276: Title This

Summary

Good Job, Brain! – Episode 276: "Title This" (Oct 29, 2024)

Main Theme / Purpose

This episode of Good Job, Brain! dives into the world of titles—from the full, forgotten versions of famous book and movie titles to how works and characters are named differently across cultures, languages, and even canine competitions. The episode features host Karen alongside Colin and Chris as they challenge each other (and listeners) with quizzes about title trivia, share fun insights about names and naming conventions, and uncover the strange world of alternative titles between countries (especially the UK and US). Play along and flex your own trivia muscles!

---

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Eggcorn Watch: Malapropisms and Language Mix-Ups

• Chris shares eggcorns—malapropisms where misheard phrases make a surprising kind of sense.
  • E.g. “Bi-curiously” instead of “vicariously” [04:34] (“Like half your story and half my story, I’m living, I, curiously, through you.”)
  • “Clip notes” instead of “CliffsNotes”: “Give me the clip, the highlight clips.” [05:14]
  • “Jack of all traits” instead of “Jack of all trades” [05:56]
• The team finds joy in how language morphs:
  • “Don’t put that in your resume, everybody.” – Karen [06:37]

---

2. Pop Quiz, Hotshot: Classic General Trivia Warm-Up

Starts at [06:43]

• Typical lightning round of pub quiz questions from a Trivial Pursuit card:
  • Geography: Which NYC borough isn’t an island? “The Bronx.” (Colin) [07:24]
  • Pop Culture: Which magician named daughter Moxie CrimeFighter? “Penn Jillette.” (Chris) [07:37]
  • US History: Who chooses president if electoral vote is tied? “House of Representatives.” (Colin) [08:02]
  • Art: Bird-identifying artist who inspired air corps? “Roger Tory Peterson.” [09:09]
  • Water Sport: SUP means? “Stand Up Paddle Boarding.” (Colin) [09:51]

---

3. Titles in Creative Work: Choosing the Perfect Name

Chris shares about his latest project

• Chris’ game company had to select a meaningful title for their new interactive documentary: Tetris Forever.
  • The title was inspired organically during documentary interviews.
  • “Everybody knows what Tetris is, and it is going to outlive all of us.” – Chris [12:22]
  • This launches the episode theme: Why titles matter and the ways titles evolve.

---

4. Quiz: Long Forgotten Book & Movie Titles

Colin hosts “Just Give Me the Long Version” at [14:03]

• Premise: Guess the famous work given its full, lesser-known title (with the common portion blanked out).
• Sample Questions & Answers:
  • “_____ or The Whale” – Moby Dick (Chris) [17:00]
  • “_____ or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” – Dr. Strangelove (Karen) [17:26]
  • “_____ His Grooms and Companions, The Autobiography of a Horse” – Black Beauty (Chris) [18:01]
  • “Eating, Praying, Loving” book’s full subtitle – Eat, Pray, Love (Karen) [18:31]
  • “_____ or The Modern Prometheus” – Frankenstein (Karen) [22:53]
  • “Travels into several remote nations of the world…by [blank]” – Gulliver’s Travels (Chris) [23:47]
  • “_____ a Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream” – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Karen) [24:05]
• Notable observation: “There was definitely a period mid-1800s where there was a lot of ‘or’ subtitling.” – Colin [20:33]

---

5. International Pixar Titles Quiz

Karen’s lightning round, “cool titles of Pixar movies in other countries” [24:19]

• Players match the translated-back title to the original Pixar film.
  • “Maze’s Bright Secret” (Korean) – Turning Red (Chris) [25:19]
  • “Legend of the Highlands” (German) – Brave (Colin) [25:29]
  • “Robot Actioneer” (Chinese) – WALL-E (Colin) [25:41]
  • “Brain Elves” (Polish) – Inside Out (Chris) [25:53]
  • “1001 Feet” (French) – A Bug’s Life (Chris) [26:08]
  • “In the Wake of Senile” (Hungarian) – Finding Dory (Chris) [26:43]
  • “Viva, Life is a Party” (Brazil) – Coco (Chris) [26:56]
  • “Half of the Magic” (Chinese) – Onward (Karen) [27:41]
  • “Magical Life” (Vietnamese) – Soul
  • “Four Wheels” (French) – Cars (Chris) [28:43]
  • “Grandpa Carl’s Flying House” (Japanese) – Up (Chris) [28:55]
• On the difference in titling:
  • “Pixar is known to have one-word titles…cool to see how other regions build the universe.” – Karen [29:11]
  • “Japanese retitlings…are a lot more literal.” – Chris [29:20]

---

6. Titles in the Animal Kingdom: Dog Show Naming Conventions

Inspired by listener Tina; starts [32:06]

• AKC registered dog names must be unique, sometimes long, and can include kennel names and personal in-jokes.
  • Listener’s dog “Trivia” registered as “[kennel name] Without Further Ado” in honor of GJB. [34:30]
  • “That without further ado wasn’t taken? That’s incredible!” – Colin [34:35]
  • The team feels honored, seeing their catchphrase immortalized.

---

7. Quiz: Trans-Atlantic Movie Title Changes

Chris hosts “UK/US Title Discrepancy Quiz” [35:21]

• Premise: Given titles used in both countries, guess the movie or why the name was changed.
• Key Matches:
  • “In Bed with Madonna” (UK) – Truth or Dare (US) [37:45]
  • “Die Hard 4.0” (UK) – Live Free or Die Hard (US) [38:28]
  • “Salazar’s Revenge” (UK) – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (US) [39:27]
  • “Belleville Rendezvous” (UK) – The Triplets of Belleville (US) [40:53]
  • “Zootropolis” (UK) – Zootopia (US) (Trademark reasons) [41:15]
  • “Avengers Assemble” (UK) – The Avengers (US) (To avoid confusion with 1960s UK spy show) [42:00]
  • “Dennis” (UK) – Dennis the Menace (US) (UK has its own “Dennis the Menace”) [43:23]
  • “Harold and Kumar Get the Munchies” (UK) – …Go to White Castle (US) (No White Castle in UK) [44:13]
  • “Howard: A New Breed of Hero” (UK) – Howard the Duck (US) [45:15]
  • Honorable mention: “Bonnie and Clyde…Were Killers” (UK) for clarity [46:08]
• “They changed the title because…they didn’t know who Bonnie and Clyde were. They had to finish the sentence.” – Chris [46:08]

---

8. The Daenerys Targaryen Title Challenge

Karen’s “Son of a Gun” segues into a brainstorm of Dany’s long titles [47:42]

• Collective recall of the whopping, evolving Daenerys titles:
  • “Mother of Dragons,” “Breaker of Chains,” “The Unburnt,” “Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men,” “Queen of Meereen,” “Protector of the Realm,” “Lady Regnant of the Seven Kingdoms.”
  • Chris: “She catches more Pokémon, she gets more titles.” [47:56]

---

9. Quiz: Patronyms (Son Of…Names)

Karen’s “Son of a Gun” quiz, [49:20]

• Explains how last names like “Johnson” or “Fitzgerald” originated as “son of X.”
• Notable patronymic trivia:
  • “Smith” = blacksmith; “Cooper” = barrel maker (and “Fassbender” in German is similar)
  • “Kohler” (Chris): “Means sinks.” “No, it’s coal/charcoal.” [50:44]
• Questions and answers:
  • Actress in various animal-titled films: Scarlett Johansson – (‘Johansson’ = son of Johan) [52:01]
  • Charlton Heston epic: Ben-Hur (‘Ben’ = son of Her) [52:36]
  • Yankees slugger: Alex Rodriguez (‘Rodriguez’ = son of Rodrigo) [53:18]
  • Fitzgerald (“The Great Gatsby” author): F. Scott Fitzgerald (‘Fitz’ = son of Gerald) [54:30]
  • First Black US Secretary of State: Colin Powell (‘Powell’ from Welsh “ap Howell”) [55:03]
  • Fast-food clown: Ronald McDonald – (‘Mc/Mac’ = son of Donald) [56:02]
    • Side fact: Ronald once had a pet dog named Sundae, played by Verne Troyer [56:41]

---

10. Modern Sports Oddity: One Man, Two Teams

• Brief note on Danny Jansen, the baseball player who played for both sides (due to a suspended, resumed game and mid-season trade) [57:09]

---

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “You can see all the time people using the wrong words, but when they use the wrong word but it feels really good, you know, sometimes even better.” – Chris on eggcorns [03:43]
• “I’m living, I, curiously, through you.” – Chris’s favorite eggcorn [04:34]
• “Vicariously… Vicarious… vicariously… vicarious… It’s messing you up.” – Karen and Chris riff [05:08]
• “Everybody knows what Tetris is and it is going to outlive all of us.” – Chris [12:22]
• “That without further ado wasn’t taken? That’s incredible!” – Colin on the AKC dog name [34:35]
• “Bonnie and Clyde… Were Killers.” – Chris, laughing at UK title [46:08]
• “Breaker of Chains. The Unburnt. Mother of Dragons.” – Lightning round on Daenerys titles [48:28]
• “Smith” = blacksmith… “Kohler – Means sinks. No, it’s coal/charcoal.” [50:40]
• “Ronald McDonald—Mac meaning son of Donald.” – Karen [56:02]
• “Baseball teams have really exhaustively planned travel schedule, they can't be like, 'we'll just do it tomorrow.'” – Karen on Jansen’s two-team oddity [57:53]

---

Episode Structure & Segment Timestamps

| Segment | Description | Timestamp | |---------|-------------|-----------| | Eggcorn Watch | Silly linguistic mix-ups | 03:02 – 06:43 | | Pop Quiz, Hotshot | Trivia warm-up | 06:43 – 10:23 | | Tetris Forever & Titles | Chris’ game launches title theme | 10:32 – 13:02 | | Long Version Quiz | Obscure, full book/movie/play titles | 14:03 – 24:19 | | Pixar International Titles | Pixar re-titlings around the world | 24:19 – 29:32 | | Dog Show Naming | AKC names and listener puppy “Trivia” | 32:06 – 35:17 | | UK/US Movie Title Swap | Why the US and UK rename movies | 35:21 – 46:47 | | Daenerys’s Titles | Name-building in Game of Thrones | 47:41 – 49:20 | | Patronym Quiz | “Son of” surnames across cultures | 49:20 – 56:50 | | MLB Oddity | Player plays for both teams in one game | 57:09 – 58:52 |

---

Closing Thoughts

The episode offers a playful but informative look at the power, hilarity, and history of titles, whether they’re epic, forgotten, whimsical, or simply lost in translation. From book covers to movie posters—and even dog show paperwork—Good Job, Brain! makes a convincing case that what you call something, and why, is serious trivia business.

---

For More

Listen to the full episode at GoodJobBrain.com or your favorite podcast app. Join the Lobe Trotters Facebook group for more trivia fun.

Transcript

[A]

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

[B]

Well, well, well. Welcome well wishers and well doers in wellies eating beef Wellington. This is Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. And today's show is episode 276. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen. And we are your pack of pub trivia problem punchers. Pleased as punch to podcast pleasurably.

[A]

I'm Colin.

[C]

And I'm Chris.

[B]

It is the start of our fall season 2024. Chris and Colin. How have you guys been?

[C]

Good. We had a nice summer. I've been to a lot of places and now I'm back. And then I actually was just in Germany. Oh, a guy. The guy in the seat in front of me with four. So we're in this flight from SFO to Germany. It's like 12 hours long, right? It's not bad. It's not bad. And the guy in front of me, four hours left to go. The guy in front of me throws up all over himself.

[B]

Oh, no. I haven't seen that in a really long time.

[C]

I know. I. They always have the barf bags in the airplanes, but nobody ever throws up. Finally, somebody threw up and I'm like, did that guy just throw up all over himself? Like, oh, yeah. The heaviest drop all over himself.

[A]

Not the smell.

[B]

Not the smell.

[C]

Oh, yeah, the airline. It was Condor Airline. What's Condor Airlines? It's this airline that flies to Germany. They've got one flight from SFO to Frankfurt and you know, and then the plane comes back. So coming back, coming back.

[B]

Oh, no.

[C]

I get on the one airplane and I sit down in my seat and it dawns on me that I was in Fortune 14k when I flew out and I am now sitting in 13k, which I figured has gotta actually be the cleanest seat on the airplane because they would have had to hose the whole thing down. Just recently, just about five days got.

[A]

On and it was a totally different color chair from the others. As if they had had to replace a whole new chair and just pull the wrap off. Yeah. All gotta go. Yeah. This is a total loss.

[C]

Yeah. Code Paisley. Code.

[B]

Code Paisley.

[A]

Code V.

[B]

If you're a new listener, welcome. Good job. Brain is a trivia podcast, Weird facts, quizzes. Basically trying to deliver the. The pub trivia vibe. Chris and Colin and I at one point, for a very long time, played pub trivia in person every week. We thought, hey, this is such a fun experience. Let's put it in podcast form.

[C]

So before. So before we really get rolling here. I've. I already know I've told the best story of the show already. Some of the things we like to do here on Good Job Brain is keep a. Keep a watch for egg corns. Little egg corn wash. What is an egg corn? Well, it's when somebody uses the wrong word for something, but generally that's like a malapropism. Egg corn. Specifically when the wrong word that they're using makes a weird kind of sense. And it's from a lady who called acorns egg corn. So it's like, oh, sure. Because sort of half of it looks like a corn and the other half looks like an egg. Like, I kind of. I see where she's coming from.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

So we always like to look out for it. I mean, you see all the time people using the wrong words, but when they use the wrong word. But it feels. Feels really good, you know, sometimes even better. Egg corn. Sometimes even better. Sometimes didn't approve. You can tell me about this one, but I saw this one and often I try to do a little research to see if other people are using it in the same way. Like just one. If it's just one person, that's fine. The egg corn was just one lady, but it's like, you know, is it. Are other people doing this? And I did find multiple examples of people not ironically doing this. And it's very funny to me. So here we go. The egg corn that I saw is a little bit. I'll give you a little bit of setup for it. This egg corn is. Oh, you do so many interesting things, but I don't do anything. I'm just sitting around. But I love listening to your stories. I get to live bi. Curiously through you.

[A]

That's great. Again, you kind of squint and it makes sense. Yeah, I live like vicariously through you. There's two of us, and I'm kind of curious about what you're saying.

[C]

Like half your story and half my story. I'm living. I. Curiously.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Through you. So go out and tell that one to all your friends.

[A]

That's fantastic. That's really great.

[B]

Vicariously.

[C]

Vicariously.

[A]

Vicarious.

[C]

Vicariously.

[B]

Vicarious.

[C]

It's messing you up.

[A]

Yeah, Vicariously.

[B]

Ah, Chris, I have a couple of really good ones from our community that I want to share. If you don't have time to read a book or you need some help with a summary or a study guide, maybe you want to instead read the clip notes. Oh, clip notes. Clip notes versus Cliff's notes. But There are clip notes. Give me the clip. The highlight clips.

[A]

Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah.

[C]

That's almost one where you could see that taking over. And it's like, I'm just reading the clip notes. It's like it's actually cliff's notes based on the guy. Cliff, Cliff.

[A]

That.

[B]

It's his notes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Who's cliff? And then, you know, for people who are applying to jobs, they might put in their resume, describe themselves as a jack of all traits.

[A]

I haven't heard that one. Okay, I can see that. Yeah.

[B]

You know, jack of all trades is. Is more of a artisan, like, old timey. Like, hey, that guy's a blacksmith and a dentist and a lawyer. You know, a lot of trades.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Now you're like, oh, I have a lot of traits.

[A]

Yes. I have all traits. That's right. I am both trustworthy and untrustworthy. I have all of the traits.

[B]

Don't put that in your resume, everybody.

[A]

Yeah, don't worry. I'm not getting hired anywhere.

[B]

And that is eggcorn watch. All right, without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment. Pop quiz, hotshot. All right, so here I have a random trivial pursuit card. Random from the box. You guys have your barnyard buzzers. Let's answer some questions. Listeners. Play at home, play in the car, play wherever you are. Blue wedge for geography. Which single New York city borough is not located on an island?

[A]

Single is not located.

[B]

Colin.

[A]

The bronx.

[B]

Correct. It is the bronx. Pink wedge for pop culture. Which comedic magician has a daughter named moxie crime fighter Chris?

[C]

Oh, it's. It's. It's penn Jillette.

[B]

It's penn Jillette of penn and teller. Yellow edge. In a u. S. Presidential election, if there is a tie in the number of electoral votes won by each candidate who chooses the president? Chris.

[C]

The vice president.

[B]

Incorrect.

[C]

No.

[B]

Colin.

[A]

Is it the speaker of the house?

[B]

It is the house of representatives.

[A]

As a body.

[C]

That's.

[B]

As a body. Yes. Not a single person. Yes.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

The senate chooses the vice president. Okay. Purple wedge. Japanese artist ken Sugimori illustrated the 151 original characters of which wildly popular cartoon empire.

[C]

D. Chris, this is an interesting card for me. Yeah. Pokemon.

[B]

Pokemon. All right, Green wedge. Which artist had a quick method of identifying birds that was so effective the air corps adopted it to distinguish planes? Let me say that again. Which artist had a quick method of identifying birds that was so effective that the air corp. Adopted it to distinguish planes?

[A]

Interesting question, Chris.

[C]

So isn't audubon the Guy who, like, did the bird watching.

[B]

Okay, very good guess. The name is Roger Tory Peterson.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

My mind went to like, what otherwise famous artist, you know, had a method.

[B]

Yeah. Like Salvador Dali, you know.

[A]

Hey. Right. I was. Oh, good on here. That's good, that's good.

[B]

All right, last question on this card. Orange wedge. What's the name of the water sport that requires a paddle, a board and an upright position?

[A]

Colin, is it?

[B]

Paddle board has an official three word name.

[A]

Oh, it's not just paddle boarding.

[C]

Oh, oh, it's a three word name.

[B]

Okay, so again, what's the name of the water sports?

[A]

Stand up. Stand up paddle board.

[B]

Yes. Stand up paddle boarding.

[A]

Okay. All right.

[B]

Also known as. Sup here S. Stand up pad board. All right, a lot of people are doing that.

[A]

Now to be clear, I was not groaning at people who do it or the sport or perform it.

[B]

Don't send me angry communications.

[A]

I was groaning at the question, at the hard question.

[C]

Colin. Colin's. Colin's emails, like just finally died down after the dis.

[B]

All right, good job. Brains. Finally jumping into today's show. Chris, you have a. A bit of a backstory for this.

[C]

I know I have. I have more ado. So we can't really say that there's no. There's no further ado because this is still the ado. I'm gonna plug a personal project or actually I guess good job. Brain is the personal project. I'm gonna. I'm gonna plug work on.

[A]

Good job.

[C]

But as you know, I make video games. Recently we announced our latest video game. We're doing it Digital Eclipse and it is called Tetris forever. It's an interactive documentary game all about the history of Tetris. So it includes a whole bunch of.

[A]

It looks great.

[C]

Classic Tetris games. Thank you. Thank you. A whole bunch of classic Tetris games. And then we're saying over 90 minutes of documentary featurettes. So I went out to Hawaii in May. We went to the Tetris incorporated, spoke with Alexi Pajitnov, creator of Tetris. Hank Rogers, who was the founder of Tetris company, Maya Rogers, who's the CEO of Tetris. Karen. We worked with, you know, your friends and mine at Area 5.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Video crew, video game documentarian. So we worked together, put these together. So I'm really proud of this. We were. I mean, I remember we were in Hawaii and we had just filmed a whole bunch of the interview segments, you know, very early on. Me and. And, you know, Ryan O' Donnell and Cesar from from Area 5 were all in the. The break room at Tetris Incorporated. We just started looking at some of the footage that we had just shot. Ryan just. Just so happened to sort of land on a part of the video footage of, of Maya, the CEO we were asking about, like, the future of Tetris, you know, and she was like, well, you know, I think Tetris will be forever. And, and at that moment, like, Ryan is just like, has anything ever been called Tetra Tetris forever. And I was like, tetris forever. What a good title. And at that moment, we're like, oh, my God, that's the title. Because this is not. It's not about looking back. It's about this. This one. Like, I don't even have to tell anybody who's listening to this what Tetris is, you know?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And that is just. That is just not the case for any other video game. Any other video game needs some kind of introduction or some kind of setup. It's like Tetris, like everybody shows what Tetris is and it's, it is going to outlive all of us. And it's exactly exist that really will do that because they really captured something beautiful and mathematically perfect lives on forever. Exactly right. So with that in mind, you know, not with that in mind, you, you, you had actually come to us and said, oh, I have a good topic for today's episode. It's titles. And I'm like, oh, well, I, you know, I just had this experience, you know, with, with choosing the perfect title for something that is what we are going to talk about today is just the wide world of titles.

[B]

So this week title, this.

[A]

One of the many things I have learned from the years we've been doing the show, guys, is never, ever, ever throw away any scrap of research, no matter how half baked or how tiny it is, because you never know when it might become grist for the quiz mill on a future episode. And in fact, that is what happened to me for this episode. Do you guys remember? This was from last season. I had a question for you both about the movie with the longest title of any film ever nominated for any Academy Award. And as you, as you probably remember, Borat, it was the right. It was the Borat sequel.

[B]

It was the subsequent movie Film.

[A]

That's right. So it went by sort of the. The short name. Well, I guess most people just called it Borat too. The full, full full name at 127 characters is Borat. Subsequent Movie Film Colon Delivery of Prodigious bribe to American regiment for make benefit once glorious nation of Kazakhstan. I have assembled for you a quiz called Just Give me the Long Version, which is about book and movie titles that have a long form that most of us never actually use. A great many stories, literature, movies, plays have alternate titles. And usually this is part of the official title when the work is first produced. And sometimes over the years, especially for very popular works with longer names, you know, part of the name tends to drop off and we just know it by a shorter name. So, for example, the book Uncle Tom's Cabin. Right. We all know it. Maybe you were assigned it in School from 1852, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Of course, the full title of Uncle Tom's Cabin is Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life among the Lowly, depending on the edition of the book that you might have. Sometimes it'll have the full title printed there, sometimes it won't. Yeah. But yeah, that is, you know, the. The fullest name of that book. Another beloved American classic from 2004, Anchorman. Colon, the Legend of Ron Burgundy.

[B]

Got it.

[A]

I've assembled a quiz for you here with long full titles of books and movies, mostly a couple plays in here, and I'm going to read for you the full title. I will blank out the popular, well known short title. Right? So I will say, like, let's pretend this was a question. I said I'm looking for a 1979 musical. Blank. The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. You would say Sweeney Todd, the Demon. Barbara. Fleet street, of course. The 1979 Stephen Sondheim musical based on the 1970 play Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond. Not to leave anybody out of the credit chain there. All right, so here we go. Okay, why don't we do this as a buzzer quiz? Get your barnyard buzzer.

[B]

Do I even know how to press a buzzer? Let's do it.

[C]

I would say so. I would say press the center of the buzzer pretty much right in the dead center. And good firm press with the thumb. Try not to cover the speaker with your other fingers.

[A]

Wow, that was like actual legitimate pro tip there. Okay. All right. A staple of American literature from 1851. Blank. Or the whale, Chris.

[C]

Moby Dick.

[A]

That is Moby Dick or the Whale.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Yes, By Herman Melville, of course. All right, so warming up here. Moving right along. This is an iconic Cold war film from 1964. Blank. Or how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Both of you, please.

[B]

Dr. Strangelove.

[A]

It is Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove this 1877 novel has the truly delightful full title, Blank His Grooms and Companions, the autobiography of a horse. 1877 Beloved novel. Horse focused. Karen.

[C]

All right, okay.

[B]

Black Stallion.

[A]

Very close, Chris.

[C]

Black Beauty.

[A]

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. Yes. Black Beauty, His Grooms and companions, comma, the autobiography of a horse.

[B]

Horse.

[A]

Thought the horse might. Might lead you there.

[B]

Yeah, it did.

[A]

Yeah, it did. Eventually. Yeah.

[C]

Let her. Too far, I think.

[A]

One of the biggest best selling books of the early 2000s. Blank. One woman's search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia. Karen.

[B]

Eat, pray, love.

[A]

Yes, you got it. That's right.

[B]

She eats in Italy.

[A]

Yeah. She prays in India, finds love in Indonesia. Right. Yeah, sure, right. As we all do. Right? Yes. Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir from 2006, a cornerstone of modern sci fi from 1969. Blank. Or the Children's Crusade. A duty Dance with death. Whoa.

[B]

Karen Ender's game.

[A]

Not a terrible guess. Incorrect. Okay, this is by extremely well known, well taught book.

[C]

What's the. What's the year? It's a Sci Fi.

[A]

1969. This is an anti war sci fi book featuring time hopping.

[C]

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

[B]

That's the full.

[A]

Chris.

[C]

Is it Slaughterhouse Five?

[A]

It is indeed. Slaughterhouse Five. The full title. That's right. Slaughterhouse Five.

[C]

I knew I knew something about it.

[A]

Was like, I know that.

[C]

Why do I know that? Okay.

[A]

Yep, you got it. That's right. This 2014 movie was an Academy award favorite. Blank. Or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance. Karen. Without hesitation.

[B]

Birdman.

[A]

That is correct. Birdman.

[B]

Fantastic. Michael Keaton.

[A]

Truly great performance. Great movie. Yes. Directed by Inyardu. That's right. We have a play slash book here from the pantheon of family entertainment. Let's say Blank or the Boy who Wouldn't Grow Up. Chris.

[C]

Peter Pan.

[A]

You got it. Peter Pan comma. Or the Boy who Wouldn't Grow Up. Yes. By J. I have a question. Of course. Yeah.

[B]

Is or actually in the title?

[A]

It is, yes. Everything I'm reading here is literally a word from the title. Wow.

[B]

So Moby Dick or the Whale.

[A]

Yes, correct.

[B]

Why?

[A]

There was definitely a period mid-1800s for sure, where there was a lot of or subtitling. Alternate titling.

[B]

Okay, okay.

[A]

And yeah, it's actually, it's fun. You know, you'll go back and see the. The first edition cover or frontispiece from some of these books and some of them many lines long and you're like, oh, wow, I see why they shortened that to by the time I got to my English class or whatever. Yeah. Another pillar of high school English class from 1854. Blank. Or life in the woods.

[B]

Oh, what year?

[A]

1854. I would be surprised if you have not read it. It's short, it's readable, it's high school. Assignable. Maybe closer. Closer to Chris's part of the country maybe.

[C]

Oh, gosh. What does that mean? It's not Call of the Wild.

[A]

No, it is not. I am looking for a transcendentalist classic here. I'll give it to Karen. Take the bite here at the apple, please.

[B]

Walden Pond.

[A]

It is. Is. I'm gonna give it to you because I'm feeling generous. It's just Walden. Yes. Walden Or Life in the Woods. Yes. By, by Henry David Thoreau. Of course.

[C]

We drive by this like every time.

[B]

Really?

[C]

My wife lives right in that area. So we go to her parents house. We drive by the wall all the time. Yeah.

[A]

All right, shared title here between one of the top selling books of 1976 and top TV series of 1977. Blank. The saga of an American family. Oh, Karen. Roots it is. Yes, Roots. Yes.

[B]

Kinte.

[A]

That's right. The story of Kunta Kinte by author Alex Haley. That's right. Huge, huge, huge, huge hit. 46 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Number one for a couple months. And then ABC again, like one of the highest performing TV series.

[B]

LeVar Burton. So good.

[A]

That's right. Introducing LeVar Burton to the world.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

This 1818 novel, one of the best known of all time. Blank. Or the modern Prometheus. Oh, Karen.

[B]

Frankenstein.

[A]

Frankenstein.

[B]

Frankenstein.

[A]

Yes, you've got it. That's right. This one's fairly well known. I think this one pops up in trivia. Yeah, definitely from time to time.

[B]

Because they make, they make the allegory in the story with fire and. Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Okay. This, this one, this is the original issued name of this, of this book. But I, I think you can get it here. Just follow on with me. So the answer I'm looking for is the well known name of this book. This is a book from 1726. Travels into several remote nations of the world in four parts by redacted. First a surgeon and then a captain of several ships. Oh, Chris. Chris. Confident Gulliver. You got it. That's right. I redacted Lemuel Gulliver which was later this book was reissued as simply Gulliver's Travel, which is what people were calling it almost right from the beginning.

[C]

Right.

[B]

Just like. Yeah, no.

[A]

All right, last one, last one here, we'll close this out. You ready? Here we go. Blank. A savage journey to the heart of the American dream from 1971.

[B]

Karen, is it off? Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

[A]

You got it. Exactly. By Hunter S. Thompson. That's right. You got it. Yeah. Well done, well done.

[B]

All right, my turn. I got a quick lightning round here. Hope you guys like Pixar movie titles because in this quiz, when movies are. Are premiered playing in the theaters in other countries, sometimes they don't share the same titles as the English names. And so here I have a quiz about cool titles of Pixar movies in other countries. I'm gonna give you the translated back into English title and you have to guess which Pixar movie it is. All right? All right, lightning round. Let's buzz in. So the first one is in Korean and it's called Maze Bright secret.

[A]

Maze. Like May, the month.

[B]

M E I Mays Possessive.

[A]

Oh, maze.

[B]

Chris Caller.

[C]

Turning red.

[B]

Turning red. All right, this next one is in German. Legend of the Highlands. Colin.

[A]

Is that brave?

[B]

Brave. This is in simplified Chinese. Robot actioneer. Colin.

[A]

Wally.

[B]

Wally. All right, this one is a really good one. It's in Polish. Brain elves. Chris.

[C]

Inside out.

[B]

Inside out. All right, this one is in French 1001ft. Feet, as in like toes. Toes. Feet. Not distance.

[C]

Feet.

[B]

Chris.

[C]

A bug's life.

[A]

Of course. Oh, that's good.

[B]

That's a lot of little bugs. A lot of feet.

[A]

I like it.

[B]

I don't know where that one comes from, but I think that's just like a poetic. Like, you know.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

All right. Okay, this one. Hungarian. In the wake of senile.

[A]

Oh. Oh.

[B]

Colin.

[A]

Up.

[B]

Incorrect.

[C]

In the wake of senile. And it's not up.

[B]

It's more of. Yeah, I think more about the plot. Maybe a character. Character.

[C]

Oh, oh, is it? Oh, like finding Dory.

[B]

Finding Dory. Finding Dory. Okay, this one is from Brazil. Brazilian, Portuguese. Viva Life is a party. Chris.

[C]

Coco.

[A]

Coco. Oh, duh. Okay, good.

[B]

All right, this one is in Cantonese Chinese. Half of the magic.

[A]

Half has.

[B]

It has to deal with the plot of the movie. There's a kind of a side character spends most of its time in half.

[C]

Like just running through every move.

[B]

Every run through every Pixar movie. I put this at, you know, towards the end, too.

[C]

Sure.

[B]

Half of the magic. Maybe there's like a top half and maybe there's like a bottom half.

[A]

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. What's the name of.

[B]

Is Onward.

[A]

Oh, yes.

[B]

Half of the magic. Whole point of the movie is, you know, the magic. Yeah, the magic was casted Halfway.

[C]

Yeah, I may have.

[A]

I just couldn't. I couldn't pull that name out. I could picture. I could picture the characters, you know.

[B]

Like a real ugly cry. Not just like ugly cry. This is like ugly cry that has sounds like that. Uncontrollable and like.

[A]

Oh, my gosh. That's really good. Yeah. I've only seen that one. I've once. I should watch it again.

[B]

Oh, man.

[C]

That was my wife with. With Coco because she was bawling and she's just like. My two emotional triggers are dumb dogs and the elderly. Movie has both.

[B]

All right, next one. In Vietnamese magical life, it is soul. All right, next one. This is in French. Four wheels. Chris.

[A]

Ours cars mad if it wasn't cars.

[B]

Yeah, Last one here. This is everybody one. This is in Japanese. Grandpa Carl's flying house.

[C]

I remember. This one is up.

[B]

Is up. You know, it kind of follows more of a studio Ghibli, like, right?

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

And Pixar is known to kind of have one word titles or very, very short titles. So it's really cool to see how other regions build the universe.

[C]

And often you see that in, I think with like, Japanese retitlings of films that they're just. They're a lot more literal, you know?

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

A lot more like we're gonna. We're gonna sort of try to convey the entire plot of this movie to you.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Exactly. All right, good job, everybody. We're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back. This episode is brought to you by Factor. The leaves are falling, the kids are schooling, and there's pumpkin in our lattes. That's right. Summer's changing in the fall and brings big change into our routine as well. My oldest kid just started kindergarten, so shout out to all the COVID babies who are also starting kindergarten this year. Finding the time to cook can be tough as I'm adjusting to this brand new schedule. That's why I factor in my back pocket, but not literally in my back pocket. They're in my fridge. They're chef prepped, dietitian approved. Meals make it easy to eat healthy no matter how hectic the season gets. So eat smart@Factor Meals.com. goodjob. 50 off. And use the code good job. 50 off to get 50% off your first box plus free breakfast for one year. That's code good job. 50 off@Factor Meals.com for 50% off your first box and free breakfast for one year. Get delicious ready to eat meals delivered with factor offers only Valid for New Factor customers with code and qualifying Auto renewing subscription purchase. Hey. This episode is brought to you by IXL Learning, an online learning program that enriches the homeschool curriculum that offers subjects in science, math, English, language arts, social studies and more. Entrusted by 15 million students worldwide, Back to school looks different when you're a homeschooling family. Whether you're continuing a rhythm or shaking things up with a brand new curriculum, it's a perfect time for reset. IXL is a simple way to bring structure, confidence and progress to your homeschool routine. If you're listening to this podcast, then you know how the right framing can make any bit of knowledge more memorable and more meaningful. IXL makes it easy to keep learning engaging with interactive content, games, videos, awards and moments of celebration. So make an impact on your child's learning. Get IXL now and Good Job Brain listeners can get an exclusive 20% off IXL membership when they sign up today at iixl.com GoodJobBrain visit ixl.com GoodJobBrain to get the most effective learning program out there at the best price.

[C]

You're listening to Good Job Brain. Smooth Puzzles, Smart Trivia. Good Job Brain.

[B]

Hey everybody, we are back and this week we are talking about titles. So the inspiration actually came from our Good Job Brain listener fan group on Facebook called the Good Job Brain Lobe Trotters. Let me just read this. This is from a listener listener. Tina. She just got a new Shetland shepherd puppy. Wow. Boy, that's dangerous to say. Shetland shepherd puppy. I think the nickname is shelties. They're kind of like little collies. They're very, very cute.

[A]

They're really cute.

[B]

And she said in AKC American Kennel Club, when you register your dog you have to give them what's called a registered name and a call name. If you've watched Westminster Dog show or any dog shows and you know the dog comes parading and on the bottom, best no or best in show yes. You'll see on the ticker when they, they label the dogs. All right, okay. You know the, the bulldogs coming out and then they'll show the name of the dog and you're like, oh my God, this is a name six words long. It doesn't make any sense. It kind of sounds like a weird sentence. And that is what is a registered name? Tina continues, Often the registered name has special meaning for the owner. It has to be unique with no other AKC registered do dog having the same exact name. And then also part of this name includes Breeders. And so breeders usually have a kennel name that you add to your really long dog register name so that it gives you information on like the breeder, maybe the sire, like their parents heritage, their lineage, and then you create this unique registered name. She says, my puppy's call name, which is the regular name that you just call your dog. My puppy's call name is Trivia. In honor of all the joy and pleasure I've. I have had listening to Good Job Brain. Oh, his registered name is also a Good Job Brain connection, with an extra nod of gratitude to Karen me, who is heard saying this in every episode. So her puppy, Trivia, the registered name is. Is their kennel name. Without further ado.

[A]

Oh, that's a great, great registered name.

[C]

Adorable.

[A]

That's great. That without further ado wasn't taken. That's incredible. That's a.

[B]

Well, it would be the kennel name and then without further ado.

[A]

Oh, right.

[B]

So if the kennel's name is like, you know, like Beautiful Falls or something. Beautiful Falls Kennel. So it'd be Beautiful Falls. Without further ado. I saw this and I saw the picture of the puppy and I was like, oh, my God, there is a dog register named after us. I think I commented and I said, this is the greatest moment of my life.

[A]

Yeah, I mean, it really is. It is humbling and honoring. I mean, we're joking and laughing, but it truly, truly is incredible that the dog named Trivia.

[B]

Without further ado. Chris, you're up.

[C]

Yes. I have a. I have a titles quiz that was inspired by a thing that also happened in my life this week. I had a very eventful week yesterday. Yesterday, Thursday morning, I woke up to an email that I assumed was an email telling me that I was not going to be made a member of bafta, but in fact was an email telling me that I am now a member of. Of bafta.

[A]

Congratulations.

[B]

Wow. What.

[C]

Thank you. That is the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the British equivalent of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences here in the United States.

[A]

But do they know you're American?

[C]

They do. No. So BAFTA is, you know, looking to bring in people from outside the UK and is looking to bring in people in the world of games. I may have, you know, helped on a couple of video games that may have been long listed for credentials.

[A]

Yeah, you know, you need to be humble.

[C]

I think I can apply for this. And yeah, so I was accepted as a member of bafta. Now, what that actually means from here on out, I'm only sort of just Learning. I was thinking about that and I'm thinking about titles. I'm like, oh, great. Well, you know, if I'm now a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, I should probably do something about British, you know, film titles. And it occurred to me, actually kind of, kind of, but not quite. Not quite the same as what you, what you've just done, Garrett. This is a quiz about films not translated into foreign languages, but had different titles. In the United States and the United Kingdom. They also speak English.

[A]

So it's like, why did they change the title?

[B]

Thank you for that. Yeah.

[C]

So some of these are going to be pretty simple questions and then some of them may be a little bit more open ended where I'm going to tell you that a film changed its title and give you both titles and then say you have to try to guess why.

[B]

Oh, okay, okay, okay.

[A]

All right.

[C]

So anyway, it's a pretty simple 10 question quiz. So we'll just, we'll start it off the UK US Title discrepancy quiz by BAFTA member Chris. Go ahead and buzz in with your barnyard busters as the answers to these questions. So question number one. This 1991 documentary had the UK title In Bed with Madonna.

[A]

1991, Karen.

[B]

Truth or Dare?

[C]

Yes. Technically it was called Madonna. Colon, Truth or Dare.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

In the UK it's called In Bed, Dead with Madonna.

[A]

Interesting.

[C]

I'm guessing. Well, I'm not. I'm not sure. I would have to guess that. Perhaps too explicit. No. Maybe the title did not convey enough explicitly for the uk you know what I mean? Right. Okay. Another similar question. In the United Kingdom, this film was titled Die Hard 4.0.

[B]

God. Okay. Die Hard 3 with a Vengeance. Okay, we can do this together. There's Die Harder, there's not Die, Die Forever. Is it Live Free or Die Hard.

[A]

Live Free or Die Hard. Right, Correct.

[C]

It's Live Free or Die Hard. Right, right, right.

[A]

Makes sense. Very American.

[C]

Exactly. Exactly. A takeoff of the. The state motto of New Hampshire. Right. So not really something that UK audiences would. Were going to resonate.

[B]

But it's funny how they call it 4.0.

[C]

It's. It's unpatched.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It'S release day. Die Hard.

[B]

A, B, testing. Die Hard.

[C]

Question number three. The fifth installment. Talking about other, you know, installment of a franchise. The fifth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise was released in the UK as Pirates of the Caribbean. Salazar's Revenge. By what name was it known in the U.S. karen, you got to save.

[A]

Me on this one.

[C]

Karen, this is the fifth installment after you stopped watching them.

[B]

Okay. This is with their kids for.

[A]

Oh, are you serious? Oh my gosh.

[B]

Dead Man Tells no Tales.

[C]

Revenge. Yes. Dead Men.

[A]

Amazing. Great job, Karen. Incredible.

[C]

I think. Yeah. Mic drop. I think that was. Unscrew the yeti mic.

[B]

Yeah, I think.

[C]

I think that Dead Men Tell no Tales may have been used for the title of some other UK thing or been trademarked in some way. Next question. The 2003 animated hit the Triplets of Belleville was titled in the UK after its Academy Award nominated hit theme song.

[B]

Song. Oh, what was it? Oh God.

[C]

Shared the title in the UK with its theme song. It's Academy Award nominated theme song.

[B]

It's cute.

[C]

Oh, it is adorable. It was a big year for. For songs. And then.

[B]

I can't recall.

[A]

Wow, you're. You're our stalwart with the Academy Awards was big.

[C]

That song was. That's. I don't. I don't want to say that song was everywhere, but like to the point that they.

[B]

It's a French animated movie. Yeah.

[C]

And the French. The French title was, I believe Les Triplets de Belleville. You know, and in US it was just a straight translation of that. But in the UK it was different. It was named after the song. Anybody?

[B]

Arthur's Theme.

[C]

Arthur's Theme. Parentheses. The best that you can do.

[B]

Say Elmo's Fire.

[C]

The song was Belleville Rendezvous. Now maybe you remember the song.

[A]

Yeah, it was a good song.

[C]

All right. This was. This was weird to me. This I was kind of shocked about. But. Okay, next question. The Disney animated film Zootopia had a different name in the uk.

[A]

Huh.

[C]

It started with Zoo and it referred to a type of city, type of big city.

[B]

Zootropolis.

[C]

It's Zootropolis.

[A]

Interesting.

[C]

I guess a European zoo. Zoo had a trademark already on.

[A]

Okay. All right. So it was more just. They couldn't use it as opposed to. They didn't want to or something.

[C]

Yeah. So what.

[B]

What's the name of the city in the.

[A]

Oh, yeah, good. Good question, Karen. Good question.

[C]

They had to redub it. It's called Zootropolis. They had to. They had to redo the. The signs. They'd localize the sign.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[C]

Yep. Exactly. Yeah. Okay, next question. The 2012 film the Avengers was titled Avengers Assemble in the United Kingdom. Why Colin?

[A]

I would assume because of the very well known classic British spy avengers franchise property. TV show.

[C]

Correct. 1960s television show in Britain called the Avengers.

[A]

Diana Rigg. Right?

[C]

Diana Riggs.

[A]

Right.

[C]

That's right.

[B]

Olena Martell.

[A]

Yes, exactly. Yes, exactly.

[B]

Well, they remade it with Ray Fines and Uma Thurman.

[A]

That sounds right. I think that sounds correct.

[C]

Okay. Similarly, the 1993 film Dennis the Menace was retitled in the UK to simply Dennis. Why.

[A]

Colin, I might be going on a limb here, but wasn't it because, like, there was either a politician or the spouse of a politician called, like. Like, derogatorily Dennis the Menace or something like that?

[C]

No. Well, I mean, maybe there was. Maybe there was. Yeah, it's a very. It's a very easy name to come to. You know what I mean? Yeah, exactly.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Dennis the Tennis.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

Maybe the Menace was already taken.

[C]

I'll tell you. Because in the United Kingdom, there is a completely separate and unrelated comic character called Dennis the.

[A]

Oh, really?

[B]

No way.

[C]

In, like, UK comic anthologies. Completely unrelated again, it's very easy to. To sort of get to that name. So the two creators came by it separately.

[A]

Independent creation, right?

[C]

Yep, yep, yep. Next question. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle was retitled in the UK because they don't have White Castle.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Which is funny. It's ironic.

[A]

Yeah, it is.

[C]

The question is, the film was retitled in the United Kingdom, the White Castle was removed, and it was replaced with this generic term for a particular funny affliction that happens when you smoke too much wacky tobacco.

[A]

Colin, Harold and Kumar get the munchies, man.

[C]

You nailed it. Get the munchies. They still go to White Cat. It's not like Zootropolis.

[A]

They need to redub it.

[C]

Yeah, right. With, like, Nando's or whatever. Last question. This 1986 superhero film based on a Marvel Comics character was subtitled A New Breed of Hero in the United Kingdom. Probably because, again, they were unfamiliar with the, you know, source material.

[B]

1986.

[C]

86. People might argue whether or not it's. It's technically a superhero film. People may argue whether or not this character counts as a superhero, but that's technically. Technically what it's supposed to be based on. A Marvel Comics character was subtitled A New Breed of Hero in the uk.

[A]

A New Breed Cat.

[C]

Okay, all right. They're circling around it. Something.

[A]

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Is it Howard the Duck?

[C]

It sure is.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

It was titled Howard Colon, A New Breed of Hero.

[A]

Yeah, I paid. I paid good money to see that movie in the theater. And I apparently buried it in the back of my head there.

[C]

So I want to close. This is not a question. I just want to close with an observation. The 1967 movie. Bonnie and Clyde. Right. Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty. Based on real life. American bank robbers, murderers. They changed the title in the UK because again, they didn't know who Bonnie and Clyde were. They had entered into sort of American folk tales, heroism, anti. Heroism, whatever it is. And they changed the title to Bonnie and Clyde. Dot, dot, dot. Were killers.

[A]

I wonder what it's about. I should just finish reading on the marquee there.

[C]

Thanks for being clear about that. Yeah, I'll see this movie.

[B]

Is there exclamation point or.

[C]

No, no, there was. No, there was.

[A]

Yeah, you're at the box office getting the ticket. You look at the guy, you're like, no, they kill people in this movie.

[C]

Right?

[A]

Yeah. All right.

[C]

Before I hand over my.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Hound. Sterling.

[B]

I'm crying.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

Just for.

[A]

Just want to make sure.

[C]

I just. I saw. I saw that. I mean, I just. I saw the title and I just busted out laughing.

[B]

They're killers, right? My face hurts. This episode is brought to you by State Farm. Checking off the boxes on your to do list is a great feeling. And when it comes to checking off coverage, a State Farm 8 agent can help you choose an option that's right for you. Whether you prefer talking in person on the phone or using the award winning app, it's nice knowing you have help finding coverage that best fits your needs. Like a good neighbor. State Farm is there. Okay, everybody, I have our last segment here. It is a quiz called Son of a Gun. Son of a Gun. Okay, so before jumping in to this quiz, we're all Game of Thrones fans.

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

So Daenerys, throughout the course of the story of the books, you see Daenerys get more powerful and thus accumulating more and more titles.

[A]

Oh, yeah, sure.

[C]

Oh, yeah, right.

[B]

So her title started out as Daenerys of House Targaryen and then the first of her name. Then as she catches more Pokemons, she achieves more milestones. Her title gets longer and longer as just a bonus. Can you list out the other parts of her full title by the end?

[A]

I mean, parts of them.

[B]

I got a checklist here.

[A]

All right. I mean, we got.

[C]

Are we just trying to get cover? All of them.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Doesn't have to be in order.

[A]

We got Mother of Dragons.

[C]

Mother of Dragons.

[A]

Right.

[C]

Breaker of Chain.

[A]

Breaker of Chain.

[C]

The Unburnt.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

The Unburned.

[A]

Yes, yes.

[C]

Queen of the. The first man in the Andals.

[B]

Is that in the Queen of the Andals?

[A]

Yes. Yeah, yeah, Good, good, good.

[B]

Technically is Queen of the Andals. Comma The Roynar.

[C]

That's right, yes.

[B]

And the first man.

[A]

Right. Shortchange, The Reiner. Yeah.

[C]

No, no.

[A]

Okay. All right, so we got the, we got the, the chains, the dragon, the unburnt, the. The queen.

[B]

Maybe another title for queen in a.

[C]

Different language maybe of the Great Grass Sea.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

And then we also have here, Queen of Marine, Protector of the Realm. Protector of the realm. Resuming out. Yeah. Lady Regnant of the Seven Kingdoms.

[A]

Fantastic.

[B]

So, so my quiz. Son of a gun. I here have a quiz about famous people and characters who all have patronym surnames. Patronym. Patronym. Patronym. I'm sorry if I'm patronym, because it's Patrick's side. I mean, not to get dark, but yeah, patronage, yeah. What's a patronym? Long, long ago, before most of the world settled into the western first name last name format. Right. So similar to Daenerys, a lot of the western last names used to be descriptive titles. They're meant to tell people apart in small communities, towns, tribes. So some describe what job they had. Colin, a very classic good job writing segment, a very long time ago was about occupational last names.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, right.

[B]

Where a lot of people's last names were used to describe their occupation generations ago. So for example, Will Smith. Smith used to describe blacksmithing or, or baker or, or let's say Bradley Cooper. Cooper was Middle English for like a person who fixed barrels.

[A]

Right.

[B]

And relatedly, the person who fixed barrels in Germany was Fassbender, like Michael Fassbender and even our own Chris, you have an occupational last name of Kohler.

[A]

Good one.

[B]

Means sinks. No, it's cold.

[A]

Charcoal.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

So aside from occupations, people used titles after their first names to denote who they're related to, like whose son are they? And so this is what a patronym is, which is a name derived from the father's name, basically. Son of. So a lot of names throughout culture, throughout different languages is a son of modifier. So for example, oh, well, that's Andy, you know, he's John's son.

[A]

Right.

[B]

Then becomes the last name Johnson. So here in my quiz, the answer to every question is a famous person or character who has a patronym.

[A]

All right.

[B]

You might be surprised because they're in also different languages. Here we go. Son of a gun. Question number one. What actress appeared in animal titled films like the Horse Whisperer, My Brother the Pig, Jojo Rabbit, Eight Legged Freaks and Isle of Dogs? She's. She got one big movie that's an animal title that I'm not saying.

[A]

Oh, gotcha. Okay, well, I was gonna answer anyway. Is it Scarlett Johansson?

[B]

Scarlett Johansson. Johan's son, Johansson. Yes. All right, next question. Charlton Heston played what character in a 1959 religious epic film that was based on a Lew Wallace novel?

[C]

Oh, wait, is the answer gonna be a patronymic name?

[B]

Yes. Oh, and you might be surprised.

[C]

Okay, you guess at it.

[B]

Chris Moses. Oh, there's another religious epic film starring Charlton Heston.

[A]

Call it that is Ben. Her.

[C]

Ben.

[B]

Her. Son of her. So in Hebrew, ben denotes son of David Ben Gurion. Yep, yep, yep. The B E, N is a modifier saying son of school. All right, next question. What baseball superstar holds the record for most career grand slams?

[A]

Okay, baseball superstar, most career grand played.

[B]

For the New York Yankees. Also the name that Chris and I put down when we don't know the answer to any sport questions.

[C]

Chris Alexander Rodriguez.

[B]

It is Alex Rodriguez. 25 career grand slams. Lou Gehrig, 23. Number six. Two there. But yes, Alex Rodriguez, son of Rodrigo.

[C]

Listen, man, that's cool. That's interesting. I like that. I didn't know that any of the.

[B]

Es, the EZ or es ending stems from son of. So Martinez, son of Martin Enriquez. That's really cool, Eric.

[A]

That's really cool.

[B]

Yeah. Or son of Enrique. Here we go. Next question. What author originally wanted to title his landmark novel Trimalchio in West Egg? What author originally wanted to title his landmark novel Trimalchio in West Egg? Do you guys remember? Maybe West Egg is a place somewhere.

[C]

Yeah, sounds like it.

[B]

Maybe in a great state of New York.

[C]

Wow. I don't know.

[A]

Know.

[B]

The novel in question is called the Great Gatsby.

[A]

I was gonna get it just under the wire there. Maybe F. Scott Fitzgerald.

[B]

F. Scott Fitzgerald.

[A]

Did not know that was a patronym.

[B]

Son of Gerald. And this is like the Anglo, Norman, French influence, like, you know, fizz. Patrick Fitzpatrick. All right, in the 2000s, who became the first black secretary of state in the. We had 2,000 in the 2000s.

[C]

Right, right, right.

[B]

It was first Chris.

[C]

Colin Powell was first Colon Powell.

[B]

Yes, indeed. Powell is a patronym. This is really interesting.

[C]

That is interesting.

[B]

It stems from. From Welsh. So the prefix ap. Apple means son of. And. And a common Welsh name would be High Will or Anglicized. Howell. So app. Howl, son of Howell. It just started blending in at power. Like.

[A]

Is fascinating.

[B]

Another example, Bowen. App. Owen, son of Owen. A Bowen. Bone. Bone Bun. It becomes Bowen.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Here we go. Last question on this quiz. What corporate mascot character made his U. S. Nationwide debut in a TV commercial back in 1965 during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. And he has a pet dog named Sunday Chris.

[C]

Oh, I was gonna say Ronald McDonald.

[B]

Yes. The mech Mac is son of. Son of Donald. Mac Donald. Yes. He has a pet dog named Sunday. This canon comes from in the late 1900s. In the late 1990s, there was like a Rugrats cartoon called Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald. And it looks kind of like the Thornberries or like Rugrats. Parts of the cartoon in the beginning is introed by a real life. Like a Pee Wee herman style Ronald McDonald and his pet dog Sunday. Sunday as an ice cream sundae. Not like.

[A]

Right. I figured. I figured.

[B]

And it was Verne Troyer in a dog suit. What?

[A]

You're making this all up.

[B]

I didn't believe it. And I googled. I was like, is this a real show? It's like a Pee Wee herman rugrats Ronald McDonald vehicle.

[A]

Oh, my gosh. Some executive is like, all right, we need. We need a. We need our own Peewee Herman hit here.

[B]

Yes, exactly. I'm gonna end this episode with this remarkable sports moment that just occurred. Baseball player Danny Jansen. Jansen, son of Jan, A patron. Yes.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Became the first player in Major League Baseball history to play for two competing teams in the same game.

[A]

Yes. Yes.

[B]

On June 26th of this year, there was a game between Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox. I also love that. It's like, blue Jays, Red Sox. Very cute to me. So Danny Jansen was playing for the Blue Jays, and he was at bat when the game was suspended due to rain. When there's, like, bad weather, they would pause it and pick it up where they left off the next time the two teams meet to play again. Baseball teams have really exhaustively planned travel schedule. They can't be like, oh, we'll just do it tomorrow.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Like, no, no, no. They're on a very planned, coordinated schedule so they could only resume the game the next time they meet again. So this was June 26th. The next time they play against each other again would be August 26th. So two months in between. And during this time, in fact, actually the day after the rainy game, it just so happens that Danny Jansen got treated to the Red SoX Fast forward two months later, August 26th, they had to resume the game that was paused. Jansen came back into the game on the opposing team as a catcher and then had a pinch hitter batting in place of him, where he left off a very weird moment in sports history. One player to play for two teams in the same game leading up to it.

[A]

Like all the, all the nerds were getting very excited about it, like, oh, this is like, is it going to happen? They're like, it can happen. It can happen. They're like, yeah. The only question was, would it happen? Yeah.

[B]

Very, very cool. And that's our show, everybody. Thank you all for joining me and thank you listeners for listening in. Welcome to another season. Hope you learned stuff today about UK versus US movie titles, long full titles, Daenerys full titles, patronyms and Pixar films. You can find us on all major podcast apps and on our website, good jobbrain.com this podcast is part of Airwave Media podcast network. Visit airwavemedia.com to listen and subscribe to other shows like Box of Oddities, Calm History and Triviality. And we'll see you next week.

[C]

Bye. Hi listeners, it's Jack Bishop. I'm the ingredients guy on America's Test Kitchens public television show and the host of our award winning podcast.

[A]

Proof.

[C]

Proof combines history, science and culture to tell unexpected stories about food. Every episode is filled with aha. Moments that you'll want to share at your next dinner party. New episodes drop every every Thursday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and you might never look at food the same way again.