Can You Beat Us At Tech Trivia?

26:50It's one to 20? Yeah. It should be, that's how they should be ranked. So you think, okay. 20 points for the top one? AI. It's only one time that gets the top one. Yeah, AI. No, do it flip. Yeah, I think the 20th word should be 20 points and the number one word should be one. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah, I like that too. Yeah. Okay. All right. Are you a scorer? Are you able to handle this? I'm never going to get the 20th one. It's right in front of me. Great. Can I trust you to cross out words that we've already gotten? Absolutely not. All right, guys. I think we should do snake draft, by the way.

27:20Okay. We're doing snake draft then. And I'm thinking of a number between one and 10. Seven. Eight. Six. Marquez has it. He always does. Shocker. So does that mean I go first? It does mean that you go first. I would like to choose going second. Wait, no, you go first. You go first. I'm not, this is, we've already spent too much time drafting this snake. It's too hard. Marquez, may I remind you, the number one word on this list used 8.5. Sorry, I guess let me give a little bit more explanation. So just remember the 20th most used word, the least frequently used word on my list is worth the most points.

28:01I filtered out all the like stupid words. So there's no there's no the. Yeah, there's no and there's no. These are all either nouns or verbs or whatever. And one more time, give me the context. It's the words in the bios of the top. What? Bylines. So that the one sentence description of the last three cohorts of Y Combinator companies. So the descriptions of the company. Yeah. So this is spring 2025, fall 2025 and winter 2024. for. And another nitpicky question, are different conjugations of the same word all the same word? That is an excellent question, and I have grouped together different conjugations of the word.

28:38I've also grouped together plurals. Are acronyms allowed? There are no acronyms on this list. Good to know. So with my first pick, I am picking build. Excellent choice, Marquez. Build is the third most used word. Making up 1.3 % of all words used in Y Combinator descriptions in the last three cohorts used 32 times. If you include building and builder. You're saying there's no acronyms in this? There are no acronyms that I see on my list. So the very obvious acronym AI. Okay, then I'm going to say AI. Wow, Jesus. Alright, well you just chose the number one word. I know, I just want to make sure I get a point.

29:24I thought there's no acronyms. Yeah, I forgot that AI was an acronym. But number one is worth less points. You got better. Yeah, you did better. Number one is worth less points. Number one is worth the least amount of points. I feel really stupid for getting that AI is an acronym. I just think of it as a self-contained turd of s*** at this point. I forgot it because it's... Anyway. Yes, AI, guys, I just want to lay this on you guys. AI makes up 8.5 % of all words used to describe companies. These percentages, by the way, guys, I calculated before removing filler words. Meaning that all words that Y Combinator companies use, 8 % of them.

30:03Including of and and. Yes, including of and, a, and the. AI is used 8.5 % of the time. Insane. David. Okay. Scalable slash scale. Scale is not on this list. Scalable is not on this list. I'm so sorry. nope not anymore um but you get to go again what about democratize uh that one is what dude i was thinking like we are building this to democratize this you gotta you gotta think stupider really yeah way stupider marquez put build three points yep uh andrew that takes us back to you. I can't tell if this is a stupid one or not. Is 10x a word?

30:5610x. Not an acronym. 100x. 100 gex? Marquez, back to you. Let's see. The description of the company. I'm going to use the word help. Help. That is worth 18 points. it was used nine times so I'm behind now? yes by quite a lot oh my god and the second you gotta start getting stupid man does snake mean I go again? it does mean you go again for my second pick entire season out the window does the word bring qualify? justice for me I don't see it on my list I can't remember if that's when I scratched or not I don't think I would have scratched bring so it is not on the list. You know every time I Run into someone who watches the show in the real world.

31:52They say man, you're really killing it at trivia There's tons of time David David there is there are so many points on the board if you nail your next two Guesses you could earn 39 points before it gets back to Andrew. All right. Yeah, right deliver I do not see deliver on my list. I'm so sorry. It's basically drink. I hit the wrong button. I'm really sorry, Andrew. I was not trying to add insult to injury there, I swear. David? What about we? That's like a filler word. I'm going to let you guess again. Oh, okay. I'm unusually benevolent today. Platforms. Ooh, platform is the sixth most used word, giving you six points.

32:37It was used 17 times. David, you've got to get stupider, man. If you want these high point ones. Just hit your head on the desk a few times and think about tech. Code. Code is the number 17 worth 17 points, David. We're back, David. It was used nine times. We're back. Including, and I lumped in with that, code, coders, vibe code, and code base. Nice. Way to go, David. I knew you had the dumbness in you. Andrew, that means we're back to you. I don't think this is a filler word, but new. I do not see new on my list. I do not remember. You've got to think stupider, man. New. It's new. Try again. It's three letters.

33:24Try again. Okay. It's because no one's making anything new anymore. No, it's not that. It's that when I say dumb, I don't mean like low diction words. I'm not saying it that either. I got one. I know Y Combinator was for new products. I have one. My next guess is sweet. Like S-U-I-T-E. No, but you do have a second guess. Okay. I have a really good one. Let me write this down. I think I have a good one. My next guess is productivity. So sorry. Damn, these companies do not care. So sorry. Okay, I have one. Yes. Together. Together was on my list, but it is not in the top 20. Okay. cloud

34:12Cloud is not on my list. It's of the top 20, but this is what I'm talking about You have to think like there's two words relating to AI still on this board One of which is worth 19 points and the other which is only worth two points learning Unfortunately, you did not get any of them. Yeah, but you're getting closer. All right. I have it Model model is worth 19 points Way to go. Wow. It was used nine times in the last three cohorts. Oh, man. Oh, I know one. And now it's my turn? And now it's your turn, Marquez. Service. Wow, I'm surprised that one's not there. What? It was used four times. I feel like we're both thinking the same thing, but you think it would be very close.

34:56Machine, unfortunately, is not on the list. Yeah, Jesus. Might have been worth inferring that from learning not being on the list, but hey, I don't tell you how to use your guesses. There's a lot of machines. All right. Language. That's what I was going to use. I knew we were going to use it. I knew it. I do not see language. Oh, wow. So that's what's confusing. Yeah. Yeah. So maybe I should have taken that back, Marquez. I humbly apologize. So one thing I was surprised by, and this is AI related, is how many companies used this word. Because I did not think of it as like a fresh wave of AI stuff that people were developing, but it makes sense.

35:32It's a mode. It's a mode. autonomous is it your turn to guess it is yeah oh uh really really it's too smart um computer wait that's no i'm not gonna guess that that's stupid but there's computer's not on there uh did we already guess we got a system did we guess are you reading my mind no Is that your mind? System your guess. System is worth the most points on the board, David. Let's go! You just got the 20 bomb. I swear to God it was like a wrench in my forehead. I said operating system's not on here. Let me just guess system. Okay, why don't we go. Everyone gets one more. People. Who do you want to buy your...

36:24Dude, if I'm getting too hard... I have to go with operate? hmm got one more streamline too smart oh that was a really good one oh my god subscription oh my god um fast oh get it out ooh I got one okay um Dave's gonna steal it again I swear to god if I write this down right now oh man um personal oh so fun I get one more I almost said it um uh okay uh yeah this this helps um

37:12database I'll give it to you I'll give it to you data was used 16 times making up around half a percent of all words that shouldn't count that's crazy Seven points. Seven points. I thought it was 16. No. No. No. Oh, it's not in the 16th. I thought I got 16 points. Andrew. App. It's 2010. App is an acronym for. There's not a single app. App stands for application. Okay. Marques, I believe you had a word you were very excited about. Yeah. Optimize. Alright, care to try again? If you read my mind, I swear to God. And then I had another. I guess I should consult a master list for more of these. And you said people already?

37:59How have you gotten the four hardest ones? Did you say people already? I said people. You did say people. There is a word that refers to groups of people that is on this list. I was going to say masses, but I don't think that's it. I'll just say it. Masses. It's probably not that. Yeah. Okay. Internet. Customers. Wow. I've already given you a hint, David. I'm sorry. There's a few still obvious ones. That's what I was going to say. That are here. Oh, it wasn't that. No, it was not that. Glad I didn't say it. You guys are going to be so mad when you find out the rest of these. We don't have the number two.

38:33We don't have number two. I got a bunch. The number two is so obvious. Electronic. Oh, my God. I don't know. What would be right behind AI? Internet. No, Android. All right. What's right behind AI? What word almost always follows the word AI? Wait, I have one. Service Was service on here? No I already asked service Also Agent Agent is correct Used 68 times That's two? Agent Yeah My guess is crypto Crypto Crypto's out bro VCs are not interested It ain't 2021 anymore No it's not But you do get one more guess And it should end on David So do you want to do Should this be it? Do you want to end this Or do one more time I think one more Okay Okay blockchain I just said oh sorry okay no no you already alright Andrew

39:37Andrew this is your second to last guess I know no pressure love

39:54this is a really good game interface interface is not on my list unfortunately Marquez financial financial is not on my list rapper Rapper is not on my list. User. User is not on my list. Browser. Browser is not on my list. No, browser is not on my list. All right, we're done. Guys, excellent job. So some of the funny ones you guys missed include Powered slash Power. Software, you guys did not guess. Voice was the AI mode that was here way more than I thought it would. Sales. Real was on here a lot. I was thinking B2B. B2B. The word for groups of people was team. Team was used 14 times. Guys, here's one that really threw me for the loop.

40:53The 12th word on my list used 12 times, coincidentally, was cursor. Oh, because things are being built on cursor? No, because so many companies just refer to themselves in their byline as the cursor of blank. Wow. Yes. Cursor is an AI coding app. Exactly. It's like a dedicated environment. Do you want to just read the one through 20? Yeah, can you just read it in order? Number 20, system used nine times. Models, 19, nine times. Yeah, so sorry. 20 through 17 are all tied. System, models, help, code. Help? Help helping, helpers. Wow. Damn. 16, 10 times. Healthcare, 15. Wow. sales 14 real 13 made it.

41:44What is real like already a Oh, yeah, like real experience. Native is good. That's what experiences one experiences is not on here now Then we have cursor team source voice open seven is data six is platform five is software Four is powered three is build two is agent and number one making up 8.5%. We didn't say software. The funny thing is, is you said, think of as dumb as possible. And I thought button, which is not that far away from power. Guys, before we get into our next segment, we need to do a score update because points were flying around that round. I might be cooked now. No, I think David really took the lead on that one.

42:31Yeah, not really, but kind of. So contrary to round two where only two points were scored in the whole round We now have seismic updates to the score Andrew began last round with 26 points scored 22 more points Wow, which brought him up to 48 points total Dang Marquez began last round with 38 points scored 21 points to bring him to 59 total after three rounds. David had 42 after round two scored a whopping 50 points in round three. Are you serious? Yes. Giving David now a grand total of 92 after three rounds. You wanted to go big and you went big. Jesus Christ, we might have messed this up. As long as the values of upcoming questions are still high enough to mean anyone can win.

43:37This next section, everything is 10 pointers. That's fair. If you guys sweep me by the end of this, I'm going to be so sad. Screw it, no rules. 10 points per question. Guys, this next one is called the chicken of the egg. We're going to read you two tech products. This is the chicken of the egg. This is the chicken of the sea, right? Now I'm referring to, what's the... Rick Ross. Oh yeah, the almond of the coconut or whatever he says. No, no, no, no, no. The mathematician who uses eggs as the... The mathematician uses eggs to explain dimensions. You know what I'm talking about? That's not what we're thinking about at all.

44:15It's Rick Ross. It's on the tip of all of our tongues. It's like if you... Who said that? It's the guy who was like, if you have a 2D egg and you're a 3D being, you can see the 2D chicken floating inside the egg because a 3D being can see all sides of a 2D object. Is there a 3D chicken inside the 2D egg? No, there's a 2D chicken inside the 2D egg. But if there's a 3D egg with a 3D chicken inside, a 4D being would be able to see the... Anyway, guys, chicken or... Chicken, the egg. Or the egg. What is a four-dimensional being? We don't know. Do I need to explain it? It's a being that exists in four dimensions.

44:51The fourth dimension is time. Oh, that answers that. Yeah. The Wildwood Boardwalk. It's theoretical. It's theoretical. It's if there was a fourth axis for us to exist on. There is. Time. You just can't move around in it. Right? That's one. Okay. Everyone should. Don't I exist? The Wildwood Boardwalk. Guys, what came first? The fax machine or the blender?

45:17My marker's running out of ink. It's not great. You guys have extra markers? We don't. I do not. Oh, that's a Sharpie. I can't use that. All right, whatever. Blender the app is like not that old, right? No, no, no. It's fairly old. I used it in college. I'm joking. No, no, no. I'm talking about the electric blender. You are right. I used it in college, and I'm really old, so it's pretty old. Don't forget, 10 points on the line. 10? Per question. All right. What did you guys put? Points available. Mark has and I put Blender, and Andrew put Fax. Wow. The fax machine is not just older than the blender.

45:54It is way older than the blender. The fax machine is so old that it predates the telephone. That's right. They were sending photographs over telegraph wires prior. Yeah. But telegraph and fax machines are different. No, the wires that were sending Morse code messages were also sending photographs over them in the 1860s. I'm going to have to fax check that. Please do. Guys, number two, the QWERTY keyboard layout or the modern paperclip. The modern? Why is that a specific? Because it turns out a lot of people tried to make paperclips and they were not very good. And then we got this one and everyone was like, all right, we're done with this.

46:34We figured it out. This is what's newer or what's older? What's older. Older? What is older? Which is the egg? Wait, no. Disregard that. That's the whole question. You can't. The whole question is which is older. Is it 2D or 3D? Facsimile. I have no clue when paper clips came around. What do we got? I'm going QWERTY. QWERTY is correct. That is 10 points. I thought that was newer. No, it's really old. It's from 1878. I thought it was like a new Japanese guy that did it. No. No, actually there's rumors that it's Remington that did it. So I am pulling the first Remington typewriter from 1878 that had it.

47:15However, there were two or three typewriters prior to that through the 1870s, which had things that resembled the QWERTY ANSI layout. However, they were not exact. So I'm counting 1878. Oh, that's right. I forgot about that. Wow. All right, guys. These next one, I want to try to go as a lightning round. So get ready to write these really fast. Ready? Okay. Fubo or Tubi.

47:39What do we got? I'm not expected to know these, right? I said Fubo. You said Fubo. Same. I said Tubi. Tubi is correct. Way to go, David. All right. Follow up. Tubi or Roku?

47:57I keep forgetting Roku fits in this consonant vowel, consonant vowel. It better be what I think it is. And the answer is? Please, Roku. Nope. The answer is still Tubi. Are you kidding me? Roku is so OG. Tubi is from 2014. Roku is from 2017, according to my notes. Wait, what? 2017? 2017. Tubi? No, Roku was around when I was in college. I think Roku's been around for a bit. 2002, so Roku is. Okay. Yeah. But it doesn't change anything because we all got the point. Yeah. Well, give us all points. Great. 10 points for all of us. I was like, no way. Yeah. No, I see where I got it wrong. In 2014, Roku released their first TVs with Roku's built-in.

48:33But they were a box beforehand. They were a box. Yeah. Continuing with the trend, Roku or Mubi? Do we have to spell it right? I don't care. All right, what do we got? I wrote Mubi. Roku is correct. Marquez. And Andrew, did you get that one right? No, I got it wrong. Just me. Ten points for Marquez. All right. One more, guys. I swear this is not annoying. Mubi or Pluto. Ooh. That's right. Five letters. Innovator. Disruptor. Hardly no. What do we got? ready Mubi I wrote Mubi Mubi is correct oh Marquez got that wrong I've never heard of that I didn't watch TV it's not fake it's real it's a whole category of TV things but I don't watch TV it's legal it plays ads stumble upon or reddit which one came first chicken or the egg what do you guys got I'll put that.

49:42Stumble Upon. Because Stumble Upon as well. I put Reddit. So 10 points each for David and Marquez. Because I was using Stumble Upon when I was a freshman in high school. But I only started using Reddit when it came out when I was like a junior. All right. Shazam or Tevo? Tevo? Tevo. Oh, Shazam or Tevo? Seeing the little TiVo guy when I was researching that just brought warm warm feelings to my heart I love that little dude. My friend's dad was like the regional manager of Best Buy and he had TiVo because he was rich It was cool. I didn't have it, but it was cool. The controller was cool. I had the little guy on now We just have YouTube TV YouTube TiVo Flip and read what do we got TiVo?

50:31We all got TiVo? Correct! It was TiVo 99-2000 Wow I learned this researching this questioning Shazam actually launched as an SMS service Yeah, where you where you would call the Shazam number hold your phone up to a speaker and they would send you a text message With what song is why didn't they just tell you on the other side? Because your phone would meet your ear you'd be like that's actually really impressive That's like very innovative and interesting. You know Twitter was an SMS service guys. I have I have really you could tweet with Yeah, that's how it started. Yeah. Remember when Domino's I had 140 character limit That's some trivia right there.

51:06SMS was 144 characters. Do you remember when Domino's had an SMS service? Never heard of it. Really? Andrew, even you? I just called. There was a period of time where you could, in your Domino's account, register your phone number and your favorite order, and your cutter card, and if you texted them the pizza emoji, it would automatically place the order for delivery to your house. Bring this back, bro. We need this technology now. Also the basis of the Wii app. the Wii app? the Wii Domino's app oh yeah I don't know this there is a Domino's app on the Wii it's like a channel like the Domino's channel yeah alright we gotta it's dope wow okay guys guys this one is not exactly tech but it's sorta tech and this one I just find hilarious the Super Nintendo Entertainment System the SNES SNES the SNES or ciabatta bread

52:06okay looking for the older one they do love ciabatta in sf I wonder if a tech company invented ciabatta that was actually the ninth word in the y combinator AI ciabatta platform ciabatta bread is a type of bread yeah It's the Italian answer to the baguette Newer right? Newer We're looking for older No I am looking for Older Older Yes SNES No ciabatta is older than the SNES But only by 8 years Oh really? 1982 Yeah Think about that As children None of our parents had ciabatta They probably still aren't I might not have had ciabatta either That word's too hard Ciabatta be crazy All right, let's get a quick update on the score and then take it to one more break.

53:02Our scoring update after four rounds, it looks way more impressive. And yet it's the same situation because you all scored 50 points in that last round. So Marquez now sits at 109. Andrew now sits at 98. And David is sitting pretty at 142 points. and the next round everything's worth a hundred I mean we're all 50 points apart so like reasonably if everything's 10 points again we could still win yeah let's make it everything's one point but there's a one giant question okay what is David's middle name all right well we got one more category after the break it's one with the buzzers and one audio round.

53:54So stay tuned. Anyone can still win. We'll be right back.

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55:51Whether you prefer talking in person, on the phone, or using the award-winning app, it's nice knowing you have help finding coverage that best fits your needs. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. Guys, welcome back. We have two more things. We have got a little funky little thing that we've never actually done before. This is going to be very new for us. We'll see if it's actually fun or not. and then we're going to be doing our world famous audio round. So guys, Adam came up with a really interesting idea for a category, which was we're going to write descriptions of famous apps and their icons.

56:29Just their icons. Famous apps, icons. The icons of famous apps. Descriptions. Okay. And then have you guess what they were based on those. But then we thought, wait, no, that's no fun. It is fun. But we could make it more fun by having insert AI assistant write the descriptions for us. And then we realized we could have even more fun. By visualizing it? By asking them to do it as specific characters. What? Like Homer Simpson? Not that specific. Oh. As general characters. Like Charmander. So let's do this first one. This first app's description is going to be read as a pirate. How are we answering these?

57:10You have to tell me what the app is on the but on the whiteboard yeah with your mind

57:21I really hope this is funny. So we're getting descriptions of of apps icons You're getting descriptions of icons and you have to tell me the app But each description is not only generated by an AI And I tried to clean it up as best I could to just remove like wrong stuff or like stuff that didn't make sense but it still is pretty AI-y. Because this has been a weird one. This is now worth 20 points. This will be the first extrap we've ever ended where we might have people with more than 200 points, which I'm just so excited for. Okay. All right. Here is my impression of a pirate. Ahoy there, mateys.

57:59I be seeing a symbol that looks like a colorful hashtag or crosshatch pattern, tilted at a jaunty angle like a ship's wheel catching the wind. Tis painted in four bold colors. I wish this was... Ocean blue, sunset red, doubloon yellow, and green. All crossing each other with gaps between the spaces in a ship's rigging. I would make a fine flag for gathering the crew together. This is that lost pirate episode everyone's been asking for. Dude, I was so mad because when I had to make the pirate soundscape, I was like, I've done this so many times for that pirate episode and it was on an old computer so I couldn't like just anyway I'm complaining what do you guys have did you all put slack I put bubbles in there that is correct I wish this was a buzzer next one is a pinwheel everything's a pinwheel alright guys next one is red yellow blue and green guys this next one this next app will be read in the voice of a robot.

59:12Okay. Beep boop. Zero, zero, zero, one, zero. Chachimii or Anonymous AI did add a lot of beep boops in the robot one that I had to clean out. Okay. All right. Are you ready, guys? Beep boop. Beep boop. Analyzing visual signal processing. I observe a circular green interface element colored in optimal hue 3, 4, C, 759 for maximum visibility. That's green. Sorry, this is so funny. Contained within this circular boundary is a white speech bubble icon designed to represent textual communication protocols between humans. The geometric state follows standard conversation bubble parameters with a small triangular protrusion indicating message origin point.

1:00:13Beep, boom. Triangular? Okay, I think I have it. Got it. Got it. That was fire, dude. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh, I didn't kill that. Please. also there's a delay in my headphones which is why i was reading at a snail's pace like just enough a delay to make that really difficult uh all right let's flip them i think it would have been entertaining to see us the progression of things we are writing before we got to the last thing we all said whatsapp that was not the answer i was looking for but uh i I forgot about WhatsApp, so... I was looking for iMessage, but WhatsApp... I'll give you the point for WhatsApp.

1:00:59iMessage is not an app. Yes, it is. It's called Messages. The app is called Messages.

1:01:09It's a protocol app. What's the white robot? It's just a highlight. I don't care. So you're giving us points for WhatsApp? You guys get points. All right. This next one... This next one is as if... This next one is as if you are a... No. This next one is as if you are a doctor reading a diagnosis. Wow. I hit the wrong computer.

1:01:41Well, I've reviewed your test results, and we need to discuss what we're seeing here. There's a distinctive white ghost present, and it's quite prominent and appears to be set against a bright yellow background. The ghost has a somewhat playful demeanor with what looks like a tongue protruding slightly, which, while unusual, doesn't appear to be serious. I don't think that's the official app logo. I'd recommend we monitor this thing closely, as it seems to have a tendency to make things disappear. We're losing him! We're losing him! That's the company logo, not the app. What's the app? The app doesn't have the tongue.

1:02:20It doesn't have the tongue. That's the difference? Yeah. There's no face on it at all. It's just the silhouette. Anyway, we all know what it is. It's ChatGPT's fault. Not surprised. We all said Snapchat. Way to go. Cool. I don't even have Snapchat. I did it one time. Because I'm not a youth. All right, guys. This app, which now I have no idea if it got the icon or the logo. So just good luck. This one is a Revolutionary War era soldier who woke up in the future and is seeing this icon for the first time and is confused and awestruck. Okay. By my musket and my powder horn, what manner of sorcery is this?

1:03:05Tis a red, a red background, red as the British coats we fought against at Lexington. Within this crimson field lies a white By god, is it a white triangle? I believe it is Pointing to the east as if waiting for the sun to rise Good sir, pray tell What technological marvel from your time Does this symbol represent? That's it? That's it A white triangle in a red flag In a red box I thought it was something else I mean, I hope I might I literally have no idea what that is Hey, that's a fife. Sorry. Oh. Fife dog. Fife dog. Actually, I fife and a fluter, the same thing. I don't know why I get it. Buzzer.

1:03:52Ready? Yep, do it. I really wish David got that one wrong. Everyone got it right. Say it. One, two, three. YouTube. YouTube. Wow. Okay, so this is way easier than I thought it would be. this next one I'm going to read as if I am a morning talk show host radio like FM AM radio host WVFRM WVFRM exactly are you guys ready yes upbeat morning radio voice with I couldn't find the right music for this so we're just no it just has to be like slight static AM radio yeah AM radio and that's where all the talk shows are anyway like that No, that's terrible. Okay. The time code. Guys, let's kick it off. Good morning, WVFRM 101.5.

1:04:46Picture a bright coral pink background fresher than your morning Joe. In the center, a white A with attitude. It's one continuous line with style. No breaks or gaps.

1:05:03WVFRM listeners, what app are we talking about? A white, wait. Don't do that. He said a white A? A white A with attitude made of one continuous line. The longer it until they get right. An A? Yes. An A. Alright, flip your boards. Alright, flip your boards. Alright, flip your boards. Alright, flip your boards. Alright. David, you better hurry up, David. Time to flip your boards. three two one flip what did we put oh wow good job Marcus that was pretty good that was Airbnb Airbnb is correct I wrote Apple in cursive alright guys we have one wow you got that quick yeah we have one more can you hit the I literally booked an Airbnb today as soon as you pick as soon as you tell me the color I have like a set of icons in my head okay all right we have one more this is uh as if you are an astronaut radioing home nice from outer space outer inner space i don't know yeah inner space from uh you're about to land on a planet that's so good i can't find these voice changes are amazing.

1:06:20I had an outer space one. We'll do the robot one again. Here we go. No, I like the outer space. No, no, no.

1:06:33Houston, we have a problem. This is Commander speaking from the landing pod. I'm approaching a fascinating celestial body here. It's got this deep blue, cosmic blue surface that reminds me of Earth's oceans from orbit over. This most remarkable feature is, no excuse me, the most remarkable feature is a large white symbol in the center that looks like the letter S but it's curved and flowing like a sound wave. The entire formation pulses with a musical energy. This S, it floats on the blue background. oh god i'm picturing what is it called oh yeah it's uh it it looks like it's already been the answer to a trivia question in this game all right flip them and read oh man i got it wrong what did we get i wrote skype uh i can see why you would say that all right look what i wrote i wrote this One's pretty fun.

1:07:37I started writing app store and I started writing Skype and then I landed on where we can make all of our voices Sound like this. No, just mine over Dang it. I'm gonna need

1:07:50Okay, that's all for that round which means it is time for the audio round Guys no longer need bangers only don't hate me because I have no idea if this one's going to go well or not because we've used so many sounds, so many sounds. There's none left. And so I did some thinking and I realized this audio round, this whole audio round thing, it's not actually about the audio, man. It's not. It's about the friends we made along the way. It's about nostalgia. It's fair. And what better feeling of nostalgia, what better form of nostalgia is what's better can you tell we've been podcasting for almost four hours four or five hours now guys what is better than remembering the feeling of hearing the alarm you used to wake up to in high school and having shivers straight down your spine that's what we're doing today i on xda found a guy who ripped all the system sounds from all the phones nice and put them all up in a google drive and i downloaded the ones that weren't from china and uh because those are the ones you guys might actually know and i'm gonna pretty the china ones are pretty they were really really really good the uh yeah some of them were like huawei ones are so like the huawei ones were amazing yeah anyway guys i'm gonna play you some ringtones some system sounds some alerts and you gotta tell me what phone it was what phone it came from and uh i really wish i could use the phone or what company company company okay oh so we're still writing them yes yeah as an example if I were to play this you would all know that is

1:09:35no idea what that's from wait none of you know what that's from it's I picked that as the obvious one are you serious you guys know what that's from right that's on a phone but on what Sony Ericsson or something what what guys that shipped with the original iPhone and has been on every single iPhone since. But it's not the default. It might be the default. Alarm? That's like, no, it's not. That's like, oh, yeah, Marimba was the default. That is like one of the most iconic iPhone ringtones of them all. Fake to differ. I've heard it before. Now is your chance to tell Marquez Brownlee he's wrong about the iPhone.

1:10:15I think they're going to yell at you. There's some iconic, I don't know if that one's wrong. All right, all right. Well, let's see. Well, then maybe this is audio round is going to fall so flat because none of you have ever heard any of these before. Let's see. You guys know this one?

1:10:30I had this on one of my phones. I haven't heard it, but I could guess. That also sounds like a sidekick or something. Of like the 2000s. So I think the company? I would say, let's say the platform. Can you do it again?

1:10:46So if you say Android, I'm going to assume you mean AOSP as opposed to One UI or TouchWiz or any of these other things. It's definitely not AOSP. Alright, one more time. That's a different one. I don't even remember which one I did. Was it this one? Yeah. Are we guessing this one? Yes. What do we got? Oh, I just... Hey, stop the clock. Well, I said my... What do we got? Motorola. Motorola. I wrote HTC. You're both wrong. Oh, that was an AOSP one. You all got it wrong. Really? Yeah. That's in every Android phone? Yeah, up to a certain point if you look hard enough. All right, what about this one?

1:11:38Oh, I feel that. Oh, man. It sounds like a Volpec song. Yeah.

1:11:46Okay. No clue where it's from, but it sounds cool. Oh, it seems like people are... Ready? Yeah. Yeah. What do you got? I wrote Motorola. Oh, wait. Motorola is... Wrong. I wrote Apple. Apple is wrong. I wrote Sony. All right, this is not going well, you guys. We don't really listen to every great tone. We keep our phones on silent? Yeah, I don't know about you. This is tough. Were you never children? Well, sure. Yeah, but I didn't have a phone. Okay, but if I play this one, you'll all recognize this, right?

1:12:23Holy s***, their phones have been on silent for years. You don't understand. It sounds so bad. I care about other people. All right, well, I'm just going to take you through a bunch of my favorites then. This one's from the LG Wing. This is? Mm-hmm. That's cool. Wow, this fell totally flat. My LG Wing was never a bad one. There's one I can remember within the last 10 years, and that's the one Asus one that sounds like the little mermaid. Like Under the Sea? Yeah. My friend's brother makes all the ringtones for the pixel. Oh That's Samsung every time Samsung yeah, because Samsung is over the horizon Song over and over.

1:13:01Okay, here's a wacky one people hated this sound so much That when you search when you just try to find like insert phone insert This is the camera shutter sound effect insert phone camera set our sound effect. You can't find anyone posting the sound effect by itself It's just people being like how do I turn this off? oh i've heard that that's a android that's an aosp sound that is not an aosp i had that on my android tablet it was a motorola tablet early this is early android this is early this is hollow apple because you're saying there's no chance that's happening it's not early android it's but it is an android based platform play it again i'll give you a hint it's the one people are always wanting us to talk about.

1:13:45Now it makes me want to search the one that I think it is and see what that sounds like. Is this for points? Are we doing this for points? It's worth 35 points. No, you can't do that. It is. 35. Do that to me. I'm playing a sound effect from a different phone. He always wants us to talk about it. Does anyone else have answers? I have an answer. Alright, let's see it. Sony. Sony's correct. That is from the Xperia. Marquez, what did you put? I didn't know what it was. Oh, f***. David runs away with it I've ruined the game I've ruined my precious game I think we gotta do one more section Is there a speed round we could do?

1:14:21Alright, so we're cut into audio rounds None of us know what the hell ringtones are on our phones because you all keep them on silent You're welcome Next one we're doing It's all in a name This was Ellis' idea Where do tech companies get their names from? We're gonna read you the story of how a company got its name and you need to pick what the company is. Okay. This is a buzzer round, so get the buzzers ready. Okay. All right. And everything's worth 20 points? Remember, once you buzz in, you will have, I forget if it's five or 10 seconds, but you got to get that thing out. What?

1:15:01Yo, Marquez, get that thing out. Keep that bang on me. All right. And you stop the question when we buzz, right? Yeah, I will stop reading. Yeah, yeah. Perfect. All right, the first one. This company named itself because it works in fox-like speed. Foxconn. Correct. That was that in the book. 20 points. Oh, I thought that was Firefox. Next. This company is named after its founder, who has the first name of Michael and currently sits at number 11 on... Oh. Marquez. Wait, Jordan. I thought that was... It's not a tech company. Dell. Dell. 20 points for Marquez. I mean, for Marquez. For David. These are only tech companies.

1:15:46I should have thought of that. Yeah, these are all tech companies. Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan. This company's name comes from a specific story in Arabian Nights. The same story where the phrase open sesame comes from. And apparently the founder found that A, it was easy to pronounce all over the world and B, that everyone knew the story. That's why they called it that. I don't know. As we all sit here, blank feast. All right. The founder, Jack Ma. Marquez. Alibaba. There it is. Nice. 20 points for Marquez. That is easy to say. Yeah, see? This company got its name from the game Go and has a similar meaning to when you say check...

1:16:23GoPro. No. So now, David, you cannot say... I can? No, you cannot. Join in. Was that... This is now between Marquez and Andrew. I didn't know that. So I'm going to start over. The company name actually comes from the game Go. It has a similar meaning to when you say check in chess, according to the wiki of terms in the game Go. Its first game, Pong, was released in 19... Atari. Atari. 20 points for Andrew. I'm not old enough. I wasn't either. Wow. You guys are old. The idea for this company initially came about because one of its founders forgot his USB drive at home for his work assignment and university.

1:17:03According to Rewind and Capture.com, this company got its name because it created a virtual space where users could store files in. Dropbox. Dropbox, 20 points. Good guess. Good one. That was good. One of the co-founders named this company by deriving it from the phrase, quote, searchable log of all conversation and knowledge, end quote, replacing the previous codename, Line Feed. That's what the, are you serious? Yeah. He's backernomed his way into this, baby. Can you say it again? Searchable log of all conversation and knowledge. Slack. Slack. 20 points for David. That's cool. Wow. David's running away with this.

1:17:44All right. Original name was Kadabra. Also. Marquez. It's Kadabra. Kadabra. Alakazam. Google. Nope. So now this is between Andrew and David. All right. Bald. Bald. Original name was Cadabra Also shares a name with a world famous river Bald Wait sorry That's easy Bald Don't let him distract you World famous river Come on River Andrew This is all on you I'm gonna keep reading Bald Rivian No Can I buzz now Yeah, this is just free fall. Go. Amazon. Amazon. 20 points. Bald? Why did you say bald? Because of Jeff Bezos. He doesn't know. He's not the CEO. He's not the CEO. It's Jassy. Well, now, yeah.

1:18:43All right. Yeah, let's honor. Yeah. Next question. Founded as Lucky Chemical Industrial Core in English, pronounced similar to Lucky, with a sister company called Gold Star that produced plastics. Eventually. Samsung? Nope. Who was that? Oh, that was just the wrong. Okay. Eventually, the two merged into Lucky Gold Star. LG. LG, 20 points. Why am I dumb? Next. The company name of blank was created by combining two words of sonis and sunny. The word sonis in Latin represents words like sound and son. Sonos. No. Close. I was thinking that too, actually. It's sonis. Oh, sonis. Okay. The word sonus in Latin represents words like sound and sonic.

1:19:34The other word sunny means little sun. Used in combination, blank is supposed to represent a very small group of young people who have the energy and passion towards unlimited creations and innovative ideas. That comes from their corporate history website. I couldn't even begin. Wow. Say again. Zarushi. What? GE? Samsung? No. Sony so I was gonna reread it just just Sonis and Sonny last one worth what am I feeling let me check the score real quick checks notes this is so bull of s**t man last question for 50 points 50 that's what my scorekeeper told me didn't put it 50 points 50 points oh gosh original name of this company was quote legend end quote and was founded in Beijing in 1984 but in the states there were already trademarks for legend so they've rebranded to New Legend or as we know them blank the lay coming from legend and the blank coming from Latin The lay coming away that should have been a hint

1:20:52Chinese the Latin word was new new legend new legend new legend first part lay second part blank lay no oh is it that what this is still a buzz around so if anyone wants to trust their buzzers that was Andrew correct didn't you say that Yeah, I was 50 points to Andrew. That's the only thing that makes sense. Le Novo? I wasn't sure if Novo was actually... Le Novo. Latin. Legend. Gentlemen, thank you for playing a fantastic game. Unfortunately, we are all out of questions, all out of energy. I'm hungry. I'm sweaty. I'm tired. David has to get on a flight, which means we can finally announce our winners.

1:21:48In third place with 268 points. In third? In third place with 208 points, the most ever scored in a game of Waveform Trivia Extravaganza. We have Andrew Manganielli. Topping him with the most points ever scored in a Waveform Trivia Extravaganza. In second place, Big Hoss himself, the man of the hour. Marquez Brownlee with 269 points. Feeding out Andrew by one point. I mean, I took his answer, so wow. Whoa. Which means. but now oh my god for his first is it really happening there's actually someone remote playing and they beat you oh shoot I ran out of music just turn the robot voice back on here we go David Imbil

1:22:44yeah

1:22:52Thank you. Wait, how many points do I have? Oh, that's taken right from my desk. Oh, you didn't even print a new one? No, it's like the Stanley Cup. It still says shut up, Ellis, on it. Yeah, that's nice because I still need to shut up. How many points do I get? You got 357 points. Correct me if I'm right. that's the most ever score it is. That is the most ever making David the Wayne Gretzky of Podman's cup holders. Does that make sense? Did he do that? Is that the hockey guy, right? I'm asking Andrew. Did I do that right? The most points ever? I don't know. David, you're the Dave Gretzky. The Dave Emetsky.

1:23:34Can I have a speech? Sure. A few words, David. It might have taken me four seasons, just like the hotel Jane but I knew that eventually this tower would crumble for the rest of them and something would rise from the ashes. I'm waiting for someone in the comments to be like you calculated wrong. Oh they will. But you know we have to say to that. Thanks. Too bad. Thanks for coming to this Trivia Extra again though we will see you next time. I am your host Ellis. This has been Adam, Alex, David, Andrew Marquez. Wave over produced by Adam Alita and Ellis Rovan. And this time, Alex Wolfe is also behind the board.

1:24:15We'll see you. Oh, Vain Sealed did some stuff in Vox Media Podcast Network. We'll see you next time. Can you play the robot voice again?