Episode 12 Meghan Takes a Bow

Friend and pub trivia teammate, Meghan Reichelt reprises her role as the star of theater trivia. Christmas cocktails abound as Meghan steals the show. 

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I'm Laura. And I'm Nancy. And we both love trivia in all forms, but we especially love it paired with a classic cocktail. So we decided to put the two things together and invite you all in to share them with us. The game consists of five rounds of 10 trivia questions that get progressively tougher as the rounds go on. If you'd like, you can play along using the scoring sheet on our website, trivia buzz pod.com. Guess what folks? This week we are lucky enough to have a guest with us. We are so excited to welcome our good friend and fellow trivia teammate. Trivia teammate fellow Chesty Puller. Megan Reel. Hello. Thanks for joining us. Hi Megan. Thanks for inviting me. It's always nice to have a guest get kind of sick of asking you questions, I guess. Sick of talking to you so much. Nancy, just looking at your face. That's a Bowe ring. I get to look at another face from me. I know. Look at that Pretty mug. But I am, um, for our listeners, I just have to say I'm the only non redhead here at the moment. That's right. Yes. And I love it's awesome fellow Ginger's. Awesome. So Megan? Yes. Let's see. What should we talk about with you today? Well, first off, let's talk about how we all met. You guys knew each other longer, obviously. That's right. Megan, you've, you grew up here? I grew up in Stowe. Yep. And Laura, and you and I met I think when our kids were in elementary school. Right. So I moved here 14 years ago and I think I met you fairly soon after that. I can't remember exactly when, but our kids were never in the same grade, but like one grade apart. Right. Grade adjacent. So we would Exactly. So I would see you at like Friday morning meeting and just around town. Exactly. And we met on the sidelines because, both of Evan and Alex played soccer. And my boys played soccer too with Evan on the same team at the same time. No, I didn't play with, they didn't play with Alex, but Right. Alex is a little older, but Yeah. Evan played with both the boys. Yeah. Great teams. Yeah. So speaking of long time sto, you are that unicorn, that golden unicorn in sto these days. You're actually a person who has lived here your whole life. Well, you, well you, but you were born here. She, yes, she left, but came back. Yes, exactly. Yeah. I can say that I, in a very tame way experienced STO in the seventies. Ooh. Yeah. We, we've heard stories about those days. Seventies, yeah. Was kind of a. Happening back here. Yeah. It was definitely the age. It was a different era where, you know, the age of the ski bum and, it's sad to see it change so much. Yeah. But it's definitely, it's, oh boy, you must have seen quite the change. Yeah, definitely. It's been an evolution of the town. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And, but I still love it. I'm still here, so still beautiful. Yep. Yeah. So what, are there like maybe five of you guys? No, there's quite a few people. No, there's quite a few people that grew up here, but I think that, uh, we are certainly few and far between and most of the people, you know, did they move away for a while and then come back or? Pretty much everybody. Yeah. It's, everybody kind of goes away, does their thing and then realizes, oh, this is a nice place to live and a really place to raise kids. Right, exactly. I get that. And so, tell us all a little bit about your upbringing here.'cause it is pretty unusual. Yes, so I grew up in an inn, actually. My parents moved up here from Pennsylvania in the sixties and worked in a hotel for a couple years and then they bought an inn and I was six months old when they bought it. So I, we lived there and worked there and so that's how I grew up. So it was a pretty unique childhood. What was the name of the inn? It was called Log Wood, the Log Wood Inn. And so it was just nice because I'm an only child. It was great to have so many people around and we always had, I had a whole bunch of surrogate older brothers and sisters because we always had ski bums who'd leave college for a semester or longer and come and live with our family and Oh, so to work there to work at my parents and, yeah. Oh, to work there. Yeah. And then you had like people who would come back every year? Mm-hmm. And you would get to know them, weren't you? Yeah, especially over the holidays, we had several families, there'd be the people that come for Christmas, and then it would be almost like a change of guests and then another group that would come in for New Year's. But it was so nice because it was almost always the same group of people coming back every year. Oh, that's cool. So it was like old friends coming to visit. It was, it was like having your family coming home, so it was really pretty cool. So I have a question about the setup of the inn. Like were you in a different wing or like where were, where was the family as opposed to the guests? We had an apartment on one side of the inn. So although my mother occasionally when would be very busy, she would sell my room. Oh no. So I'd have to like, are you kidding? Bunk in with my parents. That's so funny. Or something. Or go stay at my cousin's house. Were you, would that, would that upset you or No? You kind of get it, it's a makay wall of sunshine sort of thing, so Yeah. Right. You'd be getting a new dress, Megan, right? Yeah. Sell that room. It wasn't very often, but it did happen on occasion, wow. And those people are there like. In your room, you know, so they're there to ski and they get like the Barbie doll house in their room. Yeah, right. Exactly. Yeah. That's wild. Did you have to move your stuff out or the Van Halen posters? Oh, way. Okay. Well, no, no, they, it would generally be people who my parents knew pretty well. Okay. Yeah. And so do you keep in touch with any of the people that stay? I do, yeah. There's still some families that I keep in touch with that had become almost, you know, like surrogate aunts and uncles and, so there's a few families that. Still to this day, or, or people that work for my parents. Mm-hmm. So that I still keep in touch with, which is great. Oh, she's our very own Eloise. We were talking about that earlier. We were just like, um, you know, Megan and her skipper D and, uh, weenie. Yes. Sweeney. Yes. Which that was, I loved that book as a kid. That was my absolute favorite. Did you relate to it? Did you see the correlations? Well, certainly in the sense, I mean, obviously I wasn't living at the plaza. Sure. Okay. But it was definitely, I actually was just talking to somebody about this the other day'cause we had a laundry shoot and, it wasn't like a straight down laundry shoot. It was a slide basically from the guest. Oh, those are cool. And that was our favorite place to, when we play hide and go seek it, would nobody, it would ever find. Would you go put down the shoot, get in it, we'd get in the, in the chute, in the walls. You could hold yourself up so nobody would be able to find you. Like a little, little cat burglar hanging the So seventies childhood right there. Yeah. Oh, right. Yeah. God, that is so cool. I love that. definitely, you know, all the hiding out behind the scenes or, were you able to, call room service? No, there was no room service. No room service. But there was pretty much always dessert around somewhere. So fun. That's a good thing. But So you, but your parents would cook dinner too, right? Yes. It was not just bed and breakfast. Right, exactly. Back then a lot of lodges operated on what they called the modified American plan. So would it be breakfast and dinner every night that was, or every day that was served to the guests, so, mm-hmm. Would, would that be included in the price of the room? Mm-hmm. Or, yeah. Yeah. So that's, that's, that's a nice deal. Yeah. So, yeah. Does that exist anymore? I've never heard that. Modified American. What? Modified American plan? Huh? Okay, cool. Also known as MFP, that's shorthand. MAP ski did, because I, I don't ski with you now, but I did. I grew up skiing, both downhill and cross country. Mm-hmm. And my dad used to take us on these ridiculous CrossCountry ski expeditions that, I'd be like four. Oh my gosh. He'd be wondering why I couldn't keep up with him. Come on Megan. Yeah. And certainly definitely a lot of skiing on the mountain, so I kind of did both interchangeably for a long time. And then as a teen more, what's your favorite trail? Oh gosh, now, I mean, I don't really downhill ski anymore. What was it? I used to love spruce a lot. That was always love Big spruce that, because when I was a kid it wasn't open very much. Yeah. Oh, so it was always a treat. Do you mean. Just because of snow coverage, you know, there wasn't as much snow. Thought it would be open more than I would've thought so too. Oh, because there wasn't snowmaking. Yeah. Yeah. There was just a lot less snowmaking. Snowmaking came online when I was in, started to come online when I was in high school, so, mm-hmm. It must have looked so different, the mountain with all of that building. And it did. The lodges were even, I remember it looking incredibly different. Yeah. It's when we were, when we used to come up and stay here years before we moved up here. Yeah. And even, I remember coming in like 2001 and doing Alpine slide. Oh, right. Yeah. Oh, they had one here. We did. Oh yes. It was so fun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Those are fun. I mean, I can remember when they had. Individual tickets that you could give at the mountain. So you'd pay for, each time you'd go up, you'd have a stack of tickets so you remember when they used to put the little wire through your Oh, yeah. Oh yeah. Jacket and then they'd staple on the ticket. It was a badge of honor to have bunch of those on your jacket. And then they'd pull you in the face. Yes, oh my God. We're going in the way back machine for this, right? Yeah, exactly. Yes. So back then STO was, now it's much more. All season, all season year round. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, there's not even a shoulder season anymore. Not really. It's really there all the time now. Yeah. And so when I was growing up, spring and after foliage were pretty quiet. I mean, it was pretty dead, well around here. So my parents, would. Be 24 7 for all the winter months, and then we'd hit April and from April till at least mid-June, it was pretty quiet. Wow. Okay. Would your parents do anything else to make money or did they pretty much make it all during the winter? It was pretty much during the winter, well, in the summer, I mean, they used to do weddings and things at the end of the summer, but it was always, that was the time to do projects. Ah, because there was always a lot of things of he Right. There'd be renovations or renovation or something. Exactly. Yeah. And then they, where they would travel, so Yeah. So that's where you actually caught the travel dog, right. You. Intrepid. Yeah. My parents, that was sort of their splurge was to, go places. And we took some pretty great long trips when I was a kid. And for like weeks at a time. Yeah. We did a, camping trip across the US for seven weeks and then when I was in high school, we went to here like a camper van? No, we had camper. It was totally something out of, out of vacation. I mean, it was in a, in a woody station wagon. We had, we had a station wagon that my parents, the family truck, the wagon in family Truckster. Oh, oh my god. My god. Yeah. No seatbelt, metallic? No. Literally we were in probably second or third grade. And, my mom put the seats down in the station wagon and bought a fairly thin gymnastics mat that had a line. Fortunately, it ran down the center of it and literally my cousin and I rode all over the United States lying down in the back of the way back. It was the way, way the, it was the best week. Wait, so wait, so not just for naps or whatever we, I mean, we were always little. We didn't nap at that point, but just because Oh my God, God, you were recline. We, yeah, I remember doing that on our road trips. I wanted for like, when, it was dark or, you know, we were driving back from skiing. My mom had like some blankets or sleeping bags put out in the way back. But no, that's how you. Actually travel. Like we were still staring at the ceiling while travel. No, you could sit, I mean, it was not like, you were a kid. You sat up cross-legged and Yeah, we had a, each of us had a basket on our side that had books.'Cause we were all, we weren't in school at that time. They pulled us outta school. So we were Oh, that's about that reading. I thought that I, I figured the seven weeks were all in summer. No, no. It's like be back, had to be mid-June. We had to be back for the summer because it would be busy in Ow It would be busy be stuck. Oh wow. What I would not have given. How did you get around that? It was homeschooling, essentially. Uhhuh. I mean, it was a lot. Looser, looser, Lucy goosey under the, you know yeah. Guise of, yeah. So they, uh, homeschooling. Wow. And, and my cousin and I would have this line. Andy. Andy. Yeah. That was sort of became, don't you dare put a finger over the line, it's like the tape down middle of the room, because you all loop up in a car together. I thought you were, you guys were really close. Oh, we were. But can you imagine you're still getting each other's nerve, right? Being seven. Oh, by the way, hi, Andy. Hi. Shout out Andy. I hope he's listening. I mean, we got along with best friends, but you can imagine being a car together. Yeah. Brothers and sisters, like he's breathing on me. Exactly. Right, right. That's funny. Okay. Did your aunt and uncle go too? No. No. Oh, you just brought handy? Yeah. Because I didn't You need another kid, right? You have a friend. Exactly. Yeah, totally. And so then you also toured Europe for several weeks? Mm-hmm. Yeah, we went, same, similar thing. My parents bought a Volkswagen van, and we traveled around for 10 weeks, yeah. Yeah, but so now as an adult, you travel a lot. We've traveled together, the three of us to Scotland. Almost exactly a year ago, right? Yeah, exactly. We were in Scotland. That was such a good time. It was amazing. Very fun. And you recently did an even more intrepid trip by yourself? It was my first really solo trip. I went and walked the Portuguese Camino. Yeah. From Porto to Santiago to Compostela in Spain. Amazing. What, inspired you to do that? I just, it's just something that I always wanted to do, since I first heard about the Camino probably 20 or so years ago, and I have the root across Northern Spain, which is what most people know, takes 35 days or so, and I didn't have that much time, so I just happened to be doing some research and I realized that they have a lot of different routes and there's one that goes through Portugal and it takes about. Two weeks or so to walk. Did you get lonely or do you feel like you just had so many people around you all the time you were meeting that it was engaging? It wasn't, I didn't find it lonely at all. I met a guy from Siberia that was probably Wow. And then a couple people from Asia. Wow. I met a woman, two women from South Korea, I met a bunch of South Americans. Quite a few people from Columbia, um, and Brazil. It was, really nice to meet so many young women who were. Really choosing to, to. spend their time doing something like that and then and totally. For themselves. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. well that sounds amazing. That's so cool. Yeah. Thank you for taking us down that little memory lane. Um, but we have pressing matters. We have very pressing matters. Especially what we've been staring at. Well, you've been talking, the beautiful drink in front of us. Yes. Megan, you wanna tell us what we're drinking appropriate for the season? I think season we're in here, Christmas season. Although it is a, I guess I thought be more of a little margarita. Well, it's green. Come on. It's a Christmas margarita. It's always margarita season. Yeah. I don't think it, it is. There never goes outta season. Yeah. But it is your favorite drink. I, it's definitely one of my favorites for sure. Yes. You know, I dr. Order it a lot when we go to church. She has'em for breakfast. Megan salt does not, or no salt. I'm a no salt person. I too Oh, I find that a little controversial. I know. Can you really love a margarita if you don't like the salt rim? Yes, you can much, especially if you get a maple margarita. Oh, that's not a margarita. Oh, you wanna bet that's aita. That arita. That's agarita. Yeah. Yes. There we go. Oh, but you like a classic margarita? I do. And up or on the rocks? On the rocks. Great.'cause that's how we made it. Few. So, should we talk about what is in this actual, what is in it? What, what's in it now? Let's drink it first. Oh, you wanna have a sip first and then Yes, please drink first. Talk later. Yeah. I like that. There we go. Okay, here we go. Cheers. that is delicious. That's awesome. I love it. It's got the perfect sweet sour mix. Hopefully we did. Okay. Yes. So this is one and a half ounces of silver tequila. Three quarters of an ounce of fresh lime juice. One ounce of orange liqueur, like, au or quantro, whatever you prefer, sugar syrup to taste. And that sugar syrup, was we just made, equal parts sugar and water, or you boil it together so that the sugar dissolves and then cool it, and you can make a big batch of it and keep it in your fridge, and a lime wedge for garnish. Yeah, you just combine the tequila, the lime juice, the orange liqueur, and the sugar syrup in a shaker filled with ice shake. Well pour into a low ball glass filled with ice and garnish with your lime wedge. So, little history about this drink. The name actually means daisy in Spanish. And, the origin story is not actually known, but it is wildly popular around the world and especially in the United States where Americans drink, get this. 185,000 of these an hour. Oh my gosh. Oh my God. That guy is a boozer. Whoa. Someone go check on him. Yeah, crazy. And the first frozen margarita machine was made in 1971 by a restaurateur named Mariano Martinez. And he adapted a soft serve ice cream machine into a frosty margarita dispenser, which is, stop it. Mind blowing. Frozen margaritas. Mind blowing. Amazing. Yeah. He's an American hero. Like those are the ideas. You're just like, why didn't I think mean? I was, wait, wait. Was he American? Uh oh. Um, we don't know where, who, wherever. Wherever. He, I dunno. I don't know if he was Mexican or, okay. Oh, Mexican American maybe. Who knows? No, he's a hero. We'll have to search that up. He needs, um, like a Congressional medal. Medal Medal of Honor. Yes. We'll have to get on that and we'll start writing our letters now. Thank you, mariano. Um, Laura? Yes. Do you have a funny story about Margarita? I think you do. Yes. Thank you. This is so funny. Okay, so when I was in college at St. Lawrence, I went there only for a couple years, but, I had a friend there named Millie, and she was the funniest thing ever. And, um, silly Millie. Silly Millie. One time the thought that Margarita was a person and would be like, oh, let's go get margaritas. She'd be like, margarita, who's Margarita? Who? I've never heard of Margarita, but she never had a margarita. She has, she just had like know, brain senior moment there. This guy, margarita is a great guy. Oh my God, we love this guy. She got brain freeze while having a frozen margarita. Yeah. So we never let her live that down. It was hilarious. So every time I hear someone order Margarita, I'm like, who's Margarita? Where's Mark? He's here. Where is he? He's here. Someone invited Mark. Do you use that whenever you go to a restaurant with her? When you have to put your name? Well, I haven't seen her in quite a long time, but Oh, when you become famous, that's gonna be the name you do all reservations under. Yes. Oh, Megan, there you go. Is that just a brilliant little idea there? I love it. But, we've actually asked you here for more than just drinking and memory lane ing. We want you to play trivia with us today. All right. And we have some questions around another topic we know you love very much. And that is Broadway, jazz Hands, um, I know you have a history in the theater. Can you tell us a little bit about this? I mean, you're not an I'm not a performer. No, I just, I, I think musical theater is the dividing line among people like cilantro is people either love it or hate it. It's physiological. It's, I happen to be somebody who loves musical theater, I came to, honestly, through my mom was just a theater buff. And so I saw quite a few things when I was a kid. And then when I moved back to Stowe, I was on the board of the STO Theater Guild for a number of years and produced a bunch of shows for them or stage managed them. And then just ironically, left the theater. I mean, I was always involved in the performing arts. I worked as a marketing director at a performing arts center in town. Mm-hmm. But my younger son was, about 10, suddenly got the acting bug. So I came back into musical theater because of You must have been so psyched. Yeah, I was, I, I always wish my mom could have seen it. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, should we Sure. Get onto some questions here. All right. Here we are with our happy hour round with Megan and we have 10 questions. I'll ask the questions to you, don't answer, and then we will go back around and ask them again and give the answers. Every answer is worth one point. Question one. Mary Martin played many leading roles on Broadway. She is however best known for playing what high flying title role. Question two. In Times Square, there is a red kiosk building with the letters TKTS on it. What would you obtain from this building and be specific Question three. Name the actress and singer who stepped into the iconic role of Fannie Bri in 1964. Question four, what was Andrew Lloyd Weber's first musical? You might say it was the genesis of his career. Question five. What musical derives its name from the New York City, Dominican Neighborhood of Washington Heights. It's probably the second most well-known musical from its creator. Question six. In what musical would you find the Kit Cut Club? Question seven. The 1927 musical showboat features a haunting solo about the hardships and struggles of the African American people. It is sung by Paul Robeson and is a rare example of a bass solo in a popular musical. What is that song? Question eight. Who is the legendary American composer and lyricist that wrote Sooner or later? I always get my man from Madonna to sing in the film. Dick Tracy, Question nine, premiering in 1975. This musical was unique in that it was a completely ensemble show with no large scenery, no intermission, and no star. And question 10, who won a Tony Award for playing Mama Rose in the 1990 revival of Gypsy? Alright. That wraps up the questions for happy hour. We'll give you a few moments to wrap up your responses and we'll be back with the answers and We are back with the answers to happy hour. All right. Megan, how are you feeling about this? I think I know a few of them. Okay. Let's see. Alright. Alright. We'll see which few question one. Mary Martin played many leading roles on Broadway. She is however best known for playing what high flying title role Peter Pan. Yeah. Is my guess. Otherwise, I was thinking Sound of Music when you first Oh, was she also in that? She was, yeah. She played Maria on Broadway. Oh, but that's not a title role is it? No, it's not. Question two. In Times Square there was a red kiosk building with the letters tk TS on it. What would you obtain from this building? Broadway tickets. Two For tickets. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Discounted. Is it right? That's right. Yeah. Discounted theater tickets. Correct. Iconic building. Yep. Question three. Name the actress and singer who stepped into the iconic role of Fannie Brice in 1964. Barbara Streisand. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, that's right. So what was that? Uh, funny girl. I figured it was, but I wasn't sure. Question four, what was Andrew Lloyd Weber's first musical? So this one, I don't know whether it was Jesus Christ Superstar or Joseph in the amazing technical or dream. Hope would be the two that I would guess to one. If you choose the second one, would it be would I would say, I would say Joseph because that's right. You're right. And that is because Amazing. Jesus Christ. Right? Exactly. Question five. What musical derives its name from the New York City? Dominican Neighborhood of Washington Heights. In The Heights. Of course. Yeah. That's a great show. Second two, Hamilton, of course, Lynn Manuel Miranda. Question six, in what musical would you find the Kit Kat Club Cabaret? Yes. All Megan. That's one. I pretty well so far see Cabaret more than it's any other musical, that's an awesome one. Mm-hmm. Question seven. The 1927 musical showboat features a haunting solo about the hardships and struggles of the African American people. What is that song? I'm guessing it's old man river. Man River, yes. Didn't we have, some question in trivia that we were trying so hard to begin? She, she was like, wait, I think it's showboat. No, no, no, no, it's not. We were like back, back ourselves out it. Yes, we did. Well, you redeemed yourself. Yes. Question eight, who was a legendary American composer and lyricist that wrote Sooner or later, I always get my man for Madonna to sing in the film. Dick Tracy. I don't know. Sondheim. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I was, he won an Oscar for it in 1991. I didn't, that I just came across this and I was like, I didn't realize he wrote that song. I didn't either. I, the song, it's not exactly a very son timey song. No. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Crazy. Question nine. Premiering in 1975, this musical was unique in that it was a completely ensemble show with no large scenery, no intermission and no star. A chorus line. Yeah. Um, and it is called The First Reality Show by the Original Cast. Isn't that cool? It really is. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Alright, question 10. Who won a Tony Award for playing Mama Rose in the 1990 revival of Gypsy? I, I guess Patty Lone. No, but it's a good, so close to a perfect score. I know she almost had it know what would you, if you had another guest. And I'm gonna say she and her partner were awesome on television. It's time Daily. Chaney and Lacey Time Daily. Oh really? I would not have come up with that. I had no idea. She was in theater. Yeah. Big. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, she was still, no kidding. Well, gosh, that was amazing. Megan. You did amazing. You got nine, alright, that wraps up the happy hour round. Let's move on to some classic general trivia. Classic general trivia. Well, that is perfect because we are onto the well right now. Yay. Our next round of questions is called The Well. Something to wet your Appetite and build your confidence. If you are following along with our score sheet, each correct answer is worth one point. All right, Megan, are you gonna join in here? I'll try to jump in where I can. I dunno, any of them. So again, we're just gonna read the questions and then we'll circle back with the answers. So, question one, what dog breed was favored by Queen Elizabeth ii? Question two, what food is considered radioactive but safe due to its high levels of potassium? Question three, what is the name of the newly minted lifestyle guru with the brand as ever, she's a little better known for her marriage to a famous Brit. Question four. What disgraced athlete founded the Live Strong Foundation? Question five. This 1983 movie with a cast, including William Hurt, Glenn Close, and Kevin Klein is widely lauded for its soundtrack, including such cool Motown hits as I heard it through the grapevine, my girl, and the tracks of my tears. Question six. Name the food entertainment industry icon that went to jail for making false statements related to an insider trading scandal. Question seven. What is the world's southernmost city with a population over 1 million? Question eight. What eponymous Modern Dance Theater Group was founded in New York City in 1958 to showcase the African American cultural experience? Question nine. After dating Selena Gomez, on and off for many years, Justin Bieber married who in 2018, first and maiden name please. Question 10, while certainly a contemporary and competing composer of Mozart, this Italian composer was not quite the fierce rival that he has portrayed to be in the movie on Madeas. That wraps up the questions. We'll give you a few moments to finish up your responses and we'll be back with the answers. Alright, we're back with the answers to the well. You ready, Megan? Sure. Question one. What dog breed was favored by Queen Elizabeth ii? Cute little short-legged dogs. Corgi cor the legs. Yes. And I love those Alex's favorite dog. It's my son, Alex's favorite dog he begs me all the time. Can you please get a Corgi? It would look so funny next to Gallagher. It look so funny. Yeah. But the thing, the problem is I think is that they're so short and low to the ground. Yeah. With all the dirt roads here. Oh. It would get so muddy and dirty on And they tend to be, carriage tend to be, they're always that light sandy color. Right, right. Yeah. They're so darn cute. But they're furry. I just, I could foresee like So disaster. Too much. Any dog. Not get muddy though. Yeah, I know. You see it now. Yeah. Right. That is a good point, Megan, if we are in Vermont. That is so true. Okay, question two. What food is considered radioactive but safe due to its high levels of potassium? Bananas. Yes. Yeah. What gave it away? The potassium or the radioactivity? Yes. I didn't, was unaware of the radio activity, but this is a new fact to me as well. Yes, yes. Question three, what is the name of the newly minted lifestyle guru with the brand as ever? I feel like it should be the brand as if, I dunno, that's Meghan Markle. Oh, right, yes. We had to have a Meghan question today. Yes. Oh, that's right. Does she spelled the same? She does. Yeah. Copycat Catt. Yeah. Ooh, ooh. Jinx. When I was on my com walking the Camino, I met this Austrian woman and we, uh, no excuse Australian woman. We had this long conversation. Then all of a sudden she turns to me and she says, tell me, what do you think of your Meghan as in Meghan Markle? I had no idea what she was talking about. I had to thank from, and I said, do you mean Meghan Markle? Really? We don't claim her. I know. I said, I don't really think about her very often, to be honest. Alright, question four. What disgraced athlete founded the Live Strong Foundation? Dan Armstrong. Yes, I know. As soon as you say disgraced athlete, it's like, oh, Armstrong. Yeah. There's only a couple that jump out and he's probably, yeah, probably number one right at the top of the list. Well, the, the one guy that murdered his wife or girlfriend though. Oh, ask Histor. Yes. The South African one, right? Yeah. There's a few others. There are a few others. You're right. Also Ray Carruth. Oh, yeah. Um, maybe, um, OJ Simpson. Yeah. The original Aaron Hernandez, the og. Oh yes. That guy's creepy. Yeah. Aaron Hernandez. Yeah. Woo. Oh yeah. OJ j oj The O Oog. Oh, boy. Totally. Okay. Question five. This 1983 movie with a cast, including William Hurt, Glenn Close, and Kevin Klein is widely lauded for its soundtrack. I don't even have to say the songs. I don't think The Big Chill. Yes, the best. A good flick. One of my faves. It's great. Question six. Name the food entertainment industry icon. Also a lifestyle guru that went to jail for making false statements related to an insider trading scandal. Martha. Martha. Martha. Martha. Martha. The one. Martha Stewart. Mm-hmm. Yep. Question seven. What is the world's southern most city with a population? Over 1 million people. Southern Most? Mm-hmm. It's down under the, the world Southern Most. Okay. Uh, Sydney. It's Melbourne, yeah. Um, question eight. What eponymous Modern Dance Theater Group was founded in New York City in 1958 to showcase the African American cultural experience? Alvin Ailey. Yes. Yes. Have you seen them? I have, yeah. I sent them when I lived in DC Yeah, some at the Joyce Theater. Great. Question nine, after dating Selena Gomez on and off for many years, Justin Bieber. Married whom? Hailey Baldwin. Yes. HBB, yes. You know they have a kiddo now too, Jack. Yes, they do. Jack, question 10. While certainly a contemporary and competing composer of Mozart, this Italian composer was not quite the fierce rival that he has betrayed to be in the movie Amadeus, which is a great movie. Sally? Yes. Antonio. Sally. Yeah, that's right. F Murray Abraham played him in the Yes. So, so good. You did great in that round. I think you got a nine again, no eight, right? I don't know. Wow. Well, we're not, we're not telling up her points. We, I'm just saying she's killing it. She's our consult. Yeah, she is killing it. That wraps up the well, and now we're gonna move on to, the straight no chaser round. And in this round, every question and correct answer is worth two points. Question one. A persistent rumor states that a real human skull adorns a background prop in what Classic treasured Disneyland ride. Question two. What is the name coined by Michael Faraday for an electrical generator that produces a direct current. Question three. Who wrote the music and lyrics for the musical Kinky Boots More Theater? Question four, featuring Rum Marino, Laquire, fresh Grapefruit, and Rosemary Simple Syrup. This cocktail is named for a famous American author. Question five, what is the name of the deepest lake in the world? Question six, what? 1990s TV series featured Fly Girls, including JLo. Question seven, in the Book, to Kill a Mockingbird, what is the real first name of Boo Radley? Question eight. What member of the Trump 2.0 administration has been coined? Ice Barbie? Question nine, which country's national symbol is the unicorn? And question 10, who is recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records as the first female self-made millionaire in America? We're gonna give you a few moments to wrap up your responses and we'll be back with the answers to straight no chaser. We are back with the answers to straight no chaser. Question one. A persistent rumor states that a real human skull adorns a background prop in what? Classic treasured Disneyland ride Pirates of the Caribbean. Yeah. And it's funny because creepy, um, it's so creepy. So I was with my husband Griz traveling for his business back in, I think it was April or something, may, and it took place at Disney or adjacent to Disney. And so I hadn't been there in over 40 years, so I'm like, ah, whatever. I've got nothing to do. I'll go in. And so I'm waiting in line for this very ride and I'm like, it dawns on me. I'm like, oh, wait a minute. I heard somewhere that you'd heard about it. Yeah, I heard, but I forgot what ride it was on, and I'm like, oh my God, it might be this exact ride. And I jump on, you know, Google and I'm like, oh my God, it's this exact ride. And I saw it and I took pictures. So how did you know it was the real skull? It is like really obvious that it Oh no, because when I Googled it, it showed pictures of Oh, exactly where to look and when. Oh cool. And which skull, and there it was. And it looked pretty damn real. Dang. Hence the question. Yeah. It's like, good one. Perfect. Tri. Oh, and apparently almost all, there were like many, many real human skulls and bones, but that's the only one that that exists. Still stayed. Britney is there? Yeah. Yeah. That is so well bizarro. I mean just using the real stuff back then. Yeah. Right. Was you know, the bodies of the people who died making Disney. Yeah, Disney land. Alright, question two. What is the name Coined by Michael Faraday for an electrical generator that produces a direct current. I don't know. Well, it's a tough one. Dymo. It's tough. Yeah. Oh yeah. I didn't know that. If it makes you feel any better, I believe that name comes from, I think Michael Ty coined that question three. Who wrote the music in lyrics for the musical Kinky Boots? She just wanted, oh, good. I was gonna say she just wanted to have fun doing it. Cindy Lauper. She's so cool. Didn't she also speak at one of the graduations in Vermont? Not that much. Yeah. Johnson State. Yeah. University. Yeah. She was in Stowe. I missed her on the sidewalk by like 30 seconds. I went down to Harrison's. They're like, oh my God, did you just see Cyndi Lauper walking up? And I'm like, no, my God. And I ran out, looked running down the street looking for her. She's very recognizable. I I saw her in New York City a lot on the street. Well, Laura had her, like, she's hard to miss. Big poofy skirt on. And she got the whole thing. She was, oh my God, her dance. I was thinking about being her for, um, this past Halloween. Oh, that is a good, that's a, I mean, that's a fun costume. It, it would be fun though. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Question four, featuring Rum Marino, Laur, fresh Grapefruit and Rosemary Simple Syrup. This cocktail is named for a famous American author. I don't know, hemming. He was a drunk. Oh yeah. She just said it. Yes. Yeah. The Hemingway Margarita. Okay. Sounds delicious. Delicious actually, right? You might have to do that. Yeah. Maybe if we do an episode on literature. Oh, perfect. Hello? Yeah, we'll do that. There we go. Okay. I like it. Mental note. Mm-hmm. Question five, write it on your hand. Yeah, that's where I keep on my best work. Most important notes. Secret. Top secret on my hand. I see you have your social security number on that. Yeah. Yeah, I do. Uh, question five. What is the name of the deepest lake in the world? Lake by call. Yeah. So I know you have a story about this. Well, my only story is that the, the guy that I met from Siberia is from Lake by call. Oh. That is just a coincidence. Oh my God. That's crazy. Yeah. And he, and when he told me,'cause isn't that also too, where put Putin like, oh, puts his, is it like a rival there? There? Well, I don't know. I just, I knew it. He puts his, somewhere was at the bottom of Lake. I'm thinking it's the Lake Tahoe of Russia. I don't know. I just, I don't know why I remembered that. Is that some, is that what you were saying? That he, he people have known to, I thought, disappeared. I did some sort of like training or something and like by call. Oh, I know. You may have to edit this whole section. No, I like our story better. I like that story. Yes. But the guy I met was from, which I was crazy was I know. I actually have heard of that place. That is crazy. Wow. Yeah. Question six what? 1990s TV series featured fly girls, including JLo. In Living Color. That was such a good show. That was so much. Wasn't Jim Carrey on that? Yes. Fire bill. That was the funniest. How did he get his face to look like that it was so disturbing. Well, you say that about anything he played. You're right. Yeah. You're so right. It's such an elastic face. Yeah. Yeah. That was a great show. It was great. Question seven in the book, to Kill a Mockingbird. What was the real first name of Boo Radley? That's a toughie. I don't know. It's Arthur, it's not Alois. It's that other Arthur That's so funny. Like the, the character who's barely seen, but we know about him. Yes and wasn't it, um, I always wanna say it's James Conn, but it wasn't Who was it? Who played him? Hold on. I'm gonna have to fact check. I don't know. It's Gregory P, right? Someone, someone got, someone got his start. Robert Duvall get. Al. You know I Now I do remember that. Yep. Yes, yep. Okay. And I see where you were going with James Conn'cause they're both in The Godfather. Of course. That's where I was going with that. Of course you feel 60, you caught on. Oh, Nancy. Oh Nancy, you always got my number. Question eight, what member of the Trump 2.0 administration has been coined ice. Barbie Ice, ice Barbie. I know. That's all I'm thinking. CME not not Ice Bimbo. Oh yes, it's Christy Nome. Did you see when they wouldn't let her use the bathroom? No. Recently what? Oh my God. She was in Chicago and wait, they, she was actually a human. Well, we don't, we She didn't use the bathroom, so they went up to this, government building and the guy came to the door and she's like, we just need to use the bathroom. And he's like, no, no. It's only for people who work here. She's turns around. She's like, interesting. Oh my God. Okay. Little acts of resistance.

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Question nine. Which country's national symbol is a unicorn? Hmm. What is it? Harkening Bank. Scotland. Scotland. Love it. And you know what? It's so cool that they have a unicorn as their, it really is national symbol. Mm. They're the best.

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Question 10. Who is recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records as a first female self-made millionaire in America? I don't remember her name. Madam CJ Walker. Yeah. She had the all the hair care products. Yeah. For African American. Not only was she the first female self-made millionaire, she was. African American. Yeah. Which is so cool. It's so awesome. Her house is in Irvington, which is New York, which is the, yeah. New York, which is the two towns over from Sleepy Hollow. Right. Where my kids did pre-K. And, you went two towns over for pre-K. Um, I mean, these towns are like so tiny. Yeah. It's not like here. It's like, right. Yeah. It was just a good program and a bunch of other people were doing, and so yeah. We could carpool. So her house is still there. Is it a museum? No, I think it's a private residence. Oh yeah. Wow. It's a big white house with white columns and it's right on Route nine, which is mm-hmm. Which is Broadway. You know, Broadway that goes into Manhattan comes all the way up to Alban. Stop. It does not. Mm-hmm. I didn't know that. You know that. Yeah. Same road. Wow. It's kind of cool. Yeah. So, I mean, originally I'm sure it went all the way through. Does it still, it goes all the way to, to Albany, I think. No, you're, mm-hmm. Yeah. It's very cool. Pretty cool road. Alright, well that wraps up straight new chaser. That was fun. And yeah, that was very fun. And that takes us now to the mystery round. Yay. Fun times. Answers to the 10 questions in this round. All have a connection in common. Answer the individual questions correctly and then try to guess what that connection is. Each correct answer, including the answer to the connection, is worth two points. Question one. What is the name of the outer layer of a citrus fruit that is commonly added to both cocktails and baked goods? Question two. What company founded on the idea of making vacuum cleaners lighter and easier to use is consistently ranked the world's second largest appliance maker by unit sold after Whirlpool. Question three. This 1954 Alfred Hitchcock thriller was his first film to feature Grace Kelly. Question four, in Greek mythology, what is eos? The goddess of question five, what song was Prince's first billboard Hot 100 Number one. Single. Question six in jewelry terminology, what fruit related term describes a G cut stone with a rounded base and pointed top? Question seven, what is the term for the region along the Adriatic Sea? Famous for its islands and historic cities like Dubrovnik? Question eight. What Dutch Soccer Club is named after Mythological Hero, instrumental in the Trojan War? Question nine. What is the Amy Tan book about the relationship between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American born daughters? And question 10, who was the late night host with a famous closer look segment? And that wraps up the questions to the mystery round. We'll give you a few moments to wrap up your responses and we will be back with the answers. Okay. We're back with the answers to the mystery round. Any ideas on that connection there, Megan? Not yet. Okay. Here we go. Question one. What is the name of the outer layer of a citrus fruit that is commonly added to both cocktails and baked goods? Zest? Yes. Question two. What company is consistently ranked the world's second largest appliance maker by units sold after Whirlpool? Electrolux. That is correct. My mother swears by them. Question three, this 1954 Alfred Hitchcock thriller was his first film to feature Grace Kelly. Hmm. I don't know all the, ones that Grace Kelly was in machine Vertigo. No, that's Kim. Kim Novak? Yeah. Kim Novak. Yeah. This is a Dial M for murder. Oh, question four, in Greek mythology, what is eos? The goddess of that is Dawn. Okay. Question five. What song was Prince's first? Billboard Hot 100 Number one. Single. Um, what does it sound like? It's, sounds like birds crying dubs cry when dubs cry was the first. Oh, I was thinking there was something before that. No. Hot one, number one single. Okay, question six, in jewelry terminology, what fruit related term describes gem cut stones with a rounded base and pointed top? It's not exactly how you wanna be described in your, in your figure. That is the, the pear that is the para cut. I, I don't you don't see too many para cutts? Question seven, what is the term for the region along the Adriatic Sea? Famous for its islands and historic cities like Dubrovnik, the area? Mm-hmm. Hmm. Lots of dogs there. The Dalmatian? Yes. The Dalmatian Coast. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Question eight, which Dutch soccer club is named after a mythological hero instrumental in the Trojan War. I know you're gonna get it from both angles, so that's right. Right. I don't know. The one that is Ajax or Oh yeah. Or the Dutch team. Aja, yes. Question nine, what is the Amy Tan book about the relationship between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American born daughters? Joy Luck Club. Yeah. I love that book. Yeah. Question 10, who is the late night host with a famous closer look segment? That's my favorite. Seth Meyers. Oh yeah. So we've got Zest, Electrolux, dial M for murder. Dawn, when Dos Cry, pair cut. The Dalmatian Coast. Ajax, the Joy Luck Club and Seth Myers Soap. Yeah. Don't you call him Mrs. Myers. What is, those are all soaps. Pear. Yeah. Pear. I'm not, that's a very old fashioned soap. And I've really heard a pear. I've never heard of it either, huh? Mm-hmm. That drew me. Does it smell like pears? That would be kind of lovely if it did. I don't know actually. Yeah, I don't know. Alright, that wraps up the mystery round. Hope you got the connection there. And, we're gonna move on to top shelf now, where every question is worth three points. This is the toughie. Question one. What Canadian author popularized the term Gen X in his Generation X Tales for an accelerated Culture? Question two. What is the name of the movie? Based on the Chicago Bears football player, Brian Piccolo, who was stricken with terminal cancer and died in 1970. His life and friendship with Gail Sayers is chronicled in this movie, dubbed one of the top guy cry movies of all time. Question three. What winter sport that originated in Scotland features three fundamental types of shots, guards, draws, and takeouts. Question four, this word is the scientific name for baby teeth. Question five, what is the name of the first female best director winner? Question six. What is the capital of the Argentinian province of Ra del Fuego? Question seven. Tom York is the lead singer of what band? Question eight. What is the only country that is simultaneously in all four hemispheres? Northern, Southern, Western, and Eastern? Question nine. What ancient African kingdom from the Nile River Valley conquered Egypt during the 25th Dynasty? Question 10. What comedy legend played Marian on Better Call Saul. That wraps up the top shelf round. We'll give you a few moments to finish your responses and we'll be back with the answers. And we are back with the answers to top shelf. Question one, what Canadian author popularized the term. Gen X in his Generation X Tales for an accelerated culture. I have no idea. It's Douglas Copeland um, yeah. I had never heard of him either. Nancy, you have I read the book. Well, there you go. There you have it. People, well, we, I mean, I, I mean, I love the name. Yeah. Gen X. It kind of really just sums up our generation. It certainly does, but haven't, haven't heard of him. I heard something recently. It's Gen Xers are characterized by, um, deep empathy, often communicated through an overload of sarcasm. I, I knew you were gonna say that.'cause I mean the sarcasm part. Anyways, it's great. It's so true. I love it. Yeah. Question two, what is the name of the movie? Based on the Chicago Bears football player, Brian Piccolo, who was stricken with terminal cancer and died in 1970. Is that Brian song? It's It's so Sad that movie. I love how you put the both guy Cry. I've never heard of Guy Cry movies. Oh, that's why I saw it on a list called The Guy Top Guy Cry movies. What else was on it? I don't remember. That was just the number one. Yeah. Okay. Question three. What winter sport that originated in Scotland features three fundamental types of shots, guards, draws, and takeouts. I'm guessing. Curling. Oh my god. You guess correctly. How did you know that? Because I knew it wasn't Canadian. You did? Yeah. Even though the, because I remember that from the Olympics like that it was, oh, everybody associates it with Canada. I certainly do, but that it was, didn't originate in Canada. It's actually really fun to watch in the Olympics. Yeah, it is. It's very interesting. It's exciting. Yeah, it's crazy. It's the brooms and the i I would love to do it. We should go to like a curling club and do it. Yeah. Yeah. I think it would be really fun. You don't think so? Cool. No, I'm just teasing you. Yeah, I would do it. I do anything once you're gonna get addicted. I wanna try Axe throwing first though. Oh, me too. Do you place, there's a place in Burlington. Yeah, I've, let's do it. Yeah. Burleigh ax Burleigh acts. That's it. Okay, let's do that. We're doing that. Okay. All right. Question four. This word is a scientific name for baby teeth. Just like think trees. Just like leaves. De they fall out. Yeah. Correct. I thought the situation, I was like, no, I'm thinking trees. No, that's right. Also known as I think milk teeth too. Yeah. Oh. Mm-hmm. Question five, what is the name of the first female best director? Winner? Oh, I'm trying to think of her name. Why can't I think of it? The Hurt Locker, right? Yeah. Yes, sir. Um, zero Dark, 30 Point Break. And others? Uh, Piccolo Bigelow. Yes. C Bigelow. Also ex-wife of James Cameron which one I know. Question six, what is the capital of the Argentinian province of Tiara del Foal. And that's capital? Mm-hmm. The capital of the province. I don't know. Um, the most fun word to say. Usa. Oh yes, usa. Question seven. Tom York is the lead singer of what band? I don't know. You know the band Radiohead? There you go. There it is. Question eight. What is the only country that is simultaneously in all four hemispheres? It's in all four hemispheres. It's in the Pacific Ocean. Yeah. Because of the K Keira body. Oh, it's actually, yeah. No, that wasn't coming in. Hugo told me this. It's actually pronounced Kiba. Okay. Crazy, right? Sure. Question nine. What ancient African kingdom from the Nile River Valley conquered Egypt during the 25th Dynasty? No idea. That was the Kush. Okay. The Kush. The Kush. The Kush. We'll just leave it there. Yeah. And question 10. What comedy legend played Marian on Better Call Saul. I never watched podcast. Think of a female comedy legend. Uh, who's still alive? Who's not Lucy? Yeah. It's not Who's Still alive? Who's still alive? A female comedy legend who's still alive. Um I would do something over here, but I can't get to my ear. Yeah, you pull, pull your ear. Oh. Oh, Carol Burnett. Yes. Yes. Which is kind of brilliant casting. Yeah. It's just awesome. Awesome. Awesome. I have to say that when I watched Breaking Bad and they were introducing Saul mm-hmm. I was a little annoyed. I'm like, what? They're bringing another character on This is too much because, because it's pretty late in the show. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And he absolutely stole the entire show. He's a, I love Babo. He's great. So good. Did you know he wrote for, um, Saturday Night Live? Yeah. Yeah. He and he, he wrote the Chippendale sketch. Oh really? Patrick Mc, Swayze and Chris. And he said he now regrets it, that he wish he had never done it, but he's a super funny guy. Yeah. Yeah. All right. And that, that wraps up top shelf. Oh, that stinks. Well, thank you so much for joining us. Megan. You killed it today. Yeah, absolutely. Swept up. You're gonna stay on the team. You must have been feeling really good after our decisive win last night. Mm. That was a good win. It was a nice win. That was a sleigh. Yeah, it was a bit of a sleigh. Yeah. Well, um, thanks again. Thank, and let's have maybe another Yeah. Little sip of this. Oh, this beautiful margarita. All right. Yum, yum, yum.

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Folks that wraps up season one of Trivia Buzz. We did it, Nancy. We did it. We did a full season. That was so much. So much fun. We're gonna take a few weeks now and work on season two for you, and we've got some exciting new guests already lined up and we'll be hitting the road to interview them.

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Road trip. Yeah. Thank you all so much for playing along with us this season. It's been just so much fun. But we'll be back at the end of January with all new episodes, so make sure you're following us wherever you get your podcasts. And check our socials for. New season announcements. Coming soon.

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Thanks for listening in today and until next time, thanks again, Megan. Thank you. Thanks Megan. It was really fun. Bye. Cheers. Cheers. Now Allall. Next time. Bye.