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5 min readMeatEater Trivia CCXXXVI: Perfect Games, Record Corrections, and the Loneliness of Solo Hunting
This episode of MeatEater Trivia delivers its usual blend of competition and outdoor knowledge, but it opens with a genuinely thoughtful discussion about the emotional challenges of solo hunting before diving into ten rounds of questions spanning hunting, fishing, conservation, woodsmanship, and cooking. The throughline is the tension between hunting as a solitary pursuit and hunting as a shared experience—a theme that emerges first in the mailbag segment and then echoes through the trivia itself, where collective knowledge (and the lack of it) becomes part of the game.
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Hunter
The episode's most substantive segment comes before the trivia even begins. A listener named Levi from Fort Collins writes in with a confession: he picked up archery elk hunting two years ago without a sportsman's background, and while he can handle a few days alone, he finds himself wishing for company during the long stretches of nothing that define an elk hunt. "The successes and failures, the stories around the campfire, and even the whole lot of nothing that happens on an elk hunt"—all of it feels incomplete without someone to share it with.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (03:02) **Game Kickoff & Mailbag: Solo Hunting Loneliness** - Spencer introduces the trivia crew and reads a listener question from Levi about the loneliness of solo elk hunting.
- 2 (07:42) **Housekeeping: White-Tail Week & Bass Record Correction** - Spencer announces the White-Tail Week giveaway and corrects a controversial trivia answer from a previous episode.
- 3 (11:45) **Round 1: Hunting - Turkey Population** - Multiple choice: which state has the highest wild turkey population among Virginia, Oklahoma, Idaho, and Maine.
- 4 (13:53) **Round 2: Fishing - Movie Trivia (Godfather II)** - A listener question asks which 1974 Oscar-winning sequel features Michael having Fredo executed while fishing on Lake Tahoe.
- 5 (17:12) **Round 3: Wildlife - State Amphibian** - The blank salamander, named after its stripes, is the state amphibian of Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, and Wyoming.
- 6 (21:08) **Round 4: Woodsmanship - Washboard Roads** - A nine-letter word for a long stretch of unmaintained dirt road corrugated by closely spaced ripples.
- 7 (23:55) **Round 5: Conservation - Most National Forests** - Which state is home to the most national forests, including Lassen and Mendocino National Forests?
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Show Notes
Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Laura Mascari, Brianna Stroebe, and Dane Williams.
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