the

6:07

Crop. Great, okay. So

6:10

before we get started, I'll just let you know

6:12

there's no overall theme for this game. However, I wanted

6:14

to have a little bit of a

6:16

New Zealand flavor. So these first five questions are

6:18

somewhat related to my home country of New Zealand.

6:21

Okay. What would you say is the signature

6:23

New Zealand flavor? Are there

6:25

any spices that are really prominent in New

6:28

Zealand cuisine? Kiwi? Yeah, right.

6:33

It would be anything green like rosemary,

6:35

that sort of stuff. Yeah. Okay. So

6:40

yeah, round one. Question one,

6:42

the category is whakapapa. Although

6:45

hundreds of thousands of people around the world do

6:47

it every day, in June of

6:49

2018, New Zealand Prime Minister at the

6:51

time, Alexander Ardern became just the second

6:54

sitting elected head of state to do

6:56

what? The first was by the

6:58

Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1990. I

7:01

think I know this one. I think I can lock on

7:03

that. It's like Jeff is very confident

7:06

here as well. So we'll

7:08

go ahead and lock in. Dan, what did you

7:10

think? I

7:14

think she was pregnant or

7:16

have a baby or have a child, or she had a

7:18

child while in office. That's what I

7:20

think it is. Not the place I would do

7:23

it, but all right. Not in office, but

7:25

in office. I mean, if you're an emergency

7:27

person. Sometimes you don't get a choice, Matt.

7:30

You're right. We

7:33

agree. I think she's only the second head of state

7:35

to give birth while in office. Yeah,

7:38

and you're both correct. She

7:40

is. The first was Prime

7:42

Minister Benis Arbuto of Pakistan in

7:44

1990. Question

7:46

two on the money. Speaking

7:50

of impressive wahine, our $10

7:52

note features the face of Kate Sheppard, a name

7:54

every Kiwi kid is taught about in school. She

7:57

is known as leading a movement that saw New Zealand became a part

7:59

of the world. the first country in the world to do

8:01

what in 1893? Does

8:04

it happen in the US until 1920? So

8:07

Jeff has written down an answer and I

8:09

tend to agree. So we're locked in. All

8:12

right. So they're locked in. Dan,

8:14

any initial thoughts on this one? Yeah. I

8:17

mean, 1920 US is when women got the

8:19

right to vote. Yeah. That

8:22

was my first guess. And

8:25

it seems like 100% correct. So there's

8:27

no point in continuing to ask. I

8:30

think we're going to lock in women's suffrage, women's

8:32

right to vote. I

8:35

don't know why you would want to make them suffer, but yeah,

8:37

we agree. Women's right to vote.

8:40

Yeah. And you're both correct. It was, it

8:42

was the first country in the world to

8:44

have women voting in the national elections. And

8:48

at time of recording, it is still

8:50

Women's Appreciation Month for three more days.

8:53

What's it called? Women's Month?

8:55

Women's History Month. Women's History Month.

8:58

Yeah. Still three more days left. So. Right.

9:01

We appreciate them for all the questions. We appreciate them for all the

9:03

questions. And that's a great question. That's a great question. Yeah.

9:06

Okay. Question three. New

9:09

Zealand on the big screen. Many

9:11

films have been shot in New Zealand with

9:13

a landscape often used as stand-ins for other

9:17

countries. For example, pretending to be Pakistan and

9:19

Mission Impossible Fallout. But

9:21

which other Tom Cruise film from 2003 had he

9:24

previously made in New Zealand thanks

9:26

to dormant volcano Mount Taranaki's resemblance

9:28

to another famous mountain, which

9:31

unfortunately was not a filmable location due to

9:33

smog in urban areas that wouldn't be appropriate

9:35

for the time period in which the film

9:37

was set? So

9:40

we don't think it's Vanillosky. No,

9:43

that was 2001. But

9:46

we are elected with a...it's definitely not

9:48

a minority report. Right. So

9:50

they're locked in. We're going to rule out cocktail. That was my

9:52

first thought. It's probably not that. Any other

9:54

ideas? I think that was the 80s. I

10:00

don't remember the mountain. I

10:02

have no idea. I'm not really good on Years

10:06

of what like 2003 The

10:09

time makes sense for this and I believe

10:11

it was his greatest role of being a

10:13

samurai and I believe he was the last

10:15

of them I think this is probably the

10:17

last samurai. Okay, that would make sense because

10:19

of smog and Smog

10:22

so if it's if it's outside of like Mount Fuji

10:24

or something Mm-hmm. We're gonna

10:26

lock in with last samurai.

10:28

Hey, listen Ken Watanabe was the

10:31

last samurai and also samurai is

10:33

plural for samurai But

10:35

we agree that it's maybe the last

10:37

samurai and you're both absolutely

10:39

right. It is the last samurai If

10:42

you look at Mount Teruneki, it doesn't look

10:44

suspiciously like Mount Fuji So

10:46

well done. Yeah, that would have given

10:48

away if you had said Mount Fuji I Forgot

10:54

minority reporters o2 and collateral is o4 and

10:56

it slots in right in between What

10:59

a run banger for the world's o5 mission

11:01

impossible 306, I mean The

11:05

man works no one's accusing

11:07

him of slumming it no Alright

11:13

around one question for around the world

11:16

in the United Kingdom New Zealand and

11:18

Australia is sometimes referred to as the

11:20

Antipodes meaning on the Most

11:37

UNESCO World Heritage sites in the world including

11:40

the Altamira caves Alhambra

11:42

Palace and the Tady National Park

11:44

I Can look I

11:46

can look in oh Dan

11:48

knows this right up there. We do a

11:51

little bit of traveling Dan. Oh I

11:53

haven't traveled to that. Oh, I have traveled to this

11:55

country actually Were

11:57

you born to be a traveling Dan? So

12:03

I believe, so I know

12:05

New Zealand is like 60-ish

12:07

degrees south, so we're looking for something that's like

12:10

30-something-ish north, so it's not very high. Does

12:12

that help you Ken? No, the degrees

12:14

is not going to help me. But

12:17

I'm pretty sure Alhambra is a

12:19

castle in Spain, and it would make

12:21

sense that they would have a bunch of UNESCO World Heritage

12:24

Sites. I can think of a few. I

12:26

don't see how it's pulling from

12:28

what the language sounded like, and

12:31

I would be happy with Spain. Alright,

12:33

Dan, what do we go with? I

12:35

also said Altamira Caves. As soon as he said

12:37

that, I was like, oh, I knew that's Spain.

12:39

And Alhambra is, yeah, the Alhambra

12:42

is a fortress in Spain. I

12:45

actually went on my honeymoon in Spain

12:47

way back in 1993. Nice.

12:53

Yes, well done. You've both got it. It's Spain. And

12:56

just, it's interesting how

12:58

few Antipodean places there are

13:00

in the world. It's actually a lot

13:02

fewer than you'd think. It's

13:05

quite cool. Okay,

13:07

last one of the New Zealand

13:09

questions you're all nailing is

13:12

in notable records. Zealand

13:15

has a few notable Guinness World

13:17

Records, including the world's steepest residential

13:19

street in the city of Dunedin,

13:22

which I ran up once and then threw up at the top. We

13:25

also have... And then

13:27

the throw up ran down the street at

13:29

100 miles an hour, straight

13:31

downhill. We also

13:34

have the world's longest single-word place name,

13:37

a Maori word which roughly translates to

13:40

The man with the big knees,

13:42

a slider, climber of mountains, the

13:45

land swallower who traveled about, played his nose

13:47

flute to his loved one. I

13:50

will try and pronounce this place name once and

13:52

only once. Within ten

13:54

either way, how many letters are in this place name?

14:00

Koawu, Otamatia, Turi, Pokaka,

14:02

Piki, Moanga, Oronuku, Pokai,

14:05

Vinua, Katana, Tahu. I'm

14:30

a BBC reporter who just like nails it without

14:33

missing a piece. It's so good. Initially,

14:36

I'm thinking in the 60 range.

14:38

What were you thinking? I wrote down

14:40

40, but it could be higher. I started trying to like write it

14:42

down as he was going and then I just gave up. I

14:46

was listening for syllables and was trying

14:48

to put like three to four per

14:50

syllable. Yeah. Do we have to

14:53

be within like how many? Within

14:55

10. Within 10? Yeah, I

14:57

would go 60. Yeah, I would go 60. 60

14:59

or? Well, if we do 50, we

15:01

get 40 to 60. So that seems like a

15:03

good range. Sounds good. All right.

15:05

50 it is. Sounds good. Jeff

15:08

put 70 and I was thinking 80. And

15:11

we met in the middle and we said 75. So hopefully

15:14

I didn't push us out of the range. Well,

15:19

yeah, you are going to be very lucky

15:21

because you just did it. There's 85 characters

15:24

in that word. Oh,

15:26

wow. We're not in close. So

15:29

I pushed us into the range. That

15:32

never happens, Ken. All

15:34

right. Strong beginning to this game here. It is

15:36

50 for football season and

15:38

40 for baseball season.

15:41

Cool. And let's carry on with question six of

15:44

round one. And the category

15:46

is counting sheep. Speaking

15:49

of notable records, one New

15:51

Zealand is often mistakenly thought to have is the

15:53

most sheep per capita in the world. But

15:56

we actually second in that regard, which

15:58

is landlocked country. largest

16:00

in the world holds that honor. My

16:30

first thought was Mongolia. I

16:38

was wondering that too. I was thinking that too. But I

16:40

don't know, do you think that it's pretty big? Do

16:43

you think

16:46

it's the 18th largest country in

16:48

the world? Mongolia

16:50

was my first thought actually when they said

16:52

landlocked country. Yeah, I guess Mongolia seems like

16:54

a good bet. And

16:58

there's not that many people. More sheep than

17:00

people. Sounds delightful. Iceland

17:04

is our second option. Yeah,

17:07

so I think we're good with going with Mongolia.

17:11

Yeah, when you go to the

17:13

Chinese restaurant, you see Mongolian beef,

17:15

Mongolian chicken, I haven't seen Mongolian

17:17

lamb, but we're going Mongolia.

17:20

Yeah, well it helps if you're the most least

17:23

densely populated country in the world. It

17:27

is Mongolia, so well done to both teams. Quite

17:30

concerned, I just pulled up this article in New Zealand's

17:32

ratio of sheep to humans at lowest point in 170

17:34

years. Oh no. Well,

17:38

it's all the way down to

17:40

like 22 sheep per person. I've

17:44

only got 16, so I'm not pulling

17:46

my weight. Alright,

17:52

so next question, question 7 is in

17:55

the category of film quotes, referenced

17:58

in numerous media. including Friends, The

18:00

Simpsons, and Dirty Rock. You all

18:02

probably know the line, you're out of order, the whole

18:05

trial is out of order. But what 1979

18:07

film is it from? I

18:09

hear James Hetfield is a fan. Well

18:13

right, they're locked in. We

18:15

could start with James Hetfield, Metallica

18:18

guy. Yeah. Yeah.

18:21

Yeah. I don't know that

18:23

at all. The verdict? Neil's not here, so I

18:25

need to interject. The

18:27

verdict is, is that a movie?

18:30

Yeah. Have you seen it? I have seen

18:32

it, I mean a long time ago. Probably

18:34

1979, because I'm that old by the

18:36

way. Yeah. With the, and

18:38

I think that's a Metallica record. I was gonna

18:41

go with St. Anger's Fire, which

18:43

I don't think is a movie or anything.

18:45

I'm pretty sure it's The Vert, my first thought was

18:47

The Vertic, so I think that's the right, I think

18:49

that's the right. Is that a Metallica album? I don't

18:51

know Metallica albums, I don't listen to Metallica. There's an

18:54

Anderson man, he's only in Metallica, I think now. There's

18:56

a guy on this current season of

18:59

Survivor who went up against this Taylor

19:01

Swift super fan, and they exchanged songs

19:03

for two hours, just going back and forth

19:05

naming songs, which sounds riveting to be on the

19:07

island. But yeah, I think

19:09

we can go with The Vertic. All

19:12

right, I'm not, I know the movie, I'm

19:14

not familiar with the Metallica hit, but

19:17

we're gonna go with Injustice for All,

19:20

which is a Metallica album. Yes, it

19:22

is. That's right. Yes,

19:25

Matt may have been confusing St. Anger,

19:27

the album with Cyndallne Moitsvire,

19:29

the movie. But

19:32

yes, the correct answer is Injustice

19:34

for All, which I just

19:36

watched a few months ago, and it's actually quite

19:39

good, quite good. I have seen it. Is

19:41

it Al Pacino? Yeah, Al Pacino,

19:44

yeah. Okay, I pictured Al Pacino, because I've

19:46

definitely seen that movie. Okay,

19:50

question eight, World History. And

19:52

this question was written by my quiz

19:55

teammate Vlad. Thank

19:57

you Vlad. With construction, taking

19:59

all... 50 years from 1645

20:01

to 1694. The

20:04

Batala Palace was whose winter residence

20:06

until 1959. It has

20:09

been a museum since then and became a World Heritage

20:11

Site in 1994. So

20:17

here it is. I would like to hear

20:19

that again. No problem. With construction

20:21

taking almost 50 years from 1645 to 1694,

20:23

the Batala Palace was whose winter residence until

20:29

1959. It has been a

20:31

museum since then and became a World Heritage Site

20:33

in 1994. So

20:36

I'm guessing we're thinking of a

20:38

person with the title and not

20:40

an immortal human being. I would

20:42

assume so. Yeah I don't know

20:45

of any 300 plus year old people. Not

20:48

yet. Unconfirmed. Alright,

20:54

we have a guess on this one. Okay.

20:59

My summer home and winter home happen to be the

21:01

same home. So

21:03

the Batala Palace

21:06

for some

21:08

reason, I think it might be in Tibet

21:10

and I think it might be the Dalai

21:12

Lama. That is what

21:15

I was thinking as well. And if

21:18

somebody who can go there as, you know,

21:20

he gets reincarnated, it's like I still got

21:22

that winter home, right? Alright

21:24

cool. And then we go down there and

21:27

it's a good time. I don't know where

21:29

the summer home was, but maybe one's in

21:31

the mountains and one's in the valley or

21:33

something. Yeah, it's important to have options. So

21:35

we're good with locking in with the Dalai

21:37

Lama. That's a really good guess.

21:39

Yeah, we were between the

21:41

Pope and the Dalai Lama and

21:43

we went with the one better known for opulence

21:46

and we went with the Pope. Yeah,

21:49

both good guesses and the

21:51

reason why it stopped in 1959 is because there's

21:53

been an exile since then, it is the Dalai

21:55

Lama. Yeah. Okay.

22:00

category is rugby is

22:02

superior to American football

22:04

in every way. That's

22:06

probably very true. I

22:08

don't disagree. Okay New

22:11

Zealand has the all blacks, Australia has the Wallabies

22:13

and the USA has, do you know, the

22:17

Eagles. No. But what

22:19

nation's rugby

22:25

team is known as Los Pumas even

22:28

though their logo was actually a jaguar

22:30

until last year. Both these

22:32

big cats are apex predators in this country

22:35

which finished 4th at the 2023 Rugby

22:37

World Cup where it's not really important

22:39

to one. Was

22:43

it not New Zealand? It was North

22:45

Zealand. I

22:48

believe it was Australia versus New Zealand is that

22:50

correct? No South Africa. All right. Jeff has written

22:52

down a nation and it's a Spanish-speaking nation which

22:56

I agree

23:01

with. So we're locked in.

23:04

It is a shame that Neil's not here

23:06

for a question that has Puma and Jaguar in

23:09

it. Too bad. He's missing

23:11

out. What's your

23:13

rugby knowledge like Dan? My

23:16

rugby knowledge

23:18

is very

23:20

limited. There you

23:23

go. We're looking South America probably. South America, I

23:25

mean Puma is the same as a mountain lion

23:27

right? I would say I'm in California. Yeah. Probably

23:29

Mexico and but I don't,

23:31

yeah South America, Central America probably

23:33

South America. Yeah.

23:36

My first thought was Argentina.

23:40

I think they have soccer

23:43

clubs named that. It

23:46

sounds familiar so that's

23:48

kind of where I was leaning and

23:51

with your negative point

23:53

information. I think we're good

23:55

luck in it with Argentina. Yeah it sounds good.

23:58

And We. Agree. We

24:01

also think it's Argentina. And

24:03

you're both be correct as it is. Pretty

24:05

good friend. We play nation and the come

24:08

a long way in the last twenty years.

24:10

say. That. Royalty.

24:17

Off clerks Queens Bahamian Rhapsody to not

24:19

include the songs title to the title

24:22

of the song that not of the

24:24

number one spot on the couch as

24:26

and Nineteen Seventy Six What song is

24:29

that. Who can.

24:32

Birds. Very interesting thought. Time

24:34

wise it makes really good

24:36

sense and. I.

24:38

Don't. Wanna sit here mulling over the

24:40

lyrics? To the end of time to

24:42

figure this out so that it was going like been in.

24:46

Well the classic rock is generally one

24:48

of my least informed areas have been

24:50

counties my a woman nonlinear for those

24:52

guys were lucky what one with guns

24:54

were talking unlocking and I was going

24:56

to the lyrics and I went to

24:58

on alert a month Mcdonalds lyrics but

25:00

I keep night I got to the

25:02

part where he says mama mia mama

25:04

mia let me go So now. It's

25:07

gonna be Mama Mia Abba, it's gonna be

25:09

the other may have been a widow me

25:11

be around the same time timeframe many times.

25:13

First on assurance. Love.

25:16

The love that answer were going

25:18

with another answer that we love

25:20

Equally in we're sitting a carry

25:22

on for Korea My wayward son

25:24

who's oh very good yes but

25:26

ah know this is Matt and

25:28

then have it it is Mama

25:30

Mia Well. Him and his

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to. Knock it off the charts.

25:35

And. With their question, you guys point

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to a tight position. so we're eighty

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to eighty right now. It's.

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26:28

do you have in store for us today Ryan? Hey

26:31

yeah okay so for the midpoint today we're

26:33

going to have a round called Vin with

26:35

Vexillology. So we

26:38

have a game where I will give you

26:40

a country with 3 colours and its flag.

26:43

And for 2 points apiece you need to name

26:45

these colours for a maximum of 6.8 flag. But

26:49

here's the catch. It's going to be a

26:51

minefield. So if you get any colours wrong

26:54

you will get no points. You

26:56

do not always have to give 3 guesses, you

26:58

can just give 1 or 2 to hedge your bets. For

27:01

example if I was to say the USA you

27:04

could answer red and white and get 4 points.

27:06

But if you risk it and say red, white

27:09

and yellow you would get 0 points. Does

27:11

that make sense? You fall, you fall. So

27:15

there's going to be basic colours only

27:17

like blue, green, red and no shades

27:19

necessary and there are no repeat combinations.

27:23

And there's going to be 9 for a total of

27:25

60 points which doesn't make sense but

27:27

it will in the end. Okay

27:30

so I'll go through the countries. Country

27:33

number 1 is of course New Zealand. Number

27:36

2 Belgium. Number

27:39

3 is a bit harder so I'll give

27:41

you 2 countries. Gabon and Rwanda. Number

27:45

4 Jamaica. Number

27:47

5 Yemen. Number

27:50

6 Hungary. Number

27:53

7 Chad. Number

27:56

8 another double Estonia and Botswana.

28:00

for number nine South Africa which

28:02

is six colors for 12 points.

28:05

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28:07

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29:46

are back and we have our answers thanks

29:48

to Jeff and I had no

29:50

answers. Jeff had all the answers. So let's

29:53

throw it back to Ryan and see how we did. Great

29:55

okay so the first country was of course New

29:58

Zealand. What did you guys get? Yeah,

30:00

we're gonna go ahead and risk it for the biscuit.

30:02

I guess all of the colors on all of these

30:04

So hopefully we're right and starting with using only said

30:06

red white and blue All right We

30:08

hope Jeff's right on this one because we also said

30:10

red white and blue and you're both

30:13

correct. It's red one and blue Okay,

30:15

number two was Belgium. We

30:18

said red yellow

30:20

and black We

30:22

said blue and yellow. Yeah.

30:24

Well Jeff

30:26

has got that one on the money It

30:28

is would have made might have

30:30

been easier if I'd used the Germany German

30:33

flag, but but yes, it is black red

30:35

and yellow Number

30:37

three and

30:39

Rwanda For

30:42

this one, I think

30:44

this is a more unusual pairing Grouping

30:48

rather we said yellow blue and

30:50

green We again

30:52

we hope Jeff is right because we also said

30:54

green yellow and blue and you

30:56

both nailed it green yellow

30:58

and blue Okay,

31:01

Jamaica Yep,

31:04

one of the few that doesn't have Red

31:06

white or blue on it. We said black green and

31:08

yellow We

31:11

also said black green

31:13

and yellow and you're both

31:15

correct well done Number

31:18

five is Yemen We

31:22

said red white and black We

31:25

just guessed red because we were pretty sure that there's a

31:27

red in it Well,

31:30

you're picking up two points. There is red

31:32

in it. There is also black and white

31:34

so six points for the other team Number

31:38

six is Hungary. Okay, Hungary. We said

31:40

red white and green That

31:45

sounds right. We actually we just went red and yellow

31:47

for Hungary Yeah,

31:49

another one that would have been easier if

31:51

I'd said Italy this is red green and

31:54

white Okay,

31:56

Chad This

31:58

one I remember because it's almost identical to

32:00

the flag of Romania so

32:02

we said red yellow and blue. Again

32:05

we just settle with just red. And

32:08

you'll pick up another two points for that but the

32:11

full colors are blue, red and yellow.

32:14

Jeff is nailing this. Okay. Number

32:17

eight, Estonia and Botswana. I

32:20

don't know Botswana's. Fortunately Estonia I'm pretty

32:23

sure is blue, white and black. It

32:25

has a nice light blue. On

32:28

this one we went just blue and red. We really

32:31

didn't have any idea. Well

32:33

you got one but unfortunately the red

32:36

will cancel that one out and it

32:38

is blue, black and white. Well

32:41

done, Jeff. Interesting. Okay

32:43

and the last one, South Africa, which

32:45

has six colors. Yes,

32:49

so I'm pretty sure it has

32:51

kind of like a Y shape. And

32:56

I think it's got red,

32:58

white and blue along with

33:00

yellow, black and green. This

33:03

one, I have a South

33:05

African magnet on my fridge so it's one that

33:07

I was pretty sure of. So we went with...

33:10

Why? I had a friend who

33:12

went to South Africa and she returned with the magnets. So

33:14

I just have magnets from people that travel for me because I

33:16

don't go anywhere. So we

33:19

have black, red, blue, green, white, yellow.

33:22

Well done. Great. Okay,

33:24

well that's the end of that. And yeah,

33:28

Jeff nailed that. Full marks

33:31

for team Triviality there. All

33:33

right, moving on to the second round. We

33:36

are going in with a slight lead. It

33:38

is 140 to 114 due to Jeff's

33:41

perfect round. And

33:43

as your teammate, I take credit. You

33:46

can have exactly half the credit. Thank you. Ken

33:49

is here too. All right. First

33:52

question of round two, the category is

33:54

Dog Roll Fest. Okay,

33:56

one more New Zealand question. In the US,

33:59

if you are a dog, After some Cheerios, you probably

34:01

get a bowl of Oaty cereal, but here

34:03

in New Zealand you get something very different.

34:06

They're a red-colored finger food that can be served

34:08

hot or cold. And they

34:10

found that pretty much every kid's bird they're partying next

34:12

to some tomato sauce for dipping. What are

34:14

they? Most of

34:16

the red foods I know are tomato based. I

34:19

can't imagine you're just dipping tomatoes in like and

34:21

you wouldn't want to dip something cherry into tomato.

34:23

No. That's not

34:26

true. I don't know. Let's just say it's

34:29

like a chicken nugget or

34:32

a chicken tender. Chicken treat. Chicken

34:39

treat. Okay, so they got chicken

34:41

treats. I'm

34:44

kind of at a loss here. I'm racking my

34:46

brain to think of any like red finger food

34:48

other than like like a mini hot dog, but

34:50

why would you dip that in tomato sauce? Oh

34:54

Like maybe like a like a mini sausage or

34:56

something like that. Why would you put sprinkles on

34:58

bread? That is true. Because it's delicious. You don't

35:00

know what to try, right? It's

35:02

the New Zealand way. I mean, yeah, like

35:05

yeah I mean like like,

35:07

you know, like I was thinking like chicken

35:09

fingers or mozzarella. Like you would dip in

35:11

the tomato sauce, but I don't. Yeah. Listen

35:13

in New Zealand, you're the crazy one, Dan.

35:15

Right. That's true. I

35:18

kind of like like mini sausage

35:20

kind of as a red.

35:23

Why not? Red. Why not? So

35:26

we got a mini sausage and chicken thingies. You

35:28

go to New Zealand and you're like, you know,

35:31

I really want... Are you a guy who

35:33

puts the milk in your Cheerios or you put

35:35

the Cheerios and then the milk and they're like,

35:37

what are you talking about? So

35:39

what is the Cheerio? Tell us. Well,

35:43

it's a little known fact that chickens

35:45

in New Zealand are it's red, but

35:47

no the answer is cocktail sausages. So yeah.

35:50

Oh, you guys are right. I'm

35:53

shocked actually. I kill sausages in red

35:55

sauce. Okay. Okay. All

35:58

right. You don't dip them in tomato sauce. No.

36:01

Well, you probably call it ketchup. Ketchup, yeah. Oh,

36:04

yeah, I guess we do. Oh, okay. Yeah, that

36:06

makes sense. Your tomato sauce is ketchup. Okay, that

36:08

makes more sense, yeah. Because we were talking about

36:10

like a marinara. Marinara sauce.

36:12

Yeah, it's all different. Okay, that makes sense

36:14

now. All right. Question number two, the human

36:16

body. I don't know. I

36:19

don't know. I don't know. I don't

36:21

know. I don't know. I don't know. I

36:24

don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

36:26

I don't know. I don't know. I

36:29

don't know. I just don't know. Okay.

36:33

Hopefully Keanu Reeves stays safe as his

36:35

was removed following a motorcycle accident in

36:40

the 80s. So me and Jeff made a list of

36:42

three things that you can live without. And

36:45

then we picked the one that we don't

36:47

know what it does. So we're left in,

36:49

in regards to internal organs. Yeah. There

36:52

are many things I can live without. I don't, I don't

36:54

think that they're storing red blood cells

36:56

in your tonsils. But

36:58

who knows? So I wrote down,

37:00

I also wrote down three things like those guys,

37:02

like they were talking about. So I wrote down

37:04

gallbladder, spleen, and appendix. Yeah.

37:06

I mean, the appendix, I don't think they really

37:09

know what it does in general. Like I

37:11

think I can rule that one out. I

37:15

know someone who recently just had their appendix

37:17

removed and they said it's basically

37:19

a superfluous organ that it doesn't

37:22

do anything currently. I

37:24

think your gallbladder like has something to do with

37:26

like stomach, it doesn't

37:28

have to do with like digestion or something like that. Yeah.

37:31

Because there's certain foods you can't eat if you have

37:33

your gallbladder removed. Right. Like fried foods

37:35

mess with those types of people, right? I know

37:37

someone who had their gallbladder out. So

37:40

that leaves spleen. I

37:43

don't know anything about a spleen. I

37:45

know like if you're like splenetic, it's like, you know,

37:47

you're like a nasty person or something. But

37:50

yeah, you have a lot of bile. I thought

37:52

it was something to do with bile. I

37:54

don't know what else. So what's

37:56

the question about storing red blood cells? Red

37:58

blood cells. Yeah, I

38:01

don't I mean Please

38:05

you have your spleen removed I guess we can right? I

38:07

don't know I wouldn't but I guess

38:10

if you have to not as an elective,

38:12

but yeah, not on purpose right? Yeah

38:14

Yeah, I don't know what you doing this weekend. I

38:16

don't know maybe I thought I'd get my spleen removed

38:18

maybe Body

38:21

modification Yeah,

38:24

we said spleen although we have to add tonsils

38:27

to our list of three to make it a

38:29

list of four And

38:31

well done to both teams figuring out is

38:33

the spleen All right

38:35

question number three is in movies and

38:38

music in the

38:40

2002 film panic room director

38:42

David Fincher cast country music star Dwight

38:44

Yoakum as Raul a Slightly

38:46

unhinged home invader who breaks into Jodie

38:48

Foster's house with Forest Whitaker and Jared

38:51

Leto However, Dwight wasn't

38:53

finches first choice for the role. He

38:56

really wanted another singer known for fronting

38:58

three rock bands Fincher

39:00

met the singer in 2000 while directing

39:02

the music video for the song Judith the debut

39:04

single for one of his bands Name

39:07

the singer and for five bonus points. What

39:09

are his three bands? Okay,

39:12

we are locked in with the answer

39:14

we think and three bands What

39:17

do you say? My first thought was actually like Jack

39:19

White Yeah,

39:22

because he has the white stripes the raconteurs

39:24

and I forget what there's the third one

39:26

Like is it them crooked vultures

39:28

or something is that Jack White? Oh, yeah And

39:30

I'm also exactly to be a home invaders anything.

39:32

Yeah, and he's got yeah He's kind of say

39:35

the only other person I know it like the

39:37

only other person with three bands of like Eric

39:39

Clapton Had yeah, but he's not

39:41

really an act. He's not really an act. I

39:43

don't see Eric Clapton being like a home and

39:46

He was kind of old for that

39:49

How do they can Chris Cornell? Oh? From

39:53

the bad. Yeah, audio slave Was

39:57

It sound garden and rumble the dog? I'm just gonna help

39:59

you out. Earlier it I knew it.

40:01

I knew that eight hours going to

40:03

sound or maybe neither you know, is

40:05

that excessive? for

40:07

he has a different looks but as he

40:10

really movies though. I. I

40:12

don't know because they are quite was also

40:14

in like he has been so he's also

40:16

been in some other some other countries without

40:18

that doesn't do is that is that. Yeah

40:20

it's all about minimum outlets that's about when

40:23

they got. Popular. Yes,

40:25

he would be new and the scene. But.

40:28

I'm I'm good with lacking the jack wait. For.

40:33

Were gone a little bit of a different

40:35

direction. I think around this time a perfect

40:38

circle was i'm not a banger of an

40:40

album into. The. Singer for A Perfect

40:42

Circles also and Push For and Tool. That.

40:45

So Maynard James Keenan, Yes,

40:47

check why I think played Elvis and

40:50

or had the to a cop story

40:52

but that I don't know what else

40:54

he's acted and. But

40:56

ah yes the correct answer is Maynard James

40:59

Keenan the singer for to lead the definitely

41:01

has it was to say where he looks

41:03

like a home and various see months ago

41:05

me that but I did not name as

41:08

I don't even know that person so yeah

41:10

missing next system. That's a little

41:12

bit and and will have said say needed to

41:14

be the only I'm he's the only. Vineyard.

41:18

Who like wind Vineyard owner that also

41:20

looks like home and wait? For.

41:28

Is superior to baseball in every way. And

41:31

this is from my was team mate Daves.

41:33

Whether it's a five, date, is met, a

41:36

one day game, or even the short version

41:38

twenty Twenty where it only takes about two

41:40

hours to play. As a

41:42

glorious bought. Think about

41:44

explain this. England, Australia, and India

41:46

are least you should as they

41:48

are generally the top ranked. however

41:52

the first ever international game of

41:55

cricket and eight forty fourth none

41:57

of these countries nor any countries

41:59

that played in the 2023 Cricket

42:01

World Cup. For five points

42:03

each, which two countries that share a

42:05

land border played this match? So

42:09

my first thought was

42:11

it be countries

42:13

that had a lot of British

42:16

influence. Yeah, Commonwealth countries. I

42:19

mean, Canada could be Canada and the US. I mean,

42:21

yeah, I was wondering if that was like,

42:26

yeah, baseball is not taken off yet. They're

42:28

like, let's try cricket. Yeah, this doesn't work

42:30

for me. 1844. I

42:32

mean, get

42:35

rid of the wickets. Yeah, I

42:37

like this less wickets. That was the one

42:39

note. I mean, you know, like, yeah, what

42:41

other Commonwealth countries? I mean, it could be

42:43

somewhere in Africa or

42:45

something like one of the colonies. I mean, there's all

42:48

those, you know, Kenya and... Yeah, right.

42:51

There's a lot of territories. In

42:54

1844, I feel pretty confident in locking in

42:58

US and Canada. Yeah, let's

43:01

do that. Well, I guess I

43:03

like a lot. But we,

43:05

I guess we were just thinking about baseball. So

43:08

we said Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Well,

43:12

yeah, Metz got with Cedar in the

43:14

right direction there. Canada and the

43:16

USA. First time used to play an international game

43:18

of cricket. Yeah,

43:22

Canada has played in three World Cups

43:25

the last time in 2011. And but USA has

43:27

never qualified for it. I was thinking cricket. What

43:29

can I say? Here's what we did. We took

43:31

the cricket idea and we rebranded it. And then

43:34

we said we're the world champion for it. USA.

43:38

Okay, moving

43:40

on to question five. And the category is

43:42

crystals. And this is sort of a

43:45

listener submitted question. I needed one more question. So

43:47

during one of Jay Borsum's live streams, I asked

43:49

the chat for ideas. And the first one I

43:51

got was crystals. So here it goes. The

43:54

birthstone for August, Peridot comes in many

43:57

shades depending on its iron levels. But

43:59

all those shades are of a

44:01

single color which color is that okay

44:04

the funny thing about gemstones is and

44:07

birth stones there's only 12 of them you

44:09

think it'd be easy to learn them but

44:11

I never do it's never going to happen

44:14

if it's based on iron levels and it

44:16

could be red okay but I mean my first

44:18

thought was for some reason was green but I don't I

44:20

don't know I don't know I don't know birth stones yeah

44:23

I'm old is one of them but that's obviously

44:25

green but so it's

44:28

probably yeah I like

44:30

I like red that seems

44:32

to make sense you seemed

44:34

like you had some sort of knowledge

44:36

about iron levels iron man

44:39

is red that makes me I think

44:42

I think we lucky with red yeah let's

44:44

go about yeah we're saying red as well

44:46

and Ryan mentioned different shades so could probably

44:48

get down to a nice pink there as

44:51

well but we're saying red well

44:54

Dan should have listened to his gut

44:56

it is green oh no oh crap

44:59

yeah I was

45:01

wild Wow all

45:03

right closing the gaps lightly is baseball

45:05

season they have 144 creeping up on

45:08

us we're at 165 here at football

45:11

season okay

45:13

moving on to question six so

45:17

looking at my questions I realized that they were

45:19

clearly written by a 40 year old white guy

45:21

and I would like to have some questions outside

45:23

my wheelhouse so I asked my seven-year-old

45:26

daughter Emma to help write the last five questions

45:28

and here's what we came up with the

45:31

first one is in the category of

45:33

cheerleading and cheerleading what

45:35

is the typical number of people

45:37

needed for a standard group stunt

45:40

all right we're gonna lock in with a number

45:42

of people hmm they

45:44

have a number of people first it's

45:46

for a group stunt I wrote down like

45:48

three different numbers like three four or five

45:51

but yeah I mean it's probably more than

45:53

maybe it's more than three you know three

45:55

the crowd and four is a group four

45:58

is a group that's That's possible.

46:00

I watched a lot

46:02

of Glee recently. We've been rewatching it

46:04

in the household. There's a lot of

46:06

cheerleading Jane

46:08

Lynch plays Sue Sylvester close personal friend of

46:11

mine showed up at my conglomerate a multiple

46:13

times I

46:15

think that it's three. I think you need

46:17

to have two bases and a flyer for

46:20

a group stunt. That's my guess But

46:25

but it's probably three or four but I think we

46:27

could lock in with three Yeah,

46:30

we're going one more because in

46:33

addition to the lifters and the flyer you probably

46:35

want somebody back there to

46:37

brace you when you come down, so we're

46:39

saying four and The

46:41

logic for team trilog is absolutely right. You can

46:43

handle it with three, but you definitely want someone

46:46

at the back there as well to catch Wow,

46:51

don't break your neck Matt trying group

46:53

stunts by yourself Okay,

46:57

question seven in

47:00

fashion Some

47:02

people hate them, but my daughter loves her Crocs Even

47:05

more though. She loves the cool little colorful attachments. You

47:07

can pop in the holes in the front of the

47:09

shoe Not to be

47:11

confused with the liver heart or gizzard of

47:14

a chicken or turkey. What are these monkey

47:16

accessories known as? I

47:18

can mark in As

47:22

as a manager of mostly 17 to 20 year olds I'm

47:25

also very familiar with these names, but yeah,

47:27

I'm confident with you. We can lock in

47:31

But my first thought was like is it

47:33

giblets and then I was like no that's

47:35

silly. That's the that's the turkey thing What

47:37

is it is a giblet? I might it

47:39

might be the I was of

47:42

course aglets popped to mind But those are on the

47:44

ends of shoelaces and you probably don't have them said

47:46

giblets I would say to say giblets not to giblets

47:48

and call it a day It's

47:52

close. It's close giblets

47:54

giblets giblets no L.

47:56

Yeah Yeah,

47:58

exactly right they just added an extra Allen

48:00

there guys so the music

48:19

group covering popular songs that I am too old

48:21

to appreciate. Not being familiar

48:23

with most of the original versions I

48:25

didn't realize they sometimes alter the lyrics

48:27

to make them more family-friendly until I

48:30

heard the original about that time by

48:32

Lizzo and it turns out it is

48:34

not in fact Kitsapop o'clock. A

48:37

more shocking realization was when I heard

48:39

the original version of the song ABCDEFU

48:42

the 2021 debut single for what modern-name

48:47

teenager singer. The

48:49

song was nominated for song of the year at the 2022

48:52

Grammys and Oprah was not involved. That's

48:55

a good clue we can lock in. Is it

48:58

Gale? You know

49:00

Oprah's friend Gale. It might

49:02

be yeah. Is it either Gale

49:04

or Stedman? Yes. I

49:07

don't think it's Stedman. I think I

49:09

would rather go with Gale as the

49:11

monotone. I know this song and it's

49:13

not my favorite but I swear Kitsapop

49:15

made a version of WAP called Waffles

49:18

and Pancakes and I know I've heard

49:20

it and I cannot find it anywhere

49:22

on the internet now. It's not real.

49:25

No it's definitely it's got to be

49:27

there somewhere because I've heard it. Well

49:29

good luck with that. We'll go with

49:31

Gale. All I'm telling you guys is

49:34

Waffles and Pancakes make this syrup game

49:36

week. Grab your

49:38

syrup, grab your I don't know what else you grab.

49:40

Yeah I'm 100% sure it's Gale. Yeah

49:46

and you're both right it is Gale. We

49:50

do listen to a lot of Kitsapop and I haven't heard a WAP

49:52

version on there anywhere but I'm

49:54

going to keep an eye out

49:56

for it for sure. Moving on to

49:59

question 9. fairy tales. I've

50:02

read a childized version of the Grimm Brothers

50:04

Snow White more times than I can count.

50:07

One notable difference between the original story

50:09

and the animated film is that the

50:11

Evil Queen had two failed attempts on

50:13

Snow White's life before coming up with

50:15

the poisoned apple murder plan. Her

50:18

first attempt used a specific item of

50:20

clothing that you might see at Oktoberfest,

50:22

and the second was a poisoned grooming

50:24

device. Name either of these

50:26

items 14 points, and for 5 bonus points,

50:28

name them both. It's

50:56

possible. Oktoberfest Fashion.

50:59

Outside of Leaderhosen, I got nothing.

51:01

Yeah, Leaderhosen, they have like, I mean, women

51:04

wear like a dirndl or something like the

51:06

skirt or something like this. Okay. I don't

51:08

know. Is that an official name? There's

51:10

a hat? Oh, maybe. They

51:12

have like the hats or something? I don't know. The

51:15

second one, I was thinking like a haircut, like a

51:17

hair comb or something like that. It's probably, it's either,

51:19

it's a hairbrush or a comb

51:22

or something like that. They're really

51:24

trying to scare kids away from brushing their hair at

51:26

the time, or whatever it's called. More

51:28

of a story, for sure. What else could be from, from like, I

51:30

mean, there's a beer stein, but I don't know, it's not at all

51:32

a Oktoberfest. Yeah, is that

51:35

Das Boot? Is it a

51:37

boot? What do the women wear like this? What

51:41

do the women wear? And I don't think they just

51:43

wear like a peasant skirt or something? I don't know.

51:45

Yeah. I hate your poison, the skirt though. I mean,

51:47

they... I'm just picturing St. Paulie's girl, and I don't

51:49

know. I have nothing. Of course

51:51

it's. So, so,

51:54

leader, leader, hosin,

51:56

and a brush. That's what we got

51:58

over here. All right,

52:00

we're gonna go with the comb for the

52:04

for the Grooming item for

52:07

the piece of clothing. I wrote girdle,

52:09

but I think corset is the more

52:12

proper name, but yeah the the

52:15

girdle corset thing Okay,

52:18

and so yes the you both

52:20

got out. It is a comb But

52:22

I'll expect right as well The

52:26

other the item of clothing is

52:28

a laced bodice, so I guess I

52:30

will accept corset for that. It's very

52:32

similar. Yes Alright, so on that

52:34

one Baseball will be

52:37

getting ten points for getting the

52:39

the hair grooming device Somewhat

52:41

correctly and we'll be getting

52:43

the full points for getting comb

52:46

correct and getting the other one mostly

52:48

correct so 15 points

52:50

for us and 10 for you guys Very

52:53

good last question of the

52:56

regulation. Let's have a round

52:58

about animals So Emma's favorite

53:01

animals are dolphins. Let's play

53:03

two truths and a lie dolphin edition Can

53:06

you pick out which of the following three things

53:08

about dolphins is not true? Number

53:10

one dolphins can recognize themselves in

53:12

the mirror Number two

53:14

dolphins have no sense of hearing number

53:16

three dolphins are born tail first Okay,

53:21

we're locked in hmm All

53:24

right, so we can probably I think we can rule

53:26

out the first one I'm pretty sure that they do

53:28

recognize themselves in the mirror. Yeah, I think that's right.

53:30

I think I've heard that Otherwise

53:33

Matt has really wasted the aquarium Number

53:40

two Do they

53:42

use a location? Because they

53:44

use echolocation, I think that

53:47

you would think that they don't have hearing but I

53:49

bet they do Still have

53:51

some sort of hearing Yeah,

53:55

I've never seen and I've never seen videos of

53:57

dolphin birth so I couldn't tell my number one

54:00

search on YouTube dolphin birth

54:03

not so much I

54:06

feel like I feel like it's the the

54:08

hearing one because you would think that it

54:11

that game theory would suggest that that one

54:13

seems like the easy answer

54:15

that you know what I mean that's not true

54:18

yeah I

54:20

think that they can hear I think they've been lying to us the

54:22

whole time okay so you're going

54:24

with they can hear yes look Matt

54:27

would never watch any illicit dolphin stuff

54:29

on porpoise all

54:34

right so you guys are going with they can

54:37

actually hear and we're gonna say

54:39

the same thing and Jeff added

54:41

to his paper they masturbate me

54:43

to Jeff that's

54:47

on porpoise and

54:50

yes you're both correct they do have the

54:52

sense of hearing however they do not have

54:54

a sense

54:56

of smell and

54:59

that brings us to the end of

55:02

regulation it's 210 for

55:04

football season and 184 for

55:07

baseball season so as we like to

55:09

say it's anybody's game and it'll come

55:11

down to the wagers Ryan what are our

55:13

final round categories so for

55:15

the final round we're going back to New Zealand I've

55:17

got five questions about various

55:19

areas we've got number one is

55:21

New Zealand Oscar winners question

55:24

two is New Zealand nature question

55:27

three is New Zealand science question

55:29

four is New Zealand animals and

55:31

question five is New Zealand

55:34

sport all right the other team is

55:36

wagering 30s all the way down

55:38

they want to get crazy well we're feeling

55:40

a little crazy too we're doing 30s all

55:42

the way down but we're not gonna put

55:44

30 on sports are you crazy we're saying

55:46

zero so let's go ahead and have the

55:48

questions and get a really easy sports question

55:50

at the end that totally

55:52

cost us the game that cost all right

55:56

Christian one in New Zealand Oscar winners New

55:59

Zealand is it quite a few Oscar winners

56:01

like Peter Jackson, Brent McKenzie and Taika

56:03

Waititi. Who was the

56:05

most recent New Zealand-born Best Director Oscar

56:07

winner winning in 2022? Though

56:10

they lost their adapted screenplay nomination that

56:13

year. This is almost a flip from

56:15

the 1993 Oscars where

56:17

they won the screenplay Oscar, this time

56:19

for original work, and lost the director

56:21

Oscar to some guy named Steven Spielberg.

56:25

Number two, New Zealand

56:27

Nature. Also the

56:29

name of our National Women's Netball Team and

56:31

found on pretty much all of our National

56:33

Sports uniforms, New Zealand's national plant

56:35

is a fern, named for which

56:38

somewhat unusual foliage color on the underside

56:40

of its leaves. To

56:42

be clear, I'm looking for the color, not the plant name. Question

56:47

three, New Zealand Science. Add

56:49

the first name of a Nobel Prize-winning

56:51

American author and the surname of

56:54

Billie Eilish's ex and you get

56:56

New Zealand's first Nobel Prize winner who

56:58

won in 1908 for postulating the

57:01

nuclear structure of the atom, discovering

57:03

alpha and beta rays and proposed

57:06

the laws of radioactive decay. Name

57:09

this man after who the 104th element on

57:12

the periodic table is named for and

57:14

I will accept just the surname. Question

57:17

four, New Zealand Animals. With

57:19

amazing creatures like kiwi birds, tauatara

57:22

lizards and Maui dolphins, New

57:24

Zealand has some amazing native animals but

57:27

only one native land mammal called

57:29

Pika Pika and Maui. There

57:32

are two species of this animal, a short-tailed

57:34

and a long-tailed and both are

57:36

endangered. What type of animals are

57:38

these? And question

57:40

five in New Zealand Sport. You

57:43

may be familiar with Steven Adams, New

57:46

Zealand's most famous basketballer who currently plays

57:48

for the Memphis Grizzlies. But

57:50

did you know he also has a

57:52

famous sporting half-sister in Dame Valerie Adams,

57:55

who has won two Olympic golds, a silver

57:57

and a bronze in which track and field

57:59

event. Alright, we

58:01

have our questions, we'll be back and hopefully

58:04

have some correct answers. Welcome

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1:00:23

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1:00:25

you take it away with question one of the final. Okay

1:00:28

so the first question of the

1:00:31

final round was basically who was

1:00:33

the most recent New Zealand born

1:00:35

Best Director Oscar winner? So

1:00:38

I think it's the power

1:00:40

of the dog director. I remember

1:00:42

it's a female director. I

1:00:45

think probably the other

1:00:47

movie was maybe the piano but the name

1:00:50

is not coming to me so I can't

1:00:52

pull it. All

1:00:54

right well we actually Matt

1:00:57

actually came up with the name of the movie was

1:00:59

the power of the dog and I'm like oh yeah

1:01:01

I saw that movie who directed it? It's Jane Campion

1:01:03

and she also directed the piano as you said. Yeah

1:01:09

I watched that movie at 1.5 speed and

1:01:11

it looked like a normal movie after that.

1:01:14

All

1:01:19

right so question number two

1:01:21

in New Zealand nature. What

1:01:23

color names our national plant? We

1:01:28

said blue and we said

1:01:30

purple. Well

1:01:33

both good colors but if you know

1:01:35

anything about our sports teams we always

1:01:37

have a big silver fern on our

1:01:39

hearts. It's a silver. Oh

1:01:42

yeah. Oh yeah duh.

1:01:46

That seems so obvious in hindsight. That wasn't good Jeff. It's

1:01:48

not looking good. See if we can turn it around. Well

1:01:51

you might get the sports fun right? Yeah. I

1:01:55

don't know if we can help

1:01:57

you out. Anyway,

1:02:01

in question number three in New Zealand science,

1:02:03

who was New Zealand's first Nobel Prize winner?

1:02:06

I didn't realize he was from New

1:02:08

Zealand, but I'm pretty sure

1:02:11

this is Ernest Rutherford. Yep,

1:02:14

I came at it from the Billie Eilish

1:02:16

X angle. Dan knew some science. We

1:02:18

said Rutherford. I'm

1:02:21

very happy that you guys got that one. I was

1:02:23

worried it might be too hard, but yes, the answer

1:02:25

is Ernest Rutherford, who's also on our $100 bill, by

1:02:27

the way. Alright,

1:02:31

question number four in New Zealand

1:02:33

animals, what is New Zealand's only

1:02:35

native land mammal? We

1:02:38

think the Riddler might not like this animal

1:02:40

very much. We said the bat. We

1:02:44

actually went with the lemur. I'm hoping. Well,

1:02:49

I wish we had lemurs, but unfortunately we

1:02:51

don't. One thing we do

1:02:53

have though are bats. And yeah, so

1:02:55

well done to you guys. Alright,

1:02:59

and the last question in New Zealand

1:03:01

sport, what event did Dame Valerie Adams

1:03:03

win Olympic medals in? We

1:03:07

don't know and we did not wait her. Let's

1:03:10

say Javelin. We

1:03:12

thought actually something similar. Steven

1:03:15

Adams is a really big strong guy. We think

1:03:17

she might be a big strong gal and maybe

1:03:19

she does some shot put. She

1:03:22

is a big strong girl and she did do some shot

1:03:24

put. Oh my God.

1:03:27

Wow. Between then weightlifting and the... Nice

1:03:29

call. Yeah. Well, I

1:03:31

was hoping you weren't going to say weightlifting because that's not normally

1:03:33

a track and field event. Oh yeah. Can we

1:03:36

lose my four point? Yeah. So

1:03:42

after a little bit of math,

1:03:45

my disappointments can't be quantified in

1:03:47

points, but it is 214 to

1:03:51

210 and baseball just squeaked

1:03:53

it out right at the last question

1:03:55

there. You are today's cream of the

1:03:57

crop. matter

1:04:00

I'm better than you are. We

1:04:04

hit the home run the fireworks are

1:04:06

going off. Unjustifiably in a position I'd

1:04:08

rather not be in today. We can

1:04:10

be quantified by four points. That's your

1:04:13

disappointment. Four points worth of disappointment. But

1:04:16

it was a great game. It was a

1:04:18

fun game. I appreciated all those great questions

1:04:20

and we learned a little bit about New

1:04:22

Zealand today. Thanks to Ryan. Ryan,

1:04:25

any final words for you today? Well

1:04:27

just thanks for having me and

1:04:29

for trusting me to have hosting duties. And

1:04:33

thank you to the playtakers, especially Louis who had

1:04:35

a great feedback and I think it really helped

1:04:37

make the game better.

1:04:40

And I guess I'd just like to give a shout out

1:04:42

to my family, my wife Cindy and my two year old

1:04:44

son Denny. But especially to the only

1:04:46

one of them that will actually listen to this

1:04:48

and that's Emma who's my

1:04:50

favourite quiz team mate. She

1:04:52

loves coming to the pub with me and playing along

1:04:54

and she actually gets a few right here and there.

1:04:56

So I think she's going to be a good quizzer

1:04:58

in the future. Thanks for listening

1:05:00

Emma. And couldn't

1:05:02

have had a great game without great competition.

1:05:05

Matt and Dan, you pulled out the

1:05:08

win. Dan, any final parting shots from

1:05:10

you today? Well shout out to my

1:05:12

wife of the last 30 years, Donna

1:05:15

and my children Nico and Leah

1:05:18

who may or may not listen. I don't know. One of

1:05:20

them is

1:05:23

Ryan. And shout out to Ryan. You wrote a

1:05:25

great game. I really enjoyed it. All

1:05:30

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1:05:32

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1:06:09

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1:06:11

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1:06:13

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