470: Trivia Roadie

Summary

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TRIVIALITY Podcast Episode 470: "Trivia Roadie"

Release Date: May 12, 2026
Featuring: Hosts Matt, Neil, Jeff
Guests: Contestant Julie C., Quizmaster Joel Mount

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Episode Overview

In this episode, the Triviality crew celebrates nearly nine years and over 700 episodes by tackling another pub-style trivia game with guest contestant Julie C. and returning host and quizmaster Joel Mount. This week, the game features a special "alphabetical answers" theme: each question's answer starts with a consecutive letter of the alphabet, from A to Z. The team must collaborate and compete for points, navigating topics that range from pop culture and sports to geography, history, religion, and more.

The episode is lighthearted and full of good-natured ribbing, quick wit, and plenty of friendly banter. Julie joins the team as a Patreon supporter, while Joel provides well-crafted questions and keeps things moving. The group faces technical difficulties but persists in keeping their "never miss an episode, no reruns" mantra alive.

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Key Episode Highlights

1. Opening Banter & Podcast Milestones

• 00:24–01:14: The hosts joke about their recent "Best General Knowledge Trivia Podcast" award and reminisce about nearly nine years of episodes.
• Notable riffing on the names "General Mills" and "Captain Crunch."
• Ken is absent; the rest accept the award.

2. Meet the Players

• 01:35–02:54: Julie C. (guest player), from Columbia, SC, shares about her life and trivia background, including winning a workplace lasagna bake-off.
• 04:39–05:30: Joel Mount (host/question writer) introduces himself as a New Jersey hearing aid salesperson and trivia veteran. Reflects on his trivia-hosting days and the desire for a "trivia roadie."

3. Game Theme Announced: Alphabetical Answers

• 06:00–06:39: Joel details the format: 26 questions, each beginning with a different letter from A to Z.

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Notable Rounds & Memorable Moments

➤ Early Rounds: A–J (06:53–22:41)

– Questions & Answers (with Timestamps)

• Games: "The bad piggies are the enemies of what computer game characters?"
  Julie: "Angry Birds." (07:21)
  Joel: "Angry Birds is correct." (07:27)

• Sports: "1985 youngest winner of Wimbledon men's singles?"
  Team: "Boris Becker." (08:49)
  Joel: "Boris Becker." (09:01)

• Geography: "Table Mountain overlooks what African city?"
  Julie: "Cape Town." (09:54)
  Joel: "Cape Town is the answer." (10:29)

• Cartoons: "Mutley the dog is the sidekick of which accident-prone character?"
  After debate, the team guesses "Deputy Dog."
  Joel: "Should have gone with Dastardly. It is Dick Dastardly." (12:47)

• Religion: "Oldest son of Isaac?"
  Julie: "Esau." (13:39)
  Joel: "Esau is correct."

– Quotes and Banter

• Julie (on lasagna): "You know what? The guys liked mine better, so suck it." (03:59)
• Jeff: "A bake off could solve like 90% of all disputes." (03:45)
• Matt: "Geography is something you can get good at, but I always choose not to." (19:50)

– Running Gag

• The team keeps forgetting they're supposed to think alphabetically for each answer.
  Neil: "Every single question, I've forgotten that there's an ABC..." (10:41)

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➤ Mid-Game: K–T (24:54–36:27)

– Sample Questions

• Music: "German electronic band, power station..."
  Team: "Kraftwerk." (25:17)
  Joel: "Kraftwerk." (25:42)

• Olympics: "US athlete, four gold medals, 1984 LA?"
  Team: "Carl Lewis." (26:44)
  Joel: "Carl Lewis." (26:51)

• Geography: "Ulan Batar is capital of...?"
  Julie: "Mongolia." (27:56)
  Joel: "Mongolia. Very good barbecue beef there." (28:04)

• Movies: "Who played Colt in Way of the Dragon?"
  Team: "Chuck Norris." (28:36)
  Joel: "Chuck Norris." (28:36)

• Harry Potter Trivia: (Quirrell as Two-faced antagonist) Julie (former HP podcaster): "It was Professor Quirrell." (32:45)

– Quotes & Moments

• Joel: "If [Chuck Norris] was here, he would have beaten you all." (28:41)
• Julie: "Back before you could make money doing podcasts, I had a Harry Potter podcast." (32:31)
• Jeff: "In 1980 [Carl] Lewis could have beaten Hitler." (27:14)

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➤ Final Stretch: U–Z (39:38–47:55)

– Key Q&A

• Geography: "Also known as Ayers Rock—largest monolith in Australia's Northern Territory?" Julie: "Uluru." (40:10)
• Sports: "'French for bicycle,' name a cycling arena?" Jeff: "Velodrome." (41:02)
• Politics: "Reagan-era anti-environmentalist Secretary of Interior, 1981–83?" Julie: "Watts." (42:11)
  Joel: "James Watt is correct." (43:05)
• Buffy: "Name of Nicholas Brendon’s character?"
  Julie: "Xander." (43:26)
• Botany: "Taxus genus, often found in churchyards."
  Julie: "Yew." (44:29)
• Currency: "Polish currency, meaning 'golden.'" Group struggles.
  Joel: "It's a Zloty, Z-L-O-T-Y." (46:39)

– Memorable Exchanges

• Neil (on Polish currency): "I used to sing all the currencies. Like... Santa Monica Bonivar..." (45:14)
• Joel: "I'll give you 20 points because it's a five-letter word." [On their partial guess of Zloty] (46:37)
• Jeff: "Everything in the middle is the thing that makes it good. Otherwise, it’s just bread." (46:56)
• Matt: "To be fair, being from Chicago we should know Polish currency." (46:59)

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Notable Quotes

• Julie (on knowledge): "According to my mother, a fountain of useless information. So I'm glad it came in handy." (47:48)
• Julie (on family): "If you can do anything… help out people who have dementia and their family members… there's a reason it's called the long goodbye." (47:58)
• Joel (on the world): "Get out there, stand up for what you believe, give to charities when you can, and remember to vote." (49:32)

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Score Recap & Achievements

• The team finished with 210 out of 260 points.
• Julie’s expertise came in clutch on several questions, especially in literature and pop culture.
• The team missed a few on tricky historical and international currency questions, but overall performed strongly.
• Multiple instances of playful blame-shifting, especially around memorable misses (e.g., Dick Dastardly, Jaffa Orange).

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Closing Remarks

• Julie highlights advocacy for dementia and Parkinson’s care/support.
• Joel urges listeners to stay engaged, give back, and vote.
• The group wraps up by celebrating their effort and the invaluable help of their guest.

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Useful Timestamps

• Alphabetical theme announced: 06:00
• First round (A–E): 06:53–13:54
• Notable “bake-off diplomacy” story: 03:33–04:04
• Technical difficulties riff: 01:39
• Sports & Olympic trivia: 08:00, 26:05
• Final score and shoutouts: 47:25–49:44

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This fun, fast-paced alphabetical trivia episode showcases the strengths of the Triviality podcast—quick minds, great questions, strong community, and a commitment to keeping things both challenging and light. It’s a must-listen (or must-read summary!) for trivia lovers and longtime fans alike.

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Transcript

[Announcer]

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast

[Joel]

recorded in Chicago, Illinois with your hosts, Ken, Matt, Neil and Jeff. This is Triviality.

[Matt]

Hello and welcome to the award winning podcast, Triviality. That the game.

[Neil]

The game.

[Matt]

This is why we won the award. A lack of seriousness meets the little bit of knowledge. I'm Matt.

[Neil]

Yeah, I'm Neil. Yeah, this is the award winning podcast. We just got a nice award from Pod Ranker. Best. I think it was best of general knowledge trivia podcast.

[Matt]

We know all the generals.

[Neil]

That's right.

[Matt]

General.

[Neil]

So General.

[Matt]

Every single General. We're good at it.

[Neil]

Yeah. What's the, what's the general from? Oh, that's a Captain. Captain Crunch.

[Matt]

You go to the General and you say General Mills.

[Neil]

General Mills.

[Jeff]

I thought they were more about saving time than money.

[Neil]

That's probably true, but yeah. Thank you to Pod Ranker for giving that great award. We appreciate it. We, I think we're what, almost 10 years in. Definitely almost 700 episodes finally getting our due.

[Matt]

I agree, Neil. It's about time we get some.

[Jeff]

We're only about a month out from nine years, so.

[Neil]

A month out from nine years.

[Matt]

A lot of years.

[Neil]

A lot of years. But thank you. Ken is not here. He did not want to accept the award so we're here to accept it on his behalf. Yeah, but yeah, it's myself, Neil. We got Jeff here, we got Matt here and we're excited today for another great pup Triviality game. If you listened to us last week we had a wonderful episode with our friend Kristen who was talking about being on the floor and Chris who's a first time host. We did have some technical difficulties.

[Matt]

We still have some technical difficulties.

[Neil]

We still do. Our rodecaster is currently broken and we are using a backup of a backup system here. Matt and I are sharing headphones elbow to elbow. Jeff is sitting pretty with. He has a really long pair by himself, but he only has one ear in anyway. That's true.

[Jeff]

It's because the other one won't stretch the other side of my big head.

[Neil]

So we're doing everything we can to make the show comes out because our mantra. I actually found the original Google Doc, believe it or not, Believe it or not, from triviality from 2016, late 2016, where it says what should we call the show? How is the show going to work? You know, here are the rules. How are we going to format it? And the first three prompts on our old Google Doc was never miss an episode and no reruns. So no reruns. Never miss an episode. No Reruns. And that's all because we have.

[Jeff]

I can't believe a thing we wrote down on a whim was something we stuck to.

[Neil]

Maybe we'll post it. I have it. I found it.

[Matt]

We had other names too. Trivia. Super Fun Time guys.

[Neil]

I think probably not three guys and their friend and plus trivia. But we have some really fun guests here with us today that we're really excited about. So we're going to start with our first guest contestant because we're doing a pub triviality style. We're so excited to have you here, Julie C. How are you?

[Julie]

I'm good. How about y'?

[Matt]

All?

[Neil]

Doing amazing. Thank you so much for being a Patreon supporter of us. We really appreciate it. Tell us a little bit about you and what you're up to. And now we're excited to play with you today.

[Julie]

I am currently in Columbia, South Carolina. I work as a title clerk at an automotive group here in the Midlands. And I have one son, he's grown. And I have three grandkids, a nine year old grandson, and two 21 month old twin girls. So geez, my life is busy.

[Neil]

Yeah, yeah, it's a busy life. Now, has anyone ever gotten into like a. And verbal disagreement near you about like, hey, I'm going to race you for this title or anything like that or. No.

[Julie]

Well, I mean, I got into an argument with a co worker once about who made the best lasagna, so he had to have a bake off.

[Matt]

Oh, did you win?

[Julie]

I did win.

[Neil]

Awesome. We have a championship lasagna maker.

[Jeff]

I feel like a bake off could solve like 90% of all disputes.

[Neil]

Well, because then you cool down when you're baking because you're so focused and you probably forget about the argument. But then you win. It's nice and you can eat.

[Matt]

And a lot of dishes require a cool down period too.

[Julie]

Yeah, well, it was just nice to be able to go. You know what? The guys liked mine better, so suck it.

[Neil]

Well, that's the energy that we like here today. That's what we bring to the table and we're gonna play on a team together. And you did say that you lived in beautiful Boise for a bit. You said there's no cockroaches, low humidity, which sounds amazing. Here, that's all you need. So today we're gonna be the Girlsies from Boise. That's gonna be our team name. And we need a host and we've had a host who's been on before that. We love having on great questions all the time. Great supporter of us on Patreon and also social media and a far and far and away Jeff. But Joel Mount, thank you for being here today. How are you today?

[Joel]

I'm very good. Always a pleasure to be on Triviality.

[Neil]

Yeah. We always love having you on representing the east coast for us and we love interacting with you online at different events and things like that. But you write some great questions but remind people at home a little bit about you.

[Joel]

I'm a New Jersey person, grew up here in New Jersey. I currently live in the Edison area. My father of two grown and a grandfather of too little. And I work in the hearing aid business, selling hearing aids to doctors, offices and hospitals around the country.

[Neil]

Oh, that's great. And we're glad that you're able.

[Joel]

I don't host trivia anymore. This is.

[Neil]

I was going to say. Yeah, I know. You did host for a long time, so. But now it's strictly. You're helping people here.

[Joel]

Yes.

[Neil]

Which is great.

[Joel]

I'm 60 years old now. I can't be lugging all the speakers around and things like that. It's just too heavy.

[Neil]

Oh, yeah, we understand that.

[Matt]

That's why I say trivia is a young man's game that we play at 40 years old.

[Joel]

Or if I had somebody to do the heavy lifting for me, then I wouldn't.

[Matt]

You need a roadie. That's what you need.

[Neil]

Yeah. If anyone wants to be Joel's trivia roadie, please let us know. We'll send them your way. But you're going to host today's game and you did tell us there's a secret theme. Can you announce that to the listeners?

[Joel]

Yeah, it's. Well, it's not a secret theme,

[Jeff]

as

[Joel]

I told you what it was already.

[Neil]

Maybe the listeners don't get it. Then it's a secret.

[Joel]

But as I was telling you previously, my questions have been a little difficult. The answers be very hard. So I wanted to make it a little easier. And since I'm bad at giving clues in the categories, I did a 26 question, alphabetical answers. So the first answer will begin with A, the last answer will begin with Z, and so on.

[Neil]

Okay. All right, so we know what we're striving for here. And this is pub triviality. So we're going to keep score here. See if you can beat us. 10 points per question, possible 250 points. Well, in this game, 260 points and we'll see how we do. So feel free to take it away, Joel.

[Joel]

All righty. Okay, so Question number one is the letter A? I'm going to pull up my phone here, and just like my. My games when I used to host, the first round's usually a little easier. All right, so games is the category. Here's the question. The bad piggies are the enemies of what computer game characters? The bad.

[Julie]

I know.

[Neil]

Oh, you know what, Julie? Yeah, take it.

[Julie]

It's Angry Birds.

[Neil]

Ooh, is it Angry Birds? Oh, yeah, that's right. A.

[Jeff]

Of course.

[Joel]

Angry Birds is correct. Very good.

[Neil]

Do you know why I'm angry at Angry Birds?

[Joel]

Why are you angry at Angry Birds?

[Jeff]

You have ornithophobia.

[Neil]

No, but thank you for saying that because that's great for trivia listeners if they meet for a trivia night. No, because one of my favorite movies that came out in the last 10 years was angry Birds was the Nice Guys with Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe. And they say the reason they never got their sequel, which deserved a sequel, was because Angry Birds beat them really bad at the box office. So there you go.

[Joel]

That's a shame.

[Jeff]

Kids movies. Kids movies do well.

[Matt]

They do. Yeah.

[Joel]

That's a shame. All right, question number two in sports for Matt. In 1985, who became the youngest winner of the men's singles at Wimbledon?

[Neil]

I probably know this one.

[Joel]

And I will say with. With names. It's the Jeff. The Jeopardy. Thing in that the last name is the. The letter, not the first name.

[Neil]

Well, Julie, are you a big tennis person?

[Julie]

No.

[Neil]

Okay.

[Julie]

No.

[Jeff]

Is this. Is this actually doesn't matter. And the first name and the last name have the same letter.

[Neil]

That's what I'm thinking.

[Joel]

Two Bs, two names that both start and. And B that are tennis players. So.

[Neil]

And this was 1985.

[Matt]

It's got to be Black and Decker, Prime.

[Neil]

Bjorn Bjorg.

[Matt]

Bjorn Borg.

[Jeff]

No, not Boris Becker or Boris becker.

[Neil]

Both double B's. Was Bjorn. Late 70s.

[Matt]

Yes.

[Neil]

Okay, so we're looking at Boris. I think it's Boris Becker, the monster mash man. Okay.

[Joel]

Is that your answer? Yeah, you should always go with Matt when you have a sports question. Come on, guys. Boris Becker. All right, question number three in geography. Table Mountain overlooks what African city?

[Matt]

Oh, yeah, no, Table Mountain.

[Neil]

Table Cable Mountain.

[Joel]

As in your kitchen table.

[Neil]

Yeah, that's why I said Table Mountain, Matt.

[Joel]

Table Mountain. Cable Mountain overlooks an African city.

[Jeff]

The villain.

[Matt]

I know the mountain from Game of Thrones.

[Neil]

Julie, are you okay with African geography at all?

[Julie]

Not especially. The only thing I thought of just now was Cairo.

[Matt]

Oh, not a lot of mountains in Cairo, though.

[Julie]

I know. That's why I went.

[Neil]

I've never been to Cairo. Anyone here ever been to Cairo?

[Jeff]

Is this Cape Town?

[Neil]

Oh, South Africa.

[Julie]

That would be good. Yeah.

[Matt]

A little mountainous.

[Neil]

I was doing some research and it does. Because the Final Reckoning, Mission Impossible film, they fly a ton through South Africa because the stunt coordinator, Wade Eastwood is South African. And maybe I do remember something about a table mountain. That's a good guess. Yeah, I can't.

[Jeff]

English speaking population.

[Neil]

Yeah, right. Oh, yeah, that's right. So it wouldn't be something.

[Julie]

Yeah, yeah. I was. I was. I was trying to think of anything in South Africa that started with the sea because I know that they have mountains there. So Cape Town sounds good to me.

[Neil]

Yeah, let's do it.

[Joel]

Cape Town sounds good to me also. That is the answer. Question number four, cartoons.

[Neil]

Can I be frank really quick with you, Joel?

[Joel]

And I thought you were Neil.

[Neil]

I am, thank you. I'm going to be honest with the listeners here as a trivia player, Obviously we're playing on a team here. Every single question. I've forgotten that there's an ABC when you're like, cape Town. And Julie was like, oh, it's a C. I was like, oh, that's right.

[Joel]

Yes, the C. I do that every time there's a theme. I never remember themes.

[Matt]

Y.

[Joel]

All right, cartoons. Mutley the dog is the sidekick of what accident prone cartoon character? Julie, you're in my generation. Maybe you remember this one.

[Julie]

I remember Mutley. Oh my gosh.

[Matt]

Now you have to think of. Dude, Mudley's evil, right?

[Jeff]

I can think of an accident prone. Yeah, D name.

[Matt]

Was he dastardly?

[Julie]

Yeah, see, Dastardly was all I was thinking of too.

[Matt]

What are you thinking, Jeff?

[Jeff]

Is this Dudley Do Right?

[Neil]

Oh, oh, that's a famous comic strip, right? Oh, no, that's Dudley Do Right's or

[Jeff]

not Dudley Do Right.

[Matt]

You're thinking of Dr. D. Mento.

[Jeff]

I'm not thinking of Dr. Demento, although I love Dr. Demento.

[Neil]

What's the name of the character? Genjel.

[Joel]

Not the dog.

[Matt]

He's the one that goes.

[Julie]

Yeah, that's the one.

[Matt]

Yeah. That's all I know about him.

[Neil]

Oh, he's the one that does that weird laugh.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Neil]

What was the show that he was on with the. The evil villain where they race cars?

[Matt]

It was Wacky Races.

[Neil]

Okay, but he was on that.

[Matt]

He's there. Wacky Races.

[Julie]

It was Wacky Race Olympics is what I remembered.

[Neil]

Laugh Olympics. Yeah.

[Matt]

Wacky Races was like the Avengers team up of the of all of Hanna Barbera. Yeah.

[Neil]

What's the name of the. The sheriff who's a dog?

[Julie]

Deputy Dog.

[Neil]

Deputy Dog. Is it Deputy Dog?

[Matt]

I like that because I think they're

[Neil]

in the same league. It's Hanna Barbera, I think.

[Matt]

Universe, you want to go Deputy Dog? Does that sound good?

[Julie]

I'm not convinced, but I don't have anything better.

[Matt]

Okay, well, they're both animals because I

[Neil]

used to watch that show when I was a kid, and I just know that they're in that Hanna Barbera because Deputy Dog, I think also was in that racing show. I don't know. It's up to you guys.

[Matt]

Go, Deputy Dog.

[Joel]

You should have went with Dastardly. It is Dick Dastardly.

[Julie]

Oh, dang it.

[Neil]

Who's Dick Dastardly?

[Joel]

He was the.

[Julie]

He hung out with Mutley guy with the mustache.

[Neil]

Oh, he was the guy in the races with the evil mustache.

[Julie]

Yeah.

[Neil]

Yeah. Oh, okay.

[Jeff]

All right.

[Matt]

It would have said Jeopardy. Rules for Dastardly. We would have got.

[Julie]

Right.

[Joel]

I was going to jump in.

[Jeff]

I had the name Dick Dancer thing in my head, but I thought that was made up.

[Joel]

I was going to give you the answer. And then somebody mentioned Dudley Do. Right. And I said, well, let him. Let him talk it out.

[Matt]

Hey, thanks for that. Joel.

[Joel]

Question number five in religion, in the Hebrew Bible, who is the oldest son of Isaac? Who is the older son of Isaac or Elder?

[Matt]

Please tell me you didn't just do the Alphabet.

[Julie]

I do know it. It's Esau.

[Joel]

Esau. Correct. Yeah. E, S, A, U, E, S, A, U. Yeah, Esau. And that's five. So I think you got four out of five. If I'm not correct, your.

[Neil]

Your scoring is correct. If we would have went with Dick Dastardly, we would. Had a perfect five. But yep, four out of five.

[Joel]

So 40 points and somebody said Dastardly. I don't know which one.

[Julie]

No, I know, but you didn't stop, man.

[Joel]

Richard and Jeff, I think Jeff, does he do right?

[Matt]

Yeah, you're right. It is Jeff's fault.

[Julie]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

But he did get like a satchel of Richards.

[Joel]

But he got so, you know, like, you know. All right, question number six. Automobiles, the Panda and the Punto are car models produced by what Italian car company?

[Jeff]

Got it. I. I knew it. Just from Panda. You could have just said panda is a car. By what company?

[Matt]

You love Panda.

[Jeff]

I wouldn't need the letter. I wouldn't need nothing. I love the Panda.

[Matt]

Yeah, yeah. Can you afford a Panda?

[Jeff]

Oh, yeah. They're like the cheap one of the cheapest cars they make.

[Neil]

Is this the. The brand of car that you want to have?

[Jeff]

No, no, but this is another Italian car manufacturer. I wouldn't mind having one, honestly. Like a little 500.

[Matt]

But which one is it?

[Jeff]

This is Fiat.

[Neil]

You told me you wanted a Fiat 500.

[Jeff]

I do want one. I was thinking about getting an electric one.

[Neil]

You lie to me when I say I know you want a Fiat 500.

[Jeff]

Well, not as much as I want a Ferrari,

[Joel]

but the answer is Fiat.

[Jeff]

Wealth is wasted on rich people.

[Joel]

Right, question seven. In literature, Brighton Rock and Our man in Havana are novels by what British authority?

[Ad Host 1]

Hmm.

[Matt]

A British author whose last name probably starts with G. What gives you that idea?

[Joel]

I guarantee it does.

[Matt]

Can you think of any. Anybody?

[Jeff]

Neil loves British things.

[Matt]

Yeah. Like books. You have books, right?

[Neil]

Yeah. What were the titles again?

[Joel]

Brighton Rock and Our man and Havana.

[Matt]

Our man in Havana.

[Jeff]

That's famous.

[Matt]

He's the Our man. Or is he our man?

[Joel]

Our man.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Jeff]

We have a Man in Havana.

[Matt]

The R man.

[Jeff]

Just start throwing up. British authors, Neil, to kind of cleanse the palette. Right. Who wrote the James Bond series?

[Neil]

Ian Fleming.

[Jeff]

Okay.

[Julie]

All I can think of is Graham Green.

[Neil]

Oh, yeah, that's good.

[Jeff]

Graham Greenrow was not Watership Down.

[Julie]

He wrote the End of the Affair.

[Neil]

That might be good. Yeah. Graham Greene. I was thinking of G.K. chesterton was the one I was trying to pull,

[Matt]

but that's not G. Two GS there, too.

[Joel]

I would say go with Julie. I would say go with Julie on this one.

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Are you sure you don't want to let Jeff say some more stuff?

[Neil]

Yeah, let's go with Graham Green.

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Joel]

Not all the people are alliterative. It just happens to be that way. So far, question number H. History. Which English king was killed at the Battle of Hastings? And a million points if you get the regnal number.

[Neil]

Yeah, well, it's definitely a Henry.

[Matt]

Yeah, there's a couple of them.

[Neil]

And Henry V is the Kenneth Branagh movie from Shakespeare where he's got chainmail on and he goes. What's the. The famous quote from Shakespeare? It's, gentlemen, lend me your ears.

[Matt]

Yeah. Do not go silently into that good night.

[Neil]

Is that Henry V?

[Matt]

No, not Shakespeare. Is it Independence Day?

[Joel]

Yeah,

[Neil]

it's either Henry IV or Henry V. I think it's Henry V. Is that.

[Matt]

Who are you? Are you giving an answer? You're just trying to solve your own question.

[Neil]

I'm just trying to, like. Yeah, say it out loud.

[Matt]

You wrote your own question. Okay. Which Henry do we think it is?

[Jeff]

I think we're going Henry, and then you wanted to guess Henry 5. Neil.

[Neil]

Henry v. Yeah. Oh, well, actually, maybe that's the wrong battle.

[Matt]

Oh, boy.

[Neil]

We're probably off Joel's. Joel's looking at us that we're off. Maybe it's King Harold.

[Matt]

Oh, yeah. Henry might be a red hair. A red Henry hearing a red Henring.

[Neil]

Do you have anything, Julie?

[Julie]

I think it's a Henry, but I don't know which one.

[Matt]

We're going King Hank. The old.

[Jeff]

Wait, was Battle of Hastings, 1066.

[Neil]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

Was this the one of Richard? Not Richard the Lionheart. Who's the one who invaded the Norman invasion?

[Julie]

That's William the Conqueror.

[Jeff]

William the Conqueror. That would be King Harold, then.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Neil]

All right.

[Jeff]

Because I think Harold was the last of the pre.

[Matt]

Which number Harold is he.

[Jeff]

He would just. I don't know.

[Julie]

It's Harold, the last one.

[Matt]

All right.

[Joel]

It was the sequel to the first Herald. It was Herald 2. I heard. I heard it from Matt. So Harold 2 is the answer.

[Matt]

Yeah. Three points.

[Joel]

Question number nine, geography. Basra is a port city. In what country?

[Matt]

Starts with an.

[Neil]

With an I? Indonesia.

[Jeff]

I sounded Indian right when I heard it, but I could be.

[Neil]

Oh, India. Yeah.

[Jeff]

Oh, wait, how do you spell it?

[Joel]

S, R, A, B, A, S, R, A. Basra. It's a port city. In what country?

[Jeff]

That could be Iran.

[Neil]

Oh, okay.

[Jeff]

That sounds. That sounds. Although they don't. They speak Farsi there, right?

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

There's not a lot of port cities in Iraq.

[Matt]

Not Iceland, because that's what Kuwait's for.

[Jeff]

No, it's definitely not Iceland. Basra. I don't know. I'm leaning, like, possibly Iran now. I don't know.

[Matt]

Julie, you have any inroads to this?

[Julie]

I am not a geography girl, okay? I try to be, but that's like.

[Matt]

It feels like geography is something you can get good at, but I always choose not to.

[Jeff]

Yeah, I mean, Indonesia is not off the table, but I.

[Neil]

Well, yeah, you're the geography guy, so whatever you think.

[Matt]

Neil's gotten really good at being like, okay, whatever you want.

[Neil]

Because I. I just have no idea. I can't really add to this conversation. I just know I'm, like, flipping a

[Jeff]

coin between India and in Iran.

[Neil]

So India, Iran, Indonesia.

[Matt]

Okay, let's go. Let's go. India. It's a big country there, probably has lots of ports.

[Julie]

Yeah.

[Joel]

India, Iraq. Iraq.

[Neil]

Oh, we weren't even. I heard a lot in the right realm. Okay.

[Jeff]

I know Iraq.

[Joel]

A lot of this city, almost no coast. When you boys were little, Boys were little. There was a war in Iraq, and, you know, the city came up a lot.

[Julie]

Yes, they.

[Jeff]

Which one? There's been a couple of them since I was born.

[Joel]

All right, question number 10. What type of. Oh, it's fruit. By the way, what type of orange is named after an Israeli city? What type of orange?

[Matt]

We have different kinds of oranges now.

[Jeff]

I imagine if this is J and it's an Israeli city, there aren't many other J names through Jerusalem.

[Neil]

I can think of Jerusalem orange.

[Jeff]

Yeah. This is not a Naval orange, for sure.

[Julie]

That actually sounds.

[Jeff]

Not Orange Julius.

[Matt]

Sounds tasty, though.

[Jeff]

I had a Cara Cara orange the other day.

[Matt]

Oh, they're good.

[Neil]

Highly recommended.

[Matt]

They're very good.

[Jeff]

Very good.

[Julie]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

It's all I buy now.

[Neil]

What do you think, Julie? Jerusalem.

[Jeff]

I've changed my whole first name.

[Julie]

I've actually heard of Jerry's lamorange before.

[Neil]

Okay, you have? Okay. I've never heard that before, but, yeah, if you've heard it before, let's go with it.

[Julie]

I said, I think that that means it's true, but.

[Neil]

Well, it's Jeff. It'll be Jeff's sword if it's wrong.

[Julie]

That's right.

[Jeff]

There you go.

[Joel]

There is a Jerusalem artichoke, but it is a Jaffa.

[Julie]

Oh, that's what it was.

[Joel]

Jaffa orange.

[Jeff]

Would any of us have gotten there? I don't know if I feel bad about that.

[Neil]

I would. No, I was gonna bring it up for Jaffa Cakes because it has orange in it.

[Julie]

I just. As soon as he said Jaffa, I thought of Jaffa Cakes. I was like, oh, man.

[Neil]

But I didn't. I didn't want to say it because I was like, there's no way that's a city.

[Matt]

But I didn't want to help you by saying things. Okay. Yeah.

[Jeff]

Neil always just. I'm going to just hide my light here, let you all wander in the dark.

[Neil]

So we only picked up an extra 30 points.

[Jeff]

You forgot about the added disdain I have for you, Neil. I picked that up.

[Matt]

That brings us to 70 total.

[Neil]

70. Although I feel like we got D wrong. Didn't we get D wrong?

[Jeff]

Yes.

[Julie]

That was fantastically.

[Neil]

I think three wrong.

[Julie]

We said it, and then Jeff led us astray.

[Neil]

So we're at 70, as Matt said. So 70 points out of a possible 100. So not bad. It's what A C D?

[Jeff]

I mean, it depends on what grading system.

[Neil]

C minus. Okay, so we have time to get better here.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Neil]

Extra credit before we continue with Joel in our next round here. We just want to thank Julie and Joel for being patrons Oakland FI supporters on Patreon so you can go to patreon.com trivialitypodcast Help us as we figure out our equipment situation here. But as we said, if we're sounding better, let us know. Because then if we're sounding better, that's good to know. But we're gonna continue to work on it over here. But if you'd like to support the show, get extra content, hours and hours of bonus content, weekly content over at Patreon. Just go to patreon.com trivialitypodcast your summer

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[Neil]

All right, we are back. Joel, Feel free to continue.

[Joel]

All right, question number 11 and the letter K. How's your German music is the category what electronic music band has a name that means power station in German?

[Matt]

Power station in German.

[Julie]

Oh my gosh.

[Joel]

A electronic music band.

[Neil]

Okay.

[Matt]

What letter craft work.

[Neil]

Okay.

[Jeff]

Yeah, they're, they're electronic, not Kern Craft. That's one of the zombie nation.

[Neil]

What do you think, Julie?

[Julie]

I'm really hating myself right now because I used to be just about fluent in German and I don't remember squat now. Craft work sounds sounds good to Me.

[Neil]

But yeah, I mean, let's go for it.

[Jeff]

I think it's our best guess.

[Neil]

It's a real band.

[Joel]

Kraftwerk. Sounds good to me also. It is the answer. Well, actually, they don't sound good to me, but that is correct answer. Question number 12. Olympics. What US athlete won four gold medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics? This one's not alliterative.

[Matt]

Oh, you wrote different.

[Neil]

Was that. I don't know if he won metals, though. Did he?

[Matt]

Carl Luganis.

[Neil]

Greg.

[Matt]

Greg. I'm thinking Carl because I thought the answer was Carl Lewis.

[Neil]

No, he would have been too old. No, wait, no. Carl Lewis. I'm thinking of. Yeah, there was a Carl Lewis, who's the original guy that we're thinking of before Carl Lewis, who was, like, won all the medals, beat Hitler.

[Joel]

Jesse Owens.

[Neil]

Jesse Owens. Thank you. So we're thinking Carl Lewis.

[Jeff]

You're not even the right ballpark.

[Neil]

Yeah, I mean, both were fast runners and did, like, different events.

[Matt]

I thought Carl Lewis was the 80s.

[Neil]

No, no. Carl Lewis is the 80s. I think that's right. Julie, what do you think? Carl Lewis.

[Julie]

I think I remember that from back then.

[Neil]

I could see him on the Wheaties box. I think he was all over the place.

[Matt]

He won a lot of people, McDonald's stuff because they had a competition thing.

[Joel]

And it is Mr. Carl Lewis.

[Matt]

He made it seem like I was an idiot when I said that. You're like, Carl Lewis. He would have been dead by then.

[Neil]

Well, no, when I think of, like, great Olymp against, I think, Jesse Owens, Carl Lewis and Flo. Flo Jo. And I'm like. I was trying to remember which one beat Hitler and which one.

[Jeff]

Those are just runners.

[Neil]

Well, yeah, I like. I like track and Field.

[Matt]

In 1980, Carlos could have beat Hitler. Still, I think.

[Neil]

I think he could have.

[Jeff]

I could take him right now.

[Joel]

Hitler would have been 150 years old in 1980. I'm pretty sure anybody could have been

[Jeff]

still alive and living in Argentina.

[Neil]

Right.

[Joel]

Question number whatever. 13. Geography. Ulan Batar is the capital of what country?

[Jeff]

I would have known that without the. The clue.

[Matt]

Really?

[Joel]

Well, some of these are easier than others.

[Matt]

Have you been.

[Jeff]

No, I would like to go because, as you know, I don't like people, and this is the least densely populated country on Earth.

[Neil]

Julie, how do you feel about. How do you feel about Ulanbaatar?

[Julie]

I think it's in Mongolia.

[Jeff]

I think she's right.

[Joel]

I think it's in Mongolia, and I agree. Good barbecue beef there.

[Julie]

Yeah.

[Joel]

Question number 14. Movies who played Colt in the film Way of the Dragon? Colt. C O L T. Like a horse.

[Matt]

All right, so we're looking for who played Colt in the Last Dragon.

[Neil]

No, the Way of the Dragon.

[Matt]

The Way of the Dragon. Neil, what is it?

[Neil]

So this is the. This is the famous fight between Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris where there. There's a cat. It's like a Western, and he, like, rips his chest hair off. Yeah, Chuck Norris.

[Joel]

Got it.

[Jeff]

Chuck Norris.

[Joel]

The recently deceased Chuck Norris?

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Joel]

I figured I'd throw him in here just for the fun of it. If he was here, he would have beaten you all.

[Jeff]

Yeah, very much.

[Neil]

Even at his age now, probably.

[Jeff]

Yeah, well, not even more of it.

[Matt]

No, I still think he's got a chance.

[Jeff]

Even death can't take Chuck Norris.

[Joel]

Transportation. What is the second largest airport serving Paris, France?

[Matt]

Oh, wow.

[Neil]

Well, we know De Gaulle is number one.

[Matt]

We know that.

[Jeff]

We do know that.

[Matt]

Yeah, we all know that, obviously.

[Neil]

Julie, do you know any French airports?

[Julie]

I have never been to France.

[Matt]

Do they have an o' Hare there, too? No.

[Jeff]

Neil is the only one in this room who's been to France.

[Neil]

That's true.

[Jeff]

It's a great comedy of air.

[Neil]

Sorry, our headphones. We're sharing. Remember? We're sharing earbuds everywhere. They're popping out.

[Matt]

I said earlier, we're lady in the tramping these headphones and it's not going well.

[Neil]

A little behind the scenes. I'm trying to think the other airport. I mean, I know all of London's airports. I'm trying to think of.

[Jeff]

Oh, something O'Reilly. Oh, oh, it wouldn't be pronounced. It'd be pronounced ooh.

[Neil]

Right, because it's French oeuvre.

[Matt]

Oh, the oeuvre.

[Jeff]

I've been to the oeuvre.

[Neil]

And the question is just what's the second airport in France?

[Jeff]

Paris. In Paris. Yeah.

[Neil]

Oh, it's probably after another famous person or something.

[Matt]

I don't think we know this one.

[Neil]

Yeah. Julie, anything where we have to tap,

[Matt]

I'm gonna have to pass the wee wee. I know.

[Joel]

Okay. Sorry about that. It is Orly O R L Y.

[Neil]

Okay.

[Jeff]

It's not your fault of steel story about it.

[Joel]

I thought maybe somebody might guess that be more.

[Neil]

Well, you could have done. Question 4. What's the name of the big train station right there that connects the Channel?

[Joel]

Oh, yeah. What is the airport in Chicago? And then you guys wouldn't have known it.

[Julie]

Yeah, even I would have known that.

[Neil]

I've gone through historically, though, anytime someone asks us a Chicago question, we don't know.

[Matt]

We're very bad at it.

[Neil]

So for some reason.

[Matt]

But o' Hare we would have got.

[Neil]

Yeah, o' Hare we would have got. But speaking of five questions, we. We would have been perfect again, but we have that one wrong. So we picked up another 40 points. So. Yeah. Matt, can we add 70 and 40 together?

[Jeff]

Yeah. It's 1 10th.

[Neil]

1 10. I knew you would know.

[Jeff]

It's not roughly.

[Matt]

It is. It's roughly 110. Because that last question was rough.

[Julie]

It's been rough getting here.

[Joel]

Question number 16 in politics, who served as secretary of state between 2001 and 2005?

[Jeff]

Yep.

[Neil]

Yeah. I mean, that would. Let's see. We're going Secretary of State.

[Matt]

Mm.

[Jeff]

I knew this.

[Neil]

That would have been W. Right, yeah.

[Jeff]

Yep.

[Neil]

Not Condoleezza was Condoleezza.

[Jeff]

Pisa was his.

[Neil]

What was Condoleezza?

[Jeff]

I don't remember her cabinet position out for some reason.

[Matt]

Secretary of State. Right.

[Neil]

I thought it was too, but no,

[Jeff]

she might have been later.

[Neil]

Later.

[Matt]

After Colin Powell.

[Neil]

We're talking about Colin Powell.

[Joel]

Yes, and Colin Powell's the answer. Condoleezza was the NSA director. Dory Powell's.

[Jeff]

And then became State.

[Joel]

And then she moved to Secretary of State when he left second term. Yeah.

[Neil]

When he had to admit he did not find WMDs.

[Jeff]

Oh, we still haven't admitted that.

[Neil]

All right, maybe he hasn't admitted it,

[Joel]

but question number 17. Literature. Again, any Harry Potter stands out there? Who is the two faced antagonist of Harry Potter and the philosopher or Sorcerer's Stone?

[Julie]

Yes, this is what I've got.

[Neil]

Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. Julie, what is it?

[Julie]

Because back before you could make money doing podcast, I had a Harry Potter podcast. Yeah, don't worry.

[Jeff]

Unless you're famous, you really still can't make money podcasts.

[Julie]

Yeah, but nobody did make money back then. We started in like 2007.

[Matt]

Wow.

[Julie]

It was Professor Quirrell.

[Joel]

Oh, Uranus Quirrell is correct.

[Julie]

Yep.

[Matt]

See, I would have said Johnny Quidditch.

[Neil]

So you haven't Johnny Quidditch yet. You haven't been recording any. Any of the Harry Potter podcasts, huh?

[Julie]

Not in a long time.

[Neil]

You might have to bring it back now. You do a companion piece for the TV series coming out.

[Julie]

No, no, no, no.

[Jeff]

That ship kind of sailed.

[Julie]

The author is no longer someone I aspire to have anything to do with.

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Neil]

So then you could just leave it as a past thing then.

[Julie]

Yeah, it's in the past. We'll leave it there.

[Neil]

One and done. Yeah.

[Joel]

Question number 18 in sports again in 2026. In early 2026. The Florida Attorney General insisted the NFL suspend what rule requiring teams interview one or more diverse candidates before hiring. What is the name of the.

[Matt]

Screwed on this one.

[Neil]

We got really screwed on this rule.

[Matt]

We should get. We should have two third round picks for Ian Cunningham. Yeah.

[Neil]

And they're saying Ian Cunningham isn't the gm.

[Matt]

I guess Matt Ryan's there.

[Neil]

Matt Ryan said I'm not making decisions.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Neil]

Then they hire an assistant GM who reports to Ian Cunningham, which would make him the gm.

[Matt]

Yeah. Doesn't make any sense. And we follow the Rooney rule to the T and they don't give us any draft picks.

[Neil]

No respect.

[Matt]

Yeah. Rooney.

[Neil]

Welcome to our Bears podcast.

[Joel]

I'm assuming named after the owner of the Steelers. Question number 19.

[Julie]

More.

[Matt]

Soccer player. Wayne Rooney.

[Jeff]

No, not soccer player or actor.

[Joel]

Mickey Rooney. I don't know.

[Neil]

Are you a football fan? I know you said you're a Gamecocks fan, but are you a football fan?

[Julie]

I'm not super into NFL, but if I were, if I do pull for an NFL team, it's Steelers. Because when I was a kid, I got to meet Donnie Shell, and he was just like the super nicest guy and.

[Neil]

Oh, that's cool.

[Joel]

Yeah.

[Neil]

Two weeks in a row with Steelers fans and.

[Joel]

And I'm a New York Giants fan, so I'm. I'm used to losing.

[Matt]

All right, question number 19. Like. Oh, sorry.

[Joel]

Hopefully this year we'll do better. What is the Swahili word?

[Julie]

That's what we say about the Gamecocks.

[Joel]

What is the Swahili word for lion?

[Jeff]

I'll take that one.

[Matt]

Is it Simba?

[Jeff]

It is. Okay, I was wondering if anyone's gonna take a guess. Yeah, I believe it's Simba.

[Joel]

Simba as in the Disney cartoon. Question number 20. In music, Gary Barlow and Robbie Williams were members of what British Boy.

[Matt]

You know this one, Neil?

[Neil]

I do know this one.

[Jeff]

You've heard of this, Neil?

[Neil]

Yeah. I want to see what everyone else thinks, though. But yes, it is a British. British boy band. Robbie Williams, left, just had a movie about him where he played a monkey. Well, he didn't play, I guess. Well, he represent a monkey. Represented him an ape?

[Matt]

Yeah, in the film. God. What is it? I and I. And I used to know this and

[Neil]

I was going to tell you. I got to remember the title of my favorite song. And I'll see. But yeah. Does anyone know this one?

[Julie]

That

[Neil]

Julia's correct. Take that. What's the best rule the world? No, that was never forget. I'm trying to remember them. Could it be Magic Anyway, yes. Very popular British boy band. Take that with Robbie Williams. He's got some crazy stories. If you ever see him on, like Graham Norton. He's a wild dude.

[Matt]

They really tried him, tried to make him a thing in America for a while. It just didn't really take.

[Neil]

Yeah, it didn't. Not like the Spice Girls or Elton John or anything. You're kind of a forgotten boy band unless you're British. But very good.

[Matt]

He had a music video where he took his skin off and then he was like a singing skeleton. Yeah, weird stuff.

[Neil]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

Are you solo work, though? That wasn't Take that.

[Matt]

Yeah, that was later.

[Neil]

Are you a Take that fan, Julie, or just knew it.

[Julie]

I didn't hear of it. Hear them back in the day, but now I know them. And I had a friend in Germany who had like sent me a bunch of his solo music. So that's. I knew Robbie Williams.

[Neil]

It's funny about Germany, actually. A lot of boy bands start. And where they used to in the 90s, they would start in Germany because it was such a rabid fan base. And so NSync, Backstreet Boys. Take that. They would all have German legs of their tours.

[Jeff]

Weird.

[Neil]

Figure out, you know, what they were good at because there's unseen NSYNC videos you can find on YouTube of them in Germany when they're really young. Crazy outfits before, like they became American.

[Matt]

And yeah, it was in the Lou Perlman doc that I watched.

[Neil]

Yeah, Lou Perlman took them all to Germany. All right, we just finished question 20 with take that. We had five right in a row from six through 10, which is going to bring our total to 160 going into the final five questions.

[Matt]

Final six questions.

[Neil]

Final six questions. Before we do that, just one more shout out to Patreon. If you'd like to join Julia and Joel and all of our other wonderful patrons, you can go to patreon.com trivialitypodcast get access to all of our newest episodes ad free for as little as $5 a month along with weekly bonus episodes. Go to patreon.com trivialitypodcast what they did to your family. You're lucky to make it out alive. Streaming on Peacock.

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All right, Joel, we are ready for the final five.

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[Joel]

Question number 21. In geography, it is also known as Ayers Rock and located in Australia's Northern territory. What is the world's largest monolith called?

[Jeff]

Did you ever have the privilege of seeing this, Neil?

[Neil]

I don't think so.

[Jeff]

I didn't get out to the outback either.

[Neil]

No, I didn't get into the bush or the outback or.

[Jeff]

I don't believe you're allowed to climb it anymore.

[Joel]

Right in the middle of the country, I believe.

[Julie]

Yeah.

[Neil]

Julia, do you know this one?

[Julie]

I know it, and I want to go there so badly. It's Uuru.

[Joel]

Oh, Uhuru. Yeah. I initially typed Uhuru, but, see, I

[Julie]

always have to stop myself and then go, no, I'm thinking about Uhura.

[Neil]

Yeah, that's Star Trek.

[Joel]

All right, question number V. Question Number V. Question 22. In sports, again, from the French for bicycle, what name is given to a cycling arena?

[Neil]

Oh, is this one of those arenas where it's like a kind of like a dome, where it's that kind of like the.

[Jeff]

The crack is, like, on a curve, like, up the wall.

[Neil]

Yeah. It makes me think of Breaking Away, which is a great movie about bicycling.

[Joel]

Excellent movie.

[Jeff]

I know the formation that they're in when they ride is called a peloton.

[Neil]

Oh, that's where the name comes from. Okay. Julie, do you know this?

[Julie]

No.

[Neil]

No. So what's, what's the arena called?

[Jeff]

I believe this is a velodrome.

[Neil]

Oh, that sounds right.

[Joel]

Yeah, a velodrome is correct.

[Neil]

So not to be confused with Videodrome starring.

[Jeff]

Correct.

[Julie]

I remember seeing that movie.

[Jeff]

No. Jim Woods.

[Neil]

Yep.

[Joel]

All right, question number 23. In politics, one of Ronald Reagan's most controversial appointments. What? Anti environmentalist. Served as Secretary of the interior from 1981 to 1983.

[Neil]

Is this the dude with the big mustache or. No, maybe I'm thinking of the.

[Joel]

I don't recall a mustache.

[Neil]

So then maybe you can tell me who was the guy in the 80s? I think he was like, the surgeon General, but he looked like a cowboy.

[Joel]

Are you thinking of C. Edward C. Everett Coop?

[Neil]

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking of. C. Everett Coop.

[Joel]

He didn't have a mustache, actually. I don't think he had a mustache at all. He had weird facial hair, though.

[Julie]

He had, he had, like, the chin strap thing.

[Neil]

Okay, that's what I'm thinking of.

[Julie]

He had the Amish one. Is it. This is the guy that wouldn't let the Beach Boys play, right? Yeah. All I can think is Watts, and I don't know that I'm right.

[Matt]

Oh, someone who's Anti Beach Boy. That's upsetting.

[Neil]

That's rare. Anti Beach Boy. It starts with a W or ends with a W. Begins.

[Joel]

Yeah, the last name begins with a

[Matt]

W. Yeah, you said Watson.

[Julie]

I thought Watts, but I don't know that I'm right.

[Matt]

Maybe it was his son.

[Julie]

I, I have very little faith in my answer.

[Neil]

It's better than anything we'll come up with because we're not too good on 1980s.

[Julie]

Go ahead and say you're not as old as Joel and I are. That's fine.

[Neil]

Well, no, I mean, literally, we're supposed to study this stuff. We don't. I, I, I'm just not good at it.

[Joel]

You guys don't have grandkids yet, so.

[Jeff]

Well, we don't even have kids yet.

[Matt]

This happens when we have the 20 year olds on our show. We're like, okay, Grandpa, so we get it.

[Julie]

Yeah.

[Neil]

Let's just go with Watts. Why not?

[Joel]

I think I'll give it to you. It's a singular watt. It is James Watts.

[Neil]

Oh, yeah. Julie. Julie gets all the points on that one. You got to give her that one.

[Joel]

Yeah. All right, let's see. You guys probably will be young enough to know this one. Or old enough, depending on whose perspective in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

[Jeff]

There you go.

[Joel]

What was the first name of the character? Played by Nicholas Brendan.

[Matt]

I always thought it started with a Z.

[Julie]

No, it's Xander with an X. Julie.

[Neil]

Joel, while you popped out for a second, Julie was talking to us about being a huge fan of Buffy. And we were talking about psych and other things, but Julie knew it. Yeah.

[Julie]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joel]

I think he just recently died, too, didn't he?

[Julie]

He did, too. Yeah. A few weeks ago. Yeah. As funny as I wouldn't watch the series when it came on because I'd seen the movie and it was just so ridiculous. I was like, I'm not gonna do that. Then my son's like, mom, you gotta watch it. And a friend of mine was like, just hold on for season two. You'll get Spike. And I'm like, I got to Spike. I was like, yeah, this is worth the wait.

[Joel]

Yeah, I never really watch. I saw the movie version, but not the film, the TV series. Question number 25. And plants often found in church graveyards. What trees belong to the Taxus genus? The genus taxis.

[Matt]

It's a Y tree.

[Neil]

A Y tree.

[Julie]

I know what it is.

[Neil]

Oh, you do? Wait, what is it?

[Julie]

But you know how we talked about Harry Potter earlier?

[Neil]

Yep.

[Jeff]

This is a U.

[Julie]

It's a U.

[Joel]

It's not a me tree. It's a U tree.

[Julie]

And that's what Voldemort Swan was made from.

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Neil]

Oh, you're saving our butts here.

[Jeff]

Not to be confused with a. A female sheep, also known as a U. That's spelled E. W, E. Yeah.

[Neil]

Okay.

[Joel]

And our final question for money, literally meaning golden, what is the currency of Poland?

[Matt]

Neil's specialty.

[Joel]

That's why I made this the final question. On international currency.

[Neil]

I'll have to think about it for a second. Yeah.

[Jeff]

Do you remember that one time, for, like, one day, you tried to study international currency?

[Neil]

That's what it was. Really? It was a couple hours. I'm trying to remember one of the. I used to sing all the currencies like. Yeah, I would be like Santa Monica. Bonivar. Bonivar.

[Jeff]

The Bolivar.

[Neil]

Bolivar was one. Yes. For Bolivia.

[Matt]

Rubles.

[Jeff]

I believe they use it elsewhere.

[Joel]

But this one begins with a Z. End of the song.

[Neil]

If it's Exultan. Zolter.

[Jeff]

Emil. Zola.

[Matt]

Zola.

[Jeff]

Oh, no.

[Matt]

A little bouncy guy.

[Jeff]

I'll take it, though.

[Neil]

Zola.

[Matt]

I'll take it.

[Neil]

Zr, Z, R, Y X. Sultan makes you big. That's right. I cannot remember for life.

[Matt]

Is it Zephyr?

[Jeff]

I don't think so.

[Matt]

It's a blimp.

[Jeff]

Zephyr's. Yeah. Like a type of fly.

[Neil]

A Zephyr is. Is the blimp. Yeah.

[Jeff]

Zeppelin's like a blimp. The Zephyr is more of, like a light aircraft.

[Julie]

Zephyr is. Yeah. And it's also a type of wind.

[Matt]

Red hot chili pepper sound.

[Neil]

Do you know this one, Julie, at all, or.

[Julie]

No, no, no.

[Matt]

You gonna get there?

[Neil]

I'm probably not gonna get there.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Jeff]

You're a disappointment, Neil.

[Neil]

I know, I know. It ends in a. Yeah, it's a Zelda. It ends in a Y. Can we get points?

[Joel]

You're absolutely right. I'll give you a tenth of a point for that.

[Neil]

Okay. Or.

[Joel]

Or let's say a fifth one.

[Jeff]

One hundredth of a point.

[Joel]

Five. What? I'll give you 20. Because it's a five letter word. It says Zoloti, Z, L, O, T, Y.

[Jeff]

No, I'm not giving Neil anything for that.

[Matt]

That's a lot. Well, we knew it started with Z.

[Neil]

So we had the beginning, we had the end.

[Julie]

Correct?

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Joel]

I apologize to the Polish people.

[Jeff]

Everything in the middle is the thing that makes it good. Otherwise, it's just bread.

[Matt]

To be fair, being from Chicago, we should know Polish currency.

[Neil]

We should. We have the biggest population outside of Warsaw.

[Joel]

Then I would know Indian population.

[Jeff]

What is that? Of Polish speakers. Right.

[Matt]

Yes.

[Neil]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, actually, you know what? It's okay. We took a punt on that one because there were six questions in the final round and we just looked at one. We skipped it. So we got perfect five.

[Jeff]

Perfect five for six.

[Neil]

That's right. So here's our final score. So, out of 260, we're gonna end the game with. 210.

[Jeff]

Nice. That's very good. That was better than I thought we did.

[Neil]

Julie Saved our butts many, many times.

[Jeff]

That's true.

[Neil]

And, Julie, speaking of that, any shout outs? Anything you'd like to say before we let you go today? Because you really helped us out.

[Julie]

Well, I am, according to my mother, a fountain of useless information. So I'm glad it, you know, came. Came in handy.

[Jeff]

Found your use.

[Joel]

Definitely.

[Julie]

But the two things that are kind of closest to my heart. My dad has dementia. And so if you can, you know, do anything, not just necessarily giving to the Alzheimer's association, but getting involved with, you know, with groups in your area that help out people who have dementia and their family members and people who love them, because there's a reason it's called the long goodbye, and it's really hard. And then the other one, my oldest brother has Parkinson's disease, so also the same thing. If you can help out with a Parkinson's foundation or groups in your area that you can help them out. That's. That's what I asked for.

[Jeff]

I don't know if you've all seen Shrinking the Apple TV show.

[Neil]

No. Yes. Yeah.

[Jeff]

Yeah. So I have the same sentiments towards Parkinson's and dementia as Harrison Ford's character.

[Neil]

Yeah. Well, thank you for saying that, Julie. And if you have someone in your life that is afflicted with those conditions, or you can give to charity or small groups. My uncle used to have a group. He has Parkinson's and it was called Find a Cure with the Michael J. Fox foundation. But they're no longer with them. But, yeah, definitely reach out to someone and help out. And you can always use extra help. So thank you, Julie, for being our teammate, too, and saving our butts and getting us to 210 out of 260, which I don't think we would have gotten there by ourselves, but the only way we got there was the questions. So thank you, Joel, for those great questions. Any shout outs? Anything you'd like to say before we let you go today?

[Joel]

Just, you know, with everything that's going on in our world and country to, you know, get out there, stand up for what you believe, give to charities when you can, and remember to vote.

[Neil]

Well said. Well, thank you, Joel. Thank you, Julie. One more thank you to Airwave Media, our network. You can go to airwavemedia.com, check out some cool podcasts, like all the books. Answer for It, A podcast for smart people and Ben Franklin's world. So check out Airwave. But for Ken, who isn't here, Julie, Joel, Jeff, and Matt. My name is Neil and we'll see you again next week. Maybe with a fixed system, we'll never know. Trivial.

[Matt]

Foreign.

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