July 31, 2025 • 18 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello puzzlers. Let's start with a quick puzzle. It is
game show week here on the Puzzler. We had Ken
Jennings as our guests for the first part of the week.
So I have a warm up puzzle about game shows,
and it is this question, what popular game show takes
its name from a depressing medieval religious allegory? That's right,
a popular game show that takes its name from a
(00:23):
depressing medieval religious allegory that was referenced by both Chaucer
and Shakespeare. It's super bleak the answer and more puzzling
goodness after the break, Hello puzzlers, Welcome back to the
(00:44):
Puzzler podcast the hypnotic hum of your puzzle ac unit.
Thank you Andrea for that. I am your host, Ajy Jacobs. I'm,
of course, joined by chief puzzle offster Greg Kluska and Greg.
Before the break, we asked what game show title takes
its name from a depressed medieval religious allegory used by
Chaucer and Shakespeare.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Any ideas a depressing medieval religious allegory used by Chaucer
and Shakespeare cash cab, you know. But whatever the show was,
it was very popular in the Middle Ages. Everybody exactly,
ring around the rosie, string him up by his string,
(01:24):
put him in the stocks.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Raing is in the right area.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It is which is wheel of fortune?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Wheel of fortune, which was a trope in medieval Christianity
about our lack of control and that misfortune and death
will get us all. So life is feudile and focus
on the afterlife. Wil oh fortune. Every time I hear it,
I think like eternal damn Ratios.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Fan of White as the angel of death? What would
you like your fate to be?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I bring it up because this is Game show Week
on the puzzler we had as our guest Ken Jennings,
and now Greg has some game show theme puzzles for
the listeners at home and for me. So, Greg, what
do you got.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Here in the puzzle lab? You say Game show week?
And all the things start going off at once, all
the bells and the whistles, and the teletype and the
terminal and the beakers are pouring over with you know,
misty fluid and everything, because what could be more fun
than Game show Week? And so I have a kind
of grab bag of different ways of cluing titles of
(02:31):
game shows.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Oh okay, so every answer.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Is the title of a game show. But we're gonna
do different methods. So the first one, first one is
I'm going to clue some game shows whose names are
questions by giving you a possible answer to that question.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Oh I like that, Andrea Schomberg, I need your help,
even though some of these might be before your time, but.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Just every day, it's all a little bit of agism
back and forth with us.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And Andrea, Well, she's learning, she's learning her history.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I'm learning, yes, although sometimes Andrea knows the things that
you and I are too old to even.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Have we're learning are not.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Exactly our present day. All right. So this is the
answer to a game show whose title is a question,
and the answer is I don't. I've taken a vow
of poverty.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I think I got it. This was the first one
that popped them. A show that I have been on
and lost the potential to win a million dollars? Who
wants to be a million show?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I used to work for. I may have fact checked
the very questions that you did not win a million dollars.
How about this one? This is the answer to a question. No,
but I can jump higher than an eight year old?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Oh, are you smarter? Than a kindergartener? Is that the
one there's like a Jeff Fox? Yeah, are you smarter
fifth third? Fifth grader?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah? Are you smarter than a fifth grader? No? But
I can jump higher than an eight year old?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Okay, goodness? Yes, all right, all right?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
And your last one, the answer is you Q for
register five? You Q? So wait, say y u Q
for register five? And Q?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I got it?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I got it?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I got it? Whose line is it anyway?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Right? Oh? Interesting, that's the answer that I was thinking of.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
An older show line and Q are.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
And what's the older show that has a similar title?
Much older? It was on before our time, even a
j that we probably saw it when we were kids.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Who's what's your line?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
What's my line? What's my line? The great in that
sense line was meant my line of work? Right, somebody
come on and they'd ask them questions about what they do,
and the panel will try to guess what they do.
Whose line is it? Anyway? Is an improv show? Also
a great show using line and yet a different different way? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Does that qualify game show? Kind of?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Maybe? Kind of? I mean they have points, they give points.
I mean it's a you know, arbitrary and fun, but
they do, all right. So those are the question ones.
Now I have some earbusses.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Ah, okay, I like it all right.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Each answer again is the title of a classic game show.
So everyone, cover your left ear, cover your left ear, okay,
and I'm ready. Here's your clue the price.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Okay. I only know one game show that starts with
the price. The price is right exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You only heard it, you only heard it on the
right side it all right. Here's your next one. Name
that name, that name, that name, that name, that name,
that name.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That Twinkle Twinkle Little Star or the ABC song or
isn't there another one Bob Bob BlackSheep?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Sure, but what's the name name name that too? Very good?
Very good? All right? How about this one? Super more
super supermarket sweep, supermarket sweep. Yes, that's an audio sweep
when you go from the lowest.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I did not know that audio. I mean I figured
it was supermarket sweep because I didn't know any others.
But so a sweep that is the term for when you.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Are doing a sweep across the whole audio spectrum from it,
all right, I learned? All right, how about this one show?
I'll try to get show.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It sounds like you are. There's some trembling, a little echoing,
a little what do you got?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
It sounds like I'll do one more, I'll do one more, one.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
More, gone show the gong that was a gone. Yeah,
excellent about this one?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Fam Illy fam illy no fam no illy.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I think I got it. I hope family feud, family feud.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Exactly, very good. How about this?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Oh, what sounds like you're constipated? Constipated? Luck is that?
I know? I know there's a game show called Press
Your Luck, But where is the press? Oh? I guess
you're pressing on So it's your exerting.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Its pressure luck pressure A little bit of a penny.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Gotcha, which, by the way, has one of the great
stories of all time where the guy memorized all of
the possible ways that the that the little lights could
show up and beat the game like he won million dollars,
he won multi multiple amount of money.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Study that what should have been so random he couldn't
have figured it out? And then if you figured it out.
I also have some charades, the final favorite puzzler game.
We're gonna do some charades. These are also all game
show titles. Okay, I got two of these. It comes
(08:23):
in a pod plus Mohito liquor plus super Egos opposite.
So it comes in a pod Okay, yep, Mohito liquor
rum and super Ego's super egos opposite.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Now that is the Freudian id, Yes, pier Wait what
was it? P rum id p rum id as in
the something thousand dollars pyramid?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yes? Or is it just called generally pyramid without the money.
Pyramid is the name for the show, regardless of what
the number amount is. It's changed over the years.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I didn't pyramid. I feel was doing connections the New
York Times Connections like yeah, and the answer would be
things that are square, So you would say, like, you know,
a boxing ring, and I don't know what else is square?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Squares exactly, Hollywood squares. All right, last one, and this
is kind of apt in the law. Well you'll see
why maybe, or I'll explain why. Shaka Blank plus one
penny plus Manta blank plus body part below the knee.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
All right, all right, I think I got it.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
So Shaka, we'll go through it.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Shaka Shaka con the singer.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
One penny scent, Manta Blank ray and the body part
below the knee, which put all together.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You get concentration.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Concentration, which I think is apps because that was the
great game show where you revealed visual ribuses as you answer.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Questions, Oh I'd forgotten.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Right, and that squares would come off the board and
you'd see parts of this visual rebus and you you know,
you'd have an opportunity to guess at it before you
saw all the pieces. What better show to rebis than Concentration.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Nice meta work, love it, great job. But we're not
done yet. We have one more short segment for you,
which is, as you know, our guest for most of
the week was Ken Jennings. Now Ken Jennings the greatest
Jeopardy player ever that has been objectively proven. But even
(10:41):
Ken Jennings screws up. So he asked missed plenty of questions.
But you remember you brought up are you smarter than
a fifth grade?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah, I feel we should play are you smarter than
Ken Jennings?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
So you feel we should play that?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So these I found of a bunch of questions that
Ken Jennings blue. Now, Greg, I will say he plays
the learned league. He is a great trivia guy, but
these are hard. These are hard, so no judgments.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
And you know, Ken Jennings, like all the great Jeopardy champions,
studied for that too, which is not I don't I'm
not taking anything away from Ken, who is an amazing
trivia player, but you know you prep for Jeopardy by
going through the lists of all the big things, president's countries, capitals,
et cetera. So so I'm just, you know, giving laying
the groundwork for why I failed.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Okay, Well, here's the thing. Even if you get one
that proves you're smarter than Ken Jennings, all you need
is one of these three or four that I'm going
to give you all right here it is. This one
is in literature. In early drafts, the heroine of this
novel was named Pansy, and her family home was called
(11:56):
Fontaoi Hall Fantinoi Hall. What is that?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Wow? Pansy of Fontanoy Hall. So many things that could
be Wow. Let's go with tests of the Durbervilles.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Oh, I'm sorry, wrong, but you are not any more
wrong than Ken, who said weathering heights. The correct is
what is gone with the wind? Gone with? And it
ended up being Tara And wait who read Scarlet scarlet scarlet. Yeah,
there you go. All right, all right, all you need
(12:35):
is one, remember, all right, here we go with another.
We got all right. This is a tough one. This
is a tough one. They all are European islands. Gave
Dos an islet administratively part of this larger island is
Europe's southern most point. So it's an island that is
(12:56):
southernmost point of Europe Europe.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And Gavdos how do you spell Gavdos.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Ga v d Os? I don't know how that helps you.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I think if you just yeah, I don't think it
helps me. And you want to know what the larger
island is or the country.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, I guess the larger island. This is like a
little island off the larger island.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Right all right, I'm gonna I'm going to say, what
is Malta?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Oh, you're in the It is in the European island.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah, and Malta is south. I mean there are parts
of Africa that are north of Malta. So I thought
that was pretty good. But it's going to be like
over in the Azores or something like that, or I
don't know it is crete, but Gavedos is Greek looking
I should have gone, I should have stuck with Gavdos
looking Greek, And yes.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I feel good. I think I think this one might
be the one.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
United Nations history. In nineteen sixty, this new national leader
made the longest speech in United Nations history four hours
and twenty nine minutes. A guy who loves to give
long speeches. He just took over in nineteen sixty.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
He's a new national leader in nineteen sixty. That's right, Oh,
but not a UN leader. Got it? Got he gave
the longest speech in UN history in nineteen sixty.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Right, he was head of state, but he was not
right for the head of the UN.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
UN.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
But he gave a long speech as he has wont
to do.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Wow, you think I might get this long speeches, Well,
it's not FDR. Nineteen sixty new national leader was John F. Kennedy. Nope.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Thinking he was not American, non American American, and he
loved to give long He had a long beard. Listen
to his long speeches.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Oh, wow, I don't know it is?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
What is Fidel Castro.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
A good? All? Right?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Wait, I think this is good. I think. In the
NATO phonetic alphabet, the alpha Bravo, etc. There are two
letters that are titles of Shakespearean characters. Do you know
which two?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Well?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Characters?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Oh? That's interesting. Uh. And this is not a trick
question because I would just say Romeo and Juliet.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
That's it. I'm cutting you off right there.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Good. Well, because the Juliette in the NATO alphab is
spelled with two t's, so it's tally not the name
of the character.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Look at this. You not only did you get the
right answer, but you get bonus points for busting jeopardy
for being wrong jeopardy. And Ken's response was who are
Othello and Hamlet? But no, it is who are Romeo
and Julia?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah? Well, I am down with the alphabet. We can
play that game all day.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
All right, let's let's leave on high note.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I am smarter than.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Right here. Uh? All right? Do you have an extra
credit for the folks at home?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah? I can do an extra credit. Let's do this.
I'll do one of earbus in one charade. Okay, your
earbus is this I've gotta that's your earbus. I'll do
it again. I've gotta. And your charade is this one?
You and me adore three plus one summer month.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
You and me adore three plus one summer month.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Love it all right? Well, thank you everybody. That's our
show for today. You've got extra credits to think about.
And of course, if you need more puzzles, which why
wouldn't you check out our Instagram feed at Hello Puzzlers,
and we'll meet you here tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles
that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Hey puzzlers. Greg Pliska up from the puzzle Lab with
the extra credit answer from our previous episode. Ken Jennings
joined us one more time for a geography puzzle. Every
answer is a capital city and a country where there
is a word hidden in between the two of them
where they connect, and we gave you a clue both
(17:31):
to the city and country. And in that clue is
the word itself that you can find overlapping the city
in the country. Your extra credit clue was this one.
Many people find the Cathedral of Santa Maria in this
Caribbean nation a great place to worship God. The answer,
of course is Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, because
(17:51):
right there where Domingo meets Dominican the end of Domingo
in the beginning of Dominican, give you the word God.
So thank God you are listening, and we hope you
listen again next time.
Hello puzzlers. Let's start with a quick puzzle. It is
game show week here on the Puzzler. We had Ken
Jennings as our guests for the first part of the week.
So I have a warm up puzzle about game shows,
and it is this question, what popular game show takes
its name from a depressing medieval religious allegory? That's right,
a popular game show that takes its name from a
(00:23):
depressing medieval religious allegory that was referenced by both Chaucer
and Shakespeare. It's super bleak the answer and more puzzling
goodness after the break, Hello puzzlers, Welcome back to the
(00:44):
Puzzler podcast the hypnotic hum of your puzzle ac unit.
Thank you Andrea for that. I am your host, Ajy Jacobs. I'm,
of course, joined by chief puzzle offster Greg Kluska and Greg.
Before the break, we asked what game show title takes
its name from a depressed medieval religious allegory used by
Chaucer and Shakespeare.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Any ideas a depressing medieval religious allegory used by Chaucer
and Shakespeare cash cab, you know. But whatever the show was,
it was very popular in the Middle Ages. Everybody exactly,
ring around the rosie, string him up by his string,
(01:24):
put him in the stocks.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Raing is in the right area.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It is which is wheel of fortune?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Wheel of fortune, which was a trope in medieval Christianity
about our lack of control and that misfortune and death
will get us all. So life is feudile and focus
on the afterlife. Wil oh fortune. Every time I hear it,
I think like eternal damn Ratios.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Fan of White as the angel of death? What would
you like your fate to be?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I bring it up because this is Game show Week
on the puzzler we had as our guest Ken Jennings,
and now Greg has some game show theme puzzles for
the listeners at home and for me. So, Greg, what
do you got.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Here in the puzzle lab? You say Game show week?
And all the things start going off at once, all
the bells and the whistles, and the teletype and the
terminal and the beakers are pouring over with you know,
misty fluid and everything, because what could be more fun
than Game show Week? And so I have a kind
of grab bag of different ways of cluing titles of
(02:31):
game shows.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Oh okay, so every answer.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Is the title of a game show. But we're gonna
do different methods. So the first one, first one is
I'm going to clue some game shows whose names are
questions by giving you a possible answer to that question.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Oh I like that, Andrea Schomberg, I need your help,
even though some of these might be before your time, but.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Just every day, it's all a little bit of agism
back and forth with us.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And Andrea, Well, she's learning, she's learning her history.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I'm learning, yes, although sometimes Andrea knows the things that
you and I are too old to even.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Have we're learning are not.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Exactly our present day. All right. So this is the
answer to a game show whose title is a question,
and the answer is I don't. I've taken a vow
of poverty.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I think I got it. This was the first one
that popped them. A show that I have been on
and lost the potential to win a million dollars? Who
wants to be a million show?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I used to work for. I may have fact checked
the very questions that you did not win a million dollars.
How about this one? This is the answer to a question. No,
but I can jump higher than an eight year old?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Oh, are you smarter? Than a kindergartener? Is that the
one there's like a Jeff Fox? Yeah, are you smarter
fifth third? Fifth grader?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah? Are you smarter than a fifth grader? No? But
I can jump higher than an eight year old?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Okay, goodness? Yes, all right, all right?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
And your last one, the answer is you Q for
register five? You Q? So wait, say y u Q
for register five? And Q?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I got it?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I got it?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I got it? Whose line is it anyway?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Right? Oh? Interesting, that's the answer that I was thinking of.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
An older show line and Q are.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
And what's the older show that has a similar title?
Much older? It was on before our time, even a
j that we probably saw it when we were kids.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Who's what's your line?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
What's my line? What's my line? The great in that
sense line was meant my line of work? Right, somebody
come on and they'd ask them questions about what they do,
and the panel will try to guess what they do.
Whose line is it? Anyway? Is an improv show? Also
a great show using line and yet a different different way? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Does that qualify game show? Kind of?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Maybe? Kind of? I mean they have points, they give points.
I mean it's a you know, arbitrary and fun, but
they do, all right. So those are the question ones.
Now I have some earbusses.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Ah, okay, I like it all right.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Each answer again is the title of a classic game show.
So everyone, cover your left ear, cover your left ear, okay,
and I'm ready. Here's your clue the price.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Okay. I only know one game show that starts with
the price. The price is right exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You only heard it, you only heard it on the
right side it all right. Here's your next one. Name
that name, that name, that name, that name, that name,
that name.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That Twinkle Twinkle Little Star or the ABC song or
isn't there another one Bob Bob BlackSheep?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Sure, but what's the name name name that too? Very good?
Very good? All right? How about this one? Super more
super supermarket sweep, supermarket sweep. Yes, that's an audio sweep
when you go from the lowest.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I did not know that audio. I mean I figured
it was supermarket sweep because I didn't know any others.
But so a sweep that is the term for when you.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Are doing a sweep across the whole audio spectrum from it,
all right, I learned? All right, how about this one show?
I'll try to get show.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It sounds like you are. There's some trembling, a little echoing,
a little what do you got?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
It sounds like I'll do one more, I'll do one more, one.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
More, gone show the gong that was a gone. Yeah,
excellent about this one?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Fam Illy fam illy no fam no illy.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I think I got it. I hope family feud, family feud.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Exactly, very good. How about this?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Oh, what sounds like you're constipated? Constipated? Luck is that?
I know? I know there's a game show called Press
Your Luck, But where is the press? Oh? I guess
you're pressing on So it's your exerting.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Its pressure luck pressure A little bit of a penny.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Gotcha, which, by the way, has one of the great
stories of all time where the guy memorized all of
the possible ways that the that the little lights could
show up and beat the game like he won million dollars,
he won multi multiple amount of money.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Study that what should have been so random he couldn't
have figured it out? And then if you figured it out.
I also have some charades, the final favorite puzzler game.
We're gonna do some charades. These are also all game
show titles. Okay, I got two of these. It comes
(08:23):
in a pod plus Mohito liquor plus super Egos opposite.
So it comes in a pod Okay, yep, Mohito liquor
rum and super Ego's super egos opposite.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Now that is the Freudian id, Yes, pier Wait what
was it? P rum id p rum id as in
the something thousand dollars pyramid?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yes? Or is it just called generally pyramid without the money.
Pyramid is the name for the show, regardless of what
the number amount is. It's changed over the years.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I didn't pyramid. I feel was doing connections the New
York Times Connections like yeah, and the answer would be
things that are square, So you would say, like, you know,
a boxing ring, and I don't know what else is square?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Squares exactly, Hollywood squares. All right, last one, and this
is kind of apt in the law. Well you'll see
why maybe, or I'll explain why. Shaka Blank plus one
penny plus Manta blank plus body part below the knee.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
All right, all right, I think I got it.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
So Shaka, we'll go through it.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Shaka Shaka con the singer.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
One penny scent, Manta Blank ray and the body part
below the knee, which put all together.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You get concentration.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Concentration, which I think is apps because that was the
great game show where you revealed visual ribuses as you answer.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Questions, Oh I'd forgotten.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Right, and that squares would come off the board and
you'd see parts of this visual rebus and you you know,
you'd have an opportunity to guess at it before you
saw all the pieces. What better show to rebis than Concentration.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Nice meta work, love it, great job. But we're not
done yet. We have one more short segment for you,
which is, as you know, our guest for most of
the week was Ken Jennings. Now Ken Jennings the greatest
Jeopardy player ever that has been objectively proven. But even
(10:41):
Ken Jennings screws up. So he asked missed plenty of questions.
But you remember you brought up are you smarter than
a fifth grade?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah, I feel we should play are you smarter than
Ken Jennings?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
So you feel we should play that?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So these I found of a bunch of questions that
Ken Jennings blue. Now, Greg, I will say he plays
the learned league. He is a great trivia guy, but
these are hard. These are hard, so no judgments.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
And you know, Ken Jennings, like all the great Jeopardy champions,
studied for that too, which is not I don't I'm
not taking anything away from Ken, who is an amazing
trivia player, but you know you prep for Jeopardy by
going through the lists of all the big things, president's countries, capitals,
et cetera. So so I'm just, you know, giving laying
the groundwork for why I failed.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Okay, Well, here's the thing. Even if you get one
that proves you're smarter than Ken Jennings, all you need
is one of these three or four that I'm going
to give you all right here it is. This one
is in literature. In early drafts, the heroine of this
novel was named Pansy, and her family home was called
(11:56):
Fontaoi Hall Fantinoi Hall. What is that?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Wow? Pansy of Fontanoy Hall. So many things that could
be Wow. Let's go with tests of the Durbervilles.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Oh, I'm sorry, wrong, but you are not any more
wrong than Ken, who said weathering heights. The correct is
what is gone with the wind? Gone with? And it
ended up being Tara And wait who read Scarlet scarlet scarlet. Yeah,
there you go. All right, all right, all you need
(12:35):
is one, remember, all right, here we go with another.
We got all right. This is a tough one. This
is a tough one. They all are European islands. Gave
Dos an islet administratively part of this larger island is
Europe's southern most point. So it's an island that is
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southernmost point of Europe Europe.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And Gavdos how do you spell Gavdos.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Ga v d Os? I don't know how that helps you.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I think if you just yeah, I don't think it
helps me. And you want to know what the larger
island is or the country.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, I guess the larger island. This is like a
little island off the larger island.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Right all right, I'm gonna I'm going to say, what
is Malta?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Oh, you're in the It is in the European island.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah, and Malta is south. I mean there are parts
of Africa that are north of Malta. So I thought
that was pretty good. But it's going to be like
over in the Azores or something like that, or I
don't know it is crete, but Gavedos is Greek looking
I should have gone, I should have stuck with Gavdos
looking Greek, And yes.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I feel good. I think I think this one might
be the one.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
United Nations history. In nineteen sixty, this new national leader
made the longest speech in United Nations history four hours
and twenty nine minutes. A guy who loves to give
long speeches. He just took over in nineteen sixty.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
He's a new national leader in nineteen sixty. That's right, Oh,
but not a UN leader. Got it? Got he gave
the longest speech in UN history in nineteen sixty.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Right, he was head of state, but he was not
right for the head of the UN.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
UN.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
But he gave a long speech as he has wont
to do.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Wow, you think I might get this long speeches, Well,
it's not FDR. Nineteen sixty new national leader was John F. Kennedy. Nope.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Thinking he was not American, non American American, and he
loved to give long He had a long beard. Listen
to his long speeches.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Oh, wow, I don't know it is?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
What is Fidel Castro.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
A good? All? Right?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Wait, I think this is good. I think. In the
NATO phonetic alphabet, the alpha Bravo, etc. There are two
letters that are titles of Shakespearean characters. Do you know
which two?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Well?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Characters?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Oh? That's interesting. Uh. And this is not a trick
question because I would just say Romeo and Juliet.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
That's it. I'm cutting you off right there.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Good. Well, because the Juliette in the NATO alphab is
spelled with two t's, so it's tally not the name
of the character.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Look at this. You not only did you get the
right answer, but you get bonus points for busting jeopardy
for being wrong jeopardy. And Ken's response was who are
Othello and Hamlet? But no, it is who are Romeo
and Julia?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah? Well, I am down with the alphabet. We can
play that game all day.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
All right, let's let's leave on high note.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I am smarter than.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Right here. Uh? All right? Do you have an extra
credit for the folks at home?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah? I can do an extra credit. Let's do this.
I'll do one of earbus in one charade. Okay, your
earbus is this I've gotta that's your earbus. I'll do
it again. I've gotta. And your charade is this one?
You and me adore three plus one summer month.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
You and me adore three plus one summer month.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Love it all right? Well, thank you everybody. That's our
show for today. You've got extra credits to think about.
And of course, if you need more puzzles, which why
wouldn't you check out our Instagram feed at Hello Puzzlers,
and we'll meet you here tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles
that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Hey puzzlers. Greg Pliska up from the puzzle Lab with
the extra credit answer from our previous episode. Ken Jennings
joined us one more time for a geography puzzle. Every
answer is a capital city and a country where there
is a word hidden in between the two of them
where they connect, and we gave you a clue both
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to the city and country. And in that clue is
the word itself that you can find overlapping the city
in the country. Your extra credit clue was this one.
Many people find the Cathedral of Santa Maria in this
Caribbean nation a great place to worship God. The answer,
of course is Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, because
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right there where Domingo meets Dominican the end of Domingo
in the beginning of Dominican, give you the word God.
So thank God you are listening, and we hope you
listen again next time.
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