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In this week’s edition of Learned Lately, Justin tells the bizarre story of one of his favorite Internet gags, Boaty McBoatface, and his surprisingly large number of cousins!

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This week, we’re traveling back in time, because Hallie has written six trivia questions all about the Renaissance! We also talk about video games, art, and one of the most strangely cast movies we’ve ever heard of!

2:42: Q1 (Times & Places): In Florence, the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, the Medici family ruled for many years.  The family produced four Popes of the Catholic Church during this time.  Name any one of these Popes.

14:11: Q2 (Sports & Games): What 3D fighting game, the second game in a series of the same name, premiered in arcades in 1998 and is about the pursuit of a mystical sword during the Renaissance?

20:34: Q3 (Movies & TV): What 1965 American historical drama starred Charlton Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as Pope Julius II?

26:41: Q4 (Arts & Literature): In 2017, what Leonardo da Vinci painting, Latin for “Savior of the World”, became the most expensive painting ever sold?

34:42: Q5 (Music): During the Renaissance, what type of musical composition was usually based on a cantus firmus, and was usually for a tenor voice?

39:42: Q6 (Everything Else): The Scientific Revolution, which took place during the second half of the Renaissance, began with the revolution named for what polymath who created the heliocentric model of the Solar System?

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This week on Learned Lately, Hallie tells us all about the different styles and movements in the field of interior design, because she has been thinking a lot about furniture lately. Enjoy!

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This week, things get a bit grim, because Justin has written six trivia questions all about death, dying, and the dead. We also die-ve (sorry) into discussions of baseball, literature, and a classic rock band (but probably not the one you’re thinking of)!

2:30: Q1 (Movies & TV): Dead 7 is a schlocky zombie movie written by Nick Carter – no, really – that premiered on what basic cable channel, which largely specializes in schlocky movies?

8:52: Q2 (Arts & Literature): “Death” is a short story, and Death in Venice, a novella, by what German writer, also known for the novels The Magic Mountain and Doctor Faustus?

16:57: Q3 (Sports & Games): Roughly lasting from 1900 to 1920, what “era” of baseball was characterized by low-scoring games, a lack of home runs, and some seriously messed up equipment?

24:14: Q4 (Everything Else): Death is one of the Major Arcana in what type of deck of cards, which is used for certain specialized games, and for divination?

29:55: Q5 (Times & Places): Bordering the Great Basin Desert, what is thought to be the hottest place on Earth?

36:28: Q6 (Music): What rock band shares its name with the river in Greek mythology that the dead were ferried across to the underworld?

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This week, Justin tries to get to the bottom of why the Hess Corporation makes limited-edition toy trucks every holiday season, which he thinks is the weirdest thing ever. He fails, but we still learn.

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This week, Hallie makes headlines, with six trivia questions all about newspapers! We also read up on classic hip-hop, recent literature, and one of your favorite diversions!

2:38: Q1 (Times & Places): Although William Randolph Hearst created the largest newspaper business in the world, he may be better known as the grandfather of Patty Hearst, known for being kidnapped in 1974 by what militant organization?

7:29: Q2 (Arts & Literature): The Village Voice, America’s first alternative newsweekly, was created by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, John Wilcock, and this novelist, best known for his novels “The Naked and the Dead” and “The Executioner’s Song”.

13:32: Q3 (Sports & Games): Sudoku, which became a common game found in newspapers around the world, originated with French puzzle setters who were experimenting with removing numbers from what mathematical array?

25:26: Q4 (Movies & TV): The 2015 film Spotlight is based on the true story of reporters at what newspaper who investigated child sex abuse in the Catholic church?

29:03: Q5 (Everything Else): Scholars usually credit ancient Romans with creating the first newspapers.  They were published chronicles of events, births, deaths, and gossip and went by this Latin name, which translates to Daily Acts.

34:30: Q6 (Music): “A Letter to the New York Post” is a song by what hip hop group formed by Chuck D and Flavor Flav in 1985?

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After last week’s Easter-themed episode, Hallie gets in the Passover spirit and tells us about an obscure Jewish dish she just learned about, and other Jewish food you may not know about!

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It’s Easter season, so Justin has written six questions all about the holiest day of the Christian year! We also talk about animation, poetry, and the Middle Ages!

2:34: Q1 (Times & Places): The term “Easter” is derived from the name of a pagan English goddess whose festival was celebrated in April, at least according to what Venerable eighth-century monk and scholar?

8:12: Q2 (Movies & TV): Easter Yeggs is a 1947 animated short in which the Easter Bunny meets what other famous Bunny?

15:36: Q3 (Music): Catalog number BVW 4, “Christ lay in death’s bonds” is an Easter cantata by what Baroque composer, who was voted the greatest composer of all time in a poll of 174 living composers in 2019?

22:08: Q4 (Sports & Games): Nicknamed both “The Easter Race” and “The Hell of the North”, Paris-Roubaix is one of the “Monuments” – the five most prestigious one-day races in what sport?

27:53: Q5 (Arts & Literature): Easter, 1916 is a poem by what Irish Nobel laureate, also known for “Leda and the Swan”, “Death”, and “Sailing to Byzantium”?

33:37: Q6 (Everything Else): In the Christian liturgical calendar, Easter is preceded by what 40-day observance, in which Christians often give up something they enjoy?

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This week, on Learned Lately, Justin chronicles the rise and fall of folk singers/comedians, the Smothers Brothers, because he knew nothing about them a week ago.

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This week, Hallie celebrates Women’s History Month with a game all about… eh, you can read the title, it speaks for itself. We also delve into discussions of poets, pop music, and science history!

2:14: Q1 (Arts & Literature): What English poet known best for the sonnet “How Do I Love Thee?” was in love with, and married, another English poet whose surname she took while also keeping her maiden name?

6:28: Q2 (Sports & Games): In 2019, Brittney Griner married Cherelle Watson, who then changed her name to Cherelle Griner.  Griner plays for which WNBA team, located in Arizona?

12:07: Q3 (Times & Places): What was Princess Diana’s maiden name, which was recently the title of a biopic about her starring Kristen Stewart?

21:53: Q4 (Movies & TV): Although Lucille Ball did not take her husband’s surname in real life, her I Love Lucy character did.  What were the last names of her first husband in real-life and her fictional husband?

27:23: Q5 (Everything Else): What scientist who studied chromosomes and who is still the only woman to receive an unshared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, was originally born Eleanor, but her parents changed it because Eleanor was deemed too “feminine” and “delicate” for her?

34:01: Q6 (Music): Gloria Estefan (nee Fajardo) met her husband Emilio Estefan Jr. in 1975 and joined his Florida-based band, which two years later became what band known for the hits “Conga” and “Words Get in the Way”?

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