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S9 E1 - It's NOT the End of the World
It’s the premiere of season 9, and the world probably isn’t ending, even if it feels like it is. We dive into six trivia questions about failed apocalyptic predictions, because we could all use a reminder that the world has kept spinning so far, and it probably will this time, too. We also chat early American history, psychology, and one of the nuttiest people on TV right now.
2:21: Q1 (Times & Places): Puritan minister Cotton Mather predicted the apocalypse on three separate occasions, though he is arguably better known today for his influence on what panicked legal proceedings of 1692 and 1693?
11:09: Q2 (Movies & TV): In 1976, noted lunatic and eventual failed presidential candidate Pat Robertson predicted that the world would end in 1982 on what numerical television series, which he has hosted since 1966?
16:57: Q3 (Arts & Literature): What French physician and supposed oracle wrote The Prophecies, a series of quatrains predicting various disasters, including the imminent coming of the Antichrist?
25:03: Q4 (Sports & Games): What hobby, which keeps its practitioners poring over statistics all day, every day, did a 2009 article from Bleacher Report describe as a “sports apocalypse”, because it “breeds disloyalty” to one’s own team?
32:46: Q5 (Music): What American rock band apparently believed the apocalypse was upon us in 1987, when they released the hit single “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”?
39:48: Q6 (Everything Else): Developed by Leon Festinger, and known as “social psychology’s favorite theory”, what theory of how we rationalize our behaviors was described in the book When Prophecy Fails, about a cult that predicted that the world would end on December 21, 1954?
Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0
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It’s the premiere of season 9, and the world probably isn’t ending, even if it feels like it is. We dive into six trivia questions about failed apocalyptic predictions, because we could all use a reminder that the world has kept spinning so far, and it probably will this time, too. We also chat early American history, psychology, and one of the nuttiest people on TV right now.
2:21: Q1 (Times & Places): Puritan minister Cotton Mather predicted the apocalypse on three separate occasions, though he is arguably better known today for his influence on what panicked legal proceedings of 1692 and 1693?
11:09: Q2 (Movies & TV): In 1976, noted lunatic and eventual failed presidential candidate Pat Robertson predicted that the world would end in 1982 on what numerical television series, which he has hosted since 1966?
16:57: Q3 (Arts & Literature): What French physician and supposed oracle wrote The Prophecies, a series of quatrains predicting various disasters, including the imminent coming of the Antichrist?
25:03: Q4 (Sports & Games): What hobby, which keeps its practitioners poring over statistics all day, every day, did a 2009 article from Bleacher Report describe as a “sports apocalypse”, because it “breeds disloyalty” to one’s own team?
32:46: Q5 (Music): What American rock band apparently believed the apocalypse was upon us in 1987, when they released the hit single “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”?
39:48: Q6 (Everything Else): Developed by Leon Festinger, and known as “social psychology’s favorite theory”, what theory of how we rationalize our behaviors was described in the book When Prophecy Fails, about a cult that predicted that the world would end on December 21, 1954?
Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0
E-Mail: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quizandhers/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/quizandhers
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quizandhers/
Wasting Time Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wasting-time/id1457843139
TrivWorks on Twitter: @TrivWorks