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This week, we quiz up a storm, with six questions all about extreme weather and natural disasters! We also talk about traditional Japanese art, the American Revolution, and a very strange Hollywood coincidence.

2:01: Q1 (Sports & Games): Bizarrely, there are three NHL teams with names that fit the theme of this evening’s game: the Carolina Hurricanes, the Tampa Bay Lightning, and this team, who play their home games at Denver’s Pepsi Center.

9:58: Q2 (Times & Places): Contrary to myth, when the Continental Army was camped out at this famously frigid site during the winter of 1777, the weather was actually pretty mild – it turns out, most of the deaths were due to disease, not frostbite and exposure.

18:08: Q3 (Arts & Literature): One of the masterpieces of Japanese woodblock printing is Katsushika Hokusai’s Great Wave Off this Honshu prefecture.

26:53: Q4 (Music): The Flood, a short opera retelling the Biblical flood story, was choreographed by George Balanchine, and written by this Russian composer, who is probably better known for ballets like The Firebird.

34:33: Q5 (Movies & TV): Inexplicably, 1997 saw the release of two separate films about a group of people trying to survive catastrophic lava flows.  One, starring Pierce Brosnan, is named for the fictional town where it is set; the other, starring Tommy Lee Jones, is set in LA, and has a decidedly more straightforward title.  Name either of them.

44:53: Q6 (Everything Else): What is the most common term in contract and tort law for the types of natural disasters we’ve just spent 45 minutes to an hour quizzing about?

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Wired Article: https://www.wired.com/2012/11/your-guide-to-volcanoes-in-movies/

In an ice-cold sequel, Hallie has written six more trivia questions about all things cool and cold. We also chill out with discussions of classic rock, TV specials, and a very weird sport that is basically hockey, but not.

2:33: Q1 (Arts & Literature): What painter and printmaker, born around 1525 in what is now the Netherlands, was one of the first of his generation not to do portraits and instead painted many landscapes including winter landscapes such as The Hunters in the Snow and Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Bird Trap?

7:54: Q2 (Times & Places): What region of Russia, which is the largest subnational governing body by area in the world and is inhabited by people of Turkic descent, had the coldest temperature ever recorded in the world at -67.8 degrees Celcius aka -90 degrees Farenheit?

14:29: Q3 (Music): What British-American rock band formed in 1976 had a hit with the song “Cold as Ice” off their first eponymous album along with the hits “Feels Like the First Time” and “Long, Long Way From Home”?

21:11: Q4 (Sports & Games): What form of hockey, also known as Russian hockey, uses a round ball instead of a puck and is played on a field the size of a soccer field?

27:35: Q5 (Everything Else): What British-Dutch consumer goods company whose name sounds like a simple machine but is actually a combination of 2 companies that merged in 1929, owns several brands that make frozen desserts, including Good Humor and Ben and Jerry’s?

34:05: Q6 (Movies & TV): Rankin/Bass productions, which produced the original Frosty the Snowman TV special, mainly focused on films using what type of animation as used in their other specials like Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?

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Body Count Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/body-count/id1445765613

Watchtower Database on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaALhkrzPaU&t=1s

Justin kicks off season 7 with a game of trivia all about anger, rage, and piping-hot revenge! We also chat about protest music, ancient history, and mobile gaming, and debut our new segment, Fact or Fucked!

3:24: Q1 (Sports & Games): Developed by Finnish company Rovio Entertainment, what mobile game holds the record for most days spent atop the Apple App Store’s Paid Apps chart, with 275?

10:05: Q2 (Music): Although he has some other projects, including his solo work under the moniker The Nightwatchman, what guitarist and singer is undoubtedly best known as the frontman of politically-minded rock group Rage Against the Machine?

16:29: Q3 (Arts & Literature): What prolific author published the 1977 novel Rage under the pseudonym Richard Bachmann?

26:16: Q4 (Movies & TV): Number 19 on the American Film Institutes “100 Years… 100 Movie Quotes” list, the iconic line “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!” comes from this 1976 film, directed by Sidney Lumet.

31:50: Q5 (Everything Else): A term that dates to Aristotle, what is the name of the discredited scientific hypothesis that “venting” anger by, for example, punching a pillow, will lead to less anger later?

39:25: Q6 (Times & Places): Revenge may be best served cold, but it was served up red-hot to the Romans by this first-century Celtic queen of the Iceni tribe, who was furious that Rome had annexed her kingdom after the death of her husband Prasutagus.

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Podguyz Podcast: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/966-the-podguyz-podcast-46419818/

Hallie loves musicals. She loves them so much that in this season finale, she’s written a whole game of trivia questions about them! We talk about the story of Broadway, biology, a hilarious film, and more, and crown the Season 6 champion!

6:22: Q1 (Arts & Literature): The electrical lighting installed on Broadway in 1880, which allowed women to go out at night unescorted, gave Broadway what three word nickname, which is still often used today?

14:19: Q2 (Everything Else): What musical that premiered on Broadway in 1976 and is not Jesus Christ Superstar, is based on a series of parables mainly based on the Gospel of Matthew and had a hit on the Billboard charts with “Day by Day”?

26:44: Q3 (Sports & Games): What musical with music by Tom Kitt and Lin-Manuel Miranda and based on the 2000 film of the same name, features a female-led high school team winning the national competition and ultimately bonding with their rivals?

37:28: Q4 (Science): Spongebob Squarepants The Musical, which premiered on Broadway in December 2017 stars an animal of what phylum?

43:09: Q5 (Times & Places): What musical, written by Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil, is based on Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly, but changed the romance between an American lieutenant and a geisha to one between a U.S. Marine and a South Asian bargirl?

52:23: Q6 (Sounds & Screen): What musical that premiered on Broadway in 2001 was based on a black comedy film from 34 years earlier that starred Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder and spawned its own film 4 years later with the original Broadway leads?

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In a sinful new episode, Justin has concocted trivia questions about six of the Seven Deadly Sins (#7 is for a tiebreaker episode, if this season comes to that). We also chat about mixed martial arts, current events, and skunk bears. So come sin with us and find out what a skunk bear is! 

5:51: Q1 (Sports & Games): Pride Fighting Championships, a Japanese mixed martial arts promotion, was ultimately bought out by what American company, the largest MMA company in the world?

15:21: Q2 (Arts & Literature): Avarice is a 1507 oil painting by this German Renaissance painter, whose other works include the unfinished Salvator Mundi, Adoration of the Trinity, and a celebrated self-portrait from 1500, which shows his incredible attention to detail?

21:45: Q3 (Times & Places): Envy is a village in the canton of Vaud, in this European country, formally a confederation of Vaud, and 25 other cantons.

31:33: Q4 (Science): What is the most common name of the largest land-dwelling member of the taxonomic family Mustelidae, which is also known as the “skunk bear”, or, more pertinently, the “glutton”?

39:21: Q5 (Everything Else): The Wrath of Olives is an insurgent group with unclear ties to the YPG, active in the Turkish-controlled areas in the north of this war-torn country, which American troops were only recently withdrawn from.

49:18: Q6 (Sounds & Screen): What West Coast hip-hop artist released the song “Lust”, and made a guest appearance on the song “The Look of Lust”, though he is probably better-known for the less sinful chart-topping single “Humble”, and the soundtrack to the movie Black Panther?

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As the season nears its conclusion, Hallie has come up with perhaps the weirdest category in Q&H history: six trivia questions about neologisms.* We also talk geography, children’s literature, and hip-hop.

*A neologism is a newly-developed word or phrase.

5:56: Q1 (Arts & Literature): The titular orphan of what 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter later became a neologism for an excessively cheerful or optimistic person?

12:56: Q2 (Times & Places): What collection of four archipelagos in the North Atlantic off the coasts of Europe and Africa is a neologism coming from the Greek words meaning “islands of the fortunate” and not, as you might think, a popular French dessert?

20:22: Q3 (Everything Else): What neologism and portmanteau, coined in 2005 by editors at Wired magazine, is used to describe the division of work amongst internet users to achieve a cumulative result?

30:08: Q4 (Sounds & Screen): What is the English translation of Johann Straus II’s waltz, Man lebt nur einmal!, which later lended itself to a neologism invented by a rapper who used it in his song “The Motto” on his 2011 album, Take Care?

37:58: Q5 (Science): What neologism was introduced to the public in a 1920 play by the Czech writer Karel Capek and was derived from the Slavic word for labor or work?

43:39: Q6 (Sports & Games): What sporting item is a neologism based on an item created by the Wham-O toy company and is therefore not allowed to be used in the names of sports like guts and ultimate?

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This week, we quiz in the shadows, to serve the light, as Justin leaps into six trivia questions about his second-favorite video game franchise of all time, Assassin’s Creed. We also talk about architecture, actors, and inventions!

6:34: Q1 (Everything Else): The Brotherhood of Assassins in the Assassin’s Creed franchise are extremely loosely based on a real Nizari Ismaili sect of what second-largest branch of Islam?

13:30: Q2 (Sounds & Screen): The Assassin’s Creed film starred Michael Fassbender as the Assassin Callum Lynch, who clashes with Templar Grand Master Alan Rikken, played by this actor, known for other villainous roles including a scheming lion, a literary child molester, and the brother of an exceptional thief.

21:05: Q3 (Sports & Games): The original Assassin’s Creed game was initially developed as a spinoff in which you played as an assassin protecting the title character of this other Ubisoft series, which is set in the same general geographic area.

28:39: Q4 (Arts & Literature): One of the best features of Assassin’s Creed II was the puzzle-oriented Assassin Tomb levels, one of which was located in Venice’s St. Mark’s Basilica, which happens to be one of the world’s most famous examples of this style of architecture, particularly known for its large domes.

36:25: Q5 (Times & Places): As its subtitle suggests, Assassin’s Creed IV takes place during the “Golden Age” of this activity.

42:40: Q6 (Science): Among the many real-life historical figures encountered in the Assassin’s Creed games is this Victorian-era man, who considered himself principally a teacher of the deaf, though he is best remembered for a particular invention.

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With the holidays around the corner, Hallie is in a celebrating mood, and pours out six trivia questions about liquor! We also toast a classical composer, a famous painter, and one of the greatest video games of all time. So mix up your favorite cocktail, and join us for the booziest Q&H yet!

5:46: Q1 (Times & Places): What was the name of the protest that occurred during George Washington’s presidency in which protestors fought against taxes on distilled spirits?

13:58: Q2 (Arts & Literature): A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, depicting a blonde bartender at a nightclub in Paris in 1882, was the last major work of which French modernist painter, whose earlier paintings included Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia?

19:34: Q3 (Science): What is the name of the enzyme found in our livers and stomachs that catalyzes the oxidation of ethanol to acetaldehyde?

27:49: Q4 (Sounds & Screen): What Austrian composer born in 1797 and wrote over 600 secular vocal works, wrote many Trinklied, which translates to “drinking songs” in German?

33:15: Q5 (Everything Else): What spirit, examples of which include kirsch and slivovitz, is produced by distilling wine and generally contains 35-60% alcohol by volume?

37:57: Q6 (Sports & Games): Argonian Ale , Black-Briar Mead, and Nord Mead are among the alcoholic beverages that can help restore your stamina in what video game released for Microsoft Windows, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360 on November 11, 2011?

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This week, Justin has gone on strike, with six questions about labor disputes and disagreements. We also strike up conversations about a musical film, sports history, and current events.

1:38: Q1 (Times & Places): Perhaps the most famous strike in US history is this nationwide 1894 railroad strike, which shares its name with the Chicago neighborhood where it started, the railroad car manufacturing company involved, and the industrialist who founded that company.

8:49: Q2 (Sounds & Screen): Featuring music by Alan Menken and starring a young Christian Bale, what strike-centric 1992 Disney film was later adapted into a highly successful stage musical?

17:07: Q3 (Science): 1873 saw the first of many strikes by American miners of this energy source, a combustible sedimentary rock, typically mined in the form of anthracite or lignite, which also arguably played a significant role in the recent student-led “climate strike”.

25:49: Q4 (Everything Else): Two competing start-ups both saw numerous employees share in strikes on March 25 and May 9, 2019, the days of the companies’ initial public offerings, to protest low wages and a lack of benefits.  Name both of the companies.

32:58: Q5 (Arts & Literature): What author, amateur philosopher, and champion of free-market capitalism wrote a novel with the working title The Strike, which was ultimately published as Atlas Shrugged?

40:55: Q6 (Sports & Games): Technically a lockout, not a strike, a major North American sports league has only ever cancelled an entire season due to a labor dispute once, in 2004-2005.  Which of the Big Four sports leagues suspended its operations during this season, because the league and its players could not agree on a payment structure?

This week, Hallie has grown six new trivia questions all about trees! We also branch out and discuss college sports, modern art, and the not-so-modern art of papermaking.

2:22: Q1 (Science): What is the scientific name for the method in which scientists determine when a tree was formed, usually when the tree is too young for radiocarbon dating or as an added measure to calibrate radiocarbon ages?

7:47: Q2 (Times & Places): As you probably know, the tallest tree in the world is at Redwood National Park in California.  The second tallest tree, however, is a yellow meranti tree at the Danum Valley Conservation Area on what island, which is the largest island in Asia and is politically divided among three countries?

12:55: Q3 (Arts & Literature): What Dutch post-impressionist artist painted Evening; Red Tree, which was different in style to his other art but shared a similar palette with his later paintings?

20:34: Q4 (Everything Else): What is the name of the wooden frame used in manual papermaking as a mold to hold in the paper pulp and also happens to be the name for the second cut of brisket, also known as the ribeye cap?

24:19: Q5 (Sports & Games): What American university’s teams are named for any of six species of tree in the soapberry family, which have nutlike seeds with a shiny red-brown surface with a pale area on them?

31:02: Q6 (Sounds & Screen): What talk show, featuring two potted trees, which premiered as an online show in 2008 and which just had a movie premiering on Netflix on September 20, 2019, has had guests such as Barack Obama, Jon Hamm, and Bradley Cooper?