Matt and Friends Drink the Universe
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Matt and Friends Drink the Universe
Think or Drink? - Music Trivia - "Let it Eb"
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Think or Drink? - "Let it Eb" Prepare to laugh! Matt is joined by Andy, Rob, and Siobhan. Musicians and music enthusiasts all, Matt and crew put their knowledge of all things music to the test. With questions spanning the entire musical universe - from instruments to legends of the past and present - these fierce competitors will leave no musical stone unturned and music pun left unsaid in their quest for trivia victory. Who will hit all the high notes? Who will be left singing the blues? Tune in to find out! As always, we try a few tasty beverages too!
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All right, everyone, welcome back to Matt and Friends Drink the Universe.
RobOh, that was so well time.
MattWelcome back to Matt and Friends Drink the Universe. Today we're gonna be playing some think or drink. Think or drink. Think or drink. Think or drink is the Matt and Friends Drink the Universe trivia game. We're gonna tweak it a little bit for this episode. Everybody is gonna start with seven points. I will ask trivia questions centered around a certain topic. If you answer your question correctly, you choose someone else to take a sip of their drink, and that person loses a point. If you answer your question incorrectly, you will lose a point and you must take a sip. So we're gonna add a new mechanic, something a little fun this time. Once around, you may choose to make it a double. Making it a double allows you to choose another person to help you answer the questions. If the two of you come up with the correct answer, you both have the option individually to make someone else drink or to gain one of your lost points back. If you both answer the question incorrectly, you both lose a point and you have to take a sip. The topic for this think or drink episode is music. Ooh. Ooh.
VariousYeah, okay.
MattI have some great friends drinking the universe again with me today. So let's go around the table and introduce yourselves. My name is Andy.
AndyI am a high school band director here in the Lehigh Valley.
SiobhanHello, I'm Siobhan, and I've been on a few episodes before, but uh I sing around the area. I'm in a couple choral groups. I've been taking voice lessons for a while. I got a big bio, everybody. I'm gonna tell you about it. I was in marching band in college, I'm very proud for one year. So good times.
MattAwesome. Gettysburg University marching band.
SiobhanCollege, thank you.
MattYeah, Gettysburg College, my dude. I'm sorry. That's okay. I apologize. Get it right to the Gettysburg community.
RobHey guys, this is Rob. Um back again for another episode. For music, I've been playing in bands for most of my life. Uh, currently in a duo right now called The Reconnect. Check it out online at the Reconnect Music, Facebook and Instagram. Shameless plug. What are you gonna do? It's fine. But anyway, yeah, my family is all musically inclined. I've grown up around it, so really excited for music trivia today.
MattAnd you all know me. My name is Matt. I also have a rather large music bio, so I'll give you the Cliff Notes version. I have been a drummer for about 25 years. When I was in eighth grade, I was in my first band. The guy sitting across the table from me here, Rob, gave me a phone call and said, Would you like to be in a band with me? And I said, Yes. Who do you got? And he goes, You, and I'm looking for other people. So from there we started a band. We played in bands together for probably what, like eight years on and off at least.
RobFrom 14 to 22. Somebody do the math there. It's eight. Yep. Spoiler.
MattNice job. I also have taught marching band around the area here. I taught marching percussion for approximately 17 years. And I am actually a member of the Vic Firth education team as well as the Zildjian symbols education team.
SiobhanFor all of you who cannot see us right now, he's wearing a Vic Firth shirt.
MattThat's right. In the representing very proud of that. Vic Firth playing implements for the win. So what's ever before we get started, what's everybody drinking?
RobWell, Andy?
AndyWell, I'm drinking what Matt put in front of me here. So this is the uh hazy moments from Freewill Brewing, which is down in Perkes, Pennsylvania. Great brewery. Awesome people that own it and run it. And I've got a lovely porter's mug that I'm uh drinking it out of.
MattI gave a good piece of my liver for that Porter's mug, so you better enjoy it over there.
AndyThere you go. It's quite cold.
MattI picked this one out because I figured we'd all have some hazy moments while we were playing, looking for an answer, going and then, you know, come up with something intelligent.
SiobhanGood times. I feel like I won't make that noise. But I am finishing off some Jack Daniels and Cider because what a week, everyone. But I'm quickly going to follow it up with uh Pennsylvania beer. Um, I'm drinking foliage since we are in that season, a hazy IPA from New Trail, which is in Williamsport.
MattI would like to point out that Siobhan is saying, what a week, and we're recording on a Wednesday, just so everybody knows.
SiobhanListen, friends, that's enough days for me to see. It's okay.
RobIt's all right. Um, tonight I'm drinking a double the jam strawberry cherry rhubarb pie sour ale from Lost Tavern, right here in Bethlehem and Hellertown, Pennsylvania, one of my favorite breweries in the area.
MattAll right. So let's go ahead. Let's get started with some music trivia. First question is going to Andy. We're gonna go. None of you listening can see me gesturing. I am gesturing clockwise around the table here, so Andy's gonna go first. And the very first question we have here: who was awarded the very first gold record? Nat King Cole, Perry Como, the Beatles, or Elvis Presley?
AndyI I love Nat King Cole. I don't think it's him. But just because I love him so much, I'm going with Nat King Cole.
SiobhanOh, we have a sound effect. Look at that. I agree. I support Nat King Cole.
MattIt was not Nat King Cole.
RobOkay.
MattThe answer is Perry Como. Oh. Although there were earlier publicity stunts involving records sprayed with gold lacquer, the award was recognized today as the gold record was awarded to Perry Cuomo in 1958 for his recording of Catch a Falling Star.
AndyBut I think we can all agree. It should have been that conventional.
SiobhanYeah, for sure. Yep, I'm here for that.
AndyWell, there you have it.
SiobhanThough Perry Como sings when Irish Eyes are smiling, even though he is very Italian, which always makes me laugh.
AndyIt makes sense. Is that cultural appropriation?
SiobhanAs the token Irish in the room, I'm not really sure. Okay.
MattNext coming up is probably a very not Irish question. What singer holds the world record for the most words in a hit single? Kanye West, Eminem, Buster Rhymes, or 50 Cent.
SiobhanI'm gonna go with Buster Rhymes, mostly because I will never vote for Kanye.
RobNot Buster Rhymes. I would have also guessed Buster Rhymes. I would have gone with Weird Al. Is it MM? It is Eminem.
SiobhanNicely done. Okay.
MattApparently, the song Rap God has 1,560 words. Which means he is rapping a tongue twisting 4.28 words per second. That's pretty nuts. I can't think that many words per second. That's a lot. Throw that out there.
SiobhanThat's cool. That's good trivia, though.
MattWow. All right. Rob, are you ready? Yes. It's not a Han Solo question for anybody that listened to Drank.
RobThat we're not going to have that be a common answer, but go on.
MattWhich jazz musician was known for playing a bent trumpet? Dizzy Gillespie, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, or Louis Armstrong.
SiobhanAndy's dying, by the way.
RobI think it's too early for me to double up, but I'm going to go with Miles Davis.
MattYou're going with Miles Davis? The answer is not Miles Davis. He's gone for a double on that one.
RobDizzy. Is it Dizzy? It is.
AndyI thought Dizzy Gillespie was a trombone player. No, he was a trumpet player. He was the one who had the herniated cheeks, so the cheeks would puff out real bad.
RobI thought that that was Louis Armstrong.
SiobhanHis great granddaughter was in the music program with me at Gettysburg College.
AndyWow, there's all kinds of cool stuff happening right now.
RobThat's right.
AndyThat's amazing. But no, uh, Dizzy Gillespie's trumpet was bent because somebody stepped on it and he thought it sounded cool. And enough other people thought it sounded cool that a uh brass company marketed it and sold it for a while, and a lot of people bought it. Very cool.
RobAlright, here we go. What was the first rock and roll song to hit number one on the charts? That's all right, 2D Fruity, Rock Around the Clock, or Heartbreak Hotel.
MattRock around the clock.
RobThat is correct. Ooh, our first one. The first rock and roll song to hit number one was Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and his comets. And it held the top spot for eight weeks. So pretty cool. Also, I just want to mention that we're we're happy to include Matt on this round of trivia. Yes. Because we didn't do that last time. So uh who are you giving your drink to?
MattI'm gonna give it to the guy that started my career of hauling a drum set all around the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania.
SiobhanSo No, you're the one that said you were glad to have him here.
MattWell, here we are. And gladness over.
RobYep. Uh so at the end of round one, uh Matt in the lead with seven points still. Siobhan and Andy both with six, and I am down to five.
MattNext question going to Andy. All right, I'm how much pressure do the strings in a grand piano exert on the frame? 30 pounds, 300 pounds, three tons, or 30 tons. Alright, so we're talking a grand piano here, right?
AndyYes, grand piano. Full size. Full size, extra large. Wow, that that is a thing. An extra large grand piano? Oh yeah, extra keys. Yeah, you can go beyond the 88. Well, what I'm reading says grand piano. All right, we're we're going with a standard grand piano. Doesn't give me the right answer.
SiobhanRight. I was gonna say, I'm not sure where we're going with this.
AndyI'm going with the three tons.
MattIt is not three tons. Is it the 30 tons? The answer is 30 tons. Each string has a each string has a tension of 160 to 200 pounds, resulting in a combined total of 30 tons in a concert grand. That's pretty nuts. That's absolutely insane.
RobWow.
MattHow does it stay together?
AndyScience. You know what?
RobScience. Science.
AndyScience. Science. Science. I don't know if that means we're supposed to take a drink, but I did.
SiobhanI'm always drinking, so.
AndyYeah, you know, I'm I'm just here for a good time.
MattSiobhan. What did Freddie Mercury attribute his enhanced vocal range to? Lots of practice. Extra teeth. Genetics or large lungs?
SiobhanI feel like it's lungs.
MattLungs. It is extra teeth. It's the teeth, baby. The answer is extra teeth.
SiobhanThat doesn't make sense.
MattHe was born with four extra teeth and attributed his enhanced vocal range to this. He refused to have his teeth fixed, fearing it would affect his vocal ability.
SiobhanOkay.
MattI remember them talking about that in Bohemian Rhapsody.
SiobhanI'm not saying that that's not what he said. I'm saying that doesn't make any sense.
RobHave you not watched Bohemian Rhapsody?
SiobhanIf I had, I probably would have known the answer.
RobIt's actually a really great movie. Oh, I'm sure.
SiobhanI'll see it. I know his real name, but I didn't know about the teeth.
RobHis real Oh, Freddie Mercury's real name. Correct. Yeah.
SiobhanYeah.
AndyYou're saying it's not Freddie Mercury.
SiobhanI am saying that.
RobI don't I don't know anything anymore. Don't tell him what it is, just in case that's a trivia question down there.
SiobhanNo, I'm keeping that in.
AndyAs Matt scrolls past that question. Pretty sure it was fair enough. Farouk.
SiobhanThat is his first name, yes.
MattHere's a good one. Ready? What was the band known as Lincoln Park originally called?
RobDo I get multiple choice on this? Or are you just gonna leave me hanging?
MattI do that to you all the time. Wait for know the answer. Reanimators, Meteorola, Zero, or Hybrid Theory.
RobUm my guess. Some of those are their album names. Yes. Hmm. So did they name an album after what they used to be called by? Can you give me the options again one more time?
MattReanimators, Meteorola, Zero, or Hybrid Theory. I'm going with Meteoroa. That is not correct.
RobOkay.
MattThat is not correct. Was it hybrid theory? Well, yes. Well, here's the answer. While Lincoln Park was at one time called hybrid theory, they started out as zero. For legal reasons, for legal reasons, they eventually dropped both of the original names and settled on Lincoln Park.
RobSo hold on a second. What was the actual answer? Zero?
MattZero.
RobOkay. Yeah. I don't know. Whatever.
SiobhanBummer dude.
RobYeah.
SiobhanDidn't you watch that Lincoln Park movie? Oh, wait, there isn't one of those. Sorry.
RobYou guys all suck.
SiobhanWhat? Sounds like you suck. You got it wrong.
RobOh my god. I I want you to not know this, but I have a feeling you might. It's fine. What instrument is used by the indigenous people of Australia to accompany ceremonial dancing and singing? The hydrolophone, the diggeridoo, the zoosaphone, or the yabahar. It's a diggeridoo. Fah. Fifty thousand diggeridoos. I was waiting for that to be wrong too.
SiobhanLike you thought it was wrong too.
RobThe diggeridoo is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians within the last 15,000 years. 1500. Sorry, 1500 years, and is still in widespread use today.
SiobhanWidespread is quite a subjective term there. Great.
RobThis is going off the rails.
SiobhanI'm sorry to everyone in Australia that might be listening to this.
RobAfter round two. For multiple reasons. If we actually have Australian listenership, I do apologize as well. But anyway, uh after round two.
SiobhanSo don't worry.
RobMatt, who has rigged the system, is in lead with seven seven points. Uh, you didn't give anybody a drink yet.
MattOh, I haven't given anybody. Yeah, I gave you a drink. Yeah, for the didgeridoo. But you just had the didgeridoo, correct? No. Because Siobhan won last time. I'm gonna give her one.
RobShe's got a didgered. Wow. I'm really loving it. So now.
AndyYou need to didgeridoo better with your puns.
RobHey, whoa. That's that's fair.
SiobhanIndeed.
RobThat's fair. Well, I need to be more aboriginal. I knew it. I knew it. I knew you were going there. I knew it.
MattI'm gonna do it. Okay. I'm gonna do it. Thank you. Stellar. Thank you.
RobSo at the end of round two, Matt is unscathed with seven points. Andy with five in second place. Siobhan and I have both fallen to a measly four points. It's it's really a sad state of affairs for me over here, but not out of it yet.
SiobhanWe're still here.
MattYeah, that's right. Andy. What famous composer has two skulls in his tomb? Igor Stravinsky? Haydn? Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or Franz Schubert? Two skulls. Two skulls. Hopefully one is his and one is somebody else's.
AndyBut no judgment if they're both his. Um seems like the kind of weird thing Schubert would do. I'm gonna go with Schubert.
MattSadly, not correct. Uh oh. I thought it would be Stravinsky. It is not Stravinsky either. It is Joseph Haydn. What? Yeah. Haydn's so chill. After his burial in 1809, Joseph Haydn's head was stolen by phrenologists and replaced. Oh, I did know this. And a replacement skull was left in his tomb. In 1954, the real skull was finally returned, but the substitute was not removed. Thus, two skulls. Interesting.
AndyYeah, I heard this again, and I I think like there's just a mystery of who the other skull belonged to.
SiobhanWeird that. Like put a replacement in, as if who's checking? It's kind of like, oh, we we looked again and his skull was missing. Like, who cares if people were taking it out?
AndySomeone stole a skull. Uh Steve?
SiobhanThe dead guy. Yeah, right.
AndyAll right.
RobWell.
MattWeird.
SiobhanAll right.
RobInteresting questions, that's for sure.
MattSiobhan. Yes. Which musical term means to play a piece of music lively and fast? Cadenza, Allegro, Castrato, or Adagio?
SiobhanWhat was that third one? Did you say Castrato?
MattYeah, I think I did say Castrato.
AndyThat's definitely not it.
SiobhanYeah.
AndyUh, kids, please go Google that.
SiobhanI'm gonna go with Allegro.
AndyCorrect. Thank you. There we go.
SiobhanIt's not a castrati, which is quite different.
AndyThat question had met by the nuts.
SiobhanAnd the castrati would know nothing about that. Great.
RobHow are we doing?
MattAh, we're doing fine. Just hold on.
RobThere's so much silence before me.
MattI feel like you're setting it up to fail on purpose. Honestly, I was trying to find one you might have a shot at. The first one I call it. Alright, jacket. Yeah.
AndyHow much don't cut the sound time?
MattIt's fine. You want the one that was right in front of me? Yeah. All right. What is the recommended drying or seasoning time for the wood used to make it violin? Ten months, ten years, ten days, ten weeks.
RobTen months.
MattNah.
RobTen weeks. Ten years. Ten years. Ten years? Ten years. They dry the heck.
SiobhanIslands are nuts, man.
RobIt's so finicky.
MattWould you like another question? Or are you gonna do that one?
RobNo, no, no. Alright. No, and when I win, okay. When I beat you. Fair. All right. I will feel retribution.
SiobhanI mean, you're welcome to scroll at this moment since you are now.
RobYeah, don't worry. Don't worry. Just saying. Be happy. What movie did Duran Duran get their name from?
MattBarbarella, On the Riviera, Operation Petticoat, or Doctor Strange Love. Doctor Strange Love. That is incorrect.
SiobhanBarbarella.
RobYes, Duran Duran was named after a mad scientist from the Jane Fonda movie Barbarella.
SiobhanIf no one's seen that, you have to watch it. It's hysterical.
AndyKids, after you're done Googling Castrati, Barbarella. You need to go look up Barbarella.
RobOkay. Tell them Matt sent you. That's right. Oh, Siobhan, did you give a drink to somebody?
SiobhanNo, I didn't. You know who I'm about to give it to.
RobWho? Matt. Oh, man.
SiobhanAll right. Get on our level.
RobThat's wonderful. So now Matt's still with a thin margin of lead right now at five points. Siobhan and Andy both with four. And I am sitting at three.
MattAnd nobody has tried to make it a double yet. You could bring one of you two back, potentially a point from the brink. We know. We're where?
RobSaving it for the rainy day, because you can only do it once.
MattOkay. So. Andy, what is the Bob Marley song, I Shot the Sheriff, really about? Birth control, his record label, the media, the Irish Republican Army. Wow. I have no idea. What's the answers again? Birth control, his record label, the media or the Irish Republican Army. What is the song I Shot the Sheriff really about? I think I'm gonna go with the uh record label. It's not his record label.
SiobhanDamn.
MattThe IRA? It's about birth control.
SiobhanWhat? Amazing.
MattBob Marley's ex-girlfriend reveals the origin of the lyrics. To the surprise of many, she explains that Sheriff John Brown always hated her. For what? I don't know. Every time I plant a seed, he said he'd kill it before it would grow. Was actually in response to the fact that Marley was very opposed to her use of birth control pills.
SiobhanWell, he sucks. Maybe he needs kids, though.
MattHe does.
AndyYeah, his son played at uh Music Fest this past summer. Yeah. Ziggy.
SiobhanOh, yeah, he plays in Connecticut all the time.
AndyYeah. Shout out to Ziggy Marley. Not a sponsor. Come on in the next episode of uh Matt and Friends Drink the World.
MattSo before I ask whatever it is. Before I ask this question, I'm gonna full disclosure, Andy might jump out the window because he does indeed play tuba. Siobhan, what is the most number of valves you'll usually see on a tuba? Three, five, six, or four? The most. The most you'll usually see on a tuba three, five, six, or four.
RobYou can double up?
SiobhanOh yeah. Wait, what and what was your score, Andy? Oh, it's low. Oh yeah, okay. Yeah, let's double it up.
RobWait, does this question count against Siobhan or does it also count against Andy?
MattIf they get it wrong, they both drink.
RobRight, but if they get it right, only Siobhan can recoup a point, or will you have a lot of people?
MattNo, it's it's an individual choice. So if they get it right, they can both choose to recoup a point or make us drink.
SiobhanAre we a united front with our answer? Is my question. I think that's how it should be. So I'm just gonna say that's what we're doing.
MattYes, you do have to have. We have to agree. Cohesive answer.
SiobhanCan you show me your cohesive answer on your fingers so that I know what my answer will also cohesively be?
AndyWell, here's the issue. No Here's the problem with this question. Two of those answers are both correct. Uh-oh.
SiobhanOkay. So usually is the key, then, right? Right.
AndyBut the question is, are you looking at like a student model regular tuba or a professional tuba?
SiobhanI have to imagine it's probably professional.
AndyBecause if we're talking to professional, I would say a four valve. Four, right? I was gonna go with four.
RobThat would be not that I'm included with this, but professional.
AndyYou guys are already talking it out. My tuba is a four-valve tuba.
SiobhanIt's and that's the most you've never seen a tuba that is a normal ass tuba that has five.
AndyNot a normal tuba. Okay, so our tuba's with five.
SiobhanAll right, then we're gonna go with four. I feel like it's worth it. Worth it for the people to hear us reasoning this out. I'm here for that.
AndyWe're going to a high school tuba, that's probably three.
SiobhanI I think we should go with four, because if you own something with a four and it's not like you're I mean, listen, I appreciate the amount of professionalism you bring to the tuba, but you're not exactly the guy with the rare tuba. Correct. Right? So I think we should go with four. We're gonna go with four.
MattYou're going with four? Yes. The answer is four. All right. Hooray!
RobAll right, all right. Cheers.
SiobhanWell done. For sure.
MattSo are you choosing you're choosing to recoup points?
SiobhanI am. Okay, I don't know what you're doing.
AndyAll right. Yeah, give me points. Why not? That sounds fun. All right.
SiobhanHooray. Team effort. All set. Worth it.
MattRob. Yes. What 1985 charity single sold more than 20 million copies? Candle in the wind. Do they know it's Christmas? That's what friends are for, or we are the world.
RobI'm going with we are the world.
MattThat is correct. Thank God. $63 million that raised.
RobAll right, Matt. Well, uh, have a drink to that. Oh, here this is a very interesting question. And I don't know the answer to it. But I think the public would love to know. Which Beatle had dyslexia? Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, or George Harrison?
MattGeorge Harrison.
RobNope. It was John Lennon. Really?
SiobhanThat's good trivia.
RobWow. John Lennon's beautiful music with the Beatles would not have existed without the perseverance through his dyslexia. That's right. Wow.
SiobhanThat's interesting.
RobIt used to be called Let It Ebb.
SiobhanI can't.
MattI'm sorry.
SiobhanWe should have let T Ebb, okay?
MattWe gotta let T Ebb for making fun of a disability.
RobOh glad. Pretty terrible. Although I think Let It Be was a McCartney song, so it was it was just a low-hanging. It was the first Beatles song I could think of. Wow. Abby Radu.
SiobhanI'm trying to think of how to do help wrong. Just help. Plant is good. Jesus Christ.
RobOh God. All right. At the end of this round, we have Siobhan back up to five points. She has taken the lead after using her double down. What are we calling it? Make a good double. Mega double. Yeah, you know what? It's new. It's fine. After she made it a double with Andy, Siobhan moves up into the lead with five points. Andy in second place with four points. And Matt and I are in the basement now with three points, but still hanging on.
MattAlright. Andy. What is the longest running stage musical? Cats, the Fantastics, Phantom of the Opera, or Chicago?
AndyIt's definitely either Cats or Phantom. But Cats ended a little bit ago, and Phantom like just ended. I'm going with Phantom.
MattIt's not Phantom. I thought it was. I thought it was Phantom. Is it Cats? The Fantastics by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt. Tom Jones. Oh, wait, open May 3rd. Nothing sixty. Open May 3rd, 1960, and closed January 13th, 2002, having been performed 17,162 times. Wow. That's quite a bit. That's pretty nice.
RobI've never even heard of that show.
SiobhanOh, it's a great show.
AndyI can tell you a single song from it.
SiobhanOh, yeah.
RobLike, I'll be honest with you, I feel like I know more than most about musical theater. I've done musical theater before. I've never heard of that show in my life.
AndyI've seen a bunch of shows. I've acted in a few. I uh obviously studied in college, but not familiar with that show.
SiobhanNope, it's a really good one. But for the record, for those that were thinking it was Phantom, according to Wikipedia, which, you know, fact check Wikipedia too. Phantom of the Opera has 13,797 performances.
RobWow. Maybe Phantom's the longest Broadway running show.
SiobhanFantastics was on Broadway.
RobThe whole time.
MattYep.
SiobhanWell, I don't know about the whole time, but it has been on Broadway.
MattAll right. Siobhan, are you ready?
SiobhanI guess. If it's about Fantastics, yes.
MattGoogle complete. What band was originally recruited with an ad that read Macho Types Wanted Must Have Mustache? Led Zeppelin, the Backstreet Voice, CZ Top, or the Village People.
AndyI know what I want my answer to be. As do I. I don't know if it's the right answer, but I know what I want it to be.
SiobhanI'm just gonna go with the village people.
AndyIt's the village people.
RobHow can it be anything else? Yeah. I mean, Macho Man, my my only my only other guess would have been Hall and Oates.
SiobhanYes. Macho Macho Man. Nope. Nope. That's amazing. I was I was a village person in my eighth grade play because we did the YMCA song in our play, and I was dressed up as a nurse, which was not a village person. Who's that? But we were just given occupational costumes.
AndyI think the real question though is did you have a mustache?
SiobhanI did not.
MattOh requirement.
SiobhanI'm sorry.
MattSee, everybody likes YMCA. I actually like in the Navy. I don't I don't know why. I like the tune. I like the tune. It's a fun tune. Okay.
SiobhanWow, everyone's really having a shit time, huh?
MattUm that's the spirit. All right, let's go. I got the perfect question for you. Oh god. Which Johnny Cash song did an advertising company want to use for hemorrhoids at?
RobThe Ring of Fire. I don't even need the options.
SiobhanIf it's not a shouldn't be anything else.
RobIt is a Matt Drink.
AndyFun Johnny Cash trivia. He wanted to do one of the James Bond movies themes. He was not asked to, but he recorded one anyhow and sent it to them just because he wanted to.
RobNope. Nope.
AndyWe're gonna use that button.
MattI'm gonna wear that button out tonight.
AndyThat's what she said.
SiobhanWhoa. I like that. That was good.
RobOkay, what is the most instruments of different kinds used in a single piece of music? 315, 199, 420, or 260. Now, before you answer, I must just say I didn't realize that there was over 199 different kinds of instruments. That's insane to me.
AndyWell, sure. Which smallest number? Every particular little percussion instrument, right? Is a ratchet and a maracca and a fibro slap and a guiro and chimes. Like each of those.
RobAlright, so so uh your question again, Matt. What is the most instruments of different kinds used in a single piece of music? 315, 199, 420, or 260?
MattI'm gonna make it a double. Siobhan, if I'm going down, you're going with me.
SiobhanOh god, I didn't even hear the answer. Oh boy.
Rob315, 199, 420, 260.
Siobhan420, blaze it. I don't know. Maybe. I think two.
MattI think 260.
Siobhan260. All right, sure, 260.
RobIs that your final agreed upon answer?
MattWe go one up. The next one was what, three something?
Rob315, 199, 420, 260. What was it? Three what?
SiobhanOh my god, 315.
RobAll right, I think it's 350.
SiobhanOkay, 315. Final answer.
RobYou're going with 315. Final answer. 315. 315 is correct. The most instruments of different kinds used in a single piece of music was 315, achieved by Rupam Sarmah and his team of performing symphony at Jorhat Sports Complex in Assam, India, on the 24th of February, 2013. There you have it.
MattI choose not to reclaim my point. Instead, I'm gonna make Siobhan drink.
SiobhanOh, and I'll reclaim it. Nope, not doing it. Bye. Wow.
MattSo there you have it. At five.
RobWe have we have uh we have just stayed exactly where we were there. So uh Siobhan in the lead with five, Andy and I tied with three, and Matt with one point hanging on for dear life. I I'm clinging. I'm smelling somebody's going out this round.
MattOkay, I think it's gonna be me.
RobIt's gonna be me.
SiobhanOh man. Justin Timbalake.
RobMusic trivia.
SiobhanMm-hmm.
RobYou would have gotten that one right.
SiobhanYes. Listen, there's not enough of this. I have more pop knowledge, I think, than many things, even though I have music history background too. Bummer.
RobYeah, you know.
SiobhanI was gonna say than you, but I feel like Rob has a fair amount of pop culture knowledge now that he's in a cover band.
AndyYeah, where can we where can we learn more about this cover?
SiobhanYou're welcome for the assist, by the way. I'll take a tip at the end of the night.
RobThe reconnect music on Facebook and Instagram.
MattWho holds the record, Andy, for the shortest song zero records ever recorded? Who holds the record for the shortest song ever recorded? David Bowie, The Beatles, Napalm Death, or Beyoncé? I want it to be Napalm Death. But I want it to be Beyoncé.
SiobhanYou sound like Keenan from all that in the bathtub when he was the dude from France. He's like, Pierre Escargot. Yes, Pierre Escargot.
MattOh man.
SiobhanSorry to any French person that is now listening.
AndyWe're offending as many people as we can tonight. We've offended four countries already. At least. We've hit at least three continents. Yeah. Pretty impressive. Well. I feel like it would be something Bowie would do on purpose, but I'm going for Napalm Death just because it's Napalm Death. I'm okay with it being wrong.
RobI don't even know who that is.
MattIt is indeed Napalm's death. Yes. Shortest song ever recorded. 1.316 seconds. Bah! That's what I was waiting for.
AndyHere we go. Five, six, a five, six, seven, eight. That's it. And now we have beat the record.
SiobhanIf only we could get sign.
MattStellar said.
RobOh my god, this episode has brought me more tears than any other episode.
SiobhanGod, I'm scared now. Oh my god. But you got it right. You hand out a drink, huh?
AndyThat's right. Oh, I think, well, sir, you're looking thirsty.
SiobhanYou done so kid.
RobAnd there he goes. There he is. Goes out with that. Worth it on a stellar sip. That was great. That was great.
MattI just finished my beer too. It's a very sad moment here. Well, you know, it's poetic though.
SiobhanIt is. Deuces.
MattMeant to be. Siobhan.
SiobhanYes.
MattWhat former American Idol runner-up has been touring with Queen since 2001?
SiobhanAdam Lambert.
MattThank you. That is the correct drinking answer.
AndyYes. Can you keep making that drink now that he's out? No. No. Sadly.
SiobhanUnfortunately, what do I do? Do I divvy it up? Andy. Oh. Because he's to my right, and I'm a righty. So here we are.
MattThere we go. Okay. I'm going to open this last hazy moments.
RobYou just opened it all over your leg, brother.
MattYo. Gross. There's a little on that mic cable down there. Talk about that later. I'm going to leave half for whoever coming along next to join me down here in I Lostville.
SiobhanI'm just running out of beer, so.
MattOh no. Rob, which member of Pink Floyd was forced out of the band due to mental illness? Oh god. Nick Mason, Sid Barrett, Richard White, or Roger Waters? Nick Mason, Sid Barrett, Richard White, or Roger Waters.
RobThis is a pure guess. Sid.
MattThat is correct. There we go. Sid Barrett was the group leader until he gradually lost his mind to excessive drug use and had to be kicked out of the band.
RobI knew it wasn't Roger Waters, but that only gave me like a 25% higher chance.
MattHow many drugs? How what is the quantity you have to do to get kicked out of Pink Floyd?
RobI don't know why you thought that was like a requirement to be in Pink Floyd to do drugs.
MattHave you listened to the wall cover to cover?
RobThat's what I'm saying. You would think that they would want that to be a little bit more.
SiobhanYeah, but it's not a function.
AndyDrug abuse, did it say it said mental illness, right?
SiobhanYeah, and addiction is not a mental illness.
AndyWell, that's fair. Drug-induced mental illness. Drug-induced. All right, all right.
SiobhanOh, okay. All right, listen. There's too many health people on this.
RobAll right, Siobhan, I'm gonna hand you one just because you're you're leaps and bounds above us without me doing this. So uh, and that does conclude this round where Siobhan still holds on to a lead with four points. I have moved into second place with three, Andy with two, and Matt has gone out officially. So Wow, wow, wow. That's right. He'll be asking the questions for the rest of the round.
SiobhanHe had a dumb a dumb induced drinking time. That's what happened.
RobYeah. All right. He had hazy moments.
MattAndy, better up. Which rock opera did the Who compose? The Wall, Jesus Christ, Superstar, Tommy, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.
AndyUh that would be Tommy for 500.
MattGolly. Correct. That is correct.
AndyUh we'll we'll we'll toss it to Siffan.
SiobhanThis is mutiny. Okay?
MattThis is mutiny?
SiobhanYes. I'm not here for this. Okay. All right.
MattAre you ready? The game is.
SiobhanWhatever happened to women's rights, all right? All right.
AndyWe we just voted in favor of that. Okay, well.
SiobhanI appreciate all of you for that. Thanks.
MattThe day after election day, you're asking that question. Yeah.
SiobhanYou're right. I am.
MattI'm asking it all the time, but fair question to ask all the time.
SiobhanYep.
MattWhich TV show inspired Billy Elish's first song, Siobhan? Who's that? Who?
SiobhanBilly Eilish? Yeah, that one. Sure.
MattBilly Eilash, yeah. That's it. Okay. Wow. Billy, how do you say it?
SiobhanBilly Eilish.
MattEilish. Jesus. Do you live under a rock?
SiobhanI'm sorry. Please give me my options. This is I did ask for a pop. No, a pop-up.
MattI don't know if you can.
SiobhanGo ahead and try though.
MattI'm worried. Which TV show inspired Billy Eilish's first song? Give me my options, son. South Park, American Horror Story, The Walking Dead, or Supernatural.
RobOh.
SiobhanOh, this is good.
RobNot this question, but do you know what her first song was?
SiobhanI mean, I know many of her songs, but I'm not sure what she's talking about.
RobI know what I think her first popular song was.
SiobhanIs it Bad Guy? No.
RobNo. I know.
SiobhanThere's so many.
MattUm Billie Eilish first song. South Park, American Horror Story, The Walking Dead, Supernatural.
SiobhanI might go with Walking Dead.
MattGoing with Walking Dead?
SiobhanYeah, I could be wrong.
RobThat is correct.
SiobhanHooray!
RobIs it Ocean Eyes? Is that the song? Fingers crossed.
MattOh. Okay. I'm not familiar with that one. So she says, I literally just watched The Walking Dead and I took little lines from it. Just watch all The Walking Dead, and you'll find some things that are in my song and some episode titles that are in the song as well. Well, they're interesting.
SiobhanI'll have to look that up. I love her music.
RobYeah, I thought Oceanize was her was their first big hit. Yeah, I mean, I don't So I would have guessed Supernatural.
SiobhanWell glad I didn't listen to you.
RobWell, you didn't ask, so that's okay.
SiobhanYou're right. Well, I can't because I only already use my thing.
RobThat's right. Who are you giving your drink to?
SiobhanLet's give it to Rob. Uh. Because I already divvyed it to Andy. That is you. That's fine.
RobIt's a tight race here. All right, Matthew. I'm ready.
MattI'm gonna read you a question, and it pains me that that's the last one before I have to flip the sheet. So I have to read this to you. Okay. What character sings Luck be a lady in Guys and Dolls? Stop. Guy Masterson. Yeah.
SiobhanWho I play senior year of high school for the win. No. Um Siobhan. No. I'm sorry.
AndyCan I spend my double to make him do another question?
SiobhanYeah, right. Right.
RobOkay. So because of my choice to give that drink to Siobhan, we come into this next round all tied to a piece. Two points apiece going around. Here we go.
MattAndy, which song did Michael Jackson want to sing a duet with Prince? Man in the Mirror, say say say, Bad or beat it.
AndyPrince was big on the funk. I'm not feeling that with Man in the Mirror. I don't feel that's a very Prince style song. I'm gonna go with say say say.
MattUnfortunately, the answer is not say say say, it is actually bad.
AndyOkay. Interesting.
MattInteresting. Jackson envisioned bad as a duet with Prince pitting the two superstars against each other in a musical duel.
AndyWow. Probably would have been outstanding.
MattYeah. Yeah. Interesting. Siobhan. Yes. What musician holds the record for most top ten hits on the UK singles chart? Ooh. Cliff Richard, Madonna, Elvis, or Paul McCartney?
SiobhanWho's Cliff Richard?
MattI have no idea.
SiobhanOkay, great, good. Cliff Richard, Madonna, Paul McCartney. Who?
MattCliff Richard, Madonna, Elvis Presley, or Paul McCartney.
SiobhanLet's go with Madonna.
MattI hope it's Cliff Richard.
SiobhanMe too.
MattIt is not Madonna.
SiobhanIs it Cliff?
MattCliff?
SiobhanWho the hell's Cliff?
MattIt is not Cliff. Thank God.
SiobhanPaul McCartney. That's dumb.
MattIt is the king. It is Elvis Presley. That makes sense. Okay. Okay. 77 top 10 hits.
SiobhanJeez.
MattThat's a lot of top 10 hits.
RobThat's wonderful.
SiobhanGood for him.
RobThere he goes. I'm Cliff Richard.
AndyWhat songs do you sing, Cliff? Yeah. I'll sing the singing ones.
SiobhanWhat?
AndyCan we get a few bars of that, Cliff?
SiobhanHello, governor. That's my biggest hit.
RobI went down to the pub one night and I drank a beer.
SiobhanThis is the worst song I've ever heard. No wonder you didn't. Oh no words going to be a little bit more. Why are you still going, Cliff? Oh my god. Why?
RobYou ever notice that British people don't typically have an accent when they sing?
SiobhanIsn't that wild? That's not true. It's because I aspire to the accent when they sing because they have the best open vowels.
MattYour question? Yeah, my question. Richard Wagner was primarily known for his chamber music, symphonies, organ music, or operas.
RobI am going to ask Andy to join me on this for my make it a double. So what are our options one more time?
MattRichard Wagner was primarily known for his chamber music, symphonies, organ music, or operas.
AndyI think it's the dude pretty much invented the opera. Like the modern Whoa. The modern interpretation. No, the modern interpretation of the opera, that is that is Wagner. Russia had to make a full movement specifically to make opera different from Wagner opera.
SiobhanI loved Italian opera. Oh, don't get me long.
AndyI love it.
MattVerdi's operas.
SiobhanI mean, I'm not Andy's right, so you should go with that. We're gonna go with opera.
MattAre you sure you're going with operas? Yes. Okay. That is correct. It is operas.
SiobhanFaux show.
RobCool. I'm gonna take that point. I'm gonna take it back.
SiobhanWhat's Andy gonna do?
RobWhat's what's your choice?
AndyOh, give me the point.
RobYou're taking a point back. Rude. Sounds good. So at the end of that round, I have three points. Andy with two, and Shivan. With one.
SiobhanGreat.
RobWe are closing in.
MattAndy, U2's Angel of Harlem was written about what singer? Aretha Franklin, Josephine Baker, Janice Joplin, or Billy Holiday. Ooh. Angel of Harlem by U2. Aretha Franklin, Josephine Baker, Janice Joplin, or Billy Holiday. I'm going with Billy Holiday. She was known for the Harlem scene. The answer is Billy Holiday, and I'm giving you a stellar sip because I feel like that was half guess, half intuition.
SiobhanOh, that's good.
MattThat was great. Stellar sip. Very well played. Very well played.
SiobhanNot Janice Joplin is the answer to that.
AndySo we'll uh No. Yeah?
SiobhanNo.
AndyWe gotta rude.
SiobhanI'm stealing the rest of the beer that you're gonna do.
AndyGive it to Rob.
SiobhanOh I'm still stealing the beer though.
RobWow. Wow. I thought I thought you were gonna take her out. Surprised. Okay. That's fine.
AndyGotta keep it spicy. Hey.
RobWe love.
AndyWe leave.
SiobhanI am a ginger, after all.
MattI took it.
SiobhanThat's what she said. Oh, I'm out.
RobOkay.
MattYou're not out. Rich or Cheryl Crow's hit singles, Siobhan, was adapted from the poem Fun by Wynne Cooper. All I want to do, soak up some sun, leaving Las Vegas if it makes you happy.
SiobhanI'm gonna go with All I Wanna Do.
RobIs have some fun. That's a point for Siobhan. That is a point for Siobhan.
SiobhanHeyy, I'm not the only one.
RobThat's all I want to do. Who are you pointing?
SiobhanOh, uh, you both are the same, huh?
RobThat's right.
SiobhanWell, I'm gonna give it to Rob because Andy kind of kept me around.
RobSo Okay, okay. Does anybody still have a make it a double left? Or do we all use it? I think Andy does.
MattOkay. All right.
SiobhanYou got time.
MattRob, how many notes are in a chromatic scale? Six, five, eight, or twelve? Twelve. Twelve is correct.
SiobhanGood job.
MattHuh.
SiobhanCan anyone sing one?
RobThat's not chromatic. Thanks for trying. Thanks for trying. Flight of the Bumblebee. Flight of the Bumblebee.
SiobhanIt's just a scale.
RobStandard major scale. Oh my god. I'm sorry. Um, no, you don't have to. Give us the roundup. All right. The roundup is Andy in the lead with two. Siobhan and I both tied with one, hanging on, living on a prayer.
MattIndeed. What round is this? Do we lose track? I think we lose track. Oh, yeah. What do we care? Round 70. Yeah. All right. Andy. Yes. Who was the oldest living artist to top the UK singles chart? Tom Jones? Cliff Richards.
SiobhanI'm not owed. Cliff Richards isn't owed. I'm 93 years old. Who are we?
AndyCliff Richards.
MattOkay, again, who is the oldest living artist to top the UK single chart? Andy Tom Jones, Clive Dunn, Louis Armstrong, or Cher.
SiobhanWait, was one of those Clive somebody?
MattClive Dunn?
SiobhanWho the hell is that? Is that Cliff Richards? Richards is his cousin. Richards, his cousin. Hello, I'm Clive Dunn. Cliff Richards is my cousin.
RobThey're from the trickling pebbles.
SiobhanThat was a horrible accent.
RobThe trickling pebbles. It's like the shitty version of the Rolling Stones.
SiobhanWhat the hell?
AndyOh, Lordy. I'm going with my man Lewis Sachemo Armstrong. It's not Tom Jones.
RobIs it Tom Jones?
MattIt is Tom Jones.
RobIt's not unusual.
MattIt's pretty unusual. It's not unusual. He was 68. Oh, whoa, whoa. 68. 68. That's not old. When Barry Island's in the stream reached the top in 2000. Never heard of that song in my life. I have no clue.
SiobhanMight as well be Cliff Richards. Never heard of it.
AndyHe sang Backup.
SiobhanRight, exactly. For Barry Island. Cliff Richards or whatever the hell. In the trickling pebbles.
RobThat's right.
SiobhanYeah.
RobHe's Keith Richards' brother.
SiobhanYep.
RobThe Leather number.
SiobhanLeather.
RobNo Richards. Sorry. Okay. I'm having a moment.
MattIt's gonna be a long episode. Nope.
SiobhanCan't pee, Matt. Can't do it. You gotta ask us trivia questions, damn it. It's only gonna make your chair wet. Let's go.
MattWhat is I like this chair. Siobhan, what is the oldest surviving musical instrument? The drum, the lyre, the flute, or the trumpet?
SiobhanI mean, sorry for every person, but like I feel like drum has to be kind of it, right? Wait, I'm sorry. Can you give me the options again?
MattSure. Drum, lyre, flute, or trumpet.
SiobhanThat's fine. I stand by whatever it is, because if I go out, I'll go out on this, because this is a fine question.
MattI think he's waiting for your final answer. You go with drum. Final answer. Final answer?
SiobhanDrum. It's wrong. It's fine.
MattIncorrect. It is not drum. Is it the flute? It is a bone flute. Yes, a bone flute.
SiobhanThat's bullshit.
MattEstimated to be 43,000 to 82,000 years old, was found by Dr. Avan Rodney.
SiobhanOkay, wait.
MattWow.
SiobhanThat's not how I interpreted that, but I'm also standby. That's fine.
RobYep. I think I mean like the oldest instrument ever found is the answer to the question, but you meant like what is the oldest instrument to ever to still kind of be in rotation. I would have guessed drums as well, because to me it's like how does percussion not start the idea of a drum. Right, right, so like slapity-bappity bappity you know, hitting two stones to the body.
AndyThat's sort of where I went with that. That can only theoretically say we have this ancient book.
SiobhanWell, that's why I'm saying like oldest surviving. I didn't think we meant artifact. I thought we meant like method of creating music. That's what I that's what I went with. But that's what I'm saying.
AndyBut what I'm saying is beyond that, you can only theorize because there's no actual record of a drama. So this right.
SiobhanOh, yeah, that's fine.
AndySo as far as like we have actual fact of like an artifact. Right.
SiobhanYeah, and that's fine. I'll I'll stand by it and I'll take the point. I just feel like, oh, that's interesting. Because that's not how I interpreted it. But you know what?
RobYou made a great run. I did. You've uh you've now bowed out, so did I? Cheers to you.
SiobhanI do not concede.
RobWell, unfortunately. She does not concede.
SiobhanWhich is against my political party, but I do not concede.
MattWell then.
SiobhanJust kidding. It's fine. Godspeed, everyone.
MattThat leaves Rob and Andy. So Rob, for the potential win, what band did Jimi Hendrix tour with in 1967? The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, The Beatles. We're the Monkeys.
RobOh my god. Yeah, this is gonna be the end, because I'm either gonna guess correctly and you're done, or I'm gonna guess wrong and I'm done. So, uh, Jimi Hendrix, 1967. You said the Beatles, the monkeys.
MattWho else? The Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, or the Monkeys.
RobI'm going with the Grateful Dead. Final answer. That is my final answer. Rolling Stones. It is not the Grateful Dead.
MattOh man, who is it? It is the Monkeys. Wow. Who knew? Wow.
RobI will I will gladly lose this round of trivia on the last question to a music teacher. And a final one at that point.
SiobhanDoes he solve to answer or not? No, because that was first. Cheers. Oh, fair enough.
MattCheers to music education. Hey, here, here. Live long and prosper. So for anybody curious, Jimmy managed to only get through a total of seven dates with the monkeys, culminating in his final show, July 17th, 1967, which may or may not have ended with Hendrix saluting the crowd with his middle finger.
RobYeah, that those two styles of music don't really go together in my brain, so.
SiobhanYeah, I'm not sure what Beatles song he would have played. Probably let it ebb.
RobLet it ebb.
SiobhanThere you go. He's gonna play the play.
AndyI I could hear his style on like Yellow Submarine. Yeah, Submarine and Trippy. But at that point, he would have already been big on his own.
SiobhanBut yeah, like Jimmy, Jimmy had like Do you know he only had num one like number one hit? And it was Watchtower.
RobYeah, that's true. Really? Voodoo Child wasn't? No. It's all on the show. Or Fox Lady?
SiobhanNope.
RobReally? I thought I thought he had three number ones. Anyway.
SiobhanI don't know why I know that. Because when I heard today that I was coming here, I looked up all the music trivia that too too bad it was. It did help me, sir. You only ended one ahead of me. Thank you.
RobAll I'll say is I completed my vow to finish ahead of Matt. So you did. Hey, can we get a stellar sip out of that?
MattStellar sip. Cheers music ahead. Cheers, everybody.
RobHey-ho! Kermit D drunk you.
AndySo this is why the podcast is at Matt's house. So he doesn't have to drive home out of here. That's great. That's great. Cliff Cliff Richards. Cliff.
SiobhanAnd the band was the I'm Cliff Richards. Oh, that made it way worse.
MattPlease, all of you just say thanks for listening. Hey, thanks for listening.
SiobhanThanks for listening.
AndyI am so sorry.
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