(upbeat music)
- From Excalibur to Ex Machina,
nerds are passionate about a lot of those things.
But, there's something they love above all else,
and that is correcting people.
This is Um, Actually.
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And our contestants today are,
Amy Vorpahl, coming back.
- Yes, hello everyone, I can't wait to finally crush
these women into the ground.
(laughing)
- And next to her, we have Emma Fyffe.
- Hi, glad to be here and glad to use a phrase
that's mostly used by men (laughs)
in this fight that includes all women.
- That is true, take it back.
(laughs)
And we have Stef Woodburn.
- Hi, I'm Stef, and I'm just here to have fun.
- So, Amy was here to crush you all,
Emma was here to crush the patriarchy,
and you're here to have a good time.
(laughing) - That's it!
- I have here a stack of statements.
These are untrue statements of the things that you like,
or that has some huge rabid fandom
who's certain to try to correct you,
on these sorts of things.
But, your job is to correct me.
There's only two rules, you have to precede
your corrections of the phrase, "Um actually".
Jeopardy-style, I won't give you the point
unless you very obnoxiously say "Um, actually".
And you can interrupt me at any point,
just like in real life.
You don't need to wait for me to get my point out.
(laughs) Pretty clear, pretty good?
- Yeah.
- Certainly, you've no experience
with any of these phenomenon.
(laughing)
- I have never been corrected on anything
I've posted on the internet, ever.
- I believe, yes, that totally makes sense.
We will start the first question here,
which is about Sailor Moon.
In the Sailor Moon franchise each of the sailor soldiers
has a unique elemental power and is named
after a planet in our solar system.
(bell dings)
Amy?
- Um actually I have never seen Sailor Moon,
and I don't think that it's named after a planet.
(laughs)
- I mean, it's right there in the title
which is correct, yeah.
(group laughs) (bell dings)
You don't have to think it through too hard.
Yeah, the moon is not a planet.
- [Amy] It's not a planet.
- But, go ahead, Stef, do you have something to add here?
- Oh yeah, um actually,
I guess Amy won that.
(group laughs)
- There is actually a second thing wrong.
- [Group In Unison] Oh!
- Um, actually I've never heard them called soldiers,
they're called scouts. - Scouts.
(bell dings)
- Um, actually soldiers is a more correct translation
of the word senshi, which is now officially translated
by Viz Media as guardians.
Which is, scouts is out.
- Um, actually I've only heard of them
be referred to as Sailor Scouts
(bell dings)
on the TV show! - Um, actually you clearly
have not been keeping up with Sailor Moon since 2014
when all that got revamped.
(laughing) (bell dings)
- Um, actually, so even though I don't know anything
(group laughs)
and I can't interpret anything that was just said,
did I win?
- I mean, yeah, you did still have a right answer.
(laughing)
We're not gonna give her the point
just 'cause she knew more.
(laughing)
You were first to the pass, we'll give you a point.
- It's true.
- I will say the other thing that I would've accepted
here is also, Sailor Pluto.
If you wanna say Pluto
is no longer a planet. - Oh, technically
not a planet.
- Not anymore.
So, technically I guess two of them.
- Um, actually isn't there a debate
going on about that right now?
(laughing)
- It has actually been re-opened.
Amy you still get the point for that.
All right, we'll move on to our next question.
In the poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll,
we learn of fearsome creatures like the Jubjub beast,
the bandersnatch and the titular Jabberwock.
Yet, despite its purported ferocity,
someone beheads it with a simple swish-swash
of his vorpal sword.
- Oh, oh, oh, oh!
(laughing)
I just got very offended!
That was me being offended, - Yeah!
- not excited.
Um, actually, - Yes.
- the sword, the vorpal sword,
or also in the poem it's also called the vorpal blade,
- Mm-hm.
- Makes the sound snicker-snack.
- Mm-hm, that is correct.
- I can't argue with that, it was correct.
- Well, I was not expecting an emotional response
of quite that. - Neither was I!
- I mean that's her namesake!
- I mean that's my persona.
Because, that's my real last name.
But Vorpahl, it has an H in it and in German,
it actually means boundary pole.
(laughs)
- What?
- So Lewis Carroll made up this word,
and I just coincidentally was born into the Vorpahl family.
- Snicker-snack is an odd sound for a sword
to make, we can agree on that, right?
- [Group In Unison] Yeah!
- Lewis Carroll was arguably on drugs when he wrote
any of Alice and Wonderland.
(bell dings)
- Um, actually I'm pretty sure he was.
(laughs)
- Yeah, I don't know of anyone who's argued the other way.
- Any time anyone was a freshman in our drama program,
they would call me in, like they had to recite
the Jabberwocky poem as like the first--
- That was like your right of passage?
- Yeah it was the first trial.
- Get in here freshman and recite the Jabberwocky!
Well that is another point for Amy.
(laughs)
This next question is Lord of the Rings,
a Lord of the Rings question.
Frodo first gains possession of The One Ring
during Bilbo Baggin's 100th birthday,
where Bilbo announced he would be leaving the Shire.
(bell dings)
- Um, actually it's his 111th birthday.
- That's correct. - Yay!
- Um, actually it's his eleventy-first birthday.
- It is, there it is. (laughs)
(bell dings)
That is more correct, but I am not going to give it to you.
Yeah, it's 111th, eleventy-first birthday.
That is the answer.
Question, didn't even finish.
(group laughs)
That's a point for Emma here.
- [Emma] Thank you.
- This is a Dungeons and Dragons related question.
- I'll sit out.
- Yeah I'll just--
One of the strangest and most memorable monsters
in Dungeons and Dragons is the gelatinous cube,
a mindless, transparent, knee-high cube of gelatinous ooze
that absorbs and digests everything in its path.
(bell dings)
- Um, actually, there's no way that it's knee-high.
It's definitely, I don't know the exact dimensions
but it definitely takes up a 5 by 5 by 5 foot area.
It's bigger. - Yeah it's definitely
bigger than that. - Yeah.
(bell dings)
- Yeah?
- Um, actually it's a thigh-sized.
(laughs)
- It's a thigh, yeah, it's a little higher than knee-high,
just goes to thigh. (laughs)
- Um, actually I feel like it's about the size
of the chair that you're sitting in.
So, you're actually being consumed by a gelatinous
cube as we speak. - Consumed.
(gurgles) (bell dings)
- Yeah, um, actually, it definitely can fit
a humanoid in it. - Yeah.
I'm going to change it to a 10 by 10 by 10.
- 10 by 10 is right, yeah!
(cheers) (bell dings)
- Do you feel like it's a fun monster to include
in a campaign, to encounter?
- It's just one of those things that you have to fight.
It also is pretty creative when you think back that like,
I think it survived several additions.
Like, it transcends additions in the ending.
- Does it go back to first edition or is it--
- That I don't know.
- Yeah, I feel like maybe it's the second edition.
- We'll get a fact checker on that right away!
(keyboard clicks)
- It's like sharks that have survived
from ancient times you just
have to respect it.
- [Emma] I genuinely want to know.
- A gelatinous cube.
- It's a first edition monster!
- We all learned something today!
Gelatinous cubes go back to first edition.
- I didn't want to include this detail
because, this is like deep deep lore
that no one is gonna know but I found it
very silly, so I just wanna share with you
the fact that apparently in at least a campaign or perhaps
some novelization, there is a named gelatinous
cube named Glabbagool.
- [Group In Unison] Oh!
- I was hoping his name was just going to be like,
- [Group In Unison] Fred.
- Oh my God!
- Oh!
- It must be one that exists in our nightmares somewhere.
(laughs)
- That's a sign that there has to be a cube named Fred.
- Anyone got a ouija board?
(laughs)
We got a call from in the next Dungeons
and Dragons movie there will be a gelatinous
cube named Fred.
- Great that is another point for Amy.
And this brings us to our first shiny
question of the game. - Oh.
- Shiny questions are like shiny Pokemon
in that they're worth the same amount of points.
They're just a little bit different
and little bit rarer.
So this is a game called A Book By Its Cover.
(sparkly chiming)
What we've done on the other side of these boards,
there are six book covers form which we've removed
the title and the author.
And it'll be up to you to see if you can identify
the book from it's cover. (group laughs)
Whoever can identify the most will get the point.
Let's flip those over.
Let's take a look at those book covers.
(tense music)
We'll start with Amy.
Amy, - Awesome.
- What have you got here?
- Okay, so first up, we've got Jurassic Park,
- [Host] Mm-hm.
- [Amy] by Michael Crichton.
- [Host] Mm-hm.
- [Amy] or Dr. Michael Crichton.
(laughs)
- Wait we both - We forgot all
about authors. - totally forgot
about authors.
- Oh, you don't have to fill in the author,
the title is fine.
- [Group In Unison] Oh, okay!
- Oh I thought you said author!
- I said we removed the author just 'cause I
didn't want it to get in the way of things
but, I'm just looking for the titles.
- [Amy] Okay.
- And no extra credit.
(laughs)
- God damn it!
Okay, This is what I live for, is extra credit!
Okay, so this next one, I don't know what's on it.
I got vibes of an airship which, to me,
that's Golden Compass.
This is Dune.
I didn't know the author so I wrote David Lynch.
(laugh)
- Frank Herbert.
- That's Frank Herbert.
- Frank Herbert, okay.
And then the next one I knew it was Stephen King,
I didn't know the title, so, what did I write?
I wrote, the movie where Kevin Spacey plays
the snarky cat.
(group laughs)
- That's Nine Lives, Nine Lives.
(laughs)
- Nine Lives.
And then the next one is a Goosebumps book by R.L. Stein.
I didn't know the title so I wrote
"The dummy did it".
- Okay.
- [Amy] And then the next one is the Iron Giant
and I also didn't know the author
so I wrote "Walt Disney"?
- Okay, I think you got two here.
You got two correct. - Okay great.
- Okay, so let's roll to Emma.
- Okay, here we go. - Let's see what you got here.
- Alright so, yeah, the first one is Jurassic Park.
- [Host] Mm-hmm.
- Next to that, yeah it looked
like just kind of a marble lost
in space so I wrote "help my plane got stuck
"in this marble".
(laughs)
The other cover there, people are saying Dune?
I think I had a different cover for Dune so I just wrote
"We're fucking lost bro".
- Uh-huh.
- The bottom one is Pet Sematary.
The one in the middle is a Goosebumps book,
specifically, it is Night of the Living Dummy, I think.
- [Group In Unison] Mm-hmm.
- And, then the last one is the Iron Giant.
(host laughs)
- You got three correct, great.
- [Emma] Awesome! (laughs)
- And, so now we'll go to Stef!
Let's see what she got.
- Ta da! - Ta da!
- So we have Jurassic Park.
- [Host] Uh-huh.
- I put Around the World in 80 Days,
- That's a very good guess.
- So my book cover of Dune is very different
but, I put this as Dune because it looks
like a sand worm chasing Lady Jessica and Paul.
(group laughs)
I said Pet Sematary, Goosebumps,
- [Host] Uh-huh.
- And then Iron Giant,
'cause it looks
like an iron giant! - Everyone gets
the Iron Giant as the last one! (laughs)
- I'm glad that we all either got it right or wrong.
(laughs)
- I think we all got it wrong.
- I think you also got three correct here.
- Oh!
- I'll go through the right answers
and you can check - Let's go over
what they actually are! - my math here,
make sure I didn't - Okay!
- misassign any points here.
- Okay, but can I ask?
- [Host] Yes.
- The first one.
It's frickin' Lost World.
- It is Jurassic Park.
(group argues)
- I was like, this is a trick question!
- I could have been very cruel
and done that, but I was like no,
like I gotta give at least one gimme up here,
just to like, and it's like I tried to think
of iconic covers. - Sure, right!
- Like you'll see and you're like I know that book.
So, Jurassic Park you all got.
- [Emma] Cool.
The second one that no one got.
This is the original cover of Brave New World.
- [Group In Unison] Oh!
- Yeah very strange, not my cover.
- I got four!
- [Host] You got four, did I miscount one?
- But, well Semetary was spelled with an S instead of a C.
- Yes.
- Oh!
That, I didn't get it?
- No, no, I'm not miscounting that!
Hold on, well, you got Jurassic Park, you got Dune,
you got Pet Sematary, right?
- And Goosebumps.
- No, but the title's not Goosebumps.
- No, but the title's no Goosebumps.
- [Emma] Oh!
- [Group In Unison] The title is Night of the Living Dummy.
- Which I knew.
- This third one is Dune.
I also had a very different cover of Dune,
but this is the first edition.
- [In Unison] The black one with the dune.
- Oh, that's what I had! - And two little dots.
- I was so sure of that I have never seen that cover
I was like, fuck yeah, sand, that's Dune! (laughs)
- That's gotta be Dune, what else would it be?
- But yeah, Pet Sematary, Night of the Living
Dummy, and the last one, which you all guessed
- [Emma] I, Robot!
I know! - as the Iron Giant
is I, Robot.
- You know what it needed in it was Will Smith.
(group laughs)
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First person to buzz in for these and identify
where we are based on the map will get a sort of tally.
Alright, let's go ahead and take a look at that first map.
Where am I?