5318008

In this final round, every answer can be spelled on a traditional LCD calculator by turning it upside-down.

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OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST:

It's time to crown our big winner. Let's bring back our finalists - Jeramey Kraatz, who has a Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper full of his ancestors hair...

(LAUGHTER)

EISENBERG: ...And Jovane Caamano, who helped train medical students by pretending to have herpes.

(LAUGHTER)

EISENBERG: Jeramey, Jovane, Dallas is home to Texas Instruments, the company who brought us the hand-held LCD calculator - or as I call it, 1988's iPhone. So your final round is called 5318008.

(LAUGHTER)

EISENBERG: Yeah. Turn that upside down, and it is a very old-fashioned sext.

(LAUGHTER)

EISENBERG: Every answer in this game can be spelled on a traditional LCD calculator by turning it upside down, and our big winner will receive an ASK ME ANOTHER Rubik's Cube signed by Alejandro Escovedo. We rolled a 20-sided die backstage, and Jovane is going first. Here we go. Jovane, this word-finding tabletop game that uses 16 dice and a three-minute timer.

JOVANE CAAMANO: Word-finding game with dice is what's stumping me. Sixteen dice...

EISENBERG: And a three-minute timer. Three seconds.

CAAMANO: Three-minute timer - that's a lot of dice. I don't know.

(SOUNDBITE OF BUZZER)

EISENBERG: We were looking for Boggle.

CAAMANO: Oh.

EISENBERG: Jeramey, the name of this construction toy comes from the Danish for play well.

JERAMEY KRAATZ: Lego?

EISENBERG: That is correct.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

EISENBERG: Jovane, the name of this fashion magazine means she in French.

CAAMANO: Elle.

EISENBERG: That is correct.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

EISENBERG: Jeramey, homophones of this word include a music genre and the capital of South Korea. Three seconds.

(SOUNDBITE OF BUZZER)

EISENBERG: Sorry, we were looking for Seoul. Jonathan, how are our contestants doing?

JONATHAN COULTON, BYLINE: They are tied 1 to 1, Ophira.

EISENBERG: OK. Jovane, the Erdapfel is the earliest known example of this object and did not include the Americas.

CAAMANO: First thing of this object - map.

EISENBERG: Good guess. I'm sorry. That's incorrect. We were looking for globe. Jeramey, the famous drawings of a swoosh and a bitten apple and the golden arches are all famous examples of this.

KRAATZ: Logo.

EISENBERG: That is correct.

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EISENBERG: Jovane, Matt Damon bought one of these in a 2011 film.

CAAMANO: 2011, Matt Damon, he bought something - that's all we know. OK.

EISENBERG: Three seconds.

CAAMANO: A book.

(LAUGHTER)

EISENBERG: Good guess. We were looking for zoo.

(LAUGHTER)

EISENBERG: Jeramey, it's Deuce Bigelow's profession.

KRAATZ: Gigolo.

EISENBERG: That is correct.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

EISENBERG: All right. We're halfway through. Jonathan, what's going on?

COULTON: Well, Jeramey's in the lead 3 to 1.

EISENBERG: Jovane, this fantasy character was played by Ian Holm and Martin Freeman.

CAAMANO: Bilbo.

EISENBERG: That is correct.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

EISENBERG: Jeramey, in Western astrology, it's the sign for people born between July 23 and August 22. Three seconds.

KRAATZ: Libra?

EISENBERG: Good guess. I'm sorry. We were looking for Leo. Jovane, the title character of this Kay Thompson book has the motto, getting bored is not allowed.

(LAUGHTER)

EISENBERG: Just shaking your head.

CAAMANO: Lee.

(LAUGHTER)

EISENBERG: Close. We were looking for Eloise. Jeramey, this Phyllis Reynolds Naylor book about a beagle won the 1992 Newbery Medal.

KRAATZ: Oh, god. The kid lit community is going to kill me. "Shiloh"?

EISENBERG: That is correct.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

EISENBERG: All right. There's only a few questions left. Jonathan, what's the score?

COULTON: Here's the situation, Ophira.

EISENBERG: OK.

COULTON: Jeramey is now in the lead 4 to 2, so Jovane, if you get this question wrong, Jeramey wins the game.

EISENBERG: Jovane, cartoonist Bill Watterson famously won't allow merchandise of this tiger character.

CAAMANO: Hobbes.

EISENBERG: That is correct.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

COULTON: Jeramey, if you get this question right, you win.

EISENBERG: Jeramey, the cor anglais is the larger relative of this double-reed woodwind instrument.

KRAATZ: The oboe?

EISENBERG: That is correct.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

EISENBERG: Well done - close game. And congratulations, Jeramey. You're our winner.

(APPLAUSE)

EISENBERG: Our podcast drops each Friday. Listen and subscribe. ASK ME ANOTHER's house musician is Jonathan Coulton.

COULTON: Hey. My name anagrams to thou jolt a cannon.

EISENBERG: Our puzzles were written by Sean Gaul (ph), Andrew Kane and Scott Ross, with additional material by Ashley Brooke Roberts, Cara Weinberger and Emily Winter. Our senior supervising producer is Rachel Neel. ASK ME ANOTHER is produced by Mike Katzif...

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EISENBERG: ...Travis Larchuk, Kiara Powell...

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EISENBERG: And this was ASK ME ANOTHER from NPR.

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