Quiz and Hers

On this very artsy edition of Learned Lately, Hallie tells us all about two prominent artists that we haven’t yet talked about, whom you may mix up sometimes, Henri Matisse and René Magritte!

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This week, Justin proves that there’s no idea so bad that he won’t revisit it, because he’s designed another two-part, 12-question game, this time themed around the signs of the Chinese Zodiac! We also talk about weird books, anime, and Egyptian mythology!

4:06: Q1 (Arts & Literature): What Nobel Prize-winning German author wrote the novel The Rat, though he is better known for The Tin Drum?

11:32: Q2 (Sports & Games): Owen Lloyd “Ox” Parry was a tackle who played three seasons in the 1930s for what NFL team, the only one whose official, legal name includes the word “football”?

18:35: Q3 (Music): Jackie “Tiger” Brown is one of the principal characters in what “play with music” by Bertolt Brecht, which is famous for the song “The Ballad of Mack the Knife”?

27:50: Q4 (Times & Places): Br’er Rabbit is a trickster character in the folklore of what African-American ethnic group, who have their own unique Creole language, and primarily live in the Lowcountry and Sea Islands of the Carolinas and Georgia?

35:53: Q5 (Movies & TV): The Dragon Ball anime franchise includes, of course, Dragon Ball, and its direct sequel Dragon Ball Z. Name any one of the other anime series in the franchise.

41:30: Q6 (Everything Else): What Egyptian goddess obtained her power by placing a snake in Ra’s path, and later reassembled her husband Osiris’s dead body before resurrecting him?

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On this week’s edition of Learned Lately, Justin tells us all about the rise and fall of one of the strangest sports shows of all time, the Wide World of Sports. We learn how obscure sports you’ve never heard of propelled it to the thrill of victory, and how the rise of cable ultimately led to the agony of defeat.

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This week, Hallie has written a quiz all about works (mostly books) that were adapted into other works (mostly movies)! It is a very hard quiz. Justin gets big mad. We also talk about children’s literature, soccer, and some recent history!

2:37: Q1 (Times & Places): How One Man Saved the British Monarchy is the subtitle of a 2010 non-fiction book about George VI that was adapted into what 2010 film directed by Tom Hooper?

13:01: Q2 (Arts & Literature): What 1963 book, written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, was adapted into a 2009 film with some of the large creatures voiced by James Gandolfini, Catherine O’Hara, and Forest Whitaker?

18:45: Q3 (Everything Else): The Accidental Billionaires, the book that was the basis for the film The Social Network, was written by Ben Mezrich in consultation with what Facebook co-founder who broke contact with Mezrich after settling his lawsuit with Mark Zuckerberg?

30:10: Q4 (Movies & TV): The Godfather was adapted from a 1969 novel of the same name by what author who also co-wrote the screenplay with Francis Ford Coppola?

36:34: Q5 (Sports & Games): The 2005 film Fever Pitch completely changed the subject of the 1992 essay it was based on.  While the film is about the main character’s obsession with the Boston Red Sox, the essay was about the author’s obsession with which Premier League team based in Holloway, North London?

42:41: Q6 (Music): Victor Hugo’s novel, Les Miserables, was adapted as a stage musical.  Name either the composer or lyricist who also co-wrote the book for the musical.

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This week on Learned Lately, Hallie talks about something she probably should have talked about in her game all about state names, Mr. Tennessee Williams himself!

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He’s done it again. In our final season, Justin has gone to the well once more and written yet another game about strange, unexplained events. We also talk about punk rock, baseball, and ancient history!

2:28: Q1 (Movies & TV): What multiple-time Academy Award nominee drowned under mysterious circumstances near Santa Catalina Island while on a boat with Christopher Walken and her husband Robert Wagner?

9:50: Q2 (Times & Places): Named for a mythical king and generally considered the first advanced civilization in Europe, what ancient civilization centered on the island of Crete declined and disappeared around 3,000 years ago, for reasons that remain unknown?

15:28: Q3 (Everything Else): While Jane Goodall studied chimpanzees and Birutė Galdikas studied orangutans, and what third member of the “Trimates” studied gorillas, and was the victim of a still-unsolved murder in 1985?

22:57: Q4 (Music): What American rock band never released its planned album Cigarettes and Valentines after the demo recordings were mysteriously stolen, choosing instead to focus on a new project called American Idiot?

29:25: Q5 (Sports & Games): Before seemingly disappearing without a trace, a man named Roger Szmodis won a contest to name what Pacific Northwest MLB team, who were formed after the Pilots left town?

38:49: Q6 (Arts & Literature): You know I love an art heist.  Among other works, Landscape with Cottages was stolen from the Montreal Museum of Art in 1972.  What Dutch master painted this still-lost work?

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On this edition of Learned Lately, Justin walks us through the nine Muses of Greek mythology, because they seem to inspire an awful lot of trivia questions, which we seem to get wrong.

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This week, we strap on the pads and hit the gridiron, because Hallie has written six trivia questions all (sort of) related to NFL team names! We also huddle up and talk about English history, baseball, and classic rock!

2:43: Q1 (Times & Places): The Minnesota Vikings are so named because Minnesota is the center of Scandinavian American culture.  Name either of the two real Vikings who claimed the English throne before the Norman conquest.

7:46: Q2 (Sports & Games): What Major League Baseball team with the second-most World Series wins of any team were originally called the Brown Stockings?

14:15: Q3 (Movies & TV): What actor who starred in a film that shares its name with the University of Alabama’s teams also starred in a film that includes the name of the only NFL team to have two players rush for 2,000 yards in a season?

22:46: Q4 (Arts & Literature): One-third of the title of what 1950 novel shares a name with an NFL team who has not won a championship game since before the Super Bowl era?

31:55: Q5 (Everything Else): The only NFL team to have a perfect season is named for what animal, the most well-known species of which is Tursiops truncatus?

38:56: Q6 (Music): What band’s greatest hits album from 1976, fittingly titled Their Greatest Hits, is the best-selling album in the United States, having sold 38 million copies?

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This week on Learned Lately, Hallie finally clears up which of the two famous female authors who went by “George” is which, because neither one of us can ever remember (and we know you can’t either)!

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We are officially back for our final season, and Justin starts us off by finally finishing our sporadic six-part series on the basic emotions, with a whole quiz about disgust and disgusting stuff. We also get a little queasy talking about classical music, football, and movies!

2:55: Q1 (Music): What classical composer wrote numerous scatological pieces, including Leck mich im Arsch – “Lick me in the ass” – though Eine kleine Nachtmusik is performed more often these days?

8:54: Q2 (Sports & Games): In one of the most disgusting and horrifying moments in sports history, Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor broke quarterback Joe Theismann’s leg in two places, ending his career. What team did Theismann play for (either the current name or the name at the time is acceptable).

18:06: Q3 (Times & Places): The Erfurt latrine disaster involved about 60 noblemen drowning in human excrement after King Henry VI of Germany called an assembly.  Despite this, what other, more powerful title was bestowed on Henry in 1191 by Pope Celestine III?

25:55: Q4 (Movies & TV): Known as much for his signature pencil mustache as for his transgressive films, what director’s work includes the so-called “trash trilogy” of Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living?

31:06: Q5 (Arts & Literature): What famous muckraking journalist said about his most famous (and famously gross) novel, “I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach”?

36:45: Q6 (Everything Else): What psychologist developed the theory of basic emotions and originally studied disgust, along with happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, and fear?

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