SciShow Quiz Show: We Eat Some Weird Stuff (Hank vs. Mike Falzone)

[Music] ladies and gentlemen and non-binary friends welcome to scishow quiz show the only quiz show fueled by the tears of climate change deniers I'm your host Michael Aranda and today on the show we have founder of the famed YouTube channel Obama's idiots Hank green oh no don't why do people know things and in this corner weighing in at over 5 feet 9 inches L'Oreal hair model Mike Falzone and thank you so much thank you so much each of our contestants will be competing on behalf of patreon patrons Hank today you're up for Kiera Fae hi Kiera Mike you're playing for Mario Choi okay our contestants start out with 10,000 scishow bucks answer a question correctly win 200 points answer a question incorrectly lose a hundred points I'm already so confused is this the earliest anyone's ever drink it doesn't get better oh yeah I think points and scishow bucks for the same whoever has the most coins wins stuff Stefan show our contestants what they could go home with today hello howdy how's it going welcome to the prize situation room where I bring to you the latest and greatest in scishow prize technology Kiera and Mario you're both gonna get some signed cards from the final round of the show but the winner will receive the I won scishow quiz show pin and the most secret is swag we have to offer and the loser of the show will be consoled with the ultra special super rare 24-karat I lost scishow quiz show proned truly the prize to end all prizes so that's all we've got for you today good luck contestants and back to you question 1 our first round is about animals down under now specifically all those weird critters that live in Australia because really there's no shortage of them every now and again in Tasmania which is a small island just south of Melbourne crop circles will turn up in fields of poppy plants but after some careful sleuthing farmers figured out it definitely wasn't aliens or even mischievious people oh whoa what was creating those crop circles was it wombats having an allergic reaction intoxicated Wallabies rings of poisonous spider nests or flocks of hungry kookaburras well I should always let people yes good job go first - thank you I'll start winning first the intoxicated one that is correct thank you so much I'm gonna go I'm never doing this again that's the smartest thing Tasmania has acres and acres of poppy fields in fact they produce over half of the world's legal opium poppies before you get any ideas they're all grown for medicinal reasons their seeds are often turned into painkillers used in hospitals all around the world Tasmania also has a large population of Wallabies marsupials that look a bit like kangaroos they're herbivores that enjoy munching on plants and other leafy things sometimes when a wallaby wanders into a poppy field it'll make a snack out of the plants and that's where everything goes haywire opium poppies contain all sorts of chemicals like morphine and codeine which besides being powerful painkillers are known to cause states of euphoria in humans and well no one has done proper experiments on this yet it's safe to say that at least some of those effects also apply to Wallabies as what actual government official put it the animals become quote high as a kite and start hopping around in circles until they collapse so Wallabies are fine after a while but you might not be able to say the same for the fields question - meanwhile on the mainland biologists are studying a lizard near the coast called the yellow-bellied three-toed skink it's actually kind of cute like many lizards these coastal skinks lay eggs to reproduce Comex cob and [Laughter] we'll add it up please sorry Cole says King their eggs are so small and exposed that they're pretty vulnerable to predators but scientists have also found populations of the same lizard up in the mountains and they've noticed that the mountain skanks have special adaptations to keep their babies safe why do you keep laughing that stinks is obviously a full good yeah you guys heard of this Beach yeah it's beautiful down here so how do the mountain skanks keep their babies safe do they build camouflage shelters for their eggs out of tree bark only lay one egg at a time give birth to live young instead of eggs or carry their eggs in their mouths until they're ready to hatch let Mike do his thing yeah you mean when the mouth one what I was gonna say that is incorrect [Laughter] that is also incorrect the answer is C they give birth to live young with yellow bellied three-toed skinks biologists are sort of watching evolution in action many reptiles give birth to live young but these skinks are only one of three species scientists have seen reproduce both ways so by observing different populations of these lizards all across Australia researchers can piece together exactly how they transition from laying eggs to live births each of these methods has its own advantages and drawbacks which can help out skinks depending on where they live on the coast laying eggs is more convenient because the temperature is warmer and it's less of a strain on the mother lizard but those eggs are also more exposed to predators meanwhile up in the colder mountains it's safer for the babies to be kept inside their mother's longer to avoid the extreme weather and as a bonus these tiny lizards can scurry away from predators only 36 hours after they're born birthing live young isn't necessarily the better of the two options overall it's just different and it's more helpful for the skinks who live in colder climates this discovery is also showing scientists that switching from one method of reproduction to the other may not be as complicated as we'd thought at least not for skinks okay our second category is about our unexpected effects on the environment we all know that humans are not great at taking care of the planet sure but sometimes we do well-meaning things with unintended effects right like corn dogs starting in the 1990s a number of vultures in India began to rapidly decline by 2000 three species were even considered endangered one type called the Indian white-rumped vulture actually lost the Indian white-rumped vulture actually lost 99.9 percent of its population which is nothing to shake a tailfeather at this population decline was definitely caused by humans but it didn't happen because of deforestation hunting or any of the other normal ways that we wreak havoc instead this so-called Indian vulture crisis had to do with our effects on cows so the question is what caused the Indian vulture crisis a human-induced plague killed 40 percent of india's cattle we bred cows to get smaller we gave the cattle medicine that's poisonous to vultures or we started raising the cows indoors is the medicine one that is correct of course ding-ding-ding the old medicine answer I'm not gonna say it's rape I think it was and that is an answer what's the next in the 1990s a drug called diclofenac was introduced to cattle in India to help treat inflammation the drug is totally fine for the cows but it turned out to be highly poisonous to vultures who fur cultural and religious reasons are the main cow consumers in India diclofenac causes kidney failure in the vultures which leads to build up of a uric acid that acid accumulates in their blood and organ and eventually crystallizes in a condition called visceral gout it's not pretty to protect the vultures diclofenac was banned in 2006 and the rate of vulture deaths has been steadily declining ever since thankfully not all of our effects on the environment are as heartbreaking as that sometimes they're just accidentally funny or surprising for example take stray dogs in Moscow I'm sad already during the era of the Soviet Union these strays were barely tolerated they'd often be euthanized turned into clothing or used for scientific experiment supposed to be silly but when the Soviet Union collapsed so did the distaste for dogs today there's only one stray dog for every 300 people in Moscow that's a great ratio over the years these animals have even learned a special skill to make the most of life in a big city what is it did they learn to ride the subway navigate by following bus routes climb apartment fire escapes or steal paper money for food Oh fire escape 1 I'm sorry that is incorrect why because it's faulty you don't explain why you never sure maybe one of them did great but it turns green when you're right I'm gonna go with based on money that is also in but that I'm afraid good I don't even like the other two yeah that they learn how to ride the subway by getting onto the subway hey come here and then they listened and that was the big well no those are different one has to tell them to do it they do it all steal money for the alright entertainment scientists estimate that there are at least thirty thousand dogs in the city of Moscow and at least some of them maybe a few dozen or so have learned to navigate the subway honestly it's probably a good thing they haven't all learned how there wouldn't be room for the humans one ecologist has suggested that these dogs recognize their stops based on the specific sounds and smells of each platform or even by hearing the name of the route they want to take a handful of dogs are even considered commuters and seem to deliberately take trains to food and people filled areas where they can grab a snack as far as scientists can tell this doesn't necessarily mean the Moscow dogs have evolved any sort of special adaptation they're just smart dogs that happen to have figured out a useful trick this phenomenon has been observed in other cities around the world too although it's definitely most famous and probably most common in Moscow and now for our final round but not the final question yet the confused is called we eat some weird stuff they might seem like a normal part of a balanced diet but chicken eggs are actually pretty weird they come in all kinds of colors different sizes and sometimes shapes and somehow they contain almost everything you need for a baby chicken okay not all eggs are created equal however sometimes you'll crack one open only to find that it has two yolks instead of one huh which is a bonus if you're making an omelet I guess but it's also possible to have double shelled eggs I have this happen to me if you crack one of these you'll find a whole separate egg inside complete with its own shell yolk and egg white I think the chick the chick and I know yeah giving giving birth after constructing another shell around itself Oh giving birth yet to a rock essentially yeah it was just like a double size and it's just like we hope the best for the chickens sure so what happens inside a chicken to make these rare shelled eggs the chicken has a gene mutation that codes for double shelled eggs the egg has a protein inside it well is that why the egg has a protein mutation that causes another egg to grow inside of it or potential eggs get stuck together in the chickens ovary or two eggs merge together on their way out of the chicken the gene mutation one unfortunately that is incorrect yeah it just keeps turning around I mean so my understanding the closest one of the mayans are saying how this works is the fourth one I'm merging together that is correctly normally when a chicken lays an egg it travels down a tube called a nova duct and then pops out at the end of the bird but sometimes a weird series of contractions can cause a partially developed egg one that already has at least some of its shell to stop in the middle of the oviduct then it travels backwards back to the top of the tube except by that point the chicken is already getting ready to push out another egg when that new egg enters the oviduct it runs into the partially developed egg that's just hanging out there and with nowhere else to go that egg has no choice but to envelop the other one ultimately this egg inside an egg comes out the end of the chicken and someone somewhere gets a special surprise with their breakfast okay we've arrived at our final question which is one of these things where you can bet any or all of your points on your answer to the next question sorry Mario you have nine thousand nine hundred and two coins Hank you have ten thousand two hundred scishow bucks wow that's that's more than usual like I say forgiveness an extra like we would be generous nine thousand I can tell you that this next question is about milk with that in mind place your bets we're going to go to commercial break or not because sometimes it doesn't work okay so these days people have all kinds of milk preferences about what type they like best I was gonna bring that up as soon as I walked in here why do we need so many kinds of milk there's too many choices I mean why life I don't know somebody just buy my things for me back in the 1930s skim milk or the kind with most of the fat skimmed off the top was actually considered a waste product many factories dumped their leftover skim milk straight into local rivers my goodness those poor cows we worked so hard but those well fed fish such healthy bones for durable fish then someone came up with a better and more eco-friendly idea they started taking casein a common milk protein and used it for something else was it they turned the protein into fertilizer they spun the proteins into fabric did they feed the casein to the cows to make them extra strong ah or did they melt the casein into bricks wait what do you call a melting more no read it again no the casein into brick okay now that makes more sense you guys ready yeah sure show your answers feed it to the cows man the thing about into the cows you are actually both incorrect oh that's terrible news that means I lose oh no Mario cuz I bet all my points but you didn't yes oh we have ourselves a situation the situation is that you're a winner green this is great man do I get to am I the new Hank no yes you have inherited the entire complexly this is brood empire congratulations somebody tell Missoula they have one Italian person so Mario yes on behalf of Mario you've won scishow quiz show that's thank you I just felt apparently really confident and I shouldn't have was it that questions or was it the opponent the answer is B they turned the casein into fabric today casein is used for all kinds of things including protein supplements but back in the 1930s one of the first alternate uses for it was fabric the protein was collected from all that leftover skim milk then dissolved in a chemical like formaldehyde until it became thick and viscous after that it was processed through a series of machines that turned it into a fiber that could be used for fabric casein fabric was used in everything from clothing to car upholstery it might sound a little weird but it's not the most ridiculous idea wool is also a protein although it's mixed in with a few fatty lipids unfortunately casein wasn't as durable as real wool and it also tended to smell a lot like sour milk after a while so by the late 1940s people were kind of over it can't imagine why still casein fabric might be getting a second life in 2011 a German clothing company started making clothing almost entirely out of KC thankfully though chemistry has advanced to the point the fabric doesn't have that sour smell anymore I'm looking forward to learning more about that thank you for watching scishow quiz show thanks to all of our patrons on patreon if you'd like to support the show and you want a chance to be represented on our next quiz show you can go over to patreon.com/scishow and check out more of Mike you can find his YouTube channel at youtube.com slash Mike Falzone well have their glitter on your face I have no idea probably cuz I hugged you I don't you know most Peter is made of milk [Music]

Channel: SciShow

Views: 126,783

Rating: 4.8147383 out of 5

Keywords: SciShow, science, Hank, Green, education, learn, SciShow Quiz Show: We Eat Some Weird Stuff (Hank vs. Mike Falzone), michael aranda, mike falzone, kiera faye, mario choi, quiz show, trivia, australia, wallaby, poppy, three-toed skink, eggs, moscow, stray dog, vulture, india, diclofenac, subway, chicken, ovidcut, milk, qmilch, fabric, casein

Id: tKhViVn5rYY

Length: 19min 48sec (1188 seconds)

Published: Wed May 09 2018

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