This week, Justin grills up some bone-in trivia, with six questions about bones, skeletons, and notables nicknamed “Bones”. We also bone up on some folk art, Chinese history, and some classic sci-fi TV!

1:57: Q1 (Arts & Literature): A rather unusual word of uncertain etymology, what is the term for artwork that is engraved or carved onto ivory or bone, often associated with whalers?

8:49: Q2 (Everything Else): In the Greek mythological story of Deucalion and Pyrrha, rocks are referred to as the “bones” of what deity, the personification of the Earth and the mother of all living things?

15:38: Q3 (Music): “Dem Bones” is an example of what particular type of song, which developed among African-American slaves, and which is usually religious in character, as the term would suggest?

23:47: Q4 (Sports & Games): “Bones” is the name of a retired champion of what uniquely American sport, practiced professionally by an organization abbreviated PBR?

30:59: Q5 (Times & Places): Bones used in pryomantic oracular rituals are our chief source of archaeological information about what very early Chinese dynasty, which reigned from approximately 1600 BC to 1046 BC?

35:55: Q6 (Movies & TV): Leonard “Bones” McCoy was the Chief Medical Officer on what fictional vessel, the first of many to bear this name?

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

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