Quiz and Hers

We’re back after a short break, and Justin answers an old challenge from Hallie, by writing six sort-of trivia questions all based on dad jokes. We also joke about rock music, reference books, and disastrous business decisions!

3:01: Q1 (Movies & TV): What’s a ninja’s favorite type of shoes?  More importantly, what late actor did Letitia Wright make a version of this joke to, in a billion-dollar 2018 film?

10:22: Q2 (Arts & Literature): I was very angry at my friend Mark for stealing this particular reference book from me.  I told him, “Mark, my words!”

18:19: Q3 (Sports & Games): The waiter asked me, do you wanna box for your leftovers?  I said, no, but I will ______ you for them.  What sporting verb fills in the blank in this groan-worthy punchline?

27:55: Q4 (Music): What concert costs just 45 cents?  50 Cent, featuring this band, fronted by Chad Kroeger!

34:36: Q5 (Everything Else): I got carded at a liquor store, and my membership card to this once-ubiquitous franchise dropped out by accident.  The cashier said “never mind”.

42:40: Q6 (Times & Places): What kind of music did the pilgrims listen to?

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It must be Hallie’s week to write the questions, because this week’s trivia is all about something weird and conceptual: calendars! We also schedule discussions of European literature, religious history, and, for some reason, two different magazines.

2:12: Q1 (Sports & Games): The yearly calendar released by what publication features a compilation of photos that rarely feature athletes?

8:44: Q2 (Music): “Calendar Girl”, released in 1960, was a Top 5 hit single for American singer, pianist, and record producer, better known for the songs “Breaking Up is Hard to Do” and “Bad Blood”?  And no, it is not Taylor Swift

19:34: Q3 (Times & Places): While at the council of what Italian city in 1545 did Pope Paul III reform the Gregorian calendar, restoring the date of the vernal equinox to help with more consistent scheduling of the feast of Easter?

29:05: Q4 (Everything Else): The Persian calendar, which is still in use after almost 1,000 years, was based on the Jalali calendar created by what mathematician, astronomer, and poet?

33:43: Q5 (Movies & TV): What periodical, which provides celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and sometimes horoscopes, also includes a bi-weekly calendar of television program listings?

41:51: Q6 (Arts & Literature): What Irish poet and playwright who did 2 years of hard labor for “gross indecency” once said “Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.”

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This week, we take to the skies, with six questions all about flight, jets, and air travel. We also fly into discussions of hockey, aviation history, and a legendary comedic actor!

1:57: Q1 (Sports & Games): In 1996, the original Winnipeg Jets moved to the American Southwest, becoming what current NHL team?

11:12: Q2 (Times & Places): What legendary aviator and ace fighter pilot became the first human to travel faster than the speed of sound in 
1947, when he piloted an experimental rocket-powered plane called the Bell X-1?

20:33: Q3 (Music): What American psychedelic rock band, with a name that is rather appropriate for today’s game, really took off with the release of their 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow, and later evolved into the band Starship?

32:00: Q4 (Arts & Literature): “Flight” is a 1938 short story by what American writer and eventual Nobel laureate, primarily known as a chronicler of downtrodden people, especially in central California?

40:11: Q5 (Everything Else): From the French for “little wing”, what is the term for the flaps on the trailing edge of an airplane’s wing that can be angled upward or downward to control the aircraft’s roll?

47:41: Q6 (Movies & TV): Though he portrayed over 200 characters across seven different decades, what actor only really made it big when he played Dr. Rumack in Airplane!?

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Break out the tissues, because this week Hallie has written a whole trivia game all about the emotion of sadness. We also cry about a dismal sports team, a depressing historical event, and a not-so-sad sitcom!

2:53: Q1 (Arts & Literature): What Latvian-born American abstract painter, known for his “multiforms” paintings with blocks of color, sought to create paintings that would bring people to tears and quite often succeeded in it?

10:53: Q2 (Sports & Games): What southernmost team in the NHL which has never won a Stanley Cup since they joined the league in 1993, was ranked the number 1 most miserable NHL fan base by ESPN?

17:36: Q3 (Times & Places): - On November 22, 1963, what anchorman for the CBS Evening News began to cry as he broke the news of John F. Kennedy’s assassination?

28:38: Q4 (Music): What sad-sounding band with a rhyming name is best known for their 1980s hits “Shout” and “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”?

35:34: Q5 (Everything Else): Seasonal affective disorder, abbreviated SAD, may be related to a lack of what neurotransmitter, which modulates mood, cognition, learning, memory, and physiological processes like vasoconstriction?

44:06: Q6 (Movies & TV): Phyllis Smith, the actress who plays sadness in Pixar’s Inside Out, is better known for her role in what American mockumentary TV series?

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This week, we make a return voyage to Japan, because Justin has written a sequel to his game “The Land of the Rising Pun”! Also on our itinerary are trivia about anime, unusual musical artists, and the Olympics!

1:50: Q1 (Music): What is the most distinctive characteristic shared by Japanese music idol Hatsune Miku, as well as Western acts like The Archies and Gorillaz?

12:28: Q2 (Times & Places): Name the four primary islands of the Japanese Archipelago.  That’s the whole question.

21:11: Q3 (Arts & Literature): Not to be confused with the live-action theatrical forms Noh and Kabuki, what is the term for traditional Japanese puppet theater?

32:51: Q4 (Everything Else): In Japan’s indigenous religion, Shinto, what is the name of the goddess of the Sun, one of the most important of all of the kami, or gods?

41:19: Q5 (Movies & TV): What famous “Studio”, which derives its name from an Italian term for a hot desert wind, was founded by Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki in 1985?

50:14: Q6 (Sports & Games): Three cities in the Land of the Rising Sun have hosted Olympics games, of either the summer or winter variety.  Name two of them.

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We open the flood-“gates” this week, because Hallie has written a trivia game all about scandals, from musical misdeeds to historical hijinks to current criminals!

2:04: Q1 (Times & Places): In the Teapot Dome scandal, Albert Bacon Fall, the Secretary of what cabinet department was convicted for taking bribes from oil companies in return for low-rate leases of oil reserves in Wyoming and two other locations in California?

7:50: Q2 (Sports & Games): Probably the biggest scandal in sports history was when figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was hit on the thigh after practice one day to try and prevent her from competing in the upcoming Winter Olympics in what European city?

15:37: Q3 (Arts & Literature): What artist endured a scandal in 1917 when his piece, Fountain, was rejected by the Society of Independent Artists exhibit, causing an uproar among the Dadaists and ultimately leading to his resignation from the board of the Independent Artists?

26:23: Q4 (Music): In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Milli Vanilli had their success turned into infamy when it was discovered that they were not actually singing the vocals on any of their music releases and ultimately ended up returning their Grammy for Best New Artist.  Name either member of this duo, one of whom was from Germany and the other of whom was from France.

32:56: Q5 (Movies & TV): The TV show, The West Wing, involves a scandal when the White House is rocked by allegations of criminal conduct and what President, played by Martin Sheen, must decide whether to run for a second term?

38:05: Q6 (Everything Else): In the 2019 college admissions scandal, what actress and producer best known for her role in Full House, along with her husband Mossimo Giannulli allegedly paid $500,000 in bribes to have her two daughters accepted to USC as members of the rowing team even though neither of them were rowers?

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Break out the grease paint and seltzer bottles, because this week, Justin has a trivia game all about clowns! We also laugh about classic rock, geography, and video games, and we do not laugh about a horrifying serial killer.

1:57: Q1 (Sports & Games): The psychopathic court jester Kefka Palazzo is the primary villain of the sixth installment of what long-running role-playing video game series published by Square Enix – or the third installment, in North America?

9:31: Q2 (Everything Else): What American serial killer, known as the “Killer Clown”, murdered at least 33 young men and boys in the 1970s, and actually performed as the characters Pogo the Clown and Patches the Clown at charitable events, when he wasn’t busy doing murders?

17:07: Q3 (Arts & Literature): What early form of professional theater, which originated in Italy, is known for incorporating pantomime, and for numerous clown stock characters, including Harlequin, Pierrot, and Scaramouche?

25:53: Q4 (Music): Speaking of commedia dell’arte, what 1975 progressive rock song name-checks the clown character Scaramouche in its so-called “operatic section”?

33:25: Q5 (Times & Places): Disgraced financial adviser Jesse Bogdonoff was also the court jester to Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, who was the king of this Polynesian nation, sometimes still referred to as the “Friendly Islands”.

42:17: Q6 (Movies &TV): What ridiculously influential Italian director, known for his baroque visual style, directed The Clowns, which is sometimes called the first mockumentary film?

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This week, we get all fancy and put on our trivia tuxedos, because Hallie has trivia questions that are all (loosely) related to the Metropolitan Opera in New York! We also sing some arias about romantic comedies, football, and, of course, opera!

2:58: Q1 (Movies & TV): The Metropolitan opera house was featured in the climax of what 1987 romantic comedy, which stars one of the most prolific singers, known as the “Goddess of Pop” and earned her an Oscar for Best Actress?

10:38: Q2 (Times & Places): The Metropolitan Opera house was built as the centerpiece of Lincoln Center, the site of which was chosen as part of the urban renewal and slum clearance project led by what polarizing public official who favored highways over public transit and helped create suburbs on Long Island?

19:44: Q3 (Everything Else): L’Orfeo, considered the world’s oldest surviving opera, is about the myth of Orpheus and his wife, for whom he travels to the underworld and whose name is included in the better known opera on this subject, which was first performed at the Met in 1891.  Name Orpheus’s wife.

29:01: Q4 (Sports & Games): This past April, the Met held what they called the At-Home Gala, which had many great performances, particularly Renee Fleming singing Ave Maria.  What NFL placekicker won “Most Valuable Performer”, an NFL talent show in 2018, by singing the same song?

38:26: Q5 (Music): The opera, Cavalleria rusticana, was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 1891 with part of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, but it is much more commonly performed with what other opera, composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo?

47:56: Q6 (Arts & Literature): The lobby of the Metropolitan Opera house has two large murals, created for the space by what Russian-French artist most famous for his painting, I and the Village, as well as his stained glass works?

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In our newest episode, Justin has trivia questions with just one thing in common: every answer contains the name of a major city. Also in our “urban plan” this week: classic rock, American history, and History of Architecture II: The Sequel!

2:04: Q1 (Times & Places): Even though the Treaty of Ghent had been signed almost three weeks prior, what final battle of the War of 1812 took place on January 8, 1815?

10:37: Q2 (Music): What eponymous 1976 album included the hit singles “More Than a Feeling”, “Long Time”, and “Peace of Mind”?

16:57: Q3 (Arts & Literature): “Central”-ly located in the Golden Triangle District, and designed by Michael Graves, what public building is an example of Postmodern architecture?

28:42: Q4 (Movies & TV): The original NCIS takes place in the Washington, DC area.  What is the title of its first spin-off series, which takes place about 2500 miles away from DC?

38:18: Q5 (Everything Else): Founded in Georgia just three months after the end of the Civil War, what is the oldest Historically Black institution of higher learning in the Southern United States?

49:05: Q6 (Sports & Games): Of the 13 horses that have won the American Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, only one has a major American city in his name.  Name this horse, also the great-great-great-grand-sire of fellow Triple Crown winner Justify.

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