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5 min read“Being pressured to do scary things makes me feel included,” says Chelsey Weber-Smith early in this lightning round episode of You’re Wrong About. It’s a fitting motto for a game where the stakes involve high-fiving with gunpowder poppers between your fingers, riding a roller coaster, or navigating a corn maze—depending on how many points you score. Host Sarah Marshall quizzes Weber-Smith on twenty questions drawn from the show’s eight-year archive, covering everything from the McDonald’s hot coffee case to the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon. The episode is part trivia contest, part meta-commentary on how easily historical facts get distorted, and part celebration of the maligned women who populate so many of the show’s episodes.
The quiz as a mechanism for exploring misinformation
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Warm-Up Banter and Episode Setup** - Sarah and Chelsey trade jokes about gnats in wine, then discuss Ursula K. Le Guin’s story "The Author of the Acacia Seeds" and its ant-perspective poetry.
- 2 (07:06) **Scoring Stakes and First Question** - The two agree on prize tiers: 15-20 correct answers earns a firecracker high-five, 5-15 a roller coaster ride, and 0-5 a corn maze trip.
- 3 (12:42) **Figure Skating and the 1994 Olympics** - Sarah asks who won gold in ladies figure skating at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics.
- 4 (17:00) **Trials of the Century** - Sarah asks Chelsey to name three trials that have been called "the trial of the century."
- 5 (22:02) **Rosemary's Baby and the Faustian Deal** - Sarah asks why Rosemary's husband Guy makes a deal with the Satanists in the novel and film.
- 6 (27:46) **Henry VIII's Executed Wives** - Sarah asks how many of Henry VIII's six wives were executed.
- 7 (30:20) **Women in the Boston Marathon** - Sarah asks the first year a woman officially competed in the Boston Marathon.
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Show Notes
How many maligned women can you name in 30 seconds? For this episode, Sarah gives Chelsey Weber-Smith of American Hysteria a lightning round pop quiz on You’re Wrong About topics over the years with stakes so high that you’ll have to hear them to believe them. Digressions include an evil preteen softball team, the alternative pronunciation of pasta, horror movie publicity stunts, and at what point an infant becomes a baby.
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