Rebel City and Sports Literally | 26.2.1

Intro

Speaker 0:00

What does the United States do with millions of flies that they breed every week? The answer to that at the end of the show. Welcome to Quizzical, the trivia show where confidence is required and answers are optional. I'm Scott Strosahl, and today we've assembled two courageous trivia competitors, ready to buzz, guess, and occasionally question their own life choices. This is the first of four head-to-head matchups, the winners of which will face off in a final round in a few weeks. In today's games, we will be visiting Rebel City and taking sports literally. And along the way, we'll also crown our first People's Champion with the answer to last week's listener questions. So play along, pause if you need to. No one's grading you, probably. We've got questions, we've got answers, and we've got at least one fact today that will sneak into your next conversation, whether you want it to or not. We've seen some great growth over the last few weeks with our listeners. I really appreciate everyone who has been sharing this with their friends and subscribing and listening. And if you haven't subscribed on your favorite podcast player, go do that. Leave us a review on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, wherever you listen to us at. That all helps a lot. And if you would like to be a contestant on the show, I'm getting ready to record another batch of episodes. So go to quizzical.fm and click on the be a contestant button. And if you just have something you'd like to share with us, or maybe you have a trivia question for me, if you'd like to test my knowledge, you can go to quizzical.fm and click on the send a voicemail button and you can send us a message that way. I look forward to hearing from all of you. Now let's meet our two contestants and get to the trivia. First up, we have Alphonse, a hockey fan from Washington. Welcome, Alphonse. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Yeah. So are the the Kraken your team? Yes, they are my team.

Speaker 3 1:56

So I figured, but you never know, right?

Speaker 1:58

Sometimes you get somebody from Washington that that likes, you know, yeah.

Speaker 3 2:01

I'm from the Midwest, so I'm like a Kraken fan, and then also I grew up a wild fan, so I still achieve from the Minnesota Wild.

Speaker 2:09

And and I'm in Iowa, and we have the Iowa Wild here, the minor league wild team. So yeah. So that's probably if I had to, you know, pick a team, I'd I'd go for that one probably. But yeah. Nice. And I understand you know a lot about the harpy eagle, apparently.

Speaker 3 2:24

That is the bird that my brain decided to uh latch on to. Yeah. The probably one of the scarier birds that are out there. Scarier birds. Okay.

Speaker 2:33

So what's the most surprising thing you can tell us about the harpy eagle?

Speaker 3 2:37

Um, while it's not the biggest of raptors, there's a larger eagle, the um Filipino uh crusty eagle is larger than it. It is still like two and a half to three feet tall with an over eight-foot wingspan sometimes. Uh so they're like the size of small children.

Speaker 2:55

Nice. And I understand you solve large wordle type puzzles as a party trick.

Speaker 3 3:00

Yeah, yeah. I don't know what kind of parties you're going to, but uh it's mostly just like I'll like mention that I play Wordle or something because I I've been playing Wordle for years, but Wordle's too easy now. So it's like I do Wordle and Dortle and Quartal and Octortal and Set of Quordle and Squirtle and Weekly Squirtle. And then sometimes I'm just like, hey, do you want to like watch something cool?

Speaker 3:23

And I'll like do the 32-word wordle in like 10 minutes or something, and which in some ways I feel like the bigger one is almost easier, but people don't understand that if they aren't haven't tried it. Yeah, because like you can throw any word out there and you're gonna get some clues, right?

Speaker 3 3:38

Exactly, yeah. And like I try to explain my thought process to like my friends, especially, and they're just like your brain just doesn't work like ours do.

Speaker 1 3:45

The Less Games website, they have a three-word, uh, three-letter wordle. I I I fail half the time.

Speaker 3:52

That is really hard. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Well, and speaking of wordle-type puzzles, our next contestant up is Oranje from Ontario, who has a YouTube channel where you solve puzzles, various kinds of puzzles, wordle-type puzzles and other similar things, crosswords and such.

Speaker 1 4:12

I actually play a lot of the same games that you do. Uh uh Weaver on a daily basis, the MIDI crossword. Uh, I play Sports Connections, uh Kanockle, which is probably a game that's not played by a lot of people. It's a Canadian game.

Speaker 4:25

I've played it actually. I've played it. Yeah. Somebody's requested it and I played it. It was a couple years ago, but yeah. So you better plug your channel. It's a daily slice of Oranje, right?

Speaker 1 4:35

Daily slice of Oranje. We're uh plugging away for a thousand subscribers. Okay.

Speaker 4:39

Uh I've been going at this for about two years, and uh it's and it's you might already be at a thousand before this ends up getting posted, but um, if not, then you're still on your way. That's right. So we will say either you're on your way or you're just finished passing a thousand, right? That's right. Um, but but we don't want to talk about Wordle with you. What I want to talk about you is boy bands, because apparently you know a lot about boy bands.

Speaker 1 5:04

Uh as a child of 1985, I was uh turning 15 in 2000, which was the height of boy bands, and uh watching Much Music, which I guess is the Canadian equivalent of MTV. Uh every second video on there was uh boy bands.

Speaker 5:18

So which group is your favorite then?

Speaker 1 5:21

I have to say Backstreet Boys. Backstreet Boys uh I'm not a stan or anything. It's just I know a lot about them because they were on so much.

Speaker 5:27

Yeah. Have you ever been tempted to start a boy band yourself? And if so, what would the name of it be?

Speaker 1 5:35

Well, I've I have three sons. Um I I actually have three sons as well. Yes. Uh my my twins are five and my son is seven. And uh we have a kitchen boy band. Uh the four of us. And uh my my sons love to dance, so they're they're the backup dancers, and I just do my dad dance.

Speaker 5:53

So is your group called Arane and Sons then or something?

Speaker 1 5:57

My My Three Sons. My three sons, that's better.

Game 1 - Rebel City

Speaker 6:00

Arane and Sons sounds like uh a law firm or something, I think. Yeah. More construction for the mechanic construction programs. Plumbers. Plumbers, there you go. It's plumbers. You're right, you're right. Yeah. Okay, nice. Well, now that we're all familiar with each other, are we ready to start our first game? Let's do it. Ready as I love every, I think. All right, then let's get quizzical. All right. For round one, we're starting with a game called Rebel City. Now I'm sure you both already know this, but Rebel City is an anagram for celebrity. So in this game, I will give you a clue to a celebrity, and you simply have to tell me who I'm talking about. The clue will always end with the celebrity's anagram. And the anagram will include both the first and last name of the celebrity. Okay, so maybe an example will help. If I said, having finally run out of song ideas, this Crosby Stills and Nash singer decides to take his protests to the internet, dubbing himself online guy. The answer would be, of course, Neil Young, whose name is an anagram of online guy. Yeah. So the clue leads to the person, and the end of the clue is an anagram. Okay. So you're gonna buzz into answer, but if you get it wrong, your opponent will have a chance to steal. Aranye, your buzzer sounds like. And Alphonse, your buzzer sounds like. Alright, any questions before we get started? Uh nope. I'm good. Okay, here we go. Question one. This rapper is gonna let you finish, but not before he runs on stage and becomes sweaty Ken. Ranye.

Speaker 1 7:48

Kanye West.

Speaker 7:49

Kanye West, very good. I wasn't gonna get that. Because he ran on stage when uh it was Taylor Swift, wasn't it? That was accepting the award, and he said, I'm gonna let you finish. But all right, next question. After an argument with his wife Jessica, this singer and actor retorted, I'm a jerk, but listen. Arane.

Speaker 1 8:11

Justin Timberlake.

Speaker 8:13

Justin Timberlake, very good. Jessica Beale. I'm realizing I don't know any celebrities. That's that's okay. I don't know anything about them. That's the way it goes sometimes. Alright, next question. Tired of the billionaire life, this tech giant decides to release a series of workout videos called Get Ill Abs. Aranye.

Speaker 1 8:40

Bill Gates.

Speaker 8:41

Bill Gates, very good. Alright, next question. Most well known for hanging out with her friends in the 90s. People still say this actress, now in her 50s, looks fine in torn jeans. Aranye.

Speaker 1 9:00

Jennifer Lopez? No.

Speaker 9:03

I'm sorry, that's incorrect. Would you like to steal a fonz? Is it?

Speaker 3 9:12

I think Arane just figured it out too late. I don't know enough celebrities. Oh man, I feel like it's a Jennifer song.

Speaker 9:19

She was hanging out with her friends. She was hanging out with her friends. In the 90s.

Speaker 3 9:23

Yeah, I I was born in 2001, man. I'm that's before me.

Speaker 9:30

Alright. It was Arane. You think you got it? What is it? Jennifer Aniston. Jennifer Aniston, which is an anagram for fine and torn genes. Very good.

Speaker 3 9:40

I had Jennifer. I knew Jennifer. I was like, I'm I was like starting to rack my brain for Jennifer's, and all I was getting was Lawrence, and I'm like, that's a good one.

Speaker 9:47

Who was in Friends? I know you were born later, but you you're familiar with Friends, I hope.

Speaker 3 9:51

I've probably watched an episode.

Speaker 9:54

Okay. Well, you know, that's yeah. All right. Well, next question. This controversial singer may have sweet dreams of beautiful people, but is he a manly man? No, sir. Sweet dreams of beautiful people. Oh, we may have stumped you guys. Yeah. Alright, I'm gonna say no one gets that one. It's Marilyn Manson.

Speaker 3 10:21

Marilyn Manson.

Speaker 10:22

I should have got that. Head songs, beautiful Sweet Dreams. And they're made of these, yep. And then beautiful people. Beautiful people. The beautiful people.

Speaker 1 10:32

I was thinking of uh your rhythmics.

Speaker 10:34

Yeah. Marilyn Manson is an anagram of Manly Man, no sir. All right. No, no, yeah. Next question. Returning to his roots. This actor director announces a new project with some classic Old West action. Ooh, Alphonse. Clint Eastwood? Clint Eastwood. Very good.

Speaker 3 10:55

I got one. There we go.

Speaker 10:57

Very nice. Yeah, which is interesting because he I mean he really would be doing Old West action. Right, yeah. So Clint Eastwood is an anagram of Old West action. Yep. There we go. Alright, our final question. It's all relative, but perhaps the reason this theoretical physicist was so smart is because he had ten elite brains.

Speaker 1 11:23

It's not Stephen Hawking.

Speaker 11:25

No. Don't have it. Alright. Alphonse, you want to steal?

Speaker 3 11:31

The last part was ten elite brains. Is it is it Albert Einstein?

Listener Question

Game 2 - Literal Sports

Speaker 11:39

It is Albert Einstein. It is Albert Einstein. That's why it's all relative. Right, yeah. Theory of relativity, yep. Alright. Great job, both of you, but especially good job to Arane, who is one step closer to making the final. And Alphonse, you will have to win the next game to force a tiebreaker. Keep your hopes alive. Alright, now it's time for the answer to not last week's listener question, but the listener question from two weeks ago, because of course we took a week off from listener question last week with our final round episode. So the question from two weeks ago was what do bookmark, shotgun, pause button, and sticky note have in common? And the answer is they all hold your place for later. A bookmark in a book, obviously, a pause button if you're watching uh like a VHS tape, if you're old like me, or online now you hit the pause button to save your spot. A sticky note, you can stick that in something to save a uh note or to save your place. And shotgun, that's the one that's the tricky one. Now you'll notice I didn't say a shotgun, I said shotgun. Shotgun, the word shotgun is used. Now, this might depend on where you live, I realize, but is a very popular thing where you call shotgun, meaning I get the front seat in the car. So it's reserving your seat in the car. So there you go. If you figure that out, well done. But there can only be one winner. And so this week's people's champion, selected from those that submitted correct answers, is Noah Powell. Congratulations, Noah. You are this week's people's champion. We'll post that on all our socials so you can share that with your friends and show them that you are a champion. And now for this week's listener question, I've got a little bit of a story for you today. This is like a classic who done it kind of thing, or maybe a how they done it kind of thing. But so there's a serial killer who kidnaps people, sits them down in front of a table with two pills and a glass of water. He tells each of them to take one pill, and he will take the other one. So the victims get the choice of which pill to take, and then the serial killer takes the other pill. Now, this does lead to the victim's death every time, and the killer never dies. How did the killer ensure his survival? You may think this story sounds inconceivable, but it is kind of similar to something that happens in a movie at some point. But that doesn't mean that the answer is similar. So, do you know how the killer survived? If you think you know, send a message to people at quizzical.fm or go to quizzical.fm and click on the leave a voicemail button and you could submit your answer in audio form. And you could be next week's People's Champion. All right, and with that, it's time for our second game. Aranye Alphonse, are you guys ready? Yeah. Yes, sir. Okay. I mean, whether you are or not, we're going on the second game. So all right, our second game today is called Literal Sports. In this game, every answer will be a professional sports team, but I'll give clues describing the team as if they were the literal thing. For example, if I said small lumps of gold, I would be talking about the Denver Nuggets. Denver Nuggets, very good. You don't necessarily need to know the location of the team, but listeners will be more impressed if you do. So feel free to throw a location in there. Oh, we'll take turns on this one, so you can put the buzzers down. Feel free to talk it out before you answer. But if you miss, your opponent will get a chance to steal. Alright, Arane, we're gonna start with you. Saturn one and Falcon 9.

Speaker 1 15:29

Phoenix Suns?

Speaker 15:32

Incorrect. Good, good, good guess, but that's not correct. Alphonse, do you want to steal? The Winnipeg Jets? No, that's not it either. It is the Houston Rockets.

Speaker 1 15:44

Rockets? I was close. Like we're pulling with the moons. All those would be moons, not suns. Okay.

Speaker 15:52

Yep. Both good guesses, but all right. Next question is for Alphonse. A full turn.

Speaker 3 16:02

I can't ask for sport, can I? I can't know it. I can't narrow it down.

Speaker 16:07

You can ask, but I won't tell you.

Speaker 3 16:08

Right. There's some fan of this team that's like screaming at me right now. Full turn.

Speaker 16:16

There's like spin, there's or perhaps a full orbit orbit as well. Do you have a guess? No, I don't. Alright. Aranye, you want to steal?

Speaker 1 16:27

Major League Soccer's New England Revolution.

Speaker 16:30

The New England Revolution. I don't know anything about soccer, man. It is soccer. Yep.

Speaker 3 16:34

Yep.

Speaker 16:36

Alright. Aranye, next one's for you. They prey on prey.

Speaker 1 16:44

Nashville Predators.

Speaker 16:45

Nashville Predators. Very good. Okay, Alphonse. Sharks rivals on the west side.

Speaker 3 16:55

If it's not the Seattle Kraken, I think I need to like leave Washington.

Speaker 17:01

Oh, I'm sorry. That's not correct. Darn. Um, Oranye looks like he wants to jump in on this one, though.

Speaker 1 17:07

Can I give two answers?

Speaker 17:08

You can.

Speaker 1 17:10

New York Jets, Winnipeg Jets.

Speaker 17:12

Oh, either one. Correct, very good. I had the New York Jets, but yeah, even better. You only get one point for it, but yeah. And I guess maybe we should say that it was the Jets because the Sharks and the Jets were rivals in West Side story, hence West Side, not West Side of the United States, meaning Seattle and such. Okay. All right, back to Oranye. Nonconformists or free thinkers.

Speaker 1 17:42

Free thinkers. I'm thinking rebels, but that's college. Yeah. Running rebels, that's not it. Nonconformists. I'm gonna say the running rebels.

Speaker 17:55

Texas is sorry, that's not correct. Alphonse, can you steal?

Speaker 3 18:01

Can I? Uh free thinkers. I don't know. The Yankees?

Speaker 18:07

Not a bad guess, but nope, it was the Dallas Mavericks. Mavericks. Maverick is a non-conformist free thinker. Yep, that's a tricky one. All right. Alphonse. Another word for sailors. Um your Seattle friends are gonna be yelling at you here.

Speaker 3 18:29

They are gonna be yelling at me. I'm like, oh no. It's uh Mariners?

Speaker 18:35

The Mariners, Seattle Mariners, there you go, very good. Now, you could actually also say the pirates or the buccaneers on that one. I wouldn't have said that.

Speaker 3 18:43

I was thinking like Pirates and Buccaneers too, but I was like, oh hang on. I would have accepted those, but Mariners is better. Mariners was the one who's really poor.

Speaker 18:49

Okay, there you go. Nice. Alright, Arane, your turn. Paul Revere's bandmates.

Speaker 1 18:56

Paul Revere.

Speaker 18:58

Paul Revere's bandmates.

Speaker 1 19:00

Bandmates.

Speaker 19:03

I don't know. Okay. Alphonse. I'm gonna throw out like blue jackets as a Oh, good, good, good thought, but no. Okay. Um, if you guys are obviously not familiar with the band, Paul Revere and the Raiders. Paul Revere and the Raiders is the name of a band, yeah.

Speaker 3 19:22

I went to the British are coming and not like the band.

Speaker 19:26

Yep, that was a tricky one. Alright. Uh Alphonse. They jingle, jangle, jingle. Jingle, jingle, jingle.

Speaker 3 19:38

The first word that comes to mind is is a bell, but I don't know of any team that could possibly be that.

Speaker 2 19:46

Oh man. I'm thinking. I'm thinking. I'm finding it. I'm finding it. I'm not finding it. You don't have a guess other than a bell?

Speaker 19:59

No, bell bells. I don't know. Okay, not the bells. Aranye.

Speaker 1 20:03

I think it's that uh meme song, the bills.

Speaker 20:07

It is not the bills. The song, it is a song. I got spurs that jingle, jangle, jingle.

Speaker 1 20:16

Okay, I was thinking of a different meme.

Speaker 20:18

Yep. Alright, next one is for Aranye. National Park Employees. Rangers. The Rangers from Texas. Texas. Very good. Not that you have to have that, but the New York Rangers. Or the New York Rangers. There you go. That's a good point. Yep, either one works. Alright, Alphonse. Number one song by Lorde from 2013. Uh Royals. Royals from.

Speaker 3 20:46

Oh geez, I know that's a tame. I know it's I don't know what sport it's from. Do you know the sport?

Speaker 20:51

Oh, okay. It's the Kansas City Royals from baseball. That's all right. All you needed to know was Royals, so that's okay. That's all I got. Sorry, Kansas City. That's fine. That's fine. That'll work. Alright, Arane. There are a hundred of them on Capitol Hill.

Speaker 1 21:11

Oh, Senators.

Speaker 21:12

The Senators. You know where they're from?

Speaker 1 21:14

Ottawa.

Speaker 21:15

Ottawa, very nice.

Speaker 1 21:17

Or Washington Senators used to be a baseball team.

Speaker 21:20

Right, right. They did. That's true. Alphonse, final question. A powerful card in Uno.

Speaker 3 21:31

Reverse? I don't know. I'm like, what other card could it be? A drawfork.

Speaker 21:45

I thought maybe it looked like you had it, but now I'm not thinking that you haven't.

Speaker 1 21:49

No. Powerful card and you know. I don't know. Skip.

Speaker 21:54

You know, you're both gonna kick yourselves because we already talked about this team earlier. The wild. It's the wild. The wild.

Speaker 3 22:04

I'm so sorry. I need to like revoke my wild fan axis.

Speaker 22:11

Alright, well, uh, after two games, Aranye is moving on to the final round at the end of the month. Congratulations to Arane and thank you to Alphonse for playing as well.

Outro

Speaker 3 22:21

Thank you for bombing me. Congratulations. Thank you.

Speaker 22:25

So join us next week as two more competitors match wits for a chance at being crowned quizzical champion. But before we go, the answer to the question I asked at the beginning: what does the United States do with millions of flies that they breed every week? Do you guys have a guess at all?

Speaker 3 22:42

It almost feels like it's not intentional, but it might be.

Speaker 22:45

So it is intentional. They sterilize them and drop them over Panama and more recently parts of the southern U.S. border in an effort to keep the flush-eating screw worm parasite out of the country where it could decimate the livestock industry.

Speaker 3 22:59

Fascinating. Okay.

Speaker 23:01

The Panama facility can breed 117 million flies per week. And a new facility being built in Texas will be able to produce 300 million per week.

Speaker 3 23:12

Imagine getting your pilot's license and being like, yeah, I fly the carpet bomber filled with sterile flies.

Speaker 23:19

So now you know the U.S. carpet bombs Panama with sterile flies every week. A nugget of information that no one asked for, but everyone needed. Wild. Alright, fun facts. So that's it for this week, and remember, curiosity counts, sometimes literally. I'm Scott, and this has been Quizzical.