Hey Jonathan. Hey, I'm Fira. Hey, so today we're playing a game about Sherlock Holmes. So speed round

What was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original name for Sherlock?

I believe that was Sharon Furt. That is correct. Yeah, the first Sherlock Holmes film was a silent movie made in the year

1900 what was it called? It was called Sherlock Holmes baffled you got it and what's the one mystery Sherlock Holmes?

Never solved it was the perplexing case of who let the dogs out who who who

are the best.

From NPR and WNYC coming to you from the Bellhouse in beautiful Brooklyn, New York. It's NPR's hour of puzzles, word games and trivia. Ask me another.

I'm Jonathan Colton and now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.

Thank you Jonathan.

We have a great show for you for brilliant contestants or backstage making an advent calendar out of only prime numbers.

But only one contestant will be our big winner and our special guest is musician Jason Mraz.

He's starring in the Broadway musical Waitress and he came up playing music in the San Diego coffee shop scene

Which sounds like a pretty great place to pay your dues right here in sunny California

totally relaxed atmosphere

everyone sipping lattes and eating croissants and writing in their journals.

I guess the only downside would be that you have to compete with the sound of the milk frother right to be like, okay my next song is

Our first game is about Tom Hanks so it's already been nominated for an Academy Award.

Let's meet our contestants first up Christine Seerwa on buzzer number one.

You're a freelance writer and copy editor welcome. Hi your opponent is Damien Vanderputton on buzzer number two.

You work in IT security at a university. Welcome. Thanks for having me.

Christine and Damien the first of you who wins two of our games will go on to our final round.

Let's start with a word game called Hanks for nothing. Tom Hanks of course is the only man in Hollywood. We're still allowed to mention.

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