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August 6, 2025 18 mins
A new week means new questions! Hope you have fun with these!

What is the state capital of Wyoming?
Ancient Persians and Greeks encountered the famous “reeds that produce honey without bees”, which we know today as what?
What is the currency of Fiji?
The Brokenwood Mysteries, Haka Life, and Tagata Pasifika are a few television series from which country?
What is the only country to border the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf?
Who wrote the the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in 1916?
Which ancient Greek was later referred to in Dante's Divine Comedy as "Poet sovereign", king of all poets?
In 1921, folklorist Margaret Murray promoted the idea that all witches across Europe met in covens of how many people?
Introduced in a linguistic sense by Lewis Carroll, which term is also called a blend word?
Contact with water and oxygen causes iron to rust in what chemical process?
Which current Premiere League team's badge features a lion on a sky blue background?


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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Hello, and welcome to Quiz Quiz Bang Bang, the pub
quiz practice show that hits you a pad right in
the quizzer. I'm David Flora.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah, I'm Annie Flora, and we're here to teach you
more about trivia than bad things happen in squid Game.
We didn't watch anything besides the first season.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
We started the second one. I haven't pursued it yet. No,
we might, we might. It's a good show though. We
have Cherrivia on Zoom coming up second Saturday of August
noon Mountain time. If you'd like a link, just let
us know. The old links probably still work for the
same Zoom call thing. Whatever however it works. I don't

(00:57):
think it changes, but.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
If it does, just shoot us a message.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Like to give a big shout out to new patron Steven,
Thank you, Steven, thanks for signing up to Patreon, and
a big shout out to Michelle for upgrading her patron Joab.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
It's an up.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Thanks Michelle, thank you. And that's about all we got.
Other than that. I hope you're doing well and we're
all ready for some trivia. Here's how the show works.
Whiz 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

(01:45):
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 j one. The category is
state capitals. What is the state capital of Wyoming? Question

(02:11):
two category food and drink. Ancient Persians and Greeks encountered
the famous quote reads that produce honey without bees end
quote which we know today as what. Question three category

(02:31):
currency What is the currency of Fiji? Question four category
pop culture. This one comes from listener may Think you May,
Thank You May? Which reality show judge and Dame of
the British Empire was born in Cape Town, South Africa

(02:53):
in nineteen forty and studied at the Cordon Blue School
before opening a Michelin starred restaurant and subsequently a school
to train both professional and amateur cooks in the UK.
And now the answer is to round one Question one,
what is the state capital of Wyoming? Cheyenne? Question two

(03:20):
Ancient Persians and Greeks encountered the famous reeds that produce
honey without bees, which we know today as what sugarcane?
Question three? What is the currency of Fiji the Fijian dollar?

(03:41):
Question four? Which reality show judge and dame of the
British Empire was born in Cape Town, South Africa in
nineteen forty Prue Leith. She joined The Great British Baking
Show in March of twenty seventeen when the show moved
to Channel four and was given the dB for services

(04:03):
to Food, broadcasting, education and charity.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
She's being replaced by Caroline Waldgrave as the newest judge
on Great British Bakup. We just got used to prow
Why can't Marry Berry come back?

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Come Back? Mary Berry?

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Round two? Question five? The category is television. The Broken
Wood Mysteries, Haka Life and Tagata Pacifica are a few
television series from which country? Question six? The category is technology,

(04:46):
which alliterative tech provides transcription or translation of dialogue on
a video screen or other visual display. Question seven. The
category is geography. This question comes from listener Bobby, Thank.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
You, Bobby, Thank you Bobby.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
What is the only country to border the Red Sea
and the Persian Gulf. Question eight. The category is literature.
Who wrote the novel A Portrait of the Artist as
a young Man in nineteen sixteen and now? The answer

(05:34):
is to round two? Question five? The Brokenwood Mysteries, Hakka
Life and Tagata Pacifica are a few television series from
which country New Zealand? The Brokenwood Mysteries are a lot
of fun? Question six? Which a literative tech provides transcription

(05:58):
or translation of dialogue on a video screen or other
visual display closed captioning? Question seven was the only country
to border the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf Saudi Arabia.

(06:18):
Question eight. Who wrote the novel A Portrait of the
Artist as a young Man in nineteen sixteen? James Joyce.
You know that's one of those you should read this books.
I haven't read yet, so I should get on that.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
I don't think I've ever read any James Joyce.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Actually I have Ulysses on hold at Libby, so I
will be knocking that out suit. I think his last
sentence is like two thousand words long or something like ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
That's it for the first half. That means it's time
for the Bang Bang Round category for this week bangrag
round is film. You'll have thirty seconds to give as
many answers as you can to the following question. There
are seven films in the Jurassic Park film franchise. Name them.

(07:15):
Time starts Now.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
And that's time. The seven films in the Jurassic Park
film franchise are Jurassic Park, The Lust World, Jurassic Park,
Jurassic Park three, Jurassic World, Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, Jurassic

(08:08):
World Dominion, Jurassic World Rebirth. I think they need to
do like what the zombie movies do, where it's like,
all right, the park broke free and went into New York,
and this is thirty years later, where New Yorkers are
just like living with dinosaurs or something. I don't know.

(08:30):
They're just doing the same movie over and over again.
But I haven't seen the most recent one. I hear
it's better than the Chris Kram Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
The twenty tens weren't kind to franchises. I don't feel yeah.
Round three. Question nine. The category is history, which ancient
Greek was later referred to in Dante's Divine Comedy as
Poets Sovereign, King of All Poets. Question ten, Category Science

(09:05):
in art. This one comes from listener Nolan. Thank you, Nolan,
Thank you, Nolan. Bob Ross's happy little clouds were usually
painted with a shade of white named after what element
the dioxide of which is an excellent white pigment. Question

(09:26):
eleven category Games and Hobbies, which character class in D
and D is described as intermediaries between the mortal world
and the distant planes of the gods, and imbued with
divine magic. Question twelve category Folklore. In nineteen twenty one,

(09:51):
folklorist Margaret Murray promoted the idea that all witches across
Europe met in covens of how many people and now
they answers to round three. Question nine, which ancient Greek
was later referred to in the Divine Comedy as poets
Sovereign King of all poets, Homer.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Makes sense.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Question ten. Bob Ross's happy little clouds were usually painted
with a shade of white named after what element titanium?
Titanium white, and when he used yellow it was cadmium yellow.
Question eleven, which character class in D and D is

(10:41):
described as intermediaries between the mortal world and the distant
planes of the gods, and imbued with divine magic clerics.
Question twelve. In nineteen twenty one, folkloreist Margaret Murray promoted
the idea that all witches across Europe met covens. Of
how many people thirteen?

Speaker 2 (11:07):
I mean that's just common knowledge.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
I guess technically, if you have at least three, you've
got a coven. But it's good, you know, thirteen's an
unlucky number, the devil's number, all that good stuff.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, I had to meet up with thirteen people, I
just be like, I just won't be awaitch round four.
Question thirteen. The category is music. This question comes from
listener Major Data, Thank you, Major You Major What nineteen
ninety eight song mentions the following people and things Akira Kurosawa,

(11:49):
sailor Moon, Harrison, Ford, Snickers, candy bar, and wasabi. Question fourteen.
The category is language introduced in a linguistic sense by
Lewis Carroll, which term is also called a blend word.

(12:16):
Question fifteen. The category is science. Contact with water and
oxygen causes iron to rust in what chemical process? Question sixteen.
The category is sports. Which current Premier League teams badge

(12:39):
features a lion on a sky blue background, and now
the answer is to Round four. Question thirteen. What song
mentions the following people in things A Kira, Kurosawa, sailor Moon,
Harrison Ford, Snickers, candy bar and Wassabi one week get

(13:05):
out of Here Snickers? Question fourteen introduced in a linguistic
sense by Lewis Carroll. Which term is also called a
blend word portmanteau? Question fifteen? Contact with water and oxygen
causes iron to rest in? What chemical process oxidation? Question sixteen?

(13:33):
Which current Premier League team's badge features a lion on
a sky blue background? Aston Villa.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
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 language. Ask you three questions, the
answers of which are all clues to the final question.

(14:05):
Keep in mind the clue questions may not be from
the same category as the final. Question One Which well
known film character created by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gail
has the middle name Lathrop?

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Question two? Who took a selfie in twenty fourteen with
Neil Degrass Tyson and Barack Obama? And yes he was
wearing a bow tie at the time.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Question three which literary character dies in the Arctic after
pursuing his quote unquote fiend and demon there?

Speaker 2 (14:52):
And your Big Bang Question? English polymath William Hule is
credited with coining what term in eighteen thirty three for
students of the knowledge of the material world collectively?

Speaker 1 (15:11):
And now the answers to the Big Bang round? Question one?
Which well known film character created by Robert Zemeckis and
Bob Gail has the middle name Lethrop? Doctor Emmett L.
Brown from Back to the Future.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Question two? Who took a selfie in twenty fourteen with
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Barack Obama Bill Nye.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
He was also given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by
President Biden in January of this year. Twenty joint five,
Oh nice? Question three? Which literary character dies in the
Arctic after pursuing his fiend and demon there? Victor Frankenstein.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
And your Big Bang Question? English polymath William Hewle is
credited with coining what term in eighteen thirty three for
students of the knowledge of the material world collectively? The
vocation that doctor Brown, Bill Nye, and Victor Frickenstein all share.

(16:22):
It's scientists.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, so this guy coined the term scientist. Before that,
it was they would refer to them as natural philosophers
or naturalists, but philosophy was kind of in there with
the sciences and stuff when you talked about those types
of folks.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
I mean, it makes sense because I think both philosophy
and science is just trying to get a deeper understanding
of the world around you.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
It's a good pointy. He also coined a bunch of
other terms. I believe physicist was one of them, and
he was kind of known for his wordsmithing at the time.
Yo William Huele, whose last name was spelled we will
w h W E l L but apparently pronounced Hewle.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
What is he? A Moby Dick character qua quek quad
creek quad pee quad peak.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
Pequand oh yeah, quek way pea quad quek quad ishab
a mail.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Starbucks moby Bucks.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Star Dick. Anyway, thank you guys for listening. Don't forget.
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(17:58):
and thank you for listen.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Thank you for this episode of Quiz, Quiz, Bang Bang.
I've been, Andy Flora.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
I've been David Flora is looking at you. Quiz Victor Frankenstein.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah, I always forget that that book ends with like
Frankenstein jumping off a boat and running off in the ice.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Yeah, well he oh.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
No, sorry not Frankstein. Frankenstein's monster, my bad yeah, also
known as Adam.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
It's a wild ending. Everybody just goes to the North
Pole and disappears.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, I always forget that. That's how it ends.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
She set herself up well to have a sequel where
someone you know in the nineteen hundred's finds a block
of ice with the monster in it and then boom,
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