Episode 600 · The Quiz Bowl
Think you
know ABQ?
Tracy and Tego took the challenge.
Now it’s your turn to lock it in.
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Tracy. Tego. And now, you.
After 600 episodes of talking about Albuquerque, Tracy and Tego Venturi have to prove how much of it they can remember. Joanna Rushing of Primary Residential Mortgage takes the host’s chair, the buzzers come out, and Tracy brings her disco-ball earrings.
Before you find out who wins, take the third contestant’s seat. This Albuquerque trivia game follows all four rounds of Episode 600: twelve quick questions, six mystery places, eight number guesses and one final wager. Lock an answer to reveal the story behind it—and the exact moment to watch on YouTube.
The Episode 600 home game
How well do you know ABQ?
One city. A lot of stories.
You’re the third contestant.
Trust your memory. Take the clues if you need them. Save a little courage for the final.
No sign-up. Progress stays in this browser.
How the home-game scoring works
Quick Draw: +10 correct, −5 incorrect, 0 for a pass. Full questions and multiple-choice answers replace the studio buzzers.
Where in the Burque? Type the place’s name. Earn 30, 20 or 10 points depending on how many clues you reveal. One guess per location; a miss or pass earns 0.
Closest to Closing: +50 for the exact answer and +25 within 10% of the answer, otherwise 0. Both over and under count. Approximate counts use the episode’s answer as the target. Double Eagle II accepts 137 or 137.1 hours as exact.
Final Closing: Lock a whole-point wager before seeing the question, from 0 to your positive balance. Get the order right to add your wager; get it wrong to lose it. If your balance is 0 or below, you can still play with a zero wager.
These are solo rules inspired by the show. Your points aren’t directly comparable with Tracy and Tego’s studio scores. There’s no timer, account, prize or public leaderboard.
Your answers and clue progress are saved only on this device. Reset clears this game’s saved progress.
Inside the episode · No winner spoilers
It starts with confidence. Then Joanna finishes the question.
Tego says he’s nervous because he wants to beat Tracy. It doesn’t take long to see why waiting for the whole question might be a useful strategy.
Quick Draw runs through Albuquerque’s old spelling, balloons, baseball, TV and chile. The “Christmas” question is a small lesson in listening: knowing a related fact doesn’t help if Joanna asked something else. Tracy’s early Balloon Fiesta answer brings its own debate about just when a contestant is allowed to buzz.
Familiar places, less-familiar clues
The next round asks a different kind of local question. Would you recognize a place from its opening year? From an old developer’s slogan? Or do you need the landmark that finally gives it away?
That’s what makes “Where in the Burque?” a good reminder to look twice at places you pass all the time. The clues connect Albuquerque’s plazas, Central Avenue, visitor attractions and travel history. In the home game, each extra clue costs ten potential points. There’s no shame in taking one; there’s a little satisfaction in stopping early.
Watch the mystery-place rules · 14:49 ↗
Then the green boards come out
“Closest to Closing” trades the buzzer for written guesses. An architectural detail at the KiMo, the tram’s elevation and the scale of the irrigation network turn familiar landmarks into number problems. Double Eagle II’s Atlantic crossing is a reminder to check your units before you commit.
The housing questions bring the conversation back to the hosts’ regular territory. They compare a detached-home median from 2014 with a December 2025 figure. As Joanna explains, changes in the median depend on the mix of homes sold. They don’t show that every Albuquerque home gained the same amount. The questions also use different reporting periods: one full year and one month.
Watch the housing time machine · 30:10 ↗
For today’s market, use the Albuquerque housing market tracker ↗. These game questions deliberately keep the historical dates from the episode.
One last chance to trust your local memory
Final Closing asks players to wager before the question appears. The category is “Albuquerque Then and Now.” That’s all you get before deciding how much of your score to put on the line.
The final is more than a trick with dates. Its four milestones trace the way Albuquerque grew and traveled. Finish the home game first, then watch how Tracy and Tego sort it out.
Finished playing? Reveal the episode winner and the local-history answers.
A comeback, a missed zero and the final order
Tego leads 125–90 after the place clues. Then Tracy stacks up exact number answers. At the end of regulation she has 340 points to Tego’s 200. The final history sequence gives Tracy the win.
The right order is railroad arrival in 1880, KiMo opening in 1927, Route 66 realignment onto Central in 1937, and the first Balloon Fiesta in 1972. It’s easy to associate KiMo with Route 66 and reverse the middle two; that’s the mistake Tego makes.
Watch the final answer reveal · 35:56 ↗
Tracy’s acceptance speech closes the celebration. Sally, the office manager, made the award, and Joanna and the hosts thank Sam for assembling the quiz. Six hundred episodes deserve a little ceremony.
Watch the closing celebration · 37:03 ↗
The housing answers, with their dates intact
GAAR’s 2014 annual report ↗ records a Greater Albuquerque detached-home median sale price of $175,564. GAAR’s December 2025 report ↗ gives $370,000. These are market medians from different reporting periods, not a repeat-sale measurement of the same homes.
Want the run-up to this milestone? Revisit 599 Episodes, Countless Albuquerque Memories ↗.
Albuquerque Real Estate Talk · Episode 600
Hear the whole showdown.
Play first if you want to keep the answers a surprise, or settle in for the complete conversation.
Sources, answer notes and how this game was made
The user-supplied Episode 600 transcript supplies the episode story. Timestamp links were checked against the published YouTube caption track; automated spellings of people and places were corrected. Questions are adapted for solo play. The supplied feature artwork is promotional artwork, not an episode still.
The game fixes the show’s initially misstated Unser win count to nine. De Anza’s Green Book association is attributed to the episode because published accounts differ about a formal listing. Numeric scoring is based on the answers in this episode, with the source and reporting period shown after you lock your answer.
Read more after playing: City of Albuquerque’s KiMo history ↗, National Park Service on petroglyphs ↗, MRGCD’s Albuquerque Division ↗, and Smithsonian’s Double Eagle II record ↗.
Game answers stay in local browser storage and aren’t sent to Venturi Realty Group. The supplied Podbean player connects to Podbean; YouTube opens only when you follow a watch link.