Loading summary
Transcript1 lines
- [00:01]
A
Hey smarty pants, quick question. Would it be cool to slice flying fruit out of the air like a ninja? I'm hearing a lot of yeses. Well, last weekend I was actually doing it in my living room. Just me chopping watermelons and pineapples out of mid air while my dinner was bubbling on the stove. How NEX Playground NEX Playground is a kid focused game system where your body is the controller. No joystick, no buttons. The playground sees your moves and you're in the game. I've been CR Fruit Ninja and there's also Bluey and Ninja Turtles games and an Avatar Earth Rumble tournament where I got to bend rocks. Dance games, sports games, over 50 games. Once you add play, pass smarty parents, here's the part for you. Playground is built kid safe. No ads, no in app purchases, no mature content, no online chat with strangers. Just your smarty pants moving their body, having a blast, playing games that you can actually feel good about. It's the screen time solution that's also extra exercise, which means everyone wins. Check out next playground@nexplayground.com that's nexplayground.com Trust me, your living room is about to get a lot more interesting. Hey smarty pants. Welcome to Trusty Trivia Thursday. Today we're turning the pages and unlocking the secrets of the encyclopedias. Now, you may have heard me talking a lot about encyclopedias recently, including a fun episode where an encyclopedia helped me survive on a deserted island with no wi fi. Well, the reason encyclopedias are so near and dear to my heart is because I grew up using them to help me with schoolwork, class projects, and just reading on my own to learn lots of new and wonderful things. How do you think I became a trusty narrator? Which brings me to something else I'm super proud of. I, the trusty narrator, along with the who Smarted team, have created our own set of books, the Encyclopedia of Smarting. We want to do for you, the Smarty Pants, what my Encyclopedias did for me. To get your hands on the Encyclopedia of Smarting, head over to WhoSmarted.com and click Books. But just know time is of the essence. You only have until Monday, June 22nd to order this first edition set of books. So please visit whosmarted.com today. Thanks. Oh, by the way, the first three volumes are dinosaurs, fun foods and explosions. Each packed with fun facts, charts, maps, diagrams, games, tons of pictures and hand drawn illustrations. It's like who smarted for your eyes as well as your ears and so much more. Okay, before we begin the trivia, let's give a full volume shout out to Rachel, Johnny and Mom Lauren. Thanks for all your wonderful suggestions for show topics. Also, big thanks to Braden and his dad Chris in Geneva, Ohio for listening every night before bed. I'm so glad Braden is such a huge fan and loves all of the information that he's learned from you. And again, if you want to get a set of the WhoSmarted First Edition Hardcover encyclopedias to have in your home, your room, your car or your backpack, you're only a few days away from us shutting down the order system. So go to whosmarter.com with an adult and click Books to get yours. Okay, now it's time to dive brain first into our first question. Question 1 what is an encyclopedia? A A collection of facts and information organized for easy reference B A book filled with made up stories and fables C A secret code used by librarians. If you picked A, you got it. An encyclopedia is indeed a collection of facts and information organized so you can easily look things up and learn about the world. Question 2 what invention helped encyclopedias become available to many more people? Was it a the steam engine b the printing press, or c the telephone? If you picked B the printing press? You are right again. Before the printing press, books had to be copied by hand, every page, every word. Once printing arrived, encyclopedias could be made much faster and shared with far more people. Okay, you're building a library of knowledge, smartypants. And remember, if you want to build your own Library with the WhoSmarted Encyclopedia of Smarting Books, head to WhoSmarted.com and clickbooks with an adult before we stop taking orders on Monday. We'll be right back with more trusty trivia after this quick ad break and a word from our sponsors. Hey smarty, family picture. Seventh grade trustee at the kitchen table staring at a page of math homework that might as well have been written in Dragonese. I just didn't get it. My parents could afford a few sessions with a tutor and they went at my pace, but they could only help when they were there. Boy, do I wish IXL learning had existed back then. IXL is like a friendly tutor working at your pace and adjusting to your needs. IXL has pretty much every subject your kid studies with friendly explanations when they get stuck and fun celebrations when they get it right. Homeschool parents, this is especially for you. I know summer schedules are all over the place and 10 minutes here, here and there with IXL lets you keep the homeschool learning momentum going in a fun way. All summer long, over 15 million students use it, and it's backed by Real Research. Who's Smarted? Listeners get an exclusive 20% off when you sign up today@ixl.com smarted so sign up today and give your smarty pants the experience I wish I'd had access to. That's iexcel.com SL smarted for your exclusive 20% off. Hey smarty families, is this your family in the morning? Backpacks by the door. Everybody knows where they're going. Calm and organized. No, it wasn't mine either. But then I kept hearing about this Skylight digital calendar all over social media, people saying it changed their family's lives. So I tried it for a month and this thing is a game changer. Skylight is a sleek digital display that mounts on the wall or sits on the counter, and it lets us track tasks, recipes and plans in one place. That doesn't seem like that big a deal until you realize it absolutely is. It even syncs with your existing calendars like Google, Apple, Outlook, and more. And if in four months you are not 100% thrilled with your purchase, Skylight lets you return it for a full refund, no questions asked. Yes, four months. So you literally have nothing to lose. Families are better when they're working together. Right now, Skylight is offering our listeners $30 off their 15 inch calendars by going to myskylight.com smarted go to myskylight.com smartED for $30 off your 15 inch calendar. That is my s k y l I g h t.com smarted welcome back to Trusty Trivia. Today we're exploring the fascinating history of encyclopedias. Okay, on to question three. Which encyclopedia project was created in France during the 1700s and helped spread new ideas about freedom and knowledge? Was it a the Encyclopedia Britannica, B the Encyclopedia, or C the Big Book of Knowing stuff? If you picked B. Magnifique. The encyclopedia gathered knowledge from many fields and helped spread ideas that influenced people across France and beyond. Question 4 what made Encyclopedia Britannica famous? Is it a it was written entirely by one person, B it focused only on animals or C experts wrote and checked the information. If you said C, Great job. Encyclopedia Britannica became famous because experts in different subjects researched, wrote and verified the information. Unlike Wikipedia online, which is not always a credible source because anyone can edit its content. Okay, four questions down and right. One more to go, Smarty Pants. And if you want deeply researched info about foods, dinosaurs and explosions, along with hand drawn illustrations Trivia and games go to WhoSmarted.com with an adult, click Books and order your copy of our first edition who Smarted Encyclopedia of Smarting now before we stop taking orders Monday. Now. We'll get back to the questions after this quick ad break and a word from our sponsors. Foreign hey smarty pants, I hope you're enjoying this encyclopedia based trivia. As you can hear, encyclopedias were a big deal throughout history because of all of the facts and knowledge contained within them. Today, most people rely more on the Internet or AI than big books, which is understandable but not always as accurate or as fun. That's because encyclopedias are designed for discussion discovery. You start off looking up one thing only to have something else grab your curiosity. Now you're looking up something else you hadn't even thought of before that very moment and the information is actually accurate and checked by researchers. And that's the kind of fun and curiosity boosting that we're looking to do with our Encyclopedia of Smarting. To learn more and see how it can add hours of smarting to your lives every week, visit WhoSmarted.com with an adult and click Books. But again, act fast because there's only a few days left before we stop taking orders. Okay, now let's turn the page to our fifth and final encyclopedia trivia question. How and why are encyclopedias still useful today? Is it because a they teach how knowledge is organized and help people discover related topics, B they don't require WI fi, electricity or a charged device, or C they are all Fact checked and 100% accurate? If you picked A, you're right, but if you picked B or C, you're also right. Encyclopedias don't just answer questions. They help readers see how different ideas connect, often leading them to discover things they never expected to learn without the need for WI fi or electronic devices. And it's all verified, fact checked and accurate. Okay, smarty pants, I bet most of you totally aced today's Encyclopedia Challenge. If you want to learn more, check out our Encyclopedias episode in the whosmarted archives. And remember, our first edition Encyclopedia of Smarting is taking orders now, but only until Monday. Go to whosmarter.com and click Books with an Adult to reserve your copy and join us next week for more trusty trivia fun. Who Smarted.