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🗓️ 10 September 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Quiz time! Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway of Home Cooking podcast join to deliver questions about food etymology, as well as what are the two words that make a dance track, and whether 'za' is an acceptable abbreviation for 'pizza'.
Play along and keep track of your score using the interactive scoresheet at theallusionist.org/foodquiz.
For the rest of September 2021, you can stream the London Podfest performance of the new Allusionist live show, full of eponyms, music and planets. Link is at theallusionist.org/events.
Sign up to be a patron at patreon.com/allusionist and as well as supporting the show, you get behind the scenes glimpses, and discounted tickets for the Allusionist live show.
The music is by Martin Austwick. Hear Martin’s own songs at palebirdmusic.com or search for Pale Bird on Bandcamp and Spotify, and he’s @martinaustwick on Twitter and Instagram.
The Allusionist's online home is theallusionist.org. Stay in touch at twitter.com/allusionistshow, facebook.com/allusionistshow and instagram.com/allusionistshow. Let me know what you scored in the quiz!
Support the show: http://patreon.com/allusionist
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0:00.0 | This is the illusionist in which I, Helen Zoltzman, get home to find language smirred all |
0:08.6 | over the walls. Today we are quizzing. All of the questions are about food etymology and |
0:15.7 | two delicious friends of the show will be quizzing along. Play along with us, grab a pen and |
0:21.1 | paper or you can use the interactive answer sheet at theillusionist.org slash food quids. |
0:26.9 | While you get ready, heed this. I just performed a brand new illusionist live show guava |
0:31.6 | day with Houseband Martin Orstwick and it is a big ol' parade of languagey fun. You can |
0:37.3 | still watch it online via Kingsplace.co.uk for the rest of this month's September 2021. |
0:44.3 | And in it you will hear about words including... |
0:47.6 | Bechtel Test, Luzie El Gal of Luzie Guns. |
0:50.9 | Miles Briggs Test as a mother and daughter team, saxophone Pouball as the French for rubbish |
0:56.6 | bit and after the lawyer and administrator using Pouball. |
0:59.2 | Venn diagrams weren't invented by John Venn. |
1:02.6 | Shelley Tempoles. |
1:05.0 | It could be worse. Boycott, big daddy of the Greek gods. An effect called the Factor |
1:11.2 | Effect. Ketteges, isn't it? |
1:12.7 | Is everyone saying you invented ice cream? |
1:15.5 | The moist chamber. |
1:18.7 | To get the full show, go to theillusionist.org slash events for the link. |
1:22.6 | I don't know when, if ever, I'll get to perform it again. So this is your one certain chance |
1:27.3 | to see it. |
1:28.3 | Are you ready to quiz? I said, are you ready to quiz? That was a practice question. No points |
1:34.8 | for answering. |
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