AI Summary
5 min read“I've never been hunting.”
That was Brianna, the executive assistant to Steven Rinella, introducing herself on her first-ever appearance on MeatEater Trivia. She was there to play a 10-round quiz show covering hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking — categories she herself rated as “middle of the ground” or “strength” aside from hunting, which she’d never done. By the end of the episode, she had tied for second place, losing only to Mark Kenyon, who defended his title from the previous game.
The episode is a light competition, but it also functions as a teaching vehicle. Through questions, corrections, and tangents, the crew surfaces real knowledge about wildlife populations, conservation history, gear chemistry, and outdoor woodsmanship. The throughline is that trivia is a vehicle for passing along the kind of field knowledge that hunters and anglers accumulate over time — not just facts, but context.
Elk populations and state-level surprises
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:42) **Introductions & Mailbag Advice** - Host Spencer Newarth welcomes the crew and a first-time player, then answers a listener's question about backpacking advice for a first backcountry hunt.
- 2 (08:03) **Duck Stamp Price Correction** - The crew clarifies a previous trivia answer about the cost of a federal duck stamp, explaining why listeners saw higher prices.
- 3 (09:37) **Game Begins: Round 1 (Hunting)** - The first trivia question asks which state has the most elk among Nevada, Kentucky, New Mexico, and Oregon.
- 4 (12:10) **Round 2 (Conservation)** - A listener-submitted question asks which Italian stadium's construction contributed to animal extinctions across Europe and Africa.
- 5 (15:09) **Round 3 (Fishing)** - The crew must complete the acronym "SUP" as used by Fly Fisherman magazine for a pure form of fly fishing from a floating craft.
- 6 (17:34) **Round 4 (Woodsmanship)** - A 12-letter word defined as "a person who draws or produces maps" is the question.
- 7 (19:39) **Round 5 (Cooking)** - The crew defines the term for the temperature at which cooking oil stops shimmering and begins producing visible fumes.
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Show Notes
Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Janis Putelis, Mark Kenyon, Max Barta, Jon Montressor, Logan Dove, and Brianna Stroebe.
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