Close Finally Counts for Something | 26.3.5

Intro

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Welcome to Quizzical, the trivia show where knowing a little bit about a lot can take you surprisingly far. I'm Scott, and today the bracket is complete. Over the last four weeks, four contestants have survived head-to-head battles and one head-to-head-to-head battle. They've navigated obscure facts and successfully remembered things they learned once and never expected to need again. Now they're back for a final showdown. Four winners, one champion, and approximately zero guarantees that anyone will remember the capital of anything when the pressure hits. Today's games will test their knowledge and their patience and are a little different than the head-to-head competitions of the last four weeks. We will have three games today. The winners of each of the first two games will earn an advantage for the third final elimination game, where the last man standing wins and will be crowned the third quizzical champion. Now let's meet

Contestant Introductions

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our returning contestants. From episode one, we have Luca, who is now a high school junior and knows more about cooking than he thought he did, apparently.

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Yes, indeed.

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Welcome back, Luca.

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Hi, glad to be back.

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Are you enjoying the summer and being off school?

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Yeah, I am. It's very hot out, though.

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Very hot, yes. You've been having football practice, I know. So in the heat. But at least you spend in the morning, which isn't quite as Yeah, it does help a little bit. Alright, and from episode two, we have Missing a Few Cards, who had the added challenge of defeating two competitors in his head-to-head to head episode. Welcome back, missing.

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Thank you very much. Looking forward to it.

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Uh, if you've been staying busy making puzzles, teaching people about puzzles.

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We uh passed a thousand puzzles of ours on the website earlier this year. We're still putting out a puzzle a day. So missingdeck.net is where you can find all of our puzzles.

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Awesome. Yes, you and full deck. That's cool. Yes, the the is that the better half, I assume you have to say yes.

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So of course. Uh much better. Although I beat her in the quizzical.

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Oh, that's true. That's true. Yep. I'm sure she probably let you win, right? Oh no. No, no, I'm definitely not. No, I I fluked it. Though it was a really close one. It was very it went down to the wire. Yeah. Absolutely. Last question. Next up from episode three is Chris, who likes to slip math history into the trivia nights that he runs. Welcome back, Chris. Audi. Have you put any math history in any trivia questions recently?

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Not as much math history, but I keep trying to put in actual math problems, and people keep yelling at me about that, so I keep trying to get creative with it. And uh one did recently that I kind of enjoyed, uh Houston. We've had a math problem. Uh Apollo 11 was the first time we landed on the moon. Apollo 17 was the last. How many times did we land on the moon? That's a little bit tricky because Apollo 13 did not land.

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Exactly. It's not. It's well well, and what's funny about that is some people would do 17 minus 11 and get six, which is really just wrong math. The right answer, but the wrong way to do the math.

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And the thing is, they don't have to show their work, and I'm not allowed to take points for that on the trivia.

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But so the people that know the answer and don't know how to do math are gonna get it right. And the people that kind of know how to do math but don't know the right answer are gonna get it wrong, probably.

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Look, either way, as long as we have fun, that's what that's what matters.

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Right. That's all that matters. That's right. It doesn't matter how you get the answer, as long as you get the answer. Yeah.

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Chris, a suggested math trivia question for you. Who first studied the Fibonacci numbers?

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It seems like Fibonacci should be the answer.

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Oh well. It's probably not. Oh no, it's that that's a perfect example of uh uh Stigler's law of uh eponyms, which is you know, anything named after somebody is probably not the right person to be named after.

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Um the one with documented writing about them is uh Pingala, who was uh an Indian mathematician of many hundreds of years before Fibonacci himself, whose name was actually Leonardo. Yes.

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Nice. All right, and finally, from last week's episode four, Jack, who doesn't want to go to outer space, just send other people there. Welcome back, Jack.

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Thanks for having me back, Scott.

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Jack is studying to be an aerospace engineer, but he said he doesn't want to be an astronaut.

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Very different things.

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Yes, yes. Not enough of an adrenaline junkie, I think is what you said. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:38

I'll build the rockets and design the rockets, but I'll get my hygiene maneuvers from roller coasters.

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Yeah, I think you've only got a semester left, right? Is that if I remember correctly?

SPEAKER_00 4:47

Yes. I will be done in December.

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So you're interested in rockets rather than planes?

SPEAKER_00 4:53

Uh I yeah, rockets. I'd prefer rockets over planes, but they're both still very interesting.

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I grew up with a lot of stuff about Harriers floating around the uh vertical takeoff and landing jet. My father worked on for many years.

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Very cool. All right, so now that we all are reintroduced, or I guess introduced to each other for the first time, because you weren't all on the same episode. So are we ready to get going?

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Yeah.

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Do we have a choice? No, you don't. All right, so let's get quizzical.

Game 1 - 'Jump in any time'

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All right, so for our first game today, this is called Jump In Anytime. I will read a series of clues in order from most vague to most specific. You can buzz in at any time to guess, but if you're wrong, then you can't guess again on that question. So the person with the most points at the end of this round will earn a mulligan for the elimination round. So I'm just gonna read a few clues. I'll pause for a couple seconds in between, and it's gonna start vague and get more specific. And if you think you know, you buzz in, and that's all there is to it. It could be uh a thing, a place, an event, a person, it could be anything. I'm gonna describe something. Make sense? Yep. Alright. Question one: a protest. Ships in a harbor. Ooh, looks like Chris was first, just ahead of Luca. Yeah, the uh Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party is correct. Very good. Very good, Chris. Yep, then I had 1773, colonists, yep. Very nice. Okay, next question technological failure Eastern Europe. Ooh, Luca. Chernobyl. The Chernobyl disaster, yes, very good. Quick on the buzzer there. Nice. Okay, next question. Science fiction. A doctor. Jack.

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Doctor Who?

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It is not Doctor Who. You fell into my trap. Good, good, good thought though. Luca also buzzed in. Luca? You were probably also gonna say Doctor Who, weren't you? Uh Doctor Strange. Doctor Strange is incorrect. Missing a few cards has buzzed in. Doctor Jekyll and Mr.

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Hyde.

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Not Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Free one for Chris then.

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I see part of me wants to take a guess right here, and part of me wants to hear the rest of it.

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Well, what are you gonna- what's your decision?

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I'm gonna I'm gonna hear the rest of it, but I'm gonna say what I would guess right now if I was going to guess. Okay. Uh Dr. Manhattan. I'm not gonna tell you if that's where you hear the rest of it.

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Okay. So next is a teenager.

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1985. A time machine. Okay.

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Okay, Chris? They were talking uh Marty McFly and Doc Brown and Back to the Future.

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Back to the Future, very good. Yeah, you guys all fell into the trap of jumping into the Doctor things.

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Yeah, I I did have the thought, it's like it might be worth taking a bet, but then all the others came in. It's like I'll just Yep. Yeah.

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Yep. I originally had written a teenager and then a doctor, and I was like, I'll put doctor first and that'll throw them off. Alright, next one. A premonition. 1932 Chicago. Chris. Dave Ruth's called shot. Very good, yes. Alright. Next question Obsession. First person narrative. Chris. Lolita. Not Lolita.

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Next is a novel. The sea.

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Missing a few cards. Old man in the sea. Not old man in the sea, it's a good guess. Luca also buzzed in. Luca, what do you got?

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Uh that was also gonna be my guess, but I'll just go, uh, Moby Dick.

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Yeah, I go. Moby Dick is correct. Very good.

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The last clue is gonna be a white whale. Yeah. Yeah, I I don't know. I don't know. Alright. It's not the like, because then you go into the obsession, and that's not the narrator. So that's right. I I do like that trickiness. Yep. Yep. Alright, next question.

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Transportation. Record setter. Jack.

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Oh, this is probably gonna be a shot in the guitar. The Burlington setter.

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No, no. Not a bad guess. Alright, continuing on.

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1937. Aviation. Oh, Chris.

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Chris snuck in just in front of Luca.

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I don't know if that's the right year, but Charles Lindbergh and his transatlantic flight. I don't think that's a good idea.

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Incorrect. It's a good guess, but that's incorrect. Luca, you buzzed in as well.

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I I gotta be honest, I had no idea. Um Amelia Earhart? Amelia Earhart is correct.

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What do you know? Very good. This is our final question. Migration. North America. Luca.

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Uh jumping in early. Sean the Dark. Just trying to get the point. Uh the Monarch Butterfly.

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Monarch Butterfly is a good guess, but is incorrect. No. Not a bad guess. 1849. Chris. The California Gold Rush. California Gold Rush is correct. The 49ers are named after that. Yep.

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Yeah, I wouldn't have got that anyway.

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Alright. Well, great job, all of you, but the winner of that game with four points was Chris earning him a mulligan for the elimination round. Luca was close behind with three points. Close one. It was worth jumping.

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I thought you were gonna get it there on that. Like I'm just sitting here, like, please let somebody not name Luca button. I tried.

A message from Scott

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Um, actually for a couple more weeks because uh the other news is we are going to be taking a break for a couple of weeks as I am trying to get some more episodes recorded. And on that note, if you are interested in being a contestant, we would love to have you. Please go to quizzical.fm and sign up to be a contestant. And if you have recently signed up to be a contestant, please check your email because I have been trying to get in touch with several people to schedule some recordings and have not been having much luck. So if you know someone who would like to be a contestant on Quizzical, send them to quizzical.fm to sign up so that we can keep making these and hopefully we will be back in a couple of weeks with another new episode. And in the meantime, you can go back to last week's episode if you missed the listener question and you still have time to submit your answer for that. So you could be the next people's champion.

Game 2 - 'Close Enough'

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Alright, our second game today is called Close Enough. In this game, I will ask you for a number that you definitely don't know specifically. You're all gonna write down your guesses, and then the closest answer will get a point. And whoever has the most points at the end of the game will earn a mulligan for the final round. And the closest will get a point. It's not where this is not uh the price is right, so it's not the closest without going over, it's just the closest. So, all right, first question is how many combined calories are there in a Big Mac, a large fries, and a large not diet soda from McDonald's? Big Mac, large fry, and a large soda from McDonald's. How many calories? So once you have it written, everyone, once everybody's written it down, then we'll have you hold them up and uh all right, everybody got their answer. Alright. Hold them up and Jack, what do you got? I put 1450. 1450, Luca? 1800. Chris? 1570.

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I'm way over those. 3750.

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3750. Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, you guys thought that it was worse than it was. It's 1333. So Jack, I believe, is the closest on that one. Very good. Very good. All right, next question. Oh, this is according to NASA. So maybe Jack will have an advantage on this one, or maybe not. I don't know. All right, next question. According to NASA, as of March 2025, how many confirmed moons are there in our solar system? Oh, sh.

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So how are how are we how far are we defining solar systems?

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And how are we defining moons?

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This is just what NASA says, as far as this is how NASA defines it. That's what I'm going with. Their site says this is how many moons there are in our solar system. Confirmed.

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I would assume by moons they mean planet moons.

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I don't think this is limited to just planets.

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Oh, it's not limited. Moonets, moons, so like exoplanets, probably not.

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This could include dwarf planets, transneptunian objects, any a moon of any of those things. A moon of unusual size.

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This is a question on QI a few years ago, specifically about moons of the earth. And on three separate shows, I think they had uh the answers of one, two, and seventeen.

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Moons of the earth. That should be easy. How many klaxons, though?

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Like it they got claxons many times on those.

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You know, that's the kind of question where you're like, well, I know the answer is the earth has one, but I'm probably gonna get a claxen because that seems like the obvious you're afraid to guess the the answer that you're sure is right.

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So except the third time they asked it, the answer was one.

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Alright, everybody got an answer. All right, let's hold them up and we'll start with you, Jack, again. What do you got, Jack? 190. 190, Luca? Uh 100. 100, Chris? 269. 73. All right. Well, according to NASA, there are 891 moons. I had 269. Yeah. Yeah, I think Chris had the most, so he's gonna be the closest. Yep.

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I I think I'm an example of the wisdom of crowds really not applying.

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Yeah, this is a that's a that's true. This is a good one of that. It doesn't really work. Yeah, they're they're including um all of them. I think there's I think there's like 400 just from planets. 400 some just from planets. Yeah. I think Jupiter itself has over a hundred.

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See, I I I remember Jupiter had a lot, but I didn't think it was that many, and I didn't think the other planets had that many either. So I was like Saturn and Jupiter both have a ton.

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It's like Jupiter has over a hundred for sure.

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Holy cow, that's where I went wrong. Saturn has over or Saturn has 292 confirmed.

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Wow. Yeah, there you go. Just by itself. So, yeah, and if you're counting all the dwarf planets and transneptunian objects and all that stuff, then yep. Yeah, it's a lot. So, all right, cool. Next question. The 2026 London Marathon saw the first sub-two-hour official time run by Sebastian Saw. The question is, how many people finished after Sebastian? So basically, how many people ran the London Marathon?

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And finished.

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And finished. How many people finished the London Marathon this year? I'll tell you this, it's a smaller number than the number that started the race. Thanks, Scott.

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That helps. Here's the thing, is as I ran Tokyo earlier this year, and like I I I don't remember how many people were in that race either, but like, you know, that's one of the you know, like the it's the world majors there, and so that should be comparable.

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I believe this could be wrong, but I believe this London marathon set a new record for the most people in one marathon. That might not be true, but I th I think I saw that. That changes my answer a little bit. Yeah, hold on, because I'm trying to remember, because like I know by the way, sub two hour marathon is insane. Yeah. The speed that he was going, I I I don't remember. I saw it somewhere, but basically he averaged per 400 meters. His average was like just over a minute.

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Yeah, it's 17 seconds for every hundred meter gets you in at right about where he finished, gets that because that's yeah, so it would be sixty eight.

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Does that you know a hundred times or whatever? That's not a hard almost, yeah. Over a hundred times, yeah, yeah.

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You wonder your answer. You said you wanted to know how many people finished the race or started the race. Finished the race. All right, I still don't think this is the right answer, but does that change your answer much? Uh by about a factor of two, but like we're gonna go. Okay.

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All right, everybody hold up your answer. That I don't uh remember this. We'll let Jack go first again. What do you got, Jack? 57 and a half, 57,500. Luca.

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Uh 700. 700. Chris. Uh, I went for 26,195, which missing a few cards has fifty uh what is it?

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5215. 5,215. All right. Well, the correct answer, I'll tell you first that 60,512 people started the race. I was somebody started the race. And the number that finished the race was 59,829. Almost all of them did.

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So I thought marathons were way smaller than that.

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Very good. About 700 or so didn't finish. So Jack gets that one. Well done there.

SPEAKER_00 20:20

I the only reason I knew I mean you said it was more than any other marathon. I remember that the Boston marathons about 25,000 people and just went, all right.

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Uh yep. And actually, I said 59,829 finished. 59,830 finished, but the question was how many finished after the winner? So 59,829. Yep. All right, very good. Next question. Though most people might think it's Takembe Matumbo, who's in second, Hakeem Elijawan is the NBA's all-time leader in career blocks. How many blocks did he have? And some people are trying to figure out what order of magnitude to even go with here, right?

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Well, I I haven't watched baseball since um Wayne Greske. He had a great um, he had a great punch.

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See, like like there's a certain generation of people that only know Dekembe Matombo from the um Geico ads, you know, where they're trying to know the Lion King.

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Very nice. Alright, everybody got an answer?

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Give me one second. I'm doing some math here.

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Yep.

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Math is hard.

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Alright. Alright. Hold them up and Jack, you can start. What do you got? Sixteen thousand. Sixteen thousand. Lucas says five hundred and seventeen. Okay. Chris says sixty seven sixty seven. Sixty seven sixty seven. And missing a few cards has twenty thousand. 20,000. All right. All all reasonable guesses, really. Um, the answer was 3,830, which is that is that me or Chris?

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That would be me, because I'm just under 3,000 away, and Luca would be just over 3,000 away.

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Yeah, I'd be close.

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You said 3,800, right?

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3,830. Yep. So Chris gets that one. Alright. Next question. The world record for the human long jump is 29 feet 4 14 inches. What is the farthest a horse has ever jumped, according to the Guinness World Records? So horse long jump, what's the world record? Human is 29.8. 29 feet four and a quarter inches is human. 294. And I'll tell you the horse's name was something. Like literally something was the name of the word. That's some horse. That's which which feels like they were they were ready to do the competition and they said, Well, you gotta have a name, and they're like, Ah, I don't know, just put something down. That's all right. Everybody got an answer written now? Yeah. Yeah. Looks like Chris is maybe still riding.

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Yeah, I'm gonna change that. No, I'm gonna keep it. I'm gonna keep it where I had it. So I have no idea what I'm doing here.

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Yeah, I mean, it's a little bit of a wild guess, isn't it? Yeah.

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Well, I would hope the horse is not a wild horse, but well, that's not maybe it was.

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I don't know. Alright, hold him up and Jack. What do you got? I put 53 feet. 53 feet, Luca?

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I said 29-4.

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That's exactly what I said. Chris also said 29-4. Wow. Well, 29-4 and a quarter, but because a quarter, and Luca was 29-4.

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So I guess they're not exactly the same. Yep. Missing a few cards has looks like 68 feet. Yep. All right. Well, the answer, Luca will be happy to know, is 27 feet, 6.7 inches. So that quarter inch that you had there, Chris, gives Luca the point of the colour.

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I'm just going to put the same number you gave us. So right, right.

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Horses can't be. And they did, they did, it was 6.7 inches. I mean, they had it down to the tenths of an inch. So I fear slightly. Yeah, surprisingly, horse long jump is less than people long jump. I would have assumed.

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I'm going to say about a hundred jump five meters is the maximum distance because like horses are faster than humans, but they take longer to get up to that top speed. And so somewhere around 100 to 100.

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And being faster doesn't necessarily make you jump farther. Because they're part of the problem is they've got all four legs. And you when you do high jump or long jump, I mean, it's wherever the back thing lands. Yeah.

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So that's probably somewhere up to 100 is where a human can beat a horse in a race. Um not me.

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Alright, we got one more question. The first commercial passenger airline flight, airplane flight, took place in 1914 and cost the only passenger $400, which is about $8,500 today. How long did that flight last? The first commercial passenger airplane flight, how long did it last? This is another good one for the the aerospace, future aerospace mission. I don't like my odds of winning this round.

SPEAKER_00 25:29

By commercial, does this mean city to city?

SPEAKER_04 25:32

Commercial probably means they had to pay for they weren't they weren't like a pilot, they weren't a military person, they were paying for someone to fly them. A joyrike, presumably.

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Alright.

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1914. This was definitely like a you know, we're gonna start doing these things, so somebody has to be the first. We're gonna do the first one, the press is gonna be there. There were 3,000 people there to watch it happen. To to watch them take off, at least. They weren't there for the whole flight, obviously. Is that a hint? Is that an obviously? Well, I mean, even if you flew for 30 seconds, you'd be probably far enough away that they wouldn't still be there.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

Not if they landed at the same landing strip. Well, that's true.

SPEAKER_04 26:22

That's true. But this was this was I'm paying you to take me from A to B, basically. First commercial airline flight.

SPEAKER_03 26:31

Are we we're going time, right?

SPEAKER_04 26:33

Yes. How long did it last? In what time units? In seconds, minutes, hours, days, whatever you think is really. It is A to B though. It is A to B. They took off from one place and they landed in another place.

SPEAKER_02 26:48

So the great thing about flights back then is like they didn't have to do this whole security thing. Like they can just like walk up, get on the plane, and they could land in a field. Yes. I mean, you can still do that today. I wouldn't recommend it, but all right.

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Everybody got an answer?

SPEAKER_00 27:08

Yeah.

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Alright, hold them up. We'll have Jack start again. We'll have the aerospace engineer start us.

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27 minutes.

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27 minutes. Okay, Luca? 25 minutes. 25 minutes, Chris. 13 minutes. 13 minutes. Missing a few cards has 32 minutes. Well, the correct answer is 23 minutes, which I think gives it to Luca.

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There we go.

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Uh, which means we have a three-way tie. So we're gonna do one more. And missing a few cards can answer if he wants, but really it's the other three that we need to know. That we need to know between. So, Chris, Luca, and Jack, whoever gets this one will get the mulligan. What is the current world record beer mile time? Now, a beer mile involves drinking a 12-ounce beer before a quarter mile lap four times in a row. So you drink a beer, run a lap, drink a beer, run a lap four times. What's the current record time? And if it helps, it's held by a Canadian.

SPEAKER_02 28:14

See, uh, so I have I have thoughts about the beer mile, because like they like they try to get like the real like low alcoholic ones for that. And I feel like that's copping out.

SPEAKER_01 28:24

Like it should be a British pint.

SPEAKER_04 28:26

Well, if you run it fast enough, it's not really starting to take effect yet, probably. But but you still have to stop and drink the thing.

SPEAKER_02 28:33

Yeah, so I mean but it should be a British pint rather than a a short I I feel like it should be a yard of ale, just a yard of ale every time. A boot.

SPEAKER_01 28:40

They have to drink a boot before every but it it should also be British beer because that's not as fizzy and you can actually run on it.

SPEAKER_02 28:48

But that seems like another cop out to me. I'll say, like, I'm part of a run club that uh occasionally does a tequila mile. Which there you go. Like now you're getting a little more fun.

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Alright, everybody got an answer? Yeah. Alright, hold them up. Let's see what you got. Jack? Four minutes 45. 445. Okay, Luca. 440. 440. 447. 447 for Chris. And missing a few cards is thrown in 630. Well, the correct answer is 427, which gives it to Luca. So, Luca, great job, everyone. Everybody did a good job. The winner of that game was Luca, which means Luca has a mulligan for the elimination round. So Chris and Luca each have a mulligan. All right, that helps me. All right. Now, with that, it's time for the main event where we will find out who will be the champion and who will say, I was so close. Good luck, the three of you. Well, you're still in it. You should have a mulligan. You and Jack don't have a mulligan.

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You guys are still in it.

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Today's elimination

Game 3 - 'State Nicknames'

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round is called State Nicknames. I will give you a U.S. state nickname, and you simply need to name the state. Okay, and as I said, we'll be playing the spelling bee style, so we'll take turns, and if you miss a question, the next person will have a chance to answer the same one. And if they get it right, you're eliminated. So we're gonna start with uh Luca. Okay. Luca, yours is the Aloha State. Uh Hawaii, I hope. Hawaii, very good. Okay. Missing a few cards. Yours is the Lone Star State. Texas. Texas, very good. Next up is Chris with the Grand Canyon state.

SPEAKER_02 30:40

Oh, that's um that's uh Arizona. Yeah, I hope. That's that should not have taken that long, but Jack, the Empire State.

SPEAKER_04 30:52

That's New York. New York, yes. Very good. Okay, back around to Luca. Okay. I started with the easy ones, so Luca, the golden state. California. California. Missing uh the cornhusker state. Nebraska. Nebraska. Chris, you have the sunshine state. Sunshine state is Florida? Correct. Very good. Jack, the Buckeye State. That's Ohio. Ohio, very good. Alright. Everybody's doing good so far. Luca, the Peach State. Georgia. Very good. Missing, the garden state. New Jersey. New Jersey, very good. Chris, you have land of Lincoln. Like Ill um Illinois? Illinois, yeah. Chris uh happens to have a shirt on that says Illinois on it. So how about that? Despite not living there, but I'm from there, so it counts. Yeah, okay, that works. Jack, you have the first state.

SPEAKER_00 32:09

Uh I believe it's Vermont.

SPEAKER_04 32:12

It is not Vermont. Oh, so Luca, you could potentially knock Jack out if you get this one. Massachusetts. It's not Massachusetts. All right, missing. You have a chance to knock Jack out and take Luca's mulligan. Do you know the first state? Virginia. It's not Virginia. Chris, you could knock Jack and Missing out of the game. And take away Luca's thing. And take away Luca's Mulligan.

SPEAKER_02 32:45

Delaware.

SPEAKER_04 32:46

Delaware is correct. And with that, we've lost Jack. We've lost missing. Luca is vulnerable. Luca's vulnerable, but he's not out yet. And oh well, Luca. Luckily for you, this is this is random. I swear. I randomized. I did not plan this. Luca, yours is the Hawkeye State.

SPEAKER_03 33:09

Oh, Iowa. I can get that one.

SPEAKER_04 33:11

Luca's from Iowa.

SPEAKER_03 33:12

So where in Iowa are you at?

SPEAKER_02 33:15

I'm in uh Ames. Oh boo. Sorry.

SPEAKER_03 33:19

Where are you?

SPEAKER_02 33:20

I'm coming to you live from Iowa City, and I keep getting distracted by the deer in my backyard.

SPEAKER_04 33:25

I I just saw a deer in my backyard just a minute ago.

SPEAKER_02 33:28

Oh, the same deer?

SPEAKER_04 33:29

Probably not the same one. He'd have to be really fast. Hey, some of them. Alright, Chris, back to you.

SPEAKER_02 33:34

Yours is the show me state. Um it'll be a cold day in hell before I recognize the state of Missouri.

SPEAKER_04 33:43

That's correct. All right, Luca. Yeah. The Sooner State. Oklahoma. Oklahoma, very good. Chris. Yeah. Great faces, great places. That's South Dakota? South Dakota is correct. Very good. With the Mount Rushmore.

SPEAKER_02 34:01

I would have just thought it would just be the Mount Rushmore state. Right, yeah. Luca.

SPEAKER_04 34:09

The last frontier. Washington State. That's incorrect. Chris, you can win it if you know it. Oh, I know. That's annoying. Wyoming, maybe? Incorrect. No, Luca survives. Alright. It was it was Alaska. That makes sense. Yeah, yeah. Sort of frontier. All right. Luca, back to you. The volunteer state. Tennessee. Tennessee, very good. Chris. The crossroads of America. Oh, that's uh Indiana. It is Indiana. Very good. All right, Luca. The Badger State.

SPEAKER_03 35:00

Uh oh, come on. Um Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_04 35:05

Wisconsin. Very good. Chris. The old lion state.

SPEAKER_02 35:11

Oh, that is um Maryland. It is Maryland. Very good. It's like I thought we said I had to check because I've been making a list of all the ones we've said so far.

SPEAKER_04 35:22

Which ones we've already did, yeah. That's not a bad idea. Alright, Luca. The North Star State. Uh Maine. Incorrect. It's not Maine. Chris, you can win it if you know it.

SPEAKER_02 35:38

Uh, is it the North Star or is it Le Toile du Nord up in uh Minnesota?

SPEAKER_04 35:45

That's correct. It is indeed. Alright, very good. Hard fought

Outro

SPEAKER_04 35:52

battle. But with that, Chris is our latest quizzical champion. And as a surprise, you'll receive a quizzical champions card deck. So at your next game night, you can subtly tell all your friends that you are smarter than they are by using the deck that says you're a champion. And then, of course, direct them to go listen to the show themselves, and everyone listening should do the same. Spread the word, help us grow our audience. Uh thank you to all our contestants and congratulations again to Chris. Hold on, Chris. Yes, congratulations. Join us next week as two more competitors match wits for a chance at being crowned the next quizzical champion. And remember, trivia is just curiosity that has stepped into an arena. I'm Scott. This has been Quizzical.