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Hard Quiz - Season 10 - Episode 01: Suez Canal, Jerry Seinfeld, Australian decimal coins & Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
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00:04Tonight on A Hard Quiz, Tom, Public Server, Expert Subject, The Sewers Canal, Julie, School
00:14Principal, Expert Subject, Jerry Seinfeld, Frank, Retiree, Expert Subject, Australian
00:23Decimal Coins, Michelle, Advertising Executive, Expert Subject, Folk Rock Supergroup, Crosby
00:32Stills, Nash & Young.
00:34Here's your host, Tom Gleeson.
00:37Yes!
00:38Hello!
00:39Bring back the drum.
00:41Welcome to Hard Quiz.
00:43These contestants are algorithms.
00:45Last one to control your thoughts will be tonight's Hard Quiz Champions.
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00:54Let's say hello.
00:55G'day, Michelle.
00:56Hello, Tom.
00:56Now, you're into Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
00:59Yes.
00:59Why?
01:01Because I'm pretty much a 70-year-old white boomer man trapped in a 30-year millennial's
01:07body.
01:08Oh, wow.
01:09You're a 70-year-old white boomer man trapped...
01:13Yeah.
01:14Okay.
01:17So, you own a lot of real estate?
01:19Yeah.
01:19Well, I missed out there, unfortunately.
01:22I feel like you're quite young to be a fan of this band.
01:25Well, I mean, I love the music.
01:26I love the...
01:27They have a lot of beautiful songs with a lot of really nice melodies and really poetic
01:32lyrics and great harmonies.
01:34But also, to be honest, I also just love the personalities.
01:37I love the history behind each personality and I just...
01:42And the drug use.
01:42Honestly, yeah.
01:44Hey, it was the times.
01:46Now's the times, too, if you play your cards right.
01:50Frank.
01:51That's me.
01:51Hello, Tom.
01:52Hi.
01:53Hi.
01:55Now, your expert subject is Australian decimal coins.
01:59Yes.
02:00Welcome to Hard Quiz.
02:02I feel like you're a classic Hard Quiz contestant.
02:05You're a coin collector.
02:06You're old.
02:07Everything just falls into place with you, Frank.
02:10Tom, that's because cash is king.
02:12We all know that.
02:14You come...
02:19You come with prepared material.
02:21Like I said, classic Hard Quiz.
02:23So, for any young people watching, coins are those things that old people pretend to not
02:27have when they pass the homeless.
02:29Is that right?
02:31One of your favourite things is noodling.
02:34Yes.
02:34What's that?
02:35That was when you used to be able to get coins from the bank and you would go through the
02:39coins
02:40looking for really nice coins.
02:42But banks don't use their coins anymore.
02:45You can't do it anymore?
02:46No.
02:47And you've got a YouTube channel dedicated to noodling.
02:50Is that right?
02:50Yes.
02:51Is that your noodling there?
02:52That is me noodling there, yes.
02:54So, it's just you getting rolls of coins and just unwrapping them?
02:58Yes.
02:58And you just filmed it in HD and put it on YouTube?
03:02And I talk through the nice things I find as well.
03:05Oh, okay.
03:05So, it's got like a scintillating commentary.
03:08Well, that's because I'm a scintillating type of person.
03:12And you've raced motorbikes?
03:14I have raced motorbikes, yes.
03:16What kind of racing are you doing?
03:17That's what they call bucket racing.
03:19Why is it called bucket racing?
03:20It's called bucket racing because the bikes are basically a bucket of shit.
03:30Bucket of shit?
03:31I thought that's what they called coin collecting.
03:34Julie.
03:35Hi, Tom.
03:36Now, you're a Jerry Seinfeld fan.
03:37Did you go and see him when he was in Australia?
03:39I did.
03:40I did go and see him.
03:41Oh, did you like him?
03:41I thought he was very good.
03:43And, you know, you could probably get a few tips if you went along yourself.
03:51Did you go to my last tour?
03:53I went to one of your tours.
03:55Oh, so you've seen my show and you've seen Jerry Seinfeld's show.
03:57Yes.
03:58Yes, I have.
03:59Well, mine was more affordable.
04:00Yes, it was.
04:02But, you know, Jerry Seinfeld.
04:04Which one did you like better?
04:05Jerry Seinfeld or, like, a local artist who represented your views of the world?
04:09Is it going to matter tonight?
04:10Oh, it can't affect the scoring because the scoring is...
04:13Okay, well, I like Jerry Seinfeld better.
04:16Now, you say one reason you like Seinfeld is because he doesn't swear at his comedy.
04:20Using the same logic, are you a big fan of Bill Cosby and Rolf Harris?
04:26Jerry Seinfeld is a big fan of Bill Cosby.
04:28Yeah, I know.
04:29And Rolf Harris, no.
04:30No.
04:31No, I'm not a fan of Bill.
04:31But at least he doesn't swear.
04:33No.
04:33At least that way you know he's not some filthy perv.
04:36Because he's clean with his act.
04:38Well, that is true.
04:38But we all found out the hard way, didn't we, about him?
04:41I did not find out the hard way.
04:47Tom.
04:48G'day, Tom.
04:48The Suez Canal is your expert subject, which is a shipping channel.
04:55What's going on this week?
04:56It's like old man bingo.
04:57We've got, like, a canal of Jerry Seinfeld coins and Crosby Stills National.
05:03Why do you like the Suez Canal?
05:06I started off in primary school.
05:07We had to do an assignment on landmarks.
05:10And my dad was at home reading the National Geographic.
05:12And he says, look, do the Suez Canal.
05:14And me being young, I thought, look, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live in the Suez.
05:18That sounds great.
05:20But, yeah, I was pretty disappointed.
05:23You're so into the Suez Canal.
05:24You've written poetry about it.
05:26Yeah.
05:27Have you had it printed?
05:31I didn't put that in the thing.
05:35You didn't put it in the application?
05:37I haven't written poetry about it.
05:38People have tried this game before and we've gone back and looked and found it in the application
05:40and brought it back and rubbed their f***ing nose in.
05:43Are you sure, Tom?
05:46Yeah, I can't recall.
05:47You not recalling doesn't mean it's not there, Tom.
05:53You're not a Senate estimate.
05:54Oh, I cannot f***ing recall.
05:58Are you a fan of other canals?
05:59Panama Canal?
06:00Yeah, well...
06:00Ear Canals?
06:01Root Canal?
06:03I mean, the Suez Canal is obviously my favourite, but it is just a glorified ditch in the desert.
06:08There's no engineering really involved.
06:10It's just a shovel job straight through.
06:12So all these other canals are, you know, they're a bit too high class for me.
06:16So you're just really into a gully?
06:17Yeah, absolutely.
06:18You wrote a kid's book called Running Wrecks.
06:20Yeah, that's right.
06:21I'm just guessing, uh, self-published?
06:25Absolutely.
06:25So I did send it to about 30 authors, Tom, and I've been waiting for about three years,
06:29but I think they're just really busy because I haven't got any responses yet.
06:32So you haven't sold any at all?
06:34I sold one for $2 on Amazon.
06:37Yeah, sales aren't great.
06:38Alright, you've had as many hits to your page as Frank has to his YouTube noodling channel.
06:44Absolutely, yeah.
06:45Alright, let's play.
06:46Hard!
06:48Expert round.
06:49Expert subject.
06:51Win or lose five points.
06:52Steal and answer double points.
06:55I'll ask each of you five questions on your expert subject.
06:58Right, you get five points.
06:59Wrong, I will take five points from you.
07:00The rest of you can steal at any time to get double points.
07:03Let's start with Tom and his expert subject, the Suez Canal.
07:09An alternative to circumnavigating Africa, the Suez Canal joins the Red Sea to the Mediterranean.
07:14A similar waterway existed in ancient Egypt, incorporating what river?
07:19Tom?
07:19The Nile.
07:20Correct!
07:24Have you been through the Suez Canal?
07:25I haven't as yet.
07:27Why not?
07:27You're really into it.
07:28Yeah, look, I'll get there one day, sail a yacht down and write some poetry.
07:35From 1859, the canal was dug by hand using forced labour, but a change in the law saw
07:40the introduction of dredging machines powered by what, Tom?
07:44Steaming coal.
07:45Correct!
07:49Yeah, the canal was dug by hand for the first few years and tens of thousands of Egyptian
07:54peasants died.
07:55Yeah, they were members of the CFMEU.
08:01Might have been trouble at the top, you know.
08:04The canal was closed in 1967 during a war with Israel, leaving over a dozen ships stranded
08:09for eight years.
08:11They became covered with desert sand and known as what colour fleet, Tom?
08:16The Yellow Fleet.
08:17Correct!
08:22I thought you might have got that one, Michelle.
08:25She's too slow.
08:26The elderly man in me.
08:28Oh, I'm just saying, you look like you're a fan of the Yellow Fleet.
08:32Very funny.
08:35You're not a bunch of giggles yourself, Michelle.
08:40In 2021, a container ship ran aground and blocked the canal for six days.
08:44It was released during an unusually high tide caused by what lunar event?
08:48Tom?
08:49Ah, supermoon.
08:50Correct!
08:53So here's the course that the ship took before it crashed.
08:57Ah, you can see it.
08:59This is the actual course.
09:00I think they were trying to draw a big dick and balls.
09:08They did a big dick and balls.
09:10They thought, oh, check this out.
09:11And they did a handbrake turn in the Suez Canal.
09:16Last question in your set, Tom.
09:18The canal was expanded in 2015 to allow ships that sit up to 20 metres below the waterline.
09:23This measurement from the bottom of the boat to the waterline is known by what nautical
09:27term, Tom?
09:28The draft.
09:29Correct!
09:31Five for five!
09:36Next set of questions is for Julie on Jerry Seinfeld.
09:42Five years after his stand-up debut in New York, Jerry Seinfeld made a landmark appearance
09:46in 1991.
09:48Julie?
09:48Johnny Carson's show.
09:51Incorrect.
09:51I'll finish the question.
09:53On what show hosted by Johnny Carson?
09:56For the Steelers, Michelle?
09:57The Tonight Show?
09:58Correct!
09:59Double points for you.
10:04Yeah, I needed the correct answer there.
10:06Because it's not called The Johnny Carson Show.
10:07It's called The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
10:09So the actual show is called The Tonight Show.
10:11Back then, a strong appearance with Carson could launch a career and Seinfeld says it
10:15was the most significant gig that he ever did.
10:18Now you can appear on the project and no one gives a shit.
10:24The Seinfeld sitcom ran for nine years despite the pilot episode being assessed as weak in
10:30an audience report for which US TV network?
10:33Julie?
10:33NBC?
10:34Correct!
10:38Yeah, it was done one of the worst pilot reports of all time.
10:41It said Jerry was dense, George was a wimp and none of the audience was eager to watch
10:46the show again.
10:48Jerry Seinfeld caused controversy after a 1998 stand-up tour when he referred to Melbourne
10:54as the what of the world?
10:56Julie?
10:58Arsehole?
10:59Incorrect.
11:00It's wide open.
11:05The shirt with a seal.
11:06Arse?
11:08Incorrect.
11:08It is wide open.
11:16Time's up.
11:17Anus.
11:19Yeah, he said it was the anus of the world.
11:21He was joking about how geographically Melbourne was where the earth's anus would be and people
11:25got offended, but we all know that the earth's anus is Auckland.
11:32Sorry, we're on air in New Zealand.
11:33Sorry about that.
11:35Yeah, Antarctica.
11:38As well as co-writing and directing, Jerry Seinfeld stars in Unfrosted, a 2024 movie about
11:44the fictional origin of what breakfast...
11:46Julie?
11:47Pop-Tarts?
11:49Correct!
11:50What breakfast pastry?
11:52Pop-Tarts is correct.
11:54Last question in your set, Julie.
11:57Here's Jerry Seinfeld in 2004.
11:59The most embarrassing moment in the history of the Smithsonian Institute.
12:05He's talking about the induction of what costume from his show?
12:09Julie?
12:09The pirate shirt.
12:10The puffy shirt.
12:11Correct!
12:13Pirate or puffy shirt.
12:16Time now for Frank and Australian Decimal Coins.
12:23Are you ready to get into some coin chat?
12:25Absolutely.
12:27Do you play the pokies or is it too sad to see the coins leave you?
12:31No, I've never played the pokies, no.
12:33What a waste of a coin.
12:35Yeah.
12:37Anyway, that was good chatting to you.
12:412024 was the first time in the history of Australian decimal currency that newly minted coins were
12:46changed to feature an effigy of which monarch?
12:50Frank?
12:52King Charles III.
12:54Correct!
12:59Why is he facing left there?
13:00Is that because he's a greedy?
13:01No, because they have to change the direction of the face of the effigy every time a new monarch is
13:08coronated.
13:09So, Queen Elizabeth faced to the right, King Charles had to face to the left.
13:14According to the Royal Australian Mint, the 5, 10 and 20 cent coins are three quarters copper
13:19with the remaining quarter, what other metal?
13:21For the steels, Julie?
13:23Silver?
13:24Incorrect.
13:26Frank?
13:27Nickel.
13:28Correct!
13:32Are you luring Julie into getting that wrong, or are you just slow?
13:35Just taking me time.
13:37Okay.
13:38It's not really how the show works.
13:41I did that time.
13:42Okay, well, I know, but taking your time, it's not a good strategy, I'm just saying, from now on.
13:48Okay.
13:48Here's an ad about the switch to decimal currency in 1966.
13:52And this is the largest coin, the 50 cent, with the kangaroo, emu and crest.
13:58It's worth five shillings.
14:00Three years later, the 50 cent coin was changed from a circle to what shape?
14:04Frank?
14:05Duodeca mole.
14:07Incorrect.
14:08It's wide open to three people who clearly use a credit card.
14:12Michelle, could you steal?
14:14Octagon?
14:15Incorrect.
14:16It's wide open.
14:20Time's up.
14:21Dodecagon.
14:23Dodecagon.
14:23That was close.
14:26No, no, you said a made-up word.
14:30Instead of dodecagon.
14:33I can see you were trying to get to it, but it was not quite right.
14:37Australia's first circulating coin with colour was introduced in 2012 for Remembrance Day.
14:42On this limited edition of that coin, what does the letter C indicate?
14:47Frank?
14:48Canberra.
14:49Correct.
14:50Canberra, the location of the Royal Australian Mint.
14:53Last question in your set, Frank.
14:56Stuart Devlin was a sculptor and silversmith who designed the reverse side of many Australian coins.
15:01He said that his most successful design was an underwater image of what?
15:06For the Steelers, Tom.
15:07The platypus.
15:08Correct.
15:09Double points to you.
15:14Last of the expert round is Michelle and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
15:21Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young publicly debuted in 1969, playing their second ever gig at which legendary music festival?
15:29Michelle.
15:30Woodstock.
15:31Correct.
15:35The song Ohio protests the National Guard firing on and killing students at which university?
15:41Michelle.
15:41Kent State.
15:42Correct.
15:46Crosby and Nash are backing vocalists when Stills sings,
15:49If you can't be with the one you love, then Michelle.
15:51Love the one you win.
15:53Correct.
15:54Correct.
15:57Yeah, that was a solo release by Stephen Stills.
16:01Yeah, it's, I'm not actually a big fan of that one.
16:03It's a bit of a sexist one, I would say.
16:05The song?
16:06Yeah.
16:07Okay, so you got into a super group with four men in it and you're upset that it's sexist.
16:13You know, I have my blind spots sometimes.
16:15I was going to say, mamas and pappas are right there.
16:18Yeah, that's true.
16:20Okay.
16:21Substance abuse was a problem for the entire group, but in the 1980s, who was the only member
16:25jailed on drugs and weapons?
16:27Michelle.
16:28David Crosby.
16:29Correct.
16:30And weapons charges.
16:32David Crosby is correct.
16:34On one tour, they had an area backstage where Crosby could go and freebase cocaine between
16:39songs.
16:41Marty?
16:47Last question in your set, Michelle.
16:50Written by Graeme Nash during a train journey through Morocco is a song, Michelle?
16:55Marrakech Express.
16:56Correct.
16:56Correct is a song of our pitch express.
16:59Marrakech Express is correct.
17:01Five from five!
17:07All right, we've looked through their subjects, now let's look through mine.
17:10Tom's round.
17:12Tom's subject, multiple choice.
17:14This week, I've been really getting into nepotism.
17:18I love nepotism.
17:19My brother wrote these questions.
17:21This round is multiple choice.
17:23Select your answers on your screens, then press the buzzer to lock in the answer.
17:26The term nepotism comes from 17th century Italy, when family members were often appointed
17:32to important positions by who?
17:34A.
17:34Kings.
17:35B.
17:35Popes.
17:36C.
17:36Merchants.
17:37D.
17:37Artists.
17:40The answer is B.
17:43The answer is B.
17:43Popes.
17:48Which royal family is the world's oldest continuous hereditary monarchy?
17:53A.
17:53The Al-Khalifa dynasty of Bahrain?
17:56B.
17:56The house of Grimaldi in Monaco?
17:58C.
17:59The princely house of Liechtenstein?
18:01D.
18:01The Yamato dynasty of Japan?
18:05The answer is D.
18:07The Yamato dynasty of Japan.
18:13According to a popular legend about ancient Rome, the emperor Caligula planned to make
18:18Incatatus a consul, despite having what relationship to the emperor?
18:22Was he A.
18:24His son?
18:25B.
18:25His horse?
18:26C.
18:26His imaginary friend?
18:28D.
18:28His goldfish?
18:31The answer is B.
18:33His horse.
18:39Yeah, he was the first Nepo pony.
18:44Nepotism is enshrined in AFL recruiting as the father-son rule, with the father-daughter
18:49rule first used to recruit a player for which AFLW club?
18:53A.
18:53Carlton Blues?
18:54B.
18:54Collingwood Magpies?
18:56C.
18:56Greater Western Sydney Giants?
18:58D.
18:58Brisbane Lions?
19:02The answer is A.
19:04Carlton Blues?
19:10Last question in my round's worth double points.
19:13Nepo baby is used to describe the children of famous parents.
19:17Which of these Academy Award winners is not a Nepo baby?
19:21A.
19:21Jett Bridges?
19:22B.
19:23Jamie Lee Curtis?
19:24C.
19:24Michael Douglas?
19:25D.
19:25Jane Fonda?
19:26E.
19:27Gwyneth Paltrow?
19:28F.
19:28Emma Stone?
19:32The answer is...
19:34F.
19:35Emma Stone?
19:41Emma Stone's dad is in construction and her mum is a homemaker.
19:45Losers!
19:47All right, at the end of my round, Julie, you're at the bottom on ten.
19:50Get over here.
19:58So do you think if you said more swear words it would have gone better?
20:02Do you want me to swear?
20:05No, probably not.
20:06I'm a principal.
20:07No, no.
20:07You're a principal.
20:08Okay, all right.
20:09Well, you probably want to swear at your students sometimes.
20:11No.
20:11No, no, never.
20:13Okay.
20:15Out!
20:19There she goes.
20:22All right.
20:23It's the people's round.
20:25The people's round against the clock.
20:28Dust your shells play along at home.
20:30Your time starts now.
20:32Adam Hills hosts the music quiz show Spix and What, Michelle.
20:36Yes.
20:36In the common English proverb, what is discouraged from being thrown out with the bath water?
20:41Frank.
20:42Baby.
20:42Yes.
20:43Which Addams Family character shares their name with a weekday?
20:47Frank.
20:47Wednesday.
20:48Yes.
20:49In the words of Shakespeare, parting is such sweet what?
20:52Frank.
20:53Sorrow.
20:53Yes.
20:54According to the rapper's hit single, what mixer does Snoop Dogg combine with gin?
20:58Michelle.
20:59Juice.
21:00Yes.
21:01Movie villain Freddy Krueger first appears in A Nightmare on what street?
21:04Frank.
21:05Elm Street.
21:06Yes.
21:06The Netherlands is known for what traditional wooden shoe?
21:10Tom.
21:10Clog.
21:11Yes.
21:11The World Heritage Site in the Peruvian Andes is what Inca citadel?
21:18Time's up.
21:19The answer is Machu Picchu.
21:22All right.
21:23The end of the people's round.
21:24Frank, you're at the bottom of 135.
21:25Get over here.
21:33I think you finally came around to working out that that was not a good time to just take
21:38your time.
21:40I nearly fell over.
21:42Why did you nearly fall over?
21:44Because I ran out of change.
21:48All right.
21:48Well, get back to your noodling and I promise I won't watch it on YouTube.
21:56There he goes.
22:01All right.
22:02Only two left.
22:03Who's going to be the Hard Quiz champion?
22:04Tom and Michelle, get over here because it's time to play Hard Quiz.
22:07Final round.
22:08Final round, heads ahead, the Sewers Canal versus Rosby Stills, Nash & Young, Hard Quiz.
22:16Now, there can only be one Hard Quiz champion.
22:18He gets to take home the limited edition Big Brass mug.
22:20What will you do with the mug if you win, Tom?
22:22Um, so I've got a fig tree at home that the parrots go to town on.
22:26So I was thinking they don't like shiny things, so I'll string it up there and just scare them
22:31off.
22:34What about you, Michelle?
22:35Well, when I told my hairdresser that I was coming on the show, he told me that he would
22:39put strands of my hair in crime scenes if I didn't give it to him, so I think I'm going
22:42to have to give it to him.
22:45Wow.
22:45What do you think he's going to do with it when he gets it?
22:47Well, that's a mystery.
22:48I'd like to know.
22:50OK, it's best of five penalty shootout style, harder questions on your expert subject.
22:54So it's Tom's knowledge of the Sewers Canal versus Michelle's knowledge of Crosby, Stills,
22:59Nash & Young.
23:00Let's play.
23:01Hard!
23:05Tom, bulk carriers that are too big to transit the Sewers Canal are known by what name based
23:11on their alternate route?
23:13The biggest ship that can go along the Sewers Canal, it's called a Sewers Max, so it's not
23:18going to be that.
23:21So if they can't go through the Sewers, they're going to have to transverse around Africa.
23:26I just have to take a stab at a super bulk carrier.
23:32Incorrect.
23:33The correct answer is Cape Size.
23:38Yeah, they're too big for the Sewers or Panama Canal, so they have to go the long way around
23:41Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope.
23:43They are known as Cape Size.
23:46Michelle.
23:46Well, the Crosby, Stills & Nash song, Helplessly Hoping, relies on alliteration.
23:53Which lyric has five words that start with W?
23:59Okay, so...
24:03I'm going to say...
24:08Watching, waiting, he...
24:12I'm going to guess this part.
24:13He waits by the window and waits?
24:20Incorrect.
24:23Um...
24:24It turns out, the part you guessed, you also guessed the beginning as well.
24:29You might have thought you nailed it, but...
24:33The correct answer is, wordlessly watching, he waits by the window and wonders at the empty
24:39place inside.
24:41It's very deep, isn't it?
24:42I mean, kind of, yeah.
24:53Tom, as mentioned earlier, the ship Ever Given ran aground and blocked the Sewers Canal in
24:592021.
24:59The ship immediately behind it was the Maersk Denver.
25:04And when that ship came to a stop, it was almost struck by which following vessel?
25:10Um, so yeah, the ship was stuck for six days, um, until they could unblock it and trapped
25:17there for a further 100 days.
25:19Um, the ships behind it, I'm not too sure.
25:23I know the first one that went through following the Suez, uh, was a Hong Kong ship called the
25:30YM Wish.
25:31So I go with the YM Wish.
25:33Incorrect.
25:35The correct answer is, Asia Ruby 3.
25:39Okay, with all this talk of vessels blocking canals, I think, uh, a lot of viewers might
25:44be reaching for the Metamucil.
25:48Michelle, Stephen Stills is a multi-instrumentalist whose musical talents led other members of
25:54the group to give him what nickname?
25:57Um, yeah, so he is an incredible musician.
26:01He can play so many different instruments.
26:03He's played so many on different records, not just his own, but everyone else.
26:07So the nickname he was given was Captain Many Hands.
26:11Correct.
26:16Captain Many Hands sounds like someone who spends a lot of time at HR.
26:22Tom.
26:23The Suez Canal was nationalised in 1956, taken by armed forces who were mobilised when Egyptian
26:30President Nasser said what code phrase?
26:35Yeah, so the, uh, President Nasser, uh, really popular with the Egyptians, uh, very charismatic
26:42guy.
26:42He was doing his, uh, the National Address in Alexandria, and he had the forces ready, um, to take over
26:49the Suez Canal Company when he said the code word, Ferdinand de Lesseps.
26:52Correct, the developer of the Suez Canal.
26:58Michelle, an attempt at a reunion album failed in 1976, with Neil Young later telling music
27:04journo Bill Flanagan that he regrets what spiteful act that infuriated Crosby and Nash.
27:12Yeah, so, um, they got together in Miami to do a reunion album, which ended up being the
27:19Stills Young album.
27:20And, uh, basically they got Crosby and Nash in, in Miami, and, uh, they got them to record
27:29the background records on the songs, and, uh, they couldn't stay very long because they
27:34had to go back to LA to finish their, um, Crosby and Nash album.
27:37Um, so, in the end, uh, Stephen and Neil decided to erase their vocals from, uh, the Masters,
27:46and they had just, yeah, released it as a Stills Young, uh, Stills Young Band album.
27:51Correct.
27:55Tom, when the canal reopened in 1975, a ship from the stranded Yellow Fleet set a record for
28:01the longest ever duration of a shipping journey when it arrived in what port?
28:07Yeah, so, after the stranded vessels, there were 15 that got stuck. Um, only, they all
28:12made it out, but only two made it out under their, sort of, own steam. Uh, they were two
28:16German ships. And, I think it was somewhere in Australia, uh, that they went. Um, I'll go
28:27with, um, Port Darwin. Incorrect. The correct answer is Hamburg. Yeah, must have been going
28:36the other way. Yeah. The Munsterland took eight years and three months and five days to get
28:42there. It had departed from Australia and was loaded with 2,000 tonnes of wool and nearly
28:47two million eggs. Ooh. And a bunch of toy koalas. I reckon they would have had a few
28:54omelettes, don't you?
28:57Michelle, if you get this right, then you are tonight's hard quiz champion. Michelle,
29:02before he joined Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons, Phil Hartman worked with Crosby,
29:07Stills and Nash. In what professional capacity? Yeah, so, actually, his brother, um, John Hartman,
29:15was the band's manager for a while. And, uh, that's how he ended up getting into contact
29:20with Crosby, Stills and Nash. And he ended up working for them as a graphic designer. So,
29:25he, he was working as a graphic designer and he, uh, created the CSN logo that came about
29:30in the late seventies. Correct. Which means you are tonight's hard quiz champion. All right,
29:36Tom, you know, this means help. There he goes. Congratulations, Michelle, you are tonight's
29:47hard quiz champion. Which means you get the big prize, mate. And you get to get a sign-off.
29:52Thanks for Brian Brown.
29:55Thanks for being here.
30:00Thanks for being here.
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