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This week, we dip our toes into the king of podcast genres, True Crime, with six trivia questions about murder, mayhem, and… music.  We also chat about literature, football, and what passed for prison reform 100 years ago.

2:24: Q1 (Everything Else): Serial, which made true crime one of the top podcast genres, won what award in April 2015, which is named after a businessman and philanthropist and is awarded for influential and informative stories in TV, radio, and online media?

8:22: Q2 (Times & Places): What prison in New York, considered one of the most progressive prisons back in the early 20th century, hosted many true crime-worthy serial killers like Albert Fish, David Berkowitz, and Gary Evans?

13:58: Q3 (Sports & Games): A documentary was recently released on Netflix called Killer Inside: The Mind of which athlete who was convicted in 2015 for allegedly shot and killed two men, which many people believe was due to a lack of impulse control from chronic traumatic encephalopathy from playing football?

21:58: Q4 (Music): The 1977 song “In Germany Before the War”, based on a 1931 film called M about serial child killer Hans Beckert, was written by what singer-songwriter who later became known for writing film scores for films like Meet the Parents, The Natural, and various animated films?

28:41: Q5 (Arts & Literature): What non-fiction novel, written by Truman Capote and published in 1965 is about the murders of four members of the Herbert Clutter family in small town Kansas and is credited with establishing the modern novelistic style of the true crime genre?

34:32: Q6 (Movies & TV): In 2016, three different TV channels premiered shows related to the O.J. Simpson trial.  In February, 2016 FX had a season of an anthology series dedicated to it, then in April, Investigation Discovery channel premiered a documentary about it with archival news coverage, and in June, ESPN premiered a five-part documentary series about it.  Name two of these programs.

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In our first-ever threequel episode, Justin completes his trilogy of dragon-themed games with six more questions about the fire-breathing serpents of legend! We also talk about higher education, British history, and some very racially insensitive movies.

2:47: Q1 (Arts & Literature): Originally intended as illustrations of the Book of Revelation, the Great Red Dragon paintings are the works of what English poet and artist, who is probably best known for the illustrated poetry collection, Songs of Innocence and of Experience?

9:55: Q2 (Times & Places): Previously known as the Scourge of Malice, the Red Dragon was an English gunship owned by this corporation, which was chartered in 1600 to trade with the Mughal Empire, and later led the colonization of Hong Kong.

16:45: Q3 (Sports & Games): The Red Dragon is one classification of dragon appearing in the pioneering tabletop RPG Dungeons and Dragons, which is currently published by what company, also responsible for the trading card game Magic: The Gathering?

26:24: Q4 (Music): In the opening scene of the film Red Dragon, serial killer Hannibal Lecter attends a performance of the concert overture A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by this German composer, who is also known for the Hebrides Overture and his Symphony No. 4, nicknamed the “Italian”.

33:10: Q5 (Everything Else): The most selective group of its type at New York University, Red Dragon is an example of what particular kind of student organization, though the most famous example is probably Yale’s “Skull and Bones”?

41:54: Q6 (Movies & TV): The 1946 film The Red Dragon is one of 22 movies starring Sidney Toler as this fictional Asian-American detective, who was also famously played by Warner Oland, and was originally created by author Earl Derr Biggers.

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Ten episodes just wasn’t enough this season, because we ended the season tied.  So, we’re back with a ten-question tiebreaker shootout to crown the Season 7 champion!

1:43: Q1: What video game company developed Rage and Rage 2, which combine the first-person shooting mechanics found in Doom and Quake with racing?

3:25: Q2: What children’s book by Ezra Jack Keats about a young African American boy in winter, which received the Caldecott Medal in 1963, was number one on the list of Top Checkouts of all time by the New York Public Library?

4:18: Q3: One of the many, many popular songs titled “Hurricane” is a protest song about the arrest of boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, by this folk singer, born Robert Allen Zimmerman.

5:19: Q4: What surgeon on MASH played by Alan Alda was able to stay calm while treating critically wounded patients in the Korean War and was also known for his pranks and his womanizing ways?

7:59: Q5: The city of Tunis was the target of the disastrous Eighth Crusade, which was launched by this French king, who had also launched the Seventh Crusade, and is today the only French king to have been canonized as a saint.

9:04: Q6: What president, born on August 20, 1833 became the first sitting president to attend a Major League Baseball game in 1892 when his hometown Cincinnati beat the Washington Senators?

12:20: Q7: In Roman mythology, what mountain nymph was cursed by Juno, fell in love with Narcissus, and eventually faded away, leaving only the sound of her voice?

13:28: Q8: What American pop rock band that formed in 1970 in Philadelphia had a top 40 hit with the single “You Make My Dreams” as well as number 1 hits with “Rich Girl”, “Kiss on My List”, “I Can’t Go For That”, and “Maneater”?

14:42: Q9: The “Patient Abuse” sketch is notable for being co-written by Graham Chapman and this English author, who went on to write Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, as well as a humorous sci-fi series that, like the sketch, satirized nightmarish bureaucracy.

15:53 Q10: What small dog of the bull lineage and named after a city was the first American breed recognized by the American Kennel Club?

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In the Season 7 finale, Hallie has written six new trivia questions about dogs! We also talk about modern art, early rock ‘n’ roll, and a very unique sporting event. Woof woof!

2:49: Q1 (Arts & Literature): What artist, known for his sculptures of everyday objects like balloon animals, created a topiary sculpture of a West Highland White Terrier for Arolsen Castle in Germany in 1992?

7:45: Q2 (Times & Places): Pompey was a spaniel who belonged to and foiled an assassination attempt on what Dutch noble who was the main leader of the Dutch Revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years’ War?

18:18: Q3 (Music): In 1935, Red Foley composed and recorded a song about his German Shepherd, called Old Shep, which Elvis then recorded in 1956.  What other cover did Elvis record in 1956, after it was originally recorded by Big Mama Thornton in 1952?

28:44: Q4 (Movies & TV): Skippy, a Wire Fox Terrier born in 1931, was an accomplished actor most well known for his role as the pet dog Asta in what 1934 comedy-mystery film based on a novel by Dashiell Hammett?

33:44: Q5 (Everything Else): Cairo was the name of a Belgian Malinois who was in charge of tracking people trying to escape the hideout during Operation Neptune Spear, the operation carried out to kill what Saudi man in 2011?

40:41: Q6 (Sports & Games): Alaskan malamutes and Siberian huskies are the two most common breeds used in what annual race that happens every March and spans from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska?

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Grab some Spam and bust out your silliest walk, because this week, Justin has written six trivia questions about the classic sketch comedy show, Monty Python’s Flying Circus! We also talk about an odd literary technique, philosophy, and a legendary aviator.

1:41: Q1 (Arts & Literature): The surrealist comedy of Flying Circus, which often transitioned directly from one sketch to another with little to no explanation or closure, has been compared to what literary device, prominently featured in James Joyce’s Ulysses, among other works?

8:24: Q2 (Everything Else): In the “Philosopher’s Football Match” sketch, what existentialist philosopher, who originated the concept of the Übermensch, played forward for the German team, and received a yellow card for telling referee Confucius that he has no free will?

16:08: Q3 (Sports & Games): Another Flying Circus sketch depicts the “Olympic Finals of” this game, which does actually have an annual world championship held in the abandoned town of Consonno, Italy, where the game is called “Nascondino”.

25:05: Q4 (Music): The theme song from Monty Python’s Flying Circus is the “Liberty Bell March”, written by this American composer, often called America’s “March King”.

32:05: Q5 (Times & Places): The title of the Pythons’ TV show, “Flying Circus”, originated as a nickname for the four squadrons of fighter planes commanded by this World War I German Ace, known to history as the “Red Baron”.

38:22: Q6 (Movies & TV): The Monty Python comedy troupe released five feature-length movies.  Name the first of the five, which was basically just a collection of sketches from the first two seasons of Flying Circus.

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This week, Hallie is feeling sleepy, and she has dreamed up six trivia questions all about dreams, dreaming, and dream teams.  We also talk about amusement parks, traditional religions, and 90s TV!

1:35: Q1 (Times & Places): Dreamland was an amusement park that operated from 1904 to 1911 in what coastal neighborhood along with Steeplechase Park and Luna Park, which is the name of the only one that still exists there today?

10:04: Q2 (Everything Else): The Dreaming is considered a time of formative creation within what belief, mainly held by indigenous peoples, which says that objects, places, and creatures all have a distinct spiritual essence?

18:35: Q3 (Sports & Games): The Dream Team, aka, the 1992 men’s Olympic basketball team, included Charles Barkley who led the team in scoring, Scottie Pippen who led the team in assists, and what New York Knicks center who , tied with Karl Malone, led the team in rebounds?

26:12: Q4 (Arts & Literature): The entire first part of what book, written by John Bunyan in 1675, is presented as a dream sequence narrated by an omniscient narrator?

34:37: Q5 (Movies & TV): The last episode of season 4 of what TV show that premiered in 1997 depicts 4 dreams of each of the 4 main characters showing the risk they’ve put themselves in by going against the ancient prophecy that is the basis for the show?

40:13: Q6 (Music): Liebestraume, German for Dreams of Love, is a set of three solo piano works published in 1850 by what composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor who was a representative of the German New School?

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Ten-hut! This week, Justin has written six trivia questions with only one thing in common: every answer contains one of the “letters” of the NATO phonetic alphabet. We also talk about Shakespeare, cartoons, and country music!

1:49: Q1 (Arts & Literature): What Shakespeare tragedy is the only work in his oeuvre whose title contains two letters in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet?

9:52: Q2 (Music): What African-American country music superstar and former professional baseball player became the best-selling performer for RCA records since Elvis Presley, in the mid-70s?

16:14: Q3 (Everything Else): What distilled spirit gets its name from an Anglicization of the Classical Gaelic word for “water”, though the NATO Phonetic Alphabet uses the American and Irish spelling, not the Scottish one?

24:48: Q4 (Music & TV): What TV series, created by Van Partible for Cartoon Network in 1997, follows the misadventures of a delusional, narcissistic ladies’ man?

32:24: Q5 (Times & Places): Contained mostly in California, what mountain range contains three national parks, the highest point in the continental United States, and the largest lake in the United States, other than the five Great Lakes?

37:46: Q6 (Sports & Games): What South African sprinter became the first double-amputee to compete in the Olympic games, though his appearance in the 2012 London games is arguably overshadowed by his conviction for murdering his girlfriend the following year?

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On this President’s Day, Hallie has written six trivia questions about the past inhabitants of the White House! We also celebrate funk music, Scottish literature, and one of the most incredible athletes of all time.

2:13: Q1 (Times & Places): What medal, awarded to soldiers who are injured in battle, was the first military badge of merit for the common soldier and was revived on George Washington’s 200th birthday, aka President’s Day, in 1932?

7:57: Q2 (Movies & TV): What movie, loosely based on the life of Eugene Allen, follows the life of a White House employee from witnessing Eisenhower racially integrate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas to meeting the newly inaugurated Barack Obama?

14:53: Q3 (Arts & Literature): “Hail to the Chief”, the President’s personal anthem, was written based on verses from the poem The Lady of the Lake written by what Scottish novelist and poet, also known for writing Ivanhoe and Rob Roy?

26:14: Q4 (Music): What “Godfather of Soul” known for his social activism performed at Richard Nixon’s 1969 inauguration and was happy to see him reelected in 1972 and then recorded the song “Funky President (People It’s Bad)” about Gerald Ford right after Nixon’s resignation?

36:47: Q5 (Everything Else): On the original 1914 Federal Reserve Notes, Lincoln was on the $5 bill, Jackson was on the $10 bill, and what president of the late 1800s was on the $20 bill, although he was later moved up to the $1000 bill?

49:38: Q6 (Sports & Games): In 1912, future president Dwight Eisenhower famously played on the varsity football team at West Point against the Carlisle Indian School, whose star won Olympic gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon that same year and went on to play professional football, baseball, and basketball?

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This week’s episode is all about trivia related to the North African nation of Tunisia. It has the worst title in Q&H history, but some of the most fun discussions: we talk about ancient history, a completely insane Olympic sport, and Star Wars!

1:46: Q1 (Times & Places): With its eponymous capital located in modern-day Tunisia, what ancient empire, which controlled large portions of Northern Africa and the Mediterranean, was finally defeated by Rome in the Third Punic War, in 146 BC?

9:07: Q2 (Arts & Literature): The troubled young Lord Sebastian Flyte is alienated from his family, but finds a measure of peace in a Tunisian monastery far from his ancestral home, in what 1945 Evelyn Waugh novel?

15:57: Q3 (Sports & Games): Tunisia won two gold medals at the 2012 Olympics, in the men’s marathon swim, and in this women’s 3000 meter race, which shares its name with an equestrian event.

24:32: Q4 (Everything Else): What is the term for the wide-ranging protests and demonstrations throughout the Middle East from 2010-2012, which began in Tunisia, and spread throughout the region?

29:25: Q5 (Music): On the first anniversary of the Jasmine Revolution, Tunisian composer Jaloul Ayed’s symphony “Hannibal de Barca” was featured in a night of new Tunisian classical music at what non-Tunisian venue located on the Potomac River?

37:26: Q6 (Movies & TV): What two-sunned planet, the homeworld of Anakin and Luke Skywalker, did the Tunisian desert stand in for in the Star Wars films?

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This week, Hallie gets in touch with her inner EMT and prescribes six trivia questions about saving lives. We also talk about disco, American art, and Greek history.

2:05: Q1 (Arts & Literature): David Hayes Agnew, a Pennsylvania surgeon who performed surgeries to save soldiers with gunshot wounds in the American Civil War, was the subject in the painting The Agnew Clinic by what realist painter from Philadelphia?

10:22: Q2 (Sports & Games): What battery-operated game invented in 1964 and currently made by Hasbro, tests the players physical skills and is a variant of old-fashioned electrified wire loop games?

14:52: Q3 (Times & Places): Hippocrates, the first documented person to practice cardiothoracic surgery, lived during what period of Athenian political hegemony named after a prominent statesman and orator of the time?

22:54: Q4 (Music): What song by what pop group formed in 1958 by brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb provides a way for CPR teachers to teach the tempo at which to do chest compressions?  Name the group and the song.

31:59: Q5 (Movies & TV): What medical drama series that premiered in 2005 starring Ellen Pompeo and recently began its 16th season helped a woman in Israel save her husband’s life when she performed cardiac massage, which she learned from the show?

36:36: Q6 (Everything Else): Doing CPR by itself is unlikely to restart the heart but defibrillation can be used along with it to shock the person’s heart.  However, it only works for certain heart rhythms.  Name one of the 2 types of cardiac arrhythmias that can be shocked with a defibrillator.

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