In an explosive new episode, Hallie busts out six trivia questions related to one of our favorite TV shows of all time, Mythbusters!  We also talk about Hollywood hijinks, curious candies, and, of course, high explosives.

3:13: Q1 (Arts & Literature): What 1974 novel by Peter Benchley, made into a film of the same name in 1975, was featured on an episode of Mythbusters as part of Discovery’s “shweekend” in which they built an animal analog to test whether they could kill it as per the method in the film?

10:16: Q2 (Times & Places): One of the just 25% of myths that were confirmed on Mythbusters was a myth saying that what soldier of the Texas Revolution could fire a shot from his musket and split the bullet on the blade of an axe stuck in a tree 40 yards away?

17:42: Q3 (Sports & Games): In episode 234 of Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie tested whether playing a video game simulation of a skill can actually improve your real-life performance when they played 4 holes at the Pebble Beach Golf Links before and after playing a golf arcade game.  What was the first major golf tournament hosted there in 1972, which Jack Nicklaus won, tying him with Bobby Jones for career majors?

24:40: Q4 (Everything Else): In the very first pilot of Mythbusters (there were 3), a myth was tested regarding what candy, made of sugar, lactose, and flavoring and was patented by General Foods research chemists in 1961?

31:03: Q5 (Science): Obviously I can’t do a Mythbusters episode without talking about explosions.  What explosive primarily containing nitroglycerin has been used on the show to try and paint a room, clean the inside of a cement truck, and split a tree down the middle when shot on the end of an arrow?

36:13: Q6 (Sounds & Screen): On episode 40 of Mythbusters, they tested whether the aluminum paint used on Buddy Ebsen while playing what iconic film character could have caused an adverse reaction that hospitalized him and forced the filmmakers to replace him with Jack Haley?

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In an eggs-cellent new episode, Justin has fried up six trivia questions about everyone’s favorite protein-packed ovals, eggs! We also crack open discussions of fine cuisine, children’s literature, and bizarre animals. And we won’t ask you to tell us which came first, the chicken or the egg. It was the egg.

2:36: Q1 (Arts & Literature): Scrambled Eggs Super!, Horton Hatches the Egg, and one other, more famous egg-related book, are all works by what best-selling Pulitzer Prize-winner?

9:14: Q2 (Everything Else): All caviar is fish eggs, but not all fish eggs are caviar.  Caviar traditionally refers to the roe of wild sturgeon from the Caspian or Black Sea, and comes in three main varieties, with Beluga being considered the highest-quality.  Name either of the other two.

18:58: Q3 (Sounds & Screen): Appropriately enough, this somehow-zero-time-Academy-Award-nominee and his brother Michael extolled the nutritional benefits of eggs in a PSA for the American Egg Board.

31:05: Q4 (Science): As we all know, most mammals do not lay eggs.  What is the collective term for the four species of echidna and the duck-billed platypus, the only mammals that do lay eggs?

40:45: Q5 (Sports & Games): I’m not making this up: Shell Shockers is a free, online video game in which you control an egg equipped with various firearms, and try to kill other eggs.  Seen through the non-existent eyes of your eggy avatar, it is one example of what particular three-word (or three-letter) genre?

46:39: Q6 (Times & Places): Due to the Russian Revolution of 1917, the last of the famous Fabergé eggs was never completed.  But, it was commissioned by this man as a gift for his wife.

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Justin recently moved to Florida, so Hallie has written six new questions about the iconic animal inhabitant of the Sunshine State, the humble alligator.  Also lurking in this swamp of trivia are discussions of the food chain, Olympic swimmers, and Asian geography.

2:18: Q1 (Times & Places): There are two extant species of alligators in the world today- Alligator mississippiensis and Alligator sinensis.  Alligator mississippiensis is found in the southeast United States, while Alligator sinensis is found only in what river, the longest river in the world to be contained entirely within one country?

7:48: Q2 (Sounds & Screen): On what band’s second album, released in 1968, and called Anthem of the Sun was there a song called “Alligator”, written by members Phil Lesh and Ron “Pigpen” McKernan?

13:54: Q3 (Science): Alligators prey on both Florida panthers and black bears, making them an example of what two-word term for an animal at the very top of the food chain that has no natural predators?

20:25: Q4 (Everything Else): The Gator is a green, small all-terrain utility vehicle with a bed like a pickup truck, which is made by what American corporation?  

24:53: Q5 (Arts & Literature): What painter, whose most famous painting was a controversial portrait called Portrait of Madame X, decided to do something different when he painted Muddy Alligators as a break from his difficulty with painting a portrait of John D. Rockefeller at his winter home in Ormond Beach, Florida?  

32:35: Q6 (Sports & Games): What swimmer, the second-most decorated swimmer in Olympic history, was a member of the University of Florida Gators swimming and diving team from 2004 to 2007, during which he was the NCAA Swimmer of the Year twice?  

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Season 5 is here, and Justin kicks things off with a very out-of-season Christmas special! We deck the halls with discussions of American poetry, astronomy, and a basketball legend.  Just don’t expect us to sing any carols.

2:28: Q1 (Everything Else): Protestants and Roman Catholics celebrate Christmas on December 25.  What third-largest Christian group celebrates Christmas on January 7, due to a difference between the Gregorian and Julian calendars?

10:03: Q2 (Arts & Literature): “Christmas Trees” is the second poem in the 1916 collection Mountain Interval, which opens with “The Road Not Taken”.  What American poet wrote these two works, and dozens of others?

16:36: Q3 (Science): What astronomical body was observed on Christmas Day, 1758, confirming a prediction made by its namesake 53 years earlier, not 76 years earlier?

27:14: Q4 (Sounds & Screen): What American musician, whose loyal fans are known as “Parrotheads” was born in the Gulf Coast city of Pascagoula, Mississippi, on Christmas Day, December 25, 1946?

35:08: Q5 (Times & Places): Cleverly sharing its name with the Christmas carol, historian Stanley Weintraub’s book Silent Night tells the story of a spontaneous Christmas Day ceasefire on the Western front of what war?

40:31: Q6 (Sports & Games): What legendary basketball coach, who holds the record for the most-ever championships, got his 1000th win as a coach when his Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Boston Celtics on Christmas Day, 2008?
 

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In a very special offseason episode, we are joined by a very special offseason guest!  Justin’s dad took it upon himself to write an entire game about the British Invasion, mostly to show up his son.  So, grab your acoustic guitar and your mop-top wig for a quizzical look at this pivotal period in music history!

2:17: Q1 (Sounds & Screen): The Fab 4 produced 4 fabulous live action films based on their albums recorded in the 1960’s.  The first, “A Hard Day’s Night”, was critically acclaimed.  The second, “Help”, not so much.  What were the titles of the Beatles’ final two live-action movies, named for later albums released in the UK?

10:57: Q2 (Arts & Literature): What 1970’s and ‘80’s Front Man and former English teacher, born Gordon Sumner in Northumberland, England, wrote and sang his group’s 6th Top 10 hit on the Billboard Pop Chart, which began by referencing Homer’s Odyssey with the opening line, “You consider me a young apprentice, caught between the Scylla and Charybdis”?

15:53: Q3 (Times & Places): On July 13, 1985, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Phil Collins, Queen, and other rock superstars, appeared in what benefit concert that spanned two continents?

22:51: Q4 (Sports & Games): What two-time inductee to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and former lead singer of The Faces, played soccer for the Los Angeles Exiles in a Southern California senior league in 2010 when he was in his mid- 60’s?

30:54: Q5 (Science): Though not part of the initial British Invasion, London-born Thomas Dolby hit #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982 with what song that implies a female caused him a disability that would have qualified him for an additional tax deduction in the United States?

35:16: Q6 (Everything Else): This may be second hand news but, former members of this band include Bob Brunning, Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan, Dave Walker, Bob Weston, Billy Burnette, Rick Vito, and Bekka Bramlett.  Name the group, originally formed in the UK in 1967, who went on to become the “Love-inist, hate-inist, fight-inist, drug-inist band of the 70’s”?

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Oui, oui, your humble co-hosts are enjoying their honeymoon in France today, so Hallie has cooked up a bouillabaisse of six trivia questions about this romantic land of fine dining and fine wining.  She also serves up discussions about pointillism, gambling, and sparkling wine!  And, we crown this season’s champion, which is somewhat ironic, considering what the French tend to do to people with crowns.  Vive la France!

1:51: Q1 (Times & Places): The French and Indian War began with a dispute over control of the convergence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River where French Fort Duquesne was located and which soon after became what city?  

11:18: Q2 (Sounds & Screen): What French actor born in 1923 was best known for his stage persona, “Bip the Clown”?

17:58: Q3 (Sports & Games): What casino game has been played in its current form since 1796 beginning in Paris and is believed to have been invented in its primitive form by Blaise Pascal in the 17th century?

26:54: Q4 (Everything Else): What is the French term for the last step of the methode champenoise, aka champagne production, in which some older wine and extra sugar are added to adjust the sweetness of the final product?

32:23: Q5 (Science): What simple device named after a French physicist was the first experiment to give direct evidence of the earth’s rotation?

36:19: Q6 (Arts & Literature): Georges Seurat, the most prominent French painter to use the technique called pointillism, also invented what art theory concept, which basically says that humans can optically mix the pigments on a canvas rather than having the pigments mixed physically by the artists themselves?  Either of its 2 names are acceptable.

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This week, we bring you a new installment of Quiz And Hers all about new installments, aka sequels!* Justin has six new questions about favorite franchises and foolish follow-ups.  We also talk European history, early cinema, and the evolution of languages!

*(Loosely construed)

1:53: Q1 (Sounds & Screen): The first-ever film sequel is usually thought to be a 1916 film that cashed in on the massive success of what controversial 1915 masterpiece by D. W. Griffith, which portrayed the Ku Klux Klan as a crusading force for good?

8:35: Q2 (Sports & Games): The first FIFA World Cup was held in 1930, and its sequel, in 1934, had the usual sequel tropes: it was bigger, with 16 teams instead of four in the tournament stage, but ultimately the same story: the host country won it all. Name either of these host-champions, one from South America, one from Europe, both still powerhouses in association football.

15:29: Q3 (Times & Places): If World War II is the sequel to World War I, then what war, fought on the Iberian Peninsula from 1936 to 1939, is the largely-forgotten interquel that originated a lot of what would be seen in World War II?

23:49: Q4 (Arts & Literature): John Milton’s most famous work has a much less well-known sequel, titled this, Regained.

31:27: Q5 (Everything Else): Creole languages are linguistic sequels, of a sort, as they usually develop when a generation of children learn a simpler type of mixed language as their native tongue.  What is the term for this kind of language, which derives from a Chinese pronunciation of the word “business”, and not from a type of bird?

40:47: Q6 (Science): Isaac Newton followed up on the Principia Mathematica when he published the results of his investigations into the diffraction and dispersion of light, in a book best known by what one-word title, also the name of the modern branch of physics concerned with light?

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We brave the elements today, because Hallie has titrated out six trivia questions about every chemist’s best friend, the Periodic Table of Elements!  Also on the table are discussions of theater, art, and public health, and we periodically say funny things.  Get it?

3:00: Q1 (Sports & Games): One of only two U.S. states that lend their names to chemical elements, what state’s main university’s football team, named after the state nickname, competes in the Southeastern Conference in the NCAA?

11:14: Q2 (Arts & Literature): Seven Figures by Bruce Nauman, Triple Negation Chandelier by Shezad Dawood, and Day and Night #2 by Jung Lee are all famous art pieces that use what element as their primary medium?

17:30: Q3 (Times & Places): Vassili Samarsky-Bykhovets, the first person to have a chemical element named after him, was a mining engineer born in the Tomsk Governorate, which is found just beyond what mountain range that forms part of the boundary between Europe and Asia?

26:08: Q4 (Sounds & Screen): What play by Joseph Kesselring written in 1939, premiered on Broadway in 1941 but is better known for the film adaptation in 1944 starring Cary Grant?  

33:07: Q5 (Science): What element, a silvery white metal, gets its name from the third most massive asteroid in our solar system and the second asteroid to be discovered after Ceres?

39:12: Q6 (Everything Else): Exposure to the ionic form of what element by many people in the U.S. and other countries around the world was called one of the ten great public health achievements of the 20th century in the U.S. by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?

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The title says it all this time.  Your humble cohosts tied the proverbial knot yesterday, so Justin has written six #trivia questions about marriage. We also talk opera, board games, and “marriage” in the animal kingdom. But, most importantly, we finally say “I do”.

2:19: Q1 (Sounds & Screen): The ubiquitous “wedding march” – which we didn’t have at our wedding because f*@& that s#!%! – is actually called the Bridal Chorus, and comes from Lohengrin, an opera by what epic German composer?

12:15: Q2 (Sports & Games): Probably the only board game to feature a space that reads “Stop! Get Married”, what Milton Bradley joint is considered to be America’s first popular parlor game?

18:22: Q3 (Arts & Literature): What painting by Flemish artist Jan van Eyck is thought to depict an Italian merchant and his wife, and may have constituted a somewhat non-traditional marriage contract, witnessed by the artist himself?

28:50: Q4 (Everything Else): What landmark 2015 Supreme Court case made same-sex marriage legal in all 50 US states?

34:59: Q5 (Science): Human marriages sometimes don’t last, but this is only very rarely true of the lifelong, monogamous pair-bonds formed by what family of marine birds, known for their large wingspans, and for featuring prominently in a Wordsworth poem?

40:40: Q6 (Times & Places): Perhaps history’s most famous power couple, what two young royals (and second cousins) were married in Valladolid on October 19, 1469, essentially giving birth to a current European nation, about a year before the birth of their first child?

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In a high-flying new episode, Hallie has trained up six new trivia questions related to the circus! We also talk about ancient entertainment, current literature, and, naturally, Cirque du Soleil.  And, of course, we clown around a bit.

2:51: Q1 (Times & Places): The origin of the circus dates back to ancient Rome, in which a circus was an open-air venue used for horse and chariot races, gladiator battles, and equestrian shows.  What was the equivalent term for the circus in ancient Greece, which came from the Greek words for horse and course?

8:29: Q2 (Arts & Literature): What novel by Sara Gruen is about a vet student named Jacob Jankowski who leaves vet school and ends up being hired by the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth to care for the animals?

16:57: Q3 (Science): Clownfish, also known as amphiprioninae, have what type of symbiotic relationship with sea anemones, similar to that between bees and flowers?

26:07: Q4 (Sports & Games): The arcade game Circus, in which the player controls a seesaw and a clown in order to pop balloons at the top of the screen, is based on what 1976 Atari arcade game influenced by Pong and which also influenced popular games previously built into Microsoft Windows and BlackBerry phones?

32:38: Q5 (Everything Else): In 2012, $9.3 million of contributions to what organization went to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus to settle a lawsuit in which they falsely accused the circus of using chains and bullhooks to control their elephants?
39:31: Q6 (Sounds & Screen): What Canadian founder of Cirque du Soleil has a surname which means freedom in France and which he shares with two Canadian politicians, a Canadian professional ice hockey player, and a world champion Canadian curler?

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