Ep. 318: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia IV

have a big announcement. Steve, what is the big announcement? Oh, we're staging up our donations. Yeah, so now when you win, we'll send five hundred bucks. Because see now I don't if people notice. Now we're able to it's our trivia thing has taken off almost we're able to sell ads against it. Yeah. Previously the winners just attack on there's one hundred bucks. Previously the way the tree it would get to choose where one hundred dollars donation would go

to a conservation organization. We kind of pulled that out of our arses. Yeah, yep, it was a last minute email the night before we did it the first time, and we are now up to five hundred dollars, so the pressure is on. Yeah, it's more popular. The money you'll get more. It's right, it's gonna be like really

like tense. We have played six times so far. Steve has won three times, Brody who was not here, has won twice, clay As one once, and Seth is the newest member of the club who won the last time we played. You know what, man, here's a couple things I think we need. We need some kind of Winners Club Member billion. Oh yeah, we need t shirt like a patch, a patch Winners Club member billion, yeah, that you can collect. And then I think that we need to have on the little intro with the no counch

for old men stuff in it. I think that someone in the end needs to say a game on Suckers to end it. Yeah, I'll say it, so we have I don't think I'll have my daughter do it. Yeah, yeah, I'll probably have my daughter say game on Suckers. Do you ever hear my voicemail that my daughter leaves yes, oh yeah, yes, the side of my dad that's perfect. Dailed it now. I'm not convinced it's out ches here. Now we have some housekeeping from last time we played Oh no, this is what he means that he means

to say things that Spencer screwed up. A few episodes ago, I asked the room what five states west of the Mississippi River don't have a national park. The answer was Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. Corbin Newman rode in to let me know that Nebraska actually gained a National Historical Park in twenty twenty one when the Homestead National Monument of America was

redesignated as the Homestead National Historical Park. But this doesn't change the answer because the National Park Service technically considers national parks and national historical parks is two different things. According to them, national historical parks are commonly areas of greater physical extent in complexity than national historical sites, so it'd be closer like a monument or a national historical site than it would be a national park. Kind of

a non announcement there. Well, he wasn't the only one who wanted right. You felt like you had to address it. In that same episode, I asked the room to name a state with the brook trout as their state fish. About a dozen people rote in to correct me that North Carolina was wrong because their state fish is actually the red fish. But what those folks were missing is that North Carolina actually has two state fish, a state saltwater fish being the redfish, and a state freshwater fish

being the Southern Appalachian brook trout. You've been new heart. Thank you, Phil, Phil play the sounder. We are now onto Meat Eater Trivia. Look, I need to know what I stand to win everything, Just tend to win everything. All right, here we go the first question. The topic is mountain men, and like every time we play, this is going to be multiple choice. This first great question comes to us via Meat Eater's own graphics guy Hunter Spencer.

If you have a question you think is right for meat eat Trivia, you can send it to Trivia at the meat eater dot com. Did he submit online or does call just through slack O. Merriwether, Lewis, William Clark, Joseph Meek, John Coulter, Jim Bridger, William Henry Ashley, and James Beckworth. We're all born in what state? We have? Merriwether, Lewis, William Clark, Joseph Meek, John Coulter, Jim Bridger, William, Henry Ashley, and James Beckworth. We're all born in what state? Is it? Ohio, Virginia,

Illinois or New York. I want you to note that I had it written down before you offered the well done, Ohio, Virginia, Illinois or New York. Again it is Maryweather. Luis, you gotta hide your board from me better. I'm not stealing from William Clark, Joseph Meek, John Coulter, Jim Bridger, William Henry Ashley, and James Beckworth. Now which one of these men? Was it Steve that gave it away for you? Or do you not want to tell? Two of them? Two

of them? Okay? Does everybody have an answer? Three of them? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying Virginia, Tom saying Virginia, Virginia, Virginia, Karen saying New York, Chester saying Ohio, and Seth saying New York. Steve was right. The correct answer is Virginia. Can I tell them how they could have known that? Yeah? Oh, and I'll tell you Jim Beckworth a freed slave. So you know it's

gonna be a slave state. Another way you maybe could have known that is Hunter Spencer's from Virginia, so he wrote any question about Virginia, or you could have read Master Trappers. Yeah, or Tom's gonna be a formidable foe right now. Uh. Another thing is like all that, like you know, the Lewis and Clark, that was their whole, Like everybody was from Virginia. Yeah, like anybody involved anything

from a political end of ship, it was all from Virginia. Amazingly, Merriweather Lewis, William Clark, and John Coulter, we're all born within about ninety miles of each other between seventeen seventy and seventeen seventy five. In addition to William Clark, John Coulter, Jim Ridger, and William Henry Ashley all being born in Virginia, they all also died in Missouri. Oh. I like that. That should not have been multiple choice. I would disagree.

Do you think you guys would have been in their correct and and he got it wrong and I got it wrong. We are to question to the topic is fishing? Hell? Yeah, a wiper is a high brid of what two fish? A wiper that is spelled w I p e R. A wiper is a hybrid of what two fish. We have a lot of very quick answers in the room, Seth and Chester still thinking there's a fox named swiper. Dora the explorer don't think that'll help you. Does everybody

have an answer? You ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying a white bass and a stripe bass. We have Tom with no answer, hating and saying white bass and striper, Katie saying a whitefish, and question Mark Krinn saying a whitefish and a bass, Chester saying a white bass and a striper, and Seth saying a bass and unknown not even what kind of bass. The correct answer is a white bass and a striped bass. So

we had a few folks get that right. Wipers are considered functionally sterile, meaning that they have the ability to reproduce with stripe mass, white mass, or other wipers, but are rarely successful at doing so. This makes them a popular choice among game agencies to stock in lakes to reduce schools of unwanted baitfish, acting as an angular friendly alternative to chemical treatments, and it doesn't open up a whole.

It doesn't open up a whole Pandora's box off. Then you got some population of fish that's right eating and spreading around. But again there are rare instances where they will reproduce, so I think they're becoming actually less popular. Sometimes it does get you. Question three. The topic is gear. This popular big game cartridge, which was first developed in two thousand and seven, was originally created for long range

target shooting. This popular big game cartridge, which was first developed in two thousand and seven, was originally created for long range target shooting. We had Steve, who was a rich stumped but now quickly has an answer. The rest of the room seems confident in what they're writing. One of the newest calibers to the market. Does everybody have

an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying the six five creed more, Tom with no answer, Hayden saying the six five creed, Katie saying the six five Western Krein with no answer. Chester Kren wrote three point question. Three point question. Oh that's number three. Chester and Seth both saying the six five creed More. They are correct, it is the six five creed more, Katie, that was an educated guest. I think the six five

is it? The six eight Westerns came out a few years ago right around there, though I thought it might have been a PRC. A few months ago, Jordan Sillers or to Caliber Battle in the media dot com where he put the six five creed More up against the three o eight Winchester. Each cartridge was judge based on ballistics, shootability, and versatility. It was a tight race, but only one

could be declared the winner. If you want to know which cartridge came out on top, you can go read that piece on our website, which is titled Caliber Battle colin three o eight Winchester versus six five creed More. And we do have a six to eight Western versus a two seventy Winchester coming up today. Good plug, Katie, that's why we got you here. Quick question about your tattoo. Are you you have the dead man's hand. It's very hard to distinguish the clubs from the spades on that tattoo. Well,

it's just not very big, but there were clubs in spades. Yeah. But dude, I mean when you're an old man and it's just like an inky blob anyway. You know I've accepted that, okay, because it's already like then I'll have very hard to distinguish. Then people will be forced to ask me about it and be like, well, let me tell you about wild Bill Hiccock. They're like, why does your arms say? I think it's a really nice tattoos.

Thank you? Oh I like it. I'm just worried about it as long I'm I have concerns about his longevity. That's all we are onto question four. The topic is conservation. When scoring an Elker deer using the Boone and Crocket or Pope and Young system, this is the throwaway to Tom time length measurements are represented by the letter G. What letter is used to represent the circumference measurements? So the time measurements are represented by the letter G. What

letter is used to represent the circumference measurements? A fairly stumped room? This may be an offer. This is when scoring an Elk or a deer, and both Boone and Crocket and Pope and Young use the same lettering did you got Tom? Hey? You got a one in twenty six? Chance? At least I'm ready? Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead?

And reveal your answers. We have Steve saying H, Tom saying see, Hayden saying M. Katie saying M. Karana can't see your answer, am Chester saying see, and Seth saying are. But I think you do the circumferences right after the times, so it'd be like H. The correct answer is H. That's like critical thinking, man. I asked justin Spring Gusts, I watched Yanni score Cou's deer, and that's what he

always does in that order. I asked justin Spring, the director of Big Game Records for Boone and Crockett, why this is? He told me this. Unfortunately, there isn't a good story here. When they were originally devising the scoring system, they labeled each type of measurement with a letter. They

happened to be at G for time lengths. Then obviously the next in line is circumference, which is naturally the letter H. So well done, Steve, Yeah, people, you know you always when you're sitting there criticizing deer, yours like he's got pretty weak. G. Two's survey knows the g's right. And the next measurement, as you said, is circumference. Who's represented by h question five. After this, we will get a scoreboard update from Phil, who decided not to play

today so he can do a better job of scorky. Yeah, and people might be treated to a mideral advertisements. Stay tuned for the mideral advertisement. The topic is foraging. Tell me two mushrooms that have names inspired by birds? Now I could think of seven. Maybe you can come up with more. Um, I'd be hard pressed to imagine that you can get to like ten. But tell me two mushrooms that have names inspired by birds. Steve has one. I think the rest of the room seems like it

probably has one. Tom, Do you do much foraging? Know? I know more? Else? That's all I know. We're talking about colloquial names, right, Yeah, I'm not talking like the scientific name. Two mushrooms that have names inspired by birds, and there's ten of them? I could think of seven? Holy cow? Yeah, I'm just guessing. How's the room doing. Can we get half a point? I would not be awarding any half a point? And do we we? Just? We can only put two down down? Don't shot gun

answers out there? Two mushrooms with names inspired by birds. I thought this would be a guarantee for Steve almost felt a little guilty including it. No, I'm really struggling. Do you have one? Yeah? Are you gonna try to find number two? I'm thinking okay, I'll think for as long as I can. And does everybody else have an answer? Steve, I think you were out of time. Go ahead and

reveal your answers. We have Steve saying pheasant back, Tom saying black or brown, Hayden saying chicken in the woods, and pheasant back, Katie sang chicken in the woods, and hand in the woods, Carin saying I can't read that Krin turkey tale, and chicken of the woods. Chester's saying shantraill and morale, and Seth saying to the son of them, chicken out the woods? How did the seventh over a perfect game? I feel like such an idiot Chicken of

the woods in the woods. And then there's one mushroom that shares two birds names, the pheasant back mushroom, which is also known as the hawkswing or the dry head saddle, and then the turkey tail, the bird's nest, and the chicken fat bullet. Among these mushrooms, most folks who consider chicken in the Woods to be the best tasting. If you want to find chicken in the woods this year, we have a lot of great sources on the media

dot com that will help you do just that. We have a Hayden Samic article called six Beginner Friendly Mushrooms you can find in Summer and two articles that I wrote called the Other Springtime Mushrooms and the twelve Best Edible Wild Mushrooms. All three pieces will help you locate, identify, and cook chicken in the Woods. I might feel as though Hiccock was playing with with a trick deck because those all the click clubs. I'll ask my artists about it.

See what he can do about My kids have a trick deck now for Yeah, you know what, I didn't know this. It's a pinuckle deck or what. No, It's like there's like an ever so slight difference in the size of the cards, so you can load it with like ever so slight where they can feel it with their hand in the doing card tricks. Maybe that's why he got shot. There you go. We are halfway through

the game. Phil give us a scoreboard update. Tied in third place, we have Tom, Miranda Corin and staff with one point in second place, tied Our Katie and Chester and tied in first place Steve and Hayden, Sammo and how many they have? They have? Four? Question six The topic is fishing. This next great question comes to us via Jeff Witgrove. If you have a question you think is right for Meat Eat Trivia, you can send it

to trivia at the meadeater dot com. The National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame, which is located in Wisconsin, has a one hundred and forty three foot sculpture of a jumping fish in front of it. What kind of fish is it? That's not a fishing question, that's a tourism question.

Chester Chester had it down before you even. The National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame, which is located in Wisconsin, which is where Chester hails from, has a one hundred and forty three foot sculpture of a jumping fish in front of it. What kind of fish is it? Does everybody have an answer about Chester? Real? Big old sturgeon? Yeah, they jump, Actually, white sturgeon jump quite a bit. The Whole River Monsters episode about surgeon knocking folks out of boats.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying a largemouth bass, Tom saying ah, the rum is seeing Chester's answer, which is musky, Katie saying sturgeon, Krin saying carpet, and Seth saying a largemouth bass. Chester's of course right, it is a musky. It is formally called the Shrine to anglers, but most just refer to it as the Big Muskie. It is nearly five stories tall and sits

on top an eighty eight thousand gallon pond. The jaws of the fish actually have an observation deck which offered a panoramic view of Lake Hayward, who can accommodate about twenty people and occasionally functions as a wedding venue for intimate ceremony, pretty close to the Angry Minnow, which is a tavern. Have you been up to that observation, Dort, Yeah, you should. My grandparents live right up there, so we on the observation. No up in that area. Have you

ever heard of somebody getting married there? No, dude, you should have done that. Man. That have been great. We are onto question seven. The topic is cooking. Canola is a trademarked term that is the combination of two other words. What are they Canola is a trademarked term that is a combination of two other words. What are they? Holy shit? This would be like um. The word spam is the combination of spiced ham. So what is canola? Does anybody have an answer? I do? Do you think you got

it right? Chester? I gotta no, but I think it could be close. Okay, looks like you wrote Musky again. He got so lucky on that first one. He's like, I'm trying to hit again. Man. Does everybody have an answer? Steve? No, I don't. It's the first time in my life. Oh no, it's my first blank card. I don't have an answer. Go ahead and reveal your answer to we have Steve with nothing, Tom saying corn and sunflower, Hayden saying what are we saying? There? You know, don't don't worry. Okay,

Katie saying corn and gonna do that. But there's no way that's right, creating no answer, and Seth without an answer. Nobody got it right. The correct answer is Canada and oil, but that's not too In Great I didn't say ingredients. I never said yeah. You can go back and listen to this episode in nowhere did I say I might just go back. I had the Hey you three, that's right. Canola oil is a vegetable oil derived from a variety

of rape seed plants that are low in acid. Danielle Pruett named canola oil is one of the five best oils for deep frying fish in a meat Eator article because it has a high smoke point, neutral flavor, and it's very affordable. Did you cover off on that that name the nomenclature. If you want to know her other four picks for the best deep frying oils, you can find that article in the meatia dot com just titled the best oils for deep Frying Fish. We're onto question eight.

We will get another scoreboard update from Phil after this. According to Duck's Unlimited, there are seven recognized subspecies of Canada goose. Name two of them that would tell you this cackling is not one of them. Do you considers cacklers to be a different species than Canada geese, so don't write down cackler named two of these seven recognized subspecies. The topic for this question I forgot to announce is waterfowl.

One problem here? Oh they recently really really they went from twenty four like to seven, So there's a lot of upheaval in the Canada goose taxonomy. Realm, my guests would be what your friend to do is when they split cacklers and Canada geese, which happened in two thousand and four. No, okay, we'll talk about later. Everybody sees of Canada geese. I got one, and I ain't good enough. Not when you need to? Does everybody have an answer?

Go ahead and reveal your answer. We have Steve saying the giant and the lesser, Tom saying the giant, and the spec Canna or Hayden saying the greater and lesser, Katie saying the Ottawa and Saskatchewan Korean without an answer. Chester you're saying the lesser, and specs and Seth saying the lesser and the quill. I have a problem. I wrote, I meant greater, uh uh no the other I didn't

mean giant. Here here are the correct answers. You have the Hudson Bay or Interior, the Moffits or great Basin, the Giant or greater, the lesser, the Atlantic, the Dusky, and the Vancouver. So you got it? Did you get it? Yeah? I got it? Where the where the other ones. Do you know you got it? Let's see your thing greater U lesser meant what the other ones are? Yeah, well, so I talk about the cacklers here in a second.

In two thousand and four is when the American Ornithologist Union made the switch to separating Canada geese and cackling geese. Most birding and hunting groups have followed suit, identifying seven subspecies of Canada goose and four subspecies of cackling geese. Those cackling subspecies are Richardson's taverns alusion and cackling cackling mingling. Everyone all the water fowlers in Montana want to kill those quill. They call him the quill Lake Canadas to

have the white breast feathers. Why isn't that subspecies? Because it's not man Listen, they have. As I was saying earlier, genetics has done two things to the world. It's created a tremendous amount of lumping and a tremendous amount of splitting. Yes, this answer will probably be different in a decade from now.

Right now, geese are going through a dramatic lumping episode. Gotcha, as opposed to other critters, like, there's a lot of aquatic insects that are going through a great splitting episode right now. Things that we were like, oh it looks like a bug are different. We are onto question nine. The topic is biology. Yeah, I thought you'd do a scoreboard. That's a good call, Thank you, Phil. I'm just going to list the people who are still in the game.

Everyone else, you're doing great, lovely people. Chester has three points in second place, and tied for first are Stephen Hayden with five. All right, we have two questions left. Question nine. The topic is biology. This is a visual question. If you want to play along and see what the room is seeing, you can find the photo that I'm about to show them on my Instagram, which is at Spencer New Heart. So I'll give you a second to pause the show. You know on Instagram you've seen the picture,

you liked it. I haven't seen the picture though. You followed me, and you're now back to the podcast. All right. A few weeks ago I posted a picture of a squirrel that got it scrotum stuck in a wooden fence and died hanging upside down by its sack. Shortly thereafter, Joe Bostwick sent me a picture of another animal in the exact same predicament at his house in Oregon. I'm going to show you a picture of that animal scrotum and you need to identify what it is based off

of those testicles where this was in Oregon. This this critter got stuck in a wooden fence in Oregon and was hanging upside down when Joe found it. So you need to use this scroll tom to identify what animal it belongs to. Urology question, what are you seeing Chester? What does that look like to you? It looks like a hairy yes, spencer. You always talk about how this You're not going to find these questions in bar trivia. I think that's the first one where I'm like, yep,

it's actually true. This is the first time something like this has ever been asked. Yeah, so what you are looking at is the nutsack of an animal and organ that got caught in somebody's wooden fence. I want you to tell me what animal that scrotum belongs to. Does everybody have an answer? No? Not yet, not yet? Thank you, Joe. This landed in my Instagram DMS. You're gonna get a lot of mileage out of it. Does everybody have an answer,

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying a possum aka grinner, Tom saying no clue, Hayden saying raccoon, Katie saying fox, Krin saying raccoon, Chester you're saying raccoon, and Seth saying at coon. The correct answer is possum. Damn it, Grinner, that possum. You're ready for a plot twist actually survived and Joe and his wife Kelsey or hunters, but they didn't have the heart to kill the possum, so Joe got out his drill and loosened the boards

on the fence until the critter was out. They said the possum had scratched its claws nearly completely off while dangle upside down, which is understandable since they believe it was hanging there for about three days. Once it was free, they watched it slowly walk away and lay in a pile of leaves and play possum, And by the next morning the possum was gone, so we think it had a happy ending. He said to his parties, He's like,

don't even ask where I've been. We are onto the last question and we have Hayden, who was trailing Steve by one point. We need Steve to get it wrong and Hayden to get it right for a chance at a tiebreaker. The topic is cooking. Japanese horseradish is more commonly referred to as what quick answers from Steve and Hayden. There's no way he's gonna get that wrong. See if

the rest of the room does the easiest. Japanese horse radish is more commonly referred to as what now you're just putting down, haye An, why are you going asking this question? I think it's a good question, Steve, slip you with twenty under the table or something. Man, Now, you guys are just being mean to the folks who aren't going to get it right. No, I'm not saying that. I'm not saying because of it's of ease or difficult. I'm just saying, see how it even kind of has

anything to do with anything. It's a cooking question. Okay, yeah, I can see it now. Okay, he's back in tomorrow. They got him. Yeah, no, I agree. Now, does everybody have an answer? Seth, you're gonna come up with one, do you think at this point doesn't matter. Now go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying with Sabi, Tom saying with Sabi Sabi, with Sabi Krean saying with Sabi Chess, you're saying with Sabi Seth without an answer.

The correct answer is with sabi and that makes Steve the winner of the inaugural Another patch, five hundred dollars donation. Where's it going, Steve? I would like my five hundred dollar donation to go to the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. What do you like so much about them? Besides being on the board. Yeah, it does that line your pockets somehow. Quite the opposite, Quite the opposite. I'm on the board.

I like that they deal in federal policy. I like that they have a legitimate bipartisan seat at the table when it comes to such discussions and people listen to them. And I like their slogan, which is guaranteeing Americans quality places to hunt and fish. Can't argue with that no money, Well, Span speaks to my soul. We have more mediator trivia coming at you soon. Thank you guys for planning. Tomte thanks for joining us. Thank you very much. Thanks to great, to be here,