Quiz and Hers

We have big news: we’re adding a tiny third person to our trivia team later this year, so to celebrate, Hallie has written six questions all about babies! We also crawl into discussions of art, movies, and mythology!

2:13: Q1 (Arts & Literature): What Flemish artist known for painting classical and Christian history also painted portraits of his brothers and his own son as babies?

8:16: Q2 (Times & Places): The only king in history to be crowned in utero, Shapur II was the longest-reigning monarch in the history of what nation, at the time known as the Sasanian Empire?

16:54: Q3 (Sports & Games): Babysitting this is a minigame collection video game, which is a spin-off of a series that also includes games called Cooking this, Gardening this, and Crafting this.

27:06: Q4 (Movies & TV): What 1988 film, which was executive produced by George Lucas and directed by Ron Howard, is about a farmer who is chosen to protect an important baby from an evil queen?

35:24: Q5 (Music): What singer-songwriter is best known for his signature songs “Diana”, “Lonely Boy”, “Put Your Head on My Shoulder”, and “(You’re) Having My Baby”?

40:13: Q6 (Everything Else): The birth story of what Greek hero says that while his mother, Danae, was imprisoned in a bronze chamber, Zeus impregnated her in the form of golden rain?

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As the season winds down, this week Justin has written six trivia questions that all (sort of) relate to the famous “mother sauces” of French cuisine! We also dig into discussions of soccer, high fantasy, and 90s music!

2:25: Q1 (Sports & Games): Which mother sauce is also a word that the French might use to describe the national football team of the Netherlands?

8:37: Q2 (Arts & Literature): Sauce Robert, a daughter of sauce espagnole, shares its name with the first name of what American fantasy author, best known for the Wheel of Time series?

15:30: Q3 (Movies & TV): What TV character portrayed by James Gandolfini once quipped that the Italian version of Chicken Soup for the Soul is “tomato sauce for your ass”?

24:05: Q4 (Times & Places): A daughter of sauce velouté is named for what region of France, where the Allies landed on June 6, 1944?

29:17: Q5 (Music): What alt-rock band fronted by Billy Corgan performed a song called “Mayonnaise”?

36:25: Q6 (Everything Else): Bechamel sauce, along with other five we’ve already mentioned, were codified as the “mother sauces” by what Frenchman, called the “king of chefs and chef of kings”?

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This week, in one of the more unusual games of Q&H yet, Hallie has written six questions about things that aren’t technically curse words, but sure sound like they are. You’ll catch on pretty quickly, don’t worry. We also talk about hockey, food, and one of our favorite TV shows!

2:48: Q1 (Everything Else): The two styles of what soup dish consisting of broth, rice noodles, herbs, and meat are the Hanoi and Saigon styles?

7:16: Q2 (Arts & Literature): Featuring four anthropomorphic animals, what nonsense poem by Edward Lear was the first use of the word runcible?

12:30: Q3 (Times & Places): What world’s largest power station stretches 7,661 feet and cost almost 150 billion yuan to build?

18:24: Q4 (Sports & Games): Dick Paradise is a former ice hockey player who played for the Minnesota Fighting Saints as part of what league, the first major league to compete with the National Hockey League?

23:39: Q5 (Music): What song that sounds like an inappropriate question was released by Daft Punk in 1995 and was their first commercially successful single with a music video directed by Spike Jonze?

29:01: Q6 (Movies & TV): Many networks encouraged the creators of this show to change the name, but after presenting the CBC with evidence from the yellow pages, they allowed them to keep the original title.

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It’s back-to-school season, so Justin has a classroom full of trivia to start the new year off right! We also get educated about European history, a rock musician, and a famous comedian!

2:09: Q1 (Movies & TV): What actor and comedian did get respect when he gave a rare dramatic performance in Natural Born Killers, though he’s probably better known for starring in Back to School?

9:03: Q2 (Times & Places): The kids wouldn’t be going back to school if not for compulsory education, and one of the earliest modern compulsory education systems was implemented by Frederick the Great in 1763, in what now-defunct nation, which was the dominant force in unifying Germany?

16:58: Q3 (Everything Else): Developed by social psychologist Eliot Aronson, what teaching technique splits students into groups to piece together a particular part of a lesson, and is meant to break down barriers and encourage friendships?

23:40: Q4 (Sports & Games): When the kids get back to gym class, they will undoubtedly be subjected to what sport – the bane of athletically useless nerds – in which players must avoid rubber spheres, though if they catch one, they can get a teammate back in the game?

29:07: Q5 (Arts & Literature): When the kids go back, hopefully they will have a better experience than the students at Hailsham Boarding School, in Never Let Me Go, a novel by what Japanese-British author, also known for The Remains of the Day?

32:43: Q6 (Music): Sharing its name with its lead singer’s stage name, what shock rock band is known for the song “School’s Out”?

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This week, it’s another classic Q&H word game, because Hallie has written six trivia questions about people and things who share their names with big companies! We also talk classic literature, some spy history, and mythology!

2:14: Q1 (Times & Places): The original surname of what World War I spy is the same as the name of a United States-based digital payments network owned by seven of the largest banks in the country?

9:41: Q2 (Arts & Literature): The chief mate of the Pequod in Moby-Dick has the same name as what world’s largest chain of coffeehouses?

14:05: Q3 (Sports & Games): The largest exporter of beef in the United States, what Fortune 500 company is also the surname of an athlete who became infamous in the late 1990s after mutilating Evander Holyfield?

25:22: Q4 (Movies & TV): The main character in the musical Funny Girl has the same first name as that of what company, officially called the Federal National Mortgage Association?

31:34: Q5 (Everything Else): The name of what company was chosen by founder Phil Knight while at the Temple of Athena in Greece?

35:32: Q6 (Music): What singer/songwriter, known for “Try a Little Tenderness” and “These Arms of Mine” has the same name as a company with the slogan “Made to move you”?

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This week, we pull into Port Manteau, where the answer to every trivia question is a portmanteau! We also put together discussions of funny movies, African history, and some books you probably remember from when you were a kid!

2:57: Q1 (Movies & TV): What portmanteau word most readily describes the films of writer-director-actor Christopher Guest?

9:32: Q2 (Times & Places): What present day country’s name is a portmanteau of the two formerly independent nations – one an island chain off the other’s eastern coast – that combined to form it in 1964?

15:55: Q3 (Music): What music term is portmanteau of Japanese words meaning “empty” and “orchestra”?

23:46: Q4 (Sports & Games): What portmanteau refers to a large, international, multi-sport event for athletes with physical impairments?

30:43: Q5 (Everything Else): What seven-letter term for a specific type of vehicle is a portmanteau of a German word meaning “charge counter” and a French-derived word for a horse-drawn carriage?

36:53: Q6 (Arts & Literature): What series of young adult books by Katherine Applegate is named after an in-universe portmanteau created by Marco to refer to the titular group of teenage, shape-shifting alien-fighters?

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This week, Hallie has written six trivia questions all about angels! We also fly into discussions of theatre, religion (of course), and classic TV!

1:55: Q1 (Times & Places): Angel Falls, the largest uninterrupted waterfall in the world, is in the Bolivar State of what country on the northern coast of South America?

8:35: Q2 (Sports & Games): Prior to taking the name Los Angeles Angels, the Angels were named more specifically for what L.A. city where they still play?

12:10: Q3 (Arts & Literature): What early 90s play by Tony Kushner is a symbolic analysis of AIDS and homosexuality in the United States in the 1980s?

19:49: Q4 (Music): What Canadian singer-songwriter who founded Lilith Fair is known for the song “Angel”, which many people in the U.S. will remember from the super sad ASPCA commercials?

25:33: Q5 (Everything Else): In the New Testament book, Revelation, which archangel battles Satan and casts him out of heaven?

30:57: Q6 (Movies & TV): So I’m sure we all remember the Charlie’s Angels movies starring Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, and Cameron Diaz.  But the original Charlie’s Angels was a TV show.  Name any one of the actresses who played an Angel in the show.

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It’s the best week of the year, so Justin has written six trivia questions all about sharks of various sorts! We also dive in to discussions of comic books, World War II badasses, and, yes, the song you’re thinking of already.

2:26: Q1 (Music): What was the first video to reach 10 billion views on Youtube?

8:21: Q2 (Arts & Literature): Tiger Shark is an enemy of what comic book character, who is often dismissed as simply “Marvel’s version of Aquaman”, even though he debuted first?

13:46: Q3 (Times & Places): Although the nosecones of their planes are painted to look like sharks, the United States Air Force 23rd Fighter Group is nicknamed the “flying” what other non-aquatic predator?

21:35: Q4 (Sports & Games): The logo of the San Jose Sharks depicts a shark chomping what piece of sporting equipment in half?

27:05: Q5 (Everything Else): What old-fashioned-sounding term is the crime of charging illegally high interest on a loan and the crime that a loan shark would be charged with?

32:51: Q6 (Movies & TV): What TV series originated the phrase “jumping the shark” when, in a fifth-season episode, Henry Winkler literally jumped over a shark on water skis?

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We have a fun one this week, because Hallie wrote six trivia questions related to weird collective animal nouns, because of course she did. We also chat about art, history, and some classic music!

2:27: Q1 (Movies & TV): What TV show that aired from 1984 to 1996 and starred Angela Lansbury as a mystery writer includes the name for a group of crows?

7:00: Q2 (Times & Places): A group of beavers shares its name with what type of settlement, like the one that Sir Walter Raleigh attempted to create in 1583 but which disappeared a few years later without a trace?

12:25: Q3 (Arts & Literature): What painting by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec depicting two female lovers staring into each other’s eyes shares its name with a group of clams?

20:19: Q4 (Sports & Games): What yearly event, associated with a big college sports game, has the same name as a group of elephants and is comprised of individual parts that share a name with a group of crocodiles?

25:19: Q5 (Everything Else): A group of caterpillars shares its name with what branch of the United States military?

30:53: Q6 (Music): A group of buffalo shares its name with the band of what music group, known for hits like “Ladies Night” and “Celebration!”

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We are back for a new season, and this time, we kick it off with six trivia questions all about marching bands, because we actually met each other in our college marching band, like the big old nerds that we are. We also talk European history, movies, and of course, college football!

1:59: Q1 (Sports & Games): One of the most legendary moments in college football history is “The Play”, in which announcer Joe Starkey famously exclaimed that “the band is out on the field!”  What band was out on the field?

9:47: Q2 (Arts & Literature): In 2015, the Michigan State Spartan Marching Band performed a field show inspired by what work by Sun Tzu?

15:46: Q3 (Times & Places): The oldest formal military marching bands in the world were made up of Janissaries, the elite soldiers of what now-defunct empire?

23:49: Q4 (Movies & TV): The most famous marching band reference in a raunchy comedy was probably the parade scene from Animal House, until Alyson Hannigan said something utterly filthy in what 1999 movie?

31:39: Q5 (Everything Else): The first pictorial formation in the history of American marching bands was a block “P” formed by the All-American Marching Band, of what university located in West Lafayette, Indiana?

35:46: Q6 (Music): What band’s most successful song has a music video featuring Gerard Way and company in old-fashioned marching band uniforms?

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