155 Head Scratching Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
When were the first electronic games played? And who was their father? Who was her father? Yes.

Marcia Smith 0:06
And what are the most promiscuous countries in the world promiscuous?

Bob Smith 0:11
This will be interesting answers to those another interesting questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob Marsha

Marcia Smith 0:20
Smith

Bob Smith 0:37
Welcome to the off ramp a chance to slow down. Steer clear of crazy. Take a side road to Saturday and get some perspective on life. Well perspective, what countries are the most promiscuous in the world? What’s the definition of that Marsha,

Marcia Smith 0:53
according to world population review, the figures are based on the number of sexual partners you’ve had in your life. Oh, okay. So that’s how they rate your promise. promiscuity, promiscuity? Promise of security. Later tonight,

Bob Smith 1:11
okay, so tell me what are the most promiscuous countries in the

Marcia Smith 1:15
world? That’s my question, Bob. You’re supposed to answer me.

Bob Smith 1:18
So tell me the answer. Okay. All right. I would have said the United States is like number 1am. I

Marcia Smith 1:25
wrong. Oh, very. Oh, they’re 22 Oh,

Bob Smith 1:28
22. Oh, well, well, well,

Marcia Smith 1:32
guess who’s behind it? 23. France.

Bob Smith 1:36
Really? You think they’d be a top five? What’s wrong with those people?

Marcia Smith 1:40
So the question is, yes. Who are the top three?

Bob Smith 1:44
Okay, the top three most promiscuous countries. For some reason Scandinavian countries came into my mind. Because all those movies that came out of Sweden and so forth, so I’ll say Sweden? No. Okay. I’m at a loss for this machine. What are

Marcia Smith 1:57
they? Okay, Finland. Really? So that’s up there. New Zealand, which is down there. And Slovenia? No kidding. Yes. Finland, comes in at an average whopping 50.5 partners per person.

Bob Smith 2:12
Holy cow. 55 sexual partners in their lives. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 2:16
Feeling a little inadequate. Are you?

Bob Smith 2:19
Did I not explore enough? I don’t know

Marcia Smith 2:22
you did not. US came in at 37.5. And France was right behind it. 36.7. Okay, at the bottom. Nobody wants to be at the bottom of this list. But they got enough problems as it is. I don’t think sex is on their mind that much. It’s Bengal dish. Wow. And they come in at this will irritate you at 19 Point 67. That’s the bog behind the whole

Bob Smith 2:47
world. So how did they do this is the average number of sexual partners in a lifetime? Yeah, I

Marcia Smith 2:55
assume? Well, I

Bob Smith 2:56
would hope so. Yeah. It’s not like in an afternoon, Chase. Finland. I don’t know, what is the source of that, again, the

Marcia Smith 3:03
world population review. And that’s from their Statistical Abstract.

Bob Smith 3:09
Sounds like that was a boring job. They asked that question. In addition to everything else.

Marcia Smith 3:12
How many people lied? Do they lie a lot and fair? Well, I’m sure they do make the rest of us feel badly about.

Bob Smith 3:21
Okay, now my question. All right, we got through your sex question. Let’s get down to business here. When were the first electronic games played and who was their father? We’re not talking about something in this century necessarily. When were the first electronic?

Marcia Smith 3:39
All right, it wasn’t in this. Yeah. No, it was in the 1970s. No, 60s?

Bob Smith 3:48
Nope. 50s? Nope. 40? No. You could say you can say, Marcia, that the first electronic games go back more than 180 years. Hmm. And that their father is Samuel FB Morse code Morse code. Okay. So let me explain this. Okay. All right. So of course, he was the man who perfected the telegraph, and he demonstrated that instant communication could be used for both news and entertainment purposes. If you go to the nation’s capitol, the original Supreme Court chambers are in the capitol downstairs. And there on the wall, you’ll see a plaque saying this is where Samuel Morse set up the telegraph and demonstrated it, he strung a wire between Baltimore, Maryland and the US Capitol. And he impressed the US Congressman with news from the Democratic National Convention where was taking place that summer in Baltimore. So they’re standing around getting all these, so and so’s ahead now? Oh, wow. Interesting. Okay. But he also let his telegraph be used by chess players in Washington and Baltimore, who played each other remotely. So you could say that Samuel Morse invented electronic games because those 1844 chess matches were done via telegraph the first games ever played remotely instantly, and it was insane. communications yes

Marcia Smith 5:00
via Morse code. That is a cool answer. Isn’t that interesting? It was I’d never heard that part of it. And you can play chess now online and all that, but I never thought of doing via Morse code. Cool. Okay, when, where or how were the first taxes collected? Bob, can you answer any?

Bob Smith 5:17
I think that goes back to ancient times because we know there were taxes collected in the Bible at least 2000 years ago. So I bet it goes back to ancient Egypt farther.

Marcia Smith 5:25
Okay, earliest taxes were first seen in ancient Mesopotamia, around 6000 BCE.

Bob Smith 5:34
While that’s 8000 years ago, considered to be the cradle

Marcia Smith 5:37
of civilization located in and around the current Irek. These ancients not only came up with taxes, but they came up with all sorts of things like the 24 hour day, 60 minute hour in the 360 degree circle. Anyway, when you paid your taxes, you paid in goods like 10% of your crop, and 10% was high. That’s only in times of war, he had a fork over 10%. But you got your receipt when you gave your taxes in a soft clay tablet, they wrote down your receipt and then they baked it as your permanent record. And that’s where

Bob Smith 6:11
a lot of the early writing comes from. Yes. From tax purposes or accounting. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 6:15
I just love it. Here’s your receipts. You know, punk.

Bob Smith 6:19
How do you open up the receipt drawer? Yeah, nothing. You could actually pull pull out of your pocket there. 100 pounds of receipts a year? I goodness. Yeah, the big businesses had whole rooms with big clay tablets, apparently. Yeah. Hey, speaking of big where can you find the world’s largest butterfly? And how big

Marcia Smith 6:36
is it? Well, you know, I was not thinking about that. I

Bob Smith 6:39
want to do some muck. Some answers. Thank you, Mexico, Germany, India, or New Guinea, I’ll say Oh, New Guinea. And you’re right. It is in the coastal rain forests of eastern New Guinea. It’s called the Queen Alexandra bird wing, known as the birdwing butterfly named for the wife of King Edward the seventh of England. It is a big butterfly. All right, the wingspan of females can reach a foot wide no

Marcia Smith 7:05
butterfly, I can see I can see birds but up to I don’t like

Bob Smith 7:10
and that’s 50% larger than their more colorful males and nearly 11 inches or 11 times wider than the average butterfly. Wow,

Marcia Smith 7:19
that’s interesting. Why are the boys always more colorful in the animal world?

Bob Smith 7:24
So the biggest butterfly is the birdwing butterfly with a wingspan of a foot wide up to a foot wide.

Marcia Smith 7:32
I’d love to see it. Yeah. We’ve been to that. What is that the butterfly exhibit at the Milwaukee museum you walk in and all those butterflies and flailing around nothing there without foot scare

Bob Smith 7:43
the hell out of you and get that out of her.

Marcia Smith 7:46
Is that per wing? A footlong? No, it’s

Bob Smith 7:49
a wingspan. Okay, that was both

Marcia Smith 7:51
of them. Okay, Bob, we went from promiscuous to what country has the lowest birth rate, the lowest

Bob Smith 7:58
birth rate? Okay,

Marcia Smith 8:00
thank you through

Bob Smith 8:01
I would see it would be something like Greenland or Iceland thinking like No, think it through, think it through. What does that mean?

Marcia Smith 8:08
That means it’s obvious if you think of all the countries of the world that number one would be

Bob Smith 8:13
okay. not obvious to me. What’s the answer? Vatican City or Vatican City

Marcia Smith 8:18
of doors, they have a birth rate of zero. factor of the 1000 residents there are only 30 that are women. They’re mostly married to the Swiss Guards who guard the place. So that Vatican City is number one, but other than that, who’s the next one is South Korea? Oddly enough, it has the lowest fertility rate globally at 0.9 children per woman. Wow. It’s closely followed by Puerto Rico at 1.0. And then followed by Malta, Singapore and parts of Hong Kong at 1.1 children. So those are the lowest birth rate countries in the world.

Bob Smith 8:57
Okay, Marcia, we have word origins. We have phrase origins. I’m going to ask you where these two phrases came from. Okay. Okay. All right. seen better days? You know that? Look at me. I’ve seen better days and forever and today. Where did those two expressions come from? Same source seen better days and forever in a day? They’re expressions that come from the Bible, Shakespeare Shakespeare. Yeah, seen better days comes from as you like it act two scene two. I should have known that true it is we have seen better days and have with holy Belbin old to church and sat that cetera, et cetera. And then the other one forever in a day is from As You Like It, act for seen one. Now tell me how long you would have her after you possessed her forever. And today. Orlando says those lines were so great that that’s like five 600 years ago, and those expressions have lasted all this time. People

Marcia Smith 9:54
started using them and they still do, but I didn’t know it was Shakespeare at all. I

Bob Smith 9:59
like those kinds of things. because it usually that’s one source or the other. It’s either Shakespeare or the Bible where a lot of these famous expressions come from

Marcia Smith 10:06
now, what is the national animal of Scotland? The national

Bob Smith 10:09
animal of Scotland? Wow, I don’t know the national animal of Scotland.

Marcia Smith 10:14
We got the ego England has a lion and Scotland has

Bob Smith 10:19
Scotland as a Guana. No, let’s see the national of Scotland a little Scottish Terrier, maybe?

Marcia Smith 10:27
Oh, that’s a cute Yeah, but no, it’s the single horn mythical unicorn.

Bob Smith 10:32
Oh, it’s not even a real animal.

Marcia Smith 10:35
That unicorn represents purity, independence, and an untameable spirit, which are all qualities Scotland has long cherished so they like the qualities of a unicorn and that’s the animal that they choose to identify with. Okay.

Bob Smith 10:50
All right. geographic question.

Marcia Smith 10:52
Oh, I hate those.

Bob Smith 10:54
Where is the country whose name is Latin for Sunday? A country whose name is Latin for Sunday. Now I’ll give you a hint. It’s in the Caribbean. Okay. Latin person day. They many know what Dominica for Columbus first laid eyes on what is now known as the Caribbean island nation of Dominica on a Sunday. Okay, November the third 1493. So he named it for Sunday and in Latin Dominica means Sunday. That’s what Dominica means. And of course, the island had a name before Columbus arrived. The native Catholic Nago people call their island what to Kabuli. Which means tall is her body. Tall is her body. I don’t understand that. That sounds more interesting than Sunday to me. Going back to your first question. Okay. All right. All right. Let

Marcia Smith 11:46
me just say this, but

Bob Smith 11:48
what are you yawning for? So do this? What’s

Marcia Smith 11:51
the purpose of a yawn, Bob? Well,

Bob Smith 11:53
now this is something that they’ve been studying and they’ve been kind of yawning their way through this one. And now they think they know the answer. Yeah. Have they fallen asleep while doing it? It’s my question.

Marcia Smith 12:05
You’re hitting the wall here, aren’t ya? Okay. Today, researchers believe that its primary function is to regulate your brain temperature, really your brain temperature, your brain is the most energy hungry organ in your body and uses about 40% of your total metabolic energy. That means your brain tends to run hot. And when it needs to cool down you yawn kind of like a computer fan. You know,

Bob Smith 12:30
no kidding. It kicks on like a computer.

Marcia Smith 12:34
Now we’re doing it. People young more frequently in cooler climates for some reason, and nobody knows what really, but yawn triggers are things like boredom, drowsiness, because your brain needs to be stimulated. And less common events are anxiety, hunger, or even a change of activity. Anytime your brain needs some extra focus, it can trigger a cooldown. Wait

Bob Smith 12:57
a minute, so your brain needs to cool down because you’re bored. That doesn’t

Marcia Smith 13:02
make sense. It tends to run hot when it’s not doing anything. Oh, really. So

Bob Smith 13:07
it’s like a motor that’s not connected to something. It’s just keep spinning and spinning. And if it’s bored,

Marcia Smith 13:12
off heat, or hungry or something, it’s just gets too hot. And so you yawn and you bring in cooler air.

Bob Smith 13:18
I can’t wait for the first teenager to tell that to his teacher.

Marcia Smith 13:21
My cooling down.

Bob Smith 13:22
Sorry my brain needed to be cooled down so the fan came on and that’s why I yawn that’s a good man. Oh my god bad. All right, we

Marcia Smith 13:30
need to go to break already.

Bob Smith 13:34
You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob Marsha. Marsha snit Smith wake up. We’re back. Marsh’s had her cat nap and we’re ready to move on. Marsha. What makes up 60% of all beverage sales at Starbucks. You’d like to go to Starbucks. I do. You’d like Starbucks drinks? Yes, I do. So what makes up 60% of all beverage sales. What do they have in common? 60% of all beverage sales. Or more

Marcia Smith 14:04
at Starbucks. Well, besides that they have caffeine in them. No, no,

Bob Smith 14:09
it’s just the opposite. I have no caffeine. Well, so much for hot coffee. You’re around at least 60% of all Starbuck drink sales are for cold beverages. They may have caffeine but they’re not hot coffee. Year round, including the winter months at least 60% of Starbucks drink sales are for cold drinks. That’s amazing. And in summer months cold drinks can account for up to 75% of all Starbucks sales. That would be just the opposite. Yes, you would, wouldn’t you? But that was true for most of 2021 and 2022. According to a New York Times article entitled, that hot cup of Joe is so 20th century

Marcia Smith 14:49
people don’t like Starbucks because it’s too popular or cliche, but it’s cliche for

Bob Smith 14:54
a reason. It’s good and they have good good cool drinks too,

Marcia Smith 14:57
obviously are suckers for that. Java chip Frappuccino Oh

Bob Smith 15:01
god, I love those things hold and that that’s a that’s a that’s a nutritious drink.

Marcia Smith 15:06
Yeah, that’s like a candy bar and a glass. Okay, Bob, how many times a day does the average person blink? Oh,

Bob Smith 15:14
that’s good. I bet that hundreds of times I say, let’s see, every hour, let’s say every minute, hang on just a minute, I

Marcia Smith 15:21
can give you a minute, day or year?

Bob Smith 15:23
No, well, I can’t. Well, I

Marcia Smith 15:26
hope you’ve happy if it makes you happy. Just do one minute, okay.

Bob Smith 15:29
For every minute, I’d say 75 times 12. Okay,

Marcia Smith 15:33
10,000 times a day, wow. 10,000 times a day, any minutes in and out. But anyway, 10,000 times a day and 4.2 million times a year, the average person blinks? Okay,

Bob Smith 15:45
I have an interesting little question. You know, every once awhile when there’s something that happens in history, and there’s always some observer there that makes an observation and goes, you know, from this point on, this is going to happen, and you go, Wow, that guy really knew what he was talking about. So this goes back to a newspaper called The Niles register, which we’ve never heard of, but it was the first weekly to aggregate national news in the United States. And in 1831, it predicted something that had to do with the railroads. Its editor predicted something about America from that point on, that had to do with telling time.

Marcia Smith 16:21
Oh, that we would have universal standard time.

Bob Smith 16:25
No, that’s true. That did come about because of the railroads. Okay, in 1831, he declared from now on distance will not be measured by miles. But by hours and minutes, people will say it’s 10 hours to such a place or 49 minutes to another. Okay. And this editor, Hezekiah. Niles came up with this. He observed that at that time, I thought that was fascinating. Hezekiah.

Marcia Smith 16:46
Yeah. Isn’t that interesting? He was talking about you talked about

Bob Smith 16:51
the distance. Yeah. Because, you know, in some cases, it might take two days to get somewhere a railroad would be put in it take two hours to get there. So people would start measuring things in terms of how much time does it take,

Marcia Smith 17:01
like, we go to LA? Oh, it’s six, five hours? It’s Yes.

Bob Smith 17:05
hours? Yep. Say how many miles? You say how many minutes? Yeah, how many hours? So I thought that was a pretty good observation that goes all the way back to 1831. Okay, another observation. How did early journalist feel the telegraph changed American consciousness?

Marcia Smith 17:20
Wow. Obviously, it meant immediate news, which they never had before. Right? That’s

Bob Smith 17:25
exactly right. The New York Herald said that the Telegraph has originated in the mind a new species of consciousness. Never before was anyone conscious that he knew with certainty. What was happening somewhere in a distance city. Yeah, never before.

Marcia Smith 17:41
Been mind blowing. Yeah. I had many of those experiences in our lifetime, just with the evolving of the, you know, the computer, internet, the sharing files, the Twitter, whatever you could do

Bob Smith 17:55
every pictures, cell phones. Yeah. Video conferencing?

Marcia Smith 17:59
Yes. We’ve had many milestones. Absolutely fascinating. I’ll have another one in just a moment. Well, it is my turn, Bob.

Bob Smith 18:06
I don’t that’s why I’m teasing that. I’ve got something interesting coming up. Oh, and I don’t have a boring question. No, no, no, I’m just kidding. No.

Marcia Smith 18:14
Why do we say Bob buckled down? When it’s time to get serious? Huh? Where does that come?

Bob Smith 18:20
Come from? buckle down. buckle down.

Marcia Smith 18:24
Let’s buckle down. Now, Bob.

Bob Smith 18:25
Okay, that’s got to be something to do with a form of transportation, buckling, maybe like buckle into a train or would it be a stagecoach or something like that? Absolutely

Marcia Smith 18:35
wrong. Oh, it goes back to the days of knighthood. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. When preparing for combat, the knights would require their squires to attend to their armor by oiling it laying out and then buckling it onto their bodies. How well this was done could be the difference between life and death for the night. So buckling down was a very serious business. The Squire had to buckle it to his master. Okay, just so otherwise a sword could come through and kill you. Exactly. Just to play off that night thing. What was the big reason for the decline in popularity of suits of armor, Bob? Why did they go unpopular suddenly? Well,

Bob Smith 19:17
suddenly unpopular?

Marcia Smith 19:18
Well, pretty quickly,

Bob Smith 19:20
I would assume had something to do with gunpowder That

Marcia Smith 19:23
is exactly right. Yeah, good for you. Gunpowder could obliterate most suits of armor. And I would think the need to go to the bathroom was also a problem. The invention of guns was pretty much the end of knights in shining armor.

Bob Smith 19:39
Okay. All right. I have a question for you. What is the lowest altitude freshwater lake in the world now freshwater not saltwater, Lake Baikal in Russia, the Sea of Galilee in Israel, Lake Malawi in Africa or the Caspian Sea which is north of Iran. Which one is what the lowest the lowest altitude from Fish water lake in the world.

Marcia Smith 20:02
Okay, I’ll say the first one. Was that Russia In

Bob Smith 20:06
Russia? Yeah, no. Okay, good guess No, it’s the Sea of Galilee, which is actually a lake. I always assumed that was saltwater like the dead, or something like that? No. It’s also known as Lake Tiberius. And it’s the largest freshwater lake in Israel is 686 feet below sea level, the lowest altitude freshwater lake in the world. Now the only lake that sits lower is the Dead Sea, but that’s a saltwater lake. Okay, and that’s 1414 feet below sea level, lowest point on the Earth’s surface. And those two bodies are only 90 miles apart. Oh, really? Yeah. Isn’t that interesting?

Marcia Smith 20:42
Okay, but why is a false promise called pie in the sky? You know, like your idea for almost anything I say, Oh,

Bob Smith 20:51
it’s fine. Anything I predicted as just pie in the sky. I didn’t know it was considered a false promise. I thought it was just something that probably would never take place on attainable and obtainable. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. Why is it called pie in the sky?

Marcia Smith 21:05
It comes from a song in the early 1900s. A radical Workers Union song called the preacher and the slave blamed the church for suppressing the poor with promises of rewards in heaven, and it went like this. You will eat by and buy in that glorious land above the sky. Work and pray live on hay. You’ll get pie in the sky when you die by and by. Oh,

Bob Smith 21:29
dear. No kidding. So it came from a popular song. Yeah. And

Marcia Smith 21:33
that one little phrase pie in the skies stood out and people kept using it. Okay, so when was that again? Early 1900s. You’ve heard this phrase, but I don’t know if you knew they were somebody’s dying words. Who was it? That said it? On the whole I would rather be in Philadelphia. I thought that was WC Fields. Thought right. I just didn’t know if you knew Oh, okay. He died on Christmas Day. 1946. And his name was William Claude Duncan field. Very, very interesting.

Bob Smith 22:03
Okay, Marcia, what is the oldest public art museum in the United States? Any idea where it might be? I’ll give you choices. It could be in Boston. Could be in Los Angeles. Could be in New York. It’s

Marcia Smith 22:15
an art museum. Yes. Wow. I go to New York. You’d think that would be it. But that’s too I’ll say Boston.

Bob Smith 22:22
Okay, there’s one more possibility I’m sorry. It’s it could be in Hartford Connecticut. So what’s the answer? Marcia? Hartford, Connecticut is your right. Oh, I gave that one away. Yeah, it’s the Wodsworth Athenaeum Museum. It spelled a t h e n u m, like Athens. Okay. in Hartford, Connecticut, and artist Daniel Wadsworth, who was heir to a large fortune opens in in 1844. And it’s still there. Okay, now what is the largest art museum in the United States by square feet? is at the National Gallery of Art is at the Art Institute of Chicago is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York think

Marcia Smith 23:00
it’s in DC, isn’t it that

Bob Smith 23:02
the National Gallery, the National Gallery?

Marcia Smith 23:06
What pleasure?

Bob Smith 23:07
That’s okay. It is the Met the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Any idea how big it is? No, I do not. 633,000 square feet, home to how many pieces of art? More than 2 million, including works by Picasso, Monet, Rembrandt and Van Gogh. It opened in 1872. All

Marcia Smith 23:28
right, Bob. Okay. These are just some random amusing signs posted around the globe. Okay. Okay. I thought they were funny. Permitted vehicles not allowed. Permitted

Bob Smith 23:38
vehicle. Yeah, not allowed. That’s funny.

Marcia Smith 23:41
Okay, here’s one teeth extracted by the latest Methodists.

Bob Smith 23:48
So there are Protestants doing the extraction. Okay.

Marcia Smith 23:51
And here’s one danger slow men at work. And then, and then the last one, ladies are requested not to have children at the bar.

Bob Smith 24:00
Where are they supposed to hit them? In a hospital? One more question. Historic. What explorer has a river a bay and a straight named after him? Was it Christopher Columbus, Neil Armstrong, Henry Hudson, or Captain John Smith. I

Marcia Smith 24:19
will say Smith, raw.

Bob Smith 24:24
It’s just wishful thinking, isn’t it? Yeah. Don’t you wish you had Smith and all those things? No, it’s Henry Hudson. The Hudson River flows from upstate New York down to New York City, Hudson Bay and northeastern Canada and the Hudson strait linking the Atlantic Ocean and the Labrador Sea. He was looking for the Northeast Passage, or the Northwest Passage more efficient route from Europe to Asia. And he failed to do so. But he went to all these places and got all those things named after all right?

Marcia Smith 24:51
Okay.

Bob Smith 24:52
I’ve got a couple of famous actors and I want you to tell me what their real names are. Or I’ll tell you what their names are, and then you tell me who they were. Okay. This is a guy who’s known as a big tough guy. Mark Sinclair’s his name though his real name Mark Sinclair sharks.

Marcia Smith 25:07
Jimmy Cagney. No, Edward G. Robinson.

Bob Smith 25:10
No,

Marcia Smith 25:12
I don’t know. He became

Bob Smith 25:13
a nightclub bouncer and he adopted the name Vin Diesel and that’s but his real name is Mark Sinclair. Okay. been acting since he was a child. That’s interesting in diesel and diesel of the New Brunswick diesels. No. All right, how about this fellow, his name is Maurice Mikkel white. Maurice Mikkel white.

Marcia Smith 25:34
That’s a good one. He’s British. I was gonna say it’s been acting

Bob Smith 25:37
since about 1954, who, Michael Caine. His real name was Maurice Mikkel white.

Marcia Smith 25:43
He looks like a Maurice Mecca. While Reese Mikkel was a good actor. I

Bob Smith 25:47
like here’s one, Michael Douglas. You’ve heard him. Uh huh. This guy goes by. Yeah, his real name is Michael Douglas. He goes by Michael, but a different name.

Marcia Smith 26:01
Mike. Okay, what

Bob Smith 26:02
Michael Keaton. Oh, yeah, his real name is Michael Douglas. He

Marcia Smith 26:05
didn’t want to Yeah, no,

Bob Smith 26:07
he thought about being Michael Jackson. But that would have been a bad choice. Okay, one more here. All right. Her name is Diane Hall.

Marcia Smith 26:14
Her name is Diane Hall. It’s not Annie Hall. Diane Keaton. You

Bob Smith 26:18
this. Yes.

Marcia Smith 26:19
So that’s why Woody Allen.

Bob Smith 26:21
Any Hall? Yeah, but her real name is Diane Hall. But Diane Keaton is her name, but he used her part of her real name. Yeah. Okay. Those are kind of interesting. Yeah. Do you want to know what Whoopi Goldberg’s real name is? It’s

Marcia Smith 26:33
not what No. What is it? Karen

Bob Smith 26:37
Elaine Johnson

Marcia Smith 26:40
that’s funny.

Bob Smith 26:43
Hey, Carrie Goldberg. That’s funny and will be is a term her family used when you ever you let some guests go? Oh, yeah. So she was known as a little Gasser they said she was like a whoopee cushion. That was oh,

Marcia Smith 26:56
that’s fine. Yeah. That’s cute. I didn’t know she got her name that way. Yeah. I have two quotes for this first one, Ronald Reagan. He said, I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency. Even if I’m in a cabinet meeting. You had a good sense of humor. Yes, he did. And Doug Larson said instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the lock.

Bob Smith 27:24
No, I think that’s true. Oh, my goodness. Yes. All right. Well, that’s it for this episode of the off ramp. We invite you to send us any of your questions to stump the other person. We would love that. I’m Bob Smith. I’m

Marcia Smith 27:37
Marcia Smith. Join us again next

Bob Smith 27:39
time when we returned with more fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia here on the off ramp. The off ramp is produced in association with CPL radio online and the Cedarbrook Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

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