78: Too Cool for School

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Leisure, Education, Hobbies

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2013

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Prepare your face for some eyebrow-raising and completely bonkers trivia about school: the odd history behind the classic No. 2 yellow pencil (WHY IS IT NUMBER TWO? WHY IS IT YELLOW? THE WORLD MUST KNOW!), the surreal and the bedazzled things rival colleges fight for, celebrities who used to be teachers, and the impact Minnesota had on videogames. And where did the phrase "freshman fifteen" come from? And are *YOU* smarter than a 1895 eighth grader? ALSO: 1960's Jeopardy!, listener questions, prep school movie quiz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast. Chickadee, check, check, cherish chummy champions.
0:21.0	Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly Quisho and Opie Trivia podcast.
0:25.5	This is episode 78 and of course I am your humble host Karen and we are your gregarious
0:30.7	grungi group grasping for gripping granules.
0:34.1	I'm Colin, I'm Dana and I'm Chris.
0:37.4	And guess what guys, it's time for our usual correction segment.
0:41.2	Hooray!
0:42.2	Um, actually?
0:43.0	Yeah, Chris, you got an um, actually.
0:45.0	I got an um, actually.
0:46.5	Time to suck it up and admit defeat.
0:48.8	Listen, her Tom D wrote us a comment and pointed out a very astute observation eye in our show about
0:53.7	temperatures referred to degrees on the Kelvin scale, you know because Kelvin is
0:59.4	another way of measuring temperatures. The Kelvin scale, the unit of measurement is called a Kelvin. It is not a degree Kelvin like on the other scales. So it is one Kelvin, two Kelvin's, three Kelvinins, which would be super cold.
1:13.2	Just like the cold ice burn delivered by Tom Deaf.
1:16.1	But I deserved it.
1:18.0	And it's a really, really important point because that'll probably come up on a trivia
1:23.2	contest at some point.
1:24.5	What is the unit of measurement called?
1:26.3	It is a Kelvin.
1:28.4	Now let's jump into our first usual general trivia segment, pop quiz hot shot. It's me again because that is
1:37.0	because again on a previous episode we discovered hidden in a flea market here in Berkeley California a brand new copy of
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