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00:04Tonight on A Heart Quiz
00:06Ben, animal scientist
00:09Expert subject, invasive animals
00:13Rachel, pharmacist
00:15Expert subject, sumo
00:18Abby, radiation therapist
00:21Expert subject, the Saw movies
00:24Eve, writer
00:27Expert subject, Greek tragedy, Medea
00:33Here's your host, Tom Gleeser
00:35Yes, hello
00:38A loss for Chiquito
00:41Welcome to Hardcores, these contestants are trumpets
00:44Last one to get blown will be tonight's Heart Quiz champion
00:47To be part of the show at home, go to the ABC TV iView socials
00:52Let's say hello
00:53G'day Eve
00:54Hi
00:54Now, Medea
00:56Yes
00:57Is your expert subject, what is that?
00:59Well, I like the killing in there, but also I like the fact that a really old guy from
01:05about two and a half thousand years ago had the fortitude to write about something that
01:11can show that women had to go through a lot of trouble just to get some agency in their
01:16life and they're still doing it now
01:17No, no, I meant what is it at all?
01:21You've got to read the play
01:22Oh, it's an ancient Greek play
01:23It's an ancient Greek play
01:24Now, you once worked as a chaperone for Thor in Bunnings
01:27Yes
01:29Was he looking for a hammer?
01:30He was
01:32What were you doing?
01:34Well, Thor was meeting and greeting lots of people in Bunnings and he needed a chap and
01:38so that was me and to this day I've got pictures of Thor on the computer on a calculator and
01:43my son now thinks that Thor and I are besties
01:46This must have been a long time ago before the film caught on
01:49Correct
01:50Now, here's you with a nice pair of apples
01:53Yes
01:55What's that about?
01:56That's a photo shoot from a friend show that I did called Hi I'm Eve
02:01As you know, Eve tempted Adam with an apple and so there I am with my apples
02:06You were about to say tempted Adam with her apples
02:09Well, she may well have done that too
02:12Abby
02:12Hi, Tom
02:13Now, your expert subject is the Saw franchise
02:16Mmm
02:17Is your favourite part the torture scenes or the really crook torture scenes?
02:22Wouldn't you like to know?
02:28How did you get into these horror movies?
02:31Well, it's kind of funny, my parents are really into horror and when we were young my sister
02:35and I snuck down the stairs trying to sneak watch one of the horror films and they caught
02:39us
02:40Oh
02:40So as a punishment they forced us to sit in front of the telly and watch the horror film
02:45and we both were grinning ear to ear and we loved it and we were born horror fans
02:53That works for cigarettes
02:54Yes
02:56I don't feel like that works for horror films
02:59This is a successful franchise with ten films and counting
03:03I mean how many different ways can there be to kill people and why are you collecting this knowledge?
03:09Um, there's lots of ways to kill people
03:12I don't know, I find the gore fascinating working in health
03:14Um, I kind of know what's
03:19Oh dear, yeah, you work in radiation, is that right?
03:22Yeah, I do, so, yeah
03:23Okay, so
03:26Wow, so
03:28So someone's going to be at work soon and you're going to put a lead vest on them and say
03:32lie here
03:32and they're going to go, ah!
03:36Rachel
03:36Tom
03:37Sumo is your expert subject
03:39Yes
03:40Do you like any other sports or is it just the ones that are performed in G-strings?
03:46So do you like it because of the semi-nudity?
03:48Uh, no, that's not the main reason
03:50Oh, what's the main reason?
03:51Um, well, they're elite athletes
03:53Um, they are really dedicated
03:55Yep
03:55There's also a lot of, um, ceremony and, um, history involved in it
04:01Okay, so you're just like watching really large men play handsies
04:06Now you've got a selfie with a wrestler by following him onto a train
04:10Do you think that maybe he was getting on the train to get away from you?
04:15Um, this was in February
04:17We'd just landed in, um, Tokyo
04:20And all the wrestlers had actually gone to Osaka already
04:24So I was thinking I wouldn't get to meet one
04:26So how'd you recognise him out of his undies?
04:30Now you're into Japanese archery, flower arranging, singing, dancing and tea ceremony
04:35Do you have any non-Japanese interests?
04:39No
04:39Okay
04:42Do you think if you were born in Japan you'd be really into beer can regattas and thong crongs?
04:48Ben
04:48Tom
04:49Your expert subject is invasive animals to Australia
04:52Correct
04:52What do we mean by invasive?
04:54Um, we're talking about the ones that were not necessarily endemic to Australia
04:58They may have been brought here and they ever since established have become a bit of a problem
05:02Okay, so it's biosecurity threats
05:04It is
05:05That's what we mean by invasive, not Rachel chasing someone for a selfie
05:10As a kid you collected cane toads, what did you do with them?
05:13There was a whole manner of things we did with cane toads
05:17Alright
05:17That I would never do now
05:19Um, it's all about refrigeration and freezing
05:23And the most humane method of killing them to this day
05:26Is it?
05:28Just, just freeze them
05:29Uh, refrigerate first then freeze
05:31Oh, I'll just, like just ease them into their death
05:36There, there's a bit of a science to it but uh, that is the accepted best method
05:40Alright
05:40Um, but it's much better than a golf club
05:42A few people might be following their grandparents to the fridge
05:48Yeah, can you grab me that avocado?
05:50It's right at the back
05:53Alright, let's play
05:54Hunt!
05:56Expert round
05:57Expert subjects
05:58Win or lose five points
06:00Steal and answer
06:01Double points
06:02I'll ask each of you five questions on your expert subject
06:05Right, you get five points
06:06Wrong, I will take five points from you
06:08The rest of you can steal at any time to get double points
06:10Let's start with Ben and his expert subject
06:13Invasive animals
06:17Announced by the Federal Government in 2016
06:19Was a project to use a herpes virus
06:21To control which invasive freshwater fish?
06:24Ben
06:24It's a labia
06:26Incorrect, it's still open
06:28Could it steal a team?
06:30Carp
06:30Correct
06:31Double points to you
06:35Here's then Minister Christopher Pyne making the announcement
06:38We are going to visit Carpageddon
06:41On the great pest of the River Murray
06:44The European carp
06:46Yeah, so they release herpes to keep down the numbers
06:49A bit like on maths
06:54Now a widespread pest
06:56The cane toad was introduced in an attempt to control beetles
06:59Put a steal a team
07:00Sugar cane
07:02Correct
07:03Double points to you
07:06That threatening which agricultural crop?
07:08Sugar cane is correct
07:10Co-developed by several Australian governments
07:12The toxic bait known as Curiosity
07:14Aims to kill which animal?
07:18Who the steal it's Abby?
07:20Foxes
07:21Incorrect, it's wide open
07:24Ben
07:25Ben
07:25Wild dog
07:26Incorrect
07:28First deal it's Rachel
07:30Rabbits
07:31Incorrect
07:36Time's up
07:38Cat
07:42A toxic bait
07:43A toxic bait known as Curiosity aims to kill
07:46Kill the cat
07:47Which animal?
07:48F***ing cat
07:54You know, you might be watching Hard Quiz, you may have been watching it for several years
07:58Often in the opening rounds we have a few easy questions that are easy to steal for anybody
08:03Except for F***ing tonight
08:09Once the longest unbroken fence in the world, the number one state barrier fence in Western Australia
08:14Was a setting for which 2002 film?
08:17Who the steal it's Abby?
08:18The rabbit proof fence
08:20Correct
08:20Yeah, the fence was never that effective
08:27Mostly because the rabbit strolled past it before it was completed
08:32Last question in your set Ben
08:34To help locate feral pigs, a radio collar may be placed on one of them
08:39Who is then referred to Ben
08:41Judas
08:42Correct
08:44By the name of what treacherous biblical character?
08:47Judas
08:49Next set of questions, it's for Rachel on Sumo
08:55Would it help you if I was wearing a G-string?
09:01Like, I'm just saying
09:05Just to help you focus
09:08As part of the ritual before sumo matches, the two contenders known as Ricochie
09:12Face each other and raise their arms to demonstrate that they have no what?
09:17Rachel
09:17Weapons
09:19Correct
09:23It's not really like they've got many places to hide them
09:27Oh, here's a revolver, it was in my arse
09:37The Ricochie in the top two divisions receive a salary and perks while the lowest rank are servants
09:43With the difference compared to the gap between heaven and what?
09:47Rachel
09:48Hell
09:48Correct
09:52As part of an annual festival to pray for children's good health, sumo wrestlers each hold up a baby in
09:58a light-hearted contest
09:59With which of the babies declared the winner?
10:02Rachel
10:03The one that cries the first?
10:04Correct
10:09That's also how we cast Hard Quiz Kids
10:13Yeah, and the losing babies, by the way, are humanely killed in Eden
10:18But it's tradition
10:21You put them in the fridge first and then it's freezing
10:28Now frowned upon for safety reasons, the traditional crowd response when a high-rent Ricochie loses to a lower-rent
10:34Rachel
10:35Throwing your cushion
10:37Correct
10:40Loses to a low-rent wrestler is to throw what item from their seats?
10:44Cushions is correct
10:45One of the reasons it's frowned upon now is that spectators kept getting hit in the back of the head
10:49Have you been hit by a cushion?
10:51I have not
10:51Have you hit someone with a cushion?
10:53Maybe I'll hit you later
10:58You were being so polite, Rachel
11:01But I feel like now you've come alive
11:04Last question in your set, Rachel
11:06When a city official collapsed while giving a speech at a 2018 match
11:11Several women rushed to offer medical help, but a referee ordered them out of the ring for what reason?
11:17To the Steelers, Ben
11:18Because they were women?
11:20Correct
11:20One of the women was a medical professional, but officials decided to wait for the blokes from the fire department
11:29Because you can't go into a sumo ring unless you're equipped with a hose
11:38All right, time now for Abby and the Saw movies
11:44Does this feel like torture, doing this quiz, Abby?
11:48No
11:49Is it a bit boring for you because no one's died yet?
11:53Yep
11:57Yeah, there's something behind your eyes
12:00Jigsaw, a villain who puts victims in torture traps where they must make a gruesome choice to survive
12:06Tells them
12:07I want to play a
12:08Game
12:09Correct
12:10I want to play a what?
12:13Game is correct
12:14Earning over a billion dollars at the box office
12:17The Saw franchise was created by James Wan and Lee Whannell
12:20Who met at film school in which country?
12:23Abby
12:24Australia
12:25Correct
12:28This device appears in several Saw films and is described as the reverse of what animal trap?
12:34Abby
12:34A bear trap
12:35Correct
12:36So what does that do?
12:41It rips your face open
12:43Oh
12:43Yeah
12:44I feel like I've seen that somewhere before
12:52Imagine being trapped inside that
12:56Jigsaw delivers messages to his targets via his puppet Billy who travels around on what vehicle?
13:02Ben for the steel
13:03Tricycle
13:03Correct
13:05Double points to you
13:09He doesn't look very threatening
13:11Why don't they just kick him off the tricycle and step on his head?
13:15Usually they're chained to something
13:16So
13:17What a bummer
13:20Last question in your set, Abby
13:22The poster for the second Saw film was rejected by the Motion Picture Association of America
13:27Who disapproved of the number two being depicted using what dismembered Abby?
13:32Fingers
13:33Correct
13:35Using what dismembered body parts
13:37Fingers is correct
13:39Last set in the expert round
13:40It's Eve and Medea
13:42Am I getting it right?
13:46Is this ancient Greek play called Medea or Medea?
13:48What do you say?
13:49It's Medea
13:49You say Medea?
13:50Yeah
13:51It's how it's meant to be pronounced
13:53Medea
13:55Let's not forget I don't care
13:58You did ask
13:59But some people say Medea though
14:02Correct
14:02They do
14:02But you reckon Medea's more correct
14:04Yes
14:05I've asked several people
14:07Right
14:07Because you've obviously heard someone from ancient Greece say it out loud
14:12Yeah
14:12You haven't
14:13Because there was no recording back then
14:15Yeah
14:15So you don't actually know
14:19Is your favourite show on the ABC Medea Watch?
14:25Don't f***ing roll your eyes at me
14:28You did a show in the Fringe called Eve with two f***ing apples for your boobs
14:33You don't have high standards
14:37Euripides' play Medea premiered in 431 BC at a festival named after which Greek god of wine?
14:43Eve
14:44Dionysus
14:45Correct
14:48Euripides won third prize which sounds impressive but there were only three competitors
14:53Yeah bloody woke ancient Greeks giving everyone a prize
14:57In the play Medea is betrayed by her husband Jason
15:01Who she previously assisted in the theft of what golden item?
15:05Eve
15:05The golden fleece
15:06Correct
15:10Jason ditches Medea to marry a princess
15:13And over 2000 years later women are still plagued by root rats named Jason
15:19Singer Courtney Love has said that a line from Medea inspired the name of which band?
15:26It's wide open
15:32Hole
15:33Oh yeah
15:34Wide open
15:37Like a f***ing hole
15:40This is a duds episode before they're done
15:42This is like future duds
15:46Medea's miraculous escape at the end of the play is an example of what plot device translated as god from
15:52the machine?
15:55It's wide open
15:56Oh god
16:02Time's up
16:03The answer is deus ex machina
16:05Yep
16:05Yeah it was basically a crane so the characters could fly away or the gods could show up and sort
16:10out the ending
16:11Last question in your set Eve
16:12The play draws on Greek mythology but some believe Euripides invented the plot point in which Medea kills which characters?
16:20Eve
16:21Her children
16:23Correct
16:26Alright we'll follow it through their subjects now let's follow it through mine
16:30Tom's round
16:30Tom's subject
16:32Multiple choice
16:34This week I've been really getting into the universe
16:37I love the universe
16:38It's got all my favourite stuff in it
16:42This round is multiple choice
16:43Select your answers on your screens and press the buzzer to lock in the answer
16:46Are any of you into astronomy?
16:49No
16:49Okay
16:51The ancient Greeks were into astronomy
16:53They were
16:55Galileo
16:55Yeah
16:56Notably
16:56It's Galileo by the way
16:58Yeah
17:01The so called Fermi paradox relates to the fact that despite the enormous scale of the universe
17:06Only Earth shows evidence of what?
17:08A. Water
17:09B. Helium
17:10C. Intelligent life
17:11D. Gravity
17:15The answer is
17:16C. Intelligent life
17:23Enrico Fermi was a scientist who wanted to know if there's intelligent life out there
17:27Why haven't we met them?
17:30Feel a bit the same tonight
17:34Australia's universal healthcare system was introduced in 1975 under what name?
17:39A. Medicare
17:40B. Medibank
17:41C. MediCover
17:42D. Medicaid
17:47The answer is
17:48B. Medibank
17:54Full of facts and figures about the universe
17:57Which of these songs was covered in 2015 by physicist Stephen Hawking?
18:01A. Galaxy Song by Monty Python
18:04B. Yoda by Weird Al Yankovic
18:06C. Big Bang Theory Theme by Bare Naked Ladies
18:09D. Across the Universe by The Beatles
18:15The answer is
18:16A. Galaxy Song by Monty Python
18:24I'll be honest, his singing voice was only okay
18:29The interstellar unit of measurement known as the parsec is used to measure what?
18:34A. Time
18:34B. Speed
18:35C. Distance
18:36D. Mass
18:41The answer is
18:42C. Distance
18:49Yeah, nerds love to tell you that in Star Wars Hans Solo used the word parsecs incorrectly
18:55Which is great, so now you can use parsecs to measure nerds
19:00Last question in my round's worth double points
19:03Which of these guys is Steven Universe?
19:05A. This guy with high pants
19:07B. This guy with rocket feet
19:09C. This guy with too many muscles
19:12D. This guy with not enough muscles
19:14E. This guy with suspenders
19:16F. This guy with a big old chin
19:21The answer is D. This guy with not enough muscles
19:31Alright, at the end of my round
19:34Rachel, you're at the bottom on 20
19:35Get over here
19:43Luckily, I allow women into the ring
19:47Is there anything you'd do differently if you had another shot at it?
19:49I think I'd use some sumo moves
19:51Oh, okay
19:53Maybe you could give me a wedgie
19:57But you know what the problem is? I'd enjoy it
20:01Are you ready to go?
20:02Okay
20:03Out!
20:10All right, it's the people's round
20:13The people's round against the clock
20:16Cross your legs, play along at home
20:17Your time starts now
20:19Ethel Turner's classic 1894 book is about how many little Australians?
20:27Time's up, seven
20:28A hit comedy podcast about erotica is My Dad Wrote a What?
20:32Ben
20:33Sex book?
20:34No
20:35Porno
20:37Mount Etna is an active volcano in which Mediterranean country?
20:42Ben
20:43Italy
20:44Yes
20:45The first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell was what kind of Ben?
20:50Sheep
20:50Yes
20:51What kind of animal? Sheep is correct
20:53Beyonce's 2023 World Tour shares a name with which historical period?
20:58Renaissance
20:59Yes
21:00Yes
21:01What is the four letter abbreviation for typographical error?
21:05Eve
21:05Typo
21:06Yes
21:07Beginning with Y, what do Americans commonly call sweet potatoes?
21:11Time's up! The answer is yams
21:16All right, at the end of the people's round, Ben, you're at the bottom on 30, get over here
21:21Ben, you're second out the door, but I feel like you made up a lot of ground
21:30Yeah
21:32Because you were behind right from the front
21:33I did
21:34I lost the two easy ones and I just didn't seem to know what my topic was well enough
21:41I feel like you're, maybe you're a pest that was being controlled
21:44I was eradicated
21:49All right, you ready to go?
21:50I am
21:51Out!
21:54There he goes
21:58Okay, only two left, who's going to be the hard quiz champion?
22:01Abby and Eve, get over here because it's time to play hard quiz
22:04Final round, head to head, Shaw versus Madea
22:09Hard quiz
22:11Now, there can only be one hard quiz champion who gets to take home the limited edition big brass mug
22:16What will you do with the mug if you win, Eve?
22:18Well, in the style of Madea, I would probably use it to clobber someone and avenge my enemies
22:26That might appeal to you, Abby
22:29What are you going to do with the mug if you win, Abby?
22:31Well, I think it kind of looks like one of the saw traps
22:34So I might have a go at making my own one at home
22:36Yeah
22:38I have a feeling you can put it with the other ones
22:42It's best of five penalty shootout style, harder questions on your expert subjects
22:45So it's Eve's knowledge of Madea versus Abby's knowledge of the Saw movies
22:50Let's play
22:50Hard!
22:54I've got to stick with Madea now, I'm committed
22:56It's fine
22:57Am I embarrassing myself in front of the three or four people who know this play?
23:01Probably not
23:02Alright
23:03You've probably done that far worse before
23:08Spicy
23:11Eve
23:11Yes
23:12Euripides was known for beginning his plays with long expositional monologues
23:17Such as the one delivered by which character at the start of Madea?
23:21Nurse
23:23Correct
23:27Abby
23:28In Saw 4, when the body of Detective Kerry is found by her colleague Rig
23:33What bloody message is painted on the wall behind them?
23:37I saw 4s where the movies go downhill
23:41Not before that?
23:42No
23:45So Jigsaw, or in this case Amanda, likes to write cryptic messages on the walls behind their victims
23:52Sorry, test subjects
23:56What did they write?
23:57You'd hate to offend a torturer
23:59I know
24:00There's an entire fandom that will rip my head off
24:03Um
24:05Look inside yourself, Detective
24:07Rig
24:10Incorrect
24:10The correct answer is
24:12Cherish your life
24:14Yep
24:15The next message said
24:16Live, laugh, love
24:23Eve
24:23Yes
24:24Medea kills Jason's new wife, the princess Glauki, by gifting her what two poisoned items?
24:32Um, a coronet, which is a crown, and a dress
24:37Correct
24:42That's what happens if you don't have a gift registry
24:46Abby
24:47Working with a low budget for the first Saw film, director James Wan cobbled together the puppet doll
24:53Making the eyeballs out of what item?
24:56Ping pong balls
24:59Correct
25:05Eve
25:05In the final scene of the 1963 Penguin Classics translation
25:11Medea talks to Jason about the loss of her children
25:14Saying, but my pain's a fair price to pay
25:18To what?
25:20To take away your smile
25:23Correct
25:28My favourite quote
25:30Abby
25:31Around 70 torture traps are shown across the first 10 Saw films
25:36Which of the traps does Jigsaw mention is his personal favourite?
25:41So
25:43It's
25:44Well known that there's Jigsaw's favourite
25:47And there's Tobin Bell's favourite
25:49Who plays Jigsaw
25:50Jigsaw's personal favourite is The Rack
25:54Correct
25:58So what's The Rack do?
26:01Um, it sort of looks like, um, oh, what's it called that Jesus was on?
26:06The crucifix?
26:07The crucifix, so it turns his arms
26:10I can tell that you didn't go to a Catholic school
26:12It turns his arms, it turns his legs, snapping the bones, and then it finally rips his head around
26:17Oh wow
26:18Yeah, it's a bit brutal
26:19Yeah, sounds kind of cool
26:23Eve
26:24Yes
26:25When Madea is banished from Corinth
26:27She asks Aegeus, the king of Athens, for refuge
26:30Offering him what in return?
26:33Uh, he, um, has had problems having kids
26:38And so she promises to, um, enable him to have children
26:43By magic, by way of magic, or
26:47Such
26:48Things
26:51Correct
26:54Alright Abby, you need this to stay in
26:57If you don't get this right, then Eve, you are tonight's high quiz champion
27:01Abby
27:01In 2010's, saw the final chapter
27:04When Dr Gordon is revealed to be an accomplice to Jigsaw
27:08Flashbacks show him performing two surgeries on other victims
27:12Sewing up eyes
27:14And which other?
27:16The mouth
27:19Incorrect
27:20The correct answer is, inserting a key under a victim's eye
27:24Oh
27:25Yeah, sounds nice
27:27Which means, Eve, you are tonight's high quiz champion
27:33Alright Abby, you know what this means
27:35Out
27:38There she goes
27:43Congratulations Eve, you are tonight's high quiz champion
27:45Which means you get the big buzz mark
27:47And you get to do the sign off
27:50Thanks for playing
27:51Hi
27:55Yes
27:55Potato, potato, potato
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