Break out the tissues, because this week Hallie has written a whole trivia game all about the emotion of sadness. We also cry about a dismal sports team, a depressing historical event, and a not-so-sad sitcom!

2:53: Q1 (Arts & Literature): What Latvian-born American abstract painter, known for his “multiforms” paintings with blocks of color, sought to create paintings that would bring people to tears and quite often succeeded in it?

10:53: Q2 (Sports & Games): What southernmost team in the NHL which has never won a Stanley Cup since they joined the league in 1993, was ranked the number 1 most miserable NHL fan base by ESPN?

17:36: Q3 (Times & Places): - On November 22, 1963, what anchorman for the CBS Evening News began to cry as he broke the news of John F. Kennedy’s assassination?

28:38: Q4 (Music): What sad-sounding band with a rhyming name is best known for their 1980s hits “Shout” and “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”?

35:34: Q5 (Everything Else): Seasonal affective disorder, abbreviated SAD, may be related to a lack of what neurotransmitter, which modulates mood, cognition, learning, memory, and physiological processes like vasoconstriction?

44:06: Q6 (Movies & TV): Phyllis Smith, the actress who plays sadness in Pixar’s Inside Out, is better known for her role in what American mockumentary TV series?

Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0

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