Ladies, gentlemen and friends beyond the binary Welcome to Sideshow Quiz Show The only quiz show where I can't fit into my sport coat anymore.

I'm your host, Michaela Rhonda.

And on my left, we have Hank Green, who is officially competing in his 50th.

Well, so do you know, has anyone kept records of how well I've done?

Because I feel like not great in this corner.

We have Alexa Billow, one of our script editors.

If you ever find a reference to D and D or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and one of her episodes, it was probably Alexa.

Thanks for that.

Today, our contestants were fighting to win some awesome prize is not for themselves, but for two of our patri on patrons.

Hank, you're competing for Dennis Dre.

Hello, Dennis.

Alexa, you're playing for Therese Larson.

Stephan, show our contestants what they could go home with today.

Price on presume Hi.

And welcome to the prize own two recent.

Dennis, we're about to find out which of you is the best.

Based on the random answers of our contestants.

Now both of you will be taking home autograph cards from the final round today, and you'll also both be getting an artisanal hand pressed pin.

And if your contestant walks away with the most green, you'll be taking home the I once I show Quiz Show Pin.

But if your contestant manages to walk away with the least number of unmarked sideshow currency, well, you will be crowned the ultimate champion of losing with the I lost Syesha quiz show.

Penn, good luck to you both and go, Mom, bats.

All right, each of you start with 1000 points.

If you answer a question correctly, that number will go up.

If you answer incorrectly, it will go down in true Syesha Quiz Show fashion.

Our first category is about strange animals, because, honestly, there really is no shortage of them.

And they're hilarious.

So good WAM Bats are famous for their cube shaped poops, but they also have another special but related adaptation course.

So why else are there big, fluffy butts?

So useful is it because they can blend in perfectly with the landscape, their butts can.

They can be used to smash the skulls of predators.

Their butts.

Can they excrete a pheromone that attracts prey?

That's or they excrete a substance that we use in vanilla flavoring.

Oh, well, see, I know, I know.

I've heard some of those facts about other animals.

Um, but I'm gonna say that they can secrete a chemical that attracts that weight.

WAM, bats, ard, wombats, eat animals.

I think See the extreme excrete of substance that tracks prey.

I gotta wrong, you guys incorrect brick, Get to guess you have, I guess, to push the button for yes, B B.

That is a bit of the people with their butts.

I not heard that, but I had thought that they could, like, use their butts as, like, a barrier when they go into their burrows because they're super hard.

Do they have hard butts?

You might not be able to tell just from looking at them, but Alexa is right.

Want bat butts are hard.

They're made of four separate bony plates and are covered in layers of fat skin and cartilage that makes them almost rock solid and perfect for both defense and offense.

If a wombat is attacked, it can dive into its burrow and essentially use its butt to plug up the entrance.

And it uses a tiny as a shield against whatever animal was trying to get inside.

But some research also suggests that warm bats can attack with their butts to If a predator really won't leave them alone, they can use their rumps to smash their enemies against the roofs of their burrows, apparently with enough force to fracture their sculls.

It just goes to show that no matter how cute they look, you should never mess with a warm bat.

Okay, Our next question is special because it's an audio question.

Okay, animals make some weird noises.

Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, foul.

And sometimes the weirdest sounds come from creatures you wouldn't expect.

Take this noise.

Okay.

Oh, that's a 1956 pickup truck.

Or so it sounds like a pig having a really bad day.

You know what?

I'm like a garbage disposal.

Yeah, make for a pretty bad day.

Okay, so what animal made that sound?

Was it a pig?

Definitely not a turtle koala or a seal.

Oh, you go first this time because the safe money was on some kind of bird you could've got all except with only one of those have been a bird, I guess the other marsupial koala.

I should have gone nowhere.

So feel days.

That's a wall of noise.

No one has told me.

Look, koalas make some ridiculous noises.

That clip was of a male bellowing and trying to attract a mate I know very attractive.

But here's the weird thing.

These animals totally shouldn't be able to make that noise.

In 2013 scientists published a paper in current biology pointing out that there's no way koalas should be able to produce that kind of Belo.

If they had typical anatomy, their bodies would just be too small to make such a deep noise.

Then again, as the researchers discovered, koalas don't have typical anatomy.

Instead, they have a unique kind of vocal fold.

These animals are able to pull on and elongate thes folds, and that allows them to make those deep, creepy noises seriously.

They sound like something out of a horror movie.

Okay, Alexa, you've got 1400 points.

Hank, your 900.

It's time for Round two.

Why don't write the episodes?

This one is a lightning round about convergent evolution.

Convergent evolution is we're a trait or feature evolves multiple times in unrelated species.

So for this round you'll have to quit the guest.

How many times scientists think a specific trade evolved?

Oh wow, that's gonna be hard.

How many times do scientists think eyes of some kind O evolved less than 5 15 30 or more than 40?

I'm gonna go with more than 40 like they're the most useful thing.

That is great, considering that soft tissues like eyes don't false allies.

Well, it's hard to say exactly how many times the ability to see with some sort of I or I spot has evolved.

But according to a 1992 paper, visual systems have shown up somewhere between 40 and 65 times, and that number could even be much higher.

One thing is clear.

There is a huge variety in eyes throughout the animal kingdom.

You have simple see star eyes, octopus eyes with their camera like shapes, insect eyes with dozens of lenses and, of course, human eyes.

And as we keep learning more about ancient animals, there's no telling what will find roughly how many times this I just think the appendix evolved?

01 5 30 or 70 Less than zero.

There is no appendix.

It's a conspiracy.

Theo can have negative appendices.

That sounds exactly what the government wants you to believe.

What is the answer to?

She has to hit the What is the answer to the question.

Five.

What were the things again?

Your choices air now 1 30 or 70 there's no where.

70.

A different appendix has evolved one.

Well, you know, we're here in the failed basement.

Together, it's see a whopping 30 times, which seems like a lot for an organ that doesn't do anything.

This number came from a 2013 study, which suggested that appendixes evolved at least 32 times.

The researchers got their results by examining more than 360 species of mammal, and figuring out where appendixes popped up in their history is.

Strangely, though, this study didn't actually give us any insight into what the appendix does, because they found no relationship between having an appendix and things like diet or social factors.

The most, the authors could say was that the appendix does appear to have some benefit, but it doesn't evolve in response to social or dietary cues.

How many times do scientists think flight has Evo one more than that?

7 15?

Interesting.

It has to be, at least why has to be.

At least I couldn't.

I could name for the top of my head.

Yeah, it has to be at least seven for That is great, I thought so far.

A scientists Comptel flight evolved separately in four groups birds, bats, insects and taras.

Ours, like pterodactyls.

Considering how complicated flight is, that's pretty impressive.

But what's also interesting is that biologists have yet to figure out exactly why flight evolved.

Some of that is because flight is mainly a behavioral trait.

So even if we can see things like wings or bone structure in the fossil record, we can't figure out what made animals take to the skies.

Scientists hypothesize that flight could have been a way to avoid predators or a way to move around more easily.

But at this point, those ideas are all just hypotheses.

It's hard to know if we'll ever know for sure.

Okay, that concludes the end of our lightning round 1515 109 100.

I've gone nowhere now for the final round.

This one is called meanwhile, in the world of physics, because nothing levels the competition quite like a round of weird stuff in physics, it's possible to super cool water.

In other words, you can lower water passed its freezing point, but it won't turn into ice unless you disturb it.

We actually didn't experiment episode on this with a bottle of water and a freezer a few years ago.

But as it turns out, you can learn a lot more from this kind of experiment, because recently scientists found out that super cooled water could also help us find evidence of what invisible dark matter.

Oh, the dark energy that expands the universe.

Gravitas, ons, particles that carry the force of gravity, also mysterious or gravitational waves.

I'm gonna go with gravitational waves just because those other things are all well, I was wrong.

Be traces of dark matter, dark energy, gravity, dark energy that expands the universal gravitational waves.

I mean, no, he chose that when gravitas is your other dark matter.

No shot in the dark.

A.

Strangely enough, it's dark matter To understand why this makes any sense, it helps to know a little bit about why water freezes.

Normally, you'd think that any water below zero degrees Celsius would turn to solid ice.

But that's not actually true because temperature alone isn't enough to make water freeze.

You need something called a nuclear nation site to this is the very first spot where water molecules line up to form ice crystals, and it's sort of catalyze is the whole freezing process.

Usually a nuclear nation site is something like a mineral of piece of dirt or some other impurity.

So if your water doesn't have any impurities, it doesn't always freeze.

At zero degrees, you could have a bunch of super cooled water just sitting there, and if you don't shake it or disrupt it somehow, it won't do anything.

Knowing this can allow you to perform some pretty cool party tricks.

But in 2019 1 scientist realized it could also help us understand some big questions about the universe.

They discovered that hitting supercooled water with some neutrons the part of an atom with no electric charge was enough to trigger the freezing process.

And that led to an even bigger realization.

Scientists think that something called dark matter might behave at least a little lake neutrons.

Dark matter is the invisible stuff that makes up a good part of the universe, and scientists have been trying to understand it for years.

So if dark matter really does act like neutrons, maybe it could trigger supercooled water to freeze to.

And if we did enough experiments with it, well, maybe we'd be one step closer to understanding what this mysterious stuff is.

Okay, it's time for the last question, which means it's time to place your bets.

You can wager any or all of your points 1700 points, 800 points.

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All right, back to the quiz show.

Welcome back, everybody ready?

Here we go.

Once you start studying tiny particles, you'll realize that the quantum world makes basically no sense.

Or at least it doesn't follow the rules that were used to.

So the question is, which of these things is not predicted toe happen on a quantum scale?

No, not predicted to happen on a quantum scale.

Time sort of runs in reverse particles.

Teleport particles pop in and out of existence.

Particles can spontaneously duplicate themselves for my car.

Okay, Okay.

I'm ready.

I'm just making dots.

Okay.

Ready?

Yeah.

Reveal your answers.

We both went with D.