Our 250th Annual Trivia Episode!

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• 0:07Nick Capodice?

  You're listening to Civics 101 from NHPR. I'm Nick Capodice.

• 0:11Hannah McCarthy?

  I'm Hannah McCarthy.

• 0:13Speaker 02

  I'm Dana Cattaldo.

• 0:14Speaker 03

  And I'm Rebecca Lavoie.

• 0:15Nick Capodice?

  And this is the 25th Annual Civics 101 Trivia Round.

• 0:19Hannah McCarthy?

  The 250th Civics 101.

• 0:22Nick Capodice?

  The 250th anniversary of the first Civics 101 trivia.

• 0:25Speaker 03

  Sound feels for sure.

• 0:27Nick Capodice?

  Whoa, yeah. Rebecca, can we say anything about you before we start?

• 0:31Speaker 03

  Yeah, this is very likely my final appearance on one of these trivia episodes. I have taken a new job here at NHPR. I am now the Chief Content Officer and no longer working with you guys directly every day. Sad.

• 0:44Hannah McCarthy?

  Very sad.

• 0:44Speaker 03

  But I still wanted to do this very badly.

• 0:46Hannah McCarthy?

  You can beat the Rebecca Emeritus at Civics 101.

• 0:49Speaker 03

  Thank you.

• 0:50Hannah McCarthy?

  Yeah.

• 0:50Speaker 03

  That is in Robert's Rules of Order or the Parliamentary Procedure.

• 0:54Hannah McCarthy?

  Absolutely. Sure, sure, sure.

• 0:56Nick Capodice?

  Robert's Rules.

• 0:57Speaker 03

  All right, take back everything I said. This is not my last one.

• 0:59Nick Capodice?

  I fib a lot to people to make them feel better in my day to day life, Rebecca.

• 1:02Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 1:03Nick Capodice?

  Sorry, but not you. But what I'm, but the point I'm trying to make here is that from the bottom of my heart, I am really sad that you're no longer our boss.

• 1:12Speaker 03

  Thank you.

• 1:12Nick Capodice?

  Which you even refused to let us call you as such, but.

• 1:15Speaker 03

  Well, I love working with the two of you and I'm glad I'm not like leaving.

• 1:18Hannah McCarthy?

  I'm so sad.

• 1:19Speaker 03

  You know, I'm still working in content, so I'm still going to be working with the two of you.

• 1:22Hannah McCarthy?

  I know.

• 1:22Speaker 03

  And we have slack, so we can talk.

• 1:24Hannah McCarthy?

  Yeah, that's true.

• 1:26Nick Capodice?

  Dana Cattaldo, can we, is this your first time in the studio?

• 1:30Speaker 02

  This is my first time in the studio.

• 1:31Hannah McCarthy?

  Dana's never been to this building.

• 1:33Speaker 02

  First time I have this mic over here.

• 1:33Nick Capodice?

  Oh, my goodness. Would you introduce yourselves to the audience?

• 1:37Speaker 02

  Yeah, so my name is Dana Cattaldo. I'm the digital video producer here at Civics 101. So making our fun little videos on Instagrams, on the TikToks, on the social medias, soon on the Youtubes.

• 1:47Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:47Nick Capodice?

  And she got hit with a, can I tell them that you got hit with a softball really hard?

• 1:50Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:51Nick Capodice?

  That's fantastic.

• 1:52Hannah McCarthy?

  It's the coolest bruise.

• 1:53Nick Capodice?

  It's the best bruise I've ever seen in my life.

• 1:55Hannah McCarthy?

  It looks like tie dye.

• 1:56Nick Capodice?

  And it matches your shirt.

• 1:57Speaker 02

  It did. Yeah, I got drilled right in the leg. It was all meat, fortunately, but yeah, it was a lot of, a lot of blue and purple.

• 2:03Nick Capodice?

  Did the doctor say that? This is all meat?

• 2:06Speaker 02

  That's what I said when I want to say in the game.

• 2:07Nick Capodice?

  You're gonna be okay.

• 2:08Speaker 02

  They wanted to put me on the bench. I was like, no.

• 2:09Nick Capodice?

  This is all meat, sir. I shall pitch this game.

• 2:17Nick Capodice?

  I got a couple of rounds of trivia for you all today. And the first one is kind of just dipping your toe in the bath a little bit. And it's Civics 101 by the numbers. And I have a fun chart here for everyone.

• 2:28Speaker 03

  Oh, boy.

• 2:28Nick Capodice?

  With some numbers. You could look at this and it says 45,727,525,685.

• 2:36Speaker 03

  I'm relieved about one thing.

• 2:37Nick Capodice?

  What's that?

• 2:38Speaker 03

  I see a 52, 56, and 85. So this can't be a thing where which president it is.

• 2:43Nick Capodice?

  Yeah, none of these are presidential.

• 2:44Speaker 03

  Because we would all be terrible at that.

• 2:47Nick Capodice?

  That's the worst kind of trivia.

• 2:48Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:49Nick Capodice?

  Boo. Yeah, you'd be good at that.

• 2:50Speaker 02

  I would be good at that one.

• 2:51Nick Capodice?

  So can you all see the numbers?

• 2:53Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 2:53Nick Capodice?

  All right, here we go. First person to say the correct answer gets the point. Question, number one. Amendments to the Constitution.

• 3:03Speaker 02

  27.

• 3:04Nick Capodice?

  Dana Cattaldo.

• 3:06Hannah McCarthy?

  Dana.

• 3:06Nick Capodice?

  Bingabong.

• 3:08Speaker 02

  I just listened to some recent articles, episodes.

• 3:11Nick Capodice?

  Yeah, very good. The easy trick for the 26th Amendment, if you want to forget, if you forget what it means, is six plus two, 26, is eight. 18 years old is when you can vote.

• 3:20Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 3:21Nick Capodice?

  I wish I had a mnemonic for all of those.

• 3:23Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 3:23Nick Capodice?

  Ready for the next one?

• 3:24Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 3:25Nick Capodice?

  Essays in the Federalist Papers.

• 3:28Hannah McCarthy?

  52?

• 3:30Hannah McCarthy?

  56. 85, it's 85. I knew it was 85.

• 3:34Nick Capodice?

  It was 85.

• 3:35Speaker 03

  We just let you have that one, Hannah.

• 3:36Nick Capodice?

  We're gonna let you have that one. Hannah, I'm gonna put a little.

• 3:39Hannah McCarthy?

  Guys, I had, I was for it. Weeks in a year, weeks in a year, 52.

• 3:43Speaker 03

  Wait, have there ever been any episodes about the Federalist Papers on this program?

• 3:47Hannah McCarthy?

  Yes, all me.

• 3:48Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 3:48Hannah McCarthy?

  I have multiple copies of the Federalist.

• 3:51Nick Capodice?

  I did Fed 10. All right, you guys ready for the next one?

• 3:53Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 3:55Nick Capodice?

  Articles in the Constitution.

• 3:57Speaker 03

  Four.

• 3:58Speaker 02

  Seven.

• 3:59Nick Capodice?

  Dana Cattaldo.

• 4:00Speaker 03

  By the way, I've been overseeing a podcast about civics for five years.

• 4:05Nick Capodice?

  You guys ready?

• 4:05Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 4:06Nick Capodice?

  Freedoms in the First Amendment.

• 4:08Hannah McCarthy?

  Four.

• 4:09Speaker 02

  Five.

• 4:10Hannah McCarthy?

  Oh, my god.

• 4:12Speaker 02

  That was a cheap one, I'll take it.

• 4:14Nick Capodice?

  Should we go through the five freedoms?

• 4:16Speaker 03

  Uh, speech.

• 4:18Nick Capodice?

  Yep.

• 4:19Speaker 03

  Religion. Assembly. Petition, I think, is one of them.

• 4:24Hannah McCarthy?

  Petition.

• 4:25Speaker 03

  And press? No.

• 4:27Nick Capodice?

  Yes.

• 4:28Speaker 03

  Do I get a point for that?

• 4:29Nick Capodice?

  You get a point. I'm gonna give you a point for that.

• 4:31Speaker 03

  Please, I need one.

• 4:32Nick Capodice?

  Yeah. Yeah, everybody's on the board. Here we go. Freedoms that Franklin Delano Roosevelt said everyone should enjoy in his 1941 State of the Union.

• 4:42Speaker 03

  Five.

• 4:43Speaker 02

  Four.

• 4:44Nick Capodice?

  Four.

• 4:44Speaker 03

  Oh, of course it's four. We already used, we already used five.

• 4:47Nick Capodice?

  Yeah. I think there's also Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island in New York.

• 4:52Speaker 03

  Oh, that's what I was thinking of.

• 4:53Nick Capodice?

  If anyone's curious, those freedoms are freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

• 5:02Speaker 03

  Hmm.

• 5:07Nick Capodice?

  Signers of the Declaration of Independence.

• 5:09Hannah McCarthy?

  56.

• 5:10Nick Capodice?

  56. Well done, Hannah. Anybody want to shout out one of those names?

• 5:16Speaker 02

  John Hancock.

• 5:17Nick Capodice?

  Very good. Anyone else want to shoot one out?

• 5:19Hannah McCarthy?

  Benjamin Franklin.

• 5:21Nick Capodice?

  And then the last one, words in the preamble to the Constitution.

• 5:24Speaker 03

  52.

• 5:33Nick Capodice?

  So at the end of this first round, we have Hannah with three points, Rebecca with two points, and Dana with five.

• 5:42Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 5:43Nick Capodice?

  A new kid on the block running away with it.

• 5:46Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 5:46Speaker 02

  Embarrassing for you guys.

• 5:47Speaker 03

  Yeah, 100%.

• 5:49Hannah McCarthy?

  It's very embarrassing.

• 5:55Nick Capodice?

  We're gonna do a whole lot more trivia, but we gotta take a quick break.

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• 7:40Nick Capodice?

  Welcome back to Civics 101 Trivia, Rebecca's last trivia, maybe, never.

• 7:46Speaker 03

  Definitely not.

• 7:47Nick Capodice?

  Rebecca's last trivia as our boss.

• 7:50Speaker 03

  That's fair.

• 7:51Nick Capodice?

  Dana's first trivia until we invent a time machine.

• 7:54Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 7:55Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 7:56Nick Capodice?

  Yeah, boom.

• 8:02Nick Capodice?

  Christina Phillips, who used to work at Civics 101, would always do these kind of cool this or that rounds. And I was always impressed with them. And I was like, I gotta come up with one of these. And here is what I'm going to do. I have nine titles that I'm gonna read to each of you. These titles are either a book written by a president of the United States.

• 8:25Speaker 03

  Uh huh.

• 8:26Nick Capodice?

  Or the title of an episode in the beloved franchise Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

• 8:32Hannah McCarthy?

  Oh, so good.

• 8:33Speaker 03

  That's good.

• 8:34Hannah McCarthy?

  So good.

• 8:35Speaker 07

  In every generation, there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer.

• 8:44Nick Capodice?

  Are any of you Buffy fans?

• 8:46Hannah McCarthy?

  I've only watched it through once.

• 8:47Nick Capodice?

  Uh oh.

• 8:48Hannah McCarthy?

  I have my hand up high.

• 8:49Nick Capodice?

  Rebecca has her hand scratching the ceiling.

• 8:52Speaker 03

  No one acknowledged that.

• 8:53Nick Capodice?

  I have seen one episode and I enjoyed it greatly. So Hannah, I'm gonna start with you.

• 8:58Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 9:00Nick Capodice?

  Is this a book written by a president or the title of a Buffy episode? Keeping Faith.

• 9:07Hannah McCarthy?

  Whoo. I'm gonna say book by a president.

• 9:15Nick Capodice?

  Absolutely. Well done.

• 9:16Hannah McCarthy?

  Great.

• 9:17Nick Capodice?

  That is one of the many books that Jimmy Carter wrote. And appropriately, it leads enough to Dana. Faith, Hope, and Trick.

• 9:28Speaker 02

  Buffy.

• 9:29Nick Capodice?

  It is Buffy. Rebecca, do you know who Faith is?

• 9:32Speaker 03

  Yeah, of course I do.

• 9:33Nick Capodice?

  Who's Faith?

• 9:34Speaker 03

  Faith is another Slayer, played by Eliza Dushku.

• 9:38Nick Capodice?

  I mean, if I'd had friends like you in high school, I probably still would have dropped out, but I might have been sad about it, you know? All right, Rebecca Lavoie.

• 9:46Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 9:47Nick Capodice?

  In the Arena.

• 9:48Speaker 03

  President.

• 9:49Nick Capodice?

  It is a president. Well done. I thought it would get you with that one. That is, the full title is In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal. Anyone want to guess who, which president wrote that?

• 10:01Speaker 03

  Eisenhower. I'm thinking of the war people, you know?

• 10:05Nick Capodice?

  Defeat is pretty important. Richard Nixon.

• 10:08Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 10:09Nick Capodice?

  In the arena. Unjustly put in the arena for being a cheat.

• 10:14Speaker 03

  Renewed by playing a lot of golf in California, maybe.

• 10:27Nick Capodice?

  Hannah.

• 10:27Hannah McCarthy?

  Yes.

• 10:28Nick Capodice?

  McCarthy. The Initiative.

• 10:32Hannah McCarthy?

  Ooh, I'm gonna say Buffy.

• 10:35Nick Capodice?

  In The Initiative, Spike is imprisoned in an underground demon research facility, and Riley Finn realizes he has a crush on Buffy.

• 10:44Hannah McCarthy?

  Oh.

• 10:44Speaker 03

  Lame.

• 10:46Nick Capodice?

  Is that, is Riley Finn kinda lame?

• 10:47Speaker 03

  He was not a fan favorite.

• 10:49Hannah McCarthy?

  Yeah, I did not love Riley.

• 10:50Speaker 03

  Leave that there.

• 10:51Hannah McCarthy?

  I remember the underground facility.

• 10:53Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm, run by the government.

• 10:54Hannah McCarthy?

  Mm-hmm.

• 10:56Nick Capodice?

  Everybody's been ace in this.

• 10:58Hannah McCarthy?

  I'm still waiting for someone to tell me I'm a vampire slayer.

• 11:02Speaker 02

  Maybe you just have to slay your vampire first.

• 11:05Hannah McCarthy?

  You're probably right.

• 11:06Speaker 02

  It's a requirement.

• 11:06Hannah McCarthy?

  Yeah, that's how we start.

• 11:14Nick Capodice?

  Dana.

• 11:16Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 11:16Nick Capodice?

  Fear itself.

• 11:20Speaker 02

  Buffy.

• 11:21Nick Capodice?

  Oh, you got it. It is Buffy. I thought I'd get you because we have nothing to fear but fear itself.

• 11:27Speaker 02

  No, no way.

• 11:28Nick Capodice?

  Yeah, who did say we have nothing to fear but fear itself?

• 11:30Speaker 02

  Roosevelt, FDR.

• 11:31Hannah McCarthy?

  Oh, my goodness. She knows everything. Oh, my god.

• 11:34Nick Capodice?

  I should just quit. Fear itself, Buffy reluctantly agrees to join Willow, Oz, and Xander at a Halloween party.

• 11:41Hannah McCarthy?

  Hmm.

• 11:42Nick Capodice?

  Where they stumble into a real-life house of horrors masquerading as an innocuous fraternity.

• 11:47Hannah McCarthy?

  Wow. Oh, I remembered. That one is weird.

• 11:51Nick Capodice?

  Yeah. Uh, Rebecca.

• 11:54Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 11:55Nick Capodice?

  Decision points.

• 11:57Speaker 03

  President. Yeah, that's.

• 11:59Nick Capodice?

  Easy peasy?

• 12:00Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 12:01Nick Capodice?

  Anyone want to take a shot at which president wrote decision points?

• 12:04Speaker 03

  I'd say W.

• 12:05Nick Capodice?

  Absolutely. It's George W. You get a bonus point for that.

• 12:09Speaker 02

  He's the decider.

• 12:10Nick Capodice?

  Yeah.

• 12:10Speaker 03

  To be fair, the dude did have a lot of decision points.

• 12:13Nick Capodice?

  He made a lot of decisions.

• 12:14Hannah McCarthy?

  Made a lot of choices.

• 12:16Nick Capodice?

  Now, watch this drive.

• 12:19Speaker 03

  I mean, as presidents often do.

• 12:21Hannah McCarthy?

  Yeah.

• 12:23Nick Capodice?

  All right, here we go. Hannah McCarthy.

• 12:25Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 12:25Nick Capodice?

  Is it a Buffy episode or a book by a president? Where's the rest of me?

• 12:31Hannah McCarthy?

  Uh, I, I don't feel like, mm, Buffy?

• 12:40Nick Capodice?

  It's a book by a president. Anyone want to take a shot at who said, where's the rest of me? He didn't talk like that.

• 12:44Speaker 03

  Where's the, was Rodney Dangerfield the president?

• 12:47Nick Capodice?

  Hey, where's the rest of me? It is a president who lost something after their presidency mentally.

• 12:57Hannah McCarthy?

  Oh, did Reagan?

• 12:59Nick Capodice?

  He did.

• 12:59Hannah McCarthy?

  Oh. Do I get a point for Reagan-ing that one?

• 13:03Nick Capodice?

  You do.

• 13:03Hannah McCarthy?

  Thank you.

• 13:04Nick Capodice?

  Six, six, five.

• 13:07Speaker 03

  Hmm, charging back.

• 13:09Nick Capodice?

  Charging back. Dana. An hour before daylight.

• 13:14Speaker 02

  President.

• 13:15Nick Capodice?

  Sneaky yes, because you knew it was a vampire.

• 13:19Speaker 02

  That sounds so vampire-coded.

• 13:20Hannah McCarthy?

  It sounds so vampire, especially because Buffy's got to go out hunting and has, like.

• 13:25Speaker 03

  Go on patrol.

• 13:25Hannah McCarthy?

  Yeah.

• 13:26Speaker 02

  That was too, that was too low-hanging that it was much higher.

• 13:29Hannah McCarthy?

  That was really tricky.

• 13:30Nick Capodice?

  The full title is An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood. And do we want to shout out who that could be?

• 13:38Speaker 03

  Another book by Carter?

• 13:39Nick Capodice?

  Yeah, Rebecca. Folks, it's all tied up. And it could be broken right now.

• 13:47Speaker 03

  All right.

• 13:48Nick Capodice?

  Last question in this round. Rebecca?

• 13:50Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 13:50Nick Capodice?

  What's my line?

• 13:52Speaker 03

  Buffy.

• 13:54Nick Capodice?

  In part one, Buffy endures career week at school while Spike hires assassins to kill her.

• 14:00Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 14:00Nick Capodice?

  And this also has someone called Kendra the Vampire Slayer? Is that another slayer?

• 14:05Speaker 03

  Yes. I'm just gonna say, this is the first time in my life that my encyclopedic knowledge of Buffy the Vampire Slayer has come in so handy as it did when Christina asked us all those Twilight questions.

• 14:15Hannah McCarthy?

  Oh, yeah.

• 14:16Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 14:17Hannah McCarthy?

  When are we gonna have a My So-Called Life-themed round?

• 14:20Speaker 03

  I guess what? I'd also be good at that.

• 14:24Speaker 03

  Do you remember, Hannah, when Angela thought that Jordan Catalano wrote a song about her?

• 14:28Hannah McCarthy?

  Of course.

• 14:29Speaker 03

  But it was actually about.

• 14:30Hannah McCarthy?

  I call her red. It's about his car.

• 14:32Speaker 03

  Exactly.

• 14:38Nick Capodice?

  Well, that is the end of the second round. One more round coming up. We gotta take a quick break.

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• 19:04Nick Capodice?

  Welcome back to Civics 101 Trivia. Our last round, except for a bonus question, is coming up. I'm gonna need each of you to make sure you have a fresh piece of paper. Mm-hmm. Just to take notes and to write your answers down. So these are nine questions with a secret theme.

• 19:23Nick Capodice?

  All right, Hannah.

• 19:23Hannah McCarthy?

  Yes.

• 19:24Nick Capodice?

  Question number one.

• 19:25Hannah McCarthy?

  Okay.

• 19:26Nick Capodice?

  "I'm looking for the last name of the American motorcycle designer. He was born in 1880. And that name is also the first name of an anti-heroine in the Batman series, whose costume is stolen directly from one of the characters in the Commedia dell'Arte."

• 19:45Hannah McCarthy?

  Harley.

• 19:46Nick Capodice?

  And who are the two Harleys?

• 19:48Hannah McCarthy?

  Harley Quinn and Harley Davidson.

• 19:51Nick Capodice?

  All right, Dana. "The mnemonic to remember all the departments in the cabinet in the executive branch is, 'See that dog jumping in a circle, leave her home to entertain educated veterans homes.'" Do you remember I made a video of that in an airport once and sent it to you?

• 20:07Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 20:08Nick Capodice?

  So if you look at all the departments in the cabinet, two of them are the letter T. The first one that was created is the Department of the Treasury. What is the other T?

• 20:21Speaker 02

  Transportation.

• 20:22Nick Capodice?

  Yes! The DOT. The answer is the Department of Transportation.

• 20:26Hannah McCarthy?

  Incredible.

• 20:26Nick Capodice?

  Or the DOT. Well done. Rebecca.

• 20:30Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 20:30Nick Capodice?

  Sorry about this one.

• 20:32Speaker 03

  Oh, gosh.

• 20:33Nick Capodice?

  "What is the common name for the animal of the genus Najja, N-A-J-A, with varieties such as forest, snouted, and spitting? The most famous of these animals is actually not a Najja. It is a genus all to itself, named, amusingly enough, the Ophiophagous Hanna. I just thought that was funny. It's not relevant to the round. But I just need the common name of the animal with varieties forest, snouted, and spitting."

• 21:03Speaker 03

  Forest, snouted, and spitting. Sloth.

• 21:08Nick Capodice?

  Anybody else want to take a crack?

• 21:10Speaker 03

  I guess that's wrong.

• 21:11Nick Capodice?

  Yeah, sloth's wrong. This animal is also the name of the bad guys in the Karate Kid franchise.

• 21:17Speaker 03

  Oh, Cobra.

• 21:19Nick Capodice?

  Yay, I'll give it to you.

• 21:21Speaker 03

  Nice.

• 21:21Nick Capodice?

  Nice. The Cobra Kai. Why don't you just take your precious Cobra Kais and get out of here?

• 21:25Speaker 03

  The best.

• 21:26Speaker 07

  Sweep the leg.

• 21:28Nick Capodice?

  Hannah.

• 21:29Hannah McCarthy?

  Mm-hmm.

• 21:30Nick Capodice?

  "The most famous company that makes this cooking product in the United States is Argo. And this product is used to thicken soups and sauces and a host of Chinese dishes. It can also be used, probably never by you, as a dry shampoo."

• 21:49Hannah McCarthy?

  I have used it as a dry shampoo. I have used everything you can use as a dry shampoo, including baby powder. Everybody, don't be doing that. It is cornstarch.

• 21:59Nick Capodice?

  Yes! Excellent! Cornstarch is the correct answer. Well done.

• 22:04Hannah McCarthy?

  Thank you.

• 22:05Nick Capodice?

  Dana. Dana, you're getting all the civics questions today.

• 22:09Speaker 02

  Excellent.

• 22:09Nick Capodice?

  This question introduced something to me that I am buying immediately. Here we go. "According to the World Factbook, a reference guide published by the CIA." Like, for real. Like, you can buy this informational document from the CIA. "What country, Dana, by a lot in the world, has the longest coastline?"

• 22:33Speaker 02

  Chile.

• 22:34Nick Capodice?

  Anybody else want to take a crack? It is more than double the number-two country with 125,000 miles of coastline.

• 22:44Speaker 03

  Australia.

• 22:45Nick Capodice?

  Longer than that.

• 22:46Hannah McCarthy?

  The United States.

• 22:48Nick Capodice?

  Close.

• 22:49Speaker 02

  Canada.

• 22:50Nick Capodice?

  Canada!

• 23:10Speaker 02

  Give me that point.

• 23:10Nick Capodice?

  I did.

• 23:11Speaker 02

  Give me another point.

• 23:13Nick Capodice?

  Oh, boy, my pencil broke. I got another one.

• 23:16Speaker 02

  Yeah, excuses for not giving me more points.

• 23:18Nick Capodice?

  Actually, everybody is tied with eight each.

• 23:19Speaker 03

  I love this for us.

• 23:21Nick Capodice?

  Rebecca.

• 23:21Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 23:22Nick Capodice?

  "What government agency, which is now the highest-funded US law enforcement agency at $85 billion, has not had a Senate-appointed director since 2017?"

• 23:34Speaker 03

  Law enforcement.

• 23:35Nick Capodice?

  Yes.

• 23:36Speaker 03

  FBI.

• 23:37Nick Capodice?

  Anybody else want to take a crack?

• 23:38Hannah McCarthy?

  Is it ICE?

• 23:39Nick Capodice?

  ICE. Hannah, I'm gonna give you the point on that.

• 23:41Speaker 03

  Very good.

• 23:42Nick Capodice?

  Hannah.

• 23:42Hannah McCarthy?

  Yes.

• 23:43Nick Capodice?

  I am so sorry to give you an actor question, but I gotta do it today. I had to do it.

• 23:49Nick Capodice?

  This actor who I love so much, who laughs like this.

• 23:56Nick Capodice?

  He's played an Indiana basketball coach, Superman's arch-nemesis, and, your favorite, the not-actually-dying patriarch of a wealthy family who lives on Archer Avenue in Harlem.

• 24:09Hannah McCarthy?

  I know him. Just let it happen. Just, it's right there. It's right there.

• 24:15Hannah McCarthy?

  Gene Hackman.

• 24:16Nick Capodice?

  Oh!

• 24:17Hannah McCarthy?

  Very good!

• 24:20Hannah McCarthy?

  I love Gene Hackman.

• 24:21Speaker 03

  I literally wrote it down to prove I knew it, because that's what a kind of a dork I am. Also, because I'm trying to guess the theme.

• 24:26Nick Capodice?

  I'm trying to think if there's any other good Gene Hackman movies that everybody in this room loves.

• 24:30Speaker 03

  Oh, he's so good.

• 24:31Nick Capodice?

  Unforgiven, Heist.

• 24:32Speaker 03

  Unforgiven is great.

• 24:33Nick Capodice?

  That's a great movie.

• 24:34Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 24:35Speaker 07

  Aim's real careful. No hurry. And bam!

• 24:41Nick Capodice?

  Dana. "When you know a song to sing, you can sing most anything. What is the sixth note in what we call the solfège scale? And as a hint, it is not a deer."

• 24:56Speaker 02

  Not la?

• 24:57Nick Capodice?

  It is la!

• 24:59Speaker 03

  That's right.

• 24:59Nick Capodice?

  La! Do, re, mi, fa, sol, la. And la is just the note to follow sol?

• 25:05Speaker 03

  Yeah. It's lame. It's got nothing, nothing going forward except for that, apparently.

• 25:09Nick Capodice?

  Sol is you got, like, a needle pulling thread and all that. Okay, Rebecca, your last.

• 25:13Speaker 03

  All right.

• 25:13Nick Capodice?

  Question. You're our manager. You were our manager. And a tremendous one at that. But you are not, nor have you ever been, an HR employee. Is that true? You've never worked in HR.

• 25:28Speaker 03

  Can you tell?

• 25:29Nick Capodice?

  I'm glad you said it, not me. Thank goodness. So any HR person worth their salt knows that there are over 20 types of this. A paid or unpaid period of time where an employee stops working.

• 25:44Speaker 03

  Leave.

• 25:45Nick Capodice?

  Well done. Well done. Well done. Well done. Now, look at your answers, everybody, for your, the correct answers for your three questions. And for a bonus three points, write down the secret theme of this round. Raise your hand when you're done. And you're gonna hate it.

• 26:02Speaker 02

  I'm vexed.

• 26:03Nick Capodice?

  I love seeing vexation.

• 26:05Speaker 03

  This is gonna be an anagram or something.

• 26:08Nick Capodice?

  Pack my box with six dozen liquor joints.

• 26:12Speaker 03

  This is like the hardest game of connections.

• 26:15Nick Capodice?

  This is the purple clue.

• 26:17Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 26:18Nick Capodice?

  Anybody want to just say any idea you got at all, maybe for partial credit?

• 26:22Speaker 03

  Liberace.

• 26:26Speaker 03

  It's not an anagram, but I think I can spell it with all the words in my answers.

• 26:30Nick Capodice?

  You seem to be devoted to this anagram idea.

• 26:33Speaker 03

  Well, I know you.

• 26:35Nick Capodice?

  I'm gonna give Rebecca one point for that.

• 26:37Speaker 03

  Thank you.

• 26:39Nick Capodice?

  Dana, you had DOT, Canada, and La. Hannah, Harley, cornstarch, Hackman, and Cobra, ICE, Leave. DOT, Canada, La is an anagram of Dana Cattolda. Cobra, ICE, Leave is Rebecca Lavoy. And Harley, cornstarch, Hackman. I've got all of their movies is Hannah Rose Clark McCarthy.

• 26:59Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 27:00Hannah McCarthy?

  Wow.

• 27:01Speaker 03

  All of them.

• 27:02Hannah McCarthy?

  I was about to say, there's no K in my name, but there is.

• 27:06Speaker 03

  I'm just saying, now that I look at it, it's incredibly obvious.

• 27:08Hannah McCarthy?

  Would you look at that? I had a K in my name the whole time.

• 27:11Nick Capodice?

  If I was playing this round, it would have been Cindy Peacock. I hope, guys, I'm going to the big Cindy Peacock concert tonight. So, well done, everyone. Rebecca, you're gonna get one point because you knew it was an anagram of some kind.

• 27:37Nick Capodice?

  Hannah's got nine points, Dana has nine points, and Rebecca has 10 points. Gotten pushed over the top from that bonus.

• 27:43Speaker 03

  I feel like some of my points were suspect, but that's okay.

• 27:46Nick Capodice?

  Yeah.

• 27:46Speaker 03

  Take them.

• 27:48Nick Capodice?

  So I'm gonna play a piece of tape for you all from the last trivia. So listen up.

• 27:53Speaker 03

  Christina used to do this.

• 27:55Hannah McCarthy?

  No!

• 27:56Nick Capodice?

  This is the third time for this question.

• 27:59Speaker 03

  Oh, no. Oh, no. I know a question it's gonna be.

• 28:04Speaker 06

  Idaho is the biggest producer of potatoes in the United States. We went around the room and I asked you to share your guess for one of the four states that rounds out the top five potato producers in this country. Idaho is number one, and there are four other states that are top potato producers. So you each got two guesses last time. Only one person got one out of the eight guesses correct, so.

• 28:35Hannah McCarthy?

  I'm either gonna know.

• 28:37Nick Capodice?

  Idaho.

• 28:38Speaker 03

  Even though we've heard the answer twice before.

• 28:41Nick Capodice?

  Idaho is the biggest producer of potatoes.

• 28:45Speaker 03

  Oh, gosh.

• 28:45Nick Capodice?

  In the United States.

• 28:47Speaker 03

  Here we go.

• 28:48Nick Capodice?

  Write down any of the other four, and you get two guesses. Put down any of the other four biggest producers of potatoes in the United States that are not Idaho.

• 29:00Hannah McCarthy?

  I know. I'm just gonna write down one of the wrong answers that I got last time. I'm just gonna do it.

• 29:05Speaker 03

  Yeah. There's one that I know it isn't because I was so sure.

• 29:09Nick Capodice?

  I might start with you, Dana, because you don't know what we're talking about.

• 29:13Speaker 02

  Not really. I mean, I feel the drama of apparently hearing the answer to this twice before and this still being difficult enough to ask it a third time.

• 29:23Nick Capodice?

  I got one of them correct the first time, and then the second time she asked it, I got none of them. I got worse.

• 29:30Speaker 03

  The second time she asked it, I gave the same answer.

• 29:33Nick Capodice?

  I did too, at least one of them. Wait, we're gonna be able to go back in the past later and see how this compares.

• 29:39Speaker 03

  Oh, I'm doing the harp sound effect in everything. Some dream memory harp.

• 29:44Nick Capodice?

  Last night I dreamt about potatoes again.

• 29:47Speaker 03

  Last night I dreamt I went to potatoes.

• 29:48Nick Capodice?

  Potato again. By the way, you get two points for each correct state. Let me hear them, Dana.

• 29:54Speaker 02

  All right. I said Ohio and Maine.

• 29:58Nick Capodice?

  I'm so sorry, Dana.

• 30:00Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 30:00Nick Capodice?

  Neither of these states.

• 30:01Speaker 03

  I was very confident in being the first two times.

• 30:03Nick Capodice?

  Potato producers. Hannah.

• 30:06Hannah McCarthy?

  I'm gonna say Indiana and Pennsylvania.

• 30:10Nick Capodice?

  I think you said those last time.

• 30:11Hannah McCarthy?

  No!

• 30:14Nick Capodice?

  I said Pennsylvania last time.

• 30:17Hannah McCarthy?

  I was so sure I was being really innovative.

• 30:20Nick Capodice?

  We're batting a thousand here on the potato round. So far, everybody's got a potato. Rebecca, you're currently in the lead, so you're gonna win this either way. What are your two states?

• 30:32Speaker 03

  I'm really torn. I have California and South Carolina.

• 30:37Nick Capodice?

  California is the one we all said every time.

• 30:39Speaker 03

  And it was.

• 30:42Nick Capodice?

  Nobody got it right.

• 30:46Nick Capodice?

  After Idaho, it is Washington, Wisconsin, Colorado, and North Dakota.

• 30:53Speaker 03

  We are so stupid.

• 30:54Hannah McCarthy?

  I was Colorado.

• 31:00Nick Capodice?

  The final score is Hannah McCarthy with nine points, Dana Cattaldo with nine points, and Rebecca Lavoy with 10.

• 31:07Hannah McCarthy?

  Wow!

• 31:08Nick Capodice?

  Going out, going out high.

• 31:10Speaker 03

  Does this make me a three-time champion?

• 31:12Nick Capodice?

  I think it makes you at least a two-time champion.

• 31:14Speaker 03

  I think it's more than two.

• 31:16Hannah McCarthy?

  I think it might be three.

• 31:17Nick Capodice?

  Maybe three, maybe four.

• 31:19Speaker 03

  I'm gonna go back to the tape and find out.

• 31:20Hannah McCarthy?

  We can find out pretty easily.

• 31:21Nick Capodice?

  And then you can do the voiceover that's like, yeah, I won all the time. Slightly edited tape. And Rebecca Lavoy is the winner.

• 31:34Nick Capodice?

  Thank you all so much for this.

• 31:35Hannah McCarthy?

  Thanks, Nick.

• 31:36Nick Capodice?

  This was a lot of fun.

• 31:37Speaker 03

  It's incredible. I'm so nostalgic.

• 31:39Nick Capodice?

  I am nostalgic too. I think, yeah, it's mandated that you're in the next one.

• 31:43Speaker 03

  All right. Yeah.

• 31:44Nick Capodice?

  And.

• 31:44Speaker 03

  I'm not nostalgic anymore.

• 31:45Nick Capodice?

  Maybe next time, we won't ask the potato question. We'll give you some time to think about what you did.

• 31:50Hannah McCarthy?

  I think we need to ask the potato.

• 31:51Speaker 03

  Do you know what's amazing? I've already forgotten the answer to the potato question.

• 32:05Nick Capodice?

  Thank you, everyone, for listening to yet another Civics 101 trivia affair. I am Nick Capodice.

• 32:11Hannah McCarthy?

  I'm Hannah McCarthy.

• 32:12Speaker 02

  I'm Dana Cattaldo.

• 32:14Speaker 03

  And I'm four-time champion Rebecca Lavoy.

• 32:17Nick Capodice?

  Our staff also includes Taylor Quimby and Marina Henke. Music of this episode from Epidemic Sound. Civics 101 is and of right ought to be a production of NHPR, New Hampshire Public Radio.

• 32:28Speaker 03

  Perfect.

• 32:36Hannah McCarthy?

  I was going nowhere, going nowhere fast. I know. Yeah, I do know the whole song.

• 32:42Speaker 03

  What a hot little dope that guy was.

• 32:43Hannah McCarthy?

  Oh, such a hot little dope.

• 32:45Nick Capodice?

  Hannah, wasn't that your, was that your first big screen crush?

• 32:47Hannah McCarthy?

  First big crush, yes.

• 32:49Nick Capodice?

  I'm gonna just offer, if anybody's interested in sharing, my first super hardcore screen crush was Allison Janney.

• 32:56Hannah McCarthy?

  Oh.

• 32:57Nick Capodice?

  In Big Night.

• 32:58Speaker 03

  Wow, that's, you read very niche taste as a young person.

• 33:01Nick Capodice?

  Did you meet me as a kid?

• 33:03Hannah McCarthy?

  I need to amend mine. My first crush, before I really knew what a crush was, was obviously, as is for so many people, the fox in the animated Robin Hood.

• 33:13Nick Capodice?

  Yeah.

• 33:13Speaker 03

  That's just weird.

• 33:14Hannah McCarthy?

  Of course.

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