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This week, we finish the season a “high” note, because Hallie has written six trivia questions all about mountains! We also talk about geography, winter sports, and an iconic musician, and crown the Season 18 champion!

3:00: Q1 (Times & Places): Name the mountain range that stretches from the Liard River in British Columbia to the Pecos River in New Mexico, and whose highest peak is Mount Elbert.

8:37: Q2 (Arts & Literature): Which Post-Impressionist painter, known for his landscapes and still-lifes, is most famous for his series featuring Mont Sainte-Victoire, a mountain in the Provence region of southern France?

17:07: Q3 (Sports & Games): What sport which usually takes place on a mountain, was originally called “snurfing” in 1965 and is now featured in five events at the winter Olympic games?

24:26: Q4 (Movies & TV): What 2003 epic war film starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renee Zellweger is about a Confederate army soldier during the American Civil War traveling home to see the woman he loves?

27:55: Q5 (Everything Else): Believed to inhabit the Himalayan mountain range in Asia, what creature’s name comes from the Tibetan for rocky bear?

33:53: Q6 (Music): “Mountain Magic Christmas” is a TV musical premiering in December, 2022 starring what singer-songwriter, actor, and philanthropist whose songs “9 to 5” and “I Will Always Love You” will be featured?

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The title is pretty self-explanatory this week: Justin has written six trivia questions about famous “this and that” pairs! Among other things, we talk tennis, Broadway, and Justin’s day job! 

2:44: Q1 (Sports & Games): What two tennis players, often mentioned in the same breath, are the only duo to complete the career Golden Slam in doubles competition?

8:07: Q2 (Everything Else): What two-man research team developed Prospect Theory and discovered the availability and representativeness heuristics?

16:56: Q3 (Arts & Literature): What comic strip duo were named after a French theologian and an English political philosopher?

25:10: Q4 (Movies & TV): What duo co-starred in nine films for RKO Radio Pictures, including Flying Down to Rio and Top Hat?

34:28: Q5 (Times & Places): What Balkan country’s capital is Sarajevo?

42:06: Q6 (Music): What famous duo were the composer and lyricist, respectively, on Carousel, The King and I, and The Sound of Music?

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This week, Hallie concludes her two-part, 12-question game, with six more trivia questions about birthstones! We also polish off some discussions about video games, quirky music, and some very depressing literature.

3:22: Q1 (Movies & TV): What Australian actress who shares a name with July’s birthstone first became famous for her role in season three of Orange is the New Black?

8:28: Q2 (Everything Else): Peridot, the birthstone for August, is a variety of what mineral, named for its color which resembles that of a fruit used mainly for making oil?

14:12: Q3 (Arts & Literature): Ramona Lofton, the author of the novel Push, is better known by what name, also the birthstone for September?

21:50: Q4 (Sports & Games): In what video game franchise’s The Black Knight, a follow-up to the game the Secret Rings, do you collect opals, which is October’s birthstone?

31:52: Q5 (Music): Topaz, November’s birthstone, is a lesser known song by what new wave band, better known for the songs “Love Shack” and “Rock Lobster”?

39:14: Q6 (Times & Places): What ancient Native American culture from the area that is now the Four-Corners region of the United States made many items from turquoise, December’s birthstone?

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We’re decked out in stripes this week, because Justin has written six trivia questions all about his childhood favorite animal, the fearsome tiger! We also sink our teeth into discussions of weird books, 80s TV, and classic hip-hop!

3:05: Q1 (Sports & Games): What NCAA Division I conference has no fewer than three teams called the “Tigers”?

9:17: Q2 (Everything Else): Though it wasn’t technically a tiger, the extinct marsupial known as the thylacine was often called one.  What island was its native habitat before it went extinct in 1936?

15:38: Q3 (Arts & Literature): What 2001 philosophical novel by Yann Martel has only two main characters, one of which is a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker?

25:54: Q4 (Movies & TV): What 1980s science fantasy cartoon series had a humanoid tiger character named Tygra, who was Lion-O’s second-in-command?

32:00: Q5 (Times & Places): The Tamil Tigers were a revolutionary group active from 1976 to 2009 in what island nation?

40:00: Q6 (Music): What hip-hop collective that “ain’t nuthing ta fuck wit”, opens the song that tells us that with a voiceover saying “Tiger Style… Tiger Style…”?

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This week, Hallie steals one of Justin’s worst ideas by committing to a two-part, 12-question episode. Each question features one of the 12 traditional birthstones, and we also mine for information about international business, basketball, and 90s music!

2:36: Q1 (Sports & Games): What power forward who played with the Minnesota Timberwolves for 12 years and coincidentally played himself in the film Uncut Gems, shares his name with the birthstone for January?

8:04: Q2 (Times & Places): Amethyst, February’s birthstone, was originally thought to be one of the most precious until large deposits were found in what South American country, the world’s largest producer of sugarcane, soy, coffee, and oranges?

17:49: Q3 (Movies & TV): March’s birthstone, bloodstone, is also the name of a 1988 film starring Rajinikanth, who also starred in various films in what industry, also known as Bombay cinema?

26:41: Q4 (Everything Else): What international cartel specializes in the mining, sourcing, trading, and manufacturing of diamonds, the birthstone for April?

31:15: Q5 (Arts & Literature): What is the name of the sixth book in the Oz books by L. Frank Baum, which includes the name of the birthstone for May?

35:58: Q6 (Music): Rumor has it that the name of what band came from the name of Eddie Vedder’s great-grandmother and not from the name of June’s birthstone?

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Break out your accordion and your Hawaiian shirt, because this week, Justin has written six trivia questions all (sort of) about “Weird Al” Yankovic! We also get into discussions of pulp novels, a classic sitcom, and, of course, the legend himself.

2:46: Q1 (Music): “Weird Al” Yankovic is one of only five acts with a Billboard Top 40 hit in four different decades.  Name any of these hits – one a Michael Jackson parody, one a grunge gag, one a self-deprecating hip-hop bop, and one a favorite of pedantic English teachers.

10:52: Q2 (Everything Else): In his parody of a song by Coolio (rest in peace), which was in turn adapted from a Stevie Wonder song, what Anabaptist church does Al lampoon?

17:26: Q3 (Sports & Games): “Sports Song” is Al’s parody of what type of song that is most associated with college football, specific examples of which are usually associated with a particular school?

25:45: Q4 (Times & Places): In “Grapefruit Diet”, Al parodies a song by swing band Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, which in turn shares its name with what instance of racial violence in Los Angeles in June, 1943?

30:34: Q5 (Arts & Literature): Al covered the theme song of the 1967 animated series George of the Jungle, which was originally inspired by a character by what American author?

36:27: Q6 (Movies & TV): In his version of Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing”, Al – for whatever reason – just replaces the lyrics with those of “The Ballad of Jed Clampett”, the theme song from what TV show?

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This week, things are getting spooooky, because Hallie is celebrating Halloween with six new trivia questions all about ghosts! We also spirit into discussions of classic video games, classic rock, and a classic (?) film!

2:17: Q1 (Times & Places): Ghosts known as bhoot are an important part of the culture of what nation, bordered by India to the west, north, and east, and by Myanmar to the southeast?

10:11: Q2 (Sports & Games): Name the four colored ghosts that pursue Pac-Man.  

16:38: Q3 (Arts & Literature): In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, who is the first ghost that appears to Ebenezer Scrooge, clad in heavy chains from a lifetime of selfishness and greed?  

24:24: Q4 (Music): The 1978 song “Ghost Song” by the Doors featured the reading of a mystic poem by what lead singer who had died of a probable drug overdose in 1971?

30:34: Q5 (Everything Else): What is the name of the illusion technique in which an object that is brightly lit is reflected in a transparent screen at a 45-degree angle, and which is best known for its use on the rides Haunted Mansion and Pinocchio’s Daring Journey at Disneyland?

38:54: Q6 (Movies & TV): In Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner’s character builds a baseball field that attracts the ghosts of baseball legends like this White Sox outfielder and record-setting hitter who was banned from baseball after taking part in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.

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It’s party time, because this week, Justin has six trivia questions all about cocktails! We also pour out some discussions of baseball, poetry, and a famous crime movie (but probably not the one you’re thinking of)!

2:19: Q1 (Movies & TV): What 1971 crime thriller film starring Gene Hackman won the Oscar for Best Picture, and lends its name to a cocktail consisting of equal parts Cognac and Amaretto

9:07: Q2 (Sports & Games): While a “Harvey Wallbanger” is vodka, Galliano, and orange juice, “Harvey’s Wallbangers” was a nickname for the power-hitting 1982 incarnation of what MLB team, whose name is related to a different alcoholic beverage?

14:39: Q3 (Times & Places): Noted for the brutal tactics they used against the Irish Republican Army, what “colorful” British reinforcements from the Irish War of Independence share their name with a drink made of a dark stout and a pale ale?

21:33: Q4 (Music): Typically consisting of equal parts dark rum, vodka, and orange juice, the “Brass Monkey” is also the name of a song on the 1986 album Licensed to Ill, by what American rap-rock group?

27:08: Q5 (Arts & Literature): An “Ancient Mariner” is a complex Tiki drink whose name comes from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by what British Romantic poet, who published it in Lyrical Ballads, co-written with William Wordsworth?

32:13: Q6 (Everything Else): Composed of gin, dry Vermouth, orange bitters, maraschino, and Absinthe, what cocktail shares its name with the American name for the style of men’s attire that Brits call a “dinner suit”?

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This week, we’re in an Empire State of mind, because Hallie has written trivia questions featuring the five boroughs of New York City (plus Long Island)! We also burrow into discussions of a Broadway legend, a pioneering athlete, and one of our favorite movies of all time!

2:51: Q1 (Times & Places): What was the codename for the gun-type fission weapon developed as part of the Manhattan Project, which became the first nuclear bomb to be used in warfare?

12:12: Q2 (Sports & Games): The home of the US Open Grand Slam tennis tournament in Flushing Meadows, Queens, is named for what tennis legend who founded the Women’s Tennis Association and the Women’s Sports Foundation?

22:40: Q3 (Arts & Literature): What 2009 fantasy novel by Lev Grossman is about Quentin Coldwater, a high school student in Brooklyn who finds himself in a Narnia-like place called Fillory?

30:31: Q4 (Music): A Bronx Tale, a musical based on a movie based on a play by Chazz Palminteri, had music written by what EGOT winner, best known for writing the music for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin?

37:56: Q5 (Everything Else): A museum located in Centerport, Long Island is named for a member of what prominent American family that originally became rich with their shipping and railroad empires and during the mid-19th century, was the richest family in America?

46:10: Q6 (Movies & TV): In what 2008 film is there a scene shot on Staten Island ferries in which the villain pits two ferries- one holding civilians, the other holding prisoners- against each other?

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It’s been an eventful offseason, and we just closed on our first house (WHAT??)! So, to celebrate, Justin has written six trivia questions all about moving! We’ve also packed some discussions of art, football, and folk music!

2:40: Q1 (Movies & TV): What actor and comedian known for co-writing Blazing Saddles, co-starring in Superman III, and accidentally lighting himself on fire also starred in the film Moving?

9:29: Q2 (Times & Places): Though people our age might know it better as a computer game, what route across North America was traveled by some 80,000 people moving to start new lives in the Pacific Northwest between 1840 and 1869?

16:41: Q3 (Everything Else): What man moved from Germany to New York, then settled in San Francisco, where he founded his namesake company, the first to manufacture what we now call blue jeans?

24:56: Q4 (Sports & Games): Named for a major industry in their former home, what Texas-based NFL team moved to a new home in Nashville to become the Tennessee Titans in 1997? 

33:42: Q5 (Arts & Literature): The Movings, a painting by Louis-Léopold Boilly depicting a 19th-century family moving house, moved in 1982 to its current home in what art museum, the most prominent in the Second City?

39:03: Q6 (Music): According to Local First Bank, one of the “seven songs to play after closing on your new home” is “Homeward Bound” by what folk-rock duo of the 1960s?

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