Dec. 9, 2024
Carl Sagan Trivia
Journey Joe Mitchell explores the cosmos through the life of this legendary scientist. From his accidental introduction to astronomy through a mistaken book purchase to his secret love message traveling through space, this episode reveals the human...
Journey Joe Mitchell explores the cosmos through the life of this legendary scientist. From his accidental introduction to astronomy through a mistaken book purchase to his secret love message traveling through space, this episode reveals the human side of science's greatest communicator. Learn about his unique connection with Johnny Carson and discover how a dodo bird helped launch the digital library movement.
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Calogus Shark Media, Greeting's Cosmos Explorers. I'm journey Joe Mitchell
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and welcome to an astronomical edition of five daily trivia questions.
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Our focus today is Carl Sagan. Question one, What childhood
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book inspired Sagan to become an astronomer after his parents
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accidentally bought him the wrong science fiction novel? Question two?
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Which famous message did Sagan encode in The Voyager Golden
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Record by secretly including his wife's brain waves? Question three?
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What popular snack food company contacted Sagan in nineteen eighty
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after he repeatedly used billions and billions in Cosmos? Question four?
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What did Johnny Carson give Sagan before every Tonight Show
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appearance that became a running joke between them? Question five?
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Which extinct animal did Sagan help bring into public attention
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by featuring it in the first episode of Cosmos. We'll
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be right back with these cosmic answers after this break.
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Welcome back, trivia fans, Let's reveal today's answers. Question one
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asked what childhood book inspired Sagan to become an astronomer
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after his parents accidentally bought him the wrong science fiction novel.
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Answer his parents bought him a Princess of Mars instead
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of the War of the Worlds, leading him to discover
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astronomy through Edgar Rice Burrough's descriptions of Mars. He kept
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that copy his entire life and displayed it in his
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Cornell office. Question two asked which famous message did Sagan
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encode in the Voyager Golden Record by secretly including his
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wife's brainwaves. Answer. He included and Druian's brain patterns while
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thinking about their love story as part of the record's
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brainwave recordings. The love message travels through space as part
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of humanity's greeting to the Cosmos. Question three asked what
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popular snack food company contacted Sagan in nineteen eighty after
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he repeatedly used billions and billions in Cosmos. Answer Pepperidge
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Farm offered to create billions and billions cookies with star shapes,
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but Sagan declined, saying he never actually used that exact phrase.
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Johnny Carson had popularized the phrase while impersonating him. Question
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four asked what did Johnny Carson give Sagan before every
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Tonight Show appearance that became a running joke between them. Answer.
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Carson gave him a mock apple pie recipe. Joking that
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if Sagan wanted to make an apple pie from scratch,
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he'd first need to create the universe. This reference Sagan's
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famous quote about needing to invent the universe to make
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an apple pie from scratch. Question five asked which extinct
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animal did Sagan help bring into public attention by featuring
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it in the first episode of Cosmos. Answer the Library
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of Alexandria's last Dodo bird specimen, using it to explain
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how knowledge can be lost forever if not preserved. This
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segment helped spark modern digital library preservation efforts. That concludes
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today's five daily Trivia questions. I'm Journey Joe Mitchell, and
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today's questions were crafted with the help of AI technology.
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