March 23, 2026

The Pilot | 26.1.1

The Pilot | 26.1.1

Send us Fan Mail This week, Alicia and James go head to head in trivia games called "All in the Family" and "Balance the Scales". Play along and see how you score. Could you have made the final? Think you know the answer to the listener question? Email People@quizzical.fm Want to be a contestant? Go to quizzical.fm to sign up. Support the show on patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/QuizzicalFM New episodes every week. Follow Quizzical and test your trivia instincts. Created by Scott Strosa...

Season 1

Send us Fan Mail

This week, Alicia and James go head to head in trivia games called "All in the Family" and "Balance the Scales". Play along and see how you score. Could you have made the final?

Think you know the answer to the listener question? Email People@quizzical.fm

Want to be a contestant? Go to quizzical.fm to sign up.

Support the show on patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/QuizzicalFM

New episodes every week. Follow Quizzical and test your trivia instincts.


Created by Scott Strosahl

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00:00 - Intro

01:58 - Game 1 - 'All in the Family'

07:49 - Listener Question

08:38 - Game 2 - 'Balance the Scales'

21:34 - Outro

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What did John Glenn, the first man to orbit the Earth, and Ted Williams, the great baseball player for the Boston Red Sox, have in common?

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The answer to that at the end of the show.

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Welcome to Quizzical, the trivia show, where knowing a little bit about a lot is a very useful life skill.

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I'm Scott, and today we've gathered two brave trivia adventurers who have agreed to test their wits, their recall, and their confidence on questions they will absolutely insist they knew five seconds too late.

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Here's how this works.

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We'll start with four head-to-head matchups, one per week over the next month.

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Two contestants at a time battling it out over a fast-paced round of trivia.

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The winner of each matchup moves on, and the runner-up, well, we hope they had fun.

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After those four rounds, our winners will face off in a final showdown in week five, where one person will emerge victorious, triumphant, and slightly surprised they made it this far.

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And if you're listening at home, you're not just along for the ride.

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Later in the show, I'll be dropping the people's question.

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It's a puzzle, a twist, riddle, strange fact that rewards curiosity more than speed.

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Send in your answer, and next episode we'll pick one winner to be crowned our listener champion of the week.

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So play along, pause if you need to, argue with your speakers, we won't judge.

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We've got questions, we've got answers, and we've got at least one fact today that will live rent-free in your brain for the rest of the week.

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So let's meet our first two contestants and get things rolling.

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In the red corner, we have James Moose, who is not an engineer from Baton Rouge.

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That's a very mysterious way to describe yourself.

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There's probably a lot of things that you are not, I'm assuming.

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That's true.

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Alright, well, welcome, James.

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And in the blue corner, a karaoke enthusiast from the Midwest, we have Alicia.

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So welcome, Alicia.

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Thanks.

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Contestants, are you ready?

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Always.

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So for round one, we're starting with a game called All in the Family.

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Are you guys fans of the show All in the Family?

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Never heard of it.

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I know of it.

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You know of it.

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Perfect.

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Well, that's okay because this has nothing to do with the sitcom from the 70s.

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So it's fine that you don't know the show.

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That's pretty good for me.

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This is a word game where every answer has a family name in it, such as brother, grandmother, etc.

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So maybe an example will help.

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If I gave the clue a treatment that uses powerful drugs to destroy cancer cells, the answer would be, of course, chemotherapy, which has mother in it.

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Oh, yeah, that's true.

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Mother mother a P.

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Okay.

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Some of them will be easier, some of them will be harder, but so you can figure out the answer because it has the family name in it, or just because you know the answer to the clue, that's fine too.

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And we're gonna buzz in to answer.

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But if you get it wrong, your opponent will have a chance to steal.

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James, your buzzer sounds like and Alicia, your buzzer sounds like Alright.

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Do we have any questions before we get started?

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So here we go with question one.

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One who is not a doctor, but assists during a birth.

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Alicia.

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Midwife?

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Midwife is correct, which has wife in it, of course.

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But I kept thinking I kept thinking specifically mother.

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I kept thinking of O B G Y N and like how can you fit in?

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Yeah, yeah.

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Nice, yeah.

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Well, like I said earlier, what questions you will absolutely insist you knew five seconds to it.

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Call ed that one.

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Yep.

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Alright, here we go.

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Question two.

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In electronics, this is used to reduce current flow and is marked with a code of colored bands.

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James.

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Resistor.

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Resistor.

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Very good, which has sister in it, of course.

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Apologies for this interruption, but we have some breaking news.

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Alright, quick interruption from editor Scott here.

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This was posted as the pilot episode a few weeks ago, and somebody pointed out that resistor is actually spelled with an OR.

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Now, resistor ER is a word, but it is not the electronics component that's spelled with an OR.

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It didn't seem to trip the contestants up, but I thought I'd mention it before I get a bunch of correction emails.

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Now back to the show.

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Alright, question number three.

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A daisy-like plant that is commonly used to make herbal infusions for beverages such as tea.

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Alicia.

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Chamomile.

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Very good.

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Chamomile, which has mom in the Alright, in medieval times, this was an armored glove that was sometimes thrown down to declare a challenge.

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Alicia.

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Gauntlet.

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Gauntlet, which has aunt.

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Aunt, very good.

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Or aunt, I suppose, if you want to be correct the way we pronounced it.

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Yeah, yeah, but but you're a karaoke enthusiast from the Midwest, so you would probably say aunt.

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So I say aunt, yes.

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There you go.

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Alright, uh, question number five.

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According to the Levitical Laws in the Old Testament of the Bible, pigs are this type of animal.

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Alicia.

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Unclean?

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Very good, unclean, which has Uncle.

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Uncle in it at the very beginning.

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That one's a little tricky.

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Sneaky.

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The family name is definitely harder to see in that one.

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Alright.

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Next.

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The act of giving human qualities to a non-human.

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Alicia.

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Personification?

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Personification, which has Son.

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Son.

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There you go.

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Yep.

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Alright.

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Next question.

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The P in the commonly used math anagram, PEMDAS.

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James.

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I had it.

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And I think I lost it.

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That's alright.

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The P in PEMDAS.

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Well, I think addition, but I don't see it.

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Incorrect.

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Alright, Alicia, you want to steal?

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Parentheses.

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Parentheses, which has Parent.

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Parent, exactly.

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It does not stand for plus.

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No, it doesn't stand for plus.

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No, that's.

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That's why I'm not an engineer.

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You're not an engineer.

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That's right.

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We knew that from the beginning.

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You're not an engineer.

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Yep.

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Alright, and our final question in this round.

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An old-fashioned term that means depart quickly.

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This is the hardest one.

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Alright, we're gonna say time's up, and no one gets that one.

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It was Skedaddle, which has dad in it.

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Well, great job, both of you, but especially good job to Alicia, who was the winner of the first ever game on Quizzical.

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Yay, Alicia!

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Yay!

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You are one step closer to making the final.

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And James, you will have to win the next game to force a tiebreaker and keep your hopes alive.

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We really appreciate it.

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And now it's time for our first listener question.

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This one isn't for our contestants, it's for you.

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Yes, I'm talking to you, the one who just illegally changed lanes.

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We see you.

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But it's also for all of our listeners.

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There's no buzzing in, there's no time pressure, you've got all week to come up with the answer.

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And this week's question I'm calling associations.

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I will give you four words, and you need to figure out how they are associated or what they have in common.

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The words are bananas, brazil nuts, basements, and smoke detectors.

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What do bananas, Brazil nuts, basements, and smoke detectors have in common?

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If you think you know the answer, you can send us a message to people at quizzical.fm, and you could be next week's people's champion.

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And be sure to subscribe so you don't miss the answer when I reveal it next week.

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Alright, and with that, it's time for our second game.

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Are you guys ready?

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Ready for a second game?

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Ready.

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Sure.

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Less ready than before, but yes.

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Less ready than before.

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That's okay.

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Alright, our second game is called Balance the Scales.

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So in this game, I will give you an item, and then you need to pick which of the three options that I give you weighs the same as the given item, or at least roughly the same or the closest.

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we'll take turns answering on this one, so you can put your buzzers down.

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You can feel free to talk it out before you answer, but if you miss, then your opponent will get a chance to steal.

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James, we'll have you go first.

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So, your item is a Tesla Model X.

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Now, does a Tesla Model X weigh the same as which of these three options?

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1,000 12 volt car batteries, 100 standard roof-mounted solar panels, or one one thousandth of a wind turbine.

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1,000 car volts.

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100 solar panels, or 1/1000th of a wind turbine.

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Yep, 1,000 car batteries, 100 solar panels, or 1 1,000th of a wind turbine.

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What weighs the same as a Tesla Model X?

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I'm gonna say not the solar panels.

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I feel like an individual solar panel weighs too much for a hundred of them to only add up to one Tesla Model X.

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So I'm kind of on the fence.

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But I feel like it's a little bit more than a thousand car bolts.

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I'm gonna go with the one one thousandth of a wind turbine.

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Okay, one one thousandth of a wind turbine.

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Um incorrect.

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Alicia, would you like to steal?

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Hmm.

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So car batteries or solar panels.

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Or you could go with wind turbine, but that would be silly.

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Hmm.

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A thousand car batteries or a hundred solar panels.

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Car batteries are heavy.

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My friend dropped one on her foot on accident and broke her toe, and it took forever for it to heal.

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A thousand of those would be quite heavy.

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I'm gonna say a hundred solar panels.

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That is correct.

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It is a hundred solar panels.

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So uh a car battery and a solar panel both weigh around 40 pounds-ish.

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The Tesla Model X weighs about 5,000 pounds.

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So one one thousandth of a wind turbine is about 400 pounds.

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So there we go.

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All right.

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So Alicia takes the first one.

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All right, Alicia, the next question is for you.

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Your item is a set of one coin of each denomination currently minted in the US.

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So you had one of each of the coins, a set of those.

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Would that weigh the same as $2,500 worth of platinum, $2,500 worth of silver, or $2,500 worth of gold?

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Let's see here.

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Gold, silver, and platinum.

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Of those, platinum is the most expensive.

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And let's see, so we've got a penny, a nickel, a dime, a quarter, probably some sort of dollar coin.

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Perhaps some sort of half dollar.

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I think they still make those.

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Hmm.

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I'd probably say $2,500 worth of platinum.

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Platinum?

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Yeah.

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Incorrect.

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James, would you like to steal?

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So I kind of feel like silver is too light.

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Um honestly, if I had to guess first, I probably also would have said uh platinum because I feel like one set can't be that heavy.

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Um but as Alicia said, that would be silly to say the answer.

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Yeah, I'm not saying platinum.

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I'm gonna say I'm gonna say gold.

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Just because I still feel like uh silver uh is too inexpensive for that to be uh to line up.

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Um unless I guess one set of coins is just heavier than I think.

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Well, the correct answer is gold.

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So James gets it very good.

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So um, in fact, by the way, pennies would not be part of that list of currently minted coins.

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And depending on when people listen to this, nickels might not be either.

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Who knows?

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But currently it would be the nickel, the dime, the quarter, the half dollar, and the dollar.

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So you basically had it right.

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And and I mean, really, the as far as weight goes, the penny is not gonna affect that really at all.

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So um, it's around a little over an ounce, about 1.2 ounces or so.

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So there you go, very good.

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All right, the next question is for James.

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Your item is the International Space Station.

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And we're talking the weight if it were on the Earth.

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Yeah.

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Because it's actually weighs that, even though it's if we think of it as weightless, but of course it's constantly falling, right?

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So the International Space Station, does the weight of that equal 10 empty space shuttles, 16 full-scale movable Millennium Falcon models, as used in the Empire Strikes Back in the filming, or 10,000 Lego Millennium Falcons.

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So 10 space shuttles, 16 Millennium Falcon models that they use to film the movie, or 10,000 Lego Millennium Falcons.

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I'm gonna say that 10 space shuttles might be too much.

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Um saying that, I remember back to my first question where the first thing I threw out ended up being the right answer, so I'm a little bit worrying of that.

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And my question is for the Millennium Falcons that they had on set.

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I'm just questioning how much those would actually weigh for given that they were just props, they didn't have to like necessarily fill it with as much machinery.

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So I'm gonna go with the 10,000 Lego Millennium Falcons.

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Okay, okay, good reasoning.

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Incorrect.

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Alright, Alicia.

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Do you want to steal?

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So is it 10 space shuttles or 16 Millennium Falcon models that they use to film Empire Strikes Back?

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The space station's pretty dang heavy.

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I mean I mean I've never tried to lift it, but right.

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I don't know exactly how heavy, but it's pretty heavy.

00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:22.080
I'd probably go with the 10 space shuttles.

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10 space shuttles, okay.

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And you would be wrong as well.

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A boo.

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So it was the Millennium Falcon model, and the reason I specify that it was for the Empire Strikes Back is because for that movie, they did have a full-size 65 feet, 23 ton replica that they used for a lot of the shots.

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In the previous movies, they just had the smaller model that James was talking about.

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Wow.

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Um, the International Space Station weighs a little over 900,000 pounds, so it's big.

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And you were correct, James, that 10 empty space shuttles would be too much because those are 1.6 million pounds for 10 of them.

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They are very heavy.

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And that's empty without all the fuel and everything.

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So all right, uh, I believe it's Alicia's turn to go first on this one.

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So your item is an average-sized pear.

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Does that weigh the same as a pair of Levi's 501 blue jeans, a pair of wool hiking socks, or the best-selling paring knife on Amazon?

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I was having fun with my pear puns.

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It's very clever.

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Um pair is an average-sized pair.

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I think the jeans are probably too heavy.

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I mean, I think a pair of jeans probably weighs about a pound.

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And there's no way a pair weighs a pound.

00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:44.799
Um, pair of wool socks or a pairing knife.

00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:47.840
Pairing knives usually don't have very heavy handles.

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Most of the time they're plastic.

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Hmm.

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Honestly, I'd probably have to go with the wool socks.

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Wool socks?

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Yes.

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Is correct.

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Very good, yes.

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Um, blue jeans are too heavy for sure.

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They're almost two pounds, actually.

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Yeah, and an average size pair is about five ounces.

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So, and the best-selling pairing knife was uh just about three-quarters of an ounce.

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Not even an ounce, so very good.

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Alright, back to James for this one.

00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:19.839
Alright, King Charles' Coronation Crown.

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Ooh.

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Which of these weighs about the same?

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A medieval knight's helmet, an extra large big book edition of the book Caps for Sale.

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If you're not familiar, it's a great book.

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Or the Pope's Big Hat.

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So one thing I thought about at first is just how many uh gems he has on his crown probably make it pretty hefty.

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Um one thing I thought about is I feel like it would have to be comparably uh heavy to uh you know, his like the lineage of kings.

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Because they probably make it roughly the same each time.

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And I feel like a king with how many jewels he would have had on his crown, it'd probably be a little heavier than the knight's helmet.

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That might be a stretch of reasoning.

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But I just don't think that uh the average medieval king would be giving out enough uh metal for uh their knights to make as heavy of a crown is.

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And then one thing I also thought is that the book seems uh very specific.

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Which I'm still trying to decide what to make of that if that's uh you know a sign that it is the answer, because it's so specific.

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You never know what's a hint and what's a red herring.

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I'm gonna go with the book.

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The book.

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Alright, that is incorrect.

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Alicia, would you like to steal?

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So we've got medieval knight's helmet or the pope's big hat.

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So a medieval knight's helmet would have been very, very heavy.

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I don't know if you guys know this, but when Vigo Mortensen kicked that helmet on the Lord of the Rings, he actually broke his foot.

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That scream was real.

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They're heavy.

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I don't think his crown is probably that heavy, so I'm gonna have to go with the Pope's hat.

00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:21.759
It was the Knights helmet.

00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:22.240
Really?

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King Charles's coronation crown weighed almost five pounds.

00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:27.279
Wow.

00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:35.839
Uh medieval knight's helmet, of course, that varied, but from what I was able to find from historians, four to eight pounds in that range.

00:19:35.839 --> 00:19:42.960
And the reason now you said it was very specific, partly because uh I think it's it's a it's a popular book for kids, caps for sale.

00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:46.160
But the point of the book is it's the guy sells hats.

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Oh, yes, and that's where it came from.

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So all right.

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This one should be Alicia's.

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If you get this one right, Alicia, you are the winner.

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If James gets this one, then sends it to a tiebreaker for this for this game, which would then potentially send us to a third game tiebreaker.

00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:04.160
Ah.

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No pressure.

00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:07.279
So all right, Alicia.

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Here you go.

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Your item is the tongue of a blue whale.

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Oh my.

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Does that weigh the same as a male American bison, a male white rhinoceros, or a male African bush elephant?

00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:27.920
And it's kind of wild that any of those would be correct for the weight of a tongue.

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Right?

00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:31.519
I mean, blue whales are ginormous, though.

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Hmm.

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A bison, a rhinoceros, or an elephant.

00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:46.799
Well, fairly certain the elephant's gonna be the heaviest.

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And then probably the rhino, and the bison's probably the lightest.

00:20:50.640 --> 00:20:53.519
Oh man.

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They are ginormous.

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I think it's gonna be more than the bison.

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I'm just not sure if it's as much as a whole elephant.

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That's a lot.

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Oh, but then again, they are ginormous.

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Let's.

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Ooh, gosh.

00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:13.440
Let's go with the rhinoceros.

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Gonna go with the rhinoceros.

00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:15.599
Yes.

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This is for the win.

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I know.

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No pressure or anything.

00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:23.440
And the answer is the rhinoceros.

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Yay! Very good.

00:21:25.279 --> 00:21:26.079
Very good.

00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:26.799
Very good.

00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:30.640
Uh, a tongue of a blue whale weighs five to eight thousand pounds.

00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:31.759
That's a lot of tongue.

00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:33.039
Which is wild.

00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:33.519
Yeah.

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And after two games, Alicia is moving on to the final round at the end of the month.

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Congratulations to Alicia and thank you to James for playing.

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Thanks for having us.

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James, thanks for playing against me.

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That was fun.

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Join us next week as two more competitors match wits for a chance at being crowned Quizzical Champion.

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But before we go, the answer to the question I asked at the beginning what did John Glenn and Ted Williams have In common?

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They flew combat missions together in the Korean War and were wingmen, believe it or not.

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It's a surprising connection that you can slip into conversation this week to impress your friends, family, coworkers, your dog, whoever.

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I'm Scott, and this has been Quizzical.