299: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #60

Summary

Good Job, Brain! Episode 299: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #60

Release Date: October 22, 2025
Hosts: Karen, Chris
Special Guests: Bill and Danny (from Escape This Podcast)
Theme: All Quiz Bonanza #60 – a special all-trivia and quiz episode featuring diverse subjects, puzzle formats, collaborative games, and a celebration of trivia camaraderie with international guests.

---

Episode Overview

Episode 299 marks a celebratory ALL QUIZ BONANZA (their 60th!), with hosts Karen and Chris joined by Escape This Podcast’s Bill and Danny. The group traverses trivia rounds, creative puzzles, and games, highlighting offbeat facts, playful banter, and engaging “meta” moments around the show's near 300th milestone. The spirit is friendly and irreverent, with running jokes, roleplay segments, and a wide array of quiz formats.

---

Key Segments & Highlights

1. The Palindrome Intro and Road to 300 (00:16–04:20)

• Karen’s Palindrome Challenge: Karen opens with an attempt at a sentence comprised entirely of palindrome words, admitting quickly, “Turns out it's really hard to build a full sentence out of just palindrome words.” (00:54)
• Missing Regulars: Only Karen and Chris present, as Colin is off camping, leading to some on-air loneliness.
• Surprise Guests: Suddenly, Bill and Danny from Escape This Podcast “crash” the episode to “prevent disaster before episode 300,” parodying time-travel movie tropes and setting an offbeat, meta tone for the episode. (02:20–03:50)

"Something's got to be done about your 300th episode, Marty. We have to go back. Back to 299." — Bill, channeling Back to the Future (02:39)

---

2. Classic Trivial Pursuit & Question Swaps (04:20–16:15)

• The crew dives into back-and-forth rounds with American and Australian Trivial Pursuit cards, using buzzers, animal noises, and improv.
• Notable Questions:
  • 1990s sitcom with Ben Savage (Boy Meets World)
  • Tracy Chapman’s Grammy-winning album (Tracy Chapman)
  • 1967 war movie with 12 convicts (The Dirty Dozen)
  • Pockets on a billiards table (Six)
  • Origin of stage hypnosis performances (Paris)
• The Australian TP card brings local flavor (e.g., bento box from Japan, Banksia men from Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, Australian slang for McDonald's “Maccas”).
• Fun, self-deprecating admissions about regional knowledge gaps, and light teasing.

“Neither show made it to Australia.” — Bill, on Boy Meets World/Wonder Years (07:11)
“What are Banksia? ...They’re just like little spiky flowers. That’s a Banksia.” — Bill (14:33)

---

3. The “Solve My Murder” Puzzle Quiz (16:20–28:22)

• Chris runs a full-blown murder mystery quiz, set in his fictional country mansion.
• Premise: Participants must solve his “murder” by answering eight clues. Each answer is a six-letter name, and their vertical arrangement on the answer sheet reveals the murderer’s identity.
• Notable Clues & Answers:
  1. Joker actor — Hamill
  2. 1719 castaway — Crusoe
  3. “Math class is tough” — Barbie
  4. Gorgon with beheaded — Medusa
  5. Reporter played by Chevy Chase — Fletch
  6. Lady of the Lake’s victim — Merlin
  7. Cobra Kai’s co-founder — Kreese
  8. “Good Night & Good Luck” journalist — Murrow
• The reveal: reading the 3rd and 4th columns of letters spells out “murderer is butler” — and since the butler is Jeeves (from the intro), he’s the culprit.

"If you entered in all of those names, you can read down the third and fourth columns to read: murderer is butler." — Chris (27:51)

---

4. Biopics Lightning Round (28:24–35:08)

• Karen hosts a rapid-fire quiz on biopics whose titles DON’T use the subject’s real name.
• Contestants must name the person depicted and the actor who portrayed them.
• Notable prompts: The Greatest Showman (PT Barnum/Hugh Jackman), A Beautiful Mind (John Nash/Russell Crowe), Gorillas in the Mist (Dian Fossey/Sigourney Weaver), Man on the Moon (Andy Kaufman/Jim Carrey), Imitation Game (Alan Turing/Benedict Cumberbatch), I'm Not There (Bob Dylan, with six actors including Cate Blanchett).

"A lot of biopics out there are titled with the person's name. So all of the titles I’m giving you do not have the person's name in it." — Karen (29:44)

---

5. “Fish, Bird, or Berry?” Prefix Game (36:39–46:47)

• Danny hosts a quirky quiz: for a list of prefixes (e.g., “cat,” “buffalo,” “puff,” “ant,” “hag”), each participant is assigned to guess whether that prefix matches a real-world fish, bird, or berry.
• Laughter as the group grapples with odd animal and botanical names. Examples:
  • Cat: catfish; catbird and catberry also exist.
  • Buffalo: buffalo berry and buffalo fish.
  • Puff: puffbird, but no pufffish or puffberry.
  • Pineapple: only a pineapple fish exists, which looks just like one!
• Tangents include Pokémon berries and Australian flora/fauna.

“Everybody listening does need to look up the pineapple fish. Wow. Wow.” — Bill (46:57)

---

6. Video Games: “What Game Am I?” First-Person Quiz (47:02–59:02)

• Bill constructs vivid first-person scenarios, and the group identifies specific games:
  • Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind ("I’ll have to take the Silt Strider...")
  • Banjo-Kazooie (turned into a pumpkin)
  • Balatro (“I collected all these floating skulls...to turn me into a pumpkin.”)
  • Stardew Valley (pelican town, parsnips)
  • Kingdom Hearts (Goofy and Donald's Atlantis transformations)
  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance (learning to read as a side quest)
  • Pac-Man (eating the ghosts after a power pellet)
  • Elden Ring (tarnished, surprise dragon & mimic chest)
  • Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon (skateboarding with Hunter)
  • Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura (magic interferes with train travel)
• The format blends nostalgia, humor, and affectionate ribbing about difficulty level and obscure childhood favorites.

“My boots are wet. These weird mosquitoes keep attacking me. And—Is that a dragon in the middle of the lake?” — Bill, describing Elden Ring (54:33)

---

7. “90s/00s Sampled Songs” Music Quiz (59:40–71:34)

• Karen quizzes the crew on modern pop songs built on sampled 1990s/2000s hits.
• For each clip, they must name: Current artist, Sampled song, Original artist.
• Notable entries:
  • Bebe Rexha, sampling “Blue” by Eiffel 65
  • Zendaya, sampling TLC’s “Creep”
  • Kim Petras (feat. Nicki Minaj), sampling Alice DJ’s “Better Off Alone”
  • Dua Lipa, sampling White Town’s “Your Woman”
  • Rihanna (via DJ Khaled), sampling Santana’s “Maria Maria”
  • Doechii, sampling Gotye & Kimbra’s “Somebody That I Used to Know”
• The segment closes with a mini musicology lesson: the opening chant of Enigma's "Return to Innocence" uses a sample from the Amis indigenous group of Taiwan, “Elder Drinking Song.”

“Return to Innocence uses the sample of a Taiwan indigenous song...went through some legal troubles...but everybody got their credit, everybody got their settlement, so we're all cool here!” — Karen (71:17)

---

Memorable Quotes

• “We've been having all these guests stop by for the road to 300...I figured 299, we'd have some really special guests.” — Chris (02:11)
• “If you entered in all of those names, you can read down the third and fourth columns to read murderer is butler.” — Chris (27:51)
• “Here's the thing. A lot of biopics out there are titled with the person's name...So all the titles I’m giving you do not have the person’s name in it.” — Karen (29:45)
• “Anytime you look at a bird, you can also see a pineapple, so you’d never make that comparison.” — Bill (46:14)
• “I need more. I need more of this.” — Karen, on Bill's “Pac-Man” story narration (54:13)

---

Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:16–04:20: Opening, palindrome, surprise guests
• 04:20–16:15: Trivial Pursuit (US & Australian) rounds
• 16:20–28:22: Chris’s Mansion Murder Mystery Quiz
• 28:24–35:08: Biopics Lightning Round
• 36:39–46:47: Fish, Bird, or Berry? Prefix Game
• 47:02–59:02: Video Game First-Person “What Am I?” Quiz
• 59:40–71:34: 90s/00s Sampled Song Music Quiz

---

Episode Tone & Style

• Playful, nerdy, and warmly competitive.
• Rapid-fire trivia, meta jokes, improv, and collaboration.
• A celebratory, approachable love letter to the trivia community with international flair (oz-trivia and obscure game lore alike!).

---

Where to Find More

• Good Job, Brain! goodjobbrain.com
• Escape This Podcast and “Solve This Murder” (Bill & Danny’s projects)
• Guests also contributed to Rise of the Golden Idol video game.

---

Conclusion

Episode 299 delivers on the “All Quiz Bonanza” promise: innovative quizzes, classic pub trivia, inventive wordplay, and cheerful trans-Pacific camaraderie. The hosts' and guests’ chemistry shines, making the episode both a playful competition and a celebration of curiosity and shared joy in learning quirky facts. An essential listen for trivia hounds, pop culture aficionados, and anyone who loves a smart, silly, and surprising quiz show.

Transcript

[A]

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

[B]

Aha. Pip, pip, Ma'. Am. Sis and series. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 299. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen. And. And we are your depressed duo, dearly desiring dedicated didactic ducks.

[C]

I'm Chris. I'm only Chris. I'm just Chris.

[B]

You're just Chris. Yes. Well, first of all, I hope you guys caught my palindrome.

[C]

Your palindrome intro.

[B]

Aha. Pip, pip, ma'.

[C]

Am.

[B]

I thought I could get a lot further than I did. Turns out it's really hard to build a full sentence out of just palindrome words. And yes, depressed duo. Me and Chris here. No Colin. What's up with that?

[C]

I think he's camping.

[B]

Yeah, avid listeners know he does a major camping trip. We're not going to intrude on his tradition. So it's just me and Chris. This episode 299. Boy, feels. Feels pretty lonely. I.

[C]

Sure, I know. It's, like, empty in here. Well, you just gotta. You just have to soldier on, Gary.

[D]

All right.

[C]

Uh, okay, well, I mean, get out those Trivial Pursuit cards and you can. You can quiz me, me versus myself in a rousing game of solo Trivial Pursuit.

[B]

All right, well, this is a trivia podcast. Let's jump into straight into a Chris only round of Here we go. General trivia segment Pop quiz Hot shot.

[C]

All right, now, any minute. Wait, Karen, any minute now, the doorbell's gonna ring. I know. Yeah, I know the doorbell's gonna ring.

[B]

How about if I say pop quiz hotshot again?

[C]

Say it again.

[B]

Pop quiz hot shot. No. No doorbell.

[C]

Nothing. Man, I guess it really is just us.

[B]

We've been having all these guests stop.

[C]

By for the road to 300. I figured. I figured episode 299, we'd have some really special guests.

[B]

I know people would stop by.

[C]

No one's here.

[D]

What? It's your 300th episode.

[C]

Bill and Danny from Escape. This podcast.

[B]

We broke our video.

[D]

There's no time to explain.

[A]

We had to get here before 300. Did we make it?

[D]

Something's got to be done about your 300th episode, Marty. We have to go back. Back to 299.

[C]

Okay, yeah. Fortunately, you made it. You escaped somehow. You got Back to episode 299. You're here.

[A]

Oh, perfect. That's perfect. All right, now, this is really important. Chris, have you answered the first Pop Quiz Hotshot yet?

[C]

I have not answered it yet.

[D]

Oh, we made it just in time.

[B]

Oh, my gosh.

[C]

Was the show going to be so depressing that people would stop listening?

[D]

That's it? You're going to cancel the whole show? You're going to get the question wrong in such an embarrassing way. You would have got a hate mail. Everyone messaged him. Be like, chris doesn't even know trivia. We're never listening to the show again. And no one would have listened to the 300th episode. Thank God we're here, luckily, because we definitely will 100% know the answer to the first question on this trivia card.

[C]

Thus saving you from full embarrassment. Incredible.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[C]

Well, usually we ask our guests if they want to stick around for trivia, but I think it's imperative that you both stick around for, ideally, this entire show.

[D]

We have to stick around for the whole show. We even brought our own questions for later, just in case you didn't have any for us.

[C]

The gang from Escape. This podcast always comes prepared. Well, it's great to see you guys. Thanks for coming all the way from Australia. It's been a while since we've gotten to. Since we've gotten a podcast together, but it's always a good time, so.

[A]

Always very much so. I don't think the giant Labubu was behind you last time we were here.

[C]

That's not a giant labubu. That's her husband in a lubu suit. He has to sit there all the time.

[D]

I have so little labubu experience that I felt like asking. I don't think I've completely missed the point. They're not all that size, right?

[A]

No. I met a labubu for the first time on Thursday, and it was teeny tiny, though. It was an especially tiny one.

[B]

Oh, yeah, that's the new one. Now the new size is a teeny tiny one.

[D]

That's shrinkflation. That's how they get you.

[B]

Important question, Danny and Bill. Did you guys bring buzzers?

[D]

Oh, yes. Yes, we did.

[A]

I didn't. I'm going to have to make up an animal noise. What animal?

[B]

What animals are free, you know, everything but the rooster. Yeah, it's everything but the girl. Everything but the rooster.

[C]

Wait, what about you? Well, Karen, you have a buzzer.

[B]

Oh, mine is a spring.

[D]

Oh, okay, mine. Mine goes like this. Hey, I'm answering here.

[C]

Nice. Yeah.

[D]

Okay, good. Locked in.

[B]

You have to say that.

[C]

That's my buzzer every time.

[D]

I'll go.

[A]

I'll go for an Oliver, please, sir. That's. That's.

[C]

Oh, that's Good. That's good.

[B]

I like this element of role playing that we have going on. All right, without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment, Pop Quiz Hot shot. Here I have two cards, and we have to get the first question right.

[D]

Canonically, Chris gets the first one wrong. So embarrassingly, that the show is canceled.

[B]

So we have to change. We have to change the timeline here. I have entertainment. Singles. Weight of the world is on this question. TV, Blue Wedge. What mid-1990s sitcom starred Fred Savage's younger brother Ben?

[D]

Oh, no. Oh, no. We did not see the problem here. What happened was. Well, Chris said. He said Seinfeld, because That's the most mid-90s show I know. And everyone went, watch. It's the greatest show on television. It went, oh, it's real mid. And then it created a huge divide, and everybody got mad at you.

[A]

So as long as you don't do that.

[D]

Okay, Just long as you don't say Seinfeld's mid.

[C]

Oh, yeah, got it. Oh, as long as I say Seinfeld's mid, I'm okay. It's not Frasier.

[B]

Don't say that's mid either. People really like Frasier.

[C]

I think. Karen, I think we're going to pick the other card first, but instead you pick this card first because you had to change the cards. So I can answer this one correctly, which is Boy Meets World.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

All right. Show Saved.

[D]

I didn't know there was another Savage. If you said. I would have said, oh, it's probably Fred Savage. Was he. Was he the Wonder Years?

[C]

He was the Wonder Years. He was the Wonder Years.

[D]

Neither show made it to Australia.

[B]

All right, here we go. Pink wedge music. What 1988 Tracy Chapman album received four Emmys, including best New Artist Emmys. Is it Emmys for.

[C]

Yeah, that sounds like a maybe. I mean, maybe.

[D]

Maybe.

[C]

She did release four videos that all got Emmys that year. Probably Grammys. Probably Grammys.

[D]

I know two songs, right?

[C]

Well, Fast Car.

[D]

Fast Car, and so is it called.

[B]

Sorry, I can think of. Give me one reason. That's the other, right?

[C]

Yep. Yep.

[A]

Was this bad? Is this back in the era of. The album is just one of the songs that would be very helpful.

[C]

If I had to put something down, I would put down far Fast Car, but I don't think that's the name of the album. I think we have.

[B]

FYI, Emmys is wrong. It's Grammys. It's not Emmys. All right, don't be mad. The album's name is Tracy Chapman.

[C]

No, no, no.

[A]

He. Led Zeppelin.

[C]

It. I was thinking, like, was it just called Tracy Chapman? But why would that be? Why would that be a question? I guess. You know what? I guess it got us. It got us. So it's a good trivia question. What? Self titled album by Tracy Chapman.

[D]

Yeah, that would have been maybe too easy.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Next question.

[C]

Movies.

[B]

What 1967 war movie told the story of 12 military convicts killing German officers during World War II in exchange for their freedom?

[C]

What was the year?

[A]

67. These are not my entertainments.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

War movie told the story of 12 military convicts killing German officers during World War II in exchange for freedom.

[C]

Chris, thank you for enunciating. Was it the Dirty Dozen?

[B]

Yes, it is the Dirty Dozen.

[A]

I have heard of that. Had no idea what it was about. Would have guessed it.

[D]

12 angry men.

[B]

Very different.

[D]

12 very angry men.

[B]

All right, purple wedge. How many pockets are fixed to a billiards table?

[D]

Hey, I'm answering here, Bill. Well, hold on. If it's Karen Billiards, Zero.

[A]

We're trying to nationalize it and stylize it.

[D]

Like in. Like in the pool hall.

[B]

In.

[D]

In. Is it Smooth Criminal? Is it beat it in Mike1 and Michael Jackson. None of them have any holes because they're playing Karen Billiards, which all. No holes at all. So depending on the type of billiards. Zero.

[B]

It's not that type of billiards, I'll tell you that.

[D]

Six.

[B]

Six. Six is correct.

[D]

You got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

[C]

6 pockets in a table.

[D]

Pockets that mark the difference between a gentleman with a capital B and it rhymes with P and it stands the pool, which is a different sport. But that's okay.

[C]

It is true.

[B]

What just happened? What were you guys reciting?

[A]

This could go for a while. Karen, you have to stop it.

[D]

I could stop doing bits from the music Man.

[C]

Oh.

[B]

Oh, I see. No wonder Chris got it immediately.

[D]

The only musical about cool green wedge for books.

[B]

What? Anne Beatty novel was the basis of the 1979 film Head Over Heels, starring John Hurd. Wow.

[C]

All right, again from the top.

[A]

My poor Oliver Buzz is going nowhere. Yeah, Going hungry.

[B]

I'm just gonna tell you.

[C]

No, no, wait. What? Say one more time. One more time.

[B]

What? Anne Beatty or Beatty? Anne Beatty novel was the basis of the 1979 film Head Over Heels, starring John Heard.

[C]

Okay. Yeah. I don't know.

[B]

Chili scenes of winter.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

No, you gotta know that.

[D]

Okay, let's.

[B]

Let's just end this card. Well, end our misery. The last question here. Wild card, orange wedge. Where did HYPNOSIS as stage performances originate.

[A]

Oh, my.

[D]

Oh, hey, I'm answering here, Bill. India.

[B]

Oh, that's a good guess. Good guess. Not says city, but I also take country.

[C]

Oh, interesting. The United Kingdom.

[B]

Incorrect.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

All right, Danny, you want to tick stabilize?

[A]

Okay. Where, where, where are cities? Old cities.

[B]

Old cities.

[A]

Italy.

[B]

Oh, it says here Paris. Paris, France.

[C]

Interesting, huh?

[B]

How about that hard entertainment card?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Well, since you guys escaped your podcast escaped into ours. You're very prepared. Hopefully you guys also have an Australian Trivial Pursuit card for us.

[D]

Ooh, we must.

[A]

Give me one moment. It's in the cage behind me.

[B]

I love our Trivial Pursuit card exchange.

[C]

It's great.

[A]

Absolutely. Now, let's see if we can. If we're lucky enough to get an Australian style question on this one, I think we might get lucky. Okay, so starting off, we'll start very nice and worldly with geography. The bento box is a form of lunch that originates in what country?

[D]

Hey, I'm answering here. Japan. All good.

[A]

I'm sure you are very comfortable with that. All right, entertainment. Now, which Yorkshire born actor plays Detective Jimmy McNulty in the Wire? We got a spring Karen.

[B]

Dominic West.

[A]

That is Dominic West. Well done. That's one of those actors whose names I know and whose face I absolutely don't. So we're getting a good. We're getting a good spread of the world on this card so far. About in history, salesman Ray Kroc was the brain behind the global success of which US Chain. That was a rooster.

[C]

Maccers. As you. As you call it.

[B]

Maccas.

[A]

Here's Maccas.

[C]

McDonald's.

[A]

Good job. All right, now we're into arts and literature. Bill, you're gonna need to step back for a moment before leaping in because we have our Australia question.

[D]

I'm back. I'm really far away.

[C]

He can still answer the question, but he has to make it to the microphone first, giving us a head start. We have to jump on him. Yeah.

[A]

Who are the villains of the snuggle pot and curdle pie stories?

[B]

Oh, my God. My sister in law has this tattooed sleeve tattoo.

[A]

Well, what? Snugglepot and Cuddle Pie. That would probably. That would be a good.

[B]

They're like children's story characters. Yeah, they're like mushroom people.

[A]

They are gumnut babies. We've. We've got a bit of a foliage theme here.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

And the villains follow this theme as well.

[D]

I don't remember these guys at all.

[A]

Really.

[D]

Are they the something boys? Do they call them like men?

[A]

They are men.

[C]

Okay. They're Men.

[D]

Banksia men.

[A]

They are the Banksia men.

[D]

They're all the Banksia boys.

[A]

No, they're the Banksia men.

[B]

Alliteration. What are Banksia?

[A]

Are they the ones that in particular sprout around fire?

[C]

If you picture.

[D]

If you picture an ear of corn, but instead of corn, it's just little flowers that have no petals. They're just like little spiky flowers. That's a Banksia. Wow.

[B]

That is so Australia. I love it. I love it.

[A]

That was the only real Australia themed one. Here we've got science.

[D]

Next.

[A]

Which snake does not kill by constriction? The anaconda, the python or the water moccasin, which does not kill by constriction. Karen.

[B]

The water moccasin.

[A]

Yes. That is just a straight up venom.

[B]

Snake because they move too fast. They're going to bite and then swim, slash, slither away.

[A]

Makes sense. Yeah.

[D]

You.

[A]

Yeah. Something that's a bit more watery. You wouldn't think that it would sit and be that patient while waiting.

[C]

Right, right, right. It would slip right off of you also. Yeah.

[A]

And finally we've got Sport and Leisure. What former wrestler was governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003? That's a rooster. Chris.

[B]

Go for it.

[C]

Jesse the Body Ventura.

[A]

Absolutely. Nickname an essential part. Even on the card. It' got it written there. Well done. I'm glad we got one Australian one on the card.

[B]

I thought. Doesn't Giselle have also the nickname the Body?

[D]

There's a few.

[A]

Oh, Elle McFerson. She was very protective of it. Some other people have tried to use it and she's. I think that there have been lawsuits fought over that nickname.

[B]

All right, good job, brain. Thank you guys. For a little slice of Australia. Well, Danny, Bill, you guys said that it's imperative for you to stay for the whole episode.

[C]

Whole thing.

[A]

We can't tell you exactly why, but yes, essential.

[C]

Typically, every fifth episode is our All Quiz Bonanza, but that would be episode 300. We're doing something a little different with episode 300. So we're shifting up the All Quiz Bonanza, which means that episode 299 is the all Quiz Bonanza. That means that everybody should really have. I certainly. I do. I think Karen does. And hopefully you guys have some quizzes that we can. That we can use upon each other to stump each other, test each other's knowledge and of course, you, the listeners as well.

[B]

So this week it's all quiz bonanza number 60.

[A]

I've never been very good at jazz hands. It's like rolling my Rs. My fingers just don't want to trill in quite the right way.

[B]

I don't move the fingers, I just move the wrists.

[C]

Oh, like. Oh yeah, true.

[D]

Yeah, you just move the wrists. Now you're not fingers. Oh, you're finger jazz hands and fingers are different.

[A]

Oh, I've got a. I've got some thinking to do.

[C]

All right, well Danny and Bill, I know you just got here, but let's all actually leave the good job brainhouse just for a bit. We're going to take a quick field trip. Actually I'd like all three of you are going to take a brief journey to my home. My massive 100 room country mansion that I made finally getting invited, traveling. I send a limo to pick you up. The three of you, you know, pass through the gorgeous wrought iron gates that say Kohler on the top and that they split open and up the up the sort of split two level, you know, driveway to the front entrance and you walk in and pass through the double doors into the opulent gilded foyer. My butler Jeeves is there, approaches and hands you an elegant silver tray on which is a cream colored envelope. Karen elects to open the envelope and reads the letter inside.

[D]

Wonderful.

[B]

Oh, this is a handwritten note. It says, hello, Karen, Danny and Bill. If you are reading this, I am dead and you are alive because you couldn't be reading this if you were also dead. You must solve my murder. The one and only thing I can share with you is that the murderer's name has six letters. Maybe their last name, first name, only name or nickname. Oh, also I can share with you this quiz. Each answer will lead you to the name of a suspect. Fill them in the blanks provided in these answer sheets, which I guess would constitute a third thing that I am sharing with you. Tldr. I'm dead. Do quiz. Sincerely, Chris Parentheses. Dead.

[A]

Now, none of us has six letters in either our first or our last names.

[B]

Right?

[A]

We're all totally not me.

[C]

Yes. So I have sadly died and you can now solve my murder. You all have answer sheets that I have provided you. Listeners, if you're listening at home, the answer sheets that Danny and Bill and Karen have in front of them right now have. There's going to be eight questions in this quiz, each of which will lead to the name of and probably increasingly unlikely or possibly likely suspect, I don't know, in my murder. And there's six blanks. There's six letters in each answer and they're going to be filling those in as well. Karen, Maybe we can even put this on the website or something like that if people really want to get into it. And then at the bottom, it says final answer. And then there's. There's six more blanks. So I guess we'll. We'll see who solves the murder. So I will now, still dead, ask you these eight questions from beyond the grave. All right, here we go. Question 1. A playing card was found near the crime scene. Perhaps it was the work of this actor. After all, he voiced the joker so many times. Perhaps he became a murderer.

[A]

No.

[C]

Okay, okay.

[D]

Hey, I'm answering here. Ah, Bill Hamill would be the six letter answer. Yep.

[C]

To a person, Hamill would be a six letter answer. Very good. H A M Ill. Could be a suspect. Absolutely. Question two. Hmm. Come to think of it, I smell salt water in the air. Perhaps the murderer is this castaway from an adventure novel published in 1719. Oh, Karen.

[B]

I think it's Crusoe. C R U S O E. C.

[C]

R U S O E. Very good. Yes. Crusoe. Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe. These clues aren't adding up. Could that mean the murderer is this fictional character who famously said in 1992, Math class is tough. Karen.

[B]

A toy that we talked about in a previous episode. Barbie.

[C]

Yes. Became infamous 1992 doll who spoke and said such phrases as math class is tough. Yes. So now we've got Hamilcruso Barbie. Okay, great. Suspect 4. The Mythological Monsters Stheno and Euryale both have alibis, but their sister does not. Even though she was beheaded, she can still kill.

[D]

Hey, I'm answering here, Bill. That'll be Medusa.

[C]

That will be Medusa.

[D]

Famous monster with named sisters that nobody knows the name of.

[B]

I didn't even know she had a family. I guess.

[A]

It's so sad. It's like her sister. Sisters are immortal, and she's the only one who's not.

[C]

Who's not? Yep.

[B]

Do they have snake hair?

[C]

I believe they do. I believe the Gorgons generally did.

[B]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Yep.

[B]

Their species is Gorgons. Yeah.

[C]

Yes. But it's not Gorgon. Medusa is the answer. Medusa is the answer. Suspect five, could the murderer be undercover? Well, this newspaper reporter, played by Chevy Chase, is a man of a thousand disguises.

[D]

Hey, I'm answering here, Bill. That'd be Fletch, right?

[C]

That would be Fletch. That Fletch lives. Fletch. And Fletch lives. Absolutely. Fletch a suspect, indeed. Question six. I would think his magic powers would make him a likely suspect if he hadn't himself been murdered by his former lover, the lady of the Lake.

[B]

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Oh, Karen, it's Merlin.

[C]

It's Merlin.

[D]

Arthur doesn't have magic powers, but it is.

[C]

No, Merlin does have magic powers. And in the stories was the former mentor. Lover. Yeah, exactly. I know exactly while she killed him. So. How about that?

[B]

So just a little bit of how I got there was. I knew.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Third letter was gonna be an R. Oh, okay.

[A]

I thought so as well.

[C]

Okay.

[D]

Oh, I haven't been looking at all.

[C]

Bill's not trying to jump ahead. But that's good. That's good. Yes. Question seven. I don't know if he had a motive, but certainly anybody who co founds the Cobra Kai dojo and says things like sweep the legend could be capable of murder.

[B]

Karen, is it like Krager?

[C]

It's not Crager, but it's light.

[D]

It's like Creech. It's like. It's close.

[C]

You're close. You're close.

[D]

Since it crunk click.

[A]

No idea.

[C]

It's not Crager or Creech.

[B]

Cree. Creagle. Creel.

[C]

Kriegle. Kris Kringle. It is. His name is John Kreese.

[D]

Kreese.

[C]

Kreese. Sweep the leg. Johnny Kreese. K R, E, E, S E. Kreese. K, R, E, E, S, E. We were all close. And finally we were close.

[B]

Creature.

[C]

Yeah. And question eight. If we already talked about a fictitious journalist, maybe a. Maybe a fictitious fa. A real life famous journalist could be a suspect. I mean, I. I don't know if this guy could commit murder, but if he did, the last thing he would say to the victim would probably be, good night and good luck.

[B]

Okay, well, the third and fourth letter is going to be R and R.

[D]

So there's a double R there.

[C]

Yep.

[D]

Warren. Warren.

[C]

It was not Warren. Not Harris. The very famous journalist. Yes. The subject of, I believe, the. The play. Good night and good luck. Right.

[A]

Darren was not.

[C]

Darren. Oh, I love it. I love it. Darren. Warren. No, it's. It's Edward R. Murrow. Was that famous Murrow. Now, before anybody says anything, does anybody think now that they've gotten all of these suspect names written down onto this provided answer sheet, that they have the final answer?

[B]

I feel like I do, but I feel like what if there's another trick?

[A]

Yes, I've got something, but I'm looking. There are so many things in here that look like other possible things that could jump out at me.

[D]

I mean, is there more other than those two vertical Lines.

[C]

No.

[D]

Oh, I ignore the person who gave us that envelope. I march straight down to the hall, I find someone who we all thought was dead, and I say, parable of the Sower. More like parable of the murderer. It was you, Octavia Butler.

[C]

You did it. No, sorry, it was. It was actually Brett Butler from Grace Under Fire. No, you're wrong.

[D]

Say Brett caught stealing. More like caught killing. It was you, Austin Butler.

[B]

You were great at Elvis.

[D]

You were great in Elvis. And even better as Chris's killer.

[B]

Karen, in the beginning, when you were setting up the scene, we did meet someone who has a name.

[D]

Huh?

[B]

It says down here on the third and fourth vertical column, murderer is Butler. Butler is also six letters. But the Butler does have a name.

[C]

That's true.

[B]

His name is Jeeves.

[C]

Yes. That's your final answer.

[A]

Amazing.

[C]

Yes. If you entered in all of those names, you can read down the third and fourth columns to read murderer is Butler. I was thinking of maybe asking them out of order and then trying to get you guys to reorder them in some way, but I. Yeah, then we.

[A]

Would have had to do the printouts and then cut them into pieces.

[C]

Cut them into little pieces, rearrange them all on your tables. Just wouldn't have made sense.

[A]

Primary school.

[C]

Well, thanks. Thank you for solving my murder. I appreciate it.

[B]

So you're dead for the rest of this. This episode?

[C]

I'm dead for the rest of the show.

[B]

All right, well, speaking of, Austin Butler is starring in Elvis. I here have a lightning round quiz, little trivia quiz about biopics. About biopics. I think I've made it known history is not my strong suit. And so I rely on movies, biopics, to kind of teach me parts of history or famous people. And so here I've compiled a bunch of titles of biopic films. Your job is to buzz in and answer two parts. First part, you have to name who the subject of the biopic film is. Second part, the actor who played the subject matter.

[D]

Now, are we also, we're all on the biopic train. None of us are. Biopic.

[A]

Not the biopics.

[B]

Oh, is it biopics?

[D]

Not. Well, I would also say biopic. I think in the uk they often say bio. They say biopic.

[B]

That sounds like myopic.

[D]

Yeah, I'm not a fan of it.

[C]

It's a biopic.

[D]

Okay, but you don't say biography.

[C]

Well, yeah, but you say biohazard.

[D]

Ah, I say biohazard.

[B]

Well, here's the thing. A lot of biopics out there are titled with the person's name.

[C]

Right.

[B]

So all of the titles I'm giving you do not have the person's name in it.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

For example, if I say Rocket man, you buzz in and you tell me who the subject matter is.

[D]

Elton John.

[A]

Elton John.

[B]

And then who played Elton John in the movie?

[D]

I don't know how hard to hit.

[B]

That G. Here we go. The Greatest Showman. I'm answering here, Chris.

[C]

Okay, P.T. barnum. Hugh Jackman.

[B]

Good job. All right. A Beautiful Mind.

[A]

Oh, oh, I forgot my button.

[B]

I'm gonna give it. Give it to the edit. Yeah, yeah.

[C]

You just forgot what to say.

[B]

Please, sir.

[A]

So the actor, in that order, that was Russell Crowe. Beautiful Mind and. Oh, can I get his name right? Is it John Nash?

[B]

Yes, John Nash. Nobel Prize winner John Nash. Next film, Gorillas in the Mist. Oh, answer it.

[C]

Chris Jane Goodall. Sigourney Weaver. Bill.

[D]

It'd be Diane Fosse.

[A]

She was gorilla.

[D]

And I'll stick with Sigourney Weaver.

[B]

All right, Next film, Man on the Moon.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, Chris.

[C]

Andy Kaufman. Jim Carrey.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

All right.

[B]

Next movie, Imitation Game.

[D]

I'm answering it.

[B]

I see Danny's face.

[A]

I can't buzz fast.

[D]

Apparently, Bill, that is Alan Turing being played by Benedict Cumberbatch.

[B]

Yes. Correct. Solving the enigma during World War II. This next one is tough, but you also have six actors to choose from.

[A]

Oh, no.

[B]

And the film is. I'm not There, Lisa. Oh, Danny, you said six actors.

[C]

You gotta get all six.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

All right, just one.

[A]

Bob Dylan. Cate Blanchett.

[B]

This is before the Complete Unknown, starring Timothy Chalamet. There was I'm Not There, which is a weird experimental film about Bob Dylan. Six different actors played Bob Dylan throughout, like, different stages of his life, including Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus, Carl Franklin, Richard Gere and Heath Ledger. Next film, Battle of the Sexes.

[A]

Um, okay, I'm answering here.

[B]

Oh, Danny.

[A]

All right, now, I don't know which one this is because, again, these are the sorts of ones where there are a couple of things about different tennis game things. So is this the one about Billie Jean King?

[B]

Yes, it is. Who plays Billie Jean King?

[A]

Is it Emma Stone?

[B]

Good job.

[C]

Oh, wow.

[B]

Billie Jean King with her landmark game.

[A]

I don't Know about Bobby Riggs. Is that the other one? I don't know. Who played him?

[B]

Steve Carell.

[A]

Oh.

[C]

Oh, right. Okay. Yep, yep.

[B]

Next movie, the Theory of Everything Imagineer. Bill.

[D]

Theory of Everything is Eddie Redmayne playing Stephen Hawking.

[B]

Correct. Snaps. Next film, 42. The number 42 I'll tell you. It's a sports movie.

[A]

Oh, no.

[B]

An American sports movie.

[D]

Okay. Who's that?

[B]

Chris, it's all up to you.

[C]

Where's Colin? But we need him. He's off the grid.

[D]

I'm answering here.

[B]

Okay, very intensive answer here, Bill.

[D]

Is it Jackie Robinson?

[B]

Yes.

[C]

You know, I know you know who it is.

[D]

You know he who died.

[C]

Yep.

[D]

That's the one whose name has somehow entered, exited, left my head.

[C]

Chadwick Boseman.

[D]

Yes. The church had broken my brain to be like, well, I know it's not Chiwetel, but it's in my head because of the chur, and I've lost it completely.

[C]

Oh, sure.

[B]

You know, my next question has Chiwetel in it, so.

[D]

Oh, yes.

[B]

Yes, you're right. If you want to guess the movie.

[D]

And the person he was. Is 12 Years a Slave. A biopic.

[B]

Yes, it is.

[A]

Oh, okay.

[D]

Was he plat someone?

[B]

Plat Solomon Northrop? I was almost gonna put Chadwick Boseman for another movie. He also played James Brown. And get on up and get on. All right, last one. The movie is Vice.

[D]

Oh, I'm answering here, Bill. Vice is Christian Bale playing Dick Cheney.

[C]

Oh, that kind of vice.

[D]

Yeah. Yeah, that's how they get you.

[C]

Yeah. Yep.

[D]

Woo.

[B]

Good job, everybody.

[C]

I was really. I was thinking in the beginning, like, oh, I shouldn't make any jokes about Dewey Cox, because that could show up in this. But then realizing that, of course, fake person. Not everybody's a fake person.

[B]

Oh, I could have done Walk the Line. That's too.

[A]

I was expecting that to show up.

[C]

Yep, yep, yep.

[B]

All right, we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back with more quizzes.

[A]

When did making plans get this complicated? It's time to streamline with WhatsApp, the secure messaging app that brings the whole group together.

[D]

Use polls to settle dinner plans.

[A]

Send event invites and pinned messages so no one forgets mom 60th and never miss a meme or milestone. All protected with end to end encryption. It's time for WhatsApp message privately with everyone. Learn [e-mail] this episode is brought to you by State Farm. Listening to this podcast.

[B]

Smart move being financially savvy. Smart move. Another smart move. Having State Farm help you create a competitive price when you choose to bundle home and auto bundling.

[A]

Just another way to save with a.

[B]

Personal price plan like a good neighbor.

[A]

State Farm is there. Prices are based on rating plans that vary by state.

[B]

Coverage options are selected by the customer. Availability, amount of discounts and savings and.

[A]

Eligibility vary by state.

[C]

You're listening to Good job, brain. Smooth puzzles, smart trivia. Good job, brain.

[B]

Hey, it's r all quiz bonanza number 60, and we have some special guests that broke into our house.

[C]

Danny and Bill, they escaped into our house.

[A]

That's how you get around it. Legally, it's not.

[C]

It's not B and E if it's an escape, if it's an escape room. Right.

[A]

I have brought a quiz here. It's a nice, simple one. It takes me. I feel like when it comes to things that become phenomena online, I take a little bit of time to get there. So I only very recently saw a clip that apparently is a few months old of a young woman getting a bit teary about the names of fish and talking about how it seems like scientists bully fish by giving them names like lump Sucker.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

A beautiful video.

[A]

I loved it so much. But there are also a lot of fish with really boring names and a lot of animals with boring names and just a lot of things with really boring names where we haven't put too much thought into them. And in fact, there's a lot of repetition going on here. So what I've got is some prefixes, and I have got three categories that they could fit into. Fish, birds, or berries. And I. I think one of you should each take one of them. Like maybe Chris, you should be berries. Bill, you should be birds, and Karen, you should be fish.

[B]

Okay?

[A]

And I'm gonna give you one of the prefixes, and you have to tell me, do you think you fit into this one?

[C]

Got it, got it, got it. Yeah.

[A]

Called the blank fish.

[B]

Got it.

[A]

All right, so let's start with, well, a basic one. Some of these are gonna be very easy for some of you and very hard for others of you. So my first question is cat.

[D]

No, wait, I've forgotten. Which are we?

[C]

You had one job.

[B]

I'm fish.

[A]

Philly, you were bird.

[C]

You're bird.

[D]

I'm bird. Okay.

[A]

Okay, so we've got cat.

[D]

I'm saying no.

[C]

I'm saying no to cat. Berry.

[B]

Catfish.

[A]

All right, so Karen got the easy job with catfish. As for cat, berry, and catbird, both of those also exist.

[C]

Oh, dang it.

[D]

What's a cat? Bird.

[A]

They're just types of different types of songbirds. A cat, Berry is another name for a mountain holly.

[D]

Oh, well, that goes.

[A]

Nicknames abound here.

[C]

Okay. All right.

[A]

But, yeah, maybe, you know, you've gotta. You've got to be a little bit more liberal with your choices than first.

[C]

I Guess so. I guess so.

[A]

All right, so how about the second one?

[D]

Buffalo.

[A]

Buffalo. Little bit harder already. Are there buffalo berries? Buffalo birds. Buffalo fish.

[D]

I think there's a buffalo bird.

[C]

I want there to be a buffalo berry, so I'll say yes.

[B]

I don't think there's a buffalo fish.

[A]

There is a buffalo berry.

[D]

Yes.

[A]

No buffalo bird.

[D]

What?

[A]

But yes. Buffalo fish. No.

[C]

Oh, guys, got skunked.

[B]

It is a fish. Buffalo fish. One word.

[A]

So on to number three.

[D]

Puff.

[B]

P, U, F, F. Well, there's a puffer fish.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

What are the chances? I'm saying there's got to be a puff bird. Birds love to puff. They puff themselves up all the time.

[C]

Right, right, right, right.

[B]

Oh, there's also puffin. Oh, just puff. Okay, I'm gonna say. I'm gonna be technical and be like, there's no puff fish, but there is a puff fur fish. So.

[C]

No, I will. Oh, okay. I'll say that there's no. There's no puffberries.

[A]

We have got a clean sweep. You are all correct.

[D]

Yes.

[A]

No puffberry, no puff fish. But there is a puff bird.

[D]

I really thought there was going to be a puffberry.

[B]

Me, too. Me too.

[D]

When you said no to puffberry Chris, I was just like, this guy's crazy.

[B]

This sounds like something in Pokemon that you feed your Pokemons.

[D]

Yeah, definitely eating puffberries.

[A]

All right, how about ant? A, N, T. Ant.

[C]

Ant berry.

[B]

Ant fish.

[D]

I'm saying yes. Gotta be.

[A]

That sounded so much like the relative that you don't like when you said it.

[C]

Right, Right.

[D]

Ant fish. Fish.

[C]

Ant fish. I'll say. I'll say. I want an Aunt Berry. Sure. Okay. Yes to Aunt Berry.

[D]

There's definitely a bird that eats ants, so as if you wouldn't call that an ant. Bird.

[C]

Ant. Bird. I like ant bird.

[A]

Where are we on fish? Do fish and ants interact, or is there a fish that looks like an ant?

[B]

Okay, I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say yes. Ant fish. Because I think it's talking about the size.

[A]

We've got yeses all around. All yeses to the best of my searching. There is an ant bird. And that's it. Oh, it is just bills for that one.

[D]

I've done it.

[B]

You did it.

[C]

You did it.

[A]

Okay. Good old fun one.

[B]

Hag.

[A]

H, A G Hag.

[B]

Oh, for sure, man. I even know what it looks like, too.

[C]

All these sound so good.

[D]

There's got to be a hag fish. I'm saying no to hag.

[A]

So we've got a hagberry. A no hagbird. And a. Yes. Hagfish. You are absolutely right. That is correct.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

Have you encountered hagfish, Karen?

[B]

I've seen videos and pictures, and they're big and slimy and really gross.

[A]

I've played around with one at university in one of my biology class because we did a lot of fish studies and it is wild. You have to wear gloves when you touch them, for starters.

[B]

The slime is crazy.

[A]

Even when they're dead, it's their slime. It just comes out of them at a single touch. It just keeps coming like an endless magician handkerchief of slime that comes out of them. It's absolutely wild.

[D]

Wow.

[A]

All right, how about sun? S U n sun for sure.

[B]

Sunfish. Yes.

[A]

Carrying out the easy one of the fish.

[C]

Sunberry. I'm gonna go, yeah, Sunberry.

[D]

I'm going, no. Sun bird. Because anytime you look at a bird, you. You're also looking at the sun. And you'd never be like, those two things look the same because one's the sun. You have to forget what the sun looks like to compare something to the sun.

[B]

It's a beautiful gold yellow bird. Because there's a sun. Bear.

[D]

Yeah, but see, a bear. You might be not looking up, so you might be like, that reminds me of the sun. But a bird, you've always got the comparison right there. It's never going to happen. That's my thought.

[A]

So we've got two yeses and a no. 1 bird. This one is a clean sweep in that we should have all said yes.

[B]

There is a sunburn.

[C]

It does sound. Yeah, it does sound like there are.

[A]

Loads of sunbirds, actually. All right, while we're still in the sky, how about cloud? C L O U D. Cloud.

[D]

Cloud.

[C]

I've heard of cloudberry.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

Cloudberry.

[C]

Gotta say, I've heard that phrase. I'll take the. I'll take the yes.

[D]

I'm saying no again. I'm saying no. Cloudbirds.

[B]

I'm saying no. Cloudfish is weird, but what if it makes a cloud?

[A]

Okay, you are all absolutely correct. It is just a cloudberry. Cloudberries. Weird puffy orange things that they do look like vivid orange clouds. They're very strange. All right, just a couple more. How about fox?

[D]

I'm saying yes. I think there are fox birds. I'm saying yes.

[C]

I don't know. One of these days it's got to be a no, but I'm still gonna stick with yes. I'm gonna say, yeah. Foxberry.

[B]

No. Fox fish.

[D]

Yes. Foxburg.

[A]

There is a fox berry. Yes, there is. A fox fish. And there is no fox bird. Oh, okay. How about mouse mouse. Second last one. Mouse.

[B]

Mouse.

[D]

Mouseberry. Mouseberry. All owls are mouse birds. I feel I'm saying yes. Mouse bird, 100. If I'm wrong.

[C]

Unless. Unless mouseberry is, like, a term for, like, mouse poop. I'm gonna say no mouseberry.

[A]

So we've got a no on berry, a yes on bird, and a yes on fish. You are all correct again. Amazing words.

[D]

Oh, my God.

[A]

Sweet. So a mouse fish. A little bit. Just one of the ones that sort of plays around in the sand by the looks of it.

[B]

Well, there's a rat fish, so I figured maybe it's very similar. No mouseberry. I would for sure. I thought there'd be a mouseberry.

[C]

Doesn't sound appetizing.

[B]

You're right. You're right.

[A]

And to finish off, let's go with pineapple. Just pineapple.

[D]

Pineapple bird no longer is over. I've gone saying yes. I'm saying yes for pineapple bird.

[B]

Isn't pilepa Berry in Pokemon as well?

[C]

I don't think that counts.

[B]

I think I would love to be real. I'm gonna say real, and I. I hope it's a yellow fish with, like, a green tail.

[A]

All right, now what if I tell you? Because this is the last one. I'm gonna. I'm gonna tell you there is only one yes.

[B]

Mastermind.

[D]

Okay, who's pineapple fish? Pineapple bird.

[A]

Who gets pineapple? So Chris's rules.

[C]

Me, but I'm not changing.

[D]

I'll put down. I'll go down. I'll say no bird.

[B]

Why would anybody call it pineapple?

[D]

Because here's the thing. Anytime you look at a bird, you can also see a pineapple. And so you'd never make that comparison.

[B]

What if it's like, a tropical fish? Okay, okay. I'll take one for team. All right. I'll say pineapple fish.

[A]

We have locked in fish. And with a yellow body with black lines all over it that makes it look like a pineapple. It is a fish. You nailed it again. Totally recommend looking that one up. You absolutely see why they called it that.

[C]

Oh, glad I stuck with my gut. Pineapple berries.

[B]

I know. I was almost gonna bully you.

[A]

Berry was a funny one. There are definitely, like, pine berries, and some people sort of call the pineapple berries a little bit, but Cranberg seemed to be what it is more.

[C]

Right, right, right.

[D]

Everybody listening does need to look up the pineapple fish. Wow. Wow.

[B]

That's crazy.

[D]

I think there's two quizzes left. And I have a quiz that I would happily put next. It's a video games quiz. I think just for a bit of a change of pace, we won't do a write down and we won't do a buzz in. Why don't we have the three of you can agree together on what your answer is and submit together. I've got a bunch of video game questions where I will just describe to you in first person a thing that I'm doing in the game and you would answer what the game is. Ideally, I think for all these, I would like a specific game, not a. You can't just be like, oh, it's a Mario or so. I would like the specific game that it is. My first question to help, you know, get the idea is like, if I say like, well, I'm putting on my metal cap that I found in a green block while visiting Peach's castle, that game would be super Mario 64.

[C]

Super Mario 64.

[D]

Super Mario 64. Exactly. Specifically that one where metal caps are in green blocks and you're at Peach's castle. I'll just. Here we go. Ready? Here's question number one. Oh, I'm gonna be late to my meeting with the fighters guild. I'll have to take the Silt Strider from Seyda Neen to Balmora to save some time.

[A]

Oh, is that one of the transports from older Elder Scrolls? I haven't actually played much Elder Scrolls. Is that what a silk strider is? Which would make me want to go Morrowind, I think, because that's the one that can't fast travel. I believe that's why you have to.

[B]

Like, you have to keep jumping. You have to keep leveling up your jump score. And it's not Oblivion, it's not Skyrim.

[A]

It's got to be Morrowind. Right?

[B]

Let's do Morrowind.

[C]

I'm not jumping in on this.

[D]

This is The Elder Scrolls 3. Morrowind.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

Nice. All right.

[D]

Morrowind is really fun because it was pre fast travel. But what it had instead was a lot of like in game fast travel networks where if you wanted to go from one place to the other, you'd be like, well, I'll take the Silt Strider to Balmora, then go to the Mages Guild and they'll teleport me to this city. And then that city has a boat that goes to. From HLA Wad all the way through to Ebonheart. And then I'll be in Ebonheart. And it's this, like, you have, like, yeah, you have to figure out what public transport you can take to get around the map.

[B]

Good job.

[D]

Question two. Oh, I'm glad I collected all these floating skulls earlier. Now I can pay this man to turn me into a pumpkin. I just hope he lets me keep my backpack.

[A]

What?

[D]

Whoa.

[B]

Who turns into a pumpkin?

[D]

Happily. Do it again. I'm glad I collected all these floating skulls earlier. Now I can pay this man to turn me into a pumpkin. I just hope he lets me keep my backpack.

[B]

Oh, is that. Could it be Luigi's Mansion?

[D]

Oh, you want to go a bit older?

[C]

Oh, are there games older than Luigi's Mansion?

[D]

You want to go one console generation older?

[C]

Oh, just one. Okay, let me keep my backpack.

[D]

Turn him into a pumpkin this time. Not every time. Sometimes he'll turn me into, I don't know, an ant.

[B]

Oh.

[A]

Oh.

[D]

Oh.

[A]

It's Banjo Kazooie, isn't it?

[D]

It is. Banjo Kazooie.

[C]

Banjo Kazooie.

[A]

Wow.

[D]

Banjo Kazooie. You're collecting mumbo tokens so that they turn you into an into various things depending on the level.

[A]

Oh, I didn't.

[D]

One of the mid game levels of that game, you turn into a pumpkin who does, in fact, keep his backpack.

[B]

Oh, so it's a pumpkin wearing a backpack even though it has no arms?

[D]

Yeah, no arms. It's just. I guess it's just stitched onto the pumpkin. All right, next question. Oh, I know how to win this. I'll just play all five of my aces and hope that the bonus from that banana gets me enough points.

[B]

Oh. Oh, Bill. How do you know? I was playing that before we started recording. This game is my favorite game within the last decade. Balatro.

[D]

Yes, this is Balatron. Almost. I will say, I almost swapped out the word banana to say and hope big that bonus from Big Mike will get me because it is Michelle Banana that gets you the bonus.

[A]

Yes, I also called the big mic enough to know these references.

[D]

All right, wonderful. So we're doing great. We're doing great. This one I need to read in a particular way that only Danny and maybe some other people who've watched one of the most famous sitcoms of all time will appreciate. Oh, I've planted the parsnip from Pelican Town you placed in my pack, Pierre. And now to read it. That was just for Danny. That was just for my wife. But I'll say it at an appropriate speed. I've planted the parsnip from Pelican Town you placed in my pack, Pierre.

[B]

Ooh, Animal Crossing.

[D]

I've Planted the parsnip from Pelican Town you placed in my pack. Pierre.

[B]

Stardew Valley is a Stardew Valley.

[A]

At Stardew Valley.

[D]

Stardew Valley. Oh, here's it. This one's, I think, a tough one, but maybe you'll get it straight away. Who knows? There's no way of knowing. So when I got into my rubbery spaceship, I had a dog and a duck, but when I got out, I had a turtle and an octopus.

[A]

Oh, I get it.

[D]

All right, good. Okay. So when I got into my rubbery spaceship, I had a dog and a duck, but when I got out, I had a turtle and an octopus.

[C]

Is this Kingdom Hearts 2?

[D]

This is Kingdom Hearts 1. I believe maybe 2 as well. Actually, I think possibly both would be correct answers.

[B]

Duck and a dog because you fly.

[C]

In a gummy ship.

[A]

Yep.

[D]

And when you get to Atlantis, you get regional underwater versions of those characters where Goofy is a turtle and Donald is an octopus.

[C]

Wow. Wow.

[D]

A good get. I'm glad you. I wasn't sure whether that would be, like, super easy or super hard. Next question. Oh, I know I could keep practicing my sword work, maybe even take the Lord of Perkstein out hunting, but I'm off to do something far more important. Learn to read.

[A]

I have a solid guess for this one. I've not played it. There's one game that I know that Bill has played where learning to read was a significant component within this game.

[D]

You can do a side quest in which your character learns to read.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Kingdom Come Deliverance.

[D]

Kingdom Come deliverance, the historical RPG set in Bohemia in the 1400s.

[C]

Interesting.

[D]

And your character doesn't know how to read, but there are lots of books in the game that get you bonuses. So you can go up to a town, hang out with a priest, get apprenticed to describe, learn how to read, and then for the rest of the game, you can get all the bonuses from reading books. It's great.

[C]

That's amazing.

[D]

Next game. The haunt continues. They've chased me all throughout this labyrinth, even through the mysterious pathways that seem to defy physics. As I move from east to west, in an instant, the spirits think they've cornered me, but they have no idea of what I've just eaten. Soon the hunters shall become the hunted. Oh.

[B]

That'S very good.

[C]

Incredible.

[B]

That is very good. I need more. I need more of this.

[C]

I know. I want the novella length. Yeah, exactly. It's Pac Man.

[D]

It's Pac Man. You're being haunted by ghosts. But if you go to off to the west side, you automatically teleport to the east side of the maze. And if you eat a pellet that it's slightly better than the pellets you usually eat, you can eat the ghosts.

[A]

Amazing.

[D]

Okay, next. Next one. My boots are wet. These weird mosquitoes keep attacking me. And Is that a dragon in the middle of the lake? Okay, I'm just gonna pop into these ruins and rest my tarnished body. Wait, is that a chest? That seems too good to be true. Hope it's not a trap.

[A]

All right, I hear tarnish.

[C]

Oh, tarnish a soul.

[A]

That's a soulsy. That's a Fromsoft.

[C]

Is that. I think that's a. I think that's a.

[D]

It just.

[C]

Dark Souls.

[D]

It is not Dark Souls.

[C]

No. What's tarnished?

[A]

I'm forgetting which one is. Which is tarnished.

[B]

Oh, Elden Ring, George R. Martin.

[D]

The answer is Elden Ring. In which and explicitly for people playing along at home, this is the. Quite near the start of the game, you can go down to a little shallow lake, there is a dragon. And if you do go into these ruins, there is a sudden treasure chest right there that if you open, teleports you into a prison on the other side of the map that you have to escape from. Full of evil, evil bug men. It's not very nice. All right, couple more. You know what? I've been collecting eggs for long enough. My wings are tired. Why not follow my feline friend's lead and hit a wicked ollie?

[B]

Wicked ollie. So skateboarding.

[C]

Been collecting eggs.

[D]

You know what? I've been collecting eggs for long enough. My wings are tired. Why not follow my feline friend's lead and hit a wicked ollie?

[B]

Oh, Spyro.

[A]

It is specifically Spyro 3 that is a skateboarding one.

[D]

Yes. You collect eggs in Spyro 3. And you have a friend called Hunter, who is what? A cheater.

[A]

A cheater.

[D]

And he. And you can. He leads you into skateboarding minigames where you can just do cool tricks.

[B]

So rad. So cool.

[D]

Oh, yes. So there are two left. One that I think you'll get, and one that is really just for me, but maybe you'll get it as well. Yeah. First one. Here we go. Collecting fruit, coins, and gold. That is so last year. I collect gems that look like fruit, bits of gems that look like coins, and instead of gold, I collect an almost identical gold like substance made up of more gems.

[C]

Is this Donkey Kong Bonanza?

[D]

This is Donkey Kong Bonanza, where instead of bananas, you collect banadium gems. Instead of coins, you connect Vanadium chips. And the gold is called gold, but it's technically vanadium gold made up of vanadium roots of the vanadium gems.

[C]

Only because. Only because it's so fresh in my mind, the whole experience. Yeah.

[D]

And final question. I'd like one first class train ticket, please. Yes, I do have some magical items with me. Yes, I can cast fireball. I don't see how that. Okay, fine. I'll have a ticket for the caboose. You just wait until I learn to teleport.

[A]

I know what this is. You must have known that I would know what this is.

[D]

You would know it. This is mostly for me.

[C]

Well, this is.

[A]

This is Bill's childhood.

[C]

Okay. Okay.

[B]

Oh, childhood. Okay. Okay. What console?

[C]

It sounds like a computer game released.

[D]

In the year 2001.

[B]

Ooh. Well, Siberia. She takes a train, but she does have fire powers. A train. A train ticket.

[D]

This one was mostly for me. Danny, would you like to.

[A]

This is. Oh, I can't do the whole thing. It's Arcanum of magic. Obscure. What's it called?

[D]

Yes. Arcanum of Steamworks and magic obscura. Arcanum was a crpg, one of the best examples of the genre made by Troika before they went out of business. They made Arcanum and they made Vampire the Masquerade, Bloodlines. Oh, it was made by a lot of ex Fallout developers. And yeah, you can. There's. There's a steam train in the game, but magic interferes with technology. So when you buy a ticket on the train, they'll ask you a series of questions like, do you have any magical companions with you? Can you cast following spells? And if you answer yes, there's like, great, we're not going to give you a first class ticket. You're going to get a ticket way in the back of the train, so you're far away from the engine and you don't ruin it. Oh, there you go. That is my video game quiz. I hope you all enjoyed it.

[C]

Nice.

[A]

I had a great time.

[B]

I really enjoyed the theatricality of.

[A]

Absolutely.

[D]

Upgrade your laundry routine with a durable and reliable Maytag laundry pair at Lowe's. Like the new Maytag washer and dryer with performance enhanced stain fighting power designed to cut through serious dirt and grime. And what's great is this laundry pair is in stock and ready for delivery when you need it the most. Don't miss out. Shop Maytag in store or online today at Lowe's.

[B]

All right, I have our last quiz. I love 90s music. Obviously, it's Because I'm biased and I grew up in the 90s and that's why I have very fond memories. And so here I have a 90 sample music quiz. So sampling in music has existed for like a very long time. The art of sampling and using bits and putting it into new bits and new songs, time honored tradition. And for us growing up in the 90s, many hit songs used samples. But back in the 90s and the 2000s they were sampling songs from the 70s. And so as kids were, we might have not been familiar with the source material. So fast forward to now. The songs that are current playing on radios and such are now sampling from the 90s and 2000. Here I have a quiz. I have a couple of clips of popular song. All of them are sampling something from the 90s and 2000s songs a lot of us will know. And your job is to write down who the current artist is of the song, what song are they sampling and who performed that original song. So three points there.

[A]

Oh, my.

[B]

Okay, these song clips are short, so so pay attention, write fast. I'm confident that you guys will know at least one of the three possible points for each song. All right, fingers crossed again. You're gonna write who the current artist is of the song, what song are they sampling? So the title of the song and then who is the original artist of that sampled song? All right, all right, here we go. Song number. Cause I'm good, I'm feeling alright. Maybe I'm gonna have the best freaking night of my life.

[D]

I got maybe three out of three.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

One of them's a pure guest.

[C]

Oh.

[D]

All right.

[B]

Chris, what do you have for me?

[C]

I don't have the current artist. I think the song being sampled was just called Blue and I don't think. I know I put some 41, but I don't think that's.

[A]

You've got the right vibes.

[C]

It's something like that.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Okay.

[D]

I believe for the artist it's Eiffel65.

[C]

Eiffel65. Okay.

[A]

Did you put anything for the singer?

[D]

I just put like Sabrina Carpenter, who knows?

[A]

I put Miley because it sounded a little. Had a bit of depth to the voice.

[D]

Could have been Miley.

[B]

The artist is Bibi Rexha. B.B. rexha.

[D]

All right.

[C]

Yep.

[B]

And the song is of course Blue by Eiffel 65.

[C]

Nice.

[B]

Song number two, baby.

[D]

Oh, no.

[B]

The current artist is hard. She's. She's more known to be an actress, Scarlett Johansson and, you know, freshly engaged.

[C]

Oh. Oh.

[B]

All right. What we got? What we got?

[A]

This one. I got nothing for this one.

[B]

Okay, Chris?

[C]

I got nothing for the. The current artist. Once, once again, I think the song is. Is it Creep? Tlc.

[B]

Tlc. This is a song by Zendaya. She had a. A brief music career before her. I was Full fledged acting career. Yep, yep, yep. And the song being sampled is Creep by tlc.

[C]

Tlc.

[B]

All right, here we go. Song number three.

[C]

It. Yeah.

[D]

Don't you wait.

[B]

Just come on over now. I've been trying to give it to you all night. What's it going to take to get you all alone? Everybody's face. Hey, man, I know this.

[D]

What is this? My, like, my brain.

[C]

Yeah, I know, right?

[D]

I know this. I don't know what it is.

[A]

You found my weaknesses and I don't like it. Yeah, I feel targeted.

[D]

Oh, I can't remember.

[B]

So this current song is by Kim Petras featuring Nicki Minaj.

[D]

I picked Nicki Minaj because I heard her.

[B]

Okay, you know what? Give yourself a point. Even though she says Nicki here.

[D]

Yeah, she came in really helpfully being like, hi, my name's Nicki. Put me down for the quiz that you're doing. It's Nicki Minaj. I was like, great, thank you, Nicki.

[B]

And it is sampling better off alone by Alice dj.

[D]

Oh, I would say I've never known the name of that.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

Something so familiar is not ringing any name bells.

[C]

Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah.

[B]

All right, song number four, then. You got me in love again.

[A]

Again.

[D]

This is.

[C]

Again. Can't tell you the current artist. I know that I know the song, but I couldn't tell you the. The artist of the. Of the original, though, is the song called I could never be your woman.

[D]

I could never in brackets be your woman. Close brackets.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

So the answer is the current song is performed by Dua Lipa.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Dua Lipa. The sample is your woman by White Town wonder in the 90s.

[D]

Everybody playing along, even if it's not true. My defense for all these is. Oh, that wasn't. That wasn't as big in Australia. Oh, that didn't really chart in Australia. That might be completely wrong constantly, because I do recognize these songs musically, but that's my excuse.

[B]

Next song. Song number five.

[A]

That sounded very Santana at the end.

[D]

That's all I've got is to write down Santana just in case.

[C]

Oh, yeah, I got nothing.

[B]

Nothing.

[C]

Sweep of nothing.

[B]

Oh, man.

[D]

Honestly, actually, for me, this is the first one. Didn't even sound familiar. Like the, the sample. It's not even like I can't remember that one. I was like, I don't know what this is.

[B]

Cueing this quiz with my husband, who has exact same taste as me. It was, you know, he's like, oh, it's this.

[C]

Oh, it's this. Yeah.

[D]

Oh, okay.

[B]

This is an easy quiz.

[A]

I'm sure there are people at home who are absolutely nailing this.

[D]

Yeah. And there's. And there's thousands of Arcanum fans out there getting mad at you.

[B]

The current artist of this song, well, it's DJ Khaled, but the person singing is Rihanna.

[D]

Yeah, it sounded like.

[B]

And it's sampling Maria. Maria by Carlos Santana.

[A]

We've got Santana.

[C]

Hey, look at that.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

No knowledge. We just went. I know that guitar tone.

[A]

I do know that guitar.

[C]

That is knowledge.

[B]

So we have one last song here.

[A]

Let's nail this one, guys.

[B]

I think you can nail parts of it for sure. The only reason I say that is because the last time you're on this show, I had music quiz. The sampled song was. Was also in that quiz. So I know you know that song. Okay, okay.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

All right. Right. All right, here we go. Song number six. Last song of this painful quiz.

[D]

It's great.

[B]

Somebody's watching me. Is my Anx giant.

[A]

Now, what is her name? What is her name? I'm blanking on her name.

[D]

You'll never know.

[A]

Does it have a ch in it, or am I completely making.

[D]

No, no, the church. Follow the church. You're good.

[B]

There's a ch. There's a ch. All right. Bill knows. I think got the clean suite. You got them all.

[D]

Great.

[B]

All right.

[D]

Tick, tick, tick. Three points. There's a ch. It's in the middle. It is. Well, the sample is somebody that I used to know by G.

[C]

Oh, I see.

[D]

And Kimbra. And it's doi.

[B]

Doi.

[D]

Correct.

[B]

Big winner. Rapper of the year. Rap album of the year. Doi. Yes.

[A]

Two and a half for that, for the ch. For the most important.

[D]

That's a third of the name. You could have two and one third.

[B]

Okay, I'm going to end this sample music quiz with a fun fact. So you listeners know that I grew up in Taiwan, land of Boba and semiconductors. Hey, it's true. Tiny island with lots of different ethnic groups and including native and indigenous peoples. And the largest indigenous group is called Ame, or Anglicized Ami. They have their own language. They have their own traditions, and. Well, Karen, what does this have to do with anything about sampling in music? Like many cultures, the Ame have a lot of folk songs, and so songs about Working songs about in the mountains, songs about festivals and songs about hanging out. And so I'm going to share a clip of one of these hanging out folk songs titled Elder Drinking Song. So I'm going to play for you here and hopefully it might sound a little bit familiar.

[C]

Very much, very much, Very, very familiar. It is the sample or anyway the tune that begins, I believe, Enygma's song Return to Innocence.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

As featured on the best selling collection, only available on TV. Pure moods.

[B]

It's those 3:00am CD collection. Oh, yes, commercials.

[C]

But yeah, that's cool.

[B]

Here, here is the. Here is the song. Follow your own way.

[D]

Talk about.

[A]

Oh, wild.

[B]

Chris loves his world music.

[C]

You're so, you're so right. Enigma, you're so right. Just gotta.

[B]

Return to Innocence uses the sample of a Taiwan indigenous song.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Actually the, the song and Enigma, it went through some legal troubles about what is public domain and copyright and all that. But you know what, everybody got their credit, everybody got their settlement. So we're all cool here. Thank you for sitting through another music.

[D]

Round, which I got eight out of ten. 18 points.

[A]

I got six and one third.

[B]

Chris, you know what you get?

[C]

I did not keep track.

[B]

Jamming on.

[C]

Return to Innocence again in the alternate timeline when Danny and Bill didn't show up on this show and I had to do that all by myself, it was really, it was really started to.

[A]

Appear in the earth.

[B]

My husband was like, are you sure you're going to give Chris this music round?

[C]

He knows. He's been listening closely.

[B]

Well, that's our show. We avoided tragedy.

[C]

The road to 300 is clear.

[A]

You can say with all confidence you will get there and nothing will go wrong.

[D]

Everything will be completely fine.

[B]

My gosh. Thank you, Bill and Danny, for saving the show. Where can people find you if you.

[D]

Want more of what we do? If you like puzzles, go and check out Escape, this podcast. If you like to listen to people try and solve audio escape rooms and get out and smash through people's windows to escape. If you like murder mystery. If you think you want to find out whether the butler did it, you can check out our other show, Solve this Murder, where we create new murder mysteries that the other person tries to take on the role of detective and solve, which is always great fun. We finished one up recently, so it's a nice time to get in. And there's probably, you know, there's a new one coming any moment now, so maybe it's already up by the time you listen to this. Maybe not. You'll have to go and find out.

[A]

Oh, and also in its full completed form now base game and dlc. We were part of the writing team for Rise of the Golden Idol, sequel to the Golden Idol. So you can now get absolutely everything there is to get of that game. All available now. And again, that's murder mysteries and puzzles smushed together.

[B]

So fun. Thank you all for joining me. And thank you listeners for listening in. Hope you learned stuff today about video games. About Is it Barry, Fish or bird? About 90 samples. 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 Culture Kids, Book Riot and the History of Fashion. And we'll see you next week for our 300th show.

[C]

Bye.

[B]

Well done.

[D]

Welcome to From Beneath the Hollywood Sign. If you love old movies, Hollywood history, or the golden age of filmmaking, you've come to the right place. This is the podcast that talks about amazing stories of Tinseltown from another era and fascinating conversations with writer producer Steve Cubine and actress writer Nan McNamara.

[A]

So, Steve, did Ava Gardner and Howard Hughes have a good relationship?

[C]

Well, they did until he dislocated her jaw.

[B]

What?

[C]

Well, don't worry, she hit him back with an ashtray.

[D]

From Beneath the Hollywood Sign is the gin joint for you.