Tim Wildmon: It’s first-time caller day on Trivia Friday. The number to call with your question or your answer to a question is 888-589-8840. It is first-time callers, so start lining up, folks.

Tim Wildmon: I’m Tim Wildmon, and in studio with me, there’s a lot of IQ people. We’ve got IQ 20 in this room.

Mark: Are you saying R-I-Q-20?

JJ: I wonder if you’ve been visioned.

Mark: If you didn’t know you were insulted, then your IQ is 20.

Tim Wildmon: Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to Trivia Friday right here on American Family Radio. Thanks for listening to AFR, Friday, October the 30th. I want to say happy birthday to my lovely and talented wife, Allison.

Mark: Whoa, happy birthday, Allison.

Tim Wildmon: Good morning, Mark.

Mark: Thank you, Tim.

Tim Wildmon: Good morning, JJ Jasper.

JJ: Great to be here.

JJ: I have a remarkable story to tell you guys. This fellow’s great-grandfather, of course, this was a long time ago, saw the Titanic. As people were getting on board, he begged them, “Do not get on that ship!” To the ones who had already boarded, he pleaded, “Get off that boat! Get off that boat!” He was passionate and loud.

Mark: Well, until they escorted him out of the theater.

JJ: Yeah, not a good day.

Tim Wildmon: We’re off to a roaring start today, ladies and gentlemen. JJ is bringing the heat, bringing the comedy heat.

Mark: It’s not often I get asked to do this, so I know you’re scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Tim Wildmon: Well, I told JJ I’d be here. I said, “Even Brother Bert couldn’t do it anymore.”

Mark: He didn’t say, “Oh boy, it’s going to be you.” He said, “Oh, what’s Brother Bert doing?”

Tim Wildmon: No offense taken.

JJ: Can we look at the dugout? Maybe see who else is there on the bench?

Tim Wildmon: No, you do a great job. You know this, but our listeners probably don’t. Mark’s dad actually was a rocket scientist.

Mark: I love what Ed Vitagliano says. Anytime somebody’s trying to overthink something, he says, “Hey, listen, it’s not rocket surgery.” He mixes the two together. But your dad was a rocket scientist.

Tim Wildmon: He really was.

Mark: When he retired from the Air Force, he was the Titan launch manager at Vandenberg Air Force Base. From there, he went to Martin Marietta and did research and development on solid rocket boosters.

Tim Wildmon: So did you disappoint him after that?

Mark: We all did.

Tim Wildmon: “Look, son, I’ve set a great example of what you can achieve in life. What are you doing with your life?”

Mark: It was a little tough, actually, because he couldn’t tell us what he was doing while he was in the Air Force. So we never got to say, “Dad’s a rocket scientist.”

Tim Wildmon: Oh, that’s true.

Mark: Once you’re out of school, the bragging rights don’t mean as much.

Tim Wildmon: All right, first-time callers only on Trivia Friday. The phone number to reach us here is 888-589-8840. Again, today is first-time callers only. We want you to answer and ask. That’s the idea: answer one of our trivia questions, which we’re about to give you, and ask us one. The phone number is 888-589-8840. You have to be 11 years old or older, obviously, to call in on the show. JJ, what else have we got?

JJ: We’ve got a really nice opportunity for you to win something. Again, this is for first-time callers.

Tim Wildmon: You know what? Oh, we’ve got music for this.

Mark: I’m glad I’m not the only one who hears music in my head.

JJ: That’s the first one that I wrote. I can’t come up with the next part. I’m just trying to play it again.

Mark: So he doesn’t even know how he did that.

JJ: No, that was one of those tabs that I had open in my mind, and it went through the board here.

Mark: There were technical difficulties, which were within our control, but we failed to control them.

Tim Wildmon: So back to the fact that you have a chance to win something. When you woke up this morning, you probably didn’t think you were going to win anything. We have our original nine questions. One is the mystery question. If you land on it and answer it correctly, you’ll hear this sound.

JJ: Oh, I love it.

Mark: That means you’re going to win a Learning University T-shirt.

Tim Wildmon: On the next play. And that is the story of the Bulldogs’ season so far. But I will not stay on that topic.

Mark: Talking about Mississippi State.

JJ: And the cowbell.

Tim Wildmon: All right. So anyway, I guess that’s it.

Mark: I think that’s it.

JJ: Yes. Let’s get to our questions.

Mark: All right. I’ve got three questions, obviously. The first one’s a true-or-false question. Fossil records have been found indicating that a prehistoric giant dragonfly with a wingspan of about two feet existed. Is that true or false?

JJ: Are you going full JJ on us right there with that question?

Mark: Is that true?

Tim Wildmon: Can you do it in a little higher voice? Repeat that real quick.

JJ: What about a dragonfly leaving Denver going how fast? And it had 90 gears.

Mark: A fossil has been found indicating that a prehistoric dragonfly with a wingspan of at least two feet existed. Is that true or false?

JJ: There was a deal before they had DDT. Bugs and things grew a lot bigger, and they had it a lot worse back then.

Tim Wildmon: Your modern-day fly swatter is not going to cut it on that one.

Mark: No.

JJ: You’ve got to build one with a piece of plywood and a two-by-six for a handle.

Tim Wildmon: Get your shotgun out. Here comes a dragonfly, honey.

Mark: Oh, wait. Shotguns hadn’t been invented.

JJ: We’re in trouble. Everybody run for the cave.

Mark: Literally, run for the cave.

Mark: All right, question number two: What is the smallest species of bat in the world? There are two names for this bat. I’ll take either one.

JJ: And then what percentage of voters turned out for this week’s elections in Israel?

Mark: What percentage of voters?

JJ: Can we round it up?

Mark: Sure, we can round it.

JJ: In fact, why don’t I even do a multiple choice with it?

Mark: Why don’t you do a multiple choice with 40 percent, 60 percent, or 80 percent?

JJ: Okay, good.

JJ: All right, here’s what I’ve got. First question from the Bible: He was one of the original twelve disciples, and he introduced his brother Simon Peter to Jesus. Name him.

JJ: He was one of the original twelve apostles, and he introduced his brother Simon Peter to Jesus. Name him.

Mark: Second question: What river forms most of the border between Georgia and Alabama? What river forms most of the border between Georgia and Alabama?

Mark: Third question: A lot of people are going to be eating candy this weekend. I want to know, in what year were Skittles candy first sold in the United States? Was it 1974, A; 1984, B; or 1994, C?

JJ: Skittles. When did they come out? ’74, ’84, or ’94?

Tim Wildmon: There’s a river. You tell me a river divides Alabama?

JJ: That’s what I thought when I saw that. I didn’t even know that was part of the border.

Tim Wildmon: Most of the border between Georgia and Alabama.

JJ: Very good question.

Tim Wildmon: Well, I wondered why you were on your phone.

JJ: Every time I drive to Georgia, most every time I drive to Georgia, I go straight to Atlanta. So I never noticed the Georgia-Alabama border. Going to Atlanta from Birmingham, there’s no river.

Mark: Right.

JJ: But you’re right. I was looking at that. Good question, JJ.

Mark: Thank you.

JJ: There is a river that makes up most of the border between Georgia and Alabama. What is it?

Mark: All right, here are my three questions. Number one: The largest use of cotton is clothing. What is the second-largest use of cotton?

JJ: Oh, man, I can guess, but I probably wouldn’t win.

Mark: Don’t guess, because it’s for the listeners.

JJ: I was wondering, do you know how much a cotton bale weighs?

Tim Wildmon: A cotton bale weighs?

Mark: No, I don’t.

JJ: How much? Fifty pounds?

Tim Wildmon: No, I’m guessing it’s like two and a half tons, but I’m just guessing.

Mark: Yeah, I was just guessing too.

JJ: I mean, I was way off by a long shot.

Mark: Okay, so everybody got that?

Tim Wildmon: Yes, sir.

Mark: The largest use of cotton is clothing. What is the second-largest use of cotton?

JJ: It’s a big crop in America, right?

Tim Wildmon: Yes, it is.

Mark: Number two: The American duo from Indiana, Bill and Gloria Gaither, have written 700 gospel songs.

JJ: Wow.

Mark: I want to know three of them.

JJ: Oh, good. I thought you were going to say, “Is that true?”

Mark: That is true. I looked it up. I want to know, without asking somebody or looking it up, if you can do it that way, we’ll send you an AFR Trivia Friday T-shirt. If you know the answer, call in.

JJ: You got that question?

Mark: The American duo Bill and Gloria Gaither, who hail from Indiana, have written 700 gospel songs. Name three of them.

JJ: They’ve got a lot of very popular songs, and they’re even in hymnals.

Mark: Do they even have hymnals anymore? I don’t know.

JJ: What is the largest land animal by weight in North America? What is the largest land animal by weight in North America?

Mark: There you go. Those are my questions. Let’s go to the phones.

Tim Wildmon: All righty.

Mark: Let’s start out with Seth in Kentucky. Seth, welcome. You’re on Trivia Friday.

Seth: Hello.

Tim Wildmon: Hey, Seth. How are you doing, brother?

Seth: Pretty good. How about you all?

Tim Wildmon: Thank you. Where are you calling from in Kentucky?

Seth: Ballard County.

JJ: Ballard County. I said I’m from Daviess County. I was born in Owensboro, Kentucky. You ever get up that way?

Seth: Rarely.

JJ: Well, it’s worth going. When you cross over into the city limits, put your hand over your heart. That would mean a lot. It’s hallowed ground. There’s a sign outside the city that says, “J.J. Jasper left here.”

Mark: Well, it’s a picture of me being tarred and feathered.

Seth: It says to ask, answer, or do both, sir. I guess I’ll try both.

Mark: Okay. Which one do you want to answer?

Seth: The one about the dragonfly.

Mark: All right. A fossil has been found indicating that a prehistoric dragonfly with a wingspan of at least two feet existed. Is that true or not?

Seth: I want to say false.

Mark: That is absolutely 100 percent true.

Seth: Wow.

Mark: If I’m going to pronounce it correctly, I think it’s called the Meganeura.

JJ: It is. Two and a half feet.

Mark: That’s right. You said, “If I’m pronouncing it right,” and you got it right.

Seth: I can’t believe that. My favorite kind of insect, I think, is a dragonfly, but not that big.

JJ: A little biplane.

Seth: What are the chances of us having the same favorite insect?

JJ: Well, we graduated almost the same year, so maybe that has something to do with it.

Mark: Hey, great job, Seth, for trying. Do you have a question for us?

Seth: I don’t have a second one.

Mark: Do you know how to use it? You’re glossing over a two-foot dragonfly.

JJ: You know, if it were a mosquito, it could have drained you dry.

Mark: Yeah, that’s just one biter right there.

JJ: My wife, do you know what it is? If you’re a student of insects, do you know what that’s called?

Mark: Anybody?

JJ: Something like entomology.

Mark: An entomologist.

JJ: My wife said I should have become an entomologist because I’m very interested in insects. I got to about my junior year in college studying that.

Tim Wildmon: Did you?

JJ: Yeah, then I changed majors, like we all do, right? So I could have been on that path to be an entomologist.

Mark: Most entomologists grow up to become exterminators.

JJ: No kidding.

Mark: Yeah, because you learn about what you love and then you go out and kill it.

JJ: I said, “No thanks. I don’t want to do that.”

Mark: So where were we?

JJ: Two-foot dragonfly.

Mark: Yeah, all right. What’s your question for us, Seth?

Seth: I’m a bit of a car guy, so this is for you car guys. What year did GM or Chevrolet introduce throttle-body fuel injection?

JJ: You get the truck question.

Tim Wildmon: You know, it’s just going to be a guess.

Seth: Before that, what you had to do was get up in the morning and go out there and start your truck. If it was freezing cold, it didn’t matter. You had to sit there and pump that gas pedal, just freezing, because it didn’t have fuel injection. You had a carburetor, and you also had to change the points and plugs. If you didn’t have a feeler gauge, you could take a matchbook cover to get pretty close, enough to get it running.

Tim Wildmon: Seth, I don’t know. I’m going to say ’95.

JJ: I’m going to say ’91, but that’s purely a guess.

Mark: I’ll guess ’85.

Tim Wildmon: What’s the answer, Seth?

Seth: Mark is the closest. I think it’s ’87.

JJ: Oh!

Mark: What was the question again?

Seth: It’s carburetor-related.

Mark: Okay.

Seth: The square-body, GM’s most popular, probably had carburetors up until the very last year they discontinued it, which was ’87. Then they went to the body style they call the OBS these days. It’s what I drive, and it’s probably my favorite personally. That’s when they introduced throttle-body fuel injection. 1987 was the first year of that and the last year of the square body.

JJ: Carbureted fuel injection gives a little squirt of fuel, just a little bit into it.

Seth: It’s so much better and so much easier. You just start it, and it keeps running on a cold morning.

Tim Wildmon: Hey, Seth, I had an ’84. I never dreamed those square bodies were going to be so expensive and popular, but that was a great truck.

Mark: You know, the year after they introduced throttle-body fuel injection, they introduced throttle-body cleaner.

Tim Wildmon: Did they really?

Mark: Absolutely.

JJ: Where do you get that, Mark? Where can you pick that up?

Mark: At your car parts store.

Tim Wildmon: Hey, Seth, thanks for listening to AFR.

Seth: I think that’s what I need.

JJ: Go, Big Blue.

Tim Wildmon: Have a great weekend.

Seth: Thank you.

Mark: All right, next up is Molly. I didn’t mean to cut you off, Phil. I’m new here.

JJ: The one carburetor came in and went out.

Mark: Well, the throttle body, if it gets dirty, is a big problem in cars and trucks, so they came up with a cleaner.

JJ: You don’t want to hear that from your mechanic, do you?

Mark: “Your throttle body got dirty. I’m sorry. There’s nothing we can do about it except spray it with this stuff. If we do it, it’s going to cost a couple hundred dollars, but if you do it at home, fifteen dollars.”

JJ: Hey, Dollar General.

Mark: Go ahead. Who’s next?

Mark: I’ve got Molly on the line from Iowa. Molly, welcome to Trivia Friday.

Molly: Hello.

Mark: Hello, Molly.

Molly: Hi.

Tim Wildmon: Hi, Molly.

Molly: Sorry, I wasn’t sure it was on right away. Thank you so much for taking my call. I’m so excited to get in.

Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Molly. Where are you calling from in the Hawkeye State?

Molly: I’m in Dubuque, Iowa.

Tim Wildmon: We’ve got a relatively new station there. Thank you for listening to AFR.

Molly: I always enjoy your show. Probably the reason I’m a first-time caller is that I almost always work on Fridays. The times I’ve been off, I’ve tried calling and haven’t gotten in, so I’m excited. I’m very thankful for your podcast because obviously I’m working, and I listen to this show on podcast and many of your shows.

Tim Wildmon: Well, thank you.

Molly: Thank you so much.

Mark: You got through the show today, Molly. We’re glad to have you.

JJ: Just don’t blow it.

Molly: Okay.

Mark: Good luck. Do you want to ask, answer, or do both?

Molly: I would love to do both, please.

Mark: Which one do you want to answer?

Molly: I’d like to answer the Bible question, JJ’s.

JJ: Here we go. He was one of the original twelve disciples, and he introduced his brother Simon Peter to Jesus. Name him, Molly.

Molly: That would be Andrew.

Mark: The mystery question has been answered already. First-time caller Molly got through. Look at this, Molly. You woke up this morning not thinking you were going to win anything. What do you think about that? You know what that cowbell means?

Molly: I sure do.

JJ: That’s your favorite.

Tim Wildmon: If people are watching on the internet right now, on YouTube, Facebook, or our own streaming platform, we are holding up the Learning University T-shirt, our third design. You’re going to love it.

Mark: Molly, stay on the line so we can get your T-shirt size and address.

Tim Wildmon: Congratulations. Excellent.

JJ: So what was the question and answer right there?

Mark: It was Andrew. Andrew was the disciple who led his brother Simon Peter to Jesus. You only hear Andrew pop up a couple of times. He was the one who got the loaves and fishes from the little boy, but you only see him show up a couple of times.

Tim Wildmon: But look at Peter, who wrote First and Second Peter. He cut off a person’s ear. He stepped out of the boat and walked on water, and on and on and on.

Mark: Andrew was responsible for leading his brother to Christ.

JJ: So once again, a brother overshadows a brother.

Tim Wildmon: I hate it when that happens.

Mark: Molly, what’s your question for us?

Molly: I have a question from the realm of nursing, so I guess it’s a health care question.

JJ: We’re ready. I’ve got a guess.

Molly: You see on movies and television, they show people in the hospital, and they’ll show the EKG screen where you can see the little blips of the heart rate going by.

Tim Wildmon: Yes, it’s the throne of the body section of the heart.

JJ: We’ve got this, Molly.

Molly: There are five characteristic little markers in the EKG waveform for each heartbeat. Can you name them? They each have a letter designation.

JJ: There’s one thing I want to say first. People are familiar with EKGs and all these kinds of things, but I want to know that people know what EGG is.

Tim Wildmon: It is an egg.

JJ: Don’t overthink it, people. When you go to the doctor, you need to be your own advocate. If they say they want to give you something with some initials, make sure they’re not just giving you a hard-boiled egg.

Mark: I’m going to leave it up to the rocket scientist’s son and the sports writer.

Tim Wildmon: How many of those five characteristics do we need to name?

Molly: There are typically five.

Tim Wildmon: You want all five letters?

Molly: Yes.

Mark: You’re killing us here.

JJ: Are we talking about the machine? The blips, the registers to your heart and your blood pressure and all that stuff when you’re in the hospital bed, your heart monitor?

Molly: Your heart monitor. There are five different things going on there.

Molly: I’m sorry. I feel like I’m not explaining it very well. When you look at one tracing of one heartbeat, each heartbeat has five parts designated by a letter.

Tim Wildmon: I can name two.

Molly: Good.

Tim Wildmon: Hey, Mark, go ahead and name two.

Mark: They’re the same as radio: amplitude and frequency.

Molly: No.

JJ: Nice try.

Mark: That’s not me. I’m an FM.

Tim Wildmon: Molly, number one, you don’t want us to ever do surgery on anybody else.

Molly: That’s for sure.

JJ: I could do it, but it would take me a few minutes.

Mark: You better do it for us.

JJ: It’s just one of those recall things. It’s back there. I just can’t recall it right now.

Mark: If it happened out in the field during wartime, and if I had my tackle box with me, I’d play if I could keep you alive.

Tim Wildmon: I don’t know what she’s asking for.

Mark: I just don’t know.

JJ: What irritates me is when the battery goes out on those things when somebody’s in the hospital bed.

Tim Wildmon: Right.

JJ: And it just goes, “Beep.”

Mark: I’m sorry. An emergency nurse’s battery went out.

JJ: Because he always thinks it’s a fire alarm. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stopped, dropped, and rolled, and that’s embarrassing when you’re there in the hospital room.

Mark: All right, Molly, tell us the answer.

Molly: It’s PQRST. Does it ring a bell?

Tim Wildmon: PQR? I’m thinking about being in the optometrist’s office. I believe that’s the second-to-last line. That’s the only one I can read.

Mark: Explain it to us. This is a good question.

Molly: When you look up at the screen and see the heartbeats going by, the first little blip is the P wave. That signifies the upper chambers of your heart, the atria, expanding and contracting. It’s the electrical current going through.

Tim Wildmon: One of you was on the right track.

Molly: After that P wave, there’s a QRS. Those three letters are the tracings of the electrical activity going through the ventricles when they’re depolarizing, and then they repolarize in the T wave.

Tim Wildmon: I’m going to interrupt you, Molly, because we’re going to break. In all seriousness, to your point, and thank you for being in the medical field, we are fearfully and wonderfully knitted together in our mother’s womb. That is so true. What was that last thing you said, Molly?

Molly: The T wave is the repolarization of the ventricles.

JJ: Right. When they kicked Pluto out of the solar system, they changed that T.

Mark: She didn’t know. There was a story about that last week. I was reading in my medical journal, and they changed what Molly was talking about.

Tim Wildmon: Very good. We’re going to take a break right here. Molly’s giving her address, right, so we can get her T-shirt?

Mark: Wonderful.

JJ: Okay.

Tim Wildmon: We’ll be back with you.

Mark: Congratulations. Stay with us.