Ep. 365: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XXIV

You like it. I don't spend a lot of time learning, you know, random information, but I do spend a lot of time hunting, fishing in the outdoor, so I might get I might get one or two right here that will help you. Do you do you feel like you have some random information though in this space hunting, fishing, conservation, cooking. I have some. I have a little bit. Yeah, I

think there's some some hope you'll do. Okay, Steve promised him that you would throw him was always going to bring up I just told him how you probably throw him a bone. You gotta own planned out. We do. We do have one of those. I'm confident you'll at least get one of ten. Then bill. Now, if you're not familiar, this is a ten round quiz show with questions from meat eaters four verticals which are hunting, fishing, conservation,

and cooking, and there is a prize. Meat Eater will donate five hundred dollars to the conservation organization of the winners choosing. And each week here on Meat Eater Trivia, we reveal a new stat and for the stat of the week, we're looking at player complaints. Do you guys have any predictions about what we might learn here? I think that can go on, said now, Steve destroys the field with an average of six point four seven complaints

per episode. That's followed by Sean Weaver at three point to one complaints per episode, Ryan Callahan at three point zero one complaints per episode, and Brodie Henderson at two point five one complaints per episodes. I was expecting to be right up there, Steve, thoughts, and I think I just jumped on his bandwagon a lot. You got some work to do that. Steve's most dominating stretch came early February to late April, when he averaged nine point eight

three complaints per episode. That stretches from episode three one three to three, almost more than the amount of questions that there are. That's right, But Steve has mellowed out a bit, and over the last four episodes he's only averaging four point seven five complaints per episode. You know why the writings on the wall, dude, looking at the analytics the show more people listen when I'm not here. That that is something that is something that we did learn.

You know, people ask me if it's a bit uh that that Steve gets on about trivia. It's not. Because when we had the question about the lightning strike victims a couple episodes ago, Steve called me twice that day. One time it was five hours later. That had been on his mind for five hours think it about the lightning strike question, and he still wasn't convinced that we have some housekeeping to get to as well. In a previous game of trivia, we talked about how the World

Champions Squirrel cook Off is held annually in Arkansas. But then the cookoff organizers reached out and said that they were moving to Tennessee in two because because quote, it would suck if the Super Bowl was held in Cleveland for forty straight years. Well, in a shocking turn of events, The World Champions Squirrel cook Off has announced that the

two gathering in Tennessee has been canceled. Now I asked why, and the event organizers said that the venue pulled the plug on them because of quote woke anti squirrel people. So the World Champions Squirrel cook Off is now moving back to Arkansas in and plans on staying there for good. I don't get the their woke anti squirrels or woke and anti squirrel people, which would actually probably be pro squirrel people if they were against a squirrel cook off,

but that that was what they said. The issue was was that the venue in Tennessee did not support what they were doing, of all Tennessee, of all players with Tennessee, but not Tennessee. So the World Champions Squirrel Cookoff people said they learned their lesson, and I think they said something about their staying in God's country for good and the Arkansas Game and Fish Department is going to be a partner with them, and and that is now permanently

their home. Dude, we could find them venues all day long, I think, so were no listen if I win, I'm gonna today, I'm gonna don't give my money my winnings to Tennessee Wildlife Federation is one of the country's oldest, uh you know, conservation organizations. They've done a ton of good and I bet with that five hundred dollars they could find a venue for the Squirrel cook Off, maybe four and so that it doesn't have to always stay in Cleveland, so to speak. There you go, m hm

hm and hey, I have a request though, what's up? Um? I always want to I think feel like you're not always giving us the Shelby score before every game. Yeah this, You know, sometime we'll introduce like a Shelby index for every game, but this one it was three. Say this shape enough to be a tough round, then that means our winners should be in the ballpark of six, explained

the Shelby score, the Shelby index. Shelby is my wife, and each night before I come to Meat Eater Trivia, I have her play to see how she does, and it's sort of gives me a baseline of what the winner might do. Normally, she scores about half as well as the winner of meat Eater Trivia, and last night she got three, which means this is a tougher round, and with that we are onto Meeta the trivia play the drop. I need to know what I stay in

the wind to everything? How's that just tend to win everything? Question one, As always, this will be multiple choice. The topic is fishing. What mammal has the most lakes named after it in America? Is it beaver, wolf, deer, or bear? What mammal has the most lakes named after it in America? Is it beaver, wolf, deer, or bear? That's probably best question yet, thank you. Steve is not gonna go in the opposite You're actually we'll start keeping all day and

go like right on, right on again. Your choices are beaver, wolf, deer, or bear. Yeah, how are you feeling confident? No, neither of mine. No those. I think it's about a fifty fifty or atty easy to knock out. And then it's at Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying bear, Bill saying beaver, Maggie saying wolf, chest you're saying dear, Brodie saying beaver, Karin saying beaver, and Janice saying bear. The correct answer

is bear on your neck and neck. This is according to the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, there are four hundred thirty eight bear lakes in America. That's followed by three hundred seven beaver lakes, two hundred twenty four deer lakes, and one hundred forty one wolf lakes. Good Quarry, happy with how that whole thing went, wrote a question to the topic is gear. The most widely available broadhead weights at bass pro are one hundred grain,

one five grain, and blank. So I'm looking for third place. The most widely available broadhead weights at bass pro are one hundred grain, on grain and blank. Bill. If you wonder about when that bone was coming, I think the bonus is uh the question to you? Think this is it? You think you know this one? Bill? I know I'm based on our sales. How about the rest? But I know kind of what's most popular, that kind of that that could inform your your answer. But I'm now does

everybody have an answer? I just went first thing pop to my head. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying eight five, Kill saying one fifty, Maggie saying one thirty chest. You're saying one seventy five, Brody saying one fifty, Karin saying two hundred, and Janice saying five. We do have a correct answer in the room. It's eighty five grains. Even any these guys are because it's

because the cross boards. Is it the crossboats? I think I think it's women and children that are probably shooting. So I should have got that right right, But that was your That was But I've seen more and more of a trend away from the eighty five and more one fifties. So that's why I want And what kind of shooter do you find? He's normally shooting like a one in eighty five grain broadhead. Um, somebody's going for light,

light fast. A lot of the a lot of white sail guys, a lot of guys that are set up more for target three D shooting are trying to go light fast and then they just want to use the same head there. So that's what I see. I thought the trend was more away from that, even though I didn't want to admit that. Maybe still is the truth. Those aren't mutually exclusive. There could be the trend away from that, but it could still be number three best

pro sells nine broadheads that way one hundred grains. That's followed by thirty broadheads that weigh one d twenty five grains, eight broadheads that way eighty five grains, and three broadheads that way one fifty grains. Mm hmm. Round the question three. The topic is cooking. This next great question comes to Adam more Man. If you have a question you think is right for Meat Eater Trivia, you can send it

to trivia at the meat eater dot com. If you order fried couter from a restaurant, what kind of animal are you eating? If you order fried couter c O O T e R from a restaurant, what kind of animal are you eating? Nobody knew this one right off the bat. It seems like wherever Adam more hails from, we don't have anyone in this room that grew up there. M hmm. Again, fried couter, what kind of animal are you eating? Can you give us a hand where he's from?

Not giving you any hints? Does everybody look at that? Did you know that bottle? I just noticed that we sell a water bottle that is the bar water bottle um that I gave these stats to our designer, Hunter Spencer and one of them is there are fourty eight bear lakes in the US, but it doesn't say it doesn't say how many other kind of lakes there are. Well, then it follows that up by saying it's the most popular lake name among mammals. It just supports the whole

Kimi Werner again, Fried coonter. Does everybody have an answer? Brody? Over two? Potentially starting off over three. Every once in a while you have bad day, Spencer, Does everybody have an answer? Now? Brody, let's go go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve still writing saying soft shell crab. That what it says, soft shell crab, Bill saying pig, Maggie saying quail chess, you're saying raccoon, Brodie saying rabbit. Krin saying gator, Janie saying gator. Nobody got it right.

The correct answer is soft shell turtle or turtle. I had a t written down and scratched it. Yeah, if crab. It's common in the South to refer to soft shell turtles as cootters, specifically when they're being turned into soup or deep fried nuggets. This can get confusing, though, because there's actually a different species of turtle called the river cooter, which looks similar to a painted turtle. Do you know that Johnny Paycheck shot a man in the head and

the argument over turtle soup? No creased his missed kind of missed and just creased his forehead? What what do you think the argument was about? There? You can watch the documentary Wyre. They interviewed both the lawyers who defended each side of it. Wow. Yeah, it's hilarious. It's it's

like the weird they got. They were traded hats and then one guy wind up trade back and it escalated into an argument of over going to someone's house for turtle soup, and Johnny Paycheck shot him, increased his forehead man, and then vanished into the night. Have you ever eaten soft shell turtle? I got a softshell turtle story. They'll curl your Hair's here so me and Eddie lou Loss

I think it was Eddie. We're camping at a place called Cisco Bayou on the White River, and we were eating deer steaks and throwing the trim from the deer steaks out into the bayou. Okay, you follow me. The next day we catch a soft shell in our turtle trap. Butcher it and I'll give you one guest to guess what was in its stomach. A deer steak. That's great. Those things are aggressive. Why is that supposed to curl his here? You know how down there, Bud. Question for

the topic is public land? Mount Rushmore is surrounded by what one point two million acre national forest? Oh? Mount Rushmore is surrounded by what one point two million acre national forest. We had a few folks in the room who knew it, but for the most part, I'm just gonna be seeing some guesses again looking for what national forest surrounds Mount Rushmore. I gotta ask about that. I can't. I don't want to give away too much, But does everybody have an answer? That's just trivia. No one has

ever had that thought playing trivia. That's just trivia. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying black Hills, Bill saying Custer, Maggie saying ad Lands, Chester, you're saying black Hills, Brody saying black Hills, Karin without an answer, in Janice saying Custer. The correct answer is the Black Hills National Forest. I feel like I might just pull into the lead the Mount Rushmore projects started in nineteen

seven and finish in nineteen one. The man who came up with the idea suggested the mountains should be dedicated to heroes of the American West like Lewis and Clark, Chicago Weea, Red Cloud, Buffalo, Bill Cody, and Crazy Horse. But as we now know, the hill was turned into Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln. Have you been to the Crazy Horse monument? Yes,

very underwhelming. Well, they're still working on it. They've been working on it for my whole life and they'll be working on it for your children's whole life probably, So yeah, I don't think it's underwhelming. It's like it's like it's just like you're watching like a thing that will take and some people. I'm into it. I'm just not confident playing about Spencer. That wasn't a show. I'm into it. I'm just not confident, like you said that, even my

children will see the end of Crazy Horse. Question five. We'll get a scoreboard update from Phil after this. The topic is hunting. This next great question comes to us via Ali Spangler. If you have a question you think is right for Meat Eater Trivia, you can send it to trivia at the meat eater dot com. Male turkeys are said to have droppings that are in what shape? Male turkeys are said to have droppings that are in what shape? These aren't the kind of questions that can

change a game, Spencer. I feel like this one's pretty easy. You're gonna have some of those in there, Brodie, Did you know Black Hills National Forest? Or is that just a good guess? Steve? It seems like you knew that one right away. Isn't Custer right there? There's Custer um Custer State Park is nearby, but it's not a national forest. Yeah, but I feel like there's now Custer National Forest extends into South Dakota are national forests. I don't know that

there is a customer. It's not Custer. That is not the one that surrounds You're staying a Custer State Park or something like that South Dakota Custer Stark right, Because even though I'm not complaining anymore, there might be a real problem again. Mail turkeys are said they have droppings that are in what shape? Does everybody have an answer? I see where it's going, and I had a problem

ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying Jay, Bill saying El, Maggie saying Chestern Brody saying Jay, Krin saying what does that say, and saying Jay. The correct answer is jay or hook shaped. I feel you're making an argument for L. You know, if he's a little loose stool, that doesn't that Jake was never my life. As someone said, it's an L shaped poop. Yeah, it's a hard write angle at the butt. I was just

gonna say, I have like a little little curl. I thought you were not going to give it to all the people that wrote a capital J. Why do you think it's a lowercase J. There's not a line across the top of the poop and jive, but I don't want to overdo it. While male turkey droppings are J shaped, female turkey droppings look more like a spiral blob or snail shell. This is because female turkey droppings exit the large and testine into the cloaca, which gives them a

long run way to curl and clump. Male turkeys, on the other hand, have a fallus in their cloaca near the end of the digestive tract, which means there's less room for their waste to coil. I got a feeling if you if you had something similar with human feces, that you could you could I d him by gender, that you would find that when you found surface shitters, they would all be mail. Oh yeah, just a feeling.

Probably right. I'm not gonna investigate really interesting if you could be like, oh, lady did that or a man? You know what I mean? Don't surface ship guys. Are halfway through the game of trivia, give us a scoreboard update. Sure thing. We have three players who I guess I will say are playing trivia with a delicate touch, and by that I mean they have zero points, Bill, Karen and Maggie. And then next up we have Brodi and Chester tied up with two points. Janice has three points,

and Stephen Ronilla has four points. Ever done. Question six. The topic is cooking. This southern state is famous for their white barbecue sauce, which is made with Mayo apple cider, vinegar, sugar, salt, and black pepper. What is it? I cannot think it's probably like a again. This southern state is famous for their white barbecue sauce, which is made with Mayo, apple cider, vinegar, sugar, salt and black pepper. What is the state goodbecue? Put that on a little bit of fried chicken, man, given

some I like mine on a smoked turkey sandwich. Does everybody have an answer looking for the state that's famous for their white barbecue sauce? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying Alabama, Bill saying Alabama, Maggie saying Alabama. Alabama sang North Carolina, Karant sang Alabama, and Yana sang Alabama, and have like a real bad streak that covered ship and people get behind me again. But that's where Brody's at. Listen,

I'm glad before the tournament. Yea. The Alabama white sauce is typically served on pork or chicken, but it's also a great condiment for upland birds in small game. If you want to learn how to make it, then go to the meat eater dot com and read Lucas leaves article called how to make Alabama white sauce. Comeback sauce is another name for it, and I think I never

heard that one. I like it though, I like all of our recipe cook Chef contributors, but I just feel like every time I look at one of Lucas lee leaves stuff. I'm like, God, Lee, that looks sounds so well. He he really appeals to our sensibilities. Being from South Dakota and Michigan. He knows how to cook being a Minnesotan. You know what's funny is uh, we have an article about the mcgriddle thing. Um, my body, he did, my body is friends with the guy that makes the mcgriddles,

and he called my body super excited about that. Now, what does that mean? He makes like he works at a McDonald's or he's like a shadow. Apparently he's like the mcgriddle supplier guy. And he was impressed. He really was happy. So he called my body to express his happiness. Then my buddy called me to pass along the happiness that Steve is referring to a Venison mcgriddle recipe. We have on the meat eater dot Com Question seven. The

topic is biology. This is our listener question of the Week, which was won by Chris dro Stay for sending this great question. Chris is going to get a signed copy of the Meat Eater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival if you want a chance to win the Listener Question of the week, then send your questions to trivia at

the meat eater dot com. A brewer's duck is a hybrid between a god wall and a blank, A brewer's duck and brewer is a proper now, and a brewer's duck is a hybrid between a goad wall and a blank. I think Steve is pacing the room to destroy the Shelby index of six. Yeah, I'm not cocky, I'm not discouraged. You know this one, Okay, I have a hunch again. A brewer's duck is a hybrid between a goad wall and a blank. I could walk you through how I

got there, but I'd be I'd be given too much information. Chester, I saw something racing. Are you ready, Karin, I'm ready. Okay, you could just pick a duck and write that down. Come on, Karan, you know one duck. You know. It's like your heart's not in the game. I just can't. It's like, Okay, that's Yanna saying. He's not mad at you, it's just disappointed. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We

have Steve saying a Mallard, Bill saying a Mallard. Maggie sang a mallard, Chester saying a wig, and Brodie sang a Mallard, Krin Sangwigion, and Janice saying a mallard. The correct answer is Mallard. The duck was named by John James Audubon in eighty two after he collected and painted one in Louisiana. Brewers ducks are noticeably different from Mallards and gadwalls, but not in a consistent way. Their head color, chess color, wing color, and scaly pattern express a lot

of variability. Question eight. We'll get a scoreboard update from Phil after this. The topic is woodsmanship. Who is the author of outdoor books? Like should the tent be burning like that? If you didn't bring jerky? What did I just eat? You're not lost if you can still see the truck and it's only slow food until you try to eat it. It seems like Stephen Brody knew it,

be honest, knew it. The rest of the room is not quick with an answer, again looking for the author of outdoor books like should the tent be burning like that? If you didn't bring jerky? What did I just eat? You're not lost if you can still see the truck and it's only slow food until you try to eat it. You're honest, you know this one? I think so. There's a in the forty mile Hunter office in tok Alaska. I'm looking around the room. I know he's been there.

I don't know if Bill has been there, but one of his pieces is on that door in the bathroom. It's a nice short read when you sit down and it's if you don't come out of their laugh and then something's wrong with you. I like it. M hm. Does everybody have an answer? Who's gonna come up with one? I want to. I wanted on the bottom right, But I think wrote I think, I think I know if you got it wrong, I think I know what your answer. Answer?

All right, go ahead, reveal your answers. We have Steve saying Bill Heavie, and he wrote Patrick McManus under that, Bill saying Smith Maggie without an answer, Chastis without an answer, Bill saying Bill Heeve Korean without an answer, and Janas saying Patrick McManus. The correct answer is Bill heave You're like humorist outdoor writers, but it's not McManus. Man. I didn't know any of the titles except for the last one. It's not. It's not Bill. He's a good humorous man.

He's funny as ship great. Bill has described himself as a sub urban hunter gatherer, every man, outdoors man, and a professional amateur. In case you couldn't tell by his book titles, his writing focuses on misadventures in the outdoors. If you want to learn more about Heave, then listen to episode three fifty one of the Wired Hunt podcast where Mark Kennyon interviews him about his writing career. Is he uh? Is he McManus's successor did he come in right after him? I would say that he and he

assumed he assumed the throne of mcmah. Him and McManus overlap man. But McManus is like, they shoot canoes, don't they? And yeah, but I wonder if he took over his position that it felt like he took over that space. Is like the back page writer. It was a fielding, streamer, outdoor life. McManus' best line ever was that whether it's a creeker or crick depends on the Yeah. McManus had a lot of writing I didn't know this until recently

that was not focused on the outdoors. Seemed like he was writing like almost some mystery stuff that had to do with the outdoors that I think also had humor sprinkled in. No, he's funny man, Phil. We have two questions left. Give us a scoreboard update. We have two questions left, and we have two players left in the game, and those two players are Stephen Marinella, who's in first place of seven points but kind of warm on his trails.

Jannetellis with five points. So if Steve. If Steve fails to get these next two and Janni gets them correct, it's a tag him. Yeah. See if Yanni has got a cold nose or not? Question nine, the topic is geared. This next great question comes to us via David Chestnut. If you have a question you think is right for Meat Eater Trivia, ascend it to trivia at the meat eater dot com. Five states have a firearm on their

state flag name one of them. Five states have a firearm on their state flag name one of those states. It seems like nobody knew this right off the bat. This could be I'm like racking my fifth grade education brain like learning all the state flag. This could be what helps Yanni catch up with Steve looking for one of the five states with a firearm on their flag. Nobody knew this right off the bat, Yanni, it's gonna be tough to catch him if you don't write an answer. No,

I'm the right one, you know what? I think? I just remember, does everybody have an answer looking for the state? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying California, Bill saying Virginia, Maggie saying Tennessee, Chester, you're saying Wisconsin, Brodie saying New Hampshire, Corin saying Texas, and Janice saying Montana. The five states are Delaware, West virgin India, Michigan, Minnesota,

and Wyoming. So I think nobody got it despite having someone from Wyoming and multiple people from Michigan in here. A lot of us got so much stuff on them, you know they do. That's why I went with Montanas. I could have wanted a dude stand there might be holding onto a long smoke pole, but he's not. He's got like a act or something in his hand. I think Delawares show is a revolutionary soldier with a long gun. West Virginia's shows two hunting rifles crossed on the ground.

Michigan shows a man with his right hand raised in peace, but his left hand holding a gun. Some versions of Minnesota's flags show a pioneer with a rifle leaning against a tree stump, and some versions of Wyoming's flags show a cowboy with a holstered pistol. How did I grow up in Michigan not notice it? I didn't like it? What do you like? So some old versions, and it depends on where you buy the flag from how accurate

they are. But flags change over time a on with state seals and Wyoming's um I believe now the cowboy doesn't have a holstered pistol, but if you bought one like twenty years ago, he would have the holster pistol. I mean that famous bucking Bronco one. No, Wyoming has the big bison in the center of the flag, and it makes the state seal in the middle of that, and the seal shows a cowboy with a holster pistol. But I think some versions just show like a generic

something hanging on his belt. It could be a players, it could be a knife, but older versions show that it's very clearly a pistol. We know our winner of meat Eat Trivia, Steve congratulations. We still have a question, Steve. Last time, it never gets less impressive. I guess. Oh man, you know my girls just like six miles two days in a row backpacks when I was pretty proud. But I'm pretty I'm glad. You want motivation to stay motivating.

The girls had six miles of backpacks on Yeah, that's great, man. We have one question left here. Topic is conservation. The US Fish and Wildlife Service recommended declaring this animal extinct in one whose nickname is the Lord god Bird. The US Fish and Wildlife Service recommended declaring this animal extinct in whose nickname is the Lord god Bird. Seems like nobody knew this one right off the bat. I'm just gonna be getting some educated guesses, Steve with the quickest answer.

How you feel about this, Steve, You could get this wrong and contradict itself, prove the Shelby Index fairly accurate, or if you get it right, you just blew it out of the water. We haven't had overtime in quite a while. We're not gonna get it again today. It's disappointed. I just got overtime questions banked up and ready, does everybody have an answer? Now? Those are fun to play to the Lord God bird hate the lids on these pens.

It just fall up. Can't almost boycott Spencer bys better a bird or an animal that is like on the verge. You ready, yeah, gonna, It's not gonna be hot. If you can give a hint, if you think you know it, and you you've already secured the victory my understanding. If I'm right, it's something that is wide that has been

widely understood to be extinct. I give another hint here. Uh. It's last confirmed sighting was Louisiana in nine And people see it and they get all excited, and then someone comes out and says, son, what you're looking at as affiliated woodpecker, and go ahead and reveal your Yeah, Steve saying the Ivory build woodpecker, Bill without an answer. Maggie had it before Steve's hands saying the Ivory build wood Chessie without an answer, hands got its, Karin without an answer,

and Janice post Hands says, Ivory built woodpecker. That's correct, It's the Ivory build woodpecker. Ornithologists gave them this nickname because of what people cried out the first time they ever saw one quote Lord God, what a bird. The last universally accepted sighting of the Ivory build woodpecker came out of Louisiana in nineteen forty four, but on official sightings have been reported since then in states like Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi,

and Cuba. Steve is our winner with eight correct answers. I've never seen smiles so big. Now, what happens next? Steve gets to choose with a five hundred dollar donation, goes for winnings. Steve, what's it gonna be? Spencer? It's no big you know me winning? It's normal. What do I normally do? Keep my money because I'm on the board. I'm gonna give my money to the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation

Partnership next time I win. If it turns out that the Tennessee Wildlife Federation Foundation, Federation Fed Federation, if they are eager to get that squirrel eating tournament back there, I'll donate and the Mean and Yannio go to the squirrel eating turn Wow, that is an incentive anything together anymore so, it'd be a fun little trip for us. Yea, the squirrel I think it's the squirrel world champion, the

world champion. Squirrel cuck off has already taken, So Tennessee is gonna have to start their own version of that then to get you boys down there. If you go, you gotta enter your own dish, though, what would you make squirrel House and pevere I knew that was gonna be the answer, Yanni, would you agree with that? I knew that was gonna be his answer. I've made it. It's a little too tangy for me personally. Could you send me list some Alabama white sauce on it? Well,

I might brave is squirrel in Alabama white sauce? I like it. Steve is our winner, donating to t r c P. That's it for this game of trivia, Little guaranteeing Americans argue with that, you can't. You can't unless unless there's a squirrel cook off on the line. Then then you could argue that's it for me either. Trivia the only game show where conservation always wins. Thanks Bet, sir,