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00:04Tonight on A Hard Quiz, Ron, retired swimming coach, expert subject, AFL club, North Melbourne.
00:14Peter, film student, expert subject, Steven Spielberg. Daniel, train driver, expert subject,
00:24the Ford Falcon, Evie, student, expert subject, Billie Eilish. Here's your host, Tom Gleeson.
00:37Hello. We need to win a vote. Welcome to Hard Quiz. These contestants are election promises.
00:44Last one to be fully costed will be tonight's Hard Quiz champion.
00:48To be part of the show at home, go to the ABC TV iview socials. Let's say hello.
00:53G'day, Evie. Hi. Now, you love Billie Eilish. Why? You don't seem to have anything in common.
01:00Um, just love her music, love her as a person. Amazing, fantastic, just all-around good person, so yeah.
01:06So you love her look? Yeah, love her looks, love her music, love her voice, love her everything.
01:11Love her hair? Yes. Do you love her hair? Yes.
01:14Now, you've said whatever your mood is, Billie Eilish has a song to match. Yes.
01:18What about the mood you're in when you eat too many hot chips?
01:20Ooh.
01:23Um, definitely not skinny for that one.
01:27Maybe lunch?
01:28We'd all find that funny if we knew that she had a song called Skinny.
01:32But we don't because it's the ABC and she's a youthful performer.
01:37Yeah.
01:38So now, have you been to way too many of her gigs?
01:40I've only been to three, so I'm excited to go to a couple more next year.
01:44This is footage that you shot, isn't it? Yes.
01:46Yeah, the people behind you whose view you were blocking would have loved that.
01:50Yes.
01:50But it was worth it because you got the footage on telly.
01:52It was worth it, yeah.
01:53Daniel.
01:54Tom.
01:54Now you're into Ford Falcons.
01:56Yes.
01:57What is it that you love about this obsolete car?
01:59I love going subjectively fast in an objectively poorly built car.
02:06Now I assume you've driven Falcons.
02:08A few, yes.
02:09How many have you owned over the years?
02:11Close to 20, I'd say.
02:13Do you have a collection?
02:15No, just replacing one with the other, you know.
02:19So what do you drive now?
02:20A Tesla.
02:26That's brilliant.
02:27Now you used to work at a Ford dealership.
02:29Was it hard working there, having to lie every day about
02:32Ford's being better than Holden's?
02:35No, that's not a lie, but...
02:38It would be.
02:39If you said Ford's were better than Holden's, that's objectively a lie.
02:43Well, I used to have a Monaro, I used to drive it,
02:45and it was a bit like having a Falcon without the bit where you're disappointed.
02:49The good thing about a Monaro, though, is it looks good standing still
02:53because that's often where it is on the side of the road.
03:01Peter.
03:02Yes, Tom.
03:03Steven Spielberg is your interest?
03:04Yes.
03:05Now you once self-taped an audition to play the main character
03:09of one of Spielberg's films.
03:11Yes.
03:12Yeah, which one? E.T.?
03:16No, it was Ready Player One.
03:18They asked for a young, unknown talent who could sell an unsociable loser.
03:23Oh.
03:23So I thought, I'll try.
03:26And so what other acting experience had you had?
03:28Zero.
03:29Oh.
03:29And you thought you might get the lead in a Spielberg film?
03:32Lead in a Spielberg film and then meet him, be friends with him.
03:35Okay.
03:36It was all part of a plan.
03:38Are you an idiot?
03:40It's been, yeah, it's been said.
03:42Yeah.
03:43Now you're a film student.
03:44What's your favourite genre?
03:46Sorry, what's your favourite genre of restaurant that you're going to have to work in later
03:50in life?
03:53I'm working in a restaurant right now, Tom, so it kind of stings, but um...
03:58Now you have a life-size E.T. prop.
03:59Why?
04:01I just saw that in a store and I thought, well I'm not not going to get it.
04:05And what are we looking at here?
04:07Oh, so that is a portrait of my cat that a mate got me and it was painted by Steven
04:14Spielberg's
04:14daughter.
04:15Wow.
04:16And so what?
04:19I like to be able to say that I have a Spielberg original hanging in my home.
04:24Yeah, but that's like a hard quiz fan getting excited because my daughter did crossword.
04:28Who gives a shit?
04:30Rod.
04:30G'day.
04:31Now you're a fan of the North Melbourne Football Club.
04:33Is that because you like to lose?
04:37Can be said.
04:38Can be said, yeah.
04:39Like how do you maintain any hope?
04:42You don't.
04:43Oh.
04:45Obviously I'm talking about the men's side because the AFLWs, they won the grand final.
04:50Yeah.
04:50I'm just talking about the disappointing men's team.
04:52Yeah, they need to man up.
04:53So just like the men's team, did you peak in the 90s?
04:58Well, we can't remember them, so fair chance.
05:05Now you competed at the Paralympics.
05:07Yeah.
05:08What events did you compete in?
05:10Swimming, 92 and 96.
05:12Okay, and you coached yourself, is that right?
05:14No, I did swimming and then got into coaching from that.
05:17But when you swam though, you taught yourself how to swim?
05:19Oh, at the start.
05:21Yeah, yeah.
05:21After I had my accident and what not.
05:24Yeah, I couldn't swim and one of my mates said, oh, come down and let's try swimming
05:28because kicking a footy is out of the question.
05:30Yeah.
05:30So I went down there and probably just jumped in and checked out the tiling and the grouting
05:35and all that because I couldn't work out how to get back up top.
05:39So the next trip was down to the local library and found a book and hoiked that.
05:44Oh, now I'm guilty because I have still got it.
05:47And stuck it on the side of the pool and just followed the pictures and taught myself
05:51how to swim.
05:52All right.
05:53Let's play.
05:54Hi!
05:55Expert round.
05:57Expert subject.
05:58Win or lose five points.
06:00Steal and answer double points.
06:02Ask 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 Rod and his expert subject, North Melbourne.
06:13All right, you ready, Rod?
06:18Give it a go.
06:19Have a listen.
06:23Sing to the melody of a Scottish folk tune.
06:26North Melbourne's official theme song is called Join In The Watch.
06:30Can it steal us, Daniel?
06:31Chorus.
06:32Correct.
06:33Don't pass the hand.
06:36In your defence, Rod, you probably haven't heard that song for a while.
06:41Fair call.
06:43Described as one of the best tap ruckmen and known for his large frame,
06:47Mick Nolan's Rod.
06:48Galloping Gasometer.
06:50Correct.
06:52Mick Nolan's nickname was The Galloping What Gasometer is correct.
06:56He's one of those plays you'd see kicking back with a durry during the game, wasn't he?
07:00On the sideline, he'd be like,
07:01Yeah.
07:03The good old days.
07:04Oh.
07:05At a 1978 game against Collingwood, a member of the North Cheer Squad rode what circus animal rod?
07:11An elephant.
07:13Correct.
07:15What circus animal?
07:17Around the oval.
07:18Elephant is correct.
07:19There it is.
07:19Yes.
07:21Yeah.
07:21It was to promote a club members circus, but the roar of the 30,000 odd crowd spooked the
07:26animal and it started to charge.
07:28Yeah.
07:28In his 2003 return match, Jason McCartney wore gloves to protect skin.
07:34That was Rod.
07:35Burnt in the barley bombing.
07:37Correct.
07:39That was burning what terrorist attacks?
07:41Barley bombs is correct.
07:43Last question in your set, Rod.
07:44In 2024, North Melbourne won the AFLW Grand Final after losing how many games in the season?
07:51Rod.
07:52I lost none.
07:54Correct.
07:59Next set of questions is for Peter on Steven Spielberg.
08:06Some of Spielberg's earliest professional work was in TV, including this early episode
08:10of which long running detective series?
08:12Peter.
08:13Columbo.
08:14Correct.
08:17Columbo.
08:18Ooh, Nan's come back into the room.
08:21Spielberg has directed several child performers who've gone on to successful careers in adulthood,
08:26such as Christian Bale in Empire of the Sun and which seven-year-old E.T. star?
08:31First deal is Daniel.
08:32Drew Barrymore.
08:33Correct.
08:34This was their family Christmas card.
08:38What?
08:40Yeah, later Spielberg and E.T. got divorced.
08:43Yeah, a lot of arguments over phone bills.
08:48After Spielberg was denied the chance to make a James Bond film, George Lucas asked him...
08:53Peter.
08:54To make Indiana Jones.
08:56Incorrect.
08:57I'll finish the question.
08:58Daniel for the steal.
08:59Raiders of the Lost Ark.
09:01Correct.
09:01Double points to you.
09:04Sorry.
09:06Yeah, George Lucas asked him to direct which Indiana Jones debut, Raiders of the Lost Ark is
09:11the answer.
09:11Saving Private Ryan was nominated for 11 Oscars and won five, including for Spielberg himself
09:17in which category?
09:19Peter.
09:19Best Director.
09:20Correct.
09:24It was his second Best Director win.
09:27His first was for Schindler's List, which came 16 years after his first nomination.
09:32I won the Gold Logie first time.
09:41Last question in your set, Peter.
09:43In the film Hook, Robin Williams plays a grown-up version of which literary character?
09:48Peter.
09:48Peter Pan.
09:49Correct.
09:52Time now for Daniel and the Ford Falcon.
09:58Have you been over there idling?
10:01Yeah, just hoping I don't break down before I get a run.
10:04I drive an electric car too, and I like them, but they don't idle.
10:08No, it's weird, isn't it?
10:09I know, they're just... there.
10:11You can't rev your engine either too.
10:14No.
10:14It's hard to get the same thrills out of it.
10:16It is.
10:16Yeah.
10:17You pop the bonnet, what are you going to do?
10:18Lick the terminals like a f***ing needle?
10:20What?
10:21The first Falcon, the American design XK, was assembled in Victoria at Ford's Broadmeadows
10:27plant.
10:27Officially opened in 1960 by which Prime Minister?
10:31For the Steel Front!
10:33You would have been Menzies.
10:35Correct!
10:36A couple points to you.
10:43A modified Falcon XB GT Coupe is called the last... Daniel?
10:48Mad Max.
10:49Correct!
10:53It is called the last of the V8 Interceptors in which dystopian film franchise?
10:58Mad Max is correct.
10:59He drives another Falcon XB at the very start.
11:02Do you like the Mad Max films or does the plot get in the road of you looking at cars?
11:06What plot?
11:09Taxi options for the 1992 Falcon EB Series 2 included interior trim in either cloth or what
11:15easy to clean material?
11:17Daniel?
11:17Vinyl.
11:19Correct!
11:22So Daniel, have you ever made a taxi appreciate their easy to clean vinyl?
11:27I'm just saying, you've been out on the Terps?
11:31You've had too many Bundy and Cokes and you just let your breakfast go in the backseat?
11:35Have that ever happened?
11:37More of a bourbon man, Tom.
11:38Okay.
11:40Heaps class here.
11:43When the Falcon Sundowner was launched, it was in direct competition with Wig Holden.
11:48Rod for the steal.
11:51The Sandman panel van.
11:53Correct!
11:54Wig Holden panel van, Sandman is correct.
11:58Last question in your set Daniel.
12:00The FG Falcon was the first Australian built car to earn a 5 star safety rating with premium
12:05models having 6 of what passenger safety feature?
12:08Daniel?
12:09Airbags.
12:10Correct!
12:14Last in the expert round, it's Evie and Billie Eilish.
12:20You haven't really been into the, you haven't done any stealing yet.
12:23No.
12:24Is it just because it's all old man bullshit?
12:26Yeah.
12:28Billie Eilish pirate Baird O'Connell released her first hit at age 13,
12:32shortly before an injury stopped her from continuing in what art form?
12:37Evie.
12:37Dance.
12:38Correct!
12:41Yeah, she recorded Ocean Eyes at her family home and two years later she was touring and
12:46selling out venues.
12:47The chorus of the hit song Bad Guy includes the sound of a pedestrian...
12:51Peter for the steal.
12:53Traffic light crossing.
12:55Australia.
12:55Incorrect.
12:55I'll finish the question.
12:57The sound of a pedestrian crossing signal that Billie recorded while on tour.
13:01Daniel for the steal.
13:02Australia.
13:04Incorrect.
13:04Evie.
13:05Sydney.
13:05Sydney.
13:06Correct!
13:11In which city?
13:12Sydney was correct and what you witnessed there was middle aged men thinking they know
13:15better.
13:20And then a young woman finally getting a word in.
13:27And then a young woman finally getting a word in.
13:36Eden.
13:37Green.
13:38Correct!
13:44Daniel would you like a falcon in that colour?
13:46I had a falcon in that colour.
13:51Billy and her collaborator brother Finneas often think in terms of shapes, colours and
13:55numbers due to both having what neurological...
13:58Evie.
13:58Synesthesia.
13:59Correct!
14:02What neurological condition?
14:04Synesthesia is correct.
14:05Yeah, it means your senses blend so when you hear music you might smell something
14:08or see a colour.
14:09Last question in your set Evie.
14:11Billie Eilish has won two Oscars for best original song.
14:15One for featuring in the Barbie movie and the other in which James Bond...
14:19Peter for the steal.
14:20No time to die.
14:21Correct!
14:23Double points to you.
14:26Bloody film students.
14:29Alright, we've flipped through their subjects, now let's flip through mine.
14:32Tom's round.
14:33Tom's subject, multiple choice.
14:38This week I've been really getting into musicals.
14:40I love musicals.
14:41I love musicals.
14:42Songs are a great way to slow down the plot.
14:46This round is multiple choice.
14:47Select your answers on your screens and press the buzzer to lock in the answer.
14:51Are any of you into musicals?
14:53So so.
14:55Daniel, you're not into falcons and musicals?
14:58I'd probably prefer to get hit by a falcon than watching myself.
15:03During preparations for a musical, what typically takes place at the sits probe?
15:08A, dance captain trains the understudies.
15:11B, seated rehearsal with actors and orchestra.
15:14C, timing the speed of costume changes.
15:16D, cast learns the lyrics in German.
15:23The answer is...
15:25B, seated rehearsal with actors and orchestra.
15:32The premier performance of which Australian stage musical occurred most recently?
15:37A, Muriel's Wedding.
15:38B, Keating.
15:40C, Strictly Ballroom.
15:41D, Shane Warne the musical.
15:44The answer is...
15:47A, Muriel's Wedding.
15:52The Warnie musical should do a comeback.
15:56Come on, we've grieved long enough.
15:58Cameo by the Australian fast bowler, Tom.
16:01Oh yeah, alright.
16:04Mounted over the stage in most productions of Wicked is what giant puppet?
16:08A, a bird.
16:10B, a dragon.
16:11C, a lion.
16:12D, a witch.
16:15The answer is...
16:17D, a dragon.
16:24Filmed on a rotating set, Fred Astaire dances on the walls and ceiling in which movie musical?
16:29A, funny face.
16:30B, top hat.
16:32C, singing in the rain.
16:33D, royal wedding.
16:36The answer is...
16:38D, royal wedding.
16:45Last question in my rounds were double points.
16:48Which of these is not a lyric from We Go Together, the final song in Greece?
16:53A, chang chang chang chang chang shu bop.
16:56B, shu bop shu wada wada yippity boom da boom.
16:59C, boogity boogity boogity boogity shu bie doo wop shu bop.
17:04D, shu bie doo bie doo ooh la la.
17:07E, rumma lumma lumma kadinga dinga dong.
17:11F, wop buppa loomba and wop bam boom.
17:21The answer is D, shu bie doo bie doo ooh la la.
17:28Which is obviously from a Madonna song.
17:32Alright, at the end of my round, Evie you're at the bottom on five, get over here.
17:47What happened mate?
17:48Just can't hang it with the oldies.
17:55Well at least now you've got plenty of depressing music to listen to to match your mood.
17:59Exactly.
18:00Alright, you ready to go?
18:02I am.
18:02Out!
18:06There she goes.
18:11Alright, it's a people's round.
18:13The people's round against the clock.
18:17Stick to us your candle, play along at home.
18:19Your time starts now.
18:21Gouda is what dairy product?
18:22Peter.
18:23Cheese.
18:24Yes.
18:25Two brother characters by Lewis Carroll are Tweedledee and who?
18:28Road.
18:29Tweedledum.
18:29Yes.
18:30The traditional Oktoberfest originated in which?
18:33Road.
18:34Munich.
18:34No.
18:36In which country?
18:37Germany.
18:37Ah okay.
18:38How many A's are in the word an enemy?
18:41Daniel.
18:42One.
18:43Yes.
18:44On iPhones app notification badges are typically what colour?
18:48Peter.
18:48Red.
18:49Yes.
18:50Wetting your finger with saliva and sticking it in someone's ear is a prank.
18:54Daniel.
18:54Wet Willy.
18:55Wet Willy.
18:55Yes.
18:56Is known as a wet what?
18:57Willy is correct.
18:58Felicity Ward stars in an Australian remake of which workplace sitcom?
19:02Peter.
19:03The Office.
19:03Yes.
19:04Yes.
19:04In what year was Anthony Albanese first elected PM?
19:08Time's up.
19:09The answer is 2022.
19:12We're up at the end of the people round.
19:13Roger at the bottom on 25.
19:14Get over here.
19:24I mean your performance it reminded me of North Melbourne.
19:29You were showing so much promise.
19:31Yeah.
19:32Yeah.
19:32Yeah.
19:32Well musicals got me.
19:34I've never been good at playing that position.
19:37Wet weather.
19:39Maybe you should go and see Wicked after this to celebrate.
19:44All right.
19:44You ready to go?
19:45On my little broom.
19:46Yeah.
19:47Okay.
19:49Out.
19:53There he goes.
19:58All right.
19:59Only two left.
20:00Who's going to be the hard quiz champion?
20:01Peter and Daniel get over here because it's time to play hard quiz.
20:05Final round.
20:06Head to head.
20:07Steven Spielberg versus the Ford Falcon.
20:11Hard quiz.
20:12Now there could only be one hard quiz champion who gets to take home the limited edition
20:16big brass mug.
20:18What will you do with the mug if you win Peter?
20:20Well I'm a film student like you said so I probably put my tips from my hospital job
20:25in it.
20:27All right.
20:28What about you Daniel?
20:29Well I don't need to catch oil from the garage floor anymore but look I've always had
20:34a pretty fat head so maybe I'll be able to wear it as a hat.
20:38It might actually fit.
20:40All right.
20:41It's best of five penalty shootout style.
20:42Harder questions on your expert subjects.
20:44So it's Peter's knowledge of Steven Spielberg versus Daniel's knowledge of the Ford Falcon.
20:49Let's play.
20:50Let's play.
20:56Spielberg.
20:57Falcons.
20:59Two men.
21:00I feel like it's last drinks and you're both about to bore me to death with your favourite
21:05subjects.
21:08Peter, listening to 70s band Earth, Wind and Fire in his car gave Spielberg the idea for
21:14a notable scene in which of his films?
21:19Right.
21:20So it's the 1970s.
21:22So I'm thinking it'll be post Jaws because he has blank cheque to make things and put scenes
21:32in his films.
21:34I'm going to go Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
21:43The correct answer is Jurassic Park.
21:46Oh.
21:47Yeah, because he was listening to 70s band Earth, Wind and Fire in the 90s, which you're
21:53allowed to do.
21:59You don't have to listen to 70s bands in the 70s, then 1980 turns up and you're like,
22:05well that's all that done.
22:08Yeah, true.
22:09My bad.
22:10Daniel.
22:10The final ever vehicle to come off Ford's Broad Meadows production line in October 2016
22:16was what model Falcon?
22:20I believe it was a blue FGX XR6 non-turbo.
22:29Correct.
22:34We didn't need the colour but you're right, it was blue.
22:37Did you buy it?
22:39That one was not for sale, it was preserved in the Ford Museum.
22:43I think that's their excuse, they just sat on the showroom for about a year and they gave
22:47a big cup.
22:48If lock the doors, we'll call it a museum.
22:52Peter.
22:53The first animated TV production by Spielberg's company Amblin Entertainment was which series?
23:00Oh, I'm thinking of two.
23:02He's like a massive animation fan, huge fan of like those classic Warner Brothers cartoons.
23:08I'm going to say Animaniacs.
23:16Incorrect.
23:17The correct answer was Tiny Toon Adventures.
23:22Yeah, Steven Spielberg presents Tiny Toon Adventures.
23:25Was that the other one you were going to mention?
23:27No.
23:29Alright, my confidence is waning for you Peter.
23:34Daniel.
23:35Produced in November 1982, this XE Fairmont Ghia ESP, an upmarket Falcon variant, had a
23:42plaque fitted to its dashboard commemorating what occasion?
23:47Sorry.
23:49It'd have to be a Bathurst.
23:52Incorrect.
23:53The correct answer is, it was the last Falcon fitted with a V8 engine.
23:58Or so they thought at the time.
24:01Peter.
24:02Peter.
24:02In 2022, Spielberg directed his first music video, a single unbroken shot which he filmed
24:08on his phone.
24:09For moving him around on a wheeled chair, who was credited as the video's dolly grip?
24:16Um, his wife, Kate Capsule.
24:19Correct.
24:26Yeah, it took all day because he kept getting calls.
24:30Daniel.
24:31When the XE Coupe failed to sell as well as expected, Ford offloaded 400 body shells by
24:37creating what limited edition vehicle?
24:41The Cobra.
24:41The XE Cobra.
24:43Correct.
24:48Peter.
24:49Spielberg told Time Magazine in 2023 that he now believes no film should be revised based
24:55on changing standards.
24:57He expressed regret for making what change to which film for its re-release?
25:03Um, that was for his early 2000s re-release of E.T. and he changed the policemen's shotguns
25:13into walkie-talkies.
25:16Correct.
25:21Daniel.
25:22Available options for the BA Falcon in 2002 included this colour, which had what name?
25:31I hate that colour.
25:34Acid rash?
25:38Correct.
25:43I would have called it someone pissed in my mustard.
25:48Okay, Peter, you need this.
25:50If you get this wrong, then Daniel, you are tonight's hardquiz champion.
25:54Peter.
25:55Jaws was the second collaboration between Spielberg and composer John Williams.
25:59What instrument did Spielberg play on that score?
26:05I believe he played the clarinet.
26:09I believe he played the clarinet.
26:10The clarinet.
26:10The clarinet.
26:11The clarinet.
26:12The clarinet.
26:33The clarinet.
26:34The clarinet.
26:35Kindly influenced the look of the 1998 AU Falcon.
26:39What did Ford call this design language?
26:43It was not very popular.
26:47I, uh, the Ford dealership I worked at, the sales manager said after the EL Falcon had a
26:51really good month, leaked images got out, they all got around in the board room.
26:55And they went whoa.
26:56Let's look at the new Falcon.
26:57They opened it up.
26:58I mean, wonder if Holton's hiring?
27:02I believe that design language is called New Edge.
27:07Correct.
27:07Which means you're out tonight.
27:08It's Hot Wheels Champion!
27:10Alright, Petey.
27:11No, this means...
27:12Out!
27:15There he goes.
27:21Congratulations, Daniel.
27:22You're out tonight.
27:22It's Hot Wheels Champion.
27:23Which means you get the big prize.
27:25Thanks, Tom.
27:27Thanks for playing.
27:28Hard!
27:39If you reckon you're smarter than the jokers we just had on, head to hardquizauditions.com.au
27:44and tell us why you reckon you deserve the big prize, mate.
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