260 Polar Vortex Trivia. What’s the coldest recorded temperature in Antarctica? What mountain recorded the coldest temperature in US history? And what celebrity had more appearances on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show?

Bob and Marcia Smith discuss various trivia questions related to extreme temperatures. The coldest temperature recorded in Antarctica is -128.6°F at Russia’s Vostok research station, and the coldest temperature in the U.S. is -100.84°F at Denali, Alaska. Bob Hope holds the record for the most appearances on Johnny Carson’s show with 132 visits. The hottest temperature in the Arctic Circle is 100.4°F in Verkhoyansk, Russia. Vienna, Austria, is ranked the most livable city globally. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, is the coldest national capital with winter lows of -44°F. The coldest city to host the Winter Olympics is Lake Placid, NY, with a temperature of 8.6°F.

Outline

Coldest Temperatures in Antarctica and the United States

  • Bob Smith asks Marcia Smith about the coldest temperature recorded in Antarctica and the coldest temperature recorded on a US mountain.
  • Marcia Smith incorrectly guesses -121 degrees Fahrenheit for Antarctica, but Bob Smith corrects her, stating it is -128.6 degrees Fahrenheit at Russia’s Vostok research station.
  • Bob Smith asks about the coldest temperature recorded in the US, and Marcia Smith guesses -92 degrees Fahrenheit. Bob Smith confirms it is -100.84 degrees Fahrenheit at Denali, Alaska.
  • Bob Smith explains that Denali is the highest peak in North America and the site of the coldest recorded temperature in the US.

Johnny Carson’s Top Guests

  • Marcia Smith asks about the celebrity with the most appearances on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show.
  • Bob Smith and Marcia Smith discuss various guests, including Bob Hope, Joan Rivers, and David Steinberg.
  • Bob Smith reveals that Bob Hope had the most appearances with 132 visits, followed by Joan Rivers with 105 visits.
  • Marcia Smith notes that David Steinberg and Tony Randall also had many appearances.

Hottest Temperature in the Arctic Circle

  • Bob Smith asks Marcia Smith about the city that set the record for the hottest temperature in the Arctic Circle.
  • Marcia Smith guesses Greenland, but Bob Smith corrects her, stating it is Verkhoyansk, Russia.
  • Bob Smith explains that Verkhoyansk reached over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer, despite being known for extreme cold.
  • Bob Smith mentions the city’s extreme temperature range, with a 194-degree difference in a single year.

Global Livability Rankings

  • Marcia Smith asks Bob Smith about the top 10 cities in the world to live in according to the global livability rankings.
  • Bob Smith and Marcia Smith discuss various cities, including Vienna, Austria, and Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Marcia Smith lists other top cities: Zurich, Switzerland; Melbourne, Australia; Calgary, Canada; Geneva, Switzerland; Sydney, Australia; Vancouver, Canada; Osaka, Japan; and Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Bob Smith notes that none of the top 10 cities are in the US.

World’s Coldest National Capital

  • Bob Smith asks Marcia Smith about the coldest national capital in the world.
  • Marcia Smith guesses Reykjavik, Iceland, but Bob Smith corrects her, stating it is Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
  • Bob Smith explains that Ulaanbaatar has extreme temperature ranges, with summer highs reaching 102 degrees Fahrenheit and winter lows reaching -44 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • Marcia Smith and Bob Smith discuss the city’s unique climate and its impact on the local population.

Alan Smithee in Hollywood

  • Marcia Smith asks Bob Smith about the pseudonym Alan Smithee used by directors in Hollywood.
  • Bob Smith explains that directors used the pseudonym when they didn’t want their real names associated with a film they considered subpar.
  • Marcia Smith mentions that David Lynch disowned his 1984 adaptation of Dune due to studio meddling and used the pseudonym.
  • Bob Smith notes that Alan Smithee officially retired in 2000, but non-members of the Directors Guild of America still use the name occasionally.

Presidential Trivia

  • Bob Smith asks Marcia Smith about the President who met with Elvis Presley.
  • Marcia Smith guesses Jimmy Carter, and Bob Smith confirms it.
  • Bob Smith recounts the story of Elvis Presley’s incoherent phone call to President Carter.
  • Marcia Smith and Bob Smith discuss Elvis Presley’s drug use and his request for a pardon for a sheriff.

Yuri Gagarin’s First Space Flight

  • Bob Smith asks Marcia Smith about the spacecraft in which Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.
  • Marcia Smith guesses Vostok, and Bob Smith confirms it.
  • Bob Smith explains that Gagarin’s spacecraft was called Vostok, meaning “east” in Russian.
  • Bob Smith recounts Gagarin’s 108-minute flight and his landing in a remote area of Russia.

Ancient Egyptian Mourning Practices

  • Marcia Smith asks Bob Smith about how ancient Egyptians mourned the loss of their cats.
  • Bob Smith recalls that Egyptians embalmed and buried their cats, sometimes giving them funerals.
  • Marcia Smith reveals that Egyptians shaved their eyebrows as a sign of mourning when their cats died.
  • Bob Smith and Marcia Smith discuss the deep bond between ancient Egyptians and their cats.

Types of Dancing

  • Marcia Smith asks Bob Smith about various types of dancing, including Spanish sauce, Neil Armstrong’s activity, and West Virginia’s capital.
  • Bob Smith guesses salsa, moonwalk, belly dancing, tap dancing, and swing shift, respectively.
  • Marcia Smith confirms the answers, and Bob Smith expresses satisfaction with his performance.
  • Marcia Smith concludes the segment with two winter quotes from Aristotle and Robert Byrne.

ob Smith 0:00
Cold, cold, cold questions today, what is the coldest temperature recorded in Antarctica, and which mountain recorded the coldest temperature in the United States? And what

Marcia Smith 0:12
celebrity had the most appearances on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show

Bob Smith 0:16
answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob and

Unknown Speaker 0:21
Marsha Smith,

Bob Smith 0:38
welcome to the off ramp, a chance to slow down, steer clear of crazy road to sanity as you try to keep warm during polar vortex weather time indeed. All right, Marcia, two questions right away on cold for you, fine. All right, what is the coldest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica, and I have some suggestions for you. Thank you. Is it 40 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit, minus 67 degrees Fahrenheit, minus 129 degrees Fahrenheit, or minus 191 degrees Fahrenheit minus 121 well, it’s not one of the answer is Marsh. So I can’t sorry you had one there that was minus 129, oh, that one. Sorry you gave me one that wasn’t even on the

Marcia Smith 1:31
list. Okay, here’s how sure I am of my own intelligence. Here’s the

Bob Smith 1:35
answer. It’s Russia’s Vostok research station located in the Antarctic ice sheet. It’s the site of the coldest recorded temperature on Earth, a measurement of minus 128.6 degrees Fahrenheit. I was right. No, you said 121 well, sorry, on July, no, it was colder than that Marcia on July, 21 1983 that’s when that happened. And temperatures rarely fall to those extreme lows. The average temperature in that area of the ice sheet is a balmy 76 below zero Fahrenheit. And the other question I’m going to give you right away, yeah, bring it back to the United States. Not what city, but what mountain in the United States recorded the coldest temperature in US history. These are the mountains, okay, Mount Rainier, Mount Hood, white mountain peak that’s in New England. Didn’t know that. And Denali, which mountain had the coldest recorded temperature in US history? Denali, and what would that temperature be? Marsha, for

Marcia Smith 2:37
heaven’s sakes, I’ll say minus.

Bob Smith 2:42
Yes, we’re all waiting. Marcia minus 92 minus 92 and minus 100.84

Marcia Smith 2:51
degrees Fahrenheit. I was less than 10 degrees off. You still

Bob Smith 2:54
ask both questions. Alaska’s Denali, formerly known as Mount McKinley, is the highest peak in North America, 20,308 feet above sea level. But you get high, it’s not getting warmer, it’s getting colder. It’s the site of the coldest recorded temperature in US history. And that recorded temperature was in 2003

Marcia Smith 3:11
Was there somebody up there?

Bob Smith 3:13
Scientists really minus 100.84 degrees. They may have been doing it by remote. Let’s hope. Let’s take a look at that thermometer. Oh, it’s a cold one up there on Denali. Hey,

Marcia Smith 3:24
Bob, go outside, and we’re down here in Atlanta right now. All right, Bob, all right. According to the LA Times, who had the most appearances on the Johnny Carson Show, which ran for 30 years, if you recall, would it be? Could it be? Could it be, should it be

Bob Smith 3:40
the Milwaukee Brewers owned Bob Buker? He

Marcia Smith 3:43
was right up there, I guess. But no, oh, no, kidding, yeah, I believe he was on 100 times. Wow. These top these. That’s amazing.

Bob Smith 3:50
Yeah? So this is somebody who’s on more than 100 times, yeah, wow. It wasn’t the wasn’t the animal guy. Now he was up there too, or the plant lady. So it must be, let me see. Could it have been Joan Rivers? Possibly she was

Marcia Smith 4:05
number two. Wow. All right, what was it? Number one was somebody you’ve interviewed who think Bob,

Bob Smith 4:12
hope that’s it. He is on there more times than anyone else, 132

Marcia Smith 4:17
visits. Holy cow, in 30 years. Yeah, Joan Rivers was on 105 times, and she tied with David Steinberg, who was one of my favorite guests. Oh, I liked him. At number three was another person you interviewed. Okay, Tony Randolph. How

Bob Smith 4:34
many times was he on 104 I had no idea. Those

Marcia Smith 4:37
are the top all time guests of Johnny Carson’s, gee, that’s amazing. Yeah, yeah. 132 times. Wow. Seemed like he was on a lot. Who

Bob Smith 4:47
Bob Hope, Yeah, apparently. All right, Marcia, I have a lot more cold questions here today. I thought cold and hot might be fun to

Marcia Smith 4:56
talk about. That ties in my quotes for today about when. Here. Oh, really, yeah, okay,

Bob Smith 5:01
all right, here’s a question for you. Let’s go hot for a second. Which city set the record for the hottest temperature in the Arctic Circle, and what was it? Yes, hottest temperature. Fairbanks, Alaska, verko youngst, Russia, Tromso, Norway, or sin simeit, Greenland. Which one of those? Just do the countries if you want? Thank you, Alaska, Russia, Norway or Greenland, the hottest temperature in the Arctic Circle.

Marcia Smith 5:29
I’ll say Greenland. Greenland, yeah. Well, that

Bob Smith 5:33
sounds good, because if it’s green, it must be warm. But no, no, the answer is Verkoyongst, Russia. It’s a city in the far Northeastern Russia. It gets colder than the North Pole, but it also reaches extreme highs of over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer. Can you believe that the city set the record for the highest temperature in the Arctic Circle in 2020 it has a range of 194 degrees difference in a single year in 1998 that’s quite a range. It’s a place of extremes, politically and Temperature wise, Russia,

Marcia Smith 6:10
that’s amazing, but true. Hot times, okay, every year Bob. The global livability rankings list the best cities in the world to live in, using all sorts of criteria. So can you name any of the top 10 of the cities in the world to live in? And here’s a hint, none are in the United States. Well, I

Bob Smith 6:30
don’t know what the attributes are. You’re measuring

Marcia Smith 6:33
criteria. They include things for their urban quality of life based on assessments of stability, healthcare, culture, environment, education and infrastructure, hmm. Okay, so

Bob Smith 6:45
those are all the criteria. Let me give you a guess. I always think of the Nordic regions up there, like Oslo, Norway, uh huh. Is that one? No, no. All right, I’ll just go to big cities here, Paris, France, no. London, England, no. Okay. So far so good. And one more, as you would say, and one more

Unknown Speaker 7:05
when I’m on a roll downward, and she

Bob Smith 7:08
keeps rolling down, let’s see Tokyo, Japan. No, all right, okay,

Marcia Smith 7:13
that top 10 number one is place I adore Vienna. Vienna does get ranked a lot. It’s been many years. Number one, Vienna, Austria, okay? And now in order to number 10 is Copenhagen, Denmark. So we do have a Nordic country there, Zurich, Switzerland, ah, Melbourne, Australia, Calgary, Canada, Geneva, Switzerland, Sydney, Australia, Vancouver, Canada, Osaka, Japan and Auckland, New Zealand,

Bob Smith 7:40
been in three of them. That’s good, yeah. So those are all considered the most livable cities and best cities in the world to live. Good. All right, Marcia, another cold question. This goes to the world’s coldest national capital. All right, I’m gonna give you a few Thank you. So this is the coldest capital city of a country in the world. Got it, all right. So we have Nuuk, Greenland nuke. How do you spell that? N, u UK, okay. Reykjavik, Iceland, Moscow, Russia, okay. And my favorite so far, ulan, Batur, Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, I’ll say Reykjavik. No, it’s Ulaanbaatar. Marcia

Speaker 1 8:18
tried to tell you my favorite that

Bob Smith 8:21
is a city of extremes. They have summer highs reaching 102 degrees Fahrenheit, but also winter lows reaching minus 44 degrees. And that makes it the coldest capital city in the world. Was that 44 degrees below 00, my word, or 100 to above. That’s kind of like what we have in Wisconsin here at times, you know, unique among world capitals. Ulan Batur, Mongolia, spelled u l, a, a, n, B, A, A, T, A R. We are learning so many things today, okay? Bob

Marcia Smith 8:51
Allen Smithee, Alan Smithee, he’s a name well known in Hollywood. Oh,

Bob Smith 8:56
of course. Who is he? I don’t know who’s Alan Smithee, okay, this is the real name of somebody. For

Marcia Smith 9:02
decades, directors used the pseudonym Alan Smithee when they didn’t want their real names connected with a dud of a film.

Bob Smith 9:12
Did you know that this is a dog? Yeah, Alan Smith

Marcia Smith 9:15
even if you never heard of Alan Smithee, there’s a chance you’ve seen one of his movies. Directors followed guidance from the Directors Guild of America by using the pseudonym when they didn’t want their actual name on the film. That most often occurred when the finished product was so far removed from their vision. You know what that’s like to have a vision and it didn’t come out the way they wanted. Most films carrying this dubious distinction aren’t well known. You probably haven’t heard of the barking dog. No, let’s get hairy

Bob Smith 9:47
or ghost fever. Gee, these are all ones I missed, yeah, but they’re cinema.

Marcia Smith 9:52
But there are exceptions, including a Hellraiser sequel and one segment of a Twilight Zone episode per. Caps. The most revered and well known filmmaker to be credited as Alan Smithee is the recently deceased David Lynch. Oh, really, yeah, he disowned his ill fated 1984 adaption of Dune due to studio meddling. He did, I didn’t know that. Yeah, he didn’t want his name. He insisted on having final cuts on all his projects after that, he considered it the buckle in order to avoid a repeat of

Bob Smith 10:27
that point on, he had final cuts till he passed away. Yeah, wow. Lynch

Marcia Smith 10:30
called the film a huge, gigantic sadness, wow,

Bob Smith 10:36
for a guy who has with such extreme, edgy films to say it so quietly, like a just a huge, gigantic sadness, gosh.

Marcia Smith 10:42
Smithy officially retired in 2000 following a decision by the Directors Guild of America. Though non members of The Guild still continue to use the name on occasion. Okay, something to watch for an old movie? Oh, my

Bob Smith 10:59
goodness. Okay, I’ve got two presidential questions. Okay, they’re not about being cold either. Okay, that’s nice. That’s fun. All right, what President met with Elvis Presley. But, oh, Elvis Presley was too high for the President to understand him, really? Nixon, no,

Marcia Smith 11:14
oh, because there’s a picture of those two together. Come on over here. You mean on prescription drugs. I mean, he didn’t get high, like on dope or anything. This

Bob Smith 11:23
was a phone call somebody called Mr. President, Elvis Presley’s on the phone, and the President, at the time, said, Okay,

Marcia Smith 11:29
give me the call. That would be Jimmy Carter. Oh, good. Let me talk to him. Okay, so it was Jimmy Carter, 2011

Bob Smith 11:34
this happened. He recalled this in an interview. Oh, okay. But shortly after his inauguration, he received a phone call from Elvis Presley in the White House, and he said he was totally stoned and didn’t know what he was saying. He was stoned. His sentences were almost incoherent. Ah, they were fellow southerners, and they couldn’t understand each other, okay, yeah. He told The New Yorker magazine that the singer apparently Elvis apparently wanted the newly sworn in President to pardon the sheriff who was in trouble with the law. He was big on law enforcement. Yeah, he was except for his own drug use. Exactly. Mr. Carter described himself as a personal friend of Elvis Presley, and said that his death deprived the country of part of itself the phone call after his inauguration notwithstanding,

Marcia Smith 12:21
that’s what you would call cognitive dissonance. For Elvis, he was all about law enforcement, anti drugs, and then he’s high. Okay, all right. Bob on board which spacecraft did Yuri Gagarin become the first man in space?

Bob Smith 12:37
Okay? He was only, I think he only went up once. And what was that called? It was a lot like Vladivostok or something. Yes, we already said it in an earlier question. I did, yeah. What was it? Boss stuck, Vostok. Yeah, that was the name of the spacecraft, yeah,

Marcia Smith 12:50
which means in Russian east. Oh, I didn’t know that. I didn’t know that Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space. He was up there for 108 minutes at the speed of more than 17,000 miles an hour. In 1961 he went up, remember that?

Bob Smith 13:07
Yes, they do. Because we all were like, oh, no, the Russians put a man in space. Yeah, we were pretty little at the time. When Vostok one crashed, he landed in an area of Russia, and it was an under populated area of Russia and the middle of nowhere, and he apparently had to go to a nearby house to get help. And the person thought he was an alien. He had to convince this person I was a cosmonaut, you know,

Unknown Speaker 13:33
yeah,

Bob Smith 13:34
I thought he bailed out, yeah. About four miles up, the top of the spacecraft opened up and he ejected, and both he and the spacecraft landed with parachutes. He was not in the capsule at the time. It was about 8000 feet above ground, so he had over a mile to fall and in a parachute, which was okay, but they landed near one another, and then they were near this farm, about about 300 miles from Moscow, and they he says, I need to find a phone so I can make a call.

Marcia Smith 14:01
And, you know, it wasn’t many years after that that he died in an accident, but

Bob Smith 14:06
he was a hero in Russia for years. Oh gosh, they had him go around for schools, lots of things. Like, big deal. Yeah, he was like, a major in the army, I believe, something like that. Okay,

Marcia Smith 14:16
Bob, how did ancient Egyptians mourn the loss of their cats,

Bob Smith 14:21
this was a big deal for them, as I recall, well, didn’t they embalm them? They actually buried them? Didn’t they give them funerals and everything? Thought they were super beings or something.

Marcia Smith 14:33
They did something physically to themselves to mourn cats. You know, like some people used to wear black, people do different things to show they’re in mourning, but there was something they did publicly. All right, you’ll never get this. Okay? They shaved their eyebrows off, what as a sign of mourning when their cats died. Ancient Egyptians are often said to have worshiped cats, but they didn’t, though it’s accurate to say they were beloved. Tempered and sometimes emblazoned in gold accessories, and occasionally they were allowed to eat directly from their dinner plates at meals. But the Egyptians bonded so well with their cats that they mourned them after death, and both cat owners and family members would publicly express their grief by shaving off their eyebrows. Some historians believe that the mourning period lasted only until a new set of eyebrows grew in, which could be as long as three or four months. But people could feel badly for you. You see that some person

Bob Smith 15:35
coming towards you, it looks a little different.

Marcia Smith 15:40
Oh, I want sympathy, right? How

Bob Smith 15:42
interesting. That weird. Oh, my goodness. All right. Marsha, what type of animals produce milk? Are they mammals? Are they reptiles? Are they birds? Or are they fish mammals? Okay, that’s right, how many species of mammals? Are there any idea? There are so many. They’ve been divided into 29 orders. Oh,

Marcia Smith 16:02
really. Well, then it’s more than 10, slightly more. Okay, I’ll say 6000

Bob Smith 16:07
That’s exactly right. 6000 you kidding me? 6400 Wow, Bob, I speak of mammals. Where did you get that from your vibes? I got it from your brain. Something reflecting from my glasses over here. Jeez. Isn’t that amazing? All right, and what animals? Milk does not curdle. Speaking of milk, snake, no. What? Camel milk? Wow.

Speaker 1 16:31
I don’t know why that really hits me. Yeah, I

Bob Smith 16:36
think it’s time for a break I do. All right, we’ll be back in just a moment. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith,

Marcia Smith 16:41
me, no, no, you don’t get to say, I don’t want to say. You said you didn’t want to. I don’t. You told me you didn’t. I don’t. Well, why are you? Because I thought you were going to demand it of me.

Bob Smith 16:51
I don’t demand anything of you. Do I get anything of you through demands? No, never. I never got anything through demands. It was always negotiation. Go to break. Bob, okay, we’ll be back. All right, maybe. All right, we’re back. The negotiations are over, and we’ve reached an agreement. We will continue the show today. All right, we told you that Denali the mountain has the coldest temperature ever recorded in the United States. What about the contiguous the 48 states, where was the coldest recorded temperature in the contiguous US states? Was it in Colorado, North Dakota, Montana or Utah? Death

Marcia Smith 17:31
Valley? The coldest temperature? I know it’s the hottest. And

Bob Smith 17:37
it wasn’t one of the choices. Marsh, again, that’s not one of the choices. Listen to me. I listen to you. You demand things, and then you don’t even listen to me. All right? Colorado, North Dakota, Montana or Utah. North Dakota? No, it’s not Montana, yes, it’s in Montana, meaning where Rogers pass is the name of the place on January 20, 1954 The coldest temperature in the contiguous USA was recorded 70 degrees Fahrenheit, below zero. Now, Rogers pass is situated on the Continental Divide. It lies 5610 feet above sea level, opposite the Helena National Forest, which is a pretty rugged region, pretty inaccessible, a lot of places like that in Montana and Wyoming.

Marcia Smith 18:25
Okay, what two planets spin clockwise? And why?

Bob Smith 18:30
What do you mean, what two planets spin clock? There’s only

Marcia Smith 18:32
two planets in our solar system that spin clockwise. Is that right?

Bob Smith 18:37
Yeah. Okay, so I would say it’s like Venus, and that’s correct Uranus exactly, because they’re the farthest away from the sun, and so that has something to do with the way they spin. Very good. You’re

Marcia Smith 18:49
right. You got the two planets good for you. Okay, okay. And for the answer, scientists haven’t figured it out. You pretended you were gonna tell me the answer, but they don’t know why. And you said and why, and I have to answer, and there’s no answer. There’s no answer that is so mean. Could be it’s, it hasn’t been figured out yet. Cheese, it could be tomorrow for all we

Bob Smith 19:10
oh yeah, mean, mean again. All right, all right. I got some non mean questions for you. Wow. Man, okay, I’m gonna give you the name of a city, and you tell me where it is. It’s again, cold temperatures, a record 85 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, recorded at icement, which is located where Greenland, Iceland, Canada or Russia. Icement, it’s E, I S, M, I T, T, E, I

Marcia Smith 19:36
don’t know. Russia, no Iceland, no Greenland or Canada.

Bob Smith 19:42
Greenland. That’s where it is. Icement, the interior region of Greenland. It’s the second coldest place on earth. A record low temperature of 84 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. On March 20, 1931, the average temperature is 33 below and the average over. Overall temperature is 22 degrees below zero. That’s a cold place to be,

Marcia Smith 20:04
not your vacation hot spots. No, literally, our figurative, okay, the band Bob, Pink Floyd, okay. They were known originally as mega death. Oh, I didn’t know that was their name originally, before giving themselves the new moniker of Pink Floyd. Where does that come from?

Bob Smith 20:21
Ah, where does Pink Floyd come from? I don’t know the answer to that. Wow, that’s I liked several of their albums very much. Oh yeah. I liked the Dark Side of the Moon the wall. That was good. I

Marcia Smith 20:33
don’t know. Never bought them. They adopted the names of Georgia blues artists, pink Anderson and Floyd Council, oh, no

Bob Smith 20:42
kidding. I didn’t know that. I thought you’d enjoy that well, and I never thought they were anything like blues. That’s interesting. Yes, has

Marcia Smith 20:49
to do with Georgia, blues, pink Anderson and Floyd Council, okay,

Bob Smith 20:53
all right. I have a couple more cold temperature questions. I’m trying to be cold. Let’s go to Africa. What’s Africa’s coldest city and how cold does it get? Is it in South Africa, Morocco, Mozambique, or Zimbabwe? Zimbabwe? No, it’s not in Zimbabwe. It is Mozambique. No, it’s not Mozambique. It is. The coldest country in Africa is Lesotho, but the continents, coldest city is ifran in Morocco, in Northern Africa, Morocco, Morocco, I wouldn’t have got this, yeah, in 1935 if Ron reached a record low temperature of 11 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. So even in Africa, it can get

Marcia Smith 21:38
pretty cold, you know, I know it does at night. But is there snow in

Bob Smith 21:41
Africa? Yeah, that’s a popular destination for skiers. I’ll be down. It’s located high in the middle Atlas Mountains in Africa. Gives you a different feeling

Marcia Smith 21:49
about Africa. Yeah, it is a very diverse and

Bob Smith 21:53
my last temperature question today, okay, what is the coldest city that’s ever hosted the Winter Olympics by average temperature. What is the coldest city that’s ever hosted the Winter Olympics?

Marcia Smith 22:08
I think was it in was it in Alaska? I’m

Bob Smith 22:11
gonna give you choices if you listen. Thank you. Okay? Pyeongchang, South Korea, Calgary, Canada, Lake Placid, United States, or little hammer Norway,

Marcia Smith 22:22
I’ll say Lake Placid. You’re right.

Bob Smith 22:25
I didn’t know that. The How could that be the coldest place it’s ever been? Well, at that the Olympics. Yeah. Okay. Lake Placid, New York, 19 88.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Now in terms of the lowest single temperature for an Olympic city, not counting a time when the Olympics were held there Calgary. They they could have had it there. It could have been 49 below zero, because that’s their low record.

Marcia Smith 22:48
I’d like to go there Calgary. Yeah, me too. Okay, so

Bob Smith 22:51
anyway, so the coldest temperature during an Olympics is 8.6 degrees Fahrenheit, and that was in our very own Lake Placid, New York.

Marcia Smith 22:58
Okay, before I get to my quote we’re going to finish up with, aka, all right, also known as, so I’m going to give you a category, and all my questions pertain to the category. All right, this is types of dancing, okay, so if I say Spanish sauce, what kind of dancing am I talking about?

Bob Smith 23:19
Spanish sauce. Why is sauce in there? It’s

Marcia Smith 23:23
a kind of sauce. We just had it. We have it with Doritos. I can’t ever

Bob Smith 23:28
think of that stuff the Highland house. Yeah, I know. What is it called? You dip your chips in it. Yeah, I’m sorry. It’s a type of dance. I’m drawing a blank, baby salsa. There we go. Salsa. Okay, okay. Neil, Armstrong activity, a walking dance. Moon walk. That’s it. Moonwalk is a dance, Okay, gotcha

Marcia Smith 23:47
stomach, stomach. What kind of dancing?

Bob Smith 23:52
Stomach? Big Fat stomach dancing, no. Stomach,

Marcia Smith 23:57
also known as

Bob Smith 23:59
your, also known as my what your Belly, belly dancing, yeah. Oh, okay, okay, man, I’m just not thinking right today. That’s

Marcia Smith 24:07
all right. Think about this. Okay, what kind of dancing is faucet, faucet,

Bob Smith 24:12
that’s water dancing. Faucet, uh huh. Faucet, water, hot popular kind of dancing, hot dancing.

Marcia Smith 24:21
It’s got little it’s got little metal things on your shoes when you dance with tap

Bob Smith 24:24
dancing. Okay, faucet is a tap I see tap dancing, very good.

Marcia Smith 24:28
Okay, this is filthy dancing, Dirty Dancing.

Bob Smith 24:32
I can get that one.

Unknown Speaker 24:33
That one you got right away.

Bob Smith 24:36
I knew that one

Marcia Smith 24:38
afternoon to midnight, shift, afternoon

Bob Smith 24:41
to midnight, that’s third shift dancing. No, wait, afternoon to midnight, second shift dancing. No, that’s swing shift. That’s it. Swing dancing. That’s it.

Marcia Smith 24:49
Okay, gotcha very good. And last one, West Virginia’s capital, West Virginia’s capital. What kind of dancing?

Bob Smith 24:58
What is West Virginia’s. Capital. I’m sorry, I’ve drawn a blank there. Ah, Charleston, Charleston. That’s it. Okay, very good. Oh, well, I got not too bad, not too bad. There. You got

Marcia Smith 25:08
not too bad. All right. I’m gonna finish up with, coincidentally, two winter quotes. Okay. First one is from Aristotle. I never think of Aristotle being in

Bob Smith 25:18
the snow, do you? No, I don’t. But, you know, they have these mountains of Greece. I know it’s just

Marcia Smith 25:22
funny how you have these images in your head. Yeah. Okay. He said, to appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold. Oh, that’s

Bob Smith 25:33
a good one. I love that. That is a very good one. To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it’s necessary to stand out in the cold, metaphorical for less true. You can’t see them any

Marcia Smith 25:41
other way, yeah? But, I mean, it’s a metaphor the way you live your life, not really, yeah. Oh, you have to be involved. Yeah, yeah. You have to. You have tell me what that metaphor means to me. Yeah, it means to appreciate anything. Sometimes you have to get out of your comfort zone. Oh, I see. Okay. That makes you have to go appreciate something or to achieve something, she had to put on your winter coat. Bob, you are so simple, so loose. But here’s another I

Bob Smith 26:07
heard my grandma say that to my grandpa. His name was Bob, too. Oh God, Bob, you are so simple,

Marcia Smith 26:13
all right. And this winter quote from Robert Bryan, winter is nature’s way of saying, Up yours,

Bob Smith 26:25
wow, I wasn’t expecting that. I know that’s the joy of it. I guess that’s like sometimes cold weather, you go, wow, I wasn’t expecting this. Open the door, and there it is. All right, well, that’s good. Some great questions on the cold and also some

Marcia Smith 26:39
cold years, Bob, are you patting yourself on the back? Some great questions

Bob Smith 26:43
on the cold today, man, okay, some great questions all around. We would love to hear your questions. If you have any, you can send them to us by going to our website, the offramp, dot show, go into the menu and go to contact us, and you can fill out the field there. We’d love to hear from you in the meantime, I’m Bob Smith, I’m Marcia Smith. We’ll be back in another week with more fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia here on the off ramp.

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