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This is episode 133 of the Baehr and Curadh podcast.
We're going to take the 2024 OutSports quiz.
Do you know what that is?
No.
Then this should be interesting.
OutSports is a news website for gay athletes and news about gay athletes.
Okay.
So, are we supposed to know all this stuff.
You are supposed to know this stuff.
I'm not a sports fan.
Okay.
All right.
Basketball star Brittney Griner was placed No. 1 in the Outsports Power 100 list
of the most influential LGBTQ people in sports.
Her team Phoenix Mercury is located in which U.S. state? Arizona.
And now how did you figure that out?
I'm a whiz at geography.
Plus, I'm a sports fan.
Plus, it says Phoenix Mercury right there.
Ralf Schumacher came out publicly as gay in July. In which globetrotting sport did he compete
from 1997 to 2007?
Formula 1 car racing.
That's a sport?
It's my guess.
Is that what it is?
Yeah.
I recognized the name Schumacher.
Getting in a car and turning left on day.
Well, they turned left and right.
They're Formula 1.
They're the real small ones, who zipper around like Monico or something.
Those are the little tiny gay cars.
Yeah.
The little Formula 1 ones.
They're not the NASCAR ones.
Which R&B megastar met expectations and pleased his gay fans by going shirtless
when headlining the Super Bowl halftime show in Las Vegas?
I don't know.
I was thinking about this.
I couldn't think of who it is.
It must have been last year.
This year.
All of these questions are this year.
Oh, okay.
I don't know who it is.
Usher.
Does nothing for me.
That's why I could care less.
Yeah.
You didn't even notice.
No.
Not at all.
I don't think he has any hair on his chest, so it's kind of hard to tell if he's got his shirt
on or not.
Yeah.
What is the surname of out gay American track athlete Nico, who competed in the 10,000
meter final at the Paris Olympics?
I don't know.
I can picture him.
I can picture what he looks like, but I have no idea.
He's a black guy, isn't he?
I don't think so.
I think he's Spanish.
He's Mexican.
Oh.
His name is Niko Young.
Okay.
Doesn't seem like a Spanish name to me, but it doesn't sound like any black name to me,
though, either.
Yeah.
We won't say anything about that.
Good.
Orangejellow.
Lemon Jello.
Joao Lucas Reis da Silva made history in December as the highest-ranked male professional
player to come out as gay, while active in which sport?
Boxing.
I even knew this one.
What is it?
It's tennis.
Is it? Okay.
Hmm.
There are lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of shirtless pictures of him playing tennis.
Okay.
Is he hairy.
No.
Not particularly.
Okay.
More Twinkie.
That figures.
What is the surname of out gay former rugby referee Nigel, who took charge of the 2015
Rugby World Cup final and married his husband, Barrie, in Wales in August 2024?
Don't know.
You don't know.
Nigel Owens.
Nigel Owens, okay.
He is a bear.
He can come referee my match anytime.
You're terrible.
How many of the 30 MLB teams held a Pride Night in 2024?
Let's say four. Way off. 32.
There were 29.
Wow.
Who was only one that didn't do it.
Can't say.
I won't guess.
But I have a pretty good idea.
I won't say.
Okay.
I will have to look that up or something.
Okay.
Am I boring?
No.
I don't know why
I'm yawning
all of a sudden.
This is your subject.
Mm-hmm.
What color got a lot of NFL fans in a flap about then
USC Trojans quarterback Caleb Williams in March?
Did you paint them pink?
Paint what pink?
What color got a lot of NFL fans and he normally paints his fingernails.
That's why I was wondering if that's what it was.
Yes.
He painted them pink.
His fingernails.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
So I did know it.
That does seem terribly offensive for straight men.
Yeah.
They're that worried about fingernail colors.
Yes.
Seeing some pink fingernails is going to make them turn gay.
That's too funny.
Wheelchair tennis.
Oh my god.
Kgothatso Montjane
That's so.
claimed two LGBTQ awards in her native South
Africa after winning a doubles title at which Grand Slam
Tournament?
Wimbledon?
Yes.
Wimbledon.
Yes.
In most of these, I would think any person could probably guess the answer anyway.
Yeah.
Canada’s Justin Lui was the only out gay male athlete playing in a men’s team sport at the
Paris Olympics.
What was the sport?
I don't know.
What sport would a nelly little Chinese gay guy play?
Diving?
Volleyball.
Okay.
From which landmark did Celine
Celine Dion.
It's Celine Dion.
thrill her fans with a stunning solo performance in the climax to the Paris Olympics Opening
Ceremony?
It was the Eiffel Tower.
The awful tower?
Awful tower, yeah.
I don't know how you could have guessed that.
American nonbinary athlete Christie Raleigh Crossley won five medals at the Paris Paralympics
in the paralympic adaptation of which sport?
I don't know.
I don't know who she is.
That's a shame.
It's swimming.
No.
Okay.
You can do some swimming.
Yeah, but I tend to swim in a circle.
You can kick with your, I guess I can not kick, but I'll turn one way.
It's like I can't float on a raft either because I just roll over.
because my body is heavier one side to the other.
A little amputee humor.
Complete the name of the MLB team at whose Pride Night baseball boyfriends Cole Philpott
and Aiden Phipps teamed up to throw first pitches?
— the Baltimore blanks? Orioles.
So, you know those players?
No.
But I know the Baltimore Orioles.
So, these are outfits?
Oh, it's blank Orioles.
So, you know it was Baltimore Oils.
I get it.
Okay.
Which of the martial arts sports did out gay Irish athlete Jack Woolley compete in at the
Paris Olympics?
Jujitsu? Taekwondo.
I'd probably should look up a picture of him.
I bet he's pretty hot, you know those Irish guys and their big Irish personalities.
Gay former U.S. soccer star Robbie Rogers got a special shoutout in his husband Greg
Berlanti’s acceptance speech at which major awards ceremony?
The Espies.
The Emmys.
The Emmys? Okay.
Do you know who Greg Berlanti is?
He's produced a bunch of the Star Trek shows.
Okay.
Hmm.
A lot of shows on the CW, the shows where these special people are being persecuted because
they're different.
Okay.
And that's his kind of shows.
Out judoka Amandine Buchard won Team LGBTQ’s first medal of the Paris Olympics.
Which nation was she representing?
The U.S.?
France.
Okay.
You're supposed to know all of this.
No.
What are your sports?
All about sports.
Just the mainstream sports.
What is the first name of Venezuelan triple jump athlete Rojas,
the world record holder and former Outsports Female Athlete of the Year who was unable to defend
her Olympic title in Paris due to injury?
Rojas.
Yulimar.
Hmm.
Complete the name of the #1 ranked out LGBTQ wrestler in the Queer Wrestling Index
200 — DARK _____?
His name is either Sheik or Shek.
I'll say Sheik.
Hmm.
You watch wrestling, don't you?
No.
Not at all.
I'll bet queer wrestling is three or four minutes of rolling around the mat and half an hour
of oral sex.
You're so bad.
That's the sports I'd watch.
Hmm.
Men’s team players representing Australia in the Fast5 version of which sport made
headlines in November when they stood up to homophobes criticizing a viral video of their
on-court dance to NSYNC track "Bye Bye Bye"?
Is it rugby?
It's netball.
Oh, okay.
Never heard of a sport called netball.
Hmm.
Neither have I.
That's where you try to jump over the net and you get your balls caught in it.
Get out of here you dork.
Out gymnast Sam Phillips transferred from Nebraska to compete for which university?
Don't know.
I just put "don't know" on all these.
I'm sorry.
I can't.
Know, everything.
I certainly don't know any.
Illinois.
Okay.
Clarke Johnstone, Frederic Wandres and Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour all competed in disciplines
of which sport at the Paris Olympics?
Swimming.
Equestrian.
Okay.
And by those names, I'll bet they're all from Canada.
That, or French.
Yeah.
Which Olympic team did bronze medal-winning boxer Cindy Ngamba
I'm not sure whether the N or the G is silent, represent in Paris?
Don't know.
I know.
It's some of the Eastern Bloc country I thought.
It's the catch-all country called Refugee.
Okay.
What is the first name of gay pop star Alexander, whose Eurovision entry for the U.K. in May
was set in a “post-apocalyptic dystopian boxing gym locker room, aboard a spaceship hurtling
hurtling toward Earth through a black hole in 1985?
Do you have any idea who this is?
I have no idea.
Olly Alexander.
Okay.
Did you ever see this?
I think so.
It's kind of eccentric.
And I don't really know how sports related, that is, except it's in a locker room.
It's in a locker room, yeah.
What is the name of the digital platform launched by NBA legend Dwyane Wade in May
to support LGBTQ youth and their families?
I know it supports trans youth, but I don't know what's the name of it is.
Translatable.
Yeah, I know it's because it because he has a son.
That's trans.
What is the surname of Chicago Cubs and Chicago Red Stars co-owner Laura, who placed second on
the Outsports Power 100?
I don't know.
I used to know the old.
Her name was Marge.
So, there was the old Cincinnati Reds owner, but she was a racist and a bigot.
So, I don't think that would be her.
So, I don't know who this is.
Laura Ricketts.
Laura Ricketts?
Well, that's good.
What is the name of the Paris river next to which
Seine.
I knew that one right away.
to which Lady Gaga performed during a very damp Olympics Opening Ceremony?
The Seine?
The Seine River.
There we go.
Okay, I got the last one right.
I guess it all makes up for it.
It makes up for it completely now.
Don't judge.
You would have gotten none of these right.
No, I wouldn't have gotten any of them.
Now, you would have got some of them.
You would have got the rugby.
For those who want to see pictures and whatever, you can go to the Outsports website and see
this quiz.
Oh, okay.
Or you can go to our web page.
There's a link on it.
Okay.
All right.
Well, this is our episode that we recorded after Christmas.
Did you have a good Christmas?
I suppose.
You then?
Mm-hmm.
Well good.
It would have been nicer if you didn't have to work.
Yeah.
Such as life, though.
Mm-hmm.
C'est la vie
Yep.
All right.
You got a good joke for us this week?
Do you know what Captain Hook died of?
I'm afraid to ask.
What?
Jock itch.
What?
You're terrible.
All right.
We hope you liked episode 133 of the Baehr and Curadh Podcast.
This is Baehr.
In Curadh.
Goodbye.
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