Um Actually Statements (Questions)

This page is dedicated to collating the "questions" from the show Um, Actually. The episodes are arranged in the order they appear on DROPOUT, with "Season Zero" being labeled as "Bonus Content" (and also confusingly "Season 5" in the minor subtitles) on DropOut.

These statements are also admittedly sometimes incorrectly referred to as questions on the show.

A \* marks a point that was "scooped" from a player because they did not preface their answer with "Um, actually...". The player who lost the point in listed in parentheses.

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## Statements

### Season Zero

#### Ep. 1: Firefly, Star Wars Jizz Bands, Daenerys Targaryen's Dragons

Titled "Um actually, The Game Show Where Nerds Correct Nerds" aired on the 18th of January 2015. Later titled "Firefly, Star Wars Jizz Bands, Daenerys Targaryen's Dragons" on DROPOUT.

 In Star Wars, the band Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes plays a genre of music known as "Jizz", which we first hear them play on Jabba's barge.
 In Game of Thrones, Daenerys Stormborn, of the House Targaryen, the First of Her Name, the Unburnt, Queen of Mereen, Queen of the Andals, and the Rhoynar, and the First Men, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains, and Mother of Dragons has three dragons named Drogon, Rhaegal, and Meraxes.
(Emily Axford)

#### Ep. 2: Return of the Jedi, Hodor, Quidditch

Titled "Um actually, The Game Show Where Nerds Correct Nerds (Episode 2)" aired on the 6th of March 2015. Later titled "Return of the Jedi, Hodor, Quidditch" on DROPOUT.

 Eevee- the 133rd Pokémon- can evolve into Vaporeon, Electreon, Flareon, Espeon, Umbreon, Leafeon, Glaceon and Sylveon.
 Captain America's shield is so strong because it is made of Adamantium, the same metal in Wolverine's skeleton.
 In Game of Thrones, Hodor's parents named him Hodor to honor a famously wise maester from the North.
[Fan Correction]
 According to the rules of Quidditch, throwing the Quaffle though an opponent's hoop earns 10 points, hitting an opponent with a bludger earns 0 points, and catching the golden snitch earns 50 points and ends the game.

#### Ep. 3: Fellowship of the Ring, Mortal Kombat, Bowser's Children

Titled "Um actually, The Game Show Where Nerds Correct Nerds (Episode 3)" aired on the 22nd of April 2015. Later titled "Fellowship of the Ring, Mortal Kombat, Bowser's Children" on DROPOUT.

 In the first Mortal Kombat game, a player can unlock Reptile as a playable character if they achieve a double flawless victory in single-player mode on the Pit stage and finish the match with a fatality, if there is also a silhouette flying past the moon (which occurs every sixth game).
 The Wheel of Time series began with the publishing of The Eye of the World in 1990 and concluded 23 years later when Robert Jordan finished the final work The Eye of the World [sic].
[Although Trapp doesn't finish the Statement verbally, the full written Statement references The Eye of the World as the last book instead of A Memory of Light.]
 In C.S. Lewis' The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Lucy, Edmund, and their cousin Eustace travel to Narnia by jumping into a puddle.
 Bowser's children, the koopalings, first appear in Super Mario Bros. 3.
 Knuckles, the last surviving Echidna in the Sonic universe, is bound to his home in the Green Hill Zone, protecting the Master Emerald.

#### Ep. 4: Watto's Beard, D&D, Deathly Hallows

Titled "Um Actually Strikes Back" aired on the 12th July, 2017. Later titled "Watto's Beard, D&D, Deathly Hallows" on DROPOUT.

 In Harry Potter, the Deathly Hallows are the magical items won by the Peverell Brothers from Gellert Grindelwald: The Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Cloak of Invisiblity.
 In the game Pokémon, use of the moonstone can evolve your Clefairy into a Clefable, your Jigglypuff into a Pigglybuff, or your Nidorina into a Nidoqueen.
 Dungeons and Dragons has a lot of monsters that have been drawn from European Folklore such as the Kobold, Goblin, Orc, and Troll but also has several monsters unique to D&D, such as the Tarrasque [sic] or the fearsome Grell.
[Fan Correction]

#### Ep. 5: Slytherin, Star Wars, Scarecrow

Titled "Um, actually, The Game Show of Nerdy Corrections" aired on the 12 December 2017. Later titled "Slytherin, Star Wars, Scarecrow" on DROPOUT.

 In Star Wars, Queen Amidala of Naboo casts the tie-breaking vote in the decision to award Chancellor Palpatine emergency powers to fight the Trade Federation.
[Fan Correction]
 In The Wizard of Oz, after their visit to the Emerald City, Dorothy and her friends travel through Munchkinland to get to the castle of the Wicked Witch of the West, they journey through a forest while armed with a net, bug spray and a gun.
 In the Chronicles of Narnia, the originally published order of the Chronicles of Narnia puts Prince Caspian immediately after The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, but some publishers interject The Horse and His Boy between the two, since the events in The Horse and His Boy take place chronoligically after the events of the Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
 In the original Crash Bandicoot, Crash can gain a new life by breaking a 1-Up Box or by collecting 100 mangoes.
[Fan Correction]

#### Ep. 6: Monsters, Moogles, and Side Mirrors

Aired on the 29 June 2018.

 Monsters: they're scary, and often they are just two animals crammed together, and the monster manuals of Dungeons & Dragons feature many such monsters, including Owlbears, Duckbunnies, Skunk Cows, and Spiderhorses.
[Fan Corrections]
 Charlie and The Chocolate Factory is a beloved story about a group of children who are gradually maimed and deformed by a loner in a candy factory. Augustus Gloop is sucked though a tube in a chocolate river, Violet Beauregard turns into a blueberry after eating experimental gum, Veruca Salt is sent down a trash chute after demanding a goose that lays golden eggs, and Mike Teavee is shrunk by television chocolate technology.
 Installments of the Final Fantasy franchise tend to be standalone games, each involving different characters and settings. However, certain specifics recur accross the series. Since Final Fantasy II, every game has featured or depicted Chocobos, Moogles, and a character named Cid.

#### Ep. 7: House Crests, House Crushings, and the Kongs

Aired on the 29 July 2018.

 Some famous fictional characters are best known by names that are not actually their first names, Pippin from The Lord of the Rings is actually named "Peregrin", Voldemort's real name is "Tom", Futurama's Turanga Leela goes primarily by her family name, and Hodor from Game of Thrones is actually named Walder.
[Fan Correction]
 Super Mario Kart was a kart racing game released for Super Nintendo in 1992. Players could race with characters like Mario, Princess Peach, Donkey Kong, and Toad on tracks like the famous Rainbow Road.
[Fan Correction]
 In L. Frank Baum 's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy aquires a pair of ruby slippers after accidentaly killing the Wicked Witch of the East. These slippers are ultimately the method by which she returns to Kansas.

#### Ep. 8: Make-Up, Maps, and Mythical Dragons

Aired on the 31 August 2018.

 The Max Rebo Band is a musical group that we see performing in Jabba's palace in Return of the Jedi. The band features the titular Max Rebo, Doda Bodanaweedo, Droopy McCool, Rappertune, Melodious Orchelhorn, and Sy Snootles, among others.
 On the X-Files we're told that the truth is out there, but sometimes the storylines are also a little "out there." In the episode "Badlaa", a legless beggar has the otherworldly ability to change size, crawl into people's ears and control their minds.
 Dragons come in many shapes and sizes, and subcategories of dragons can be identified through slight differences in their appearance. For example, wyverns have only two legs, wyrms are enormous legless, wingless serpents, and Japanese dragons are long, flying, four-legged creatures with four toes on each foot.
[Fan Correction]
Bonus: Um, actually, there are winged and wingless wyrms according to the Lord of the Rings taxonomy.

#### Ep. 9: Star Trek, Schwarzenegger, and Stokes

Aired on the 16th of September 2018.

 The movie “Predator,” aside from being generally cool, is notable in other ways. It was #1 at the box office for its opening weekend, won an Academy Award for Visual Effects and has the notable privilege of being the only movie to feature two future Governors: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura.
 Though we see Ewoks earlier in “Return of the Jedi”, we don’t actually hear the word “Ewok” until C-3PO encounters them and is able to translate the Ewokese.
 Today we most frequently picture Dracula as depicted by Bela Lugosi- a pale, slick-haired, well-dressed man with sharp incisors and a red silk cape. However, in Bram Stoker's original book Dracula, he is described as looking much more like the vampire's appearance in Nosferatu- an ugly, rat-toothed man with long gnarled fingers and pointy ears.
 While "Batman: The Animated Series" is consistently ranked as one of the greatest animated series ever made, it is also the most expensive animated series in a per episode basis, due solely to the sheer amount of black ink used in ever episode.

### Ep. 11, Um, Actually Live @ New York Comic Con

Aired on the 12th October 2019. Some questions were answered correctly by the audience of the panel, and are marked accordingly.

### Um, Actually YouTube Channel Episodes

Starting Oct 2, 2020 a separate YouTube channel titled "Um, Actually" began releasing full episodes weekly. Many (if not all) of these are airings of previously run episodes.

Oct 2, 2020. Video 1 titled "Animalities, Maple Street Monsters, Mutagen Ooze" was Season 1, Episode 5 (see above).

Oct 7, 2020, Video 2 titled "Pevensie Reign, Foreign Mutants, Kanto Clones" was Season 1, Episode 6 (see above)

Oct 23, 2020 Video 3 titled "Jump Man, Folklore, Hounds of Tindalos" was Season 1, Episode 8 (see above)

October 30, 2020 Video 4 titled "Bilquis, Black Panther, Battlestar Galactica" was Season 1, Episode 9 (see above)