Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Quiz Quiz, Bang Bang, the pup
Speaker 1: quiz practice show that has you peep right in the quizzer.
Speaker 1: I'm Manny Flora, I'm David Flora, and we're here to
Speaker 1: teach you more about trivia than there are people getting
Speaker 1: booed at their commencement speeches. For telling graduates about AI.
Speaker 2: People will boo anything.
Speaker 1: I love booing.
Speaker 2: See boo. There you go. Ah feels good man, it does.
Speaker 2: Here's something to cheer. Oh we got a coffee.
Speaker 1: Yeah from Half, Thank you, haf.
Speaker 2: I thanks Half, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Well, that is wonderful. And if there's any graduates listening, congratulations,
Speaker 1: Wait to do it? Otherwise, is there any business? David?
Speaker 2: Just have the second Saturday of June as our Zoom
Speaker 2: Trivia Day. That's June thirteenth, Saturday noon mountain time.
Speaker 1: We'll see you there. Otherwise, should we dive in, let's
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 2: Here's how the show works. Whiz Quiz Bang Bang's format
Speaker 2: is four rounds of four questions, each followed by the answers.
Speaker 2: After round two, we'll ask a quick fire bang Bang
Speaker 2: question where you'll have a time limit to give multiple answers.
Speaker 2: After the fourth round. The show culminates with the Big Bang,
Speaker 2: a final round with three questions, whose answers are all
Speaker 2: clues to one final question. Round one. Question one, the
Speaker 2: category is history. What title did Fidel Castro assume in
Speaker 2: Cuba in nineteen fifty nine? Question two? Category Food and drink.
Speaker 2: Shepherd's pie is a meat and vetcha hash in gravy,
Speaker 2: topped with a layer of what. Question three category games
Speaker 2: and hobbies in dice games? If you roll a box car?
Speaker 2: What have you rolled with your two dice? Question four
Speaker 2: category opera. This one comes from listener Maymi, thank you, maymy, thank.
Speaker 1: You, Mama.
Speaker 2: Name either of the Pierre Augustin Corone de beauma che
Speaker 2: plays that are the basis for popular operas by Rossini
Speaker 2: and Mozart. And now the answers to round one. Question one,
Speaker 2: What title did Fidel Castro assume in Cuba in nineteen
Speaker 2: fifty nine? Prime Minister? He was Prime Minister from nineteen
Speaker 2: fifty nine to seventy six, and he was succeeded by
Speaker 2: himself as president from seventy six to two thousand and eight.
Speaker 2: Question two. Shepherd's pie is a meat and vegetable hash
Speaker 2: in gravy topped with a layer of what mashed potato? Delicious?
Speaker 1: So good?
Speaker 2: Question three In dice games, if you roll a box car,
Speaker 2: what have you rolled with your two dice two sixes?
Speaker 2: Question four? Name either of the Pierre Augustine Coron de
Speaker 2: beau Mache plays that are the basis for popular operas
Speaker 2: by Rossini and Mozart. You have the Barber of Seville
Speaker 2: and the Marriage of Figuero.
Speaker 1: Those are pretty famous.
Speaker 2: And beau Marche was also apparently a watchmaker, inventor, musician, spy, publisher,
Speaker 2: arms dealer, and revolutionary both French and American. He got
Speaker 2: around beau Marche tinker, taylor, soldier, spy, and he even
Speaker 2: makes Julia.
Speaker 1: Fries Round two. Question five the category is science. This
Speaker 1: question comes from listener Bobby. Thank you, Bobby, Bobby. I
Speaker 1: am become death, the destroyer of worlds is a famous
Speaker 1: quote by which US scientist. Question six the category is language,
Speaker 1: from the French word for untie what ten letter literary
Speaker 1: term refers to the final part of a story where
Speaker 1: everything is resolved. Question seven. The category is musicals, In
Speaker 1: which musical does Joe Boyd sell his soul to the
Speaker 1: devil so that the Washington senators can win a pennant.
Speaker 1: Question eight, the category is animals. What mammal can eat
Speaker 1: up to twelve hundred mosquitoes in an hour? And now
Speaker 1: the answers to a round two. Question five, I am
Speaker 1: become death the destroyer of worlds is a famous quote
Speaker 1: by which US scientist.
Speaker 2: J.
Speaker 1: Robert Oppenheimer after witnessing the first atomic bomb test. His
Speaker 1: quote was drawn from the Hindu scripture the Bagavad Gita.
Speaker 2: I think he said that story in an interview.
Speaker 1: He did, Yes, sir. You can watch him say it
Speaker 1: on YouTube because it is a televised interview.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Question six, from the French word for untie, what ten
Speaker 1: letter literary term refers to the final part of a
Speaker 1: story where everything is resolved day new mold. So this
Speaker 1: is what happens after the climax and all the loose
Speaker 1: ends are tied up. Which is funny that it means untie.
Speaker 1: Question seven, in which musical, does Joe Boyd sell his
Speaker 1: soul to the devil so that the Washington Senators can
Speaker 1: win a pennant? Damn Yankees? Question eight? What mammal can
Speaker 1: eat up to twelve hundred mosquitos in an hour? Fat?
Speaker 1: Sounds like we should get some pet bats, David, just
Speaker 1: let them hang out by the porch and eat all
Speaker 1: the mosquitoes so we can actually sit outside.
Speaker 2: That's it for the first half. That means it's time
Speaker 2: for the Bang Bang Round. The category for this week's
Speaker 2: Bang Bang Round is music, and this one's brought to
Speaker 2: you by a major Data. Thank you Major, Thank you Major.
Speaker 2: You'll have thirty seconds to give as many answers as
Speaker 2: you can to the following. What are the six games
Speaker 2: mentioned in RIM's Man on the Moon? Your time starts.
Speaker 1: Now, and that's time. The six games mentioned in RIM's
Speaker 1: Man on the Moon are Game of Life, Monopoly, Checks, Chess, Twister,
Speaker 1: and Risk. Now. If you said twenty one, you could
Speaker 1: make an argument that the lyrics are referring to blackjack. There.
Speaker 1: The reason we didn't include it is because there are
Speaker 1: a lot of people who think that the reference of
Speaker 1: twenty one there is for the game show that had
Speaker 1: a scandal, because there was a game show called twenty
Speaker 1: one where the producers secretly fed answers to coach contestants
Speaker 1: to build suspense and drive ratings, which ultimately caused the
Speaker 1: show to be canceled.
Speaker 2: Round three, Question nine, Category history. In World War One,
Speaker 2: the Allied Gallipoli campaign was beaten back mainly by which
Speaker 2: member of the Central powers? Question ten category art. The
Speaker 2: convention of painting outside to convey the feeling of being outdoors,
Speaker 2: called enplanaire, gained popularity due to what eighteen forty one
Speaker 2: invention Question eleven category food and drink, Which American fast
Speaker 2: food chain is known for square beef patties? And the baconator.
Speaker 2: Question twelve category television in Friends after the six main Friends,
Speaker 2: which character was in the most episodes? And now the
Speaker 2: answers to round three? Question nine? In World War One,
Speaker 2: the Allied Gallipoli campaign was beaten back mainly by which
Speaker 2: member of the Central powers? The Ottoman Empire? Question ten.
Speaker 2: The convention of painting outside to convey the feeling of
Speaker 2: being outdoors, called enplane air, gained popularity due to what
Speaker 2: eighteen forty one invention oil paint in tubes. Artist Pierre
Speaker 2: Augustrine was quoted as saying, without paint in tubes, there
Speaker 2: would have been nothing of what the journalists were later
Speaker 2: to call impressionists.
Speaker 1: Now you don't really think about little technological advances like
Speaker 1: getting oil in a tube as revolutionizing art but it
Speaker 1: makes total sense. You can't go out and paint if
Speaker 1: all your paint is dried up before you set up.
Speaker 2: You could go out and build little shacks for yourself
Speaker 2: with windows. Question eleven. Which American fast food chain is
Speaker 2: known for square beef patties and the baconator Windy's Question twelve?
Speaker 2: In Friends after the six Main Friends, which character was
Speaker 2: in the most episodes? Gunther He was the barista at
Speaker 2: Central Perk. Is that right?
Speaker 1: Correct? Yes? Round four? Question thirteen. The category is music.
Speaker 1: What rock group set a precedent by issuing two albums
Speaker 1: Use Your Illusion one and Use Your Illusion two on
Speaker 1: the same date, which was September seventeenth, nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 1: Question fourteen. The category is film. Hope is a good thing,
Speaker 1: maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever
Speaker 1: dies is something Andy Duffrain says in what movie? Question fifteen.
Speaker 1: The category is language. This question comes from listener Nolan.
Speaker 2: Thank you Nolan.
Speaker 1: What p word is a gymnastics and diving position, the
Speaker 1: common name for the genus of fish that includes walleye
Speaker 1: and a simple medieval infantry weapon. Question sixteen. The category
Speaker 1: is mythology. Which treacherous and merciless monster of Greek mythology
Speaker 1: would challenge travelers to answer a riddle, and now the
Speaker 1: answer is to round four. Question thirteen. What rock group
Speaker 1: set a precedent by issuing two albums on the same day,
Speaker 1: Guns and Roses. The album's debuted at number two and
Speaker 1: one on the Billboard two hundred and Solda combined thirty
Speaker 1: five million copies worldwide.
Speaker 2: That's one way to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Question fourteen. Hope is a good thing, maybe the
Speaker 1: best of things, and no good thing ever dies is
Speaker 1: something Andy Dufrain says in what movie I better get
Speaker 1: busy living or get busy watching the Shawshank Redemption.
Speaker 2: Technically he writes it, but he does narrate the letter
Speaker 2: when red reads it.
Speaker 1: Oh true. Question fifteen. What p word is a gymnastics
Speaker 1: and diving position, the common name for the genus of
Speaker 1: fish that includes walleye and a simple medieval infantry weapon
Speaker 1: Pike also a captain in Star trek Oh Question sixteen,
Speaker 1: which treacherous and merciless monster of Greek mythology would challenge
Speaker 1: travelers to answer a riddle? Sphinks interesting that Greek I
Speaker 1: associate sphinxes with Egyptian am I thinking of the wrong thing.
Speaker 2: Now. In Egyptian mythology, sphinxes were guardians. They were masculine,
Speaker 2: whereas the Greek was more feminine and often showed strength
Speaker 2: and ferocity with the head of a pharaoh or associated
Speaker 2: with pharaohs, you know, things like that. So it's just
Speaker 2: a symbol of power and guardianship. And in the Greek
Speaker 2: they had the one sphinx.
Speaker 1: And it was a monster, Yeah, a riddle monster, a kind.
Speaker 2: Brains and brawn. That's it for the regular rounds. That
Speaker 2: means it's time for the Big Bang Round. The category
Speaker 2: for this week's Big Bang Round is history. We'll ask
Speaker 2: you three questions, the answers of which are all clues
Speaker 2: to the final question. Keep in mind the three clue
Speaker 2: questions may not be from the same category as the final.
Speaker 1: Question One which Disney character died in a wildebeast stampede?
Speaker 2: Question two? According to IMDb, who is the only actor
Speaker 2: to have worked with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Francis
Speaker 2: Ford Coppola.
Speaker 1: Question three, which actor has played undead characters in Sean
Speaker 1: of the Dead, Underworld and Pirates of the Caribbean, dead
Speaker 1: Man's Chest.
Speaker 2: And finally, your Big Bang Question Again, the category is history.
Speaker 2: A nineteen seventeen congressional act that granted statutory birthright US
Speaker 2: citizenship to anyone born in Puerto Rico was sponsored by
Speaker 2: Senator John Shaefrith and a representative from Virginia. What was
Speaker 2: the last name of the representative, which would go on
Speaker 2: to be the short name by which the act was known?
Speaker 1: And now the answers to the Big Bang round? Question one?
Speaker 1: Which Disney character died in a Wildebeast stampede move fussa?
Speaker 2: Question two? Who is the only actor to have worked
Speaker 2: with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola Harrison Ford?
Speaker 1: Question three? Which actor has played undead characters? And Sean
Speaker 1: of the Dead, Underworld and Pirates of the Caribbean dead
Speaker 1: Man's Chest Bill Nahi.
Speaker 2: And Finally, A nineteen seventeen Congression act that granted statutory
Speaker 2: birthright US citizenship to anyone born in Puerto Rico was
Speaker 2: sponsored by Senator John Shaffrath and a representative from Virginia.
Speaker 2: What was the last name of the representative, which would
Speaker 2: go on to be the short name by which the
Speaker 2: act was known? The same last name as characters played
Speaker 2: by Nihi Ford and the actor who voiced Mufasa Jones.
Speaker 1: So you got James Earl Jones.
Speaker 2: In Janna Jones and Davy Jones.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And if you're wondering about the other undead characters,
Speaker 1: Bill Night, he played a zombie in Sean of the
Speaker 1: Dead and a vampire in Underworld.
Speaker 2: I guess David Jones is kind of like an octopus zombie.
Speaker 1: Octopus zombie. They discovered a news a new zombie. I
Speaker 1: almost said a new octopus. I guess scientists have discovered
Speaker 1: a stubby, little legged octopus.
Speaker 2: Uh good, so William Atkinson Jones, who was the representative
Speaker 2: from Virginia, was the other sponsor of the Jones Shaffrith Act.
Speaker 2: Shaffrith a senator from Colorado, by the way, and this
Speaker 2: operated as a de facto constitution and established a bill
Speaker 2: of rights based on the United States Bill of Rights.
Speaker 2: Puerto Rico. I had not heard of, you know when
Speaker 2: this happened. I know, Puerto Rico is basically a territory
Speaker 2: of the US right or considered under the Yeah, the umbrella.
Speaker 2: But nineteen seventeen, Yeah, it's been a while and Americans
Speaker 2: have no idea, no they don't.
Speaker 1: But to be fair to Americans, you're not taught anything
Speaker 1: about Puerto Rico and schools. But yeah, I would recommend
Speaker 1: to anyone who's interested in sort of this line spot
Speaker 1: of ours to read How to Hide an Empire.
Speaker 2: I do have an other fun fact here, The Lion King.
Speaker 2: Speaking of James Earl Jones, that's the second film in
Speaker 2: which he and Madge Sinclair, who played Sarabi, performed together
Speaker 2: as an African king and queen. Jones and Sinclair were
Speaker 2: also King and Queen of the fictional African nation in
Speaker 2: Coming to America. Such a good movie, and they did
Speaker 2: amazing like they are very believable royals.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they're so good.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. Coming to America is a phenomenal comedy film.
Speaker 2: If you haven't seen it, definitely recommended because it's just
Speaker 2: so well written and very well acted. Yeah, can't go
Speaker 2: wrong with that movie.
Speaker 1: Go watch it right now.
Speaker 2: And that's all we got for you for this episode
Speaker 2: of Quiz Quiz Bang Bang, Thanks for listening. I have
Speaker 2: been David Flora.
Speaker 1: Flora, here's looking at you, quiz. Can I just say that,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, we're challenged to way too few riddles
Speaker 1: in a day. More riddle challenges please.
Speaker 2: If you got it wrong, she would happily and quickly
Speaker 2: eat you. Okay, I'm like a little steaks in my
Speaker 2: day too. Yeah, very high stakes