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This week, Hallie has a sequel to her punniest episode, and six new trivia questions all about trees! We also talk opera, college sports, and terrifying weather events!

2:28: Q1 (Movies & TV): In what 2006 film does a young girl named Ofelia have to retrieve a key from the belly of a giant toad who lives in an old tree so she can achieve immortality?

9:27: Q2 (Sports & Games): In 1972, Stanford University’s teams were named the Cardinal and their unofficial mascot became a dancing tree.  Name either their team name or the official mascot prior to 1972, which students successfully lobbied to abolish.

17:56: Q3 (Everything Else): High temperature and long-duration surface wildfires can cause the drying of tree canopies and their ignition from below.  What is the name of this almost simultaneous ignition of most of the combustible material in an enclosed area, also known as torching?

26:51: Q4 (Arts & Literature): What semi-autobiographical novel about an impoverished family in New York City in the early 20th century was published in 1943 by Betty Smith?

35:56: Q5 (Times & Places): A 5-cent stamp issued in 1964 featured the face of what Scottish-American conservationist superimposed on a grove of Redwood trees?

43:13: Q6 (Music): What Italian composer’s last opera was Guillaume Tell, in which Mathilde, a Habsburg princess, sings an aria devoted to a forest of trees?

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After a few weeks off, we are back with a great new episode! Justin has written six new trivia questions for Hallie, and, in the great tradition of word play trivia, every answer is about something “great”! We also talk about dogs, Justin’s favorite video game series, and (supposedly) one of the great works of literature.

2:02: Q1 (Movies & TV): Charlie Chaplin played two separate roles, including Adenoid Hynkel, the Phooey of Tomainia, in this “great” film, his first true “talkie”.

14:28: Q2 (Everything Else): There are three dog breeds recognized by the American Kennel Club that have the word “great” in their names.  Name two of them.

27:33: Q3 (Times & Places): What is the most common term for the mass exodus of over six million African-Americans from the rural South to more urbanized areas of the United States in the twentieth century?

39:16: Q4 (Music): Sometimes also referred to as the American Standards, what is the “literary” term for the canon of the most important American music from roughly the 1920s to the 1950s?

46:10: Q5 (Arts & Literature): What novel, Charles Dickens’s thirteenth, is a coming of age story about an orphan nicknamed “Pip”?

56:31: Q6 (Sports & Games): The setting of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and a major character/dungeon in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time are both “great”.  Name both.

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Cheerio! This week, we travel across the pond, with six trivia questions all about Jolly Old London. We also chat about science history, impressionist art, and one of our favorite composers!

2:14: Q1 (Sports & Games): When London was chosen to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, it became the first city to host the Summer Olympics 3 times.  At the 2012 Olympics, eight competitors in what sport that developed in British India were disqualified when they tried to lose matches to obtain better spots in the knockout rounds?

7:37: Q2 (Everything Else): Robert Hooke was born on the Isle of Wight but went to Oxford and spent most of his life in London, where he coined what term in his 1665 book Micrographia?

15:11: Q3 (Arts & Literature): What painter created the House of Parliament series during stays in London in 1899 and 1900, six of which were shown in 2018 at the Tate Britain in London as part of a temporary exhibition called Impressionists in London, French artists in exile?

26:13: Q4 (Movies & TV): “Aliens of London” was the fourth episode of what British TV show after its revival in 2005, in which an alien crime family fake a spaceship crash-landing in the River Thames to lure the protagonist of the show into a trap at 10 Downing Street?

32:14: Q5 (Music): What English composer played trombone in London to support his music studies before becoming director of music at St. Paul’s Girls’ School, for whom he composed St. Paul’s Suite, originally titled Suite in C?

42:52: Q6 (Times & Places): What castle along the north bank of the River Thames that was founded as part of the Norman Conquest of England is a designated as a World Heritage site by UNESCO?

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This week, things get scary, because Justin has six new trivia questions all about fears, phobias, and freak-outs. We also talk American history, film, and superstition.

2:11: Q1 (Sports & Games): If you suffer from tonitrophobia, you probably are not a fan of this team, the only Big Four professional sports team in Oklahoma.

9:23: Q2 (Times & Places): Although he didn’t say “we have no phobia but phobophobia”, what President could have, in his 1933 inaugural address?

17:18: Q3 (Arts & Literature): If you suffer from chronomentrophobia, you probably do not enjoy this painting by Salvador Dali, which is arguably his most famous, and was, oddly enough, inspired by Camembert cheese.

24:50: Q4 (Movies & TV): While most of Alfred Hitchcock’s films are frightening, which one should you be especially sure to avoid if you suffer from ornithophobia?

31:10: Q5 (Music): If you suffer from chiropterophobia, you should absolutely not attend a performance of Die Fledermaus, an operetta composed by this Austrian composer, best known for his waltzes.

38:42: Q6 (Everything Else): What number is feared by people with triskaidekaphobia?

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Take a deep breath, because we’re going deep, deep underwater this week, with six questions about the dark, murky depths of the ocean. We also dive into some recent music, some modern mythology, and some very, very bad movies.

3:07: Q1 (Arts & Literature): What is the name of Jacques Cousteau’s most famous book, subtitled A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure, which describes his invention of the “aqua-lung” and the early days of scuba diving?

10:01: Q2 (Sports & Games): The two basic skills of what sport, part of the summer Olympics since 1984, are sculls, which are hand movements to propel the body, and the “eggbeater kick”, which is a form of treading water?

18:04: Q3 (Music): “Blue Ocean Floor” is the last song on the 2013 album, The 20/20 Experience, by what singer and actor who is better known for songs like “Cry Me a River” and “My Love”?

31:39: Q4 (Times & Places): The type of submarine built for the Royal Navy in 1902 was actually first used in what war, which began in 1904 over rival imperial motivations in Manchuria and Korea?

37:56: Q5 (Everything Else): In the Plato works Timaeus and Critias, what fictional place represents the antagonist naval power that besieges Ancient Athens which Athens repels as an allegory about the hubris of nations?

44:36: Q6 (Movies & TV): In 1989, five different movies were released that were underwater-themed.  Two focus on large sea creatures, one focuses on a shipwreck, one is about aliens, and one is about the search team looking for a sunken submarine.  They all had a poor reception except for one, which was nominated for 4 Academy Awards and won for Best Visual Effects.  Name any of them.

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Trilogy alert! Justin is back this week with six more trivia questions about baffling crimes, mysterious identities, and longstanding mysteries. But, this time… they’re solved, so you actually get a satisfying ending this time around!

2:46: Q1 (Music): Carly Simon confirmed in 2015 that the second verse of this famously enigmatic 1972 diss track is about Warren Beatty, though she also noted that he thought the whole song was about him, which sort of makes the original point of the song all over again.

9:22: Q2 (Everything Else): Named for a different mathematician, what conjecture, which says that no three positive integers satisfy the equation an + bn = cn for any integer value of n greater than 2, was finally proved by Andrew Wiles in 1994, over three centuries after it was first postulated?

18:37: Q3 (Sports & Games): What NFL quarterback, recently acquired by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, had a jersey that he wore in Super Bowl LI mysteriously disappear, apparently stolen by a member of the Mexican press?

29:36: Q4 (Movies & TV): Perhaps the most famous cliffhanger in television history, the whole country was asking “Who Shot J.R.?” after the third-season finale of what primetime soap opera?

35:38: Q5 (Arts & Literature): Landscape on the Banks of the Seine was stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1951, and was returned to the museum in 2014. What impressionist, better known for his plump female nudes, painted this recovered masterpiece?

43:39: Q6 (Times & Places): Called the “worst Briton in history” by BBC History magazine, what infamous East Ender was finally identified by DNA evidence as Aaron Kosminski in 2019?

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This week, we play a game of same names – every trivia question Hallie has written is about a pair of things that share their names with each other. We also chat about European history, mythology, and film scores!

2:41: Q1 (Movies & TV): What title is shared by a 1996 psychological thriller film starring James Spader and Holly Hunter, which won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes and a 2004 drama film starring Sandra Bullock and Don Cheadle, which won 3 Academy Awards?

10:58: Q2 (Times & Places): The Troubles in Ireland describes the ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland in the late 20th century, whereas the Time of Troubles describes a period of political crisis in the Tsardom of Russia which began with the death of what Tsar, who happens to share a first name with a troubled Russian writer who was born 2 centuries later?

17:00: Q3 (Arts & Literature): What Italian painter, born in 1571 and known for his use of chiaroscuro, shares a first name with another Italian painter, sculptor, and architect who was born a century earlier?

26:17: Q4 (Sports & Games): What is the full name, with slightly different spelling, shared by the only living openly gay MLB player and a former professional baseball player who is now the executive vice president of baseball operations and minority owner of the Oakland Athletics?

31:07: Q5 (Everything Else): The names of a music streaming service and a jewelry company both coincide with the name of what woman of Greek mythology, created by Hephaestus on the instructions of Zeus?

36:20: Q6 (Music): What is the name of both the classical guitarist for the English/Australian instrumental rock group Sky and the American composer, conductor, and pianist who composed the scores for 8 of the top 25 highest-grossing films at the U.S. box office?

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This week, we have a license to quiz, because Justin has written 006 trivia questions about 007, James Bond. We also bond over discussions of U.S. Geography, British music, and religion.

1:55: Q1 (Arts & Literature): An easy question, to start: what former British intelligence officer created the character James Bond, and wrote the first 12 Bond novels?

11:07: Q2 (Sports & Games): Although the 2006 film version of Casino Royale revolved around a game of Texas Hold ‘Em poker, in the original Fleming novel, Bond and Le Chiffre play the chemin-de-fer variety of this card game, which was traditionally popular with French nobility.

18:34: Q3 (Times & Places): In the novel Goldfinger, Bond foils the titular villain’s plan to rob the United States’ gold reserves, housed at this military base. In the film adaptation, the plan is to irradiate the gold, rendering it useless for decades.

25:47: Q4 (Music): The best theme song from a James Bond film is Chris Cornell’s “You Know My Name”.  But the only one to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 is “A View to a Kill”, by this British New Wave group, also known for “Hungry Like the Wolf”.

32:57: Q5 (Everything Else): The secondary villain of Live and Let Die is named Baron Samedi, a name he shares with a figure in this religion, which is also featured in the film’s plot.

41:20: Q6 (Movies & TV): In the “official” James Bond series of films produced by Eon Productions, 007 has been played by six different actors.  Name all of them.

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This week, we get familial, because Hallie has written six trivia questions about famous families, real, fictional, and everything in between. We also talk about early television history, football, and Indian history!

1:41: Q1 (Arts & Literature): The subtitle of what 1976 novel , which spent 46 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, is The Saga of an American Family?

6:07: Q2 (Everything Else): What is the last name of the wealthy Jewish family originally from Frankfurt that rose to prominence with Mayer who established his banking business in the 1760s?

12:53: Q3 (Movies & TV): What sitcom, which originally aired on radio then aired on ABC from 1952 to 1966, starred the real-life Nelson family made up of a married entertainment duo and their 2 sons?

20:49: Q4 (Music): What American family music group who were most famous in the 1970s have, over time, been a duo, quartet, and quintet of siblings from a family from Ogden, Utah?

26:24: Q5 (Sports & Games): What is the last name of the football family in which two members were head coaches for 4 NFL teams combined and one was a defensive coordinator, linebackers coach, and assistant head coach for 8 different NFL teams, but was never a head coach?

34:54: Q6 (Times & Places): What political family, many of whom are involved in the Indian National Congress, have had three members serve as the Prime Minister of India, encompassing 40 of the first 60 years after India gained independence?

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This week, Justin grills up some bone-in trivia, with six questions about bones, skeletons, and notables nicknamed “Bones”. We also bone up on some folk art, Chinese history, and some classic sci-fi TV!

1:57: Q1 (Arts & Literature): A rather unusual word of uncertain etymology, what is the term for artwork that is engraved or carved onto ivory or bone, often associated with whalers?

8:49: Q2 (Everything Else): In the Greek mythological story of Deucalion and Pyrrha, rocks are referred to as the “bones” of what deity, the personification of the Earth and the mother of all living things?

15:38: Q3 (Music): “Dem Bones” is an example of what particular type of song, which developed among African-American slaves, and which is usually religious in character, as the term would suggest?

23:47: Q4 (Sports & Games): “Bones” is the name of a retired champion of what uniquely American sport, practiced professionally by an organization abbreviated PBR?

30:59: Q5 (Times & Places): Bones used in pryomantic oracular rituals are our chief source of archaeological information about what very early Chinese dynasty, which reigned from approximately 1600 BC to 1046 BC?

35:55: Q6 (Movies & TV): Leonard “Bones” McCoy was the Chief Medical Officer on what fictional vessel, the first of many to bear this name?

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