John Carpenter was the first American to win a million dollars on the game show “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”. Can Georgie answer 15 quiz questions correctly to win a virtual million kudos?
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John Carpenter was the first American to win a million dollars on the game show “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”. Can Georgie answer 15 quiz questions correctly to win a virtual million kudos?
To follow along with this episode, have a look at the interactive page of millionaire quiz questions from 2020 on The Guardian.
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Geoff 0:00
Hi and welcome back to another episode of Toast & Roast, I’m your co host, Geoff, and as always, I’m here with Georgie.
Georgie 0:17
Geoff, the man.
Geoff 0:19
Georgie. The woman.
Georgie 0:21
Yeah, that’s right.
Geoff 0:23
Of the hour or however long this podcast is.
Georgie 0:28
Hot seat. Is that what they call it?
Geoff 0:32
The hot seat.
Georgie 0:33
You know, like the millionaire Hot Seat. The Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Geoff 0:37
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Georgie 0:38
Yeah. Have you seen the video of the guy, who, it was obviously a long time ago now because the show’s been around for a while, but it was the first guy in the US who won a million dollars. Cocky bastard. Okay, if anyone’s listening to this and disagrees with me, sure. But he hadn’t used any of his lifelines. Okay, wait kids, kids out there. If you haven’t heard of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, it’s this game show.
Geoff 1:04
Is it still around?
Georgie 1:05
Yeah, I believe it is. 15 questions, I think, that increasingly get you to a million dollars. I don’t know about taxes, but whatever. I don’t know what the fine print is. And—
Geoff 1:15
2011.
Georgie 1:18
And as far as like, what, game shows go—
Geoff 1:20
First aired in 1998? 25 years ago.
Georgie 1:22
Oh god that’s old. Yeah, first, so the questions as you imagined most game show questions are about is very general stuff, current affairs—not even current—just general knowledge, quote, unquote. Take that with a massive bucket of salt because however you define general knowledge will vary. This guy had not used all his lifelines and lifelines are... Okay, you’re gonna have to help me remember them, but one of them is phone a friend. You get, your 30 seconds, or minute, to phone a friend—
Geoff 1:52
50-50.
Georgie 1:52
...to give them the, get you, tell you the answer. Oh, yeah. 50-50 removes to two out of the four options.
Geoff 2:01
Yeah.
Georgie 2:02
What was the other one?
Geoff 2:03
I think...
Georgie 2:04
Oh ask the audience. (laughs) Is it ask the audience? The audience votes.
Geoff 2:08
You ask the audience.
Georgie 2:09
And they could so fucking troll you.
Geoff 2:11
Yeah the audience votes. It’s so stupid.
Georgie 2:12
Yeah.
Geoff 2:13
You never trust the audience.
Georgie 2:14
(laughs) So this guy has been going very well. He’s on the last question. And he has not used any of his lifelines. So obviously he’s answered all the questions correctly, and he says I want to, I want to use—by the way you can look this up. The guy’s name is I believe, John Carpenter, if I remember correctly, he decides to use one of his lifelines, calls his dad, I think. And he essentially says, oh, yeah, Dad, I actually don’t need your help. I’m here to, I’m calling you because I’m gonna win the million dollars.
Geoff 2:48
Woah.
Georgie 2:48
Waits the almost remaining, like 30 seconds. And then he says, because the, and then he reads out that what he, the answer is, he said the president who was at, on this. Something I can’t remember, was Richard Nixon. “And that’s my final answer”. And it’s been making the rounds on social media again. I’m like, ah yeah. Okay. All right.
Geoff 3:11
The, we’ve got a few unique lifelines apparently, in the game’s history, of 25 years. Switch the question: used in the US version between 2004, 2008, and in the UK original during celebrity specials. This lifeline became available after a contestant answered the 10th Question of the game. The computer replaced the current question with another of the same difficulty. Contestants could not reinstate any lifelines used on the original question. A variation of the lifeline for US version called “cut the question”. So what, you just change it, because you don’t know too much about this one thing? Yeah. All right.
Georgie 3:56
That, that could... I mean, if you’re that stuck, I understand if you’re that stuck, then you kind of grasping, you know. But—
Geoff 4:07
Oh, man, my knowledge could be—I mean, similar difficulty again, how does—
Georgie 4:11
Yeah. How do you rate the difficulty of such trivia?
Geoff 4:15
Yeah. Most common millionaire questions...
Georgie 4:21
Because you’ve made it up to that point, right, like so you’ve answered questions that are obviously supposed to be easier. But then what if you just happen to know—what if the what or the last question was just some niche thing? That you—
Geoff 4:35
Yeah.
Georgie 4:36
You, you’re just like, you’re laughing.
Geoff 4:39
Which which fame, which famous anime character, manga character died to a shock, a horror from the fans and you’re just like, “well, I know this one”. But—
Georgie 4:50
Well, I don’t know, you do.
Geoff 4:51
Like how many people know this, really random question. And then you swap it and then you just like, alright, who, who, who invented the internet? And you’re like what? How are these similar difficulty?
Georgie 5:06
Oh, wow. This is a, oh, wow, you’ve got questions. Okay. Let’s do this. Let’s do this. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire questions on the Guardian?
Geoff 5:13
There’s a game, you can get it on the Switch. You can get it on every platform.
Georgie 5:17
Oh is there, I didn’t even know this. I don’t play many games, so.
Geoff 5:21
Yeah. you can, you can buy the game. And that’s the thing right? You buy these games? Oh, what’s the other one, Trivial Pursuit?
Georgie 5:29
Oh my god. Yeah.
Geoff 5:30
So bad.
Georgie 5:30
(laughs)
Geoff 5:32
I think our family plays it almost every year. And it’s honestly like, such old questions like, my, my parents sometimes say things. Whenever we ask them to play a board game with with us.
Georgie 5:48
Yeah.
Geoff 5:48
And they go no, no, no, we’re too old for that. And then you look at Trivial Pursuit and you say no, you’re the right age. You know more of these questions than any of us do. But anyways, so ditch this, all right in the UK, because we know lots about the UK. The abbreviation NHS stands for National what Service?
Georgie 6:12
Health? Yes.
Geoff 6:16
Bing bing.
Georgie 6:16
All right, cool.
Geoff 6:19
200—which Disney character famously leaves a glass slipper behind at a royal ball?
Georgie 6:25
Cinderella. Nah it’s totally Pocahontas.
Geoff 6:29
Elsa, Elsa also maybe possible. What name is given to the revolving belt machinery in an airport that delivers checked luggage from the ba—plane to the baggage reclaim?
Georgie 6:43
Oh, we should read out the options as well.
Geoff 6:45
Oh, yeah. A hangar, B terminal, C concourse, or D carousel.
Georgie 6:52
Carousel.
Geoff 6:53
Oh we’ll give you five minutes.
Georgie 6:56
Yeah how much time, do you remember how much time they get?
Geoff 6:59
Yeah, it says here like it’s decreased. It’s increasing, right? They get 15 seconds from questions one to five.
Georgie 7:05
Oh yeah OK.
Geoff 7:06
30 seconds, 6 to 10. 45 seconds, 11 to 14, and then 15 gets 45 seconds as well. Plus accumulated remaining time from the previous 14 questions. No way.
Georgie 7:18
Does that still happen or is that only on...
Geoff 7:21
No, no. In 2008 they changed the format. So clock... this is all Wikipedia.
Georgie 7:26
Yeah, so take it with a massive bucket of salt.
Geoff 7:30
$500 is Georgie gonna win five hundred dollars?
Georgie 7:34
OK so I’m answering questions now, OK.
Geoff 7:36
Which of these brands has chiefly associated with the manufacturer of household locks? A Phillips, B Flymo, C Chubb and D, Romseal.
Georgie 7:48
Chubb.
Geoff 7:50
Lock it in?
Georgie 7:51
Is that right? Yeah, whatever.
Geoff 7:53
Bing bing bing.
Georgie 7:53
Okay, good. Okay, good.
Geoff 7:56
Hammer and sickle is one of the most recognisable symbols of which political ideology? A Republicanism. I didn’t even know that was a word. B communism, C conservatism, and D liberalism.
Georgie 8:11
I want to say B communism, but why am I filled with doubt? Is it because it’s—
Geoff 8:16
Ding ding ding.
Georgie 8:17
Yay.
Geoff 8:18
Like, you know, Eddie Eddie McGuire.
Georgie 8:21
Oh my god, don’t even—
Geoff 8:22
The one and only—
Georgie 8:23
Host, Australia...
Geoff 8:25
Australia. And is he known for anything else? Is he just famous for that?
Georgie 8:31
Wait. Let me think about it for a sec. I believe he is known for something else. I think he hosted—didn’t he host like a sport thing? The NRL.
Geoff 8:38
Oh, maybe.
Georgie 8:42
Alright, for those of you who are not in Australia and don’t know who this Eddie McGuire guy is, just let it—
Geoff 8:48
We don’t know who he is either.
Georgie 8:49
Yeah, but just just let it be known. I mean, digest this information.
Geoff 8:54
For the record...
Georgie 8:54
Yes. People who are familiar with him being on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire as the host are familiar with the phrase “lock it in, Eddie”.
Geoff 9:05
Yeah, lock it in, Eddie.
Georgie 9:07
It... I don’t know about you, Geoff. But it pisses me off. I feel like it’s kind of like a Gen X to Boomer—peeps do—
Geoff 9:15
I mean...
Georgie 9:15
..tend to say that phrase when they want to lock something—
Geoff 9:18
Oh really?
Georgie 9:20
You don’t—okay, I know people—
Geoff 9:21
I don’t, I don’t talk to these youngins.
Georgie 9:23
Well, they’re not young uns, they’re old-uns. They’re like peep—
Geoff 9:25
Old uns.
Georgie 9:25
My parents.
Geoff 9:27
Oh really?
Georgie 9:28
Yeah.
Geoff 9:29
Your parents have said this phrase?
Georgie 9:30
My parents in law when we’ve had like a discussion about something and it’s like are you sure, whatever, it’s like yeah, yeah, “lock it in, Eddie”, and I’m like, fucking stop!
Geoff 9:43
I mean, I do the, I do the “nooooo bingo!” Sometimes.
Georgie 9:46
Oh yeah. Remember Deal or No Deal?
Geoff 9:52
Yeah, there’s the “deal or no deal” but they say “no, bingo” for some reason. No bingo? (laughs)
Georgie 9:55
(laughs) So yeah I’ve heard, it’s mostly older people and I heard someone else about my age. They said, oh yeah, my parents say this as well. I think I dropped it in like some meeting we had at work in the Zoom chat. I was like, someone said “lock it in, Eddie”. And I was like, yep. My parents say that, someone was like, my parents do too.
Geoff 10:18
It’s just one of those slips. It’s a boomer slip. Let’s call it a boomer slip.
Georgie 10:22
Yeah.
Geoff 10:23
Apparently “no bingo” is not the catchphrase of Deal or No Deal.
Georgie 10:26
It’s something else though, right?
Geoff 10:28
But it is something else. They, no, they go “no roadie”? Nah, just wait, why doesn’t this show me the actual answer?
Georgie 10:42
Isn’t it “no deal”? Isn’t it just no... no, hang on.
Geoff 10:46
No deal. Even the game? Blah, blah, blah. can leave with more than the no deal, see, this website is very useless.
Georgie 10:57
For gameshows fandom?
Geoff 10:58
Woah, why is the whole game show like script is here, someone’s actually gone through and just script, wrote the whole script, script down—
Georgie 11:09
Like quotes and, oh it’s just quotes I think, but without context, you wouldn’t get it anyway.
Geoff 11:14
Yeah, see, I wrote “no bingo” and apparently no bingo the phrase is National Bingo Night, which makes sense, but no that’s funny, I remember.
Georgie 11:14
Okay, just funny to perpetuate it. Kinda like the what is it? Like “left my scooter at the dairy, nek minnit”. Like...
Geoff 11:30
Ah, nek minnit. See, I never understood where nek minnit came from, but I use it a lot.
Georgie 11:35
Okay. It was this guy who was like a, I don’t know, not a bo... would you say it was a bogan like a New Zealand version of a bogan? And he was saying “I left my scooter outside the dairy, nek minnit”, someone had stolen it. I think. There’s a video. Yeah.
Geoff 11:51
Oh, what’s the other one? Inb4? Have you heard of that one?
Georgie 11:57
I have, but I never understand how to actually use it. You know what I mean?
Geoff 12:02
Yeah, yeah. It’s literally like, how do you, how do you describe how to use it?
Georgie 12:09
Exactly.
Geoff 12:10
I know how to use it but I don’t know how to describe it.
Georgie 12:11
I read it. And I understand, but I don’t know how to use it.
Geoff 12:15
Expressed commonly used on discussion forums, oh, to forecast an anticipated response, or a predictable outcome with a given within a given thread. I applaud the person who took the time to articulate this.
Georgie 12:33
Yeah.
Geoff 12:36
So it’s sort of like, what’s a—
Georgie 12:38
Inb4 you looked this up?
Geoff 12:40
Yeah, yeah. We’re sort of like, we’re talking about Deal... or we’re talking about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire inb4 you, you bring up Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Quiz. And we’re only on Question six. So for $2,000 Mrs Cooke. Which toys have been marketed with the phrase “Robots in Disguise”. A Bratz dolls, B Sylvanian Families.
Georgie 13:13
(snorts)
Geoff 13:14
C Hatchimals. Hatchimals. Or D transformers.
Georgie 13:18
Okay. Do you know what’s Sylvanian Families is? Is it those teddy bears—
Geoff 13:21
I do know what Sylvanian Families—
Georgie 13:22
Those cute little teddy bears?
Geoff 13:24
They’re rabbits. Technically, I believe.
Georgie 13:25
Oh shit sorry. Totally.
Geoff 13:27
No, they’re robots in disguise.
Georgie 13:29
It’d be funny if they were.
Geoff 13:29
It could be.
Georgie 13:30
But my answer is D Transformers.
Geoff 13:32
D Transformers. you transformers. Ding ding ding bling bling. Alright. For 4000 Eddie’s what does the word [phonetically] lok-wee-sious—
Georgie 13:32
[phonetically] Lok-way-sious? I think.
Geoff 13:38
It’s [phonetically] lok-wee-sious?
Georgie 13:45
Oh lok-wee-sious? Are you sure? Am I allowed to use a dictionary? Haha nah. Wait you’re not, no, don’t give me the answer.
Geoff 13:56
Oh na nana, no, don’t look at it.
Georgie 13:58
...whatever it was.
Geoff 13:58
I don’t know how. There’s no pronunciation.
Georgie 14:02
Isn’t there a speech? An audio, nope? Okay.
Geoff 14:05
Pronounce audio? Yeah, no good. How to pronounce. All right—
Georgie 14:12
P-press the play button—
Geoff 14:13
[phonetically] Lok-way-sious. Loquacious.
Georgie 14:16
OK so. On a little tangent, right. You know how some some people don’t know how to pronounce a word when they when they read it?
Geoff 14:24
Yes.
Georgie 14:25
I read somewhere or saw somewhere or was having a discussion with someone that oftentimes people who don’t really know how to pronounce a word have been more of a reader. Like someone who reads a lot of books rather than someone who like—
Geoff 14:39
Ah, OK!
Georgie 14:41
...converse is a lot, because if you if you converse and you’re gonna you learn another language and you learn by like speaking you could learn a lot by speaking with someone in that language. If you tend to read books more, then you don’t actually know how to pronounce, you don’t always know how to pronounce the words. So I find that true of myself to be honest, like I read a lot when I was younger and there was some word, I’m not even joking. So you know the word latte? And we stole that word, it’s not, it’s not, it’s like what is it, Italian I think?
Geoff 15:11
I have no idea.
Georgie 15:12
French? Wait, latte, L, A, T, T, E. I think technically it should have, should it have an accent? I don’t know. I was 10 years old reading the newspaper because I’m just trying to like expand my vocab or whatever.
Geoff 15:25
(laughs) You, as a kid, 10 years old was trying to—
Georgie 15:28
Reading the newspaper.
Geoff 15:28
Cas, just just casually trying to expand your vocab.
Georgie 15:31
Fucking political bullshit in the newspaper. Without forming any kind of opinion whatsoever. I saw the word lattes. So plural of latte, which is the coffee drink L, A, T, T, E, S, as a 10 year old I read that. And I tried to look it up in the dictionary, thinking that it was pronounced—
Geoff 15:49
Hahaha.
Georgie 15:50
Just here me out—thinking it was pronounced “lats”.
Geoff 15:53
Yep.
Georgie 15:53
Yeah. So I’m like, it’s like “sipping on their lats“. That’s the literally how I read it. I was a kid. And I was like, I don’t get it. How come? I can’t find it in the dictionary? I don’t know like, when it occurred to me, maybe like later on when I decided to, like, fuck off with that newspaper. But I was like, oh, it’s it’s a plural of “lat” what, but what is lat?
Geoff 16:16
Hahaha.
Georgie 16:17
I’m just like, it was fucking latte.
Geoff 16:19
You look at these words, you look up some of these words. And they’re just like, another word for like, another complicated word. Or—
Georgie 16:28
Yeah.
Geoff 16:29
Lattes, it’s just like, plural for latte. And you’re like, okay? Yeah, I also find that I know how to use a lot more words than I know, the definitions for.
Georgie 16:42
How do you mean?
Geoff 16:44
Like, it’s something I think it’s something similar to the conversation. You’ve heard so much conversation and the word used in a specific context, in a specific way. And I just learned how to use the word. I didn’t necessarily know what it meant. But I knew how to use the word.
Georgie 17:02
Yeah, OK.
Geoff 17:03
So in certainl, yeah, you’re having a conversation with someone you’re like, oh—
Georgie 17:07
And use like, “cognisant”?
Geoff 17:09
Yeah, it’s it’s they’re, they’re so cognisant of the, of the way they use these words. And they’re like, What does cognisant mean? And then you’re just like, I don’t know—
Georgie 17:20
I don’t know!
Geoff 17:21
What the definition is.
Georgie 17:22
That is, it means—
Geoff 17:24
It means how it’s supposed to be used.
Georgie 17:27
It means what you think it means.
Geoff 17:29
Yeah, it’s like, whatever you think it is.
Georgie 17:31
You ever like read something, you know, like I—I don’t think you read too many books, right? But you just read something and then there’s a word that you don’t really know but you make sense of like the gist of what they’re trying to say based on the surroundings?
Geoff 17:44
Yeah, the surrounding, like the context and stuff is enough for you to like, assume exactly what it’s supposed to mean.
Georgie 17:51
So how do we pronounce it? Loquacious?
Geoff 17:55
Lo-kwee—no loquacious.
Georgie 17:57
Which is spelled, everybody, L, O, Q, U, A, C, I, O, U, S. Chatty.
Geoff 18:04
Chatty.
Georgie 18:04
We’re very loquacious on this podcast.
Geoff 18:07
I think we’d have to be. If we weren’t loquacious on this podcast. I don’t think there’s any point so for 8000 dolleridoos, obstr... obstreetrics?
Georgie 18:18
Obstetrics?
Geoff 18:22
Obstetrics. Obstetrics.
Georgie 18:27
Obstetrician, right?
Geoff 18:28
Obstetrician, obstret-ics?
Georgie 18:29
Ob-stret-ics?
Geoff 18:30
Ob-stret-ics? Ob-stret-trics?
Georgie 18:33
Wow. Hey, everybody, I have a comms degree, I should be embarrassed.
Geoff 18:36
Is a bunch of—(laughs)—is a branch, is a bunch, is a bunch of medicine particularly concerned with childbirth—
Georgie 18:41
It’s childbirth. 100%.
Geoff 18:42
Broken bones, heart conditions, old age. Obstetrician Yeah, I don’t think I’ve ever... no, I think there’s plenty of TV shows where I’m like, obstr... they say, they say it, but it’s not very often you hear it.
Georgie 18:56
Obstetrics.
Geoff 18:58
Ob... stet... tricks. Ob-stet-rics. $16,000. See, in Doctor Who—
Georgie 19:06
Oh shit, I haven’t watched Doctor Who—okay, let’s just see.
Geoff 19:09
What was the signature look of the Fourth Doctor portrayed by Tom Baker? See, this is like supposedly UK cultural pop culture knowledge right?
Georgie 19:18
Oh yeah right, OK. Okay so Fourth Doctor though, I started watching at like Ninth Doctor in the rebooted series.
Geoff 19:24
Oh no, you are not a Doctor—
Georgie 19:26
Let me try, I want to try this. This is where I couldn’t lose the money right? So what happens, what happens—
Geoff 19:29
A bow tie braces and tweed jacket—
Georgie 19:32
So wait, before you go to B I know that A is, that’s, that probably wasn’t it because that was Eleventh doctor had the bowtie braces.
Geoff 19:40
Woah, woah.
Georgie 19:41
Yeah.
Geoff 19:41
Such a geek here. Wide brimmed hat and extra long scarf.
Georgie 19:47
So I feel like that could have, that could have been it. I think I remember him having curly hair. Tom Baker, I think, Fourth Doctor, anyway go on to next one.
Geoff 19:55
Pinstripe suit and trainers.
Georgie 19:58
That was the Tenth doctor, played by David Tennant.
Geoff 20:02
Ooh. David Tennant, the only one that I know. And a cape velvet jacket and frilly shirt.
Georgie 20:09
Okay, I can’t remember the picture is like, the image is in my mind but it’s—
Geoff 20:15
Would you like to phone a friend? 50-50?
Georgie 20:18
Are you just gonna look it up on Google?
Geoff 20:20
(laughs)
Georgie 20:21
It’d be funny if I actually did, we actually just did and phoned a friend on this—maybe I should ask Nick.
Geoff 20:26
You wanna phone a friend?
Georgie 20:28
“Hey Nick, what’s the”—nah.
Geoff 20:29
Yeah, phone a friend, ask Nick.
Georgie 20:30
Literally phone a?—nah.
Geoff 20:32
Yeah, literally phone a friend if you want.
Georgie 20:33
But then he’ll probably just look it up on the internet and we are on the internet.
Geoff 20:35
Well tell him not to look it up on the internet.
Georgie 20:38
But he’s not gonna know, that’s the thing. I know Doctor Who, he has, he wouldn’t have the foggiest.
Geoff 20:43
Then don’t phone him.
Georgie 20:45
So I’m certain it’s B or D. Man there are probably people listening to this like laughing and...
Geoff 20:53
I will...
Georgie 20:53
You know what I’m gonna go with B, wide brimmed hat and extra long scarf. I’m so sorry if I let down any Whovian, no no no, the, B, no, B.
Geoff 21:01
Oh B. I’m busy trying to Google the answer.
Georgie 21:05
Can you just click reveal so I know what the, bro. The suspense is killing me. Let’s just click the, all you to do is click the—
Geoff 21:13
Oh, you got it!
Georgie 21:14
Yes. Now I want to know, who’s the who’s the velvet jacket and frilly shirt, which Doctor was that?
Geoff 21:21
I don’t know. But we’re moving on, because.
Georgie 21:24
OK.
Geoff 21:24
32,000 Which of these religious observer observances lasts for the shortest period of time during the calendar year? A Ramadan, B Diwali, 3 Lent, D Hanukkah.
Georgie 21:44
Okay, so the only one I’m only personally familiar with, which I can’t even remember is like Lent because I grew up in like a Catholic family. But Lent was like 40 days, right? Wait, I’m not allowed to talk to you. You’re the host. Did you ever actually, you know Eddie McGuire, going back to like, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire hosts. Do you feel like he had, like, he was favouring certain contestants over others? Like it seemed like he was leaning?
Geoff 22:13
I think he—
Georgie 22:14
Yeah, making them lean in a certain direction.
Geoff 22:17
It’s probably just human.
Georgie 22:19
I reckon he had, I reckon he had unconscious bias.
Geoff 22:22
Yeah, he had unconscious bias. I don’t think you I mean, unless you want to face a robot.
Georgie 22:27
Yeah, well, that’s not fun.
Geoff 22:28
Sitting in front of you. I mean they could probably do, replace it with, with a chat GPT called Eddie. It can be unbiased.
Georgie 22:40
Okay, so I think Ramadan is pretty long. If I remember correctly. Like, it’s like a month, is it a month long? I don’t know. No giving me the answer Geoff. Um, Diwali? Diwali was recently I think, but...
Geoff 22:59
Hmm. Does Australia celebrate Diwali as long as? I mean, India?
Georgie 23:07
I actually don’t have, I don’t think I have a way of knowing this answer. Hanukkah is—
Geoff 23:14
Oh shortest.
Georgie 23:15
Yeah shortest period. So I think. If I asked you to—are you looking this up on a separate screen? If I asked you to 50-50—
Geoff 23:27
I am looking it up.
Georgie 23:28
Can you 50-50 me? Nah actually wait, Wait, wait before I decide to use my lifeline.
Geoff 23:33
Oh.
Georgie 23:33
Also are there, is it 15 questions?
Geoff 23:36
Yes, there are 15 questions.
Georgie 23:37
Oh my god I’m not gonna win. It would funny if I did. I wouldn’t even be able to afford a house. Everybody. They’re very expensive here.
Geoff 23:45
Yeah.
Georgie 23:50
Yeah, this is where it gets hard. Like, do you find this question difficult?
Geoff 23:55
Ah, yeah...
Georgie 23:56
It’s probably not difficult if you know. But I don’t, I just don’t know.
Geoff 23:59
I just I’m just not cultured enough to know how long each one of these are. But I do know what they all are. Technically. I think, I’ve celebrated Lent. I’ve celebrated Diwali. And I’ve also celebrated Ramadan and haven’t celebrated Hanukkah but I know what it is. So.
Georgie 24:23
I have a feeling like just talking out loud. I think it might be Hanukkah. But then I’m really unsure about Diwali. Like... yeah, but then, it’s like—
Geoff 24:42
So do you want to do a 50-50?
Georgie 24:44
But then, even though, so you... I don’t know. I’m not certain on the duration of all of them. Except I think Lent even then I think I’m probably wrong, because I don’t practice it currently. But then I still have to basically answer the part, like what’s the shortest one so I can maybe know or guess which one? Like, like how long they are. But—
Geoff 25:08
Yeah.
Georgie 25:09
I won’t know which one’s the shortest with that. So I need to actually know all of them. Alright, fine. Just 50-50 I’ll use my stupid ass lifeline.
Geoff 25:16
Alright, it is... Diwali or Hanukkah.
Georgie 25:22
(laughs) Come on, that’s what was in my mind. I was like, I know it’s one of them.
Geoff 25:26
Isn’t that a bitch, like when the 50 just confirms what your 50-50 is in your head.
Georgie 25:31
Bloody validation.
Geoff 25:34
And someone’s probably gonna tell me I’m wrong even though I’m looking this up.
Georgie 25:43
I know, I know Diwali was recently because there was communication about it in our, in our work Slack.
Geoff 25:50
Yeah, that’s actually quite interesting. That Diwali is so, I mean, I’ve never heard of it being so celebrated in Australia.
Georgie 26:02
I think it’s just a very global company—
Geoff 26:03
I’ve never, none of the offices. Yeah. Like even my partner’s office celebrate Diwali. I think this is the most time I’ve ever heard.
Georgie 26:14
Yeah. So I think like, what I remember with Hanukkah is that in it was mentioned in Home Alone 2, because the guy goes “Happy Hanukkah”. And it’s around Christmas. So I know. But I think it is. I think it’s like at least several weeks or like there is, like it is observed for, yeah, for several weeks, but I have the feeling that Diwali is like, shorter. That’s what I think. I don’t know if it’s like, is it, does it mean festival of lights? I can’t remember. What if I’m wrong, Geoff?
Geoff 26:52
Ooh.
Georgie 26:52
How much money do I get?
Geoff 26:54
Well you got like five seconds left? For...
Georgie 26:57
Oh shit you’ve been timing me! Alright, I’m gonna go with Diwali.
Geoff 26:59
I haven’t been timing. Okay.
Georgie 27:02
Oh my god.
Geoff 27:03
Hey!
Georgie 27:03
Yes! I got $32,000. Educate me. What is, what’s the duration of—
Geoff 27:09
Hanukkah... Diwali is five or six days. Hanukkah was eight nights and days, eight nights and days. Lent is of course, the 40 days, 40 days, 40 nights or whatever? And Ramadan...
Georgie 27:24
Is it around, just like, also 40, or like...
Geoff 27:28
Ramadan’s a month. Yeah.
Georgie 27:31
Good to know. I have wasted a lifeline. Not wasted. Well, it feels wasted because it just validated my thoughts. Anyway.
Geoff 27:39
I wonder how many had the whole pop, like how common this is, knowledge in the UK? Like did they? Did they celebrate any of these in the UK? They must because actually my partner’s work is based out of the UK. So they celebrated Diwali at least.
Georgie 27:57
I think they must certainly have like people observing Lent. I think Ramadan probably, you’d have to look into the populations and the, yeah, demographic.
Geoff 28:11
So a lot of people celebrate Ramadan, by the way. Like it’s, it’s got so many different names in so many different countries. Anyways, $64,000... at the closest point, which island group is only 50 miles southeast of the closest coast of Florida.
Georgie 28:31
Um, shit?
Geoff 28:33
A Bahamas. B US Virgin Islands. C Turks and Caicos and D Bermuda.
Georgie 28:42
Is it [phonetically] Kai-koes?
Geoff 28:43
No Caicos Islands.
Georgie 28:44
Caicos, OK.
Geoff 28:45
It’s Caicos, according to the Americans, and that’s how the Americans pronounce it.
Georgie 28:51
Okay, like [phonetically] o-reg-ano.
Geoff 28:55
I only know how the most Americans would have pronounced this.
Georgie 28:57
Too-na [tuna]. Is it, is it? Yeah.
Geoff 29:01
Tuna.
Georgie 29:02
Choo-na [tuna]. Yeah. So I have been to Florida.
Geoff 29:07
I’ve also been to Florida.
Georgie 29:09
Disney World? Yeah.
Geoff 29:13
Disney World.
Georgie 29:13
No I went, I did go to Miami Beach. It was not... the sand was not as yellow as the sand here. Just saying.
Geoff 29:23
I’ve only ever been to Disney World.
Georgie 29:26
Okay, so you didn’t go anywhere else. Just that that was the purpose of the trip.
Geoff 29:30
That was it.
Georgie 29:31
Okay, um, I’m not sure where the Turks and Caicos Islands are. I I have obviously heard of Bahamas, US Virgin Islands and Bermuda. I’m just not sure about the Virgin Island... I know is that the Richard Branson, that’s why he called Virgin his whole—
Geoff 29:51
Oh.
Georgie 29:52
Yeah.
Geoff 29:53
No idea. I just thought it was an island full of virgins.
Georgie 29:57
Geoff! (laughs)
Geoff 30:02
(laughs)
Georgie 30:04
Is Bermuda an island group? The question says island group?
Geoff 30:08
Oh, it’s a very interesting question.
Georgie 30:12
I feel like it, I might be wrong and I, it’s so funny. I’m just like wondering what people are fucking thinking of me like, listening to this,
Geoff 30:19
How much knowledge we have. I mean geography, I mean, I’m one of those people who have travelled to a lot of places, I think, like 13 countries or something like that.
Georgie 30:28
Mhmm.
Geoff 30:28
But I have also no clue about geography.
Georgie 30:33
Yeah.
Geoff 30:34
So it’s, I think it’s difficult.
Georgie 30:36
So like, I think, like, if this was more—wait, hang on, this is for UK and it’s asking you about the US.
Geoff 30:42
This is the UK? Yeah.
Georgie 30:42
I was gonna say if it was about Australia, maybe I’d know about surrounding islands. But it’s funny because like, I know, I know, roughly like, maybe sounds strange, because I’m Australian. But I know roughly, where the 50 states are—sorry, 50, 52? (laughs) Whatever, just the contiguous United States. I know. I know roughly where things might be. But this I feel like—
Geoff 31:07
Remember that—
Georgie 31:07
I’m thinking—
Geoff 31:08
Friends episode?
Georgie 31:09
I haven’t seen Friends.
Geoff 31:11
Yeah, there’s is Friends episode where the one of them had a doctorate. And he couldn’t name all 51 states or whatever. At the time. 52 states. He just kept writing them out over and over and over again. Some of them were just like, not even real places.
Georgie 31:28
Oh, wow. We did this in school once, in geography. I think like we went into groups, and it was like write down all of the 52 states of the, of the US.
Geoff 31:36
Yeah, what kind of challenge is that? Does it really matter if you don’t know all of them?
Georgie 31:41
Well, if you’re in a group, that’s where it helps. And it’s kind of fun. It’s kind of like trivia, I guess. I don’t know if it’s a memory thing. I think it’s just like a collected knowledge.
Geoff 31:48
There’s only 50 states. Come on.
Georgie 31:50
Oh shit. I’m sorry—wait, really?
Geoff 31:52
Where’d you find the last two?
Georgie 31:54
Maybe I was thinking of something else. Are you sure?
Geoff 31:58
OK lock it in, Bahamas!
Georgie 32:01
Well, I was gonna say Bahamas because, my reasoning is that I think Nick sometimes talks about Bahamas as if it’s in close proximity to, to that side of the, whatever, I remember, what, 50 miles, 50 miles in... So that’s like, wait one mile is 1.6k. So it’s gonna be about like, as if we were going to the Blue Mountains or something, maybe. That’s close.
Geoff 32:32
It’s 80 kilometres.
Georgie 32:33
But then I’m thinking of like, I feel like Bermuda is off because that’s not an island group. But I don’t know.
Geoff 32:41
Just a triangle!
Georgie 32:42
My friend, my friend sent me a po—ages ago, she sent me a postcard from Bermuda.
Geoff 32:47
No way.
Georgie 32:47
And she may have—
Geoff 32:48
She survived?
Georgie 32:48
Maybe I’m just implanting like memories here. But she may have said that it was quite close. Like it was not a far trip. I feel like there was something with the Virgin Islands and Richard Branson. And like it was like an easy place to like, get to.
Geoff 33:04
Off the coast of Florida.
Georgie 33:05
Hang on wait, south east. South... So that is that way.
Geoff 33:09
Southeast. Oh. It’s a good, good point. Actually, southeast is very—
Georgie 33:14
Bahamas, Bahamas, Bahamas...
Geoff 33:15
...specific.
Georgie 33:15
(tongue clicking)
Geoff 33:17
We have, you have phone a friend, and you have... not oh wait, did the 50, what was the other ones? Now I can’t remember.
Georgie 33:26
Ask the audience. You’re the audience, Geoff. But have you been looking it up, the, the answers?
Geoff 33:31
Yeah...? Maybe?
Georgie 33:32
Maybe well, then...
Geoff 33:34
Do you want to ask the audience? You can’t ask the audience because the audience has looked up the answer.
Georgie 33:40
But hey, what, do you reckon in the audience of the thing, that people have their phone, are they allowed?
Geoff 33:45
Maybe they like dump their phones out? They didn’t have mobile phones back then?
Georgie 33:50
But they do now.
Geoff 33:52
It’s true.
Georgie 33:54
I think I’m gonna lose...
Geoff 33:55
Inb4 someone emails us the right ans... like...
Georgie 33:58
(laughs) Some people watch, are like listening to this, infuriated. Ohh... I feel like it’s wrong. Wait, wait, don’t don’t... wait, do I have time?
Geoff 34:07
No, you’ve lost all the time.
Georgie 34:09
Alright just go Bahamas.
Geoff 34:11
Correct!
Georgie 34:12
Oh my god. Woo! I have money everybody.
Geoff 34:15
And tune in next time on Dragonball Z for we are out of time...
Georgie 34:20
No, we cannot be out of time, we have time.
Geoff 34:23
Okay for $125,000. Construction of which of these famous landmarks was completed first? Holy crap. Who would know this? Empire State Building, Royal Albert Hall, Eiffel Tower, or the Big Ben clock tower?
Georgie 34:40
So I need to correct this because I don’t think it’s called Big Ben clock tower or anything. I think it’s called Elizabeth Tower.
Geoff 34:45
Oh, lame.
Georgie 34:46
Or the name, the proper name.
Geoff 34:48
Lame.
Georgie 34:49
OK, I have no idea. What is Royal Albert Hall?
Geoff 34:53
Don’t you know what the Royal Albert Hall is? I will tell you right after I Google it.
Georgie 34:58
Right after this ad break. Oh my god, don’t you hate that? Okay, let’s, so—
Geoff 35:02
London’s most iconic venue. Oh, it’s for music concerts.
Georgie 35:07
Okay, I thought it was like a museum. Maybe I’m thinking of some Victoria Albert Museum. I don’t know. All right, so I’m gonna rule out empire state building that feels a bit—
Geoff 35:19
Too new?
Georgie 35:19
New to me. Yeah. Royal Albert Hall sounds like old but I’m not going off that, I’m just saying that/
Geoff 35:28
Completed first? Do you think they were all—
Georgie 35:31
Hang on.
Geoff 35:31
...started to build at the same time?
Georgie 35:33
Completed first. So like the Elizabeth Tower? Isn’t that kind of part of like the London Bridge? Or like it’s near it kind of thing? Which means that it’s possibly, it’s so funny. I’ve been there. Yes. And I’ve went to the bloody museum for the goddamn thing and I don’t remember anything.
Geoff 35:49
You just didn’t pay attention.
Georgie 35:51
You know, I was I was never I was never very good at history in school and like this kind of thing. Like I was always fascinated by stuff but I didn’t remember like, I don’t always remember details unless they were like a very interesting thing to me. I have a feeling that Eiffel Tower is actually quite old. But it says which one was completed first. Completed.
Geoff 36:12
Yeah. Completed. It, maybe it’s a trick question telling you like, because when you yeah, like I say, when someone asks you something was completed for us I assume they’re all started at the same time because then it’s a race, but. Can’t like—
Georgie 36:27
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s just which one was like in its entirety and like, it’s done, which one was like completed first?
Geoff 36:35
Oh as in like which one had the shortest construction period?
Georgie 36:38
No, no—
Geoff 36:39
Like—
Georgie 36:39
Oh, hang on, no wait.
Geoff 36:41
Maybe? Construction of which of these famous landmarks was completed first.
Georgie 36:46
It would be more explicit if it was like which one was completed in the shortest amount of time? Because that’s what—
Geoff 36:50
You sure?
Georgie 36:50
Yeah. Because the one about like which of these like Diwali and Lent and and all that, like it said whichever one has the shortest duration. So I feel like if they wanted to maintain consistency with the questions they would have been way more explicit. So I’m gonna say—
Geoff 37:05
What, The Guardian?
Georgie 37:07
Completed first means it was, it existed in its entirety first before any of the others were, they might have started but they weren’t like finished. Also, I think one of them, maybe it’s the Empire State Building was like built... in stages? I don’t know. I am inclined to say Eiffel Tower. Let’s go—
Geoff 37:25
Okay. Lock it in.
Georgie 37:26
I feel like I’m wrong. Oh my god. The Big Ben.
Geoff 37:28
Eeeh. You were wrong. Big Ben.
Georgie 37:29
I lost a lot of money, just go back down to 32,000. Fuck you. Alright.
Geoff 37:32
Ahh.
Georgie 37:33
So yeah it’s the, Big Ben clock tower.
Geoff 37:36
Which of these—
Georgie 37:36
Let’s do the rest of the questions.
Geoff 37:37
Cetaceans...
Georgie 37:40
Cetaceans?
Geoff 37:41
No it’s... cetacean. I mean, there’s no R, it’s not a cre-tacean. Is classified as a “toothed whale”. Grey whale, minke whale sperm whale humpback whale.
Georgie 37:53
I’m gonna guess because I’ve lost anyway. I’m gonna guess... minke whale?
Geoff 38:03
[incorrect sound] Sperm whale.
Georgie 38:04
Did you know that one?
Geoff 38:05
No I didn’t. I don’t know anything about animals. $500,000, who is the only British politician to have held all four great offices of state at some point during their career. Wow, I would not know any of these people.
Georgie 38:20
They sound white.
Geoff 38:21
David, David Lloyd George, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and John Major.
Georgie 38:28
Let’s guess James Callaghan.
Geoff 38:32
Ayy!
Georgie 38:33
Yay, redeemed.
Geoff 38:36
And for 1 million pounds. In 1718. Which pirate died in the battle off the coast of what is now North Carolina.
Georgie 38:47
So the only one I’ve actually—
Geoff 38:48
Calico—
Georgie 38:48
Actually I’ve heard of—yeah go on. Calico Jack.
Geoff 38:51
Calico Jack, Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, and Captain Kidd.
Georgie 38:57
I am inclined to pick Blackbeard because we had a team and I was in that team, like a team at work called Blackbeard, and I’m just gonna click on it it for good luck.
Geoff 39:06
Ooh.
Georgie 39:07
Oh my god, Blackbeard. Thank you.
Geoff 39:09
Would have got you a million.
Georgie 39:10
Hey Chris, are you listening? Remember Blackbeard?
Geoff 39:14
The, yeah, I mean, was it really easy at the beginning? Maybe.
Georgie 39:20
It was, it was so like, okay so, where, where did it start getting difficult.
Geoff 39:24
We got, we got Disney, we got some general knowledge about you know, airports. We got brands, household brands that we may or may not know. We got hammer and sickle, got some very common politics.
Georgie 39:45
English, got some...
Geoff 39:46
Got some toy questions, toy questions, which probably would be in the age bracket of the person sitting there. I’ve no idea what a Hatchimal is.
Georgie 39:55
Me neither. [comically] Hatchimal-uh. I think that’s from a—
Geoff 40:01
Oh my god.
Georgie 40:02
Robin Williams said it in, I think Mrs. Doubtfire, I think said Hatchimals. I’ve—what is it?
Geoff 40:08
Oh my god. These are...
Georgie 40:09
Oh it’s got the, these are Furby type things.
Geoff 40:13
These are worse than Furbies. What are you talking about?
Georgie 40:16
Oh they’re kind of cute, the colours are all right.
Geoff 40:19
God, get me away.
Georgie 40:23
Doctor Who, oh yeah, the Doctor Who one was an interesting one.
Geoff 40:26
Yeah, we’ve got some English language, got some yeah obstret... obstress.. obstetrics? Obstetrics.
Georgie 40:34
Obstetrics.
Geoff 40:37
Obstetrics. That’s English I think.
Georgie 40:40
We got some geography obviously with the island shit.
Geoff 40:43
Some culture, some geography.
Georgie 40:47
History, biology.
Geoff 40:52
What’s the animal thing.
Georgie 40:54
Yeah. Zoology?
Geoff 40:55
Err, zoology? Zoology. And then we’ve got some politics, historical politcs.
Georgie 40:59
Man, see, this is the thing, right, I guessed the last two.
Geoff 41:02
Yeah.
Georgie 41:03
Like, I actually guessed and I didn’t think about them. But that could have happened to anyone at any point, of—
Geoff 41:08
Yeah.
Georgie 41:08
You know, someone could have guessed their entire way through 15 questions. Got them all right.
Geoff 41:13
And that’s OK.
Georgie 41:13
And it had been pure luck.
Geoff 41:15
And that’s okay.
Georgie 41:15
You probably learn shit on the way as well? I guess.
Geoff 41:19
Haha. Yeah. Wait, well, I hope someone learned something during this with the educational podcast. You can f... tell...
Georgie 41:34
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Geoff 41:35
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Georgie 41:40
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Geoff 41:44
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Georgie 41:46
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Geoff 41:55
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Georgie 41:59
See you next week.
Geoff 42:01
Bye.