Transcript of “With the Quiz on Top”
You’re listening to A Way with Words, the show about language and how we use it.
I’m Martha Barnette.
And I’m Grant Barrett, and we’re joined on the line by our quiz guide, John Chaneski.
Hi, Grant. Hi, Martha.
Hi, Brian. What’s up?
What’s happening in the quiz world there?
We’re going to do a sort of a combination, I call combining quiz today. I’m going to give you two clues together, and you’ll give me a single phrase or an idiom answer.
Now, these will take the form blank with the blank. For example, if I said, a person who behaves toward another in a way that shows romantic interest and a thought you have about how to do something, that would clue what with the what?
Flirt with the thought?
No, I don’t know.
Flirt with the idea.
Flirt with the idea.
Yes, flirt with the idea.
Perfect.
Oh, okay.
Great.
I like this.
So there’s two ways for me to not get the answer.
Nice.
Exactly.
As we say in the puzzle world, there’s also two ways in.
Oh, sure.
I see.
Here are some more.
Here we go.
Okay.
Waltzing and tangoing and Betelgeuse and Vega.
Dancing with the Stars.
Yes.
Oh, very good.
Dancing with the Stars.
Okay.
No Longer Present and Zephyr and Sirocco.
Gone with the Wind.
Yes.
Gone with the Wind.
Nice.
Sirocco.
One each now.
That’s good.
Straw.
Falls Unconscious and Pike and Mackerel.
Sleeps with the Fishes.
Sleeps with the Fishes.
Oh, very good.
Okay.
Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
It’s a message.
Blank with a blank.
Leave a place and continuous movement of liquid.
Go with the flow.
Go with the flow.
Go with the flow.
Yes, very nice.
Obtain and television broadcast.
Get the picture.
No.
Remember with the…
Oh, I see.
This is hard.
Obtain something with…
Obtain and television broadcast.
On with the show.
No, you had the first one right.
Get with the show.
Get with the program.
Get with the program.
Get with the program.
All right.
Yes, nicely done.
Celebrity questions and answers and supernatural bloodsucker.
Stars with the chupacabra.
No.
Oh, interview with the vampire.
Interview with the vampire.
Very nice.
I actually like this one.
It sounds very sweet.
A Lord’s Wife and Source of Light.
Lady with the sun?
Lady with the star?
Lady with the light bulb?
Lady with the…
With the blue dress on.
Lady with the lamp.
Yes, lady with the lamp.
Gosh.
Very nice.
Okay.
Male person and blueprints.
Man with the plan.
Nice.
Man with the plan, yes.
Here’s the last one.
Turn over and over and hit with the fists.
Roll with the punches.
Roll with the punches, yes.
Very good.
Nice work, you guys.
John, you’re the host with the most.
Oh, that’s what I wanted to hear.
Thank you so much.
Which means you have parasites, and we’ll get those off after the show.
Thanks, John.
All right, call the exterminator.
Bye-bye.
Thanks, guys.
Bye.
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