Ep. 414: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XLVII

so I don't know. Kind of question whipping out here? You all right, we'll Carmen Sam goes for you. How do you think you're gonna do on meat Eater Trivia? I have no idea. I've played along a couple of times. How do you normally do well? It goes. It depends on the type of questions that I'm going. I'm not I'm not real strong on any sort of history stuff, but if you if there's some bio ones, then I can do. You played along from home? Yes and kept score? Yeah.

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 dollars to the conservation organization of the winners choosing and the stat of the week. This week we're updating the meat Eater trivia donation tracker. We just surpassed twenty two tho dollars and with every penny going towards conservation. Oh you know what if I win today, I'm donating

the Karmen's anybody that doesn't donate to Karma's nonprofit. Wow, Karmen, can you tell us about what that nonprofit is? Yeah, So it's Home Range Wildlife Research and we sort of have three pillars where we're doing research right now. It's some wildfire research. We have UM field skills training courses for young bios that want to get some experience, maybe learn how to snowmobile before they're having to do it

on the fly on the job. Uh. And then we've got a community science component as well or doing some some bear work um and and utilizing our our local community to help us figure out what's going on with bears in our trash. That's great. Now the show has spread that twenty two dollars across twenty six different nonprofits, with the most common recipients being TRCP, the National Wild Turkey Federation, Howell dot Org, and the Meat Eator Land Access Initiative. At this pace, by the end of the

show will have given over fifty dollars to conservation. Now we have some housekeeping to get to. In a previous game of trivia, we had a question about what word describes a man made stack of rocks that's used to mark trails or graves. The correct answer was cairn, but several listeners wrote in to ask if a knook shook would also work. The knook shook, which is a word I've never heard of, is defined as a figure made of piled stones or boulders constructed to communicate with humans

in the Arctic. Basically, it's the Inuit version of a cairn. So I count that as a correct answer. Uh yeah, okay, do you Steves wondering last time? Are you the kind of person that when you're walking along the stream and you see one of those things that someone will you kick it over on a stream? Yeah? Yeah, okay, Mark in the fishing hole thing, I don't when it's when you're entering an alpine area and you're trying and they're

trying to prevent people from dispersing all across. Uh, you know, alpine tundra, and it's meant to be like here's the trail, let's let's keep traffic confined. I'm all for that, but just people piling up rocks recreational? Are you the kind of person that where you see where some kids made the sand castle that you stomp on it. No, not kids stuff, but I don't like those ones you see along creeks. My wife was this pointed when we talked

about Karns that I didn't tell the story. We were in Canyon Lands National Park and it was a spot in the hike where it's pretty interpretive. There were hundreds of cairns around, and I started kicking them over because I was annoying that folks were just building them and you're not supposed to. She said. At one point I even said take that, hippies, when I kicked him over. Well, we got back to the trailhead and there was a

sign that said the cairns mark the trail. Uh, So I was actually I still like I I was the jerk um. Those were meant to be there. You know what, man, I got you a present that you're not gonna believe. I wasn't gonna tell you like I was gonna tell you. Then I thought, well, I'll just tell him when I give it to him. But I'm so excited. This is like when I proposed my wife. I didn't I was gonna make a plan. But since I got the ring out of set it because okay, you know, I was

gonna be like a fiesta theme. I don't know, but what was the land for your life? I hadn't really thought it through. As soon as I got to bring out his asser. Okay, I thought, I won't take the ring home and hide it and I'll think of something. But I got we got a little drunk at night, and I just did it. But I got you held at present I found you. I'm gonna bring it to

you and give it to you. Pretty good hunk, like as big around, like the size of your hand without what if you cut your fingers off wide maybe four or five inches tall. Jet black petrified wood. Oh, it's great from where Mexico jet black beautiful burned. Yeah, I believe. I believe that what you'll be holding when you hold it. This is our interpretation of No, I think that it was I think that it was a burnt I think of a tree burnt and got petrified. It's great, that's

like something christ and give up. Yeah, I don't think it's cold. Man, you can't break. It's too hard for that, right. No, it's it's like it's not But I thought, I hope I'm not giving him a hunk cole legit on a show to him. He can thrown a little rock tumblers, probably from when the big meteor hitting made the dinostars strike. Yeah, the Southwest has very pretty petrified wood. Uh. They have a lot of different colors. There's some that are opalized.

You have the straight black like your tongue looking forward to it. You're in for a real treat when I give this to you. We also had Jake Diebel among others, right in with feedback about Steve's humunculus. The issue with Steve's use that the humunculous has nothing to do with memory, but rather your motor or sensory cortex. Humunculous, which is Latin for little person, is a term referring to a distorted human figure that represents how much area of the

cerebral cortex is devoted to a particular body location. For example, the cortical humunculous has large lips but a tiny back because your lips are much more sensitive to touch than your back. Therefore, there is a larger portion of your brain devoted to the stimulus coming from your lips. Then you're back. This guy doesn't know my home unto us. You know, I've I've heard this from other folks, but I didn't want to correct you because I like the

youth so much. Your Your version is much cooler than I mean. You just like the word means little person. But there used to be a belief and I still believe that there is a little person that lives in you. Okay, I'll try to track this down. Has his own information. That's good. That's far better than uh the Latin one. The Shelby index for this round of trivia is a three point five, so our winner should get seven correct answers,

and with that we're onto the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil, Look, I need to know what I stand to win everything. I say, just tend to win everything, suckers. Question one the topic is cooking, and this is multiple choice. Which of these phrases gets googled the most in America? Is it salmon recipe, catfish recipe, trout recipe, or crab recipe? Which of these phrases gets googled the most in America? Is it salmon recipe, catfish recipe, trout recipe, or crab recipe?

Some quick answers for most of the room, Steve, with no answer quite yet. Your four choices salmon, catfish, trout or crab. Steve, what do you think your chances are on this one? By you were quick to draw. I'm I think I do? I know it's one of two. Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying salmon, Karin saying salmon, Chris sang catfish, Brody saying salmon, Ken saying salmon, Janice saying salmon, and

Carmen saying catfish. The correct answer is salmon. Perfect game. So far, the room did pretty well. Perfect game. The phrases catfish recipe, trout recipe, and crab recipe all get googled about one hundred thousand times each month. The phrase salmon recipe gets googled about one million times each month. It's the most googled recipe in states like Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland,

and New Jersey. But instead of going to Google, those folks should go to the meat eater dot com and check out Danielle Pruitt's recipe called the best Grilled Salmon. He's a company man, a company man that we recently had a text exchange and I told Steve, I'm a company man. I mean, you find new ways to do it to the topic is hunting. What country has the world record for a non typical mule? Dear? What country has the world record for a non typical that? This

is so weird? I know the answer? What about your homunculous? No? My kid, Oh, he had to pick a research topic at school and we had to do look up a couple of things. His research topic was mulder Okay, so I had he had like these little questions and I had to look one up. I happened to look this up. I think you could have done this one in multiple choice and it would have been just as fun answer, if not even better. What country has the world record

for a non typical mule deer? Does everybody have an answer, go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying Canada, saying in New Zealand, Brod He's saying us, Ken saying Canada, Janice saying Canada, and Carmen saying Canada. Look I crossed it out. The correct answer is Canada. He had no idea. He caught a track, was following it, and then ran into a moose track and thought, man, I should probably follow that moose track. Then you got to think it.

I don't have that long and moose tend to cover ground pretty quick. I'm just gonna stay with my deer tracks. I'm afraid I'll never catch up with the moose. That's great. Caught up with it saw and thought, wow, it looks like a big buck and shot it. Your son's gona on this book report. What's your son's gonna be okay on this report? Huh yeah. I'll talk to you off the air about the two biggest mule deer in the

world have been killed in Canada. One was a three hundred fifty inch buck killed in nineteen six and Alberta. The other was a three hundred thirty nine inch buck killed in British Columbia in eighteen ninety the biggest mule deer ever killed in America was three hundred thirty inches, which is third in the world. The biggest mule deer ever killed in Mexico was two hundred fifty two inches, which is three hundred fifty four in the world. That's

what that's that's that's net. No, what's it called gross? What's the one that comes after numbers? Well, for nontypicals be getting your gross number. It's a bigger one than that hasn't come out of Mexico. She look at those ones jay Scots been getting down there. They're bigger than that. They probably don't have the Wisconsin Wiscotsin Culture of Entering in the Boone and Crockett Record Book, Question three, the

topic is wildlife. This is our listener question of the Week, which was won by Thomas Garcia for sending this great question. Thomas is going to get a signed book by Stephen Rennell. If you want a chance to win our listener Question of the Week, then send it to Trivia at the Meat Eater dot com. What animal causes the most power outages in the United States? This is how specific I expect you to be if you thought the answer was

white tailed deer, which it's not. You could just write, dear, what animal causes the most power outages in the United States. A lot of quick answers in the room. Steve still thinking, Yanni, you got this one. I don't know if if my right slow I didn't notice, I might be too vague, because well, can you give me that a little bit

again about specificities. You think the answer is white tailed deer, you can just write, dear, it's as specific is you need to be what animal causes most power outages in the United States? Does everybody have an answer? No, no, I would change my answer after that. Steve has made the room nervous. You ready go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying squirrel, Krin saying Canada goose, Chris saying squirrel, Brody saying birds, Ken saying squirrel, Jana saying birds,

Carmen saying raptors. The correct answer is squirrels. I was gonna go to birds after you, but no, no, because his little tidbit they're birds wouldn't work. Man well in the record like a family in the record keeping. Here's what it is. Since squirrels have caused nearly hundred power outages. That's nearly twice as many as birds, which are second on the list. In third place is snakes, in fourth

place is raccoons, and in fifth place is rats. Other animals on the list include cats, weasels, jellyfish, foxes, and frogs. How does it? How does the snake? What does the state? Climbing up there and they cross some wires. I think there's been a mini photos in the last decade that have gone viral of of snakes that have himself laid over the Yeah. I've heard at one point that they were like hunting birds up there or something, and that's

what caused this problems. An industrious snake. Jellyfish, don't ask me to explain that one. I don't know. Someone threw a jellyfish question for the topic is public lands located in California. This is the tallest mountain in the lower forty eight. No one with an answer quite yet. Located in California, this is the tallest mountain in the lower forty eight. Karin and Janice got this one. No one else has created an answer quite yet. Steve's umunculus working

hard Poland strings. Located in California. This is the tallest mountain in the lower forty eight. Yanni, you got this one. I'm pretty sure, Karan you got this one. Okay, I need I need five minutes, five minutes. We gotta have some in filler content for five minutes, Phil, how much can you talk about Pokemon for five minutes? I'm sitting next to Brody, so I don't think I wanted reaching distance. We'll make it maybe sixty seconds and then get stabbed. If you can work a clue in it, you can

talk about Pokemon all day again. Located in California. You know what it is. Just give me a second. This is the tallest mountain in the lower forty eight. Brody, do you have this one? No? But I'm enjoyed seeing Steve squirm, literal squirming going on? What do you think about this? Should we consider adding trapping as another vertical to meet either That would help me a lot. We have a trapping question coming up later. I figured Steve, how are we doing? He looks like he's in pain.

It was just like one one peak, one name of one place or yes, I don't even know if mine's in I got nothing man, it's like called does everybody have an answer? You're just giving Steve more time because none of us know. Steve. We're about ten seconds away from Phil talking Pokemon eight seven six Pokemon called Mountain Moon and that's not the end. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We've got Steve saying, what's that? Say it's some ship like snowcraft or buttercop or something like that.

Korean saying Mount tam I just made a joke. I have no clue, Chris saying Mount shastic Ken without an answer, You honest saying Whitney, and Carmen saying Shasta. The correct answer is Mount Whitney, never close, never heard of it. Despite being the tallest mountain in the Lower forty eight, Mount Whitney is shorter than ten different mountains in Alaska. Its elevation is fourteen thousand, five hundred feet, which is sixty five ft taller than the Lower forty eight next

biggest mountain, Colorado's Mount Albert. That's a good question. Question five. You know I was like swarming thing, I knew it. I didn't know it, Okay, very honest? Have you? Question five will get a scoreboard update from philthy engineer. After this, this next great question comes to us via Bradley Gates. If you have a question you think is right for meat eat to Trivia, you can send it to trivia

at the meat eator dot com. What is the phenomenon that describes how an arrow's path differs from a bow's aim point? What is the phenom amenon that describes how an arrows path differs from a bows aim point? The room is thinking hard. Stephen Crin have answers Brody coming up with one again? The question is what is the phenomenon that describes how an arrow is path differs from a bows aim point? Steve, you got this one? Yeah? Probably? Okay,

I don't know. Probably. This is question five. Topic is hunting, Yanny? How you feeling? Brody is just like a little lump on a log? Oh man, I'm having a rough day. Yeah, I just want to leave again? This is the phenomenon that describes how an arrows path differs from a bows aim point? Does everybody have an answer? I know I've heard this word from my husband. But Steve's looking cocky or no, no, not, I'm not, I don't think. Go

ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying archer's paradox, Krin saying minutes of angle, Chris saying parallax, Brody saying trajectory, Ken saying trajectory, Janice saying archer's paradox. Carmen without an answer, Oh yeah, Oh, the correct answer is archer's paradox. That wasn't raining, That's not the same. Mr. Directory. Most think that the archer's paradox is the bending of an arrow, but the reality is that bending is how an arrow

overcomes the archer's paradox. This is why it's important for bow hunters to have an arrow that has the correct spine for their setup. Phil, we're halfway through the game of trivia. Give us a scoreboard update. With one point apiece. We have Carmen, Karinn and Brody Henderson. Brody, holy shit, spen the the end. He's not even index. Yeah, it's gonna have to work hard to hit the Shelby index. Here. Chris has two points, Ken has three, and Steve and

Janice are tied in first place with four points. Man, the guests are doing good. Anyone's game. We haven't even throwed them their bone yet. Oh you haven't thrown bone yet. Question six. The topic is woodsmanship. What do you call the valuable outgrowth on a tree in which the grain is deformed with knots? Mm hmm? What do you call the valuable outgrowth on a tree in which the grain is deformed with knots? Quick answers from every person in the room. It's maybe a seven for seven. Does everybody

have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers? Got Steve saying burl burl, Burl, burl, burl, burl. Everybody got it? The correct answer is burl or burr. Uh. Carmen did something. I'm not comfortable. I did quell, but I feel that any kind of thing of like altering an answer like that, that's like a warning. But don't she could have done any number she could have done any number of niculars.

I'll keep it clean. Burls are often the result of some sort of stress, such as an injury, disease, or fungus. They are sought after by woodworkers because of their unique colors, swirls, and textures. Pat Durkin covered the subject of tree burr poachers in article on the meat eator dot com called black market burl the underworld of illegal timber. Hece, there's a nice boat and burrow bowl right behind you. Spencer, Oh, did you hear about that mouse was living in that bowl?

I didn't know he was living in the bowls at Determine. That was his home range. That's where I saw him. He's up there. I thought he was caught. He's dead. He's dead. I didn't think they should have trapped him. They should have. Question seven, The topic is trapping. Three states have a bobcat population over two hundred thousand. Name one of them? Oh, three states have a bobcat population over two hundred thousand. Name one of those states. Very confident, Steve,

very cocky, Carmen. Do you think you're gonna get this one? No? Come on, I think you are, Grant. I think you are too. Feel bad, feel bad? Three states bobcat population over two hundred thousand. Name one of those states. Does everybody have an answer? Yeah? I can't change because I looked, I saw yours, so I'm not gonna do it. All right,

let's go go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying California, Karin saying Arizona, Chris sang Nebraska, Brodie saying California, Ken saying New Mexico, Ghana saying California, Carmen saying Arizona. Nobody got it. States are Florida, Georgia, and Texas. Texas, Texas and the rest of you, though were like in the top ten. I think all the states you mentioned were in the sixty thousand range. Um, so not quite

two hundred. Florida has to just crawling with them. These numbers are based on a two thousand ten article in the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. They estimate that there are three hundred thousand bob cats in Texas and Florida and two hundred thousand bomb cats in Georgia. It's estimated that there are about three million in bob can't in America, which means those three states contained twenty of the country's population. That's remarkable because it's like that thickly,

like densely vegetated stuff. It must just be that they're just there. I don't know what I'm talking about. I got a lot of food down there. I was thinking down that way. I was trying to pick you know, like Alabama, Georgia. I was, I was there, I was there, The thing is, we're all thinking of Western cats. That's your high dollar cats. That's everybody wants to trap cats. Some cats aren't worth much, They're not quality for cats.

So does the question is flawed? Well, I'm just gonna say you wouldn't think people don't brag um a trap of cats and those states. If he had he said load dollar cats, yes, I would have been there. I've thought about it across my Florida in parking lots though, and ship like that. There's a lot of lot They've got easy, easy viddles your own. That's from a two article in the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. Question. The topic is fishing and this next great question comes

to us via Matthew Bacca. If you have a question you think is right for Meatia to trivia, you can send it to Trivia at the meatiator dot com. This fishing brand, which used to be known as the Zero Hour Bomb Company, invented the world's first spin cast reel in nineteen forty nine. This fishing which used to be known as the Zero Our Bomb Company, invented the world's first spin cast reel in nineteen forty nine. Very quick answer from Brody and Steve st a large smart You

got this one. This is question eight and we will get a scoreboard update after this. I feel like I don't know the spell perfectly because I don't know, I can't tell that they're sometimes a shitty grand and Ivan smirk. I can't tell him apart they're different. Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying zebko kran without an answer, Chris saying Shimano, Brody saying zebko Ken saying diawa dial Ya saying Zepco,

Carmen without an answer. The correct answer is Zepco. The brand changed its name from Zero Hour Bomb Company to Zebco in nineteen fifty six. This was after a real was sent to the White House for President Eisenhower and confiscated by security. The bomb squad took the package and threw it into a tub of water, not realizing that Zero Hour Bomb Company made fishing gear, so they thought that a bomb company had mailed him a bomb and put on the package. Zero Hour Were they always a

fishing company or like? Does that name come from like some World War two like? So they used to make like small bombs for oil rigs when folks were prospecting um. And then they had a politician from Texas that saw a deli counter um guy who was pulling the number tickets out of like a little can. And then he thought, oh, that's something that maybe a fishing company could make. So he went to the Zero Hour Bomb Company. They made the first one. This this politician saw it a deli counter.

How he was pulling tabs from a little bottle right like how it was you know what I'm talking about, any pictures you pull a number and that made him think you the DMV. That made him think maybe that could apply to a fishing wheel. So then he went to the zero He went to the Zero Hour Bomb Company asked them to make something and they actually messed around. One of the first prototypes was made of a beer can.

I think it's interesting how they went with like a combination of abbreviation and an acronym to come up with the new name ZEPCO from Zero Hour Bomb Company. And then yeah, because then they got rid of the age. It works. It's like, wow, let's just take out like letters. Bam, Phil, we have two questions left to give us a scoreboard update. It's two points apiece. Karan and Carmen have been eliminated from the game. He said that kind of mean Phil,

as well as Chris and Brody. Yeah, it happened when game. Each time it happens, Steve declares, I've been I've been eliminated. This is the late elimination. What's what's the leaderboard? Ken, Janie and Steve are still in the game. Ken has four points. Stevens are tied. The six question nine, the topic is cooking. What is the maximum number of Michelin stars a restaurant can get? What is the maximum number of Michelin stars a restaurant can get? Brodie and see

with quick answers. I thought out I should have watched you write, because I bet if I saw you write the number, I would know number. Karin also with a quick answer. Karann, You're gonna get this one right, be honest? How you feel? Oh? Well, I mean looking for the maximum number of Michelin stars a restaurant can get? Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers.

We have Steve saying three, Karin saying four, Chris sang five, Brodie saying three, Ken saying five, Jannae saying three and Carmen sang four. The correct answer is three. Here is the Michelin scale. One star means quote it's a very good restaurant in this category. Two stars means quote it has excellent cooking worth a detour, and three stars means quote it has exceptional cuisine worth a special journey. Do you know that that um that it Actually it's the

tire company. The tire company. They were trying to like promote you know what they're trying to like promote driving. They're real stingy with those three star ratings. Yeah, just just to hold us stars astound. Have you eaten that many Michelin restaurants? I have no, not many. A couple of times did it hold up? It was worth the hype? Where the special journey? We ate it one together, didn't we? Wasn't that right they had? Or multipolar three doesn't like

French laundry have been there? I don't like, I don't. I I can't answer that because there's so much sort of there's so much. Yeah, but like like when we ate it one, we kind of ate it one sort of like in a friends scenario, and it made a lot of fun. Yeah, Phil, we have one question left, give us a scoreboard update, two players left in the game or Steven Ronella and Janice who tell us was seven points apiece? Question to the topic is hunting? This

next great question comes to hiss Via Dakota Bolton. If you have a question you think is right for Meatia to Trivia, you can send it to Trivia at the media dot com. This is my vertical expertise, Steve. Drake, Hooded Mergansers, Drake redheads, and Drake Northern shovelers all have this eye color. Drake, hooded Burganzers, Drake redheads, and Drake

Northern shovelers all have this eye color. I'm sensing the same amount of confidence from Janice and Steve coming up with an answer which seems like what do you boys think? I know? Is? Janice has a very good track record and overtime. Steve, how you feeling about this again? Looking for the eye color of hooded Merganzas, redheads and Northern shovelers. When it comes to Drake's does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and modified real quickly, go ahead and reveal

your answer. We are different, saying Karin Sang Yellow Chris sang red, Brodie sang yellow, sang red, Janice saying red, and Carmen sang red. One of you is the winner. The correct answer is yellow, giving Steve correct answer and the victory. I'm not hooded. Northern shovelers are the only puddle duck with yellow eyes. It's far more common in diving ducks. In addition to all the ones listed, ring necked ducks, scups and of course golden eye all have

yellow eyes. Are given my money. What happens next is you get to choose where the five donation goes, which you've already teased. So what's it gonna be my donation will go to? Are you able to take where you know you don't want? Someone donates money that has to go to a specific category. Is that too annoying for you? Oh, I can go to it. I'll do general funds. I was gonna make it specific to your snowmobile problem. So

they're the Home Range Wildlife Research. Home Range Wildlife Research has a problem right now where they're doing their operation on twenty five year old snow meals. You need to upgrade. They're trying to upgrade like ten year old used snow meals um I was gonna earmark my five donation for home range wildlife research. UM I was gonna earmarket for snow meals, but I don't want to be burdensome, so it's just for the general slush fund. I like it.

Thank you, well done, Steve, Thank you Ken, Chris, Thank you for coming. Hope you enjoyed mediat or Trivia. Join us next time for more of the only game show conservation always wins. Thanks better