hello and welcome to the abroad japan
quiz by some admission the most
important quiz that you will ever take
for the winner you'll receive not only
my eternal friendship but a reasonably
priced meal at the restaurant of your
choice for the losers you'll be strapped
to a rocket and launched into the sun
yep
i've been told we can't do that anymore
so instead if you don't win you will not
be invited to my next birthday party
let the quiz begin and well done and
good luck to you all
i don't know why i said well done you
haven't won it yet
hello
i'm team japan
welcome to chris question
i
understand you every winner because your
best friend maybe 10 years
old friend
nice ice cold beer oh easy question i am
very confident though i don't know chris
that well i've only been on a few trips
with them i believe that i'm a good
judge of character so i'm certain i'm
100 certain i will win this quiz uh well
obviously we have the the uk connection
and
across all three journey across japans i
think i'm the only person
along with amp man of course that have
spent every day
with chris
70 days
without a day off
in close proximity
to chris alright question one
where does chris think is the most
beautiful place in japan
uh oh that's tough town street shimanami
and a bicycle street in hiroshima oh i'm
gonna say somewhere in tohoku
again
that's because this is his his homeland
where he first came to japan so he finds
a natural beauty in the city in which he
started i think the most beautiful place
in japan is the setawuchi inland seas
absolutely
stunning chain of islands that go across
from
onomichi to imabari and you can cycle it
in a very long very arduous day but it's
something i highly recommend and yeah
beautiful place unmatched in japan
that was my second guess i've been there
with him and he really liked it maybe
maybe i i
answer
cycling you said shimanani kaido that's
right
i don't know why i don't think he's ever
been there said that
thank you this is a mark of shame uh for
some reason i thought that was i was
genuinely gonna say that okay sure you
were because it was so like and the day
we went there was perfect all right
i thought it was tohoku question two yep
which neighborhood in tokyo is chris's
least favorite shinjuku
city
he dum
like
shinjuku it boggles the mind how
confusing that place is you can't no one
can meet anyone anyway it's just too
confusing oh that's shibuya he hates
that place every time we go there he's
like oh gold i hate this busy place
everybody's bothering me and i have no
place to eat a chicken my least favorite
district in tokyo is harajuku it's a
great place if you love clothes shopping
but i don't
i just don't and i never will
that's really close to shibuya yeah i'm
not really
shinjuku you said shinjuku shinjuku
i think by proxy i was the closest
geographically so you take the hearts
why did you choose shibuya boy because
he hates people
question three if chris were a creature
what would he be
if chris was a creature i think almost
certainly he would be a frog because he
jumps from place to place around japan
hey a seagull
b
a one bad c
poor poise purpose
did you say it like that on purpose or d
dub
seagull i'm going with seagull he uh he
loves his drone shots i think just to
get an aerial view on everything they
can nick people's chips as well when
they're here
la beat
i would choose to be a purpose because
i could roll around on a beach all day
and to be honest it wouldn't be too
different from what i do now
a porpoise is a dolphin isn't it
do we roll on beaches i think they're
dying have i got my have i gone 39 years
thinking this is something that it's not
i think that frog and rabbit were
relatively close at least the train of
thought i feel like we're really excited
favorite scent
i'm sorry his favorite scent yeah easy
might smell
he like marmite
lets open
like a smell mama smell
oh
of course i first thought lilacs but
that can't be right so i'm gonna have to
say the smell of a freshly cooked
chicken
coming from the kitchen
it's probably mine as well here fried
chicken let's go with that my favorite
scent is that of a toasty bonfire on a
cold winter's eve because i love
christmas and i love pubs i love sitting
around the fireplace closely followed by
bananas because i think they smell good
like objectively they smell really nice
i like like banana flavored sweets and
milkshakes
but bonfires are still better
what did you say fried chicken that's
what i said that's a fried chicken
all right you get it right you're
getting right
i think marmite over and opened fire
sounds pretty good to be honest caveat
there you go question five
what is chris's most used phrase in
japanese these are tough natsuki said
they are easy let me think of how chris
would say
hi
sorry i'm struggling for a second um
there you go
yeah the pressure's getting to me
seriously you know he's always filming
so when obviously
when you're filming you have to have
kind of the confidence to go in and go
in places and feel more or you could
miss the shot so i'm going to get it
something simple like uh
or like you know sorry for getting in
the way he's a very polite boy as well
so uh yeah should tell you let's say
that because he's always filming
all right i hate to admit it but my most
used japanese phrase probably is
famichikistatsu on the goshamas i do say
it several times a week
and that's that's not good is it
whoops
i said
he replied to the guy saying
and he was like hi
okay
question six come
so i i know a couple of the early ones
it might not be the first one but it
could be uh japanese people trying
marmite it could be the robot restaurant
in shinjuku as well that was an early
one but i don't think that was the first
one it could be natsuki falling over
drunk in an izakaya somewhere as well
huge fan
of chris's stuff
i know he's in his he's in that room and
he's talking about he's talking too much
and it was about um uh
teaching what is teaching like in damn
it that's wrong i know i'm that's wrong
i'm sorry chris ah
he's
loom outside every morning noisy about
the video i don't think it's the first
one but i'm just gonna guess with uh
japanese people trying marmite my first
ever youtube video was inside my tiny
japanese apartment and it took a whole
year to get a thousand views on that
video and that was only because i put
the video on literally every single day
to get an extra view incrementally
i was desperate at the time and i still
am i said it was taken in his time
well there's still three questions
oh you know it's it's funny i've never
actually been to karaoke with chris lee
blacks don't you get everything left to
get be blessed
that tears for tears
it's gotta be an 80s song okay i'm on
the right scent well i'm gonna say it's
space oddity
david bowie i should clarify i know his
favorite music but i don't think it
translates well into karaoke so i don't
think uh depeche mode particularly comes
across
as a karaoke song so i'm gonna guess
backstreet boys i want it that way
it's gonna be so wrong and he's gonna
hate me so bad
but maybe if you comment enough you'll
sing it for us before you reveal the
answer yeah can i give a light answer
yeah sure you're not gonna get it yeah
yeah it doesn't count yeah but um what's
this
rasputin
it's respect
forget my proof song so i was wondering
i was just kidding i was thinking
rasputin when i said space odyssey i
meant space race i was thinking rasputin
russia that's what i was going with it's
rasputin i knew it i told you you're
weird
backstreet boys what is wrong
with you can i can i get half a point my
go-to karaoke song would have to be
under the sea by sebastian the crowd
because no other song comes close to
capturing the essence of what life must
be like under the sea
sometimes i wish i was down there i wish
you were down there at the very bottom
where no one could hear your lies and
your answers
have you ever heard him never sung a
disney basketball song in his life he's
not seen he's never seen him never
liar no hearts agreed yeah no hearts
question eight
what is his perfect gift to himself
ah
and convenience
store and easy food family
market chicken i mean you can see in the
production quality of these videos like
keeping up with the trends with camera
things so uh a new camera lens it would
be to the improvement of his channel so
i'm gonna say it would be the newest
camera slash
the perfect gift for myself would be a
camera lens and in fact the answer was
staring you in the face the whole time
you can see it in the cleverly
positioned mirror there you go too many
lenses why did i buy so many not even i
know well camera lens we got one we got
one all right there you go
he has a mini camera okay has many
birthdays many birthdays
abroad
chris's favorite video on abroad in
japan it's gotta be the hokkaido video i
mean i'm not playing favorites but we
did have a lot of fun it's not that one
it's the fukushima documentary that's
the one i'm i'm certain he was very
proud of that and it's a good video it's
the fukushima documentary the fukushima
documentary i think that's a very
special video and uh it's either that or
it's
filming dr charlie
in an abandoned
uh train carriage although no i don't
think that's it no yeah fukushima i
think
fukushima memories
everybody looking sinking and
deaf girl culture pick up he
is like a crowbar style
i've been very lucky to do some
incredible things over the years i've
got to do documentaries on fukushima the
tsunami i got to meet hyde got to make
natsuki the movie but my favorite video
is actually one of the simplest and it
is in fact the horrors of japanese
english textbooks it's a video where i
literally came home after school one day
when i was a teacher and brought this
ridiculous english textbook with me that
is just full of loads of spelling errors
hadn't been proof read just didn't make
much sense and i just made fun of it for
about 12 minutes and uh yeah i think the
best video is the simplest ones and i
love it highly recommend checking it out
one of the best videos on japan he will
not stop saying how much he loves that
documentary a lot of the videos he's
talked about but every time he's
interviewed or something he's like my
favorite video is the fukushima video
he's very passionate about it like for
real i thought that was his favorite
documentary
no the a english strange english words
strange english words
that should have been number one here
let's balance it out
okay thanks
question 10 which friend would chris
take to a desert island and why a rotaro
because he could be murdered and turned
into a sailing boat
b joey the anime man because he's used
to dealing with spiders and terrifying
insects like in australia c natsuki
because you both start to death but have
a laugh along the way d connor because
he can cook chicken and broccoli all day
um
would there be broccoli on a desert
island
that would be my biggest concert in
there
that's strange i wasn't on this
particular desert island trip that's
fine um
i'm gonna go with natsuki uh i think if
your fate is already kind of decided for
you why not have a laugh with it and uh
natsuki would definitely make the
situation more bearable i think so chris
would go down with natsuki simply
because
at the end of the day he's gonna have
fun whether he's making videos in japan
or dying in the desert
final answer natsuki it at least it'd be
good for a laugh
give me my trophy if i had to take one
friend with me to a desert island it
would have to be natsuki because i think
if you're going to starve to death and
just die on a desert island you might as
well have a little bit of fun along the
way and i know natsuki would cheer me up
he'd make me laugh and
let me die with a smile on my face and
that's everyone's dream right
although i must admit the riotro option
is rather tempting you know the idea of
a murdering riotero and b turning him
into some sort of raft or some sort of
flotation device is or rather appealing
and uh it could be a great topic for a
future video
yeah it definitely could
i feel like you said your time
[Music]
all right let's get this over with
because i'm happy if natsuki wins and i
got tied with ian
we already assured a tie for each other
congratulations to you insert name here
you are now my bestest friend in the
whole wide world well done and uh get
ready to choose a restaurant that's less
than 3 000 yen and i'll take you there
the next time i see you in the next year
or so if you've got a score more than
seven well done you're in the top tier
of friends you've got less than seven
i'm disgusted i'm ashamed and you're no
longer my friend and you're definitely
not coming to my imaginary birthday
party next year thus concludes the
abroad japan quiz now get out
how do you feel about not being included
in the last question yeah that one hurt
i'm gonna be honest that one didn't feel
good it was natsuki joey yo taro and i
was right i was kind of hoping i was d
and then he went with connor and i
thought that's fine
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