Are You Smarter Than a Scientist?

14:09Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of Are You Smarter Than a Scientist? And the quizzical look on Krishna's face is how he's going to attack this question on this week's rendition. Name the 10 deadliest animals to humans. As you know, Are You Smarter Than a Scientist? We have a question. We have 10 answers. We have three strikes. You at home, you might have some ideas in your head. Our resident PhD has some ideas in his head and we are going to see how many of the 10 deadliest animals to humans Interesting. that Krishna can name in this round. The floor is yours, good sir. Man, I don't think I'm going

14:51to do well on this, but let's give it a try. Um, you know, the first thing I can think of is mosquitoes because of malaria. It is a very good guess. Okay. And mosquitoes is number one. Okay, 750,000 per year. Wow, that's a lot. It's It's not a small amount and it's incredible that such a small thing can kill so many of us. >> Mhm. Yeah okay. Um, let's do Okay, in that vein, let's do like insects that carry disease. So, like what about like fleas? Fleas. >> Or ticks. Can you give me that? >> Fleas or ticks. Impacts dogs a lot, but it is not

15:33>> It's not for us. Okay. It is not on our list. >> on a strike. All right. This was a tough one. I know it's a good This is outside of your purview, so Definitely. Um I hear about bears a lot. I know I'm not going to say bears. Nobody interacts with bears. Um sharks are probably also overblown overblown. Um I will note that some of them are classic. Okay, they are Let's go with bears. Well, that's not what I expected you to say. Unfortunately, Oh no, it's not even Oh my god, I'm going to be so bad at this, guys. You're on strike two. I will note that Chris is a biophysicist, so this is

16:14Yeah, this is zoology and like society. Oh my gosh, I'm doing so bad. I'm already on two strikes. Some of them are classic. Maybe maybe I should not maybe I should not reference that because I don't want to throw you off. >> Okay. Okay, can you give me a hint cuz I'm only on one left? >> so so many of us may be familiar with a gentleman who rest in peace was really impactful for us when we used to watch things about animals. >> Stingrays. Oh. Or a manta ray. Not what I was expecting you to say. Oh, I thought you said Steve Irwin. I was talking about Steve Irwin. Was it not a stingray? But it was not a stingray. Oh, it's a crocodile. All right. Okay, just

16:54go All right, now let me just see how many I can get. Come on. I I got one, bro. So, a crocodile is number nine on the list. We will have one lifeline again. We're very new to this. >> All right. How about I'll give you one extra strike, which is against the rules, but we will have one mulligan in this exception. So, we have number one mosquitoes, number nine crocodiles. This is This is a tough one. Hippo? Do we have hippo on the board? Number 10, hippo. We have I have one. I have nine and 10. Um >> We have a lifeline. Damn. Um Dude, I'm like like I guess I'm so

17:36sequestered in like you know, normal society. I have no idea. Sharks. Let's go with sharks. Sharks. Is that on the list? I don't have a four strikes, but I do have the sound effect and that is That's not correct. That is not correct. Unfortunately, we have mosquitoes at one, crocodiles at nine, and hippos at 10. If you're at home, make your list now for what you think two through eight is. I purposely threw your cool curveball. I gave you two easy ones Yeah. the first two episodes. I had to had to curve. Number two, you could argue this was not going to be easy to get, but the answer is humans.

18:17>> Oh. All right. That's fair. to humans. That's fair. We know that very well here in the United States. Number three, was snakes. >> Oh, why didn't I guess? Yeah, duh. Okay. >> Very poisonous animals. If you're a black mamba, RIP Kobe, or others. Number four, it might not have been your corgi, Really? >> but some dogs are our fourth. My fear of dogs as a child is now reignited all over. >> on here? So, unfortunately, cats are busy taking over the world intellectually. >> they're not killing people. >> killing people. They're smarter than that. Number five, there was no way you were going to get this one.

18:57Freshwater snails, which was news to me. Freshwater snails. Wow. Okay. >> So, this is our number five. Number six in our order, assassin bugs. >> I've never heard of that. >> So, I just had to >> Assassin bugs. I got to look this up later. So, we may do now an episode on Assassin bugs. Number seven, the tsetse fly. Oh, I've heard of that. >> In the continent of Africa and it's interesting some of my dad's research has been around this this area and about the diseases. A big one. Another funny reference to a family story which we'll talk about in a future episode about how someone ended up in the hospital for 21 days is scorpions. So, our top 10 deadliest animals to

19:40humans, mosquitoes, humans unironically, snakes, dogs, freshwater snails at five. I think I said something else earlier by accident. Six, Assassin bugs, tsetse flies, scorpions, crocodiles, and hippos.