The streak of returning players continues as the Gizmonic Institute Division kicks off with Fanny, Cate, and Kiiva. A quotable round one messes with some iconic movie lines before we take a mystical dive into round two with trivia about pop culture-inspired Tarot card decks. Don’t worry, there’s plenty of real weird ones. It’s all capped off with a lightning round.

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Match Info

S09.E02: Gizmonic Institute Division 1st Eliminations
June 3, 2023

Contestants

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Fanny Darling 'Nine-fingers ' Fanny Darling
☕️
Cadis 'Flat White' Stuart-Hodges
😳
Kiiva 'Shy Ronnie' Williams

Quizzes Played

Shell Game

Who is going to win a real life game of Mario Kart?

Fine Delivery

From context clues, give the movie quote with one words switched out for another rhyming word.

The Answers Are In The Cards

Identify the pop culture property from descriptions of their licensed tarot cards.

Pocket Rockers

Questions about the songs and artists available for the 80s Fisher Price music system "Pocket Rockers."

Kind Of Like This One Guy With Long Hair And Crazy Ideas About Peace And Love

Questions about pop culture figures with the initials "JC."

Hollywood's New Vandalism

Questions about movies colorized by Turner Entertainment.

The Riddle

From Bay Area Workshops,

Just brimming with props,

In theory science lessons they taught.

Proving claims to be flops,

But they mostly blew up things. A lot.

Answer

The Discovery Channel program Mythbusters, was filmed largely in two Bay Area warehouses (one for Adam and Jamie, and one for the assistant crew). The primary warehouse, owned by Jamie Hyneman, was filled with various parts and props from his commercial and special effect work. The show was theoretically about science, engineering and critical thinking, "busting" implausible claims, but they tended to end things with a bang.

Match Results

🥇☕️
Cadis 'Flat White' Stuart-Hodges
155
🥈🧛🏻‍♂️
Fanny Darling 'Nine-fingers ' Fanny Darling
135
🥉😳
Kiiva 'Shy Ronnie' Williams
130

Episode Notes

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Real fans of Super Mario Bros 3 will know that finding the magic flute in World One shouldn’t actually get the protagonist any points.
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“You’ve got Red on You,” is also the title of the oral history book of Shaun of the Dead.
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Snails are gastropods, not cephalopods.
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Wensleydale is best known not as a local UK cheese, but from Monty Python and Wallace and Gromit.
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The fridge alert scorebreak: The fridge alert. It’ll let you know if William Conrad is stealing your food. Who’s going to need this thing, Quinn Martin? And he’s dead! [8/10: I get it. Cause of the First Alert commercials.]
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Everyone was surprised when NFL place kicker Rolf Benirschke was selected as the host of the daytime Wheel of Fortune , especially Rolf Benirschke.
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Betty White character on Hot in Cleveland is Elka Ostrovsky.
🥶
Loki is turning blue on his tarot card because he’s actually a frost giant.
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Miss Minutes from Loki is based on Mr. DNA from the first Jurassic Park movie.
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The Buddha-looking Garbage Pail Kids tarot card is of (sigh) Rob Slob aka Dirty Harry.
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The officially licensed Britney Spears tarot set only has 40 cards, so is referred to as an oracle deck, rather than a “tarot” deck.
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The Daktari Stool scorebreak. The Daktari stool: Somehow not the most befuddling thing about Mitchell. [4/10: Is a Daktari one of those black and white guys from Star Trek? What the heck is this?]
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The theme to Hill Street Blues did hit the top 10 in the US, and charted for more than five months.
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Aside from the songs, the most notable difference between the movie and stage versions of The Gay Divorcee is that the stage version had a different name: it was just The Gay Divorce.
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The 1936 Tod Browning filmDevil-Doll, in which a shrink ray developed to combat overpopulation is used in a revenge ploy, is very different from the 1964 William Sylvester Devil Doll which is just a rip-off of Michael Redgrave’s segment of 1945’s Dead of Night.
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Cate is on Twitter
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And asks you to consider supporting the Georgia Equality Fund.
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Kiiva encourages you to support local food banks, especially in areas suffering from storm damage.
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Fanny can be heard with Justin Hartung on The Nix podcast.
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She is also on Twitter