ANNOUNCER: Tonight on Hard Quiz...
..expert subject - Katy Perry.
..expert subject - French philosopher Rene Descartes.
..expert subject - the immune system.
..expert subject - musical Come from Away.
Here's your host, Tom Gleeson.
Yes! (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
G'day.
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Let's say hello.
G'day, Matt. Hey. How's it going?
Now, the musical Come from Away is your expert subject.
It is.
You do know you can go and see good musicals, yeah?
(LAUGHTER) I don't know.
I've seen a lot of musicals in my life,
and this is by far the best one I've seen.
Really? Yeah.
You didn't just go to this too many times
You didn't just go to this because Hamilton was always sold out?
(LAUGHTER) No. Unfortunately not, no.
I couldn't get a ticket to Hamilton, though.
How many times have you seen Come from Away?
About eight now. TOM: Oh.
(MURMURING)
Why? (LAUGHTER)
It's a musical about the September 11 attacks.
Yeah. Why did they write it about that?
Was the Holocaust not jolly enough for them?
(LAUGHTER)
No, the composers describe it (LAUGHTER)
No, the composers describe it as, like, a 9/12 musical,
so it's about, uh, what happened after
in the wake of this, um... the 9/11 attacks,
where this incredible community in Canada came together
and supported all these people who had been displaced.
and supported all these people Who's this?
MATT: Oh, that...that is me Who's this?
MATT: Oh, that...that is me
after seeing Come from Away on Broadway with, um, Jenn Colella,
one of the lead stars. on Broadway with, um, Jenn Colella,
one of the lead stars.
to meet someone
Must have been pretty exciting to meet someone
who had heard of the show.
(LAUGHTER)
Now, you once got called up onstage to sing with Idina Menzel.
Now, you once got called up onstage I did.
(SINGS INDISTINCTLY)
TOM: How did that come about?
MATT: Idina Menzel is a Broadway legend.
But I heard that she pulled people out of the audience,
and I might have watched videos before
and found out roughly where in the audience she pulled them from
and then specifically bought a seat on an aisle there
and then as soon as she looked to the audience
and then as soon as just stood up and put my hand up.
TOM: OK. just stood up and put my hand up.
TOM: OK. (LAUGHTER)
TOM: OK. (APPLAUSE AND CHEERING)
TOM: Sarah. Hi.
The immune system is your subject. And you're a science writer.
Is that all you write about? Or do you write about other stuff?
No, I dabble in other stuff as well. You must have had a few big years.
Is a pandemic like a grand final for you?
Is a pandemic (LAUGHTER)
I managed to avoid writing (LAUGHTER)
I managed to avoid writing about COVID-19 the whole pandemic.
Now, you've actually had cancer of the immune system.
Now, you've actually had Mm-hm.
TOM: Are you a bit too Mm-hm.
TOM: Are you a bit too into your expert subject?
(SCATTERED LAUGHTER) Fully committed. Yep. (LAUGHS)
(BLEEP) lighten up. (LAUGHTER)
I got a PhD, and then I thought,
"No, I need I got a PhD, and then I thought,
"No, I need the personal experience."
(LAUGHTER) "I'll go to the next...next level."
(LAUGHTER) (APPLAUSE AND CHEERING)
They were being judgemental and then they didn't realise
you had a black sense of humour, Sarah.
(LAUGHTER)
Now, you take photos of dead animals and put them on your Instagram.
Now, you take photos of dead animals (LAUGHTER)
Are you a psychopath?
(LAUGHTER) Only when I have cancer.
(LAUGHTER) (LAUGHTER)
Now, you hung shit on me (LAUGHTER)
Now, you hung shit on me on Twitter...
SARAH: Yeah. (LAUGHTER)
..uh, for sitting in the sun by a pool.
Yeah. Who are you, my mum?
Yeah. (LAUGHTER)
Well, I have a husband with red hair.
So when I saw you took your shirt off, I was, um,
a little worried about your complexion.
OK. (LAUGHTER)
(APPLAUSE)
Some celebrities get bullied on Twitter.
I get told to slip, slop and slap. (LAUGHTER)
Pete! Hi, Tom.
Rene Descartes is your subject, and you're a philosophy teacher.
Rene Descartes is your subject, What...what's the meaning of life?
Well... (SIGHS) ..I'm working on it.
(LAUGHS) Come on. Just tell us it.
Oh. (LAUGHTER)
Going on quiz shows. OK, great. Thought so.
Going on quiz shows. And you do philosophy at high school.
That'd be one of those classes
that everyone takes That'd be one of those classes
that everyone takes for a bit of a bludge.
Is that fair? Pretty much, yeah.
I was joking. (LAUGHTER)
Now, you've even taught philosophy to kinder kids.
Now, you've even taught philosophy I have.
Ever caused a 5-year-old to have an existential crisis?
(LAUGHTER) (LAUGHS) Not yet.
You know, like, "Who am I?" (LAUGHTER)
"What's my role in life? What happens to Elmo after he dies?"
(LAUGHTER)
Now, you like running marathons.
I do. TOM: Where's that?
PETE: This is the Gold Coast Marathon,
and, uh, that's me at about halfway point.
Yeah, um, I've been banned from running marathons now, because, uh,
I got to the end and I sort of collapsed and...
..looking up at the sky and... all these hours kind of passed.
I took the last bus back, and my wife said,
"People have been coming back all afternoon.
"People have been coming back "I thought you were dead."
If you were lying down looking dead on the ground,
Sarah would have taken a photo, put it on Instagram.
Sarah would have taken a photo, (LAUGHTER)
(APPLAUSE AND CHEERING)
TOM: Kate! (APPLAUSE AND CHEERING)
TOM: Kate! KATE: Thomas!
Now, you got into Katy Perry because you had the same name.
Now, you got into Katy Perry I was eight at the time.
It made sense. I was eight at the time.
It made sense. Oh. OK. Alright.
(LAUGHS) So why didn't you get into Kate Bush?
(LAUGHS) (LAUGHTER)
It didn't have the same ring to it. (LAUGHTER)
It didn't have the same ring to it. TOM: No.
Oh, yeah, Kate, Katy. I guess it's different.
(LAUGHS) (LAUGHTER)
Do you like her Teenage Dream era or her Menulog era?
(LAUGHTER) (KATE LAUGHS)
(LAUGHTER) The Menulog ad, it...it slaps.
It's pretty good. (LAUGHS) The Menulog ad, it...it slaps.
It's pretty good. (LAUGHS) (LAUGHTER)
Now, you're studying sport and exercise management.
Sounds like a bigger bludge than Pete's philosophy class.
(LAUGHTER) Um...is it?
(LAUGHTER) Is it a bit of a bludge?
Look, it's pretty easy to pass the course.
OK. Now, you've got three black belts.
OK. Now, you've got I do.
I've got my first and second dan in taekwondo,
and I've got my first dan in hapkido.
If someone insults Katy Perry, do you give them a roundhouse kick?
(LAUGHTER) I do. It's happened before.
Oh. (LAUGHS) (LAUGHTER)
Now, here's you in action.
(LAUGHTER)
So...
(LAUGHTER)
..just to be clear, you're exhausted, yeah,
..just to be clear, the end of a really long session?
I had done 30 rounds beforehand.
It was for my, um, black belt for my first dan, in taekwondo.
OK. Reminds me of how I feel fighting ABC bureaucracy.
(LAUGHTER)
Alright. Let's play, hard!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
ANNOUNCER: Win or lose five points. Steal an answer, double points.
I'll ask each of you five questions on your expert subject.
Right, you get five points, wrong, I will take five points from you.
The rest of you can steal at any time to get double points.
Let's start with Kate and her expert subject, Katy Perry.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
How often would you listen to Katy Perry?
Well, let's say that all of her songs on Spotify
correlate to, like, six hours,
so, you know, whole thing once a day.
so, you know, Easy work.
Really ruining your algorithms Easy work.
Really ruining your algorithms on that.
(LAUGHS) (LAUGHTER)
The daughter of strict Pentecostal parents,
Perry released her first album under her real name
Perry released her first album in which pop music subgenre?
Kate. Gospel.
TOM: Correct!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Her real name is Katheryn Hudson, but she changed it later
to avoid being confused for the actor Kate Hudson.
In the lyrics of her first US number one, I Kissed a Girl,
Perry recalls liking the taste of what skincare product?
Kate. Cherry ChapStick.
TOM: Correct! (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Yeah, she regrets some of the lyrics that say
"Good girls don't kiss other girls",
and she needs her boyfriend's permission.
Do you think she should regret the lyrics?
Look, times have changed, so...
..at the time, I'm sure that it made sense.
..at the time, But now, probably, yes.
No, it was homophobic back then too.
(LAUGHTER)
(APPLAUSE)
In 2009, Katy's song Hot N Cold (APPLAUSE)
In 2009, Katy's song Hot N Cold became the theme music
In 2009, Katy's song Hot N Cold for which Australian...
Pete for the steal! MasterChef?
TOM: Correct! Double points to you. (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
..which Australian reality cooking show?
..which Australian 'MasterChef' is correct.
See, Grandma and Grandad 'MasterChef' is correct.
See, Grandma and Grandad watching at home?
See, Grandma and Grandad You DO know a Katy Perry song!
(LAUGHTER)
How old are you, by the way, Kate?
20. TOM: 20? Alright.
So...so you would have been, like, eight when that started.
(LAUGHTER)
How old were YOU when it started?
I was older and wiser, and wealthier, than you.
(LAUGHS) (LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE)
After the end of a public feud between the two singers,
Perry appeared in Taylor Swift's You Need to Calm Down
dressed as what food?
Kate. Hamburger?
Kate. TOM: Correct.
(APPLAUSE)
And that kicked off her Menulog phase.
(LAUGHTER)
Last question in your set, Kate.
At the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, Perry and rapper Riff Raff
arrived in matching denim outfits, referencing which early 2000s...
Matt for the steal!
Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake.
TOM: Correct! (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
..which early 2000s celebrity couple?
"Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake" is correct.
Next set of questions is for Pete on Rene Descartes.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Are you ready to do some philosophising?
Always. Let's start thinking deeply.
(LAUGHTER)
Known as the father of modern philosophy,
Descartes's argument "Cogito, ergo sum"
is commonly translated to what English phrase?
Pete. "I think, therefore I am."
Pete. TOM: Correct!
(APPLAUSE)
Descartes's rationalist philosophy
influenced the European Enlightenment,
a period that shares a name with what album by John Farnham?
a period that shares a name (LAUGHTER)
(BUZZER) TOM: Time's up!
(BUZZER) Age of Reason.
Mmm. AUDIENCE: Oh!
Yeah, it's a tenuous link, but I needed to bogan up this shit.
Yeah, it's a tenuous link, (LAUGHTER)
I just got to... I got to get people on board, Pete.
(APPLAUSE)
In his Second Meditation, to illustrate his belief
that the senses can't be trusted to determine reality,
Descartes cites the changeable form of what substance?
Pete. Wax.
TOM: Correct! (APPLAUSE)
..used to make candles?
Wax is correct.
Yeah, our senses would tell us that solid and liquid wax
are two different things,
but our mind knows that it's still wax.
but our mind knows Mmm.
Housed in a Paris museum
and inscribed with a Latin verse praising his genius
and inscribed with a Latin verse is what part of Descartes's skeleton?
Pete. is what part of Descartes's skeleton?
Pete. His skull.
TOM: Correct. (APPLAUSE)
Yeah, he WAS pretty brainy.
He came up with plotting X and Y coordinates
He came up with to describe where something is.
He basically invented Year 8 maths.
(LAUGHTER)
Last question in your set, Pete.
Descartes's fascination with human-like devices known as automata
led to a legend that he owned a clockwork replica of which relation?
Pete. His daughter.
TOM: Correct. (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Yeah, his daughter died young,
and the story is that he had a robot replacement made,
but he took it on a ship and some sailors threw it overboard.
PETE: Mmm. (MURMURING)
Time now for Sarah and the immune system.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Are you ready to go, Sarah?
I'm ready.
Do you think I'm ready.
Do you think I should have sunblock on now?
Well, my husband always says he gets sunburnt
even when it's a full moon, so maybe you should.
(LAUGHTER)
What about if I took my shirt off?
(LAUGHTER)
(APPLAUSE)
(LAUGHS)
One of the body's first lines of defence, the lining of the nose,
One of the body's first lines traps inhaled allergens and dust,
expelling them in what bodily fluid?
Sarah. expelling them in what bodily fluid?
Sarah. Mucus.
TOM: Correct! (APPLAUSE)
Yeah, so when I'm all snotty, that's actually the immune system at work.
Yeah, so when I'm all snotty, that's (GROANING)
(LAUGHTER)
(SCATTERED APPLAUSE)
(LAUGHTER)
Born with severe combined immunodeficiency,
David Vetter was raised in sterilised confinement...
Sarah. The bubble boy?
Sarah. TOM: Correct!
..earning him what nickname?
"Bubble boy" is correct. ..earning him what nickname?
"Bubble boy" is correct. (APPLAUSE)
Yeah, he had no functioning immune system,
so almost any germ might have killed him.
NASA built a spacesuit for him so he could go outside.
A key part of the immune system, the lymphatic system,
includes which organs
that are located in the throat includes which organs
that are located in the throat and sometimes...
Sarah. Tonsils.
TOM: Correct. (APPLAUSE)
..sometimes removed after chronic infection?
..sometimes removed 'Tonsils' is correct.
First approved for use in humans to inoculate against COVID-19,
mRNA vaccines differ from most traditional vaccines
by not containing what key ingredient?
Sarah. An adjuvant?
Sarah. Incorrect. It's wide open.
Anyone else want to steal?
(LAUGHTER)
(BUZZER) Time's up!
Yeah, virus. Yeah, virus or pathogen.
Last question in your set, Sarah.
The immune system can damage the surface of the small intestine
when gluten is ingested by people with what disease?
Sarah. Coeliac disease.
TOM: Correct! (APPLAUSE)
We're talking about real coeliacs, by the way.
(LAUGHTER)
Not people who pretend, and then when the apple crumble comes out,
they're, like, "Ooh, might have a cheeky little go at this."
they're, like, "Ooh, might have (LAUGHTER)
Alright. Last set in the Expert Round.
It's Matt and the musical Come from Away.
It's Matt (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Come from Away is based on real events after 9/11,
when 38 commercial flights were grounded at Gander Airport,
when 38 commercial flights on what Canadian island?
Matt.
Newfoundland. Matt.
Newfoundland. TOM: Correct!
Newfoundland. (APPLAUSE)
One character in the show, stranded passenger Hannah,
is desperate to contact her son in New York, who has what job?
Matt. Firefighter.
TOM: Correct. (APPLAUSE)
Yeah, the show is based on interviews from real experiences.
There's only 12 people in it, but they play multiple roles.
Like ABC TV show hosts.
(LAUGHTER)
And they're all white. Anyway. Whatever.
Um... (LAUGHTER)
In 2021, Australia's Marika Aubrey made her Broadway debut
as an emergency replacement
due to what illness striking most of the cast?
Matt. COVID.
TOM: Correct! (APPLAUSE)
Yeah, she played one of the pilots, Beverley Bass.
That's her on the left, with the real Beverley.
During the song On the Bus, local drivers list the celebrities
who've passed through Gander Airport over the years
and mention Fidel Castro doing what snow activity?
Matt. Sledding.
TOM: Correct! (APPLAUSE)
TOM: Correct! (LAUGHS)
Last question in your set, Matt.
The show reflects the Irish cultural influence on Newfoundland,
including the playing of a drum with what traditional name?
Matt. The 'bod-hran'.
TOM: Correct! (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Yes, but it's pronounced 'borran'.
Yeah, it's like that one that The Corrs played.
Jim Corr, by the way, is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist,
uh, so he do... he doesn't believe in the musical.
(LAUGHTER) Five from five!
(LAUGHTER) (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
We've rolled through their subjects. (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
We've rolled through their subjects. Now let's roll through mine!
We've rolled through their subjects. (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
This week, I've been really getting into Queensland.
This week, I've been I love Queensland,
where it's beautiful one day and perfect the next
but still Queensland.
(LAUGHTER) This round is multiple choice.
(LAUGHTER) Select your answers on your screens
and press the buzzer Select your answers on your screens
and press the buzzer to lock in the answer.
and press the buzzer (READS QUESTION)
..C - no limit on travel entitlements for former MPs...
..C - no limit on travel entitlements (LAUGHTER)
The answer is:
(MURMURING)
Its unicameral.
Queensland's upper house voted to abolish itself in 1922
under pressure from the Labor premier.
"Oh, we vote that we don't have a job."
"Oh, we vote (LAUGHTER)
"We're (BLEEP) useless. Get rid of us."
(LAUGHTER)
(READS QUESTION)
The answer is:
(APPLAUSE)
Yes. 'Yakka' means 'work', (APPLAUSE)
Yes. 'Yakka' means 'work', as in "hard yakka".
Yes. 'Yakka' means 'work', (READS QUESTION)
The answer is:
(APPLAUSE)
Yeah. (APPLAUSE)
Yeah. The distillery dates back to 1888.
Yeah. (READS QUESTION)
(LAUGHTER)
The answer is:
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Yeah, he didn't end up running,
but he did do work as a stop/go man with the Gold Coast Council.
So, you know, same same.
(LAUGHTER)
Last question in my round's worth double points. (LAUGHTER)
Last question in my round's worth double points.
(READS QUESTION)
A - A, B - B...
(LAUGHTER)
..C - C, D - D,
E - E, F - F?
(LAUGHTER)
The answer is...
..C - C.
(LAUGHS)
(APPLAUSE) Yeah.
Typically, they have verandahs and are well-ventilated,
and they're raised off the ground to suit the climate.
Alright. At the end of my round, Kate, you're at the bottom on 10.
Get over here. (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Kate, do you think being younger may have been a disadvantage?
Seems like it, yeah. (LAUGHS) (LAUGHTER)
Are you gonna roundhouse-kick me or what?
(LAUGHTER) Do it in the car park.
Oh, the car park. Save you the embarrassment of TV.
Oh, the car park. (TOM LAUGHS)
Alright. I...I look forward to it.
(LAUGHTER) Alright. I...I look forward to it.
(LAUGHTER) Uh, out!
(LAUGHS) (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
(LAUGHS) There she goes.
All aboard! It's The People's Round!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Pluck a nose hair, play along at home.
Pluck a nose hair, Your time starts now. play along at home.
Your time starts now.
Which New York borough shares Your time starts now.
Which New York borough shares its name with a classic cocktail?
Which New York borough shares Matt.
Manhattan. TOM: Yes!
Living with her mummy, daddy and brother George is which cartoon pig?
Sarah. Peppa Pig?
Sarah. TOM: Yes!
In a standard game of Uno, what's the TOM: Yes!
In a standard game of Uno, what's the highest number to appear on cards?
Pete. Nine.
Pete. TOM: Yes!
Macduff beheads which TOM: Yes!
Macduff beheads which of Shakespeare's main characters?
Matt. Macbeth.
Matt. TOM: Yes!
What's a slang term for 'pants'
AND for people who are crap at Hard Quiz?
AND for people (LAUGHTER)
Pete. (LAUGHTER)
Pete. Duds.
TOM: Yes! (LAUGHTER)
Sanna Marin was the partying prime minister of which Nordic country?
(BUZZER) TOM: Time's up.
(BUZZER) Finland.
What's the more common term Finland.
What's the more common term for the lubricant called
What's the more common term Water Displacement, 40th...
Sarah. WD-40?
TOM: Yes!
Aurora borealis is a bright display in the sky
Aurora borealis also called the northern what?
Lights. also called the northern what?
Lights. You got in just in time.
'Lights' is correct.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) Alright.
At the end of The People's Round, Sarah, you're at the bottom on 45.
Get over here. (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Alright. What...what happened?
Well, to use an immune analogy,
my innate knowledge wasn't bad,
but my specific knowledge my innate knowledge wasn't bad,
but my specific knowledge not good enough.
but my specific knowledge (LAUGHTER AND SCATTERED APPLAUSE)
So...immunologists watching this will understand.
(LAUGHTER) They will.
(LAUGHTER) But...but no-one else?
(LAUGHTER) I got a laugh.
(LAUGHTER)
Laughing at and with is sometimes very tricky on this show.
Laughing at and with is (LAUGHTER)
Alright. See you at the pool.
Out! (APPLAUSE AND CHEERING)
Out! There she goes.
Only two left. Who's gonna be the Hard Quiz champion?
Pete and Matt, get over here, 'cause it's time to play Hard Quiz.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
ANNOUNCER: Rene Descartes versus Come from Away.
ANNOUNCER: Rene Descartes Hard Quiz.
Now, there can only be Hard Quiz.
Now, there can only be one Hard Quiz champion,
who gets to take home the limited-edition Big Brass Mug.
What will you do with the mug if you win, Pete?
Well, I'm sure my wife will probably end up putting a house plant in it,
but I'm thinking of taking it to my philosophy class
and using it as a prop, maybe asking...
.."Can we be certain this mug exists?"
.."Can we be certain (LAUGHTER)
OK. What about you, Matt?
I'll just carry it around. OK. What about you, Matt?
I'll just carry it around. I do stand-up in my spare time.
I'll just carry it around. I'm desperate for the attention.
So... (LAUGHTER)
(APPLAUSE) TOM: Alright.
It's best of five, penalty-shootout style,
harder questions on your expert subject.
So it's Pete's knowledge of Rene Descartes
versus Matt's knowledge of Come from Away.
versus Let's play, hard!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) Let's play, hard!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Pete.
Descartes believed that the human body was a machine
operating on mechanical principles,
with the soul existing within what anatomical feature?
(SIGHS)
Well...yeah, he did... (SIGHS)
Well...yeah, he did... uh, he was a substance dualist,
so he thought that, uh, the physical body
was joined to the non-physical mind or soul,
and he thought that he found the seat of the soul,
and he thought that he found uh, at the base of the brain,
in the pineal gland.
Correct.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Yeah, the pineal gland is inside the brain.
It produces the hormones that regulate our sleep cycle. Yeah, the pineal gland is inside the brain.
It produces the hormones that regulate our sleep cycle.
It produces the hormones It doesn't have the soul in there,
because souls don't exist.
(LAUGHTER)
Descartes thought that only humans had souls
and animals were machines that couldn't feel pain.
That's how I feel about contestants.
(LAUGHTER) Matt.
At the local bar, some of the visitors, or "come from aways",
take part in a ritual to become honorary Newfoundlanders.
take part in a ritual What's the second-last step?
It is taking a shot of Screech.
Correct. It is taking a shot of Screech.
Correct. (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Screech is rum.
I've found in Queensland Screech is rum.
I've found in Queensland
if people drink enough Bundaberg Rum, they start to screech.
Yeah. (LAUGHTER)
(SCREECHES) "How you going?!"
(LAUGHTER)
"You're from (BLEEP) Hard Quiz?"
(LAUGHTER)
Pete.
In part two Pete.
In part two of his Discourse on the Method,
Descartes outlines four rules for deductive reasoning.
Summarise the third rule in one sentence.
(SIGHS) OK.
Discourse on the Method.
They're rattling around in my brain somewhere.
They're rattling around Um...
..I think the third rule is to start with the simplest problems,
solve those, then make your way up to the more complicated ones.
solve those, then make your way up Correct.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Is that (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Is that what you've been doing tonight?
(LAUGHS) (LAUGHS)
Well, it's all been a bit of a blur, but, uh...
..yeah, I've, uh...
..trying not to stuff it up. (LAUGHS)
..trying not to stuff it up. TOM: OK.
You're already reminiscing TOM: OK.
You're already reminiscing and the show hasn't ended.
You're already reminiscing (LAUGHTER)
Matt.
Co-creator Irene Sankoff Matt.
Co-creator Irene Sankoff told Playbill magazine
Co-creator Irene Sankoff that the song Blankets and Bedding
is inspired by which 1960s show tune?
Oh, that's a great question.
Oh, I do not know.
Um...Blankets and Bedding.
I'm gonna have to make a guess.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
Incorrect.
The correct answer is The Telephone Hour, from Bye Bye Birdie,
where the teenagers at high school are calling each other with gossip.
Uh, but in this show, it's the women of the town
calling each other and getting shit done.
calling each other Pete.
While travelling through Germany Pete.
While travelling through Germany in 1619,
Descartes is said to have had three dreams that inspired his philosophy.
In the third dream, he opened a book and read this line,
which roughly translates to what?
Oh, dear. (LAUGHS) which roughly translates to what?
Oh, dear. (LAUGHS)
I don't think I know this one either.
Hmm. I know about his dreams, uh, or visions, he had.
Hmm. I know about his dreams, Um...
..I'm just gonna have to have a guess here, I think.
Um, I'll say...
.."Cogito, ergo sum."
Incorrect.
The correct answer is...
.."What way in life shall I follow?"
A lot of those dreams of his are rubbish, aren't they?
A lot of those dreams of his Mmm.
They're, like, "Suddenly I couldn't Mmm.
They're, like, "Suddenly I couldn't walk, and someone had a melon,
"and then a book moved, and I didn't move it, and..."
Uh, do you dream about philosophy or...or melons?
(LAUGHTER)
Both. TOM: Both. OK.
Good to know. Mostly melons.
TOM: Yeah.
(LAUGHTER)
Matt.
When appealing for interpreters to help the stranded passengers,
When appealing for interpreters local academy head Beulah ends with,
"And if anyone local academy head Beulah ends with,
"And if anyone speaks Newfoundlander..."
"And if anyone What is her next phrase?
Oh, I...I don't speak Newfoundland...
Oh, I...I don't speak ..Newfounden...Newfoundland...
(LAUGHTER) ..quite clearly.
Um... (LAUGHS)
Oh.
Um...
.."Having be a good stay."
(LAUGHS)
Incorrect.
The correct answer is...
.."Lard tunder'n Jaysus, God bless ya, b'y."
(LAUGHTER)
(APPLAUSE)
Or, with better pronunciation...
And if anyone speaks Newfoundlander,
well, Lard tunder'n Jaysus, God bless ya, b'y.
(LAUGHS) (LAUGHTER)
There you go. That's how it was supposed to sound. (LAUGHS) (LAUGHTER)
There you go. That's how it was supposed to sound.
Creators said they wanted to put
as much of the local dialect into the script,
but many lines got cut because they were unintelligible to the audience.
Yep. (LAUGHTER)
Yep. TOM: Pete.
In his correspondence TOM: Pete.
In his correspondence with Queen Christina of Sweden,
Descartes wrote that ever since a childhood experience,
he had been inclined to love people with what feature?
I did read about this.
It's a...it's a funny story.
I think he had a playmate,
uh, who he I think he had a playmate,
uh, who he kind of fell in love with.
uh, who he Um, she was cross-eyed.
And then from then on,
he found that he was more inclined And then from then on,
he found that he was more inclined to be attracted to cross-eyed women.
he found that he was more inclined Correct.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Matt. You need this.
If you get this wrong,
then, Pete, you are tonight's Hard Quiz champion.
To reassure passengers
reluctant to get off the bus at the Salvation Army camp,
the driver shows them which Bible verse?
I know this.
Um...
..it is Philippians 4:6.
Correct.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Uh, do you know what the actual words are?
Oh, I do. Something about anxious.
Um..."Let anxious be..." Oh.
No. TOM: You've got it right.
(LAUGHTER) (LAUGHS)
Oh, "Be anxious for nothing." TOM: Yeah, that's right.
Yeah. It's "Be anxious for nothing." MATT: Nothing.
Lucky he didn't show them Malachi chapter 2 verse 3 -
"I will corrupt your seed and spread dung upon your faces."
"I will corrupt your seed (LAUGHTER)
That'd get some people off a bus. TOM: Yeah. Pete.
If you get this right, you are tonight's Hard Quiz champion.
According to Descartes's early biographers,
as a young man, he met his future mentor, Isaac Beeckman,
in a chance encounter
when he asked Beeckman to translate what from Flemish?
Um, I have no idea.
Hmm. Translate from Flemish.
Maybe some kind of mathematical textbook or something.
Yeah.
Uh...
I'll say...
..uh, La Geometrie?
Correct. Which means you are tonight's Hard Quiz champion!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) Alright, Matt.
You know what this means. Out!
(APPLAUSE) There he goes.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Congratulations, Pete.
You are tonight's Hard Quiz champion,
which means you get the Big Brass Mug...
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) ..and you get to do the sign-off.
Thanks for playing hard!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) Thanks for playing hard!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Congratulations.
I'm hard, therefore I am. (PETE LAUGHS)
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