Welcome to You Should Know Better with Mike C. Nelson, the guy who
won't shut up about winning three times on Jeopardy. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome
to you Should Know Better, the trivia podcasts that tests your knowledge and a
little bit of your patience. Our goal here is to celebrate the theme of
continuing education. We should always be learning and always be on the prowl to
know better. Now we will meet our remarkable guests and hear all about what
magnificent causes they are playing for, and shortly crown one of them the smartest
person in the world for one week. But as for right now, let's
jump right into some questions and answers with our first of four rounds today,
Round one General Knowledge. Our General Knowledge Round Thinking caps on, gentlemen,
pencils at the ready, and away we go. There are eight questions in
the General Knowledge round. Here is question number one. Even though movable type
was already in use in East Asia? What German gets the credit for inventing
the printing press? For question number one, last name will suffice? Even
though movable type was already in use in East Asia? What German gets the
credit for inventing the printing press? For question number one, how do we
feel after one? Feeling good? I feel okay. Yeah, I was
going to just quit, but I'm going to hang in all right, don't
quit. I mean I'm happy for you to quit. Are you ready for
question number two? Yes? All right? This is maybe my favorite question
of the round. What ice cream confection was sadly discontinued by Klondike in the
summer of twenty twenty two. It's got a funny name made by Klondike,
this ice cream confection, it was sadly discontinued. I've had a number of
these over the years. It's got a funny name. It's not a Klondike
bar, but Klondike company made this thing. But it was discontinued almost two
years ago. Sad day for us. All all right? Question number three
your sports question in the General Knowledge Round? What USC standout was inducted into
the inaugural class of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame? For question number three,
last name will suffice as well? But what USC standout was inducted into
the inaugural class of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame? For question number three,
how are we feeling now? Worse? Better, I'm a little peaked,
as my mom would say, I'm not feeling very good. With a
sort of a little bit of a layup to the layout, Boom peppered us
with a frightful fire. I don't know, Yeah, I am not taking
it easy on you guys throughout this game. You're both right gents. So
again, I'm I know you'll hate me for that, but I'm also like
tipping my cap to you both that these aren't all you know, all lamps.
I respect it. It's good, it's good. We're all going to
be better for this, yes, all right. Question number four a little
bit of a geography question. Saint John's is the capital city of what eastern
most Canadian province? The one that sticks out way to the east. It's
kind of where the Titanic sunk. Can you name that Canadian province against?
Saint John's is the capital city of what eastern most Canadian province? For number
four, how do we feel about Canada? Pro Canada? I love Canada,
Oh my god, sorry, I love Canada and I love Canadians.
I've worked with Canadians and my favorite some of my favorite people right, Vancouver's
wonderful, Montreal's great. Toronto's great. Yeah, Montreal is high on my
list. I've been to Vancouver in Toronto, but yeah, Montreal is very
high on my list of places I want to go to. Next, all
right, Question number five of eight in the General Knowledge Round. The actress
Michelle Williams has recently received rave reviews for reading the audiobook version of whose memoir
titled The Woman in Me Again question number five. The actress Michelle Williams,
wonderful actress has recently received rave reviews for reading the audiobook version of whose memoir
titled The Woman in Me. I think it came out last year. Can
you name the person that wrote the memoir? For question number five? All
right, Moving right along to question number six. Claude Monet famously painted around
twenty five canvases featuring what objects? What objects? He painted the same thing
over and over again, with like different times of day or night, with
these objects in these can on these canvases. Can you name those objects in
those Claude Monet paintings for number six? All right, Question number seven,
we're going all the way back to the nineteen nineties, remember that, remember
that simpler time. I want you to name both prosecuting attorneys in the infamous
OJ Simpson murder trial. We know some of the defense lawyers, Johnny Cochran
and Fleete Bailey, in a fleet of others, but can you name the
two famous prosecuting attorneys in that infamous OJ Simpson murder trial? For question number
seven, your penultimate question in the general knowledge round. All right, which
brings us to your final question in the General knowledge Round. We have arrived
at question number eight. Can you name three of the four college towns for
the following North Carolin universities Duke, UNC, NC State, and Wake Forests?
Can you name three of the four college towns for those North Carolina colleges
or universities. We have Duke, we have the University of North Carolina,
NC State, the wolf Pack, and then Wake Forest. Now, assuming
I got all eight correct, I'm Jackie OBJ. You feel like you got
at least a few, right. Both of you feel good about having at
least a few you feel good about I feel good that I got more than
one right. Okay, I have some spectacularly wrong answers here, and I'm
going to go with them. Fantastic. All right, Well, I think
we'll all breathe a deep sigh of relief after this. All right, pencils
down, gentlemen. We'll go over your answers in just a second. But
it's time to meet our fantastic guests today. This dude hailing from Bethez to
Maryland. He created Brooklyn nine to nine, which is now on Netflix.
Is it the first four seasons? First four seasons on Netflix? It's awesome.
One of my favorite shows. Brooklyn nine nine now on Netflix. He's
also behind Killing It, Grand Crew, did Parks and rec He was a
writer on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. My new friend Dan Gore is here.
Can I just say real quick all those great shows. I haven't watched
Killing It yet, but Grand Crew is really funny. Oh that's very nice
of you. Available on Peacock still. I think you'd like Killing It a
lot. It's great. It's a very very fun show. Can't wait.
All good stuff, mister Gore. What charity are you playing for today?
I'm playing for the Alzheimer's Association. It is an anti Alzheimer's organization that is
dedicated to the eradication of Alzheimer's. Graff was a little confused prior he thought
it I was somehow funding at Alzheimer's itself, which I said was ridiculous,
But it turns out there's a really high percentage of people who are doing that.
Terrible, just terrible. They're bad. Those are bad actors, people
doing bad actors. Yeah, yeah, I you know, it's it's it's
a horrible, horrible disease. Uh. And my dad recently died of it.
That's a bummer to talk about, but also perhaps future trivia for you,
but it's true. It's a thing. And again, like you know,
that's part of this game is giving back a little bit, a little
bit, a little bit that we can so win or lose. We're happy
to make a donation in your name and in your dad's name to the Alzheimer's
Association. And now it is time to meet your opponent. This guy from
Rochelle Park, New Jersey. I think we went to Hackensack High School.
I read somewhere. Guy involved with Happy Endings. He was involved with Blackish.
That's where we met, kind of talking about our Blackish days and one
of my favorite shows from the last couple of years. This fool on Hulu.
Big shout out to Frankie Kenyonez who's one of the funniest people. So
funny. And Chris Estrada great, great, what a pair. Yeah,
and then imperially it's like you throw it all in with all the ancillary characters.
It's just a really wonderful show on Hulu. You were the head writer
on Conan, so you both worked on Conan. You were the head writer
for five years in the nineties. Holy smokes. My good pal Jonathan Groff
is here. Yay, not the other Jonathan Groff yep, goes. I
know you're trying to drive audience to your show, this to this cast with
dangling that name out there. I'm just using you for your name of the
more famous graf. Yes, but you will sing, is that correct?
Correct? Absolutely? Yes, No, selection of thought songs from Glee and
to me Hamilton and mind Hunter. Yeah, some of the very very light
songs from mind Hunter. Yeah. Someone why did he do? It?
Was always going on in the background, he was. I'm a big mind
Hunter fan myself. By the way, he's terrific. By the way,
Jonathan Groff is so nice. I met him one time and he's talked to
him a few times. He's so nice. He makes me who generally people
say I'm a pretty nice guy, like I'm the asshole Jonathan Groff. He's
out nice to you. Oh my god. To be that nice is to
be an asshole about I kind of I agree to make you feel bad about
how nice you are already. Yeah, exactly, it's aggressive niceness. Let
me also say I'm a huge fan of everything you've done and of your work.
Oh, thank you, Dan. Dan and I have actually never worked
together, although I have to say Conan and I co created a show called
Andy Parker p I with Andy Richter starring years ago, and one of the
references besides Andy Richter that that Conan used for that character was I had this
writer, Dan Gore, who's just this guy who's just got this level of
positivity and ability to figure stuff out and kind of earnest thing. And I
love him and I want to have him be part of like, so he
was kind of an inspiration for a character I had barely I met you like
twice or something at that point. Yeah. I heard you say that on
a podcast once and I was shocked. I'd never heard that, And I,
first of all, I think it's amazing and hilarious, and I only
have that relationship with Conan, who somehow scares the but Jesus out of any
that I'm like so earnest with him around him, so funny, And when
I've told people that, first of all, they're like, no way,
I'm like, yeah, Andy Parker PI based on that's hilarious. And then
when they're like why and I explained him, they're like, oh, okay,
I don't see that, but yeah, that's so funny. He is
scary. I mean, he's a great friend and I love him, but
the first he's so hilarious and tall and weirdly kind of intimidating, especially as
a comedy writer, like so I and P. The first day that I
worked there, he and like Mike Sweeney and I started on the same day,
Mike Sweeney who's been with the show forever now and hilarious head writer and
now he's kind of like big right hand man on all kinds of stuff that
they do. He uh, he got Sweeny and I started the same day,
and Conan came into the writer's room where we're eating dinner that night and
just stood up on the sofa playing with guitar, singing this beautifully composed new
song about they're here to ruin my show. These two guys came to like
I can't sing, but he just you know, made up this song about
how we were there to ruin his show for our worst day. Getting back
to you, mister Graff, you can follow this dude on the social media's
on Instagram and threads at Jonathan C. Groff. Make sure you get that
C in there and then he's on Twitter or x at. Not that growth,
mister Grof. What charity are you playing for today? An organization called
One Kid, One World that my friend Josh Bessell who's a wonderful writer started
and he's great and the organization is terrific and his idea and Tracy McCubbin who's
the executive director, they really do kind of micro targeted pinpoints stuff almost to
lead by example. So they've been funding for probably fifteen years now all kinds
of projects at a girls school in Kenya, sanitation, solar classrooms, dorms,
sanitation products, and then also built entire school in El Salvador and Guatemala.
So they just do great work for kids, reaching out and saying like
we can change the world one kid at a time. That is awesome.
Well, We're happy to make a donation in your name. Win or lose
to one kid, one world. You know the two incredible writers that have
made us all laugh heartily over the last few decades. You know what charity's
they're playing for. But it's time to get back to the game. To
get back, I should say to brass tax and go over our answers for
the General Knowledge round. There were eight questions in the round. Question number
one was, even though movable type was already in use in East Asia,
what German gets the credit for inventing the print printing press? Dan, what
did you put for number one? Guttenberg, guten Togg to guten Berg,
Jonathan, what did you put for number one? I had Gutenberg, but
I may have had the wrong one because I said Steve, Steve, He's
great, He's great. I don't know whether it counts or not. Yeah,
so we have Gutenberg and Gutenberg. The correct answer is Johannes Gutenberg Gutenberg
one for one, And everybody breaths, all right, did you get that
first one on the board? It really is? Yeah, no goose here.
Question number two, what ice cream confection was discontinued by Klondike in the
summer of twenty twenty two. I kind of gave you the hint that it's
got a funny name. Jonathan, did anything come to you for number two?
Yes, of course, it's the Fozzy Wazzi. Ah right, sure,
Let's see what Dan put. Dan, did you put the Fozzy Wazzi?
I put Iglu crunch, Iglu crunch. Both great guesses, both incorrect.
I hope you've heard of this thing. I don't know if you've ever
had one, because I think you would remember it. It's the Choco Taco.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, the Choco Taco. Annie, our
producer is telling us that the the a great ice cream play, Salt and
Straw is bringing it back. There's a demand for the Choco Taco. Here's
what I'm gonna say, Mike, just not to quibble, and I'm not
here to pick a fight with you. This is your show, and I
know Dan has your back. But you said it was a funny name,
and I don't laugh when I hear Choco Taco. I'm not rolling in the
aisles. I've watched Brooklyn nine nine, I've seen episodes of Parks and Recreation
penned by Dan Gored. These are funny things. Thank you, Chaco Taco's.
It's not that funny. It's not that funny. It was a bad
hint. It was a bad hint. You're still not getting the point,
but it was a bad hint. I'll give my point. I'll give myself
a negative one point for hosting that deserves a splooshe. Question number three was
your sports question. What usc standout was inducted into the inaugural class of the
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame? Dan, what did you put for number three?
Okay, I originally put the last name Leslie, then I raised that,
and then I put the last name Miller. But I think it's neither.
But I'm just gonna say Miller. And to go with Miller, Jonathan
Groff, what did you put? I was thinking of the person with the
last name Leslie, but I wrote Lucas, so I'm way off. So
you were thinking Leslie, you put Lucas. We have Lisa Leslie, who
was a huge superstar and Hall of Famer. The one I was going for
in the inaugural class was Reggie's sister, Cheryl. Cheryl Miller circle gets the
square, Dan, Oh my god, that was hail Mary. There well
done. I'm a little embarrassed. I'll be honest. I was on I
was on Jeopardy in a tournament in two thousand and five and I could not
come up with the name of the band Outcast, and I've never really lived
it down. We still love you. It's okay, it's two to one
after three. Take it easy, everybody, here we go. Question number
four was Saint John's is the capital city of what Easternmost Canadian province? Jonathan,
did you make did you make up for Lisa Lucas with number four?
I may have, I may not have. I think Eastern Most was helpful
because this this is a tricky question, and you know why this is tricky.
Mike. I'll let you explain why it's tricky. But I'm going to
say Newfoundland and hope that I'm right. Newfoundland, Dan, what did you
put? I put Prince Edward Island. That's Charlottetown, PI. Come on,
is that true? Do you guess? I love it? He gets
a at your point for that. Yeah, Graff is showing off his world
geography skills with Charlottetown Pei, Prince Edward Island, home of Anne of Green
Gables. Oh my God. The correct answer though, is they changed their
name recently. But I'm still going to give you the point, Graf.
It's Newfoundland and Labrador. They've added Labrador to that, but it is Saint
John's Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost Canadian province. Question number five was the
actress Michelle Williams has recently received rave reviews for reading the audiobook version of whose
memoir titled The Woman in Me, Dan Nobel Laureate, Doctor Fuzzy Wuzzy Ozzy
Wai was a bear. Jonathan, what did you put? I just went
with the most famous biography or autobiography. But I'm probably wrong with Barbara streisand
Babs streisand you were on the right track. It came out last year.
She couldn't read it because she said it was just too much for her to
read herself, so they hired Michelle Williams. It was Britney Spears. Oh
that's good. I remember coming out and I remember thinking that title is terrible.
That's yeah. It really sounds like somebody has been It sounds like a
book about pegging. I mean, I'm just going to say that's probably not
a thing to bring up on a no, I'm all for it. You
might get a half point for bringing up pegging for the first time on you
should know better? Yes you should. Yeah, Question number six was your
kind of art? Art question? Claude Monette famously painted around twenty five canvases
featuring what ob jacks Jonathan start us off for number six? What was I
going for? He's famous for water lilies, but I think objects was weird,
But I said water lilies, water lilies. That is a great guest,
Dan, What did you put? Probably what the answer is, But
I was thinking he also painted cathedral, the same cathedral many many times.
I think the Cathedral of r Ruan maybe, and also no Tredame. But
then I was like object, But you know, a cathedral is an object
in the most technical term, and you painted a different lights. What were
you going for? The one I was going for is he has these paintings
of haystacks. They're haystacks with different sunlight hitting them in the morning or at
night or whatever. I've seen those, Yeah, and I think of those
same thing with the lighting. Yeah, it's like the same almost everything.
And there's like there's a few in the louver, there's a few at the
met there's a few over here, there's a few. He's got twenty five
of them. Yeah, that's what I was. Interestingly, he has eighteen
he painted known eighteen water lilies paintings, and then there are seven more that
I own. You and Sweeney sween You think him up the subway, Yes,
now we'll we won't soon forget his hay Stacks paintings for number six,
number seven name both prosecuting attorneys in the infamous OJ Simpson murder trial, Dan
H. Clark and Darden Clark and Darden Jonathan. What did you put?
I had Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden, and then I was going to try
to run the table on the defense, but I thought that would be showing
off. No, do it, Yeah, do it right now, Barry
Sheck, Yeah, Flee Bailey, Johnny Cochrane, wasn't Wasn't Kardashian part of
it? Or was he just a buddy? No, he was part of
it, I think at one point at least. And who was the all
Shapiro Robert Shapiro. Yeah, yeah, I think I think that's like that.
They called it the Dream Team of Lawyers. We're on there in there
too. Yeah, was Alan Dershowitz in there. I know he was Klaus
von Buloh's guy. Yeah, I think you're probably right. That sounds good.
We'll have Annie look up Ojy's defense because there were there was like five
or six people with this defense, but you both nailed it. It is
Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden who I just voted for in a primary out here.
He's a judge here crazy Yeah, yeah, I saw the name and
I looked at up. I was like, yep, that's him. He's
a judge. So Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden for number seven and then question
number eight. In the election, he won the honor of being one of
the answers on your podcast. Hell yes, so yeah, Annie, Annie
is letting us know. Yeah. Simpson was represented by the Dream Team,
and it was initially Robert Shapiro and then subsequently Johnny Cochrane had f Lee Bailey,
Alan Dershowitz, Robert Kardashian, Sean Holly, Carl E. Douglas,
and Gerald Yuehlman good Lore. And finally, question number eight, can you
name three of the four college towns for the following North Carolina universities? We
have Duke UNC NC State and wake Forest. Jonathan, what did you get
for number eight? I had Durham, Winston Salem and Chapel Hill, all
right? And Dan, what did you get? Shit Chapel Hills. But
I meant I had Raleigh, Durham, Winston Salem. You both are correct.
You combined you got all four. So we have Duke is Durham,
Chapel Hill is UNC the tar Heels, Raleigh is NC State, the wolf
Pack, and then Winston Salem, Winston Salem is Wake Forest. Great job.
We're tabulating our scores right now, and look at this. This is
how we draw it up. After one, we are tied at four points.
It's four to four after one as we enter round two, which is
our culture grab Bag Round two pop Culture grab Bag. Today. In the
grab bag we have a movie round, and more specifically, these are all
questions about science fiction films. Usually there are eight questions in the round,
but I added another one. We have a bonus, more chances for you
guys to get some points, So there are nine questions in the sci fi
movie round. Here's question number one of nine. Pre Cogs are the psychics
that can predict when crimes will happen in what film based on a story by
Philip K. Dick. Name that film where there's three pre cogs that are
the psychics that can predict when crimes will happen In what film? Name the
film based on a story by Philip K. Dick For number one? All
right? Question number two. In the film Back to the Future, how
fast does the DeLorean have to go to experience time travel? How many miles
per hour is the DeLorean have to get up to with the one point twenty
one jigowats to experience time travel in the Back to the Future series. Just
need a number for question number two, all right. Question number three goes
like this. The Great Alicia vic Candor played the humanoid robot Ava in what
film? From a few years ago? Also starring Domnall Gleeson and Oscar Isaac.
One of my favorite films that year? Again for number three, Alicia
vic Candor played the humanoid robot Ava in what film? Also starring Dominall Gleeson
and Oscar Isaac him that great film? For number three? All right,
Question number four, Here we go. Question number four. In the Terminator
series, Linda Hamilton played what character? What is Linda Hamilton's character's name in
the Terminator series where she'sstantly showing off her guns. She is such a badss.
I remember that first Terminator movie was so good. First two the first
two are great too. Yeah, yeah, one of my favorite things.
Ever. I forgot about it, but I remember seeing it as a kid
and I was like, oh my god. But it's in the first one,
I believe, And I think it's in the first half hour or whatever
where he's kind of getting acclimated to Earth and he's in this like shitty hotel
room and the landlord's like banging on the door, and he goes through the
things of how he can respond to the landlord banging on the door, and
he comes up with like, fuck you asshole. But the way, Arnold,
it's just chef's kiss. He's like, fuck you asshole. And I
just rewounded a million times as a kid on a VHS like that's great.
Have you heard the interview with Schwarzenegger. He talks about James James Cameron.
He wanted to say I will be back instead of I'll be back and oh
really, and Cameron said, like, I'm the writer, please say we'll
do ten takes of I'll be back and then and I guarantee you that's going
to be the biggest line in the movie, and then you can do it.
I will be back And Schwarzenegger relented, and then immediately it was like,
it's arguably the most coded line in any movie ever. Ever. Yeah,
Cameron knows a couple things. Yeah, Weirdly, he wanted to say,
it isn't a tumor. Yeah, all right? Question number five,
What nineteen sixty six sci fi classic is about a crew of scientist that gets
shrunken down and injected into the human body? I remember seeing this back in
school. They like actually played this in like our biology class or something.
What nineteen sixty six sci fi classic is about a crew of scientist that gets
shrunken down and injected into a human body? Question number six? What US
City is the setting for the nineteen eighty seven flick RoboCop? The original RoboCop
is that Peter Weller I believe nineteen eighty seven flick RoboCop? What US City
is the setting for RoboCop? For question number six? All right, Question
number seven of nine in the pop culture grab Bag, we're talking about science
fiction films. What's the name of Kurt Russell's character in Escape from New York
an Escape from LA. Kurt Russell's character's name in those films? What's the
name of Kurt Russell's character? And Escape from New York an Escape from LA
for question number seven? Moving right along to question number eight. In the
Matrix series, what is the name of the main bad guy played by Hugo
Weaving or if you don't know that one name Lawrence Fishburn's character in the Matrix
series? So either or you don't need both for this one one or the
other. In the Matrix series, what is the name of the main bad
guy played by Hugo Weaving or the name of Laurence Fishburne's character for question number
eight? Very self satisfied nod from graf over here. Yeah, well,
yep, yep, yep. And finally question number nine, kind of your
bonus? What actress played the replicant Rachel in Blade Runner? She's really excellent
in this film. What actress played the replicant Rachel in Blade Runner? With
my new pal Harrison Ford New Pale, I got to meet him a couple
of times. I've been on Shrinking for a few episodes and finally got to
be like there for a table read, and then we actually shot something in
Griffith Park a couple of weeks ago. And yeah, just the fucking coolest,
coolest guy, nicest guy. That's awesome. Yeah, him being wowed
by David Blaine. Oh yeah, it's fantastic. Right, pencils down,
gentlemen, we'll go over your answers in the pop culture grab bag. Today
was a movie round. It was science fiction films and I added a bonus.
So we had nine questions in this round. So question one was pre
cogs are the psychics that can predict what when crimes will happen? And what
film? Based on a story by Philip K. Dick. Jonathan starts us
off this go around. For number one, well, I felt good about
this answer, but then you asked a question about this movie later, so
now I'm doubtful. But it is what I wrote, which is Blade Runner,
Blade Runner, Dan, what did you put? I put Minority Report,
Minority Report with Tom Cruise. The correct answer is Minority Report directed by
Steven Spielberg Tom Cruise. It is Minority Report for number one. Question number
two, as you're back to the future, question in those films, how
ask does the DeLorean have to go to experience time travel. Dan, I
wrote, twelve eight hundred, twelve thousand, eight hundred, Jonathan, what
did you put? Well? I don't like to promote unsafe driving in any
way, so I wrote one hundred and eighty six miles per hour. One
hundred and eighty six the correct answer. When this baby gets up to eighty
eight miles an hour, it's eighty eight miles an hours when all the lightning
volts kind of happened and the DeLorean moves around, Tim, that's just too
little. Yeah, yeah, that doesn't seem And you said one eighty six,
yeah, and I thought that was low. It's eighty eight miles an
hour, and that baby takes off Question number three. Alicia Vick Candor played
the humanoid robot Eva in what film, also starring Domino Gleson and Oscar Isaac
Jonathan. I couldn't remember I wrote her, but I know that's not it.
I would remember either. And I really like this movie. And I
can see the fucking excuse me. I can see the poster with her face
and then the metal and the metal spine, and it kills me. And
it's on some streaming service that I watch and I and it's like I see
the tab all the time. Yeah, it's a great film. It's got
a really great tone and mood and everything. It's a really lovely film.
It's called Ex Machina X. I never saw that. It's good. It's
great. Highly recommend, very fun. H question number four. In the
Terminator series, Linda Hamilton played what character Dan Okay? So first I only
had the first name, but I was wondering if you would have taken just
the first name. Sure, I'll take whatever you got. But then I
think there was the show about her son which I had the last name,
so I think it's Sarah Connor. Sarah Connor, Jonathan, what did you
put for number four? I wrote Sarah Connor. At first, it's like,
I don't remember this at all, And I remember there was a TV
show called The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I think was there also a John Connor
thing? Or I misremember the Sarah chronic the Connors, which is the show
they're doing without Roseanne. So that's what you're thinking about. That's not in
the Terminator universe. Well, it terminated Roseanne's career, so that is something
that happened. I won't be back for that last Yes, the correct answer,
you nailed it. It's Sarah Connor and I did. I didn't think
the Sarah Connor Chronicles is a mouthful to say as a type of a show.
Question number five, what nineteen sixty six were going on the Way Back
Machine? For nineteen sixty six sci fi classic? It's about a crew of
scientists that gets shrunken down and injected into a human bodie Jonathan, I think
this is called the Fantastic Voyage. Fantastic Voyage? Dan? What did you
put? I put incredible Journey, But I think you're right, journey or
fantastic void? Right, The correct answer is fantastic voyage. Fantastic voyage for
number FIAB there you go. I feel like incredible Journey is if they had
translated it into Japanese and then back into English. That's what I would say
on the post here. Think that's amazing. Question number six, What US
city is the setting for the nineteen eighty seven flick RoboCop? Dan, start
us off for number six? Okay, I'm sure this is wrong, but
I feel like it was Detroit. I feel like there was like the car
industry was making this thing. There was some sort of. I feel like
the Detroit, so I'm going to think that sounds really smart. I bet
that's right. Uh Groff, what did you put for I just defaulted to
Los Angeles because it's always it seems apocalyptic. But that doesn't seem right.
Detroit sounds better? Yeah, La and Detroit. The correct answer is the
motor City Detroit, Michigan. That answer deserves a huzzah. Another butthole pull
from Dan Gore unbelievable. Question number seven, what's the name of Kurt Russell's
character and Escape from New York and Escape from La Jonathan? Mister Goldiehan,
Yes, mister Goldiean, that is correct, Dan. What did you put
Jacob Mendelberg? Jacob Mendelberg what a mess for superhero? But it's you know
why not? Yeah, he's a real mench we all love him. The
correct answer it's a great name, Snake, Pliskin Snake. I heard that.
Yeah, is the name of that a Kurt Russell character? A little
tip of the Captain John Carpenter. Question number eight was your Matrix question?
In the Matrix series, what is the name of the main guy played by
Hugo Weaving or the name of Laurence Fishburne's character Dan. Okay, so I
did Fishburns Morpheus, Jonathan, what did you put? I had to get
this right because I worked with Laurence fishburn for eight years. So I got
it right, and it's Morpheus. I wrote Morbius for a second, and
I was like, that's not right because there was that other movie that came
up Mobius or something. Morbius. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I
did right. I did cross out Morbius and have Morpheus. It is Morpheus,
Laurence Fishburne. And for playing at home, it is agent Smith that
says mister Anderson all the time. And there's a bunch of agent Smiths that
by Hugo Weaving. Question number nine, you're bonus in the grab bag?
What actress played the replicant Rachel in the fantastic film Blade Runner? Jonathan?
Well, I seen that movie. I loved it years ago. But I
guessed it was either I wrote Daryl Hannah. It could be Sean Young,
but I wrote Darrel Hannah, Daryl Hannah or Sean Young. Great guess is
Dan, what did you put? I know that this is wrong and that
this is the wrong time period, but she had the feel of Milijovovic,
and I think it's Daryl Hannah. But I did not put that, But
I think you're right. You know that last line about the rain dropt tears
in the rain was improvised. I believe I did not know that it could
be wrong, but I think that's the case. Anyway, great guess is
the correct answer. He didn't go with it, but you said it.
Groff. It's Sean Young. Gat Young played the replicant Rachel in Blade.
Ronert was Sean Young. We're tabulating our scores. Oh my god, we
have our first person in the lead. It was tied at four, but
after two rounds we have Jonathan Groff with seven points and Dan Gore with eight.
It's eight to seven at halftime. We're here with Dan Gore, he's
playing for the Alzheimer's Association. And we're here with Jonathan Groff, he's playing
for One Kid, One World. We're happy to make donations in their names
to those great charities. As we enter our third of four rounds today,
it is the dreaded round three, the lightning round, Lightning round. So
here we are. We're in the Lightning round. Jonathan, you are trailing
by one so you get to go first, and today you can choose from
these three headings, which have nothing to do with the question nor the answers.
But let's go to you know, like your favorite place from your kid.
You can go either on the go karts, you can play some mini
golf, or you can hit the batting cages. What's your poison, Jonathan,
Well, I am in Florida right now watching my son play baseball in
college, So I'm going to go with batting cages. Batting case. Awesome,
fantastic, All right, here is your batting cages lightning round question.
I'm gonna say the question twice. I'm gonna say, Oh, You're gonna
have twenty seconds to just say as many answers as possible. Dan, you're
gonna want to jots some answers down because I'm gonna come straight to you with
a five second bottle as soon as Jonathan's twenty seconds are up. Here is
your batting cages lightening around question. In terms of revenue, what are the
top nine largest deodorant slash anti perspriint brands in the world men's and women's deodorant
and anti persperants. Again, terms of revenue, what are the top nine
largest deodorant anti perspint brands in the world. Twenty seconds on the clock and
a go sure men in Mitcham, right guard, Arid, Irish Spring,
Dove, I'm naming soaps a crystal. That's top stop. You got three.
You got number one, which is Dove. You got number six,
which is Mitcham, and number eight right guard. You got those three.
I have second rebuttal Dan, to see if you can steal some answers from
Jonathan. There's still six on the board. Top nine largest anti personal brands
in the world. Five seconds and go Secret ax uh and up you stole
too. You got Secret which was number two, an Ax which was number
five. Let's go over the ones we didn't get to. Number three is
degree degree. Number four. Your old man had this old spice. Old
spice. Sure for all you stinky hippies out there, we have Tom's from
Maine was number seven and number nine is kind of arm and hammer arm Hammer
deodorants. You did very well in batting cages. Now, Dan, it's
your turn in the barrel. You can choose from either go karts or mini
golf for your lightning round question. Well, my twelve year old daughter's last
birthday party was at a go kart track. I'm gonna say, go karts,
go carts. All right, here's your go karts question. I need
to know the top nine countries in terms of military spending in the world.
Top nine countries in terms of military spending. Twenty seconds on the clock and
a go, United States, Russia, China, Japan, Germany, France,
Australia, No, England, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, North Korea,
South Korea, Brazil, Argentina, Cuba. Up. You got eight
out of nine. You got eight out of nine. You got USA,
China, Russia, India, the UK, Germany, France, and South
Korea. Jonathan will see if you can steal the one that's still on the
board. Five second rebuttal and go Andada, Spain, Sweden, Oh,
Italy. Stop, you did not steal it. It's a tough one.
It's maybe the toughest one on here. Number five. Saudi Arabia is number
five in the world now in military spending. But you guys did incredibly well
in the lightning around. We're tabulating our scores. We have a scoreboard update
after three. Dan very impressive in the lightning round. Is taking a commanding
lead. It is eighteen to ten after three. I'm surprised. Yeah,
not to worry, Jonathan, double Duty's coming up. I'm not worried,
but I am freaking out. Ah, so I can probably hear it in
my voice. All right, it's eighteen to ten as we head into our
fourth and final round between Jonathan and Dan. Round four, the Double Duty.
It is the Theodore Double Duty Radcliff round called the double Duty because points
are doubled and there are nine questions in this round, so there are eighteen
very important points up for grabs. The category for the Double Duty today is
the United States in the twentieth century. So these are all questions about history
and pop culture of the United States and the nineteen hundreds. Here is question
number one of nine. What mission was the first to land a person on
the Moon? What was the moon mission that landed someone on the Moon for
the very first time? For question number one, you want the name and
the number or do you okay? Name and number please? For question number
one? All right? Question number two. In nineteen ninety three, Carol
Moseley Braun became the first black female US senator. I want to know from
what Midwest state? Did she? In nineteen ninety three, Carol Moseley Braun
became the first black female US Senator from which mid West state? For question
number two? All right? Question number three after death of a Salesman?
Arthur Miller won Best New Play again at the nineteen fifty three Tony Awards with
what other work? Again? For question number three? After death of a
Salesman? Which I think was in nineteen forty nine, Arthur Miller won Best
New Play at the nineteen fifty three Tony Awards with what other work? For
question number three? Question number four. NAFTA was implemented back in the year
nineteen ninety four, reducing or eliminating tariffs on imports and exports between Canada,
the US and Mexico. What does NAFTA stand for? What does that acronym
stand for? NAFTA? For question number four? Again, it was iplemented
back in ninety four, reducing or eliminating tariffs on imports and exports between Canada,
the US and Mexico. What does NATTA stand for? For number four?
Question number five? What soul artists put out a bunch of incredible albums
in the nineteen seventies, including Talking Book, Inner Visions, and Songs in
the Key of Life? Again for number five. What soul artists put out
a bunch of incredible albums in the nineteen seventies, including Talking Book, Inner
Visions, and Songs in the Key of Life. Name that artist for number
five? All right? Question number six a little multiple choice. Women got
the right to vote in the United States when Congress ratified the nineteenth Amendment in
what round year was it nineteen hundred? Was it nineteen ten? Or was
it nineteen twenty? Again? For question number six. Women got the right
to vote finally in the United States when Congress ratified the nineteenth Amendment in what
round year was it nineteen hundred, nineteen ten or nineteen twenty? Okay?
Question number seven, What I want to know from you is what for sports
did Jackie Roosevelt Robinson letter in while attending UCLA. He was at Pasadena City
College and was still kicking ass in all the sports, and then at UCLA
he lettered in these four sports. Named those four sports that Jackie Robinson lettered
in as a bruin for question number seven. All Right, Question number eight
your penultimate question in this round, The double duty Hillary Swank won the Best
Actress Oscar Back in nineteen ninety nine. Can you name both the film and
the character she portrayed in it again question number eight. Great actress Hillary Swank
won the Best Actress Oscar Back in nineteen ninety nine. Can you name both
the film and the character she portrayed in it? For question number eight?
And finally question number nine, Here it is. It might all come down
to this. What president was assassinated in Buffalo on September sixth, nineteen oh
one by Leon Cholgos or cho Goosh and was succeeded by Vice President Teddy Roosevelt.
Name that president? So again for question number nine. What president was
assassinated in Buffalo on September sixth, nineteen oh one by Leon Chogosh and was
succeeded by Vice President Teddy Roosevelt. Oghos was an anarchist. I know that.
Yep. All right, let's go over your answers. So pencils down,
let's go over your answers. Very interesting, Theodore double duty Radcliff round.
It was the United States in the twentieth century. Question one of nine
was what mission was the first to land a person on the moon? Dan
Start US off for number one. You know, I went back and forth
between Apollo nine and Apollo eleven, and I'm saying Apollo eleven follow eleven,
Jonathan, What did you put? I also said Apollo eleven, Pollo eleven,
and Apollo eleven. The correct answer is Apollo eleven. It's Apollo eleven.
Trust your gut. Then just a couple missions later, all hell breaks
loose question number two. In nineteen ninety three, Carol Moseley Braun became the
first black female US Senator from which Midwest state? Jonathan? Illinois? Illinois?
Dan? What did you put? I went back and forth between Indiana
and Illinois. I settled on Illinois, and I are from the Hoosier state,
where both Hoosiers and you are correct. The correct answer is Illinois.
The Land of Lincoln was the first state to elect first black female US Senator,
Carol Moseley brown Back in ninety three. Two for two question number three,
after death of a salesman, Arthur Miller won the Best New Play again
at the nineteen fifty three Tony Awards with What Work, Dan, Crucible?
The Crucible? Jonathan, what did you put? I wrote a view from
the bridge and then crossed it out and wrote the Crucible because I felt like
it's always the flintstones, it's never the rubbles. That was what was said
to me before I went. Before I went on Jeopardy, I talked to
a Jeopardy the guy who would want to bunch, and he said, it's
always always guessed the flintstones and not the rubbles. So the Crucible is the
more famous play, and I just went with that. That is great advice
because the correct answer is the Crucible in the Salem which trial, it is
the Crucible by Arthur Miller. For number three, you are three four to
three apiece, Holy smoked. Question number four. NAFTA was implemented back in
nineteen ninety four, reducing eliminating tariffs or on imports and exports between Canada,
the US, and Mexico. What does NAFTA stand for, Jonathan, I
think it's North American Free Trade Agreement. I was a little nervous about the
A, but I said agreement North America Trade said the same thing, the
North American Free Trade Agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement. It is
the North American Free Trade Agreement. Nailing it, Holy agreement. Cow.
You guys are an agreement on agreement? Question number five, what soul artists
put out a bunch of incredible albums in the nineteen seventies, including Talking Book,
Inner Visions, and Songs in the Key of Life? Dan, I
am certain I got this wrong, but I wrote Aretha Franklin, Wretha Franklin,
Great guests, Jonathan, what did you put Stevie Wonder? Stevie Wonder
also known as Steve Land Morris. It is Stevie Wonder. Two big points,
two big points for Jonathan, right there. Question number six, Women
got the right to vote finally in the United States when Congress ratified the nineteenth
Amendment. In what round year was it nineteen hundred, nineteen ten or nineteen
twenty, Mister Groff, I was almost positive of this, but now I'm
doubting it. But I'm still going to say at nineteen twenty, nineteen twenty?
Dan, what did you put for number six? Nineteen twenty as well?
I remember my grandma was born nineteen fourteenth before women had the right to
vote? Holy smokes, the correct answer is nineteen twenty. You guys are
destroying this round. Well done. Question number seven, what four sports did
Jackie Robinson letter in while attending UCLA. Dan say, track and field,
baseball, football, and basketball. Jonathan, what did you put? I
had that exact same list baseball, football, track and field, and basketball,
and you would both be correct. We remember basketball. Yeah, it's
great. Well, in doing a little research on it and just looking him
up recently, because there was a couple of cool things I learned is that
like at UCLA, baseball was probably his worst sport, Like, like he
batted kind of horribly at UCLA. He was, you know, a great
defensive player and he could run the bases like nobody's business. But like his
batting average kind of sucked while at UCLA, and that was probably, like
overall, probably the worst sport he played. He was so good. And
then I learned that his older brother Mack won the silver medal behind Jesse Owens
at the nineteen thirty six Berlin Olympics. And I didn't know that. I'm
like Mac Robinson, It's like the family was just incredible. So Mac Robinson
and Jackie Robinson like both have done in credit stuff. That's incredible. Yeah,
question number eight, I felt could have been a little tougher. Hillary
Swank won the Best Actress Oscar back in nineteen ninety nine? Can you name
both the film and the character she portrayed in it? Jonathan, what did
you put for number eight? Well, it's confusing, right because you could
put million Dollar Baby, but I think it's Boys Don't Cry and the character
is Brandon Tita or Tina Brandon. I believe, Okay, boys don't Cry
and Brandon Tina or Tina Brandon. Dan, what did you put for number
eight? I put boys Don't Cry? But the fact that you remember the
name is Nobel Prize level. But I agree it could be a million Dollar
Baby. I don't know. The correct answer is boys Don't Cry and it
was based on the real tragic story of Brandon Tina. So you're going to
get two big points. I'll give one points to mister Gore forgetting boys Don't
Cry, but Jonathan impressive with boys Don't Cry and Brandon Tina for number eighth.
Question number nine? What president was assassinated in Buffalo on September sixth,
nineteen oh one by Leon Schogosh and was succeeded by Teddy Roosevelt? For number
nine, Dan, what did you put? Leave that is President McKinley,
President William McKinley, Jonathan, what did you put William McKinley, William McKinley
and William McKinley. The correct answer is William McKinley. Oh my god,
what an impressive, incressive, impressive round, I should say from both of
you. We're tabulating our final scores. Oo, I think grawfriend of the
table on that one. Jonathan swept the round. I swept the round,
but it's not enough to turn it around. Unbelievab're tabulating it scores. We
have Jonathan Groff twenty eight points, Dan Gore with thirty three. You closed
the gap. But Dan Gore, you are in fact the smartest person in
the world for one week. We got out the window. Oh god,
you jumped out of the window. Holy shit. That lightning round you were
killed. That lightning round. You got eight of nine in the lightning.
There are certain sporkles that I would play obsessively when I was in the room
at Brooklyn, often to like make sure my mental acuity hadn't diminished. That's
awesome. You are our champ. You are the smartest person in the world
for one week. We're happy to make a donation in your name. Dan
Gore, to the Alzheimer's Association again. Everybody, watch Brooklyn ninety nine,
it's now on Netflix, first four seasons, and watch Killing It Grand Crew,
and then Jonathan Groff. We're happy to make a donation in your name
to One Kid, One World. You can follow him on Instagram and threads
at Jonathan C. Groff or on Twitter at not that Groff. Watch Happy
Endings and Blackish and This fool on who o Loo Right now, great game,
chance, but the game is not over. It's time for the final
throwdown, the final throwdown. This is where Annie's gonna come back here and
throw up a one off question. I'll read it to the world, we'll
have a little discussion, and then we'll reveal the answer and hopefully learn a
little something something before all is through. So Annie, if you were at
the ready, put up the final throw down question. All right, name
two of the three films tied for the most Oscar wins? Oh, since
the Oscars we're recording this show right before the ceremony, named two of the
three films tied for the most Oscar wins. Titanic jumps out at me right
away. Again, we're not writing this now, we're just discussion at me.
I know we're not writing it down, but I wrote down to jumped
out at me. The other one that jumped out of me was from one
Isaac. I remember Maybe just got nominated a lot and it seemed like the
sting. I thought, oh, it's one of my favorite films. Yeah,
it won a lot too. I remember The Best Days of Our Lives.
Also, one that's a great movie. Yeah, and ben Her I
remember winning a counter being nominated for like eleven or thirteen awards. Was Gladiator,
some movie like Gladiators that that won some it's got to be one that
wins like all of it that's got to win, you know, Best Picture,
Actress and then like a bunch of like other costuming, you know,
makeup or special effects or something like that. Yeah, because I don't know
if Titanic did. Kate and Leo probably didn't win for Best Actor and Actress.
I definitely didn't win. I know there's certain years like Silence of the
Lambs one picture director and actor and actress and stuff like that that could be
it. But Titanic won like ten Tech right Article Cander stuff too. So
I like The Lord of the Rings did one of the Lords do very well.
That that could be up there too, the Return of the King or
something. These are all great. Yeah, well we might be missing one,
but I feel like Titanic's got to be one of the three. What
do you guys want to go with for the For the other one, I
don't know. All right, we'll go with We'll go with Titanic and the
Silence of the Lambs Uh in the our two nineties picks for I think we
got Titanic, but I'm not. I don't think Silence won that many.
All right, reveal the answer and he put us out of our misery,
and then we'll learn about this. Oh oh my god, we talked about
all of them. We did great. So it's Titanic, it is been
Her, and it is the Lord of the Rings, the Return of the
King. So we did well. So let's they're all tied with eleven wins.
They have double digits and wins, which is impressive unless you're someone else
that's nominated that year, where you're like, fuck these guys. Titanic had
fourteen nominations, so they were eleven for fourteen. Ben hur was nominated for
twelve oscars in one eleven, so that's pretty good percentage. Lord of the
Rings nominated for eleven and had the biggest sweep in history, winning every nomination.
They didn't lose once, and Walt Disney holds the most wins for a
person with twenty two. Interesting one to me because what movies were getting nominated?
Were they getting winning animated awards like Fantasia or Snow White or yeah,
winning technical awards? Yeah, I think so. I think he had all
sorts of technical awards and animation awards, and then I'm sure they won Best
Animated whenever that started. I don't know when that started that category, but
I'm sure they won pretty much every year. Yeah, that was very interesting,
but we talked all around it. We did well. Gentlemen. It
was a pleasure to have you on the pod. I wish you nothing but
great successes and good health in twenty twenty four. And let's tip one back
soonish that would be great. And good luck to the Kenyon baseball team.
Thank you, Dan, Thank you Mike, thank you Annie. A lot
of fun. Appreciate it. Congratulations Dan. You have until your reign lasts
for one week and then I am checking in with you to see what you
did with your power yeah, I'll probably be running for office or something.
Yeah. See you next week for another episode of You Should Know Better.
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