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Hard Quiz - Season 10 - Episode 14: Dennis Rodman, Mercedes Benz, the Faraway Tree book series and Alkanes
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00:04Tonight on A Hard Quiz, Max, student, expert subject, former NBA star, Dennis Rodman, Henry,
00:15lawyer, expert subject, Mercedes-Benz, Jane, posty, expert subject, The Faraway Dream Book
00:25Series. Katherine, principal, expert subject, Al Cainz. Here's your host, Tom Gleeson.
00:35Yes! Hello. Is this Sky News? Welcome to Hard Quiz. These contestants are passwords.
00:45Last one to be forgotten will be tonight's Hard Quiz champion. To be part of the show
00:50at home, go to the ABC TV iview socials. But say hello. G'day, Katherine.
00:54Good evening, Tom. Now, your expert subject is Al Cainz. Do you want to explain what the
01:01f*** they are? I mean, I could do it, but I don't want to.
01:05Well, I knew you had a science background, so I thought this might be an exciting subject
01:10for you as well, Tom. Yeah, it's exciting for me, but I'm really worried about the rest of
01:14Australia. They're chemicals. They're chemicals that we burn, that we use in various ways,
01:21so I'm just very excited about them. All right, if you could have dinner with only one
01:25Al Cainz, which would it be and why? Well, I have a son who's nearly 21, so I would suggest
01:33that methane is probably quite familiar. Now, you were a chemistry teacher and taught in
01:44the UK the Falklands and the Solomon Islands and Queensland. Was Queensland the biggest culture
01:49shock? It still is. What were the school facilities like in the Falkland Islands? Beautiful, actually.
02:00Little, very small school there. Small, because there's only kind of 3,000 people there, so
02:05the school was quite small, but very, very well resourced. There's a lot of wealth there,
02:11put it that way. So very different from the Solomon Islands, where there wasn't so much.
02:15Okay, well, no need to rub it in. Jane. Hello, Tom. Now, you're into Enid Blyton's
02:21Faraway Tree book series. I am. How did you first fall in love with these racist and sexist
02:26boys? Well, I was kicked in the face by a horse when I was seven. Oh. And while I was
02:33in hospital and had one eye out of action, my grandmother thought it would be great to
02:37give me some books to read. Okay. And I just fell in love with it. Have you read them unconcussed?
02:44I have recently, and I wasn't hallucinating quite as much as I was the first time, but it
02:49probably would have helped if I was. Now, you're a postie. I am. Are you the type of postie
02:55that just drops off the card and never leaves the package? Never. Never. Are you sure?
03:01Yes. Henry. G'day, Tom. Now, you described your obsession with Mercedes-Benz as an illness.
03:08It's what my friends all tell me. Yeah. Are you hoping the ritual humiliation of being
03:12on Hard Quiz will cure you? I suspect it's probably incurable at this stage.
03:18Now, how did this Mercedes obsession start? My late grandfather was a good German boy, and
03:22he had a Mercedes when I was very young, and that really sowed the seeds for me. And
03:27in 2008, he passed away, and in 2005, before he passed away, he had Parkinson's and dementia.
03:33Okay. So he had to give up driving. The car was sold off.
03:35It's a nice story, but this is...
03:40This is not a f***ing Australian story, okay? This is a hard quiz story. Keep it, keep it
03:46light, Henry.
03:50It's incurable. It's incurable.
03:52Incurably incurable.
03:53So that's your grandfather's Mercedes that you saw up there.
03:56Yes, it is. Yeah.
03:56So what happened? He had it.
03:58He had it, sold it.
03:59Sold it.
03:59Went, I don't know where it went, and then Adelaide being the small place that it is,
04:03by chance, I ran into the person who ended up buying it, and I bought it back, and have
04:08been restoring it ever since.
04:12Max, now you're into Dennis Rodman, the basketballer. He was really big in the 90s, but you were born
04:18in the noughties.
04:19Mm-hmm.
04:19So how did you come to find out who he was?
04:22I've always been, like, a big basketball fan, and during COVID, they released a series
04:25about the Bulls, and Dennis Rodman jumped out to me, and I grabbed hold of him and kept
04:30on going with him.
04:31Are there any Australian NBL players you idolise as much as Dennis?
04:35No.
04:36No.
04:36I love watching the NBL. It's great, because you can watch pro sport and think, I can do
04:40that.
04:42Now, Rodman played with Michael Jordan, but you like Rodman more.
04:47So, what, the greatest player of all time is not good enough for you?
04:51I think Dennis Rodman's more real. I think he's honest.
04:55Okay.
04:55Maybe to a fault, I guess, but, you know, Michael Jordan, there's all these, like, smoke
05:00and mirrors. You're never really quite sure what to make of his words, but Dennis Rodman,
05:03it's like, he has to be telling the truth, otherwise he wouldn't be saying what he's
05:07saying.
05:08Yeah, but the greatest of all time, and then you...
05:13All right, let's play. Hard!
05:15Expert round. Expert subjects. Win or lose five points. Steal and answer double points.
05:22I'll ask each of you five questions on your expert subject. Right, you get five points.
05:26Wrong, I will take five points from you. The rest of you can steal at any time to get
05:29double points.
05:30Let's start with Max and his expert subject, Dennis Rodman.
05:36Dennis Rodman was overlooked as an athlete in high school, but following an adult growth
05:41spurt, he was drafted to a Detroit NBA team named after what car partner? Max?
05:46The Pistons?
05:47Correct!
05:51In his NBA career, Rodman won the Defensive Player of the Year award twice, seven straight
05:56rebounding titles, and set a record for the biggest fine for a player when he was vulgar
06:01about what religious group? Max?
06:03Mormons.
06:04Correct!
06:08Rodman is known for being flamboyant and made headlines in 1996 for attending a book signing
06:13in what outfit? Max?
06:15Wedding dress.
06:17Correct!
06:22In 2014, US Senator John McCain called Dennis an idiot, referring to Rodman's friendship
06:28with the leader of which communist country? Max?
06:31North Korea.
06:32Correct!
06:36I think he's an idiot.
06:40Yeah, Rodman also says Vladimir Putin is a cool guy. I think the hair dye might be rotting
06:46his brain.
06:48Last question in your set, Max.
06:50While playing for the San Antonio Spurs, Rodman was called a distraction to the team, partly
06:55due to his highly publicised relationship with what pop star? Max?
06:59Madonna.
07:00Correct!
07:03Five for five!
07:09Alright, next set of questions is for Henry on Mercedes-Benz.
07:15Are you excited about talking about these Nazi collaborators?
07:19If I get the points, I get the points, Tom.
07:21You get the points. It doesn't matter!
07:22As long as the trains run on time, whatever.
07:27The car brand is partly named for Carl Benz, who built one of the earliest petrol-powered
07:32vehicles, which is renowned for being stolen and driven away by which relative?
07:36Henry.
07:37His wife, Bertha.
07:43The three individual points on the Mercedes-Benz star logo are said to indicate Land, Air, Henry.
07:48And C.
07:49Correct!
07:52The company was complicit with the Nazi regime during World War II, meaning the use of Mercedes-Benz
07:58vehicles is a period-accurate detail in which 1993 Spielberg film?
08:02For the Steelers Max!
08:04Schindler's List?
08:05Correct!
08:12Yeah, during World War II, the company used forced labour to build military vehicles.
08:17And Henry, I know there are a lot of Germans in Adelaide.
08:19You just said your grandfather was Germans.
08:21I'm just going to ask you, is Ancestry.com a bit tricky for you?
08:26Well, uh, yeah.
08:29Okay, that's all I need to know.
08:31Moving on.
08:32Great.
08:34First developed in the 1970s was a Mercedes off-road cross-country vehicle known as the
08:38G-Class or...
08:39Gerlinde Wagen.
08:40Correct!
08:44G-Wagen.
08:45Last question in your set, Henry.
08:48In the 1980s, a Mercedes-Benz became the first production car to combine seatbelt tensioners
08:53with a driver's side airbag in a supplemental what system?
08:57Henry.
08:57Restraint system.
08:59Correct!
09:04So after helping killing a lot of people in World War II, they thought, let's get into
09:07safety.
09:10Time now for Jane and the Faraway Tree book series.
09:16Here, Blyton books set in the Enchanted Wood feature the fantastical residents of the
09:20Faraway Tree, like Moonface, Dame Washalot and a character named for what cookware?
09:28Jane.
09:29Mr. Saucepan Man.
09:31Correct!
09:35In the third book, The Folk of the Faraway Tree, the land of giants is accessed by climbing
09:40which fast-growing plant?
09:42Jane.
09:43The Beanstalk from Jack and the Beanstalk.
09:45Correct!
09:48So they met a character called Jack who plants the magic beans to grow a beanstalk, so she
09:53just copied Jack and the Beanstalk.
09:55Into the story.
09:56Yeah, she actually copied from lots of different sources.
09:59So just plagiarism all over the place.
10:01I mean, I can live with the sexism and the racism, but the plagiarism, it is the worst
10:07of the isms.
10:09Audiobooks in the Faraway Tree series are narrated by which British star of the movie?
10:14Jane.
10:14Kate Winslet.
10:16Correct!
10:17Of the movie Titanic.
10:20Kate Winslet is correct.
10:21To reflect changing values, character names are altered in modern volumes, including Dame
10:27Snap, who runs a school and was once known for corporal punishment as Dame what?
10:32To the Steelers, Max!
10:34Whack.
10:37Joking.
10:38Dame Slap.
10:39Correct!
10:45Dame Whack.
10:47Educated guess.
10:49Okay.
10:49Yeah, the children's names are Rick and Franny now, but when I was a kid, their names were
10:55Dick and Fanny.
10:57Dick and Fanny is of course short for Richard and Vagina.
11:04Last question in your set, Jane.
11:06Announced in 2024 was a Faraway Tree film with Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlin, playing
11:12a character from the books called Silky, who is what winged creature?
11:16Jane.
11:17A pixie.
11:19Incorrect.
11:19It's wide open.
11:20Ooh, I know.
11:22Who the Steelers, Henry?
11:23Fairy.
11:24Correct!
11:30And Henry, that's enough of the homophobic slurs, okay?
11:35There's no need for that.
11:36We're not in Adelaide now.
11:39Last set in the expert round, it's Catherine and alkanes.
11:47Alkanes are chemical compounds and are the major components of natural gas and crude oil,
11:51containing only hydrogen and what other element?
11:54Henry for the Steel.
11:56Carbon.
11:57Correct!
11:57That's enough of the props to you.
12:02A major contributor of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions is agriculture,
12:06with methane from cattle.
12:08Henry for the Steel.
12:10Contributing to the ozone layer.
12:12Incorrect.
12:13I'll finish the question.
12:14With methane from cattle primarily being emitted by what bodily function?
12:18For the Steelers, Jane.
12:20It's farting.
12:22Incorrect.
12:23It's wide open.
12:25Catherine.
12:25Digestion.
12:27Incorrect.
12:28It's still open.
12:29It's wide open.
12:34Time's up.
12:35Burping.
12:36Yeah, it's burping.
12:38Yeah.
12:43That's enough of that, mate.
12:46With regard to Australian unleaded fuel, the numbers 98, 95 and 91 are a measure of the fuel's
12:52stability and represent the rating of what alkane?
12:55Catherine.
12:56Octane.
12:57Correct!
13:02In the lead-up to the Sydney Olympics, a mixture of 35% propane and 65% butane was used
13:09to fuel what symbolic object, Catherine?
13:11The torch.
13:13Correct!
13:14Carried across Australia.
13:17The torch, or Olympic torch, is correct.
13:19Last question, you're set, Catherine.
13:21In 1872, after discovering a viscous alkane mixture on oil drills, chemist Robert Cheesborough
13:28patented what household lubricant?
13:31Jane for the Steel.
13:33Vaseline.
13:34Correct!
13:36Double bounce, Jane.
13:40All right, we've scooted through their subjects, now let's scoot through mine.
13:44Tom's round.
13:45Tom's subject, multiple choice.
13:48This week I've been really getting into girl groups.
13:52Because I really, really, really want to zig-a-zig-a.
13:56This round is multiple choice, select your answers on your screens, then press the buzzer to lock
13:59in the answer.
14:00According to the opening lyrics of TLC's song, No Scrubs, what is a scrub?
14:06A. A guy that thinks he's fly.
14:08B. A dude with a bad tood.
14:10C. A boy that acts real coy.
14:12D. A man with a fake tan.
14:17The answer is...
14:19A. A guy that thinks he's fly.
14:26Also known as a buster.
14:30I'm trying to reach a younger audience.
14:33And by younger, I mean people in their 40s.
14:38The Spice Girls' Sporty Spice was also known by what name?
14:42A. Mel A.
14:43B. Mel B.
14:44C. Mel C.
14:46D. Mel D.
14:52Bollocks.
14:58No, whatever.
15:01The answer is...
15:03C. Mel C.
15:10Worn by the Supremes at the 1968 Royal Variety Performance, which dresses are referred to
15:15as the Queen Mother Gowns?
15:17A. These floral ones.
15:19B. These fluffy ones.
15:21C. These sparkly ones.
15:22D. These pearly ones.
15:24Oh God, they're all of them.
15:27The answer is...
15:28The answer is...
15:29D. These pearly ones.
15:33Yes, they call them that because they wore them when they met the Queen Mother.
15:38Which of these alphanumerical combinations is not the name of a girl group?
15:43A. 3LW.
15:45B. 3GG.
15:46C. S2S.
15:48D. M2M.
15:50I think it's that one.
15:57The answer is...
15:59B. 3GG.
16:06Last question in my round's worth double points.
16:08Which girl group lyric was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2004?
16:13A. Spice Girls.
16:15Zig-a-zig-a.
16:16B. Pussycat Dolls.
16:17Stick with you.
16:18C. Destiny's Childs.
16:20Bootylicious.
16:21D. Shakaya's Rockefeller.
16:23E. Cleopatra's Coming At Ya.
16:25F. The Crystals.
16:27Da-do-ron-ron.
16:32The answer is...
16:33C. Destiny's Childs.
16:35Bootylicious.
16:40Alright, at the end of my round, Catherine, you're at the bottom on 15.
16:43Get over here.
16:51What would have you done differently if you had another shot?
16:54I don't know.
16:55I'm just a bit slow, but it's possibly a bit of incomplete combustion for me here tonight.
17:04Help!
17:08There she goes.
17:09There she goes.
17:13Alright, it's People's Round.
17:16The People's Round against the clock.
17:19Pack the dishwasher, play along at home.
17:21Your time starts now.
17:23Yelena Dokic is a former top ten player in what sport?
17:26Jane.
17:27Tennis.
17:27Yes.
17:28Which Disney film series centres on sisters Anna and Elsa?
17:32Max.
17:33Frozen.
17:33Yes.
17:34Larry Emder hosted the game show The Price is What?
17:37Right.
17:38Yes.
17:39The slang term Rears is short for what three syllable?
17:42Max.
17:42Charisma.
17:43Yes.
17:44Surf lifesavers urge beachgoers to swim between what red and yellow?
17:48Max.
17:48Flag.
17:49Yes.
17:50Australians called part of the Orion Star constellation.
17:53Jane.
17:54Southern Cross.
17:54No.
17:55What kitchen themed nickname?
17:57Saucepan is the answer.
17:58What is the square root of 25?
18:01Max.
18:02Five.
18:02Yes.
18:04Time's up.
18:07No way.
18:08Alright, at the end of the People's Round, Jane, you're at the bottom on 30.
18:11Get over here.
18:20Jane, you didn't get saucepan.
18:22What a tasty little bit of irony.
18:25Is it the concussion came back?
18:28What would you do differently if you had another go?
18:32This one I'd deliver.
18:33Oh.
18:36I get it.
18:37It's a postie joke.
18:39No one really laughed because we know that you mostly don't.
18:44You ready to go?
18:45Yes, I am.
18:46Alright.
18:47Out!
18:47Out!
18:51There she goes.
18:56Alright, only two left.
18:57Who's going to be the hard quiz champion?
18:59Max and Henry, get over here because it's time to play hard quiz.
19:02Final round.
19:03Head to head.
19:04Dennis Rodman versus Mercedes-Benz.
19:08Hard quiz.
19:09Now, there could only be one hard quiz champion who gets to take home the limited edition
19:13big brass mug.
19:14What will you do with the mug if you win, Henry?
19:17I think it looks perfect for collecting hydraulic fluid when I drain the ABC suspension in an
19:22S-class.
19:23What about you, Max?
19:24There's not really any Dennis Rodman related stuff, so I think I might just use it as a
19:28bed pan.
19:35Alright, it's best of five penalty shootout style, harder questions on your expert subjects,
19:39so it's Henry's knowledge of Mercedes-Benz versus Max's knowledge of Dennis Rodman.
19:44Let's play.
19:45Hard!
19:50Henry.
19:51Yes.
19:52A Swedish journalist in 1997 made headlines for flipping a Mercedes-Benz A-class while doing
19:57an evasive manoeuvre test that is named for what animal?
20:02Elk.
20:03Correct.
20:07Max.
20:08Dennis Rodman skipped the Chicago Bulls team practice on June 8th, 1998.
20:14What event did he attend instead?
20:17Yeah, so it's so funny.
20:19It's one of my favourite Dennis Rodman stories.
20:21He skipped practice.
20:22No one knew where he was.
20:23Phil Jackson said, we don't know where he is.
20:25And then that night they aired what he was at.
20:29It was wrestling at the WWC with Hulk Hogan.
20:36Incorrect.
20:38Yeah, he wasn't at the WWC.
20:41He was at the WCW.
20:46And he wasn't wrestling Hulk Hogan.
20:48He was watching it.
20:51It's a bit different.
20:56Oh, boy.
20:58All right.
20:58Marty?
20:59Marty up.
21:04Henry, the Mercedes-Benz 600 was so big it was nicknamed Grosser and was loved by dictators.
21:12Okay, so I've got seven dictators here.
21:18Kim?
21:21Uh, Stalin.
21:24We've got Hussein.
21:27Uh, Mussolini.
21:29We've got, uh, Brzeznew.
21:32And your mate, Hitler.
21:37Uh, Stalin.
21:38Uh, we've got, uh, Hussein.
21:41Uh, we've got, uh, Brzeznew.
21:42Uh, we've got, uh, Brzeznew.
21:43Who had a model of the 600 inside this car?
21:49Uh, wouldn't have been Hitler, because he was sort of long gone by the time this model
21:54even came out.
21:55Uh, Mussolini again.
21:58Uh, probably not him.
22:00I think it's...
22:00We've got, uh, uh, Mal.
22:06I don't know who should be driving.
22:09Uh, Kim.
22:14Brzeznew.
22:15And Hussein.
22:19That's my final answer.
22:23Correct!
22:28Yeah, they look like they're going on a jolly road trip to kill millions of people.
22:35Marty.
22:39No, he does not get applause.
22:42Max.
22:44Playing for the San Antonio Spurs against the Charlotte Hornets, Rodman once had 28 rebounds
22:50while scoring how many points?
22:52I think, like, he...
22:54Throughout his career, there's only one season where he averaged more points than rebounds.
22:58He just kind of...
22:59That's all he did.
23:00Rebound and defend.
23:01So I'm thinking...
23:03By the way you asked that question, I know there's one game where he had a lot of rebounds
23:07and no points.
23:08I think this might be it.
23:09So I'm just going to take a punt and say zero points.
23:14Correct!
23:16Well done.
23:20Yeah, it's the NBA record for most rebounds without any points.
23:24And former teammate Steve Kerr said Rodman seemed to take great pride in not scoring.
23:29Yeah.
23:30Sounds like a few of the contestants on this show.
23:35Henry, the 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class could be fitted with an active perfuming system
23:42with four optional fragrances named Downtown Mood, Nightlife Mood, Freeside Mood, and what else?
23:56Oh, um...
23:57Jeez, your researchers do a good job.
24:00You sure do.
24:01I'm going to have to guess on this one and say energised mood.
24:05Incorrect.
24:07The correct answer was sports mood.
24:10Oh!
24:11Max, in a 2013 interview with Sports Illustrated, Dennis Rodman said something seriously wrong.
24:18If I don't finish in the top three, for what award?
24:23Um, I know this because a friend tested me and I knew the answer.
24:28The Nobel Peace Prize.
24:34Correct.
24:39Henry.
24:40Yes.
24:40Known for their craftsmanship in producing luxury sports cars,
24:44the Mercedes-AMG division has an engineering principle known as
24:48One Man, One Engine.
24:50What final personal touch does the master engine builder add?
24:56Yes, they've been doing this for a little while now.
24:58I think the first production year they started to do this was 2002...
25:04Actually, no, 2001 with the V6 supercharged version.
25:10...of the C-Class and the SLK.
25:13Um, the end...
25:14I'm sorry, I'm being very boring.
25:15Order, order, relevant.
25:16Yeah, yeah, yeah, boring.
25:17Um, the engine builder has a plaque with their signature that's affixed to the top of the engine.
25:23Correct.
25:29I just wanted it to stop, Henry.
25:32I'm sure everyone did, Tom.
25:36Max, Dennis Rodman has appeared in dozens of TV shows and several films.
25:41In what production does he play a flamboyant arms dealer called Yaz?
25:46Oh, I know this because it's with Jean-Claude Van Damme.
25:53Is it Double Team?
25:56Correct!
26:01Yeah, you're right, there he is.
26:03Yeah, it also stars Jean-Claude Van Damme and has 11% on Rotten Tomatoes.
26:08It is so bad.
26:09It's terrible.
26:10It's better than his movie, Simon Says, which has 0%.
26:15Henry.
26:16Yes.
26:17Mercedes-Benz develops concept cars to showcase potential new technologies, such as the Bionic,
26:23a car modelled on what species of animal?
26:27Ah, it is a fish, but you're going to want more specificity than that.
26:31I think it's a puffer fish.
26:37Incorrect.
26:39The correct answer is boxfish.
26:43Yes, you're right, we're looking for the species of animal, so we need a boxfish.
26:48Alright, Max, if you get this right, you are tonight's hard quiz champion.
26:51At a 2018 Evening with Dennis Rodman event in Chicago, Rodman explained that his signing
26:57with the Bulls was contingent on him making an apology to who?
27:03Well, during his Piston days, he had a lot of turmoil with the Bulls.
27:07They face each other a lot in the playoffs.
27:10And there was an incident, I think, with the Pistons, after losing to the Bulls in a best
27:15of seven series, left without shaking the Bulls' hands after years of beating them.
27:20And it pissed Michael Jordan off.
27:23Sorry, I'm thinking, this is, again, a punt.
27:27I'm not entirely certain.
27:29I'm Michael Jordan.
27:32Incorrect.
27:34The correct answer was Scotty Pippen.
27:37The other one.
27:39Yeah.
27:39It was for a previous incident where Rodman pushed Pippen out of bounds.
27:43Alright, let's move to the tiebreaker.
27:48Okay.
27:50Henry.
27:51An iconic Mercedes-Benz sedan, the W140, featured a newly developed version of what front axle
27:59suspension system?
28:00It's not McPherson Strut.
28:03I think it's Double Wishbone.
28:08Correct.
28:13Max, you need this to stay in.
28:14If you get this wrong, then Henry, you are tonight's hard quiz champion.
28:17Max.
28:18Rodman is known as The Worm.
28:20A nickname he says was inspired by what?
28:24Um, he says it's his family.
28:27Lots of people say it's his mother, but it's because of how he moved around when he played
28:32pinball.
28:33Correct.
28:39Okay, scores are still tied.
28:41That means it's time for Tom's tiebreaker.
28:43Tom's tiebreaker.
28:45Girl groups.
28:46Okay, so it's back to my Tom's round subject, girl groups.
28:50One question nearest to the pen will be the hard quiz champion.
28:54Here we go.
28:55In the official music video for their song, Don't Cha, how many times does the girl group
29:01Pussycat Dolls ask, Don't Cha?
29:05Henry.
29:10Uh, I think it's 12.
29:14Max.
29:17I'm going to go 17.
29:21The correct answer is 26, which means Max, you are closest to the pin and tonight's hard
29:27quiz champion.
29:30All right, Henry, now just things.
29:32Go!
29:36There you go.
29:37There you go.
29:41Congratulations, Max.
29:42You're out tonight's hard quiz champion.
29:43You get the big brass bag.
29:45And you get to do the song.
29:47Great to play.
29:48Come on!
29:51Yes!
29:53Woo!
29:54Good work.
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