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welcome to SciShow Quiz Show
the only quiz show on YouTube where...excuse me
...the asker will become the askee
uhh? Hey, hey, so here's the thing:
Hank is sick today, so I've been demoted
Today Blake, our head writer here at SciShow is taking over
Here are your cards, uh...
So it's me ,vs Emily Graslie
Wait, but, do you know the answers though? [Blake] I've been looking forward to this!
- I don't. - You had the cards!?
I only... I mean, I didn't read them either,
but this first one doesn't... It just has the intro stuff. [Emily] Oh. [Blake] Good question!
I want to point out, I'm a huge fan of Emily. I send you fan mail on Tumblr. [Emily] Oh!
I think you're the best thing to come out of South Dakota since the soybean.
Well, what about Sue the Dinosaur?
[Blake] Oh, ... [Emily] That was more recent than the cultivation of soybeans in South Dakota.
Mmm. That's a good question. Anybody have a pen?
[Emily] Just sayin'! [Michael] I am doomed.
[fake evil laugh]
I'm Blake de Pastino, I'm head of content for SciShow.
And since Hank is sick, Aranda's the tallest man for the job. He promises us he's not looked at the answers.
Emily Graslie is the host of the Brain Scoop.
Emily was brought to us here by the Montana Natural History Center, so I'd like to thank them
for bringing her here and making this contest possible.
Those of you in the front row, you *will* get wet: blood will be shed.
[nervous laughter] [Michael] Wow!
I didn't think that I was going to be *that* aggressive.
[Blake] Fine print. [Emily] Oh, OK.
So, as you know, our contestants will be competing for Patreon patrons
Today Michael will be competing on behalf of Justin Ove
and Emily will be playing for David Campos.
So, you get what you pay for.
[giggles] [Emily] Finger guns.
[laughter] I told you there'd be gun play.
Now, for our contestants, I will start you off each with 1000 SciShow bucks
And when you answer a question correctly, I will give you however much money I think is appropriate.
[Michael] OK [Emily] Sounds fair.
So, after so long of me getting to make up rules during these things, now I have to live with
someone else just wingin' it. Good.
The winger has become the wingee.
[Michael] I get to swallow my own medicine today. [Blake] I'm gonna use that all day. [Emily laughing]
Whoever has the most money at the end of the game wins a collection of special SciShow prizes.
Stefan, can you show our players and the audience what they'll be playing for?
Both Justin and David will be taking home autographed cards from Michael and Emily
with their final guesses and wagers on them.
As well as either an "I won" SciShow Quiz Show pin or the highly valuable "I lost" SciShow Quiz Show pin.
A super-cool out of print Hank Green CD signed by the man himself
and the winner will also take home some secret SciShow swag
and the loser will also take home some secret SciShow swag. Back to you!
OK, ready?
I think so.
Hands on your... there is no "hands on your lights" --I don't know why they put that in every script.
Now that I do this, I know how [bleep] the scripts are. [laughter]
I, like, voice these and... Who makes these?
Okay..
Our first round is the... LIGHTNING ROUND!
you know that means no it means I had are literally about lightning
now you would think so okay i know it's not lighting are there multiple choice i
think i made this error last time i was on the show where I ring in and try to
give an answer and the answers with multiple to it
oh that was there no okay I'm that was a bad idea of mine
oh there's our is layla less bad idea called true or false
oh okay okay okay first question there is a type of mineral formation that only
occurs in nature when lightning strikes
sandy soil true or false
the lesson is vastly true yes
that is true I feel like there was a movie starring reese witherspoon about this
yeah sweet home alabama that's the one yeah I don't know I've embarrassed that
I know that a little bit
I had no idea yeah because the hole is that goes on to the beach and it's
romantic and then she clicks the sculptures that the lightning or he does
and yeah yeah anyway
mhm I don't typically go to romantic comedies for my science knowledge that's
exclusively where I go to help me do i actually got that question idea from
Reese Witherspoon's fan page which I host
it's known as full gear right and it forms when the intense heat from a
lightning strike causes silica or other conductive minerals in the sand or sandy
soil to melt and refuse into a glassy tube or cluster sometimes referred to as
petrified lightning
Emily you get 500 points that's so many points and adding are doing in dollars
are going to euros it was scishow bucks to start with sso bucks yeah
500 500 500 bucks okay my money's second question a lake in Venezuela has been
found to experience more lightning than any other place on earth because of
methane that is escaping from nearby oil fields
true or false yes mr. onda false
that is correct in his false
there is a lake in Venezuela that's thought to experience more lightning
than anywhere else
Lake Maracaibo where lightning strikes about every two seconds during the peak
of the rainy season and methane was thought to be a possible cause since the
lake is both above and near large oil deposits and the gas might increase the
conductivity of the air with this hypothesis has not been proven
neither has the hypothesis that the lightning had to do with large deposits
of uranium in the ground instead researchers think that Lake Maracaibo
owes its electric skies to warm winds from the Caribbean colliding with cool
winds coming down from the Andes creating violent thunderstorms
I mean method is just like farts right but that doesn't draw lightning
it could be a fart field
which you know I don't know is that box exist
yeah South Dakota has lots of livestock yeah i was swimming some of these
practically like a fart mine
it is his discovery no Glanville can be seen can have like a part mine up their
lucrative you cuz I like your face hundred and fifty points
so let me just hold on let me get this straight
she answered the question correctly and got 500 points who's holding the cards i
answered the question correctly i had a hundred and fifty . uh-huh
ok you'll see whatever my final question there is such a thing as positively
charged lightning
true or false yes true that is true
the vast majority of lightning strikes are negative because they carry a net
negative charge from the storm cloud to the ground at around five percent of
lightning strikes are positive and are generated near the top of the
thunderstorm as opposed to the negative lightning which forms at the base of the
storm storms usually have a positively charged region but it rarely gets strong
enough to create a lightning strike when it does the positive lightning strike
can be as much as 10 times stronger than a negative 1 which can cause a lot more
damage
so 30 and 50 points
ok happy now I had a guess on to our next round because who needs a ways
right
this segment is dedicated to one of the founders of modern paleontology a
fascination of mine
George's Cuvier ok
ring a bell to you know all these answers already know you're hanging out
him about you
I George p.m. yes he's you're lifting body at the gym
I know he's he's into elephants
very good ok hear about this later okay
the game is rigged I that much myself are you yeah I'm not nervous all the
same a lot of what we know about ancient life as well as how we still think and
talk about it is based on the work done by this french naturalist who lived in
the late seventeen hundreds in the early eighteen hundreds his analysis of
fossils revolutionized the study of biology and help us usher in a whole new
field natural history perhaps QBs most famous paper was published two hundred
twenty years ago this April in which he analyzed the skeletons of four different
kinds of
proba Citians the order of animals that includes elephant elephants that's not
the question
he just knows that but one of these animals have never been seen in a fossil
before that specimen was known only as the Ohio animal until Cuvier come up
with a name for it and it's mean that we still use today
so my question and I do actually have one in there somewhere
is what was the Ohio animal that could be a studied and named was it a that
Gulf of fear which is sort of like an elephant with a shovel shape draw be the
mammoth see the manatee or D the mastodon
yes master . that Mastodon yes very good
mammoths were known from remains in Siberia as early as the sixteen hundreds
while the weird-looking gone for theories weren't identified until the
eighteen thirties manatees are closely related to prova Citians but they are a
member of a different order known as the Iranians when could be a studied the
animal excavated in Ohio the cone-shaped cusps of its teeth reminded him of
breasts so he called the new animal Mastodon or breast tooth
mm I don't know why I keep finding myself I was going to go with shovel
face trouble facing a guest so i put in there
well I was a hotbed for mammoths and mastodons fossils
so that yes yeah they like big one up in a farm every month or something . does
hyperbolic frequently more frequently than I find them in my backyard
well uh you get 350 points boy
ok this is also a kooky elephant related question
one of the key findings of Cuvier is paper had to do with how modern Indian
elephants compared to fossils of mammoths and mastodons found on other
continents could be found that the structure of their teeth and drawers
were much too different for them to have come from the same animal
so this led him to a startling all caps
I want to point out this is written in all caps a startling conclusion was that
a that animals that look the same could actually be different species was it be
that living things change form over time was it see that animals once lived on
different continents than they do today
or was it d that animals can go extinct
you read those again
I'm thinking yes sir
that animals can go extinct yes that is correct
uva's paper advanced the idea that distinction is a thing
how so it's all in the texty text to the wrong
ok someone will tell you about it right now yeah there you go before this was
widely assumed that the Earth's population of living things was static
Thomas Jefferson for example said he expected lewis and clark to find
mammoths wandering around the west the idea that type of animal could just
disappear was basically unheard of but could be is work showed that there were
many living things that no longer existed and he suggested that they died
out through periodic extinction events that he called revolutions 250 points
mmm now the VA's work went far beyond elephants and the ice age
he also investigated much older reptilian life like the mosasaur and the
pterodactyl which is another name that he coined among his observations were
the fact that these reptilian fossils came from much deeper layers in the
earth than modern animals
so this led Cuvier to propose yet another theory that scandalized his
peers
what was it a that dinosaurs were related to modern reptiles be that
reptiles were once more plentiful than mammals see that all mammals shared a
common ancestor or D that dinosaurs could fly and swim
yessuh Rhonda be yes correct
vai had no idea how old those reptile fossils were but he theorized that their
prevalence and deeper layers of the earth suggested that there was once an
age of reptiles
this was a time he said when reptilian forms and dominated the environment as
much as mammals do today and the decades after his death of the discovery of many
dinosaur egg vs or and other reptilian fossils would prove them right
if it's a scandal it's because humans are finding out that they weren't as
plentiful as they thought they were
that's my my thinking basically yeah you're thinking that led to the right
thought King kerr humans like to think the real important is the thing about it
yeah you left some attitude hello basically and also like it could have
been the last one because pterosaurs aren't in any way related to dinosaurs
right let's pause
thank you yes they had they went in different directions
that's what it sounds like when they split from an evolutionary lineage
yeah you get 407 points
Oh Nexus 7 is just cuz i like your basic yourself something nice
ok ok ok yeah i got it i'm going to turn it up this last round I tell
and how many or how many more rounds we have this is the last round
ok we will pay tribute to emily's home state of South Dakota South Dakota
that's where the problem of right mmm as we enter into our third and final round
is time for our contestants to wager their winnings
emily has 1850 points or scishow box if that helps you like Alana has 21:57 so
contestants make your wagers while we break for this commercial announcement
or whatever we got to do
contestants are you ready I guess so
yes ok our topic in South Dakota and we have a lot of factors to consider
there's a lot to write about in South Dakota very rich in natural history
beautiful geology but we decided to focus on invasive species
oh boy yes I mean and no invasive species of bad but I I know about the
topic so I'm excited
ok hope you're ready
me too there we go south dakota happens to be the birthplace of one of the most
pernicious and now well-known invasive plants in the United States
thanks to the help of some fun reading 1800 farmers
what famous invasive plant got its start in South Dakota
was it a chamomile be zoo sea
tumbleweed or D wild parsnip ok so there's one of those that i know i
didn't originate in the United States and I know nothing about the others so I
don't know if this is right down in the letter
we'll see how this goes maybe I don't know my natural history as well as I
thought
mmm Oh that'd be embarrassing i'm sorry South Dakota oh my gosh down now I feel
bad
mmm the whole state I know my dad's a farmer
don't well imagine how much fun we'll be at Thanksgiving when you well them with
his question
Wow Oh cable all right my heart's beating fast
shut up ok but he doesn't do him
mhm Michael you're ahead so show us your answer C tumble bumble
I think that is not the the Kremlin name for that ok what's your answer
the parsnips the correct answer is C tumbleweed
bollocks nah I think tumbleweeds are like Russian or something
the iconic tumbleweed is actually known as a Russian thistle and it was first
reported in the u.s. around 1877 in bonham County South Dakota
apparently Ukrainian farmers who had moved their planted their crops of flax
with seeds that had been contaminated with thistle from the old country within
20 years the plant had spread all the way to California
chamomile kudzu and parsnip are all invasive species in North America as
well
no I need to give a big shout out to mrs. stachura in 5th or 6th grade for
telling me about tumbleweeds because a yeah I put him over the top
congratulations just an over your winner David Campos from the bottom of my heart
and know that I'm ashamed of my performance and I'm so sorry didn't get
the swag that you needed that was like way too sentimental
all right but the great thing about about scishow quiz show is that even the
loser gets a little bit of swag
oh boy thanks for sitting through this scishow quiz show even though you have
to look at this instead of this the whole time asking the questions and I
think you did a fantastic job
well thank you you should see my pet stains really nervous
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yeah we also have pygmy goat enthusiast
phil plait another thing
well you better study up
yeah cause it's all going to pick me go question