Ep. 390: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XXXV

to the conservation organization of the winners choosing. But there's a twist for this week's episode of trivia. This is episode one of the Meat Eater Trivia Tournament. There will be three episodes total, and by the end of the last one we'll have crowned a champion of Meat Eater Trivia. How do you guys feel about that? Real good? That's

pretty exciting. You'all think you gotta shot? Nope, I don't know what happens if you win this playoff, but overall, someone has more wins than you in the regular season. That's okay. That's that's how competitive sports work. It's not always the best team that wins. It's like the best team for the last five games of the year or the last five series of the year or whatever. So a team that has like two wins in the regular season in the NFL doesn't even make the playoffs. Well,

this this is to get into the episode. You're not taking previous performance into consideration. Now hold that thought, Brody. Well we'll we'll get back to that here very soon. So here's how this is going to work. At first. You're not going to touch on your cut off this. Yeah, I gotta cut off sweatshirt. I've made a couple of them this last year. I think this is like the perfect garment for Montana. You don't have the sleeves, you

can like still throw up a hood um. This was an inspired by New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, who's been rocking one for like a decade And it looks terrible, but I love it. I think everyone should. Happle. You find that your forearms often get overheated. Uh, usually it's my armpits. Yeah, it's it's just like kind of kind

of clunky. It's I find that I'm often rolling my sleeves up on a sweatshirt, so I cut the sleeves off of getting a new tattoo, like this was a pre tattoo, Spencer, I think you should clarify though, for listeners, it's not like a cut off like the entire sleeve. I have some of those two those are those you do? Okay, that's like a really nice yeah. This this is like a T shirt with a hood that's made out of

sweatshirt material. Highly recommended. Do you have anywhere like the bottom him is cut off a little bit if I was rocking that Janice patelis bod maybe the Runners Boy, but I'm not ready. Just like show Naval this this is just a ship off the arm tattoos, all right. I appreciate you telling everybody about that. I'm gonna go try. I have so many hoodies at home. I got no problem sacrifice. You should. You should talk to our merchandising department and maybe the First Light about at first light.

I did that with my leafy suit mainly because I forgot a lens cover one time and I was running my UH which is white, and so I cut my sleeve off right there and slipped that over my lens off one arm. I realized that I freaking love it. No, it's just running one arm though, well no, I do it to both. Okay, So here's how this is gonna work. This episode has seven players on it, four of which

will move on to the championship. The next episode will have seven new players on it, and just like with this show, only four of them will move on to the next round. By episode three, will be down to the last eight contestants, and one of those eight will be crowned the champion. Now, just like with the organized sports, I thought it only be right to reward those players who have shown regular season dominance. So, as the top dog in Mediator Trivia, I'm granting Brodie Henderson an automatic

bid to make it to the third episode. That means Brodie is already moving on, and there are three other spots that are now up for grabs for you other six players. So, Brodie, so I could really screw someone. What do you mean, Well, if you're only taking four, I'm taking plus three. Moving on. I get you, I get you good. Now, Brodi, I'm gonna put you on

the spot here between these other six players. Who do you think it will be the three that move onto the championship got to give you don't don't have it, and Seth he knew it. He didn't even have to think about that. I'm sorry, I think you guys should be worried about the underdog here last time. I don't even know why I'm here. Didn't have to remind me.

I know we're just gonna keep that between us. But I'm surprised to hear about this little bye situation because originally when the email came out, there were no buys. There must have been a bunch of complaining that went on. There was some complaining, and I thought they had merit, so I went with it. I liked the idea of of granting bye to those players, not that I think

Brody needs it. Imagine he's going to be in the top four anyway, but just in case he has a fluke performance, Our our guy with the most wins, is going to be in the championship. Yeah, he needs to be there. Bill Belichick would accept the first round by for sure. Yeah, organized sports man not the previous game of trivia, Brody called me out for using the word fun and asked if that's really a word. Well, according to Miriam Webster, it is so long as you use

funner or funnest as adjectives, they are acceptable. On that show, when I said this will be a funner stat to look at a year from now, it was an adjective, so therefore it was correct. So Brodie, I hope this makes you feel a bit stupider for not knowing that is a word. And yes it does. Stupider is a word. Um yeah, okay, Well, now I can say things like mule deer hunting is funner than white tail hunting. That'll work.

You should work. Yeah, you just start start throwing around. Uh, it's gonna like make people want to scratch their ears, but I think you should do it anyway, right. Also, on a previous game of trivia, Cal asked, who the heaviest president we've had? Is That? Honor goes to William Taft, who was three hundred forty pounds. He's followed by Grover Cleveland at to sixty and Donald Trump at two thirty nine. At the other to the spectrum is James Madison, our

lightest president ever. He stood five ft four inches tall and weighed in at just over one hundred pounds, which means it would take about three point one James Madison's to equal one William Taft And with that we're onto Meat Eater Trivia. Play the drop, Phil, Look, I need to know what I stay in the wind everything. How's that? Just tend to win everything? Suckers Round one. Question one. The topic is fishing. This first great question comes to

us via Kale Patterson. If you have a question you think is right for Meat Eater Trivia, send it to Trivia at the meat eater dot com. And as always, this first question will be multiple choice. What was the most stocked fish by federal hatcheres in? Was it catfish, chinook, salmon, American shad or bluegill? Again? What was the most stocked fish by federal hatcheries? In your choices are channel, catfish, chinook salmon, American shad, were blue gill? Does everybody have

an answer? Good? Over there, Seth lots to be racing. Oh you should never change your answer, man, You go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seawan saying American shad, Rick saying chinook salmon, Brodie saying chinook salmon, Alyssa saying chinook salmon, Max saying American shad, Seth saying chinook salmon and Janice saying chinook salmon. The room did very well.

The answer is chinook salmon over Chinook salmon were overwhelmingly the most stocked fish in one hatchery has released over thirty seven million of them, which is followed by Wally at twenty seven million, American shat at nine million, in rainbow trout at eight million. I think that federal was

a little hint he gave there. It's definitely a hint because federal hatcheries sort of have an emphasis on like threatened, endangered, vulnerable species, while state agencies usually focus more on game fish. So that's that's definitely a notable part of the question. What a question to the topic is conservation. What is the only ferret that's native to North America? Again, what

is the only ferret that's native to North America? There's some confident writing going on in the room by most of the believe that the answer is going to make for some fun you know what I'm talking about. Maybe we'll see does everybody have an answer? If Steve, this is a little higher pitched, I can only think of weasels right now. Do you have an answer? Max? Just

ferret go ahead of answers. We have Sean saying the blackfooted, Rick saying blackfooted, Brody's saying blackfooted, Alyssa is saying the white ferret, Max without an answer, Seth and Janice saying the black footed. They got it. The answer is the black footed ferret. Their population used to range from Canada to Mexico, but now they're only found in about a half dozen states. They're considered to be one of the most endangered mammals on the continent, with only about three

hundred left in the wild. Do you know how they found found him? I feel like Steve's talked about this before. Wasn't there one like brought one home and Yoming? That's right?

Question three I was. I thought it was gonna be fun because of the whether or not we had to use the hyphen now doesn't matter unlets, which recently was a topic on a Meat eat Or podcast, right because Uh, Steve's mad that Pat Dirkin thinks that you should still use the hype And when you say white tailed deer, that brings up that post that you had the other day where Pat Durkin called Steve an ignorant slut. I really enjoyed that, but you didn't explain what that what

the context around it was in your post. You mean, like what Dirk is referencing, or why he called Stephen ignorant slut? Uh? Aren't they one of the same thing? Well, like the conversation was around the white tailed dear topic. But Dirk was, of course what I thought, quoting the office. But it turns out that references even older and goes back to SNL I didn't know. Oh, okay, I think it was a character that Dan dan Ackroid played on on SNL um, But what's the context of that? Who

is he calling? He was he was like a correspondent for the weekend to update desk and they would be having conversation and be going, that's nice, Jan you ignorance. But like it was, it was his catchphrase, and that's what Michael Scott got from the office. You know, Dirk and I think would be a a formidable opponent and stuff. We got to have him out next year. That happen, we can, we can definitely make that happen. But my

familiarity again was Michael calling Dwight and ignorant slut. But I had no idea that reference was even older and Dirk being even a layer deeper than that. I can really appreciate someone who's around age seventy calling Stephen ignorant slut. But Pat wouldn't actually just fly off the hook and call anybody ever that. So it was great that it was referencing question three. The topic is foraging. Wild rice

is the official grain of what glacial lake state. Wild rice is the official grain of what glacial lake state. A lot of thinking going on here. It seemed as though nobody knew it right off the bat. I just wasn't assure on the brief creation to make sure I'm gonna spell it out. Does everybody have an answer? Go

ahead and reveal your answers. We have Sean saying Minnesota, Rick saying Minnesota, Brody saying Minnesota, Alyssa saying California long way from the Great Lakes, Max saying Minnesota, Seth saying Minnesota, and Janice saying Minnesota. You didn't say great lakes, you said glacials. I'm sorry, I said glacial lakes. I made great legs. Sorry about that. You all got it anyway? It is yes, speak Rice SERRONI the San Francisco treat Hey, there's a lot of Nia. There is also wild rice

in California. I'm sorry Lista, I I should not have shamed you for your answer. I did not say great lakes like I meant to. I said glacial lakes. Michigan has been attempting to pass a bill since that would also make wild rice there official state grain, but it

hasn't happened yet. If you want to learn how to cook with wild rice, go to the meat eater dot com and check out Dan yell prue It's recipe for turkey and wild rice soup or Justin Townsend's recipe for duck and wild rice castle next time, can you tell us what that what benefit it does either the grain or the state when they have in official grain in Michigan for example, Why they have been trying to do

this for four years now? Uh, it would benefit the tribes in a way that when you have something listed as an official grain, it makes others respected to where they could manage the resource better than there's more awareness

around it. So that's why they're trying to do it there. Um, they recognize that they don't even know if it should be listed as like endangered vulnerable if it's a like a species of least concern, So in Michigan specifically, they're trying to get established as the official grain and then they think that will open up the door to do other things. Question for the topic is deer camp. This is our listener question of the Week, which was won

by Christie Holmes for sending in this great question. Christie is going to get a set of Meat Eater coasters that were signed by everyone in the room. If you want a chance to win our listener question in the week and send your question to Trivia at the meat eater dot com. Only two women have appeared solo on the cover of Field and Stream magazine. Name one of them. Only two women have appeared solo on the cover of Field and Stream magazine. Name one of those women, Christie

from Maine. Yeah, I think she. I think I wanted to ask her for her address to send her this prize, and it was she was a Maynard. I'm going man on torn between two really bad. Thank you Christie for for sending in this great question again. Looking for one of the two women that appeared solo on the cover of Field and Stream magazine. Decisions Man, Yeah, this is a good question. That's why it's our listener question of

the week. Does everybody have any not yet? I want some more time to think about my already wrote one down. You're just thinking if that's the one you want to go with, YEP, I'll go with it. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Sean saying, Eva Shocky saying Kelly, Glenn Brodie saying Joan Wolfe Joan and Wolfe, Alyssa saying Elissa Smith, you should make that happen, Max saying Eva Shocky, Seth saying Annie Oakley, be Hone saying Eva Shocky. The

correct answers are Queen Elizabeth and Eva Shocky. Spencer. You probably don't even know who Joan Wolfe is. I don't. That's why I had to ask you who who Elizabeth? Yeah, I would like contact. Queen Elizabeth appeared on the cover with her Hunting Dogs in nineteen seventy six, and Eva Shoki was on the cover with her bow in Many other women have been on the cover of the magazine, but we're always there with men, which makes the Queen

Elizabeth and Eva Shaka covers unique. And I could have because I could have seen that it would have been her and her dad on the cover, though, brod, are you gonna explain she's a pioneer of American fly fishing. Very cool, like I think that was named after her either her husband. Okay, because he spelled it the same as that spelled brought the question five. We will get a scoreboard update from Phil after this. The topic is biology. This animal, whose nickname is the walking pine cone, was

once thought to be the source of COVID nineteen. Gain. The topic is biology. This animal, whose nickname is the walking pine cone, was once thought to be the source of COVID nineteen. Yeah, I've never heard of this before. It's an animal too. It's an animal I would love to imagine coming from a pine cone. Hey, you never know, we had some quick answers in the room, and we also have some non answers in the room. It seems like a portion of our players knew this right off

the bat. You've got all three of you think you know what? Sean Rick Brody write down already? Oh gotcha? Back of your board says, suck it, Brodie. There's a couple of couple around here. Does everybody have anything to feel loved? Sure? Scribbling, go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Sean saying pangolin, Rick saying armadillo, Brodie sang pangolin, Alyssa saying armadillo, Max saying badger, Seth saying bat, and

Janice saying Rhett. The correct answer is pangolin. So we had a few people get it early in the pandemic. Some researchers thought that black market pangolin sold in Wuhan were the source of COVID, but a study that looked at human and pangulin genomes later exonerated them as the culprit. Pengulins were a natural suspect because there are nearly two hundred thousand of them sold on the black market each year, and they do carry other types of coronavirus. Can you

just kind of describe a pangulin. It looked like an armadillo. It's like an armadillo. I think there's eight kinds in the world. Um, they're like very scaly. It almost looks like you. Honest, if I said it looks like a pokemon, would you know what that means? I think it looks like and they're like eight million different kinds of pokemons. Yes, Like if I had to think of an animal that looks like it was created for anime. Pangolin would be

one of them. That's a that's a good way to say, Phil, agree or disagree with me on the pangulin looking like a Pokemon, and then give us a scoreboard update. Now, why did you choose Phil? Well, here's the Thinkspence, I can tell you a lot about Pokemon and nothing about a bank. Okay in uh. At one point we have a Lissa Smith Uh. Then coming up next with two points is Max. Then with three points apiece, we have Seth and Rick and all tied for first place. We

have Sean, Janis and Brody with four points. This is tight, good game to see who is going to move on to the Trivia Championship. Question six. The topic is states. This next great question comes to us via Dylan Irvin. 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. Now this is a visual question. If you want to see what the room is seeing, then go to Instagram and check out at Spencer new Art.

I will make it my most recent post. I am showing the room a picture of a license plate with the state's name photoshopped out. You need to tell me what state this belongs to. Now Here's why this is relevant. The license plate says Sportsman's Paradise on it. Oh Rick didn't need any time at all see that. Neither did Brodie. It's almost there are many paradise is out Kremlin, Colorado, remember that? And and are you laughing because it's not a sportsman's paradise, No it is. It's just a rinky

dink little town though, well that's what it's called. M hm. You honest describe what you're seeing on that license plate. It's looks like a I coup more of a sunrise background, like slightly pink on the bottom and then kind of fades into a yellow and then there's a um is that a pelican? Looks like a pelican standing on this should give everybody a clue standing on a piling and it has the words Sportsman's paradise under it. I'm feeling

pretty confident. I'm torn. I'm torn between anyone else? Want to look at what the want of the two man? I just thought of another state that it could be that. Does everybody have an answer? No? No, I'm right down my initial answer lots to be racing from Max. I stuck about it. I just put the initials. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Sean saying Louisiana. Rick sang Louisiana. My circled answer is my I'm telling you two. Brody sang Louisiana without an answer, Max saying Florida, Seth

saying South Carolina, and be honest saying Florida. The correct answer is Louisiana. Boy, my second choice. Now Max does have on his board to his credit, second choice Louisiana. Now. Louisiana's nickname is the Sportsman's Paradise. Other monikers the state goes by include Fisherman's Paradise, the Bayou State, the Sugar State, the Child of the Mississippi, the Creole State, the Holland of America, and the Pelican State. Man. I was just

there too, not too long ago. If anyone hand it in him to get this right, Seth, I think it was you. I know I didn't pay attention to Yeah, you were just um spend a majority of my time on the ocean, though you don't. Yeah. Probably Question seven the topic is cooking. This widely distributed reptile is said to have seven distinct types of meat. What is it? Say that again, this widely distributed reptile to have seven

distinct types of meat. He'd already be saying something you don't say, because all right, this widely districted reptile seven distinct types of meat? What is it? Are you and Steve's because it was a certain way. I'm gonna arguing how specific we have to be? You be, you need to be. That's what I'm getting. If you just said, like dear, I would not accept dear answer. You would need to write down white tail deer one more time. This one going to clear. That is said to have

seven distinct types of meat? What is it? Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Sean saying snapping turtle, saying common iguana, Brody saying snapping turtle, Alyssa saying alligator, Max sang snapping turtle, Seth sang snapping turtle, and Jana saying snapping turtle. They got it. The answer is snapping turtle. I'm very glad you specified you needed to have because I had I had turtle.

The seven types of meat, snapping turtles. Supposedly have our beef, chicken, fish, goat, pork, shrimp, and veal. If you want to buy it online. The bonus meat costs about forty dollars per pound, and if you want to learn how to clean one yourself, then turn to page two fifty six in the Meat Eator Fish and Game Cookbook. That's one of the things I miss most about living in Montana versus coming from Illinois

or South Dakota. All the reptiles and amphibians totally like you just don't see snapping turtles across the road here. I don't live in east from nothing like glacial lakes of South Dakota, though you were just there at some wacky museum. Those are broad, these words calling it wacky not mine. You don't think that is slightly strange? Yes, I would agree with it is slightly strange. Right a question eight. We will get a scoreboard update phill after this.

The topic is conservation. This next great question comes to is Via Howard Whiteman. If you have a question you think is right for Mediator Trivia, send it to Trivia at the meat Eator dot com. What organization is in charge of the annual Christmas bird count? Again, what organization is in charge of the annual Christmas bird count? Brody knew it right away. Maybe what organization is in charge of the annual bird count? Does everybody have an answer?

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Sean saying Audubon, Rick saying ducks unlimited, Brodie saying Audubon, Alyssa saying Audibon, Max saying US Fish and Wildlife Service, Seth saying the Audubon Society, and Joanna saying the National Audubon Society. The correct answer is the National Audubon Society. Spencer, you had me with organization my seat? What's going on now? This used to be referred to as that's right, Brodie, you are the most anxious one of the room, and we

already know that he's moving on the championship. I really want to know what's going on with everyone else. Some people think that like the competitiveness between folks like you and Steve is like a bit, but it's not. Now. This used to be referred to as the Christmas side hunt, where hunters would go afield Christmas Day to see who could kill the most birds, but it was changed to a birding survey event in nineteen hundred, which meant that

guns were no longer welcome. If you want to participate in the Christmas bird count in twenty two, which I plan too, because there's one in Bozeman, then go to audubon dot org for more information. Phil give Brody a scoreboard update. With five points, we have seth Morris flip flop flasher. With six points, we have the honest Patelis the Latvian Eagle, and tied for first place with seven points are Brody Henderson, who we know was already moving on in Sean Weaver Wow having a week Question nine,

The topic is hunting. What biblical figure was the great grandson of Noah and described as a mighty hunter before the Lord? What biblical figure was the great grandson of Noah and described as this is a quote a mighty hunter before the Lord. This pagan group did not know it right off the bat. You should go vistite that wacky museum. Bro went to learn a thing or two. Um, speaking of Noah, It's bad that I don't know this. Yeah. Again, What biblical figure was the great grandson of Noah? And

described as quote a mighty hunter before the Lord? M Can you say it one more time? What biblical figure was described as the great grandson of Noah and quote A mighty hunter before the Lord? Did I give it to you that time? No, go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Sean saying, Solomon saying John listen without an answer, Max saying Lyon, Seth saying St. Hubert, and Janice saying Josiah. Nobody got it. The answer is nim Rod, oh man. The usage of nim Rod as an insult was actually

popularized by the Looney Tunes Bugs. Bunny often sarcastically referred to at Elmer Fudd as a Nimrod, and Daffy Duck also called him my little nim Rod in a nineteen eight cartoon. For more on nim Rod and hunting in the Bible, listen to episode one nineteen of The Meat Eater podcast with religious scholar Bracy Hill. Wasn't St. Hubert the patient? He was? He inspired the Yeggermister logo Sat Hubert saw a I think it was a white stag walking through the forest with a glowing cross hanging from

its handlers. Maybe you'll see that one in Elk season honest. Question ten, The topic is fishing. What reservoir is formed by Hoover Dam? Again? What reservoir is formed by Hoover Dam? Brody, did you know this? Hold on, hold on, hold on this. This game is shaping up for overtime, which we haven't had in a minute. Again, what reservoir is formed by Hoover Dam? Does everybody have an answer? I don't feel good about it. Oh easy racing? You good? Go ahead

and reveal your answers. We have Sean saying Lake Powell, Rick saying Lake Powell, Brodie saying Lake Mead, Alyssa saying Lake Mead, Max saying Hoover Lake, Sets saying Lake Powell, and Janice saying Lake Powell. The correct answer is Lake Mead, likely winner. Now the whole head show to Lake Powell. When the answers were revealed, but Brody had it right? What's it? What's Powell? Glen Canyon? Damn? I think Glenn Canyon? Yes? Yeah? She so? How many answers did Brodie get right? Uh?

To be our winner? He ended with eight points? Eight points? And how were the other three moving on? And what was their score? That are going to the trivia Championship. Just a countdown we have Sean was seven, Nice was six, and Seth with five. Very good. Now what happens next is Brodie is going to choose where our five dollar donation goes. So Brodie, what's it going to be? Let's do a trout unlimited. We haven't done like a water fish conservation thing. I don't think have we, Spencer. I

think you're right, Brody, we have not done that. What I like about when Brody wins is he diversifies his earnings. It's not always going to like TRCP or the everyone deserves a little bit. That's right. I like it. Brodie. Well done. Now the next episode you're going to hear again is going to be seven new players competing to see who gets to go to the championship. For episode three, I guess how many thoughts on who might make it in that round? I think we have Steve Garrett, Corey

krin Um, folks like that. Who do you think it's going to come out of that round? Now? I haven't revealed this either to Steve, but he's also going to get a bye, like did Well. We got to know everyone that's playing to figure out who's Corey you think Corey will probably Grett. Okay, it sounds like that's the B team. I guess you had all the My corner was the C team. I guess what is it gonna take to win that round? To make it two round three?

Out of their group, that's probably only like three or four. Oh, that's brutal. That's usually based on the script that I write, and I haven't written that one yet, so we'll see to be determined. It would be interesting if you gave them the same questions you gave us today. You know, I thought about that, but it wouldn't make for a very good listen. No, nothing would be hard to tune into that one is for sure. You know the answers. Tune in next time for the next episode of Media Tribute.

You're gonna get ten new questions, seven new players, and this is the only game show where conservation always wins. Good job, Spencer, Thanks for having me, Spencer. I'm not doing this again.