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Quiz Quiz Bang Bang Trivia Podcast

David Flora

Round Four and Mythology Big Bang

From Ep 329: General TriviaJun 25, 2026

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Ep 329: General TriviaJun 25, 2026 — starts at 0:00

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And I'm Andy Flora, and we're here to teach you more about Trevi than there are people visiting cities for World Cup and taking it over . I saw the thing where a bunch of Scottish people had bagpipes and were going up and down wherever that next game was and it's great. I want Scotland to take over . I saw a picture of a lot of people with a lot of ranch dressing in their shopping carts . You know what, not a bad call . I'm a fan of ranch dressing. Hey, David. Yes. I wanna wish a happy birthday to Jima Happy Birthday Jima May it be wonderful ? May you escape all the rooms? Get all the trivia answers right , see all the musicals and prosper . Maybe try some ranch. Yeah . And air conditioning. Otherwise, do we have any business, David? Don't think so. Second Saturday of July is when we're going to have our next Zoom trivia. Would love to see you there? And if you're in the Gunnison Valley, we have two trivias this week. Thursday will be at the Almont and Friday we're helping the Lady Elks with a fundraiser in Gunnison . So come to both . They're different trivias. That's right. Other than that, I think we are ready to jump in . So here is how the show works . Quiz Bang Bang's format is four rounds of four questions each followed by the answers. After round two, we'll ask a quick fire bang bang question where you'll have a time limit to give multiple answers . After the fourth round the show culminates with the Big Bang , a final round with three questions whose answers are all clues to one final question . Round one, question one. The category is television . Martin Short , Steve Martin, and Selena Gomez star in What Mystery Comedy . Question two, the category is anatomy. This question comes from listener Bobby. Thank you Baby. Thank you Bobby . What is the most abundant cell in the human body . Question three . The category is economics . What is the very fitting three letter ticker symbol for Harley Davidson Question four the category is music The Formation World Tour was the first all stadium tour by which female artist . For two extra points , what album was it done with? It was the best selling album of twenty sixteen And now the answers to round one question one . Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Selena Gomez star in what mystery comedy ? Only Only murders in the building It's great. Check it out if you haven't. Question two What is the most abundant cell in the human body . The red blood cell and it's by a lot. The red blood cell accounts for over eighty percent of all cells. Woo . Question three , what is the very fitting three letter ticker symbol for Harley Davidson ? H O G G Question four The Formation World Tour was the first all stadium tour by which female artist and for two extra points, what album was it done with? Beyonce and this happened around the same time she released Lamonade . So twenty sixteen was a huge Beyonce year . Round two, question five. The category is medicine . A McBurney incision is made in the lower right abdomen by a surgeon about to remove what? Question six, category language . This one comes to us appropriately from Brian the language guy. Thank you Brian . Thank you Brian . The current prime minister of Hungary is Peter Magyar. What does Magyar mean in Hungarian? Question seven, category science . Amphibians and mammals are classified as what eleven letter plural term due to the fact that they have backbones . Question eight, category literature . Richard Bachman wrote Thinner, the long walk and blaze and is the pen name for which author who has written more than a hundred books . And now the answer is to round two. Question five , a McBurney incision is made in the lower right abdomen by a surgeon about to remove what ? An appendix . Gotta love a good old McBurney bro. Feel the McBurne . Question six the current Prime Minister of Hungary, Peter Maggyar, what does Magyar mean in Hungarian? Hungarian Peter Hungarian . That's pretty great . Question seven. Amphibians and mammals are classified as what eleven letter plural term due to the fact that they have backbones . They are vertebrates . Question eight, Richard Bachman wrote Thinner the Long Walk and Blaze and is the pin name for which author Stephen King ? Yeah, it's pretty great. If you look up Richard Bachman, he used a picture of just a friend of his for the author phot o and it's a great author photo. I love his turner overdrive . That's it for the first half, which means it's time for the bang bang round . The category for this week's Bang Bang round is geography . This question is brought to you by listener Kendall. Thank you Kendall. Thank you Kendall . You will have thirty seconds to answer the following question What are the five US state capitals which are not located on an interstate highway . Your time starts now And that's time . The five US state capitals not located on an interstate highway are Juno, Alaska , Dover, Delaware , Jefferson City, Missouri , Carson City, Nevada , and P ierre, South Dakota . Kendall says most people logically guess Honolulu, Hawaii, but interstate highways do not have to connect with other states . They just need to be designed and built to interstate highway system specifications. Well, why are they named that then? I don't know because yeah, I mean interatest has an implication in the word Hawaii's Hawaii is failing us . But we did fall into that trap. So if you did, don't feel bad, you're in very good company. That's right, the people that the names of things seriously That's right. We're gonna start an organization called that. Take our highway names back . Round three, question nine. The category is animals . A specific hummingbird whose name we won't mention because it will spoil the answer is unique for being the only bird to have physical feature Question ten the category is technolog y. This question comes from major data. Thank you Major Data. Thank you Major. What industry leading project management tool comes from the Japanese name for Godzilla Question eleven, the category is history . Seward's Folly was a sarcastic nickname for the eighteen sixty seven purchase of what ? Question twelve, the category is sports . Only four players have scored more than one hat trick at the men's FIFA World Cup, name them two and a half points to each right answer . And now the answer's to round three Question nine . A hummingbird is unique for being the only bird to have what physical feature ? Well, it's the sword billed hummingbird and it is the only bird with a beak longer than the rest of its body . It's enormous . It's fun to look at. I love humming birds in general . Question ten What Industry leading project management tool comes from the Japanese name for Godzilla ? Jira . The product name comes from the last two syllables of Gojira , which is Godzilla . Question eleven. Seward's Folly was a sarcastic nickname for the eighteen sixty seven purchase of what ? Alaska . Question twelve . Who are the only four players to have scored more than one hat trick at the Men's FIFA World Cup . Sander Cox . He had two in nineteen fifty four . Just Fontaine had two in nineteen fifty eight , Gerd Mueller two in nineteen seventy , and Gabriel Batistuta did it in nineteen ninety four and nineteen ninety eight. So he's the only player to have scored hat tricks in two different World Cups because all the rest did it in two different games in the same world cup. So that's four hat tricks for him then over two World Cups ? No, sorry, his games were just in two different World Cups. So he oh, I see. Yeah . Where the rest were just in one world cup, but were able to do. Okay. And we'll keep you post it if, anyone does it this, World Cup, Messi already has one hat trick. He almost had a second hat trick. He scored two. If he hadn't missed his penalty shot, he could have gotten . He had a cut in that game . Hasn't it did Impape do it last World Cup? Maybe the time before? I'm not sure. He's got to be up there. I mean, he's almost going to overtake Messi this World Cup anyway . He did . I just saw he did one in Qatar. And so this question might need to be updated in the future. Yeah, because Mape and Mesi could add it could both. Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy. Awesome. Round four, question thirteen. The category is games and hobbies . What is it called when a player uses all seven tiles at once in scrabble? Question fourteen Category Mythology Who was the god of the underworld and husband to Isis in Egyptian mytholog y Question fifteen Category games . What nineteen eighty one arcade game that Dungeon Crawler Carl is skilled at, has the player direct animal an across a free way or a river with logs . Question sixteen Category Film In Iron Man, what character did Gwynneth Paltrow play ? And now the answer's to round four, Question thirteen. What is it called when a player uses all seven tiles at once in scrubb ble? This old chestnut ? That's a bingo . Wonder how they decided it was called a bingo . Yeah , they figure out what game they were playing? When they could have just said, that's number wang. Question fourteen, who was the god of the underworld and husband to Isis in Egyptian mythology? That was Osiris Question fifteen What nineteen eighty one arcade game that Dungeon crawler Carl is skilled at, has the player direct an animal across a freeway or river That was Frogger Question sixteen. In Iron Man, what character did Gwynneth Paltrow play ? Virginia Pepper Pots and that's it for the regular rounds, which means it's time for the Big Bang round . The category for this week's Big Bang round is mythology . Gemma our birthday girl will ask for some mythology , so here we go. And if any other patrons want to shout out for their birthdays or a special question for their birthday , let us know. We're happy to do it . We will ask you three clue questions which are all hints to one final question. The clue questions may not fall under the same category. Question one . Will Verene and Deadpool share superpower Question two , Mike, Sully, and Boo are all characters in what Pixar movie . Question three What body part generally weighs between two point three and five kilograms or five point one and eleven pounds . And your big bang question again categories of mythology . Heracles died after putting on a tunic unknowingly poisoned with the blood of what ? And now the answer's to the Big Bang round. Question one . Wolverine and Deadpool share what superpower Regeneration Question two Mike, Sully and Boo are all character s in what Pixar movie ? Monsters Inc . Question three . What body part generally weighs between two point three and five kilograms or five point one and eleven pounds the head . And lastly, Heracles died after putting on a tunic, unknowingly poisoned with the blood of what ? The mythological monster whose heads would regenerate the hydra . Yeah, Heracles' wife was all jealous about something and someone told her, I clearly don't actually know the story very well, but someone was like, put some blood here and that 'll it'll excite your lover. Yeah, and she's like, alright , she wasn't trying . Sure. Two. And she didn't know that it was dipped. This was from an old enemy. Yeah , who had dipped this tunic and played the long game. Yeah, so she was told it was like the blood of love and it wasn't it was the blood of poison. It was the blood of death. It was the blood of death . Yeah He was he was mad enough to kill the messenger. He put the tunic on and the guy who brought him the tunic he thought was the one that did it, and his body was like being eaten away like acid and he threw him into the sea . Did he survive? The Messenger? Yeah , no. Is that where we get the expression don't kill the messenger? 'Cause maybe a messenger was very literally killed for something he had nothing to do with yeah, pretty bad Yeah , they must have stored that blood for a while unless there were multiple hydras, but that's one of the labors was Mhm That was the Learnion Hydra . And he had used the blood of it himself to dip his arrows in and the perpetrator of it . was He actually a centaur who tried to steal his wife and Heracles got mad and shot him with an arrow that was dipped in this blood and then the centaur was like here let me take a tunic and so p up this blood road quake and give it to the wife to, you know, to eventually get back at him. And then he told her it was , you know, to excite her man. Yeah . I guess it's lucky the wife, well, I guess it's unlucky but that the wife and the messenger didn't touch the blood at all because you think they'd be like, oh yeah. Unless it doesn't impact them because they're not. No, it should impact them You would think it must have been well packaged

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