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Intro

Speaker 2 0:00

What got its name from the fact that it originally appeared after a movie at the theater? The answer to that at the end of the show. Welcome to Quizzical, the trivia show where being almost right is still usually wrong. I'm Scott Strosahl, and today's matchup features two competitors ready to prove that random facts are, in fact, occasionally useful. If you're new here, so are we, and we're looking for contestants. If you would like to be a contestant on Quizzical, go to quizzical.fm to sign up. And if you know someone you'd like to hear on the show, tell them to sign up as well. And please share the show with your friends and give us a review on Apple and Spotify and wherever else you listen to this, it really helps us spread the word. You can find the links to all the things at quizzical.fm. This is the last of four head-to-head matchups, the winners of which will face off in a final showdown next week. In today's games, we'll beat around the bush and get lost in translation, and along the way, we'll also crown our next People's Champion with the answer to last week's listener question. So play along, pause if you need to, keep score if you're brave. We've got questions, we've got answers, and we've got at least one fact today that you'll remember instead of something important this weekend. Now let's meet our two contestants and get to the trivia. First up, we have Steven from Massachusetts. Welcome, Stephen. Thank you for having me. In 2017, Steven was a Celtics player for the day. So how did that happen?

Speaker 1 1:32

Did you like sign a one-day contract or I guess so what I did was I went to the I got to the garden and I saw the locker rooms. Um, and then I got to like go down on the court, shoot some baskets, and then I had a press conference similar to the similar to this, but um it was me talking about you know my experience behind it, and then it was For Make a Wish. Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 1:56

Yeah, interesting. We did that. Oh, that sounds pretty exciting. So you're a Celtics fan then, I assume, since you're from Massachusetts.

Speaker 1 2:03

Yes, Celtics, Red Sox, whatever you want to.

Speaker 2 2:06

Nice, very cool. Next up is Memeristor, a vegetarian who interviews puzzle creators. Welcome, Memeristor.

Speaker 2:13

Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 2:14

Yeah, so you interview puzzle creators, uh, which I guess means I should mention your YouTube channel. And uh Memeristor is, I guess, your stage name of sorts.

Speaker 2:25

Yes, pseudonym or whatever you want to call it.

Speaker 2 2:28

Yeah, whatever you want to call it. Uh, but your channel is just at memeristor, right?

Speaker 2:32

That's correct, yeah.

Speaker 2 2:33

Which is spelled M-E-M-E-R-I-S-T-O-R. So if you want to go find Memeristor, uh I'll leave a link in the description to where people can find your channel. But uh you interview puzzle creators like do Sudokus and other types of puzzles. You've interviewed me in fact before. And I think uh you do a lot of setting of puzzles yourself, too.

Speaker 2:56

Yeah. Uh not as much right now and not as much making the videos on the channel, but there's lots of backlog on the channel uh to enjoy.

Speaker 2 3:04

And something else interesting in non-puzzle related news is your eyes apparently change color with your mood.

Speaker 3:11

Yeah, it's pretty subtle, but it's like uh blue, blue-gray to green gray.

Speaker 2 3:16

Interesting, yeah. So it's kind of like you have a built-in mood ring of sorts.

Speaker 3:21

Yeah, exactly.

Game 1 - 'Lost in Translation'

Speaker 2 3:22

Very cool. Well, now that we all know each other, are you guys ready to get to the trivia? I'm ready. Yep, there you go. Then let's get quizzical. Alright, our first game today is called Lost in Translation. I've taken a well-known song lyric, sent it through Google Translate to two different languages, and back to English. So I'm gonna read you the result after the translations, and you just need to identify the original song and the artist for one point each. So you can name the song or you can name the artist. Each one is worth one point, so these questions are worth a potential two points, but you just get one point if you know the song or the artist. You'll buzz in to answer, but if you get it wrong, your opponent will have a chance to steal. Steven, your buzzer sounds like. And me, Mr. Your buzzer sounds like. Alright, do we understand what's going on? Any questions before we get started? Alright, question number one. Goodwill, big fire. Goodwill, big fire. What song is that a bad translation of? Yeah, these are tricky. These are tricky. That's okay. Anyone got a guess? Okay, we're gonna say nobody gets that one. It was Great Balls of Fire by Jerry Lee Lewis.

Speaker 1 4:44

Oh, I should have got that.

Speaker 2 4:46

Goodness gracious, goodwill, big fire, great balls of fire. I feel like we're gonna be bad at these. That's right, you guys will be fine. This is a tough one. Alright, next question. The bad news is my old friend. What is the name?

Speaker 5:00

Oh. My partner's gonna kill me for not remembering the name of the song.

Speaker 2 5:05

Well, if you know the artist, that counts too. You just have to know the the name of the song or the artist. I'm so bad with artists, Scott. Convince me that you know what the song is, maybe.

Speaker 5:15

I think I know the original lyric. Can I do that? Sure, we'll go with that.

unknown 5:19

All right, man.

Speaker 5:21

I believe the original lyrics are Hello Darkness, my old friend.

Speaker 2 5:24

Very good. It is Hello Darkness, my old friend. Do you know the name of the song or who it's by?

Speaker 5:29

It's it's 8 a.m. I can't remember. Something like a it's like Alright, that's okay.

Speaker 2 5:35

It was The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel. Hello, darkness, my old friend. Yep. Okay. Alright. Next one. I was afraid in the beginning. I'm afraid.

Speaker 1 5:48

These are hard.

Speaker 2 5:50

Yeah, these are hard. This is a hard game. Alright, anybody got that one? Okay, we're gonna call it. That one was at first I was afraid. I was petrified. I was petrified. Exactly. I will survive.

Speaker 1 6:01

Oh, I should have got that.

Speaker 2 6:02

Gloria Gaynor. Yeah. Alright, I think you guys are getting into it now. So the next one. He fell, but he got back up. Me Murster. Do you know it?

Speaker 6:13

Uh I think the song is called Never Gonna Get Me Down, but I don't know the artist.

Speaker 2 6:18

Uh that's not the name of the song, but I'm gonna give it to you because you're thinking of the right song. You're thinking of the right song. That's that's correct. Um what's the name of the song? Hub Thumping is the name of the song. Oh, yes, yes. I actually heard this in a tourism recently. He fell, I get knocked down, he got back up, I get up again.

Speaker 6:35

That is a hard name for a song.

Speaker 2 6:38

It is a hard name, yeah. That one that one's a weird one. But good, good. Okay. Uh next one. William Denham is not my favorite. What? William Denham. William Denham. And remember, this has been sent through Google Translate. William Denham is not my favorite.

Speaker 6:59

Oh, uh, it's Meme Rister. Billy Jean by Michael Jackson.

Speaker 2 7:04

Billy Jean by Michael Jackson. Very good. Meme Rister got that one. Billy Jean is not my lover, is the original lyric on that one. Billy Jean became William Denham. Very nice. That's hilarious. Alright, here's the next one. You should have had everything. You can scroll down to see everything. That's weird, I know. Google Translate does some weird things, especially if you skip through several letters.

Speaker 7:29

This is the weirdest lyric I've ever heard. It is weird, so that's why.

Speaker 2 7:32

It's weird, yeah. It's not the original lyric. It's not the original lyric, so that's why I'm not sure. That's why I'm not sure on this. Like. Yeah, I don't know. Alright. This this is a hard game. So we're gonna say no one gets that one. It was we could have no, you we could have had it all. Oh rolling in the deep. Rolling in the deep by Adele.

Speaker 7:52

Oh Rolling in the Deep.

Speaker 2 7:55

That's alright. I know all these are just yeah, yeah, yeah. They're they're easy to know after the fact, right? Yeah, yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Hindsight 2020. Yep. Alright, next question. What song is this? It is Galileo that Thunder and Lightning frighten so much. Me Rister.

Speaker 8:16

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.

Speaker 2 8:19

And the original lyric is Thunderbolt and Lightning. Very, very frightening. Me. Galileo.

Speaker 8:24

Galileo, Galileo.

Speaker 2 8:26

That song's so weird. Yeah, it is. Okay, final question for this game. This is the last calculation. Meme Rister.

Speaker 8:38

Is it the final countdown by Europe?

Listener Question

Game 2 - 'Beat Around the Bush'

Speaker 2 8:40

It is the final countdown by Europe. Very good. I should have got that. Right, well, great job, both of you. That was a tough game, but at the end of that one, Meme Rister is one step closer to making the final round. And Steven, you'll have to win the next game to force a tiebreaker and keep your hopes alive. Alright, and now it's time for the answer to last week's listener question. As a reminder, the question was: I have three bags, one with a hundred black marbles, one with a hundred white marbles, and one with a 50-50 mix of black and white. All of the labels on the bags are incorrect. What is the minimum number of marbles you need to pull out of the bags in order to correct the labels? And which bags should you pull those marbles out of? Now the answer, somewhat surprisingly, is one. You only need to pull out one marble to correct the labels. And the bag you should pull that marble from is the mixed bag. So if you think about it, we know all the labels are incorrect. So if I pull one marble from the bag labeled mixed, it's either gonna be black or white, of course. Let's imagine it's black. So we now know that bag is the 100 black marbles because it was labeled as mixed and it's incorrect. It's clearly not the bag with 100 white marbles because I pulled out a black. So it has to be the bag with 100 black marbles. Okay, perfect. Now, how do we know the other two? Well, because the one labeled 100 white marbles is incorrect, but we know it's not the 100 black marbles because I just pulled a marble out of the 100 black marbles. So that one has to be the mix, and if you have two of the labels, you know the third one. Now, if I pull one out of the one labeled mixed and I get white instead of black, it works the same, just in reverse. So we know that one's the hundred white, and then the one labeled 100 black must be the mixed, etc. So the answer is you pull one marble from the bag labeled mixed. Now we did have several people who said one marble, but they were pulling from the wrong bag. But our people's champion this week, randomly selected from those that said to pull one marble from the bag labeled mixed, is Bob Evans from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Now, I don't know if this is somebody named Bob, uh, or if it's the people that work at the restaurant Bob Evans in Chattanooga, or maybe somebody named Bob who thought it would be funny to say he was Bob Evans. I don't know. But Bob Evans from Chattanooga, Tennessee, you are this week's people's champion. We will post that on our socials and you can share it with your friends to show that you are a champion. And now for this week's listener question. Now, this week is going to be a little bit different. You're actually going to have two weeks to send in your answer because next week is the final round, and we will not be doing a listener question during the final round episode. That one is going to be a little bit different with more games. So you will have two weeks to send in your answers for this question. And this one is another associations question. You need to figure out what these four things have in common. And the four items this week are bookmark, shotgun, pause button, and sticky note. Bookmark, shotgun, pause button, sticky note. What do those four things have in common? If you think you know the answer, send us a message to people at quizzical.fm or go to our website, quizzical.fm, and click the leave a voicemail button and you can submit your answer in audio form. Or if you have something else you'd like to tell us, or if you have a trivia question for me, you can also use that leave a voicemail button and send us a message that way. And if your correct answer is selected next time, you could be our next people's champion. All right, now we're ready for our next game. Our second game today is called Beat Around the Bush. This is a classic this, that, or the other type game. I will give you the name of an item, and you simply need to tell me if that item is a plant, a musical instrument, or a cooking utensil. Okay, that should be easy to me. Okay. Yeah, it sounds like it should be easy, but you know, we'll see. Alright, we'll take turns on this one so you can put the buzzers down. Feel free to talk it out before you answer. Any questions? Alright, great. Meme, we'll start with you. First question for meme is Angel Trumpet. Is an angel trumpet a plant, a musical instrument, or a cooking utensil?

Speaker 13:12

Well, I'm gonna look pretty silly if it's a musical instrument. And I don't guess that. But I have a feeling it's not a musical instrument because unless it's a double bluff, right? It could be a double bluff, but uh I would uh you're gonna double bluff me and make me look silly immediately. Um, I I think it's a plant. That sounds like a plant name for sure.

Speaker 2 13:37

You think it's a plant. And that is correct. It's a flowering plant in the nightshade family.

Speaker 13:44

I'm very glad you didn't double bluff me.

Speaker 2 13:46

Not this time. Alright, Steven. Your question is cloud chamber bowls. Plant instrument or cooking utensil?

Speaker 1 13:57

I'm gonna say it's not a cooking utensil. Because you don't cook with a cloud chamber thing. So it's either a plant or a I'm gonna go with a musical instrument.

Speaker 2 14:12

That is correct. They're actually large pyrex gongs that kind of look like the tops of water jugs hanging from rope, but they're they're made out of glass. They're not actually made out of the plastic, but interesting.

Speaker 14:24

That must be related to cloud chambers in particle physics.

Speaker 2 14:28

Yeah, I think they're actually made out of like pyrex containers that would be used in like chemistry and such.

Speaker 14:36

Oh, okay. Somebody must have like hit one of them and been like, oh, this is a fun sound.

Speaker 2 14:40

Yeah, and so they've kind of cut them off, and they're just like uh different heights, and that's just like the top with the opening, and yeah. Interesting. Interesting looking. Alright, Memrister, next one's for you. Your item is a hand pan. Hand pan.

Speaker 14:56

Oh, that name sounds so familiar. I feel like you're double bluffing me. But also, I don't know I don't know why that name sounds so familiar. And I don't feel like I would have heard it in the context of cooking. So I probably wouldn't have heard it in the context of musical instruments. Maybe it is the most likely that I would have heard it in the context of cooking. Because I'm not a botanist or anything like that. So I'm gonna say you're double bluffing me, and it is in fact a cooking instrument.

Speaker 2 15:36

A cooking instrument? I'm sorry, that's incorrect. It is in fact a musical instrument.

Speaker 15:43

Yeah, okay, that that okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 15:45

Uh it's a type of drum made from two steel half shells. They kind of look like pans, actually.

Speaker 1 15:51

Okay.

Speaker 15:52

Right. I think I have heard that in the context of music, and I just couldn't connect it, yeah.

Speaker 2 15:58

Alright, Steven, the next one's for you. A muddler. Is a muddler a plant, an instrument, or a cooking utensil? I'm gonna go with a plant. A plant is not correct, unfortunately. No, a muddler is actually a cooking utens. It's a tool that bartenders use to mash fruits, herbs, spices at the bottom of a glass. It it kind of works like a mortar and pestle, but you use it in like a glass that you're putting a drink in. Alright, Meme Rister, next one's for you. Goose tongue. What is goose tongue?

Speaker 16:33

This feels like the first one that I could like the name actually does sound like a flower. That makes me suspicious. Now I now everything makes me feel suspicious that you double love me. Um I I'm just gonna go with my gut and say that sounds like a flower.

Speaker 2 16:49

It is, it's a plant. It's a grass-like plant that does have flowers and is edible and grows near the sea. Very good. Alright, Steve, the next one's for you. Rotato. What is a rotato? So uh I'm gonna say cooking utensil. That is correct. Yes, it's uh it automatically peels fruits and vegetables. It's uh basically you take like a uh a potato or something and you stick it on there and there's a little blade that spins and peels it. That's why I thought of it, because I was like, I think I may have seen one before, I don't know. Alright, meme rister, next one's for you. What is a hurdy-girdie?

Speaker 17:34

I feel like I've also heard of this one for some reason. Recently. Now for some reason my brain is telling me that since I've heard of it recently, and I also heard of the hand pan recently, somehow I've studied up on musical instruments before this without even realizing it or remembering when I did that. So I'm gonna go for musical instrument.

Speaker 2 17:55

You think it's a musical instrument, and that is correct, yeah.

Speaker 18:00

Somehow I did study up on musical instruments, I don't know.

Speaker 2 18:02

It's a medieval stringed instrument that has a hand-cranked wheel that rubs against the strings.

Speaker 18:09

Oh, oh yeah, yeah. That's what that's called. Okay.

Outro

Speaker 2 18:12

It's kind of weird, yeah. All right, Steven. This is the last question. You've got to get this one right to tie it up and go to the tiebreaker question. Okay. Your item is a putu coodie. What is a putukuti? I'm gonna go and say it's a plant. He's going with plant. Oh, I'm sorry, that's incorrect. It's a cooking utensil. It's actually a traditional South Indian cylindrical steamer vessel used to make a popular breakfast dish of riced flour and coconut. Alright, and so after two games, Meme Rister is moving on to the final round next week. Congratulations to Meme Rister and thank you to Steven for playing. Thank you for having me. Good game, Steven. Join us next week as two more competitors match wits for a chance at being crowned Whizzical Champion. But before we go, the answer to the question I asked at the beginning: what got its name from the fact that it originally appeared after a movie ended at the theater? Do either of you have a guess it's not for any points, but just for fun? I do not know. I don't know either. That's fine. The answer is trailers, or sometimes we call them previews. Oh. They originally were played after the movie, so they were trailing the movie.

Speaker 1 19:29

I get it now, okay.

Speaker 2 19:30

Of course, people didn't stick around to watch them, obviously. So they got moved to the start of the movie, but they still called them trailers because they originally trailed the movie. It's one more curious thread in the ever-expanding tapestry of trivia. That's it for this week, and remember, you never know when these trivial things will matter. Probably never. But still, they might.