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Hosts: Steve Koch & Lovella Koch
Kids vs Parents is produced by Vandalpop Media
Producer: Steve Koch
Editors: Ever Cunningham, Steve Koch
Cover Design: Patrick Hardy
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Quick dog question to start us off.
Lovella:Which breed is famous for having black and white spots?
Steve:Okay, this is a Dalmatian.
Steve:Correct.
Steve:Welcome to Kids First Parents, the family trivia battle where the back seat takes on the front seat.
Steve:I'm Steve in the front seat.
Lovella:And I'm Lovella in the back seat.
Lovella:Today is another one of our animal episodes.
Lovella:We've got some dog trivia, and this episode has been suggested by Dana in Connecticut.
Lovella:And Tegan and Stacy who both left comments on Spotify, we also had some other people who left comments as well.
Steve:Yes, thank you so much for suggesting we've had a
Steve:This is a very popular episode to do.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:Dog trivia.
Steve:So if you've got a dog or know anything about dogs, this is your episode.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:Alright.
Steve:So Dad, what's your prize today?
Steve:Okay, the prize today, the winner, gets to choose who takes the family dog.
Steve:For a walk next.
Steve:Interesting.
Steve:Alright, so you can opt out of walking the dog if you win, or maybe you can nominate someone else that has to go and do the dog walking for the day.
Lovella:So what happens if you don't have a dog?
Steve:Okay, well if you don't have a dog, maybe
Steve:the winner gets to go and get a dog.
Steve:Maybe they can go to the pet store.
Steve:Oh, okay.
Steve:Is that a good prize?
Steve:Whoa, okay.
Steve:I really gotta win.
Lovella:I really gotta win.
Steve:Maybe they get a hot dog.
Steve:Oh they just get a hot dog.
Lovella:Oh god, okay.
Steve:I don't know.
Steve:If you win and you don't have a dog, you can
Steve:Take your brother for a walk.
Steve:You can or your sister for a walk.
Steve:You can opt you if you don't have a dog maybe you can opt to make someone take your brother or sister for a walk.
Lovella:What if you don't have siblings or a dog?
Steve:Oh well that's you can come up with your own prize then.
Steve:You get a hot dog.
Steve:We'll get a hot dog.
Lovella:Okay.
Lovella:Who goes first today, Dad?
Steve:Uh, let's make the parents go first.
Lovella:Alright.
Steve:Parents up first.
Steve:Let's do it.
Steve:I'm feeling confident.
Lovella:We'll see about that.
Lovella:Alright, parents.
Lovella:Are you ready?
Steve:I'm ready.
Steve:Here we go.
Lovella:Dog trivia, here we go
Lovella:Question number one.
Lovella:What is the smallest dog breed in the world?
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Um, is that little dog breed?
Steve:Um, that's gonna be the chihuahua, right?
Steve:I think I don't know if there's anything smaller than the chihuahua.
Steve:They're tiny those things.
Steve:I'm gonna say the chihuahua.
Steve:You are correct.
Steve:Yes.
Lovella:All right.
Lovella:Question number two.
Lovella:What breed of dog is the character Scooby-Doo?
Steve:Oh what?
Steve:What breed of dog?
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:Is Scooby-Doo?
Steve:Yeah, Scooby-Doo!
Steve:What breed of dog is Scooby-Doo?
Lovella:Come on, Dad, you should know this.
Steve:Um he's a he's a big dog
Steve:Sorry, I'm gonna go the other A.
Steve:He's a big dog.
Steve:He is Ah man, I don't know
Steve:Um is he no, he's not a German shepherd.
Steve:What's another big dog?
Steve:Rotwheeler?
Steve:No, he's not a rotwheeler, scary looking.
Steve:I don't know, I don't know what he is.
Steve:I'm gonna I'm gonna submit n nothing as my answer, 'cause I don't know.
Lovella:Okay.
Lovella:The correct answer was he's a great dane.
Steve:Oh yes.
Steve:They are the biggest dog breed.
Steve:Yes.
Lovella:He he looks really big.
Lovella:I I don't wanna watch Scooby-Doo, no offense to anyone who does like those movies.
Steve:You don't like Scooby-Doo?
Lovella:No, I just
Steve:I just don't think it's great.
Steve:Woo woo woo woo.
Steve:It's my Scooby Doo impersonation.
Lovella:I like the I like the Scooby-Doo snacks, the bones, the cinnamon.
Lovella:Scooby snacks, they're yummy.
Lovella:Right.
Lovella:Those bones ones that taste like cinnamon, those are good.
Steve:Okay.
Lovella:Alright.
Lovella:Anyways, next question.
Steve:Go ahead.
Lovella:Question number three.
Lovella:The Golden Retriever originally comes from which country?
Steve:Ah, man.
Steve:I don't know.
Steve:I think it's gonna be somewhere in Europe.
Lovella:Okay.
Steve:Um what do I uh the Golden Retriever.
Steve:What's that of the
Steve:Trying to think of other dog breeds and countries.
Steve:Scottish Terrier, German Shepherd, French Bulldog.
Lovella:You're off topic.
Lovella:You're trying to figure out the country.
Steve:I know, no, I know.
Steve:I'm trying to think of the colour.
Steve:You're just naming dogs?
Lovella:Golden Retriever.
Steve:Um, it's not Australia.
Steve:Strange Shepherd, it's not Australia.
Steve:Golden Retriever, I'm gonna say Scotland.
Steve:No Germany.
Steve:Germany.
Steve:German Shepherd.
Steve:Germany.
Steve:Same place of the German Shepherd.
Lovella:They look similar.
Lovella:Alright.
Lovella:You are incorrect.
Steve:Ah.
Lovella:It was Scotland.
Lovella:Oh it was Scotland.
Lovella:Ah, you are close.
Lovella:Ah, I changed at the last minute.
Steve:Okay.
Lovella:Alright.
Lovella:Well you're one out of three questions.
Lovella:So let's try and get this one right, Dad.
Steve:Yeah, let's try and get this one right.
Lovella:Alright, last question.
Lovella:Which band asked
Lovella:Who let the dogs out?
Steve:Good one.
Steve:Um, this is uh the um wait, I know it
Lovella:Do you though?
Steve:Ah, it's the s it's the something men.
Steve:Um the Baha Baja Men?
Steve:I think it's the Baja Men.
Lovella:You're correct.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:Yes.
Lovella:Who let the dogs out
Lovella:For one of the camps I did a few summers ago a summer ago or whatever, we were the blue team and we had a chat and it was like, who let the dogs out blue?
Lovella:Blue.
Steve:Oh nice.
Steve:But you wouldn't know who sung it, right?
Steve:You don't know the band.
Steve:No.
Steve:No.
Steve:They were a I want to say they were a nineties band, very late nineties, but maybe I think probably more early two thousands.
Steve:They're the naughs in the naughtys.
Steve:Nauties
Steve:Cool.
Steve:Alright.
Steve:Two out of four.
Lovella:Okay.
Lovella:Not too bad for dog trivia.
Steve:I'm happy with that result, you know.
Steve:Maybe would have preferred three.
Steve:I feel like Scooby-Doo, I should have got that one.
Steve:But anyway.
Steve:Um, okay, kids, here we go.
Steve:You're up next.
Steve:Okay, kids, dog questions for you.
Lovella:Okay.
Steve:You ready, Vels?
Steve:You know much about dogs?
Lovella:I don't know.
Lovella:We'll see.
Steve:See how we go.
Steve:All right
Steve:Question number one.
Steve:What is a group of puppies called?
Lovella:A group of puppies?
Lovella:Yeah.
Lovella:Uh um What is a group of puppies called?
Lovella:A pup circle.
Lovella:Uh
Lovella:Does it have the word pup in it?
Lovella:No, it doesn't.
Steve:It does not.
Steve:What is a croup?
Lovella:I was about to say a hound, but that's not it.
Steve:So often they say, you know, um a mother dog has a something of puppies
Steve:A group of puppies.
Lovella:Uh um a mother dog has a blank of puppies.
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:That I don't know if that helps you or not, but
Steve:Lots of little puppies.
Steve:They might there might even be, you know, they there's a phrase to like the runt of the something, meaning the the smallest of the group of puppies.
Steve:The smallest of the
Steve:Have you heard the phrase the runt of the Yeah the runt.
Lovella:Oh wait I feel like no it's coming, it's coming, it's coming.
Lovella:The runt, I think the runt was helpful.
Lovella:The runt of the
Lovella:I feel like wait, is it something with an L?
Lovella:Mm-lac.
Lovella:No, LAC sounds weird.
Lovella:The the rant of the
Steve:Anything?
Lovella:The runt of Do I know it?
Lovella:The runt of No, I'm getting there.
Lovella:The runt of
Lovella:No, I'm not gonna get it.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:You are very close.
Lovella:With what?
Steve:The r it is a litter.
Steve:A litter of the literature.
Lovella:The runt of the litter.
Steve:Oh, it's a phrase the runt of the litter.
Steve:Yeah.
Lovella:Okay.
Lovella:I've heard the runt of the litter before.
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:Well done.
Steve:You got close.
Lovella:Okay, I was close.
Steve:You got close.
Steve:The runt of the litter is that's the phrase, but it is a litter of puppies.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Big group of puppies.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Question number two.
Steve:What is the name of Dorothy's dog
Steve:In the Wizard of Oz.
Lovella:Todo.
Lovella:I got that.
Lovella:Todo.
Steve:Straight up with that one.
Steve:You didn't even need to think about that one, did you?
Lovella:Todo Toto.
Steve:Do you know what breed of dog it is?
Lovella:It's a tiny dog.
Lovella:One with shaggy fur kind of thing, but I don't know the breed.
Lovella:It's not a black dog.
Lovella:Wait, is it?
Lovella:It's a black and brown dog.
Steve:What is a black dog?
Lovella:Oh, I've seen different versions.
Steve:Toto is a
Steve:Carn terrier.
Lovella:Oh.
Steve:Or a can terrier?
Steve:I don't know how you might pronounce that.
Steve:Little black fuzzy dog.
Steve:Little black fuzzy dog.
Lovella:Oh yes, he is
Lovella:He's black, but he kinda looks a little brownish in some angles.
Steve:Depends on what part of the movie you watch him in.
Steve:Is is it in the black and white part or the colour part of the movie?
Steve:Then it might be a different colour
Steve:Different shade of grey.
Steve:Um cool, all right, one on the board, well done, Lovella, one on the board.
Steve:Question number three
Steve:Which is a dog's most highly developed sense?
Steve:This is multiple choice.
Lovella:Ooh.
Steve:Your options are A.
Steve:Hearing.
Steve:B taste C touch or D smell.
Steve:What is a dog's most highly developed sense?
Lovella:So touch, smell,
Steve:hearing, taste, touch, or smell.
Lovella:I wanna say smell.
Lovella:I'm gonna say smell, yeah.
Steve:Yeah?
Steve:You are correct.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:Smell.
Lovella:Yes.
Lovella:Yeah.
Lovella:They have a very Yeah.
Steve:They have like a really strong nose.
Steve:Like a hundred times better than us.
Lovella:Yeah.
Lovella:Like you see those YouTube videos where it's like
Lovella:The dog's trying to find me and I'm leaving clues or whatever.
Lovella:And then the dog always finds the person.
Lovella:Because they've got such a good smell of like where the person has gone, even if it like That's right.
Lovella:Yeah
Lovella:Very good smell.
Steve:Alright, well done.
Steve:Question number four.
Steve:Which dog breed is considered the fastest in the world?
Steve:Hey, which dog breed is considered the fastest in the world?
Lovella:Well
Lovella:I kinda wanna say like a little dog because they're like funny.
Lovella:I don't know a ton of dog breeds.
Steve:I'm gonna give you a clue, it's a bigger dog, it's not a little dog.
Lovella:Oh it's a big dog, okay.
Steve:very very it's very slender and it looks like it can run fast.
Steve:And there's actually like a bus transportation company named after them.
Lovella:Um I think I know what you're talking about.
Lovella:Like those slender type dogs.
Steve:Yeah.
Lovella:And Great Dane.
Steve:It does look a bit I mean, it probably does look a bit like a Great Dane, but a smaller version.
Lovella:Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna get there.
Steve:Okay.
Lovella:But I do think I know the type of dog you're talking about.
Steve:It is a greyhound.
Lovella:Oh greyhound!
Lovella:Yes!
Steve:Yep
Lovella:Oh, I remember there's an episode in Bluey where she's like, How fast are you gonna run?
Lovella:As fast as a greyhound.
Steve:Oh, there you go.
Steve:That would have been a good thing to remember.
Lovella:Yeah.
Steve:Thirty seconds ago.
Lovella:Oh, a greyhound.
Steve:A greyhound.
Steve:Cool.
Steve:All right, well well done, Lovella.
Steve:You got three No, what was your score check?
Lovella:Uh it was two out of four.
Steve:And I got two out of four.
Steve:So we need to go to a tiebreaker Lovella.
Steve:Ooh.
Steve:You got two, I got two.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:We're on tiebreaker or our bonus round now.
Steve:So if it's a tie in your car like it is for us
Steve:You can use this to break the tie.
Steve:Otherwise, it's a bonus round worth two points.
Steve:Ooh.
Steve:First team to buzz in gets to answer it.
Steve:If they get it correct, they take the points.
Steve:If they get it incorrect, the points go to the other team.
Lovella:Ooh
Steve:Alright.
Lovella:Okay.
Steve:You ready?
Lovella:Yes, I think so.
Steve:Alright.
Steve:Bonus or tiebreaker question.
Steve:What is the most common training command taught to dogs?
Lovella:Buzz Oh.
Lovella:I'm gonna take a guess and say it's probably sit.
Lovella:Or sh stay
Lovella:Or maybe stay.
Steve:Sit or stay.
Steve:Fetch no, fetch isn't really a command.
Steve:I guess it is a command.
Steve:Hmm.
Lovella:I feel like it's sit or stay.
Steve:Um roll over?
Steve:No.
Steve:Okay, what are you gonna go with?
Lovella:I'm gonna go with stay, I think.
Steve:You're gonna go with stay?
Steve:I'll go with sit then.
Lovella:Okay.
Steve:I'll take whichever one you don't go with.
Lovella:I'm gonna be so mad.
Steve:I'll go with every whichever one you don't go with.
Lovella:Okay, let's see.
Lovella:Are we correct?
Steve:Let's have a look.
Steve:The answer is.
Steve:.
Steve:Sit!
Lovella:No!
Steve:Yes!
Lovella:No!
Lovella:I should have gone with my first instinct!
Lovella:You should've, I won because you got it wrong!
Lovella:Yay!
Lovella:Okay, congratulations.
Lovella:One dog trivia.
Steve:Thank you.
Steve:Thank you.
Lovella:Only because I didn't trust my instance.
Steve:That's alright.
Steve:It was fun playing that.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:I learned a lot about dogs.
Lovella:I know.
Lovella:So like can we have a dog?
Steve:No, we can't have a dog still.
Steve:Too many allergies in our householding dogs.
Lovella:Yeah.
Steve:But all the best for those who do have dogs and love their dogs.
Steve:Wonderful part of their families.
Steve:Thanks for playing Dog Trivia.
Steve:We hope you had fun.
Steve:Thank you for those who suggested it.
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Steve:So join there
Lovella:Alright.
Steve:And we'll see you next time.
Lovella:Thanks for playing bye.
Steve:Bye.