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Tim Wildmon So first time callers only today. Now we're going to ask three questions each.
Ed Vitagliano The quack of a duck does not produce an echo. Is that true or false?
Tim Wildmon If I was under the category of it's just wrong. Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to Trivia Friday on American Family Radio. Thanks for listening to afr. I'm Tim Wildmon. This is, as I say, Trivia Friday. Ed Vitagliano joins me. Good morning, brother Ed.
Ed Vitagliano Good morning, Tim.
Tim Wildmon Our professor Ed. You're both my brother and my.
Ed Vitagliano Yes, absolutely. I wear two couple of hats and.
Tim Wildmon J.J. jasper, the pride of Owensboro, Kentucky.
Ed Vitagliano Glad to be here. This lady with a whole lot of children was about to get on a bus and the bus Driver said, oh, are you a schoolteacher? Is this your class? Are you going on a picnic? She said, no, I'm a mom and these are, are my kids. All those your children? Yes. He went, wow, well, let me ask you, what's it like to have that many kids? She said, I can tell you this, it ain't no picnic, Mother. Mother's Day, one week from this Sunday. Do something extra special for mom that gives you a little heads up to get a gift card, something, you know, that she likes. Make an appointment to have her hair done. Hey, Tim, your mom is in the, outside the studio here watching.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, my mom's. I invited her to come. She comes in every once in a while to watch the show and, be with us and help me out with Q and A. We talk about questions before the show. She gives me her opinion, her thoughts on that.
Ed Vitagliano Sweet mother. She was a home EC teacher for many, many years. Right there with brother Don as the ministry was launched in 1977. Made a lot of sacrifice while she was teaching school and he was starting this ministry from the ground up.
Ed Vitagliano All right, okay.
Tim Wildmon 85. She's 85. One other thing. 85. Almost 85. Be 85 in June and still driving herself around.
Ed Vitagliano Basketball star. Basketball star. Set a record for, points in a game.
Ed Vitagliano All right, now, Ms. Linda, your mom, Ms. Linda excluded. some people may disagree with what I'm about to say, but I'm tired of all this mom, mom, mom stuff, all right? It happened the whole time growing up. It's mom this, mom that.
Tim Wildmon Right?
Ed Vitagliano And I just got tired of it.
Tim Wildmon Right?
Ed Vitagliano And now that I have one in.
Tim Wildmon A good direction, it's not going in a good direction.
Ed Vitagliano And now that we have grandkids, it's Mimi this, Mimi that.
Tim Wildmon Right, right, right.
Ed Vitagliano Papa. Papa gets nothing.
Tim Wildmon It's a very anti male world.
Ed Vitagliano It is.
Tim Wildmon You need to come to grips.
Ed Vitagliano And I'm just telling you, and I, I understand that the reason I'm saying this is my wife doesn't listen to the show.
Ed Vitagliano Well, just be thankful you're not a straight white male. Well, never mind. You're in trouble on every. On every.
This is Trivia Friday and we have three trivia questions each
Tim Wildmon All right, so this is Trivia Friday. We also call this Learning University. We're about to ask three trivia questions each. And we'll let you call in and answer and ask. We prefer that you ask a, question and answer one of ours. That's.
Ed Vitagliano We got to give the phone number. This is first time callers, isn't it?
Tim Wildmon Yes, go ahead.
Ed Vitagliano First time callers. So that if you've never called and gotten on the air with us, here's the number to do that. 888-589-8840. That number to call to get on with us today. 888-589-8840. Maybe, you've tried to get on, by the way, and that doesn't count. If you've never been on the air with us, this could be your day. We do ask that you be 11 years old or older now if you. If you've never listened to the show. we have something special going on. Okay, we have a mystery question.
Ed Vitagliano Right, JJ Mystery question. We're each going to offer three questions out of these original nine. One of these is a mystery question. If you happen to land on it and answer it correctly, you'll hear this sound.
Ed Vitagliano Ah.
Ed Vitagliano the beloved cow bill. That means you win yourself a really nice afr cap. I know I go on and on, on about these caps. One of the nicest caps I've seen. Gray and black, nice leather patch on the front. Afr. Very classy. So you have a chance to win something this morning.
Ed Vitagliano Absolutely true.
Tim Wildmon All right, so, go ahead. Are we ready now?
Ed Vitagliano I think we're ready. 888-589-8840 is the number to call to get on with us here. Trivia Friday.
The black death, which struck in the 1300s, killed half Europe
All right, I'll get us started. this first question's a little dark, but it's some historical stuff.
Tim Wildmon You already blasted moms.
Ed Vitagliano I was kidding, folks. I love. I love moms.
Ed Vitagliano You're going to take a club to a baby seal. What's. What's next, kid?
Ed Vitagliano all right, here's my question. The black death, which struck in the mid-1300s, killed half the population of Europe. Is that true or false? The black death, which struck in the mid-1300s, killed half the population of Europe. Is that true or false?
Ed Vitagliano There's a deal. You can talk about things like that. And I know for the people that was there is rough, but if a man ain't never had sugars, you don't know about no plague. You're out there picking blackberries, minding your own business, and, chiggers get on you. You're gonna think you got the black jet. I ain't taking away from what happened in Europe.
Tim Wildmon Right?
Ed Vitagliano But they didn't have chiggers, so they don't. They don't know.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano All right, second question. Paul and Silas were imprisoned during the second missionary journey. But in what city did this happen? Paul and Silas were imprisoned during the second missionary journey. But in what city did this happen? And then my third question, another Bible question. In the new Jerusalem described in Revelation, what are the 12 gates made from? In the new Jerusalem described in Revelation, what are the 12 gates made from? That's what I've got.
Ed Vitagliano Here's what I've got. hey, first, I want to say, happy anniversary to my wife Melanie. 27 years ago today, you guys were both bouncers at our wedding.
Tim Wildmon So we've come a long way.
Ed Vitagliano Yes.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, but a. Godly, gorgeous. Proverbs 31, wife and mother.
The Kentucky Derby has more attendees than the super bowl and the World Series
Here's my questions. First question. What body of water separates Alaska from m. Russia. What body of water separates Alaska from Russia? Second question. In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which dwarf had the longest beard? Which dwarf had that, Bill. Uncle. Si. Thing going on?
Ed Vitagliano Now? Is this. You're not talking about the woke version?
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, the one that we all kind of knew growing up.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano and, you know, it's kind of. I can't keep them all straight. I think only one had glasses. One had this, one had that. I want to know which one had the longest beard. Third question. True or false. The Kentucky Derby is Saturday tomorrow. The Kentucky Derby has more attendees than the super bowl and the World Series. Is that true or false? The Kentucky Derby has more people attending than the super bowl and the World Series. True or false.
Tim Wildmon Now, just to clarify, are you talking about inside the Arena Church? Talking about in Louisville, Coming into Louisville?
Ed Vitagliano You know, I'm not real sure. I just saw this on a trivia thing, thinking about the, So I don't know if it's. I don't know if it's people watching on television and everything, or. I think it is, attendees. I think it's the people.
Tim Wildmon Whatever answer they give, you're going to say yes.
Ed Vitagliano That's. That's right. No, it's attendees. So I think people there. At Churchill Downs. Yeah. Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Okay.
Ed Vitagliano In Louisville, Kentucky.
Give me the answer to this question without looking it up
Tim Wildmon All right, so, by the way, at the bottom of the hour, we're going to have a special song I selected. We never do this, but it's Kentucky Derby, and I want to play Dan Fogelberg's Run for the Roses. I love this song.
Ed Vitagliano It's great song.
Tim Wildmon It's a song about a horse, raised in Kentucky to run in the Kentucky Derby. So we're going to play that song.
Ed Vitagliano It's a horse with no name.
Tim Wildmon Wasn't it, this, well, no, that's a different song. Oh, yeah. All together. but.
Ed Vitagliano All right.
Ed Vitagliano Trying to make a funny.
Tim Wildmon No, you did.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, so you sold moms one time, and you're man out.
Tim Wildmon So here we go. What, my first question. What two ingredients do you need to make sour cream? You just need to.
Ed Vitagliano Really?
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano Ah, yeah.
Ed Vitagliano So we could be making that at home.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, you could.
Ed Vitagliano You could.
Tim Wildmon For just two. Yeah, Everybody can afford this. what two ingredients do you need to make sour cream? Number two question, and this is a hard question. so I'm going to give a ball cap, an AFR ball cap. If somebody can get the answer to this. Give me the answer to this question, without looking it up, because this is not easy, even for those of us who like geography. name the US States that border Canada. All of them. If you can name those without looking it up, without asking a friend, then, well, you can ask a friend, but don't have your friend look it up.
Ed Vitagliano Right.
Tim Wildmon You know what I'm saying?
Ed Vitagliano Yes.
Ed Vitagliano Thereby, it's all about. It's all about loopholes.
Tim Wildmon That's what I'm talking about. So. So, if you. If your husband and wife team want to work on it together, that's fine. I'm just saying don't look it up. The states that border Canada.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, that's good.
Tim Wildmon And then, thirdly, what state produces the most almonds?
Ed Vitagliano Almonds. Yes.
Tim Wildmon J.J. what state produces the most. I call them almonds.
Ed Vitagliano They're almonds. Everybody does. Just the one guy that calls his friend to jump.
Tim Wildmon Jump out the car.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Or does he push him out, run.
Ed Vitagliano It into the tree. I'm right there with him.
Tim Wildmon All right, go.
Ed Vitagliano All right, we are going to go. We're going to go to Iowa because Katrina was left over from last week. So, Katrina, thank you. Hey, thank you for holding on for a week. We appreciate it. Good morning to you.
Speaker D Good morning.
Ed Vitagliano Where do you. Where do you live In Iowa.
Speaker D Eastern Iowa. We're calling from North Liberty.
Ed Vitagliano North Liberty. Liberty. Liberty.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. She's. That's.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, I'm sorry. Everyone does that. I know you're tired of it.
Speaker D They, do that at the football games.
Ed Vitagliano They do.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, that's good.
Ed Vitagliano They do. All right, Katrina, sorry. for that.
What body of water separates Alaska from Russia? Bering strait
you want to ask answer or do both?
Speaker D I think I can do both.
Ed Vitagliano All right, which one you want to try to answer?
Speaker D The one about the body of water between Russia, Alaska.
Ed Vitagliano Yes, ma'am. Here's the question. What body of water separates Alaska from Russia?
Speaker D Okay, so I didn't look it up, but I did have a friend next to me who Knew that's okay to have a lifeline. Bering strait.
Ed Vitagliano Bering strait. Is it Katrina?
Ed Vitagliano Yes.
Ed Vitagliano Katrina. Nice way to start the show off with the correct answer right out of the chute. And I gotta tell you, I felt a little bad for you, ladies named Katrina back during the storm because you, you went along minding your own business with a nice name, Janet, Sally, Katrina, and kind of stayed under the radar. And then it was, our life's been messed up since Katrina. We don't know what to do now after Katrina. And it was like they, they ran your name through the mud for two, three years. And I know you, I know you heard that.
Speaker D No kids. Yeah, no children were named Katrina after that for quite a few years. Although I will say my husband did reassure me. He said, don't worry, honey, it'll blow over.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, I like that.
Ed Vitagliano My aunt, Jezebel said to tell you it could be worse. My Uncle Judas, he said, you don't know the half of it. Hey, what's your question? What's your question?
Speaker D Okay, so I'm a first time caller, I will say that, but I've been holding on to this for three weeks, so I hope I can get this right. I grew up in Iowa City, which is in eastern Iowa, and it used to be the capital of the state. Now the state capital is in central Iowa, but we have this capitol. Like all the old capitol buildings are downtown, and in the center is the old capitol. That's what it's called, the old Capitol building. And it has, this little gold dome on the top. So it's a, kind of an icon or a symbol of the city. Iowa City. Like the University of Iowa definitely plays off of it. The Hawkeyes, all that kind of stuff. So anyway, it's a nice little gold dump. So my question for you is that lots of states have capitals with domes, right? But what state has the biggest, gold capitol dome, like in diameter?
Ed Vitagliano Do we say Iowa, since she's from Iowa.
Ed Vitagliano Okay, we're going to talk amongst ourselves here, Katrina.
Tim Wildmon What state has what, the biggest dome?
Ed Vitagliano You know, a lot of them have a old, old dome like you see there, you know, down the Garden of Gethsemane, looking over the western wall.
Ed Vitagliano you may be. I don't have a better guess than that, like what you're saying.
Ed Vitagliano I'm thinking since she's from Iowa. Well, let's go Iowa. Because, you know, all those old buildings and you know, you have bragging rights. So let's, let's say that all,
Ed Vitagliano Right, we're going to say we're going with JJ's guess of Iowa. Katrina.
Speaker D Okay. You got it.
Ed Vitagliano All right. Good job.
Ed Vitagliano All right, that's pretty good.
Speaker D So in des moines, it's 80ft across, and it is the biggest. Wisconsin has the next biggest dome, but theirs is out of granite. It's 88. And the US Capitol dome is also in the 80th range, but it's not covered in gold, so.
Ed Vitagliano Wow. So Yalls dome almost looks like the one we see on the news every night in Washington, D.C. and it's gold plated. And, that's pretty, pretty good bragging rights right there. Thanks for sharing that, Katrina.
Tim Wildmon Hey, Katrina.
Speaker D Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Before we let you go, we done here?
Ed Vitagliano Yes.
Ed Vitagliano With.
Jj: I looked up horse idioms because it's Kentucky Derby week
Tim Wildmon Okay. Before we let you go, I'm doing this because of, it's a, Kentucky Derby week, so I, I, I looked up horse idioms. Do you know what I'm talking about? Like horse sayings, common expressions. We.
Speaker D Metaphors all the time.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. Common, expressions we use involving a horse.
Ed Vitagliano Right.
Tim Wildmon And so can you give me one just right off the top of your head?
Speaker D that's horse sense. No. I don't know.
Tim Wildmon No. Well, that, that is. No, that's a good one.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano You say he doesn't have enough horse sense.
Tim Wildmon I remember a man telling me one time your dad talked about. My dad has more horse sense than anybody I know.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon And horse sense means common sense. Common sense. Yeah. So that's good. Thank you.
Ed Vitagliano That's an excellent job.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. That was right out of the horse's mouth.
Tim Wildmon Yes. Don't use them all up. Jj, you're from Kentucky. You could get them all, no problem. Horse sense is one of them. that's expression that we use a lot in it.
Ed Vitagliano Yes.
Tim Wildmon but it is Kentucky Derby, so I thought, what are some horse, idioms that. Oh, that's.
Ed Vitagliano Well, I mean, when I was growing up, we didn't use horse idioms. We used Italian idioms. So we would say, that guy doesn't have the sense of. Sense of a salami.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon All right, next week, I tell you what, next week I'll look up Italian idiots.
Ed Vitagliano Right?
Ed Vitagliano Well, you'll probably get. Italian idiots will pop up on the Google search, but.
Jenny is on the line with Kansas Trivia Friday
All right, let's go to Kansas, and Jenny is on the line. Jenny, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Caroline Hello. Thank you.
Tim Wildmon Jenny, how you doing today?
Caroline I'm doing good, thanks for asking.
Ed Vitagliano Jenny, you're not fixing to board a bus and go on a picnic, are you?
Caroline no.
Ed Vitagliano I hear the little ones in the background. I just told a joke about a mom with a lot of kiddos.
Caroline I'm sorry. I was calling in and so I didn't hear your. Your jokes. I love retelling your jokes at church.
Ed Vitagliano I'm sorry.
Caroline I miss those, Jenny.
Ed Vitagliano You really didn't miss much on that one. But I wouldn't. I don't really have a sense of a salami, so I don't. I, don't really need to brag. So.
Ed Vitagliano Hey, do you want to ask answer or do both?
Caroline I'd like to do both, please. I think I'm going to go with the. Your questions are really hard today. so I think I'm going to go with the bubonic plague question.
The Black death, which struck in the mid-1300s, killed half Europe
Ed Vitagliano All right, Jenny, here it is.
Tim Wildmon I'm going to step outside.
Ed Vitagliano No, she's got to keep an eye on whoever's in the background there. The Black death, which struck in the mid-1300s, killed half the population of Europe. But is that true or false, Jenny?
Caroline I believe it's false. It only killed a third.
Ed Vitagliano Actually, it's. Now I will I give some wiggle room. There are. The exact. percentage is not quite known, but they do believe it was close to half the population of Europe. 50 million people. So, that was.
Tim Wildmon What was that? Is that tuberculosis or. What was that. It's called. Is that the same thing called the black plague? Like death plague?
Ed Vitagliano I. I think they. I think they. Those are the same. it was a. It was similar to tuberculosis, but it also had these kinds of welts that came up. It was some sort of, bacterial thing, I think, from fleas off, mice and rats.
Tim Wildmon Well, kill half the population.
Ed Vitagliano Half the population.
Ed Vitagliano That's amazing. That's horrific.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano And we think we have a bad day sometimes.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano if only they only they had masks back then. I shouldn't have. I shouldn't have gone there with that. All right, Jenny, what's your question for us?
Jenny, do you have a horse idiom for me
Caroline Well, speaking of idioms. A couple. Probably about a month ago now, it's been a while since you talked about it, but you talked about a thing called their goose is cooked.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Caroline And you guys didn't know where it came from. And it's from a reformer that was burned at the state. Can you name the reformer?
Tim Wildmon of course. You're talking about in Christian history.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. Like Martin Luther, some of those reformer.
Tim Wildmon That was born burned.
Ed Vitagliano Burned at the stake.
Ed Vitagliano Now, it wouldn't have been polycarp, would it? I'm gonna say polycarp. He. Well, he Wouldn't be considered a reformer.
Tim Wildmon Right. Actually a fish, I think. Am I right?
Ed Vitagliano You're in the pop park Polycarp.
Ed Vitagliano They're taking over some.
Ed Vitagliano Luther. How did he.
Ed Vitagliano No, he. No, he died. Natural causes?
Tim Wildmon I don't know.
Ed Vitagliano I don't know.
Ed Vitagliano I don't know. You got us.
Caroline It was John Huss. Huss means goose.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, wow.
Ed Vitagliano Okay. From Czechoslovakia, right? Was it?
Caroline That's correct. I should have given you another clue.
Ed Vitagliano All right.
Ed Vitagliano No, that's great, man.
Tim Wildmon He lost his life that way.
Ed Vitagliano And it burned at the steak. And people are saying you're. That's. That's. You're gonna get your. It's gonna cook your goose.
Tim Wildmon That's from him. That's. Yeah. No, I wouldn't use that expression if I knew that somebody in the Hus family might be in attendance.
Ed Vitagliano Then you better not quit singing. Ring, around the posy. Some of those other things. Because a lot of those things have dark origins.
Ed Vitagliano Well, that's going to be all right.
Tim Wildmon So.
Ed Vitagliano Hey. Thank you, dear.
Tim Wildmon Hold on. Jenny. Jenny, real quick. Do you have a horse idiom for me?
Caroline Yeah, I do. how about road hard and put away wet?
Tim Wildmon there you go.
Ed Vitagliano Nice. Nice.
Tim Wildmon Wife says sometimes about long day.
Ed Vitagliano I've been rode hard and put away wet. There's something to that.
Tim Wildmon Road, hard put up wet. yeah, that's a common expression that we use. All right, Jenny. Thank you so much. They're, Anyway, so we've had horse sense.
Ed Vitagliano That's good.
Tim Wildmon And rode hard and put up wet. That means, you've looked better.
Ed Vitagliano It's not good. It's not good for a horse. You're out there trail riding, and you do a lot of galloping, and the horse just gets soaked with sweat. With sweat. You go back to the barn, take the saddle. Saddle blanket off, and you brush the horse down. Give it a chance to cool off. They can get very, very sick if you ride them hard and put them up wet.
Tim Wildmon Okay.
Take time to brush your horse and care for it
That's where that comes from.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano you don't put them in the stall. You don't put them m. In the barn dripping wet. They can get sick and they can get down. it can be fatal. And so you take time to brush your horse and care for it. You don't want to ride a horse hard and then just put it up wet.
Ed Vitagliano Okay.
JJ: We're going to play a song about the Kentucky Derby tomorrow
Ed Vitagliano All right.
Tim Wildmon So we're going to take our break a couple minutes early because I want to play this song, and then we're not. We're not going to play My dad's, my turn or, anything else today, we never do that, but, because it's Kentucky Derby.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano Run for the Roses.
Tim Wildmon And this is a song about JJ's old stomping ground, Western Kentucky.
Ed Vitagliano Yes.
Tim Wildmon So this is a song by Dan Fogelberg, the late Dan Fogelberg. Many people remember him from the 70s and 80s. Anyway, great songwriter, great songwriter. So we're going to play this song and then we'll come back and get back to our callers. So stay with us.
Dr. Jessica Peck M born in the valley and raised in the trees of western Kentucky on Wobod with mama beside you to help you, along. You'll soon be growing up strong. All the long lazy mornings and pastures of grief. The sun on your withers, the wind in your main Will never prepare you for what lies ahead. The rug for the roses so red and it's right, you father of it as fast as you can your faith is delivered, your moment it's the chance of a lifetime In a lifetime of chance and it's high time join in the dance m here tight time you join in the day from S. it's born in the blood, the fire of a miracle and the strength of this d. It's bleeding and it's draining and it's something unknown that drives you and carries you home and it's round all the roses as fast as she can hand. Your faith is delivered, your moments I It's the chance of a lifetime In a lifetime of chance and tight time joined in the dance. it's.
Tim Wildmon Again, that's Dan Fogelberg and he's singing about the Kentucky Derby, which is tomorrow. Which is tomorrow. And a lot of Kentucky's, well known for raising the thoroughbreds, right jj?
Ed Vitagliano That's right. Hey, if I can just humor me just a little bit. Growing I was born and raised in Kentucky. Weeks leading up to the Kentucky Derby, it was like March Madness for basketball. Here are the projected winners here. This one could be a long shot. You have horses that cost tens of thousands of dollars, up to $4 million. You have to win a series of races like NASCAR to be able to get there. Only 20 horses, three year old thoroughbreds, but in attendance every year. And you know, we'd watch this on the news and mint juleps, big hats, a lot of traditions. But every year when we'd watch it all the lead up, every single year, they say, here's how many kings and queens were in attendance. Here's other Saudi princes, here's the president that was There or former president. Everybody in Hollywood, it kind of was a snob, thing like, hey, if we can get tickets to the Kentucky Derby and be there at Churchill Downs, you'll be on the news. So people around the world have watched it. One last thing. It started in 1875. Huge streak in terms of a sporting thing. They've never missed a derby. It's never been postponed. Not during World War I, not during World War II. Every first Saturday in May since 1875.
Tim Wildmon That's amazing.
Ed Vitagliano So it's a big deal around the world, but growing up in Kentucky, we had two weeks of, hey, here's this story. This guy, he's just a carpenter, but he bought him a, horse for $5,000, and it's going to actually run in the Kentucky Derby. All these Cinderella stories.
Tim Wildmon Absolutely.
Use these questions to help students understand today's featured news stories
All right, you're listening to Trivia Friday, also known as Learning Universe. Repeat our questions and we'll go back to the phones.
Ed Vitagliano Ed.
Ed Vitagliano All righty. Paul and Silas were imprisoned during the second missionary journey. But in what city did this happen? Second question. Also a Bible question. In the new Jerusalem described in Revelation, what are the 12 gates made from? And I will add a question since I had one answered. Which galaxy is closest to. To our own Milky Way galaxy? I'm looking for the name. Which galaxy is closest to the Milky Way galaxy? That's all I've got.
Ed Vitagliano Here's what I've got. First question. And Snow White and the seven Dwarfs. Which dwarf had the longest beard? Second question. True or false. The Kentucky Derby.
Tim Wildmon Slouchy. Was that slouchy?
Ed Vitagliano Uncle Slouchy. The Kentucky Derby has. This is true or false. The Kentucky Derby has more attendees than the super bowl and the World Series. Is that true or false? Then I'm going to add a question. I hope I can make this clear. What colors, what four colors traditionally correspond with first place through fourth place ribbon? Everybody knows you get a first place ribbon. what is it called for your cake at the county fair or an elementary track and field? I didn't realize these colors are universal or they're across the board. So what's the color for the first place? What's the color for if you get second place ribbon? Third and fourth?
Tim Wildmon All right, my, my three questions are, what two ingredients do you need to make sour cream? Only two ingredients needed. What are they?
Ed Vitagliano There's a deal. Sour cream. Why is there expiration date on that? And then croutons. All it is is stale bread. Why is there an expiration date on a bag of croutons?
Tim Wildmon Duly noted. Good questions that have plagued the universe for centuries.
Ed Vitagliano We've long wanted to know the plague thing.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, there's, things that keeps Michelle, Obama up at night, but those are the kind of questions that keep me up at night.
What state produces the most almonds? California, 80%
Tim Wildmon All right, here's my question for AFR Ballcap. We're going to send you AFR Bar cap if you can name the states that border Canada without looking it up.
Ed Vitagliano Right.
Tim Wildmon And finally, what, state produces the most? Almonds. Almonds. This state produces 80% of the almonds.
Ed Vitagliano 80%.
Ed Vitagliano Wow.
Tim Wildmon Yes. And so that's one state. Those. But to the phones, Ed.
Ed Vitagliano Good thing no one slaps a tariff on that state.
Ed Vitagliano The phones. You sound like the Batman guy. Just a quick.
Robin asks Suzanne which dwarf had the longest beard in Snow White
Ed Vitagliano To the phones, Robin, you go to Mississippi. and Suzanne is on the line. Suzanne, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Caroline Thank you. I've never done. I've never called in before.
Ed Vitagliano Well, you're following. Following the, the. The rules here. This is first time callers. Congratulations, you made it.
Caroline I've been there, but I've never been over there, but I've never called in.
Ed Vitagliano All right, what part of Mississippi?
Caroline In Tupelo.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, you live in Tupelo. Wonderful.
Tim Wildmon So if you win, you just got to drive over here, walk over, pick up your hat here. Yeah, no problem. All right, we can meet you out, you know, halfway.
Ed Vitagliano Meet you at the. Meet you at the Dollar General.
Ed Vitagliano meet you at Crosstown.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, you want to ask answer or do both? Suzanne.
Caroline I want to answer the one about the Snow White.
Ed Vitagliano All right. Yes, ma'am. Here's the question. In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which dwarf had the longest beard?
Caroline I think it's Doc.
Ed Vitagliano No, ma'am, that's not what I have.
Caroline I have the whole set of them, but they're all put up in the drawer, so I didn't even look at them.
Ed Vitagliano Well, that was a good guess. Now you made it easier. Now somebody's got a one out of six chance.
Tim Wildmon Doc was clean shaven.
Ed Vitagliano I think Doc had the glasses. Maybe he. Was he the only one that worked?
Ed Vitagliano They all had one thing that kind of gave them their name, and so Doc had the glasses, I think.
Ed Vitagliano Okay.
Ed Vitagliano All right, well, good try. What's your question for us, Suzanne?
Suzanne gets right answer on Trivia Friday with William Shatner
Caroline Okay. Oh, do you remember the. The show Rescue 91 1?
Ed Vitagliano Yes.
Tim Wildmon Yes.
Caroline Oh, y'all probably know the answer.
Tim Wildmon Who?
Caroline The one that, hosted it.
Tim Wildmon I do know. Do you know jj?
Ed Vitagliano No, I don't.
Ed Vitagliano I. I've heard of the show.
Ed Vitagliano Is it the tall guy?
Tim Wildmon No, it's a William Shatner.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, William Shatner.
Ed Vitagliano Wow.
Ed Vitagliano William Shatner.
Tim Wildmon We used to love that show.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. Now he was taken in because he.
Tim Wildmon Had a very dramatic personality. He could set everything up, even if it's just a man crossing the street. Watch this. We're gonna get this from different angles as the fellow crosses the street.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, I did watch the show.
Tim Wildmon Then he called 911 and the rest is here now.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. And he said something about going into, beyond going into the.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, different show, but yeah, he was.
Ed Vitagliano Same going into the galaxy.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, I remember William Shatner. He's still alive. He's like 90 something.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, he is. And even when he was on Star Trek, which made him famous, he had that kind of dramatic voice. Ah, it was.
Tim Wildmon Oh, yeah, he had a flair for everything.
Ed Vitagliano Real deliberate dramatic.
Tim Wildmon If he was just ordering a hamburger, you know, it was like, wow, listen to this guy.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano And I want pickles.
Tim Wildmon But anyway, we got it right, Suzanne, right? William Shack.
Caroline Yes, you did get it right. Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Well, thank you for calling. Is that it?
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, that's it.
Ed Vitagliano Thank you, thank you.
Ed Vitagliano Maybe we'll see you around town.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, we'll see you at the mall.
Tim Wildmon Next up, Ed.
Ed Vitagliano Ah.
Ed Vitagliano Hey, who goes to the mall? all right, we go to Iowa. We've had all ladies center. What's that?
Tim Wildmon You order the. You're. You work for the Tupelo chamber.
Ed Vitagliano He does.
Tim Wildmon Who goes to the mall?
Ed Vitagliano Moms don't expect anything on. Mother said, we're tired of you and people.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano And we're going to the mall.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, they had. The mayor's office is on the line.
Ed Vitagliano All the people, they listen to the show who own a. Who own a business at the mall just went. Oh, come on, man. All right, we'll go to the mall this weekend. How's that?
Ed Vitagliano We'll see y'all for mom for Mother's Day.
Ed Vitagliano We've had all ladies, I think, so far. We go back to Iowa and Marie is on, the line. Marie, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Caroline Hi. I want to say hi to JJ too, because I grew up in Kentucky, in Hopkins.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, sure, right.
Tim Wildmon That's in western Kentucky, right?
Ed Vitagliano Western Kentucky. We kind of did her town wrong because that's where the mental institution was. So when your kids out playing and somebody acts whack a doodle, I said, they're going to come get you and put you in a straight jacket and take you to Hopkinsville.
Tim Wildmon Oh, yeah, yeah.
Ed Vitagliano She knows they got kind of a bad rap, but it's a great area. Just right there in Hopkinsville. Over near all those pretty lakes and everything. Well, yeah. Well, welcome, neighbor.
What colors traditionally correspond with first place through fourth place ribbons
You want to ask answer or do both?
Caroline I think I can do both.
Ed Vitagliano Which one you want to answer?
Caroline Okay, I'm going to try, the one about the ribbons.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, good. Here's the question. What colors traditionally correspond with first place through fourth place ribbon?
Caroline Okay. I think, it's blue, red, yellow and white.
Ed Vitagliano you know what?
Caroline I think it's.
Ed Vitagliano Go ahead. Blue is first place, second is red. Tell me which one's third place?
Caroline I. Well, okay, I'll say white.
Ed Vitagliano White and yellow. You're exactly right. First, the white and yellow. She had a little mixed, and then she. When she thought about it, she got them right. Blue. Blue ribbon number one. I didn't realize, but looking back, I go, oh, that's right. Red ribbon for second place, white ribbon for third, and yellow for fourth place.
Ed Vitagliano Listen. Ah, that's an applause right there. Yeah, I knew the first two. Everyone knows blue ribbon. You get a blue ribbon for something, but you and red. Red. But I didn't know the next two.
Tim Wildmon So after the track meets over, you take your yellow ribbons home to your parents.
Ed Vitagliano You tow them around the tree.
Tim Wildmon Hey, mom and dad, look here. I came in fourth. Well, that's wonderful. I mean, we're all raised.
Ed Vitagliano No, you tell. Yeah, you tie your yellow ribbon around the old oak tree.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. Anyway, so yellow's fourth place.
Ed Vitagliano Yellow is that.
Ed Vitagliano I didn't know that either.
Ed Vitagliano And red is the first loser.
Tim Wildmon If you ain't first, your last first loser.
Ed Vitagliano You get that. Tim?
Tim Wildmon Yeah, what now?
Ed Vitagliano You get a red ribbon. You're the first loser. You get the first loser ribbon.
Ed Vitagliano I'm, first among the losers.
Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper died in 1959
all right, where are we here, Marie? What's your question for us?
Caroline Okay. Well, I'm from. I live in Iowa, so I wanted to know the name of the town where Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper died in a plane crash in February of 1959.
Ed Vitagliano I landed at that airport flying myself and looked, and they got history all on in the local fbo. And I thought, wow, I didn't realize this happened. They just got out a little ways, and it was a snowstorm and crashed. But I can't remember the town.
Ed Vitagliano What's FBO stand for?
Ed Vitagliano it's like a gas station for airplanes. It's like, you know, you stop and get fuel and there's a lounge and things.
Ed Vitagliano Tim, I'm surprised you don't know this.
Ed Vitagliano You should know this.
Tim Wildmon Hoover was. He was the leader of The FBO there for a while. I read about it. It wasn't funny. A lot of people were terrorized.
Ed Vitagliano Yes, that's right.
Ed Vitagliano What a tragedy.
Ed Vitagliano It's the day the music died. Wasn't it them?
Ed Vitagliano It really was.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. Don McLean wrote about that.
Ed Vitagliano Bye bye, Miss American Pie.
Tim Wildmon So. But you know what? I don't know. Yeah, it was in Iowa, as, Marley Marie says. And so you. If. No, I don't remember what town it was. I mean, obviously it's not a big town in a rural part of. But most of I was rural, so I don't.
Ed Vitagliano We're stump.
Ed Vitagliano Stumped us, Marie. I should know.
Ed Vitagliano Maria, Shame on me. I've been there.
Caroline Well, now, the. The airport you're thinking of would be Mason City, but it's actually in Clear Lake. And the, the plane crash actually happened north of Clear Lake, which is where we live. And the. They were performing at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake.
Tim Wildmon Okay, and who passed away on that plane? Buddy Holly.
Caroline Buddy. Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper.
Tim Wildmon And they were three of the biggest, biggest stars in music at the time. Right.
Ed Vitagliano Who was the Big Bopper?
Caroline Time. Yes.
Ed Vitagliano And it wasn't a large plane and it was snowing hard. And they got up and they got in that snow, maybe got disoriented.
Tim Wildmon You didn't. We didn't have the, the, technology, weather, weather, predictions that we have today. And they were in a small plane. And who was the big. Big Bopper?
Caroline The Big Bopper. his name was, I'm sorry, I've got it.
Caroline Right.
Caroline J.P. richardson.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, I'm just looking it up. Giles Perry Richardson Jr.
Tim Wildmon But Buddy Holly was. He was on a trajectory to, like, go.
Ed Vitagliano He was to go to Elvis. Elvis.
Tim Wildmon Elvis, Right.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Caroline Yes.
Ed Vitagliano Hey, that's a great trivia question.
Caroline I think it was. Richie Valens actually wasn't scheduled to be on the plane, but he switched with somebody else and I don't remember.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, it's an interesting name. It's a fascinating story.
Tim Wildmon You know how many. Thank you, Marie. is that.
Ed Vitagliano Yes, thank you.
Tim Wildmon You know how many, plane crashes there were in the 50s, 60s and 70s of, musicians and entertainers, I guess they were crisscrossing the country on, well, these small planes.
Ed Vitagliano Try to pack all your lug, all your equipment.
Tim Wildmon Patsy Klein.
Ed Vitagliano Well, and lesser, certainly lesser known, but more. A little bit more known to the Christian community. Keith Green. Remember he died on Keith Green.
Ed Vitagliano Al Denson had a crash but survived.
Tim Wildmon Liberace did.
Ed Vitagliano Liberace, yeah.
Tim Wildmon He went.
Leonard Skinner died in a plane crash in Mississippi
Well, I think he's still alive. I don't know. Oh, I'm sorry. I shouldn't even brought that up. I think.
Ed Vitagliano Hey, what's the one that we all know, with the,
Tim Wildmon Leonard Skinner.
Ed Vitagliano Skinner.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, yeah.
Ed Vitagliano There in Mississippi and crashed.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, yeah, just a bunch. You know what? That. That might make a good Trivia Friday.
Tim Wildmon Look up the Liberace plane crash.
Ed Vitagliano We're going to talk about the Black Death. We might as well talk.
Which galaxy is closest to our own Milky Way galaxy
Tim Wildmon All right, Trivia Friday is moving right along. let's repeat our questions, guys, real quick.
Ed Vitagliano All right, Paul and Silas were imprisoned during the second missionary journey. But in what city did this happen? Second question, also from the Bible, in the new Jerusalem described in Revelation, what are the 12 gates made from, folks? You can look that up. You can do that. Just go to your Bible. and then third question. Which galaxy is closest to our own Milky Way galaxy?
Ed Vitagliano Are we talking iPhones? Or is this something different on the galaxy?
Tim Wildmon Oh, oh, the galaxy.
Ed Vitagliano The G. No, this is, With stars. Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano Okay, so this is not at the mall, where nobody goes. Here's what I've got. First question, in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which dwarf had the longest beard? And it's not which she.
Ed Vitagliano Doc.
Ed Vitagliano It's not Doc. So you got a one out of six chance. Which, dwarf had the longest beard? Second question. True or false. The Kentucky Derby. Run for the Roses. It's actually tomorrow. The Kentucky Derby has more attendees than the super bowl and the World Series. Is that true or false? And then I'll add one. What is the only US State that shares a border with three Canadian provinces? Which U.S. state shares a border with three Canadian provinces?
Tim Wildmon All right, my question is, what two ingredients do you need to make sour cream? That's number one. Nobody's got that yet.
Ed Vitagliano I don't. I don't know the answer to that. That's a good question.
Ed Vitagliano There's a deal. I can tell you what you need to make sour milk. You need a dad gum teenager to leave the refrigerator door open. And while they're at it, leave the lights on, run that bill up, and leave the door open because you. Everybody knows you want to heat and cool the whole county.
Tim Wildmon All right, so, let's see.
Number three, what state produces the most almonds? If you can get this correct
my second question, if you can get this correct, we'll send you an AFR ball cap. What are the states? US States that border Canada? And there's. There's quite a few. And number three, what state produces the most almonds? I sometimes have questions about what state Produces the most. Yeah, peanuts, peaches, whatever the case may be. we've had cherries, and so this time, I want to know which state produces 80%. 80% of all the almonds in the world are produced in this one state.
Ed Vitagliano And I like how you throw them down to see how high they bounce to see if they're right.
Tim Wildmon The almonds.
Ed Vitagliano Almonds.
Tim Wildmon By the way, I would say, jj, that you ain't right, but I'm told that on a regular basis, too, so.
Ed Vitagliano by the way, the last couple of callers you've forgotten to ask about.
Tim Wildmon Oh, yeah, I gotta get back to the. The horse idiots Kentucky Derby week. So I'm asking for a horse idiom. So be prepared when you call in to give us, If you don't know what an idiom is, you're an idiot, so. Oh, that was. I. I don't know where that came from.
Ed Vitagliano You just. You know what? You just got me off the hook, Tim.
Tim Wildmon Yes, I did. I just wanted to use id.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Yes. So, no, give me a horse idiom. Idiom means a common expression we use.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon not. It's not literal, but it's used to, make a point. Okay. So, for example, we've had this, Somebody said, road hard, put up wet.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon That's a horse.
Ed Vitagliano Or horse sense.
Tim Wildmon Or sense is an idiom. So we'll ask people to give us one. Go ahead.
The Kentucky Derby has more attendees than the super bowl and the World Series
Ed Vitagliano All right, let's go back to Mississippi, and Gina is on the line. Gina, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Caroline Good morning.
Tim Wildmon Good morning, Gina. How are you today?
Caroline I'm good. Can you hear me?
Tim Wildmon We sure can. Where are you calling from in Mississippi?
Caroline From Batesville.
Tim Wildmon Okay.
Ed Vitagliano That's a good area.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, yeah. But, over an hour, hour, 10 minutes from where we sit. Well, Gina, welcome to the program. You want to ask or answer or both?
Caroline I want to do both.
Tim Wildmon Okay. Which one of the questions do you want to answer?
Caroline That Kentucky Derby question.
Tim Wildmon Is that, JJ's question.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, yeah, here we go. It's true or false, Gina. The Kentucky Derby has more attendees than the super bowl and the World Series. Is that true or false? Gina?
Caroline That is true.
Ed Vitagliano It is 100% true.
Tim Wildmon No, it's not.
Ed Vitagliano Yes, it is.
Caroline I heard. I heard you this morning.
Tim Wildmon That's incorrect. I don't want to be the one to be the stickler on this thing, but the Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs, I'm guessing, has 30,000 people.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon The super bowl alone would be in a venue of 75, 80,000 people. The World Series is seven games of like 50,000 people.
Ed Vitagliano You know this true or false?
Tim Wildmon Seven games.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. This true or false thing said, you know, I just took it off this Kentucky Derby trivia thing and I wrote it word for word. I wonder. They said attendees. I wonder if they mean few now.
Tim Wildmon If they, if. No, even that wouldn't rival. well, I don't know, but I would say this. that's why I asked you at the first of the show, do they mean they said a team, people that converge on Louisville. You know what I'm saying?
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon For the week. Then maybe that's true. I don't know. But not actually in the.
Ed Vitagliano I know you think about the stadium and you just think about the strips around that racetrack. It doesn't seem possible. I'll do my homework. But I'm going to give you credit, Gina, because I had.
Tim Wildmon This is what's wrong with our country.
Ed Vitagliano That's what I saw.
Tim Wildmon But we need a credit when. No, we obviously. Wrong answer.
Ed Vitagliano No, look, this. This may be fake news, but we'll fact check it and see what.
Ed Vitagliano How are you?
Tim Wildmon Listen, this is not.
Ed Vitagliano You and I are going to have our own conversation.
Tim Wildmon I'm sorry, I'm just picking on you anyway. Yeah, I, just wanted to.
Ed Vitagliano So we're going to have to see what the jury says. The jury's out on this, Gina. But I'm going to say, you did good.
Your granddaughter and great grandson are attending the Kentucky Derby this weekend
What's your question for us?
Caroline Well, the reason I chose the Kentucky Derby question is because my son and daughter in law are there today for the weekend and I'm babysitting. So, your good grandma for the whole. Yeah, maybe it meant for the whole weekend because there's 13 races today.
Ed Vitagliano Wow. Well, you know, there. That's pretty awesome that your kids get to go, to the Kentucky Derby. That's a big deal. People, people, you know, give their eye teeth. I don't even know what that means, but they'd give their eye teeth.
Tim Wildmon You don't want to give too many to go.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, oh, oh, that little piece of meat.
Ed Vitagliano I am so off the hook.
Ed Vitagliano Little piece of me just died. Yeah, they'll give their eye tooth to get tickets to the Derby.
Tim Wildmon Says the man from Mississippi.
What horse is favored to win the Kentucky Derby tomorrow
Ed Vitagliano All right, Tina, what's your question for us? Get us out of trouble.
Ed Vitagliano Get him out of trouble.
Caroline My question is, what horse is favored to win the Kentucky Derby tomorrow?
Ed Vitagliano Oh, I should know that. It's not. It's not Secretariat.
Ed Vitagliano Bob. Bob the horse.
Ed Vitagliano Bob the horse.
Tim Wildmon that's a good question because they Usually Talk. Talk that up.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, they do. Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Pay attention. But I haven't been paying much attention this week. But those horses. Listen, I'm not, I'm just an observer and a casual.
Ed Vitagliano Right.
Tim Wildmon But those horses are so beautiful.
Ed Vitagliano Yes.
Tim Wildmon that. It's just. They're majestic, really.
Ed Vitagliano Right.
Tim Wildmon And especially if you get up around one close. I've been, I bet a couple of times.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. Hey, Gina, before you give, us the answer, the, You know, I was giving you a lot of, growing up in Kentucky, there was a neighborhood over from us, and it was Thoroughbred Acres. That was the name of it. And all these streets were Secretariat. Ah. these ones that you just remember who were the winners over the years.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano And so it's, you know, it's just. They're just like basketball. Yes. That's the main obsession. Kentucky Derby, you know, right behind that.
There is some question about whether the horse Journalism is actually going to win
All right, Gina, who's favored to win?
Caroline journalism.
Ed Vitagliano Who is it?
Caroline Journalism.
Ed Vitagliano Journalism.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. They always. Horses can have any name m. In the world.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. It's always pretty.
Caroline And, Toby Keith has a horse. It was his dream come true to have a horse in the Kentucky Derby. It's going to be in the race tomorrow. His name is Render or her name is Render. Judgment.
Ed Vitagliano Render Judgment.
Ed Vitagliano Okay, now, Gina, I am going to say there. There is some question about whether the horse Journalism is actually going to win, because lately it's been leaning to the left.
Ed Vitagliano Oh.
Ed Vitagliano So that's.
Ed Vitagliano Well, well played. Might wind up over in the rail. Hey, only you talked about her. You know, that his horse is female. Only three girl, horses have won over the years. Only three.
Ed Vitagliano Wow.
Tim Wildmon But they weren't males claiming to be.
Ed Vitagliano No, they didn't identify as a. I.
Tim Wildmon Just want to make sure.
Ed Vitagliano I mean, they didn't identify as a mayor.
Tim Wildmon All right, thank you.
How many people attend Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby Day
Gina, I may have a answer to our, question.
Ed Vitagliano Good, good.
Tim Wildmon So this, Dr. Snopes, I typed in how many. How many people attend Churchill Downs.
Ed Vitagliano Good.
Tim Wildmon And here's the answer. Today, Churchill Downs covers 147 acres. The usual number of people seated at the Kentucky Derby is 50,000. Okay. Though crowds can reach over 150,000 on Derby Day.
Ed Vitagliano Wow.
Tim Wildmon Now, so.
Ed Vitagliano So standing room only.
Tim Wildmon If, in fact, you're talking about 150,000 people in one place at one time.
Ed Vitagliano Right.
Tim Wildmon That would be more than, any World Series or World Super Bowl. So that may be that maybe what they're.
Ed Vitagliano Well, there they go. 50,000 in the stands and then spread out behind the stands, you know, in the grassy area. 150,000, you know, so I hope you're still listening.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. Now, Am I imagining it, or when the people who go to the stands, do they dress up in the old, like, gowns with the umbrellas and all that kind of stuff?
Ed Vitagliano They dress up. They have these big. Part of the derby is the bigger. The hat. The big hat. And then whatever reason, the popular drink is mint julep. You know, you don't hear about that too often, but you hear of. You hear of it day in, day out there. Mint julep, parasail, big old hat. And you're right.
Tim Wildmon You can parasail there.
Ed Vitagliano Yes. You can parasail right over.
Tim Wildmon Good night. they got it all right off the river. Coming right off the R. Parasail over.
Ed Vitagliano The Churchill town freaks out the horses.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Amazing.
Ed Vitagliano Now, it's not as common because they get hung up with the drones. You know, they get,
Ed Vitagliano What's a mint julep?
Ed Vitagliano I've heard of drink, alcoholic drink, so I don't say. Yeah, I'm a teetotaler, so I don't want to give it much credit.
Ed Vitagliano Okay.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. So, All right, back to the phone, Dan.
Welcome to Trivia Friday with Savannah from Western Kentucky
Ed Vitagliano All right. We go, actually to Kentucky, and Savannah is on the line. I've always loved the name Savannah. Welcome to Trivia Friday.
Caroline Hey, guys, this is awesome.
Ed Vitagliano What part of Kentucky. Savannah. What part of Kentucky?
Caroline A. Ah, little bitty town called Wycliffe. It's kind of the tri State, where I live. You actually. We have a bridge, and you can go right and go to Illinois, or you can go left and go to Missouri, but you've got Kentucky, Missouri, and Illinois. All right, there's.
Ed Vitagliano Wow.
Tim Wildmon Is it where the rivers converge? Almost.
Caroline Yes.
Tim Wildmon The Ohio and the Mississippi. Yeah.
Caroline Yes.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. You're. You're in a good part of the country. I grew up in Owensboro, you know, a little bit up the river from where you are. But I bet you've enjoyed hearing about all the Kentucky Derby thing. Hey, Savannah, people that don't live in Kentucky, they don't realize how, like, two or three weeks in advance. That's all that's on the news every night. Every night.
Caroline I know it. Yes. It's a huge thing. My stepmom. Heck, she's gonna. She's got her hat ready, and she watches it on TV every time it comes on.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. She wears her hat. Oh, yeah. People have. People have. Absolutely. She's gotta have the hat at church, in the community.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. It's like a Super Bowl.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon People get together to watch.
Ed Vitagliano Right?
Ed Vitagliano Right.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, but.
Ed Vitagliano But, we knew it mostly in Kentucky and elsewhere around the world. Kinda know about it.
Tim Wildmon If you grew up in Boston, I doubt you.
Ed Vitagliano No.
Ed Vitagliano Well, you have tea parties.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. That was good, J.J. all right, Savannah, can you hold on? Because we gotta take a, break.
Ed Vitagliano Okay.
Tim Wildmon We're gonna Savannah from, Western Kentucky, where we're gonna talk to, Savannah after the break, and we'll, have trivia with her, and then we'll continue on Olivia in Louisiana. And, we got Michael in Ohio and Erlene in Ohio, Oklahoma. So we're gonna go back to the phone when we get back from this short time out. Stay with us.
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Tim Wildmon So first time callers only today. Now we're going to ask three questions each.
Ed Vitagliano The quack of a duck does not produce an echo. Is that true or false?
Tim Wildmon If I was under the category of it's just wrong. Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to Trivia Friday on American Family Radio. Thanks for listening to afr. I'm Tim Wildmon. This is, as I say, Trivia Friday. Ed Vitagliano joins me. Good morning, brother Ed.
Ed Vitagliano Good morning, Tim.
Tim Wildmon Our professor Ed. You're both my brother and my.
Ed Vitagliano Yes, absolutely. I wear two couple of hats and.
Tim Wildmon J.J. jasper, the pride of Owensboro, Kentucky.
Ed Vitagliano Glad to be here. This lady with a whole lot of children was about to get on a bus and the bus Driver said, oh, are you a schoolteacher? Is this your class? Are you going on a picnic? She said, no, I'm a mom and these are, are my kids. All those your children? Yes. He went, wow, well, let me ask you, what's it like to have that many kids? She said, I can tell you this, it ain't no picnic, Mother. Mother's Day, one week from this Sunday. Do something extra special for mom that gives you a little heads up to get a gift card, something, you know, that she likes. Make an appointment to have her hair done. Hey, Tim, your mom is in the, outside the studio here watching.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, my mom's. I invited her to come. She comes in every once in a while to watch the show and, be with us and help me out with Q and A. We talk about questions before the show. She gives me her opinion, her thoughts on that.
Ed Vitagliano Sweet mother. She was a home EC teacher for many, many years. Right there with brother Don as the ministry was launched in 1977. Made a lot of sacrifice while she was teaching school and he was starting this ministry from the ground up.
Ed Vitagliano All right, okay.
Tim Wildmon 85. She's 85. One other thing. 85. Almost 85. Be 85 in June and still driving herself around.
Ed Vitagliano Basketball star. Basketball star. Set a record for, points in a game.
Ed Vitagliano All right, now, Ms. Linda, your mom, Ms. Linda excluded. some people may disagree with what I'm about to say, but I'm tired of all this mom, mom, mom stuff, all right? It happened the whole time growing up. It's mom this, mom that.
Tim Wildmon Right?
Ed Vitagliano And I just got tired of it.
Tim Wildmon Right?
Ed Vitagliano And now that I have one in.
Tim Wildmon A good direction, it's not going in a good direction.
Ed Vitagliano And now that we have grandkids, it's Mimi this, Mimi that.
Tim Wildmon Right, right, right.
Ed Vitagliano Papa. Papa gets nothing.
Tim Wildmon It's a very anti male world.
Ed Vitagliano It is.
Tim Wildmon You need to come to grips.
Ed Vitagliano And I'm just telling you, and I, I understand that the reason I'm saying this is my wife doesn't listen to the show.
Ed Vitagliano Well, just be thankful you're not a straight white male. Well, never mind. You're in trouble on every. On every.
This is Trivia Friday and we have three trivia questions each
Tim Wildmon All right, so this is Trivia Friday. We also call this Learning University. We're about to ask three trivia questions each. And we'll let you call in and answer and ask. We prefer that you ask a, question and answer one of ours. That's.
Ed Vitagliano We got to give the phone number. This is first time callers, isn't it?
Tim Wildmon Yes, go ahead.
Ed Vitagliano First time callers. So that if you've never called and gotten on the air with us, here's the number to do that. 888-589-8840. That number to call to get on with us today. 888-589-8840. Maybe, you've tried to get on, by the way, and that doesn't count. If you've never been on the air with us, this could be your day. We do ask that you be 11 years old or older now if you. If you've never listened to the show. we have something special going on. Okay, we have a mystery question.
Ed Vitagliano Right, JJ Mystery question. We're each going to offer three questions out of these original nine. One of these is a mystery question. If you happen to land on it and answer it correctly, you'll hear this sound.
Ed Vitagliano Ah.
Ed Vitagliano the beloved cow bill. That means you win yourself a really nice afr cap. I know I go on and on, on about these caps. One of the nicest caps I've seen. Gray and black, nice leather patch on the front. Afr. Very classy. So you have a chance to win something this morning.
Ed Vitagliano Absolutely true.
Tim Wildmon All right, so, go ahead. Are we ready now?
Ed Vitagliano I think we're ready. 888-589-8840 is the number to call to get on with us here. Trivia Friday.
The black death, which struck in the 1300s, killed half Europe
All right, I'll get us started. this first question's a little dark, but it's some historical stuff.
Tim Wildmon You already blasted moms.
Ed Vitagliano I was kidding, folks. I love. I love moms.
Ed Vitagliano You're going to take a club to a baby seal. What's. What's next, kid?
Ed Vitagliano all right, here's my question. The black death, which struck in the mid-1300s, killed half the population of Europe. Is that true or false? The black death, which struck in the mid-1300s, killed half the population of Europe. Is that true or false?
Ed Vitagliano There's a deal. You can talk about things like that. And I know for the people that was there is rough, but if a man ain't never had sugars, you don't know about no plague. You're out there picking blackberries, minding your own business, and, chiggers get on you. You're gonna think you got the black jet. I ain't taking away from what happened in Europe.
Tim Wildmon Right?
Ed Vitagliano But they didn't have chiggers, so they don't. They don't know.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano All right, second question. Paul and Silas were imprisoned during the second missionary journey. But in what city did this happen? Paul and Silas were imprisoned during the second missionary journey. But in what city did this happen? And then my third question, another Bible question. In the new Jerusalem described in Revelation, what are the 12 gates made from? In the new Jerusalem described in Revelation, what are the 12 gates made from? That's what I've got.
Ed Vitagliano Here's what I've got. hey, first, I want to say, happy anniversary to my wife Melanie. 27 years ago today, you guys were both bouncers at our wedding.
Tim Wildmon So we've come a long way.
Ed Vitagliano Yes.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, but a. Godly, gorgeous. Proverbs 31, wife and mother.
The Kentucky Derby has more attendees than the super bowl and the World Series
Here's my questions. First question. What body of water separates Alaska from m. Russia. What body of water separates Alaska from Russia? Second question. In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which dwarf had the longest beard? Which dwarf had that, Bill. Uncle. Si. Thing going on?
Ed Vitagliano Now? Is this. You're not talking about the woke version?
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, the one that we all kind of knew growing up.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano and, you know, it's kind of. I can't keep them all straight. I think only one had glasses. One had this, one had that. I want to know which one had the longest beard. Third question. True or false. The Kentucky Derby is Saturday tomorrow. The Kentucky Derby has more attendees than the super bowl and the World Series. Is that true or false? The Kentucky Derby has more people attending than the super bowl and the World Series. True or false.
Tim Wildmon Now, just to clarify, are you talking about inside the Arena Church? Talking about in Louisville, Coming into Louisville?
Ed Vitagliano You know, I'm not real sure. I just saw this on a trivia thing, thinking about the, So I don't know if it's. I don't know if it's people watching on television and everything, or. I think it is, attendees. I think it's the people.
Tim Wildmon Whatever answer they give, you're going to say yes.
Ed Vitagliano That's. That's right. No, it's attendees. So I think people there. At Churchill Downs. Yeah. Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Okay.
Ed Vitagliano In Louisville, Kentucky.
Give me the answer to this question without looking it up
Tim Wildmon All right, so, by the way, at the bottom of the hour, we're going to have a special song I selected. We never do this, but it's Kentucky Derby, and I want to play Dan Fogelberg's Run for the Roses. I love this song.
Ed Vitagliano It's great song.
Tim Wildmon It's a song about a horse, raised in Kentucky to run in the Kentucky Derby. So we're going to play that song.
Ed Vitagliano It's a horse with no name.
Tim Wildmon Wasn't it, this, well, no, that's a different song. Oh, yeah. All together. but.
Ed Vitagliano All right.
Ed Vitagliano Trying to make a funny.
Tim Wildmon No, you did.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, so you sold moms one time, and you're man out.
Tim Wildmon So here we go. What, my first question. What two ingredients do you need to make sour cream? You just need to.
Ed Vitagliano Really?
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano Ah, yeah.
Ed Vitagliano So we could be making that at home.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, you could.
Ed Vitagliano You could.
Tim Wildmon For just two. Yeah, Everybody can afford this. what two ingredients do you need to make sour cream? Number two question, and this is a hard question. so I'm going to give a ball cap, an AFR ball cap. If somebody can get the answer to this. Give me the answer to this question, without looking it up, because this is not easy, even for those of us who like geography. name the US States that border Canada. All of them. If you can name those without looking it up, without asking a friend, then, well, you can ask a friend, but don't have your friend look it up.
Ed Vitagliano Right.
Tim Wildmon You know what I'm saying?
Ed Vitagliano Yes.
Ed Vitagliano Thereby, it's all about. It's all about loopholes.
Tim Wildmon That's what I'm talking about. So. So, if you. If your husband and wife team want to work on it together, that's fine. I'm just saying don't look it up. The states that border Canada.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, that's good.
Tim Wildmon And then, thirdly, what state produces the most almonds?
Ed Vitagliano Almonds. Yes.
Tim Wildmon J.J. what state produces the most. I call them almonds.
Ed Vitagliano They're almonds. Everybody does. Just the one guy that calls his friend to jump.
Tim Wildmon Jump out the car.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Or does he push him out, run.
Ed Vitagliano It into the tree. I'm right there with him.
Tim Wildmon All right, go.
Ed Vitagliano All right, we are going to go. We're going to go to Iowa because Katrina was left over from last week. So, Katrina, thank you. Hey, thank you for holding on for a week. We appreciate it. Good morning to you.
Speaker D Good morning.
Ed Vitagliano Where do you. Where do you live In Iowa.
Speaker D Eastern Iowa. We're calling from North Liberty.
Ed Vitagliano North Liberty. Liberty. Liberty.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. She's. That's.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, I'm sorry. Everyone does that. I know you're tired of it.
Speaker D They, do that at the football games.
Ed Vitagliano They do.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, that's good.
Ed Vitagliano They do. All right, Katrina, sorry. for that.
What body of water separates Alaska from Russia? Bering strait
you want to ask answer or do both?
Speaker D I think I can do both.
Ed Vitagliano All right, which one you want to try to answer?
Speaker D The one about the body of water between Russia, Alaska.
Ed Vitagliano Yes, ma'am. Here's the question. What body of water separates Alaska from Russia?
Speaker D Okay, so I didn't look it up, but I did have a friend next to me who Knew that's okay to have a lifeline. Bering strait.
Ed Vitagliano Bering strait. Is it Katrina?
Ed Vitagliano Yes.
Ed Vitagliano Katrina. Nice way to start the show off with the correct answer right out of the chute. And I gotta tell you, I felt a little bad for you, ladies named Katrina back during the storm because you, you went along minding your own business with a nice name, Janet, Sally, Katrina, and kind of stayed under the radar. And then it was, our life's been messed up since Katrina. We don't know what to do now after Katrina. And it was like they, they ran your name through the mud for two, three years. And I know you, I know you heard that.
Speaker D No kids. Yeah, no children were named Katrina after that for quite a few years. Although I will say my husband did reassure me. He said, don't worry, honey, it'll blow over.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, I like that.
Ed Vitagliano My aunt, Jezebel said to tell you it could be worse. My Uncle Judas, he said, you don't know the half of it. Hey, what's your question? What's your question?
Speaker D Okay, so I'm a first time caller, I will say that, but I've been holding on to this for three weeks, so I hope I can get this right. I grew up in Iowa City, which is in eastern Iowa, and it used to be the capital of the state. Now the state capital is in central Iowa, but we have this capitol. Like all the old capitol buildings are downtown, and in the center is the old capitol. That's what it's called, the old Capitol building. And it has, this little gold dome on the top. So it's a, kind of an icon or a symbol of the city. Iowa City. Like the University of Iowa definitely plays off of it. The Hawkeyes, all that kind of stuff. So anyway, it's a nice little gold dump. So my question for you is that lots of states have capitals with domes, right? But what state has the biggest, gold capitol dome, like in diameter?
Ed Vitagliano Do we say Iowa, since she's from Iowa.
Ed Vitagliano Okay, we're going to talk amongst ourselves here, Katrina.
Tim Wildmon What state has what, the biggest dome?
Ed Vitagliano You know, a lot of them have a old, old dome like you see there, you know, down the Garden of Gethsemane, looking over the western wall.
Ed Vitagliano you may be. I don't have a better guess than that, like what you're saying.
Ed Vitagliano I'm thinking since she's from Iowa. Well, let's go Iowa. Because, you know, all those old buildings and you know, you have bragging rights. So let's, let's say that all,
Ed Vitagliano Right, we're going to say we're going with JJ's guess of Iowa. Katrina.
Speaker D Okay. You got it.
Ed Vitagliano All right. Good job.
Ed Vitagliano All right, that's pretty good.
Speaker D So in des moines, it's 80ft across, and it is the biggest. Wisconsin has the next biggest dome, but theirs is out of granite. It's 88. And the US Capitol dome is also in the 80th range, but it's not covered in gold, so.
Ed Vitagliano Wow. So Yalls dome almost looks like the one we see on the news every night in Washington, D.C. and it's gold plated. And, that's pretty, pretty good bragging rights right there. Thanks for sharing that, Katrina.
Tim Wildmon Hey, Katrina.
Speaker D Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Before we let you go, we done here?
Ed Vitagliano Yes.
Ed Vitagliano With.
Jj: I looked up horse idioms because it's Kentucky Derby week
Tim Wildmon Okay. Before we let you go, I'm doing this because of, it's a, Kentucky Derby week, so I, I, I looked up horse idioms. Do you know what I'm talking about? Like horse sayings, common expressions. We.
Speaker D Metaphors all the time.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. Common, expressions we use involving a horse.
Ed Vitagliano Right.
Tim Wildmon And so can you give me one just right off the top of your head?
Speaker D that's horse sense. No. I don't know.
Tim Wildmon No. Well, that, that is. No, that's a good one.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano You say he doesn't have enough horse sense.
Tim Wildmon I remember a man telling me one time your dad talked about. My dad has more horse sense than anybody I know.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon And horse sense means common sense. Common sense. Yeah. So that's good. Thank you.
Ed Vitagliano That's an excellent job.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. That was right out of the horse's mouth.
Tim Wildmon Yes. Don't use them all up. Jj, you're from Kentucky. You could get them all, no problem. Horse sense is one of them. that's expression that we use a lot in it.
Ed Vitagliano Yes.
Tim Wildmon but it is Kentucky Derby, so I thought, what are some horse, idioms that. Oh, that's.
Ed Vitagliano Well, I mean, when I was growing up, we didn't use horse idioms. We used Italian idioms. So we would say, that guy doesn't have the sense of. Sense of a salami.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon All right, next week, I tell you what, next week I'll look up Italian idiots.
Ed Vitagliano Right?
Ed Vitagliano Well, you'll probably get. Italian idiots will pop up on the Google search, but.
Jenny is on the line with Kansas Trivia Friday
All right, let's go to Kansas, and Jenny is on the line. Jenny, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Caroline Hello. Thank you.
Tim Wildmon Jenny, how you doing today?
Caroline I'm doing good, thanks for asking.
Ed Vitagliano Jenny, you're not fixing to board a bus and go on a picnic, are you?
Caroline no.
Ed Vitagliano I hear the little ones in the background. I just told a joke about a mom with a lot of kiddos.
Caroline I'm sorry. I was calling in and so I didn't hear your. Your jokes. I love retelling your jokes at church.
Ed Vitagliano I'm sorry.
Caroline I miss those, Jenny.
Ed Vitagliano You really didn't miss much on that one. But I wouldn't. I don't really have a sense of a salami, so I don't. I, don't really need to brag. So.
Ed Vitagliano Hey, do you want to ask answer or do both?
Caroline I'd like to do both, please. I think I'm going to go with the. Your questions are really hard today. so I think I'm going to go with the bubonic plague question.
The Black death, which struck in the mid-1300s, killed half Europe
Ed Vitagliano All right, Jenny, here it is.
Tim Wildmon I'm going to step outside.
Ed Vitagliano No, she's got to keep an eye on whoever's in the background there. The Black death, which struck in the mid-1300s, killed half the population of Europe. But is that true or false, Jenny?
Caroline I believe it's false. It only killed a third.
Ed Vitagliano Actually, it's. Now I will I give some wiggle room. There are. The exact. percentage is not quite known, but they do believe it was close to half the population of Europe. 50 million people. So, that was.
Tim Wildmon What was that? Is that tuberculosis or. What was that. It's called. Is that the same thing called the black plague? Like death plague?
Ed Vitagliano I. I think they. I think they. Those are the same. it was a. It was similar to tuberculosis, but it also had these kinds of welts that came up. It was some sort of, bacterial thing, I think, from fleas off, mice and rats.
Tim Wildmon Well, kill half the population.
Ed Vitagliano Half the population.
Ed Vitagliano That's amazing. That's horrific.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano And we think we have a bad day sometimes.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano if only they only they had masks back then. I shouldn't have. I shouldn't have gone there with that. All right, Jenny, what's your question for us?
Jenny, do you have a horse idiom for me
Caroline Well, speaking of idioms. A couple. Probably about a month ago now, it's been a while since you talked about it, but you talked about a thing called their goose is cooked.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Caroline And you guys didn't know where it came from. And it's from a reformer that was burned at the state. Can you name the reformer?
Tim Wildmon of course. You're talking about in Christian history.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. Like Martin Luther, some of those reformer.
Tim Wildmon That was born burned.
Ed Vitagliano Burned at the stake.
Ed Vitagliano Now, it wouldn't have been polycarp, would it? I'm gonna say polycarp. He. Well, he Wouldn't be considered a reformer.
Tim Wildmon Right. Actually a fish, I think. Am I right?
Ed Vitagliano You're in the pop park Polycarp.
Ed Vitagliano They're taking over some.
Ed Vitagliano Luther. How did he.
Ed Vitagliano No, he. No, he died. Natural causes?
Tim Wildmon I don't know.
Ed Vitagliano I don't know.
Ed Vitagliano I don't know. You got us.
Caroline It was John Huss. Huss means goose.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, wow.
Ed Vitagliano Okay. From Czechoslovakia, right? Was it?
Caroline That's correct. I should have given you another clue.
Ed Vitagliano All right.
Ed Vitagliano No, that's great, man.
Tim Wildmon He lost his life that way.
Ed Vitagliano And it burned at the steak. And people are saying you're. That's. That's. You're gonna get your. It's gonna cook your goose.
Tim Wildmon That's from him. That's. Yeah. No, I wouldn't use that expression if I knew that somebody in the Hus family might be in attendance.
Ed Vitagliano Then you better not quit singing. Ring, around the posy. Some of those other things. Because a lot of those things have dark origins.
Ed Vitagliano Well, that's going to be all right.
Tim Wildmon So.
Ed Vitagliano Hey. Thank you, dear.
Tim Wildmon Hold on. Jenny. Jenny, real quick. Do you have a horse idiom for me?
Caroline Yeah, I do. how about road hard and put away wet?
Tim Wildmon there you go.
Ed Vitagliano Nice. Nice.
Tim Wildmon Wife says sometimes about long day.
Ed Vitagliano I've been rode hard and put away wet. There's something to that.
Tim Wildmon Road, hard put up wet. yeah, that's a common expression that we use. All right, Jenny. Thank you so much. They're, Anyway, so we've had horse sense.
Ed Vitagliano That's good.
Tim Wildmon And rode hard and put up wet. That means, you've looked better.
Ed Vitagliano It's not good. It's not good for a horse. You're out there trail riding, and you do a lot of galloping, and the horse just gets soaked with sweat. With sweat. You go back to the barn, take the saddle. Saddle blanket off, and you brush the horse down. Give it a chance to cool off. They can get very, very sick if you ride them hard and put them up wet.
Tim Wildmon Okay.
Take time to brush your horse and care for it
That's where that comes from.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano you don't put them in the stall. You don't put them m. In the barn dripping wet. They can get sick and they can get down. it can be fatal. And so you take time to brush your horse and care for it. You don't want to ride a horse hard and then just put it up wet.
Ed Vitagliano Okay.
JJ: We're going to play a song about the Kentucky Derby tomorrow
Ed Vitagliano All right.
Tim Wildmon So we're going to take our break a couple minutes early because I want to play this song, and then we're not. We're not going to play My dad's, my turn or, anything else today, we never do that, but, because it's Kentucky Derby.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano Run for the Roses.
Tim Wildmon And this is a song about JJ's old stomping ground, Western Kentucky.
Ed Vitagliano Yes.
Tim Wildmon So this is a song by Dan Fogelberg, the late Dan Fogelberg. Many people remember him from the 70s and 80s. Anyway, great songwriter, great songwriter. So we're going to play this song and then we'll come back and get back to our callers. So stay with us.
Dr. Jessica Peck M born in the valley and raised in the trees of western Kentucky on Wobod with mama beside you to help you, along. You'll soon be growing up strong. All the long lazy mornings and pastures of grief. The sun on your withers, the wind in your main Will never prepare you for what lies ahead. The rug for the roses so red and it's right, you father of it as fast as you can your faith is delivered, your moment it's the chance of a lifetime In a lifetime of chance and it's high time join in the dance m here tight time you join in the day from S. it's born in the blood, the fire of a miracle and the strength of this d. It's bleeding and it's draining and it's something unknown that drives you and carries you home and it's round all the roses as fast as she can hand. Your faith is delivered, your moments I It's the chance of a lifetime In a lifetime of chance and tight time joined in the dance. it's.
Tim Wildmon Again, that's Dan Fogelberg and he's singing about the Kentucky Derby, which is tomorrow. Which is tomorrow. And a lot of Kentucky's, well known for raising the thoroughbreds, right jj?
Ed Vitagliano That's right. Hey, if I can just humor me just a little bit. Growing I was born and raised in Kentucky. Weeks leading up to the Kentucky Derby, it was like March Madness for basketball. Here are the projected winners here. This one could be a long shot. You have horses that cost tens of thousands of dollars, up to $4 million. You have to win a series of races like NASCAR to be able to get there. Only 20 horses, three year old thoroughbreds, but in attendance every year. And you know, we'd watch this on the news and mint juleps, big hats, a lot of traditions. But every year when we'd watch it all the lead up, every single year, they say, here's how many kings and queens were in attendance. Here's other Saudi princes, here's the president that was There or former president. Everybody in Hollywood, it kind of was a snob, thing like, hey, if we can get tickets to the Kentucky Derby and be there at Churchill Downs, you'll be on the news. So people around the world have watched it. One last thing. It started in 1875. Huge streak in terms of a sporting thing. They've never missed a derby. It's never been postponed. Not during World War I, not during World War II. Every first Saturday in May since 1875.
Tim Wildmon That's amazing.
Ed Vitagliano So it's a big deal around the world, but growing up in Kentucky, we had two weeks of, hey, here's this story. This guy, he's just a carpenter, but he bought him a, horse for $5,000, and it's going to actually run in the Kentucky Derby. All these Cinderella stories.
Tim Wildmon Absolutely.
Use these questions to help students understand today's featured news stories
All right, you're listening to Trivia Friday, also known as Learning Universe. Repeat our questions and we'll go back to the phones.
Ed Vitagliano Ed.
Ed Vitagliano All righty. Paul and Silas were imprisoned during the second missionary journey. But in what city did this happen? Second question. Also a Bible question. In the new Jerusalem described in Revelation, what are the 12 gates made from? And I will add a question since I had one answered. Which galaxy is closest to. To our own Milky Way galaxy? I'm looking for the name. Which galaxy is closest to the Milky Way galaxy? That's all I've got.
Ed Vitagliano Here's what I've got. First question. And Snow White and the seven Dwarfs. Which dwarf had the longest beard? Second question. True or false. The Kentucky Derby.
Tim Wildmon Slouchy. Was that slouchy?
Ed Vitagliano Uncle Slouchy. The Kentucky Derby has. This is true or false. The Kentucky Derby has more attendees than the super bowl and the World Series. Is that true or false? Then I'm going to add a question. I hope I can make this clear. What colors, what four colors traditionally correspond with first place through fourth place ribbon? Everybody knows you get a first place ribbon. what is it called for your cake at the county fair or an elementary track and field? I didn't realize these colors are universal or they're across the board. So what's the color for the first place? What's the color for if you get second place ribbon? Third and fourth?
Tim Wildmon All right, my, my three questions are, what two ingredients do you need to make sour cream? Only two ingredients needed. What are they?
Ed Vitagliano There's a deal. Sour cream. Why is there expiration date on that? And then croutons. All it is is stale bread. Why is there an expiration date on a bag of croutons?
Tim Wildmon Duly noted. Good questions that have plagued the universe for centuries.
Ed Vitagliano We've long wanted to know the plague thing.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, there's, things that keeps Michelle, Obama up at night, but those are the kind of questions that keep me up at night.
What state produces the most almonds? California, 80%
Tim Wildmon All right, here's my question for AFR Ballcap. We're going to send you AFR Bar cap if you can name the states that border Canada without looking it up.
Ed Vitagliano Right.
Tim Wildmon And finally, what, state produces the most? Almonds. Almonds. This state produces 80% of the almonds.
Ed Vitagliano 80%.
Ed Vitagliano Wow.
Tim Wildmon Yes. And so that's one state. Those. But to the phones, Ed.
Ed Vitagliano Good thing no one slaps a tariff on that state.
Ed Vitagliano The phones. You sound like the Batman guy. Just a quick.
Robin asks Suzanne which dwarf had the longest beard in Snow White
Ed Vitagliano To the phones, Robin, you go to Mississippi. and Suzanne is on the line. Suzanne, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Caroline Thank you. I've never done. I've never called in before.
Ed Vitagliano Well, you're following. Following the, the. The rules here. This is first time callers. Congratulations, you made it.
Caroline I've been there, but I've never been over there, but I've never called in.
Ed Vitagliano All right, what part of Mississippi?
Caroline In Tupelo.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, you live in Tupelo. Wonderful.
Tim Wildmon So if you win, you just got to drive over here, walk over, pick up your hat here. Yeah, no problem. All right, we can meet you out, you know, halfway.
Ed Vitagliano Meet you at the. Meet you at the Dollar General.
Ed Vitagliano meet you at Crosstown.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, you want to ask answer or do both? Suzanne.
Caroline I want to answer the one about the Snow White.
Ed Vitagliano All right. Yes, ma'am. Here's the question. In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which dwarf had the longest beard?
Caroline I think it's Doc.
Ed Vitagliano No, ma'am, that's not what I have.
Caroline I have the whole set of them, but they're all put up in the drawer, so I didn't even look at them.
Ed Vitagliano Well, that was a good guess. Now you made it easier. Now somebody's got a one out of six chance.
Tim Wildmon Doc was clean shaven.
Ed Vitagliano I think Doc had the glasses. Maybe he. Was he the only one that worked?
Ed Vitagliano They all had one thing that kind of gave them their name, and so Doc had the glasses, I think.
Ed Vitagliano Okay.
Ed Vitagliano All right, well, good try. What's your question for us, Suzanne?
Suzanne gets right answer on Trivia Friday with William Shatner
Caroline Okay. Oh, do you remember the. The show Rescue 91 1?
Ed Vitagliano Yes.
Tim Wildmon Yes.
Caroline Oh, y'all probably know the answer.
Tim Wildmon Who?
Caroline The one that, hosted it.
Tim Wildmon I do know. Do you know jj?
Ed Vitagliano No, I don't.
Ed Vitagliano I. I've heard of the show.
Ed Vitagliano Is it the tall guy?
Tim Wildmon No, it's a William Shatner.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, William Shatner.
Ed Vitagliano Wow.
Ed Vitagliano William Shatner.
Tim Wildmon We used to love that show.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. Now he was taken in because he.
Tim Wildmon Had a very dramatic personality. He could set everything up, even if it's just a man crossing the street. Watch this. We're gonna get this from different angles as the fellow crosses the street.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, I did watch the show.
Tim Wildmon Then he called 911 and the rest is here now.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. And he said something about going into, beyond going into the.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, different show, but yeah, he was.
Ed Vitagliano Same going into the galaxy.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, I remember William Shatner. He's still alive. He's like 90 something.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, he is. And even when he was on Star Trek, which made him famous, he had that kind of dramatic voice. Ah, it was.
Tim Wildmon Oh, yeah, he had a flair for everything.
Ed Vitagliano Real deliberate dramatic.
Tim Wildmon If he was just ordering a hamburger, you know, it was like, wow, listen to this guy.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano And I want pickles.
Tim Wildmon But anyway, we got it right, Suzanne, right? William Shack.
Caroline Yes, you did get it right. Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Well, thank you for calling. Is that it?
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, that's it.
Ed Vitagliano Thank you, thank you.
Ed Vitagliano Maybe we'll see you around town.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, we'll see you at the mall.
Tim Wildmon Next up, Ed.
Ed Vitagliano Ah.
Ed Vitagliano Hey, who goes to the mall? all right, we go to Iowa. We've had all ladies center. What's that?
Tim Wildmon You order the. You're. You work for the Tupelo chamber.
Ed Vitagliano He does.
Tim Wildmon Who goes to the mall?
Ed Vitagliano Moms don't expect anything on. Mother said, we're tired of you and people.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano And we're going to the mall.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, they had. The mayor's office is on the line.
Ed Vitagliano All the people, they listen to the show who own a. Who own a business at the mall just went. Oh, come on, man. All right, we'll go to the mall this weekend. How's that?
Ed Vitagliano We'll see y'all for mom for Mother's Day.
Ed Vitagliano We've had all ladies, I think, so far. We go back to Iowa and Marie is on, the line. Marie, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Caroline Hi. I want to say hi to JJ too, because I grew up in Kentucky, in Hopkins.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, sure, right.
Tim Wildmon That's in western Kentucky, right?
Ed Vitagliano Western Kentucky. We kind of did her town wrong because that's where the mental institution was. So when your kids out playing and somebody acts whack a doodle, I said, they're going to come get you and put you in a straight jacket and take you to Hopkinsville.
Tim Wildmon Oh, yeah, yeah.
Ed Vitagliano She knows they got kind of a bad rap, but it's a great area. Just right there in Hopkinsville. Over near all those pretty lakes and everything. Well, yeah. Well, welcome, neighbor.
What colors traditionally correspond with first place through fourth place ribbons
You want to ask answer or do both?
Caroline I think I can do both.
Ed Vitagliano Which one you want to answer?
Caroline Okay, I'm going to try, the one about the ribbons.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, good. Here's the question. What colors traditionally correspond with first place through fourth place ribbon?
Caroline Okay. I think, it's blue, red, yellow and white.
Ed Vitagliano you know what?
Caroline I think it's.
Ed Vitagliano Go ahead. Blue is first place, second is red. Tell me which one's third place?
Caroline I. Well, okay, I'll say white.
Ed Vitagliano White and yellow. You're exactly right. First, the white and yellow. She had a little mixed, and then she. When she thought about it, she got them right. Blue. Blue ribbon number one. I didn't realize, but looking back, I go, oh, that's right. Red ribbon for second place, white ribbon for third, and yellow for fourth place.
Ed Vitagliano Listen. Ah, that's an applause right there. Yeah, I knew the first two. Everyone knows blue ribbon. You get a blue ribbon for something, but you and red. Red. But I didn't know the next two.
Tim Wildmon So after the track meets over, you take your yellow ribbons home to your parents.
Ed Vitagliano You tow them around the tree.
Tim Wildmon Hey, mom and dad, look here. I came in fourth. Well, that's wonderful. I mean, we're all raised.
Ed Vitagliano No, you tell. Yeah, you tie your yellow ribbon around the old oak tree.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. Anyway, so yellow's fourth place.
Ed Vitagliano Yellow is that.
Ed Vitagliano I didn't know that either.
Ed Vitagliano And red is the first loser.
Tim Wildmon If you ain't first, your last first loser.
Ed Vitagliano You get that. Tim?
Tim Wildmon Yeah, what now?
Ed Vitagliano You get a red ribbon. You're the first loser. You get the first loser ribbon.
Ed Vitagliano I'm, first among the losers.
Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper died in 1959
all right, where are we here, Marie? What's your question for us?
Caroline Okay. Well, I'm from. I live in Iowa, so I wanted to know the name of the town where Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper died in a plane crash in February of 1959.
Ed Vitagliano I landed at that airport flying myself and looked, and they got history all on in the local fbo. And I thought, wow, I didn't realize this happened. They just got out a little ways, and it was a snowstorm and crashed. But I can't remember the town.
Ed Vitagliano What's FBO stand for?
Ed Vitagliano it's like a gas station for airplanes. It's like, you know, you stop and get fuel and there's a lounge and things.
Ed Vitagliano Tim, I'm surprised you don't know this.
Ed Vitagliano You should know this.
Tim Wildmon Hoover was. He was the leader of The FBO there for a while. I read about it. It wasn't funny. A lot of people were terrorized.
Ed Vitagliano Yes, that's right.
Ed Vitagliano What a tragedy.
Ed Vitagliano It's the day the music died. Wasn't it them?
Ed Vitagliano It really was.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. Don McLean wrote about that.
Ed Vitagliano Bye bye, Miss American Pie.
Tim Wildmon So. But you know what? I don't know. Yeah, it was in Iowa, as, Marley Marie says. And so you. If. No, I don't remember what town it was. I mean, obviously it's not a big town in a rural part of. But most of I was rural, so I don't.
Ed Vitagliano We're stump.
Ed Vitagliano Stumped us, Marie. I should know.
Ed Vitagliano Maria, Shame on me. I've been there.
Caroline Well, now, the. The airport you're thinking of would be Mason City, but it's actually in Clear Lake. And the, the plane crash actually happened north of Clear Lake, which is where we live. And the. They were performing at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake.
Tim Wildmon Okay, and who passed away on that plane? Buddy Holly.
Caroline Buddy. Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper.
Tim Wildmon And they were three of the biggest, biggest stars in music at the time. Right.
Ed Vitagliano Who was the Big Bopper?
Caroline Time. Yes.
Ed Vitagliano And it wasn't a large plane and it was snowing hard. And they got up and they got in that snow, maybe got disoriented.
Tim Wildmon You didn't. We didn't have the, the, technology, weather, weather, predictions that we have today. And they were in a small plane. And who was the big. Big Bopper?
Caroline The Big Bopper. his name was, I'm sorry, I've got it.
Caroline Right.
Caroline J.P. richardson.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, I'm just looking it up. Giles Perry Richardson Jr.
Tim Wildmon But Buddy Holly was. He was on a trajectory to, like, go.
Ed Vitagliano He was to go to Elvis. Elvis.
Tim Wildmon Elvis, Right.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Caroline Yes.
Ed Vitagliano Hey, that's a great trivia question.
Caroline I think it was. Richie Valens actually wasn't scheduled to be on the plane, but he switched with somebody else and I don't remember.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, it's an interesting name. It's a fascinating story.
Tim Wildmon You know how many. Thank you, Marie. is that.
Ed Vitagliano Yes, thank you.
Tim Wildmon You know how many, plane crashes there were in the 50s, 60s and 70s of, musicians and entertainers, I guess they were crisscrossing the country on, well, these small planes.
Ed Vitagliano Try to pack all your lug, all your equipment.
Tim Wildmon Patsy Klein.
Ed Vitagliano Well, and lesser, certainly lesser known, but more. A little bit more known to the Christian community. Keith Green. Remember he died on Keith Green.
Ed Vitagliano Al Denson had a crash but survived.
Tim Wildmon Liberace did.
Ed Vitagliano Liberace, yeah.
Tim Wildmon He went.
Leonard Skinner died in a plane crash in Mississippi
Well, I think he's still alive. I don't know. Oh, I'm sorry. I shouldn't even brought that up. I think.
Ed Vitagliano Hey, what's the one that we all know, with the,
Tim Wildmon Leonard Skinner.
Ed Vitagliano Skinner.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, yeah.
Ed Vitagliano There in Mississippi and crashed.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah, yeah, just a bunch. You know what? That. That might make a good Trivia Friday.
Tim Wildmon Look up the Liberace plane crash.
Ed Vitagliano We're going to talk about the Black Death. We might as well talk.
Which galaxy is closest to our own Milky Way galaxy
Tim Wildmon All right, Trivia Friday is moving right along. let's repeat our questions, guys, real quick.
Ed Vitagliano All right, Paul and Silas were imprisoned during the second missionary journey. But in what city did this happen? Second question, also from the Bible, in the new Jerusalem described in Revelation, what are the 12 gates made from, folks? You can look that up. You can do that. Just go to your Bible. and then third question. Which galaxy is closest to our own Milky Way galaxy?
Ed Vitagliano Are we talking iPhones? Or is this something different on the galaxy?
Tim Wildmon Oh, oh, the galaxy.
Ed Vitagliano The G. No, this is, With stars. Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano Okay, so this is not at the mall, where nobody goes. Here's what I've got. First question, in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which dwarf had the longest beard? And it's not which she.
Ed Vitagliano Doc.
Ed Vitagliano It's not Doc. So you got a one out of six chance. Which, dwarf had the longest beard? Second question. True or false. The Kentucky Derby. Run for the Roses. It's actually tomorrow. The Kentucky Derby has more attendees than the super bowl and the World Series. Is that true or false? And then I'll add one. What is the only US State that shares a border with three Canadian provinces? Which U.S. state shares a border with three Canadian provinces?
Tim Wildmon All right, my question is, what two ingredients do you need to make sour cream? That's number one. Nobody's got that yet.
Ed Vitagliano I don't. I don't know the answer to that. That's a good question.
Ed Vitagliano There's a deal. I can tell you what you need to make sour milk. You need a dad gum teenager to leave the refrigerator door open. And while they're at it, leave the lights on, run that bill up, and leave the door open because you. Everybody knows you want to heat and cool the whole county.
Tim Wildmon All right, so, let's see.
Number three, what state produces the most almonds? If you can get this correct
my second question, if you can get this correct, we'll send you an AFR ball cap. What are the states? US States that border Canada? And there's. There's quite a few. And number three, what state produces the most almonds? I sometimes have questions about what state Produces the most. Yeah, peanuts, peaches, whatever the case may be. we've had cherries, and so this time, I want to know which state produces 80%. 80% of all the almonds in the world are produced in this one state.
Ed Vitagliano And I like how you throw them down to see how high they bounce to see if they're right.
Tim Wildmon The almonds.
Ed Vitagliano Almonds.
Tim Wildmon By the way, I would say, jj, that you ain't right, but I'm told that on a regular basis, too, so.
Ed Vitagliano by the way, the last couple of callers you've forgotten to ask about.
Tim Wildmon Oh, yeah, I gotta get back to the. The horse idiots Kentucky Derby week. So I'm asking for a horse idiom. So be prepared when you call in to give us, If you don't know what an idiom is, you're an idiot, so. Oh, that was. I. I don't know where that came from.
Ed Vitagliano You just. You know what? You just got me off the hook, Tim.
Tim Wildmon Yes, I did. I just wanted to use id.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Yes. So, no, give me a horse idiom. Idiom means a common expression we use.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon not. It's not literal, but it's used to, make a point. Okay. So, for example, we've had this, Somebody said, road hard, put up wet.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon That's a horse.
Ed Vitagliano Or horse sense.
Tim Wildmon Or sense is an idiom. So we'll ask people to give us one. Go ahead.
The Kentucky Derby has more attendees than the super bowl and the World Series
Ed Vitagliano All right, let's go back to Mississippi, and Gina is on the line. Gina, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Caroline Good morning.
Tim Wildmon Good morning, Gina. How are you today?
Caroline I'm good. Can you hear me?
Tim Wildmon We sure can. Where are you calling from in Mississippi?
Caroline From Batesville.
Tim Wildmon Okay.
Ed Vitagliano That's a good area.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, yeah. But, over an hour, hour, 10 minutes from where we sit. Well, Gina, welcome to the program. You want to ask or answer or both?
Caroline I want to do both.
Tim Wildmon Okay. Which one of the questions do you want to answer?
Caroline That Kentucky Derby question.
Tim Wildmon Is that, JJ's question.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, yeah, here we go. It's true or false, Gina. The Kentucky Derby has more attendees than the super bowl and the World Series. Is that true or false? Gina?
Caroline That is true.
Ed Vitagliano It is 100% true.
Tim Wildmon No, it's not.
Ed Vitagliano Yes, it is.
Caroline I heard. I heard you this morning.
Tim Wildmon That's incorrect. I don't want to be the one to be the stickler on this thing, but the Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs, I'm guessing, has 30,000 people.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon The super bowl alone would be in a venue of 75, 80,000 people. The World Series is seven games of like 50,000 people.
Ed Vitagliano You know this true or false?
Tim Wildmon Seven games.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. This true or false thing said, you know, I just took it off this Kentucky Derby trivia thing and I wrote it word for word. I wonder. They said attendees. I wonder if they mean few now.
Tim Wildmon If they, if. No, even that wouldn't rival. well, I don't know, but I would say this. that's why I asked you at the first of the show, do they mean they said a team, people that converge on Louisville. You know what I'm saying?
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon For the week. Then maybe that's true. I don't know. But not actually in the.
Ed Vitagliano I know you think about the stadium and you just think about the strips around that racetrack. It doesn't seem possible. I'll do my homework. But I'm going to give you credit, Gina, because I had.
Tim Wildmon This is what's wrong with our country.
Ed Vitagliano That's what I saw.
Tim Wildmon But we need a credit when. No, we obviously. Wrong answer.
Ed Vitagliano No, look, this. This may be fake news, but we'll fact check it and see what.
Ed Vitagliano How are you?
Tim Wildmon Listen, this is not.
Ed Vitagliano You and I are going to have our own conversation.
Tim Wildmon I'm sorry, I'm just picking on you anyway. Yeah, I, just wanted to.
Ed Vitagliano So we're going to have to see what the jury says. The jury's out on this, Gina. But I'm going to say, you did good.
Your granddaughter and great grandson are attending the Kentucky Derby this weekend
What's your question for us?
Caroline Well, the reason I chose the Kentucky Derby question is because my son and daughter in law are there today for the weekend and I'm babysitting. So, your good grandma for the whole. Yeah, maybe it meant for the whole weekend because there's 13 races today.
Ed Vitagliano Wow. Well, you know, there. That's pretty awesome that your kids get to go, to the Kentucky Derby. That's a big deal. People, people, you know, give their eye teeth. I don't even know what that means, but they'd give their eye teeth.
Tim Wildmon You don't want to give too many to go.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, oh, oh, that little piece of meat.
Ed Vitagliano I am so off the hook.
Ed Vitagliano Little piece of me just died. Yeah, they'll give their eye tooth to get tickets to the Derby.
Tim Wildmon Says the man from Mississippi.
What horse is favored to win the Kentucky Derby tomorrow
Ed Vitagliano All right, Tina, what's your question for us? Get us out of trouble.
Ed Vitagliano Get him out of trouble.
Caroline My question is, what horse is favored to win the Kentucky Derby tomorrow?
Ed Vitagliano Oh, I should know that. It's not. It's not Secretariat.
Ed Vitagliano Bob. Bob the horse.
Ed Vitagliano Bob the horse.
Tim Wildmon that's a good question because they Usually Talk. Talk that up.
Ed Vitagliano Oh, they do. Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Pay attention. But I haven't been paying much attention this week. But those horses. Listen, I'm not, I'm just an observer and a casual.
Ed Vitagliano Right.
Tim Wildmon But those horses are so beautiful.
Ed Vitagliano Yes.
Tim Wildmon that. It's just. They're majestic, really.
Ed Vitagliano Right.
Tim Wildmon And especially if you get up around one close. I've been, I bet a couple of times.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. Hey, Gina, before you give, us the answer, the, You know, I was giving you a lot of, growing up in Kentucky, there was a neighborhood over from us, and it was Thoroughbred Acres. That was the name of it. And all these streets were Secretariat. Ah. these ones that you just remember who were the winners over the years.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano And so it's, you know, it's just. They're just like basketball. Yes. That's the main obsession. Kentucky Derby, you know, right behind that.
There is some question about whether the horse Journalism is actually going to win
All right, Gina, who's favored to win?
Caroline journalism.
Ed Vitagliano Who is it?
Caroline Journalism.
Ed Vitagliano Journalism.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. They always. Horses can have any name m. In the world.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. It's always pretty.
Caroline And, Toby Keith has a horse. It was his dream come true to have a horse in the Kentucky Derby. It's going to be in the race tomorrow. His name is Render or her name is Render. Judgment.
Ed Vitagliano Render Judgment.
Ed Vitagliano Okay, now, Gina, I am going to say there. There is some question about whether the horse Journalism is actually going to win, because lately it's been leaning to the left.
Ed Vitagliano Oh.
Ed Vitagliano So that's.
Ed Vitagliano Well, well played. Might wind up over in the rail. Hey, only you talked about her. You know, that his horse is female. Only three girl, horses have won over the years. Only three.
Ed Vitagliano Wow.
Tim Wildmon But they weren't males claiming to be.
Ed Vitagliano No, they didn't identify as a. I.
Tim Wildmon Just want to make sure.
Ed Vitagliano I mean, they didn't identify as a mayor.
Tim Wildmon All right, thank you.
How many people attend Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby Day
Gina, I may have a answer to our, question.
Ed Vitagliano Good, good.
Tim Wildmon So this, Dr. Snopes, I typed in how many. How many people attend Churchill Downs.
Ed Vitagliano Good.
Tim Wildmon And here's the answer. Today, Churchill Downs covers 147 acres. The usual number of people seated at the Kentucky Derby is 50,000. Okay. Though crowds can reach over 150,000 on Derby Day.
Ed Vitagliano Wow.
Tim Wildmon Now, so.
Ed Vitagliano So standing room only.
Tim Wildmon If, in fact, you're talking about 150,000 people in one place at one time.
Ed Vitagliano Right.
Tim Wildmon That would be more than, any World Series or World Super Bowl. So that may be that maybe what they're.
Ed Vitagliano Well, there they go. 50,000 in the stands and then spread out behind the stands, you know, in the grassy area. 150,000, you know, so I hope you're still listening.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. Now, Am I imagining it, or when the people who go to the stands, do they dress up in the old, like, gowns with the umbrellas and all that kind of stuff?
Ed Vitagliano They dress up. They have these big. Part of the derby is the bigger. The hat. The big hat. And then whatever reason, the popular drink is mint julep. You know, you don't hear about that too often, but you hear of. You hear of it day in, day out there. Mint julep, parasail, big old hat. And you're right.
Tim Wildmon You can parasail there.
Ed Vitagliano Yes. You can parasail right over.
Tim Wildmon Good night. they got it all right off the river. Coming right off the R. Parasail over.
Ed Vitagliano The Churchill town freaks out the horses.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon Amazing.
Ed Vitagliano Now, it's not as common because they get hung up with the drones. You know, they get,
Ed Vitagliano What's a mint julep?
Ed Vitagliano I've heard of drink, alcoholic drink, so I don't say. Yeah, I'm a teetotaler, so I don't want to give it much credit.
Ed Vitagliano Okay.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. So, All right, back to the phone, Dan.
Welcome to Trivia Friday with Savannah from Western Kentucky
Ed Vitagliano All right. We go, actually to Kentucky, and Savannah is on the line. I've always loved the name Savannah. Welcome to Trivia Friday.
Caroline Hey, guys, this is awesome.
Ed Vitagliano What part of Kentucky. Savannah. What part of Kentucky?
Caroline A. Ah, little bitty town called Wycliffe. It's kind of the tri State, where I live. You actually. We have a bridge, and you can go right and go to Illinois, or you can go left and go to Missouri, but you've got Kentucky, Missouri, and Illinois. All right, there's.
Ed Vitagliano Wow.
Tim Wildmon Is it where the rivers converge? Almost.
Caroline Yes.
Tim Wildmon The Ohio and the Mississippi. Yeah.
Caroline Yes.
Tim Wildmon Yeah.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. You're. You're in a good part of the country. I grew up in Owensboro, you know, a little bit up the river from where you are. But I bet you've enjoyed hearing about all the Kentucky Derby thing. Hey, Savannah, people that don't live in Kentucky, they don't realize how, like, two or three weeks in advance. That's all that's on the news every night. Every night.
Caroline I know it. Yes. It's a huge thing. My stepmom. Heck, she's gonna. She's got her hat ready, and she watches it on TV every time it comes on.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah. She wears her hat. Oh, yeah. People have. People have. Absolutely. She's gotta have the hat at church, in the community.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. It's like a Super Bowl.
Ed Vitagliano Yeah.
Tim Wildmon People get together to watch.
Ed Vitagliano Right?
Ed Vitagliano Right.
Tim Wildmon Yeah, but.
Ed Vitagliano But, we knew it mostly in Kentucky and elsewhere around the world. Kinda know about it.
Tim Wildmon If you grew up in Boston, I doubt you.
Ed Vitagliano No.
Ed Vitagliano Well, you have tea parties.
Tim Wildmon Yeah. That was good, J.J. all right, Savannah, can you hold on? Because we gotta take a, break.
Ed Vitagliano Okay.
Tim Wildmon We're gonna Savannah from, Western Kentucky, where we're gonna talk to, Savannah after the break, and we'll, have trivia with her, and then we'll continue on Olivia in Louisiana. And, we got Michael in Ohio and Erlene in Ohio, Oklahoma. So we're gonna go back to the phone when we get back from this short time out. Stay with us.
Ed Vitagliano The views and opinions expressed in.
Caroline This broadcast may not necessarily reflect those.
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