Quiz And Hers

We are back with the premier of our FIFTEENTH season! Today, Justin has written six trivia questions about the legendary bringer of dreams, the Sandman! But don’t fall asleep, because we also discuss comic book heroes, European history, and one of the greatest baseball players of all time!2:41: Q1 (Arts & Literature): William Baker, aka Flint Marko, aka the Sandman, is primarily known as an antagonist of what amazing Marvel superhero?15:11: Q2 (Movies & TV): Tom Sturridge will be portraying the main character in an upcoming television adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, on what hugely popular streaming platform, which has also aired several other comic book adaptations?24:43: Q3 (Everything Else): Commonly called grizzled skippers or sandmen, Spialia is a genus of what order of insects, which includes butterflies and moths?32:30: Q4 (Times & Places): What two countries, which reunited in 1990, each had their own versions of the children’s television program Sandmännchen, one of which continue

In the last episode of season 14, Hallie has written six trivia questions about the eight nights of Hanukkah! We also light up discussions of party games, kids’ books, and one of our favorite musicians!2:48: Q1 (Arts & Literature): What children’s book author wrote The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s 8 Nights of Chanukah?8:19: Q2 (Times & Places): In the story of Hanukkah, Judea was part of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt before King Ptolemy V was defeated by what Greek king, whose same-named son looted the Second Temple in Jerusalem and outlawed Judaism?17:11: Q3 (Movies & TV): In what film written, produced, and directed by Nancy Meyers does one of the main characters host a Hanukkah party for her elderly neighbor and his friends?32:48: Q4 (Sports & Games): In 2015, what game known for being politically incorrect had a holiday-themed subscription called Eight Sensible Gifts for Hanukkah in which people got 8 gifts in the mail and also took part in solving a huge online puzzle?39:10: Q5 (Everything

Justin is always a little crabby, but that’s especially true this week, because he’s written six trivia questions about crabs! We also crack into discussions of B movies, famous art, and some really weird science!2:53: Q1 (Everything Else): A recent Internet obsession, what is the specific term for the process of convergent evolution that has produced crab-like crustaceans at least five separate times?14:42: Q2 (Movies & TV): What producer and director, nicknamed the “king of the B movies”, is responsible for such masterpieces as The Wasp Woman, She Gods of Shark Reef, and, most pertinently, Attack of the Crab Monsters?29:36: Q3 (Times & Places): There are at least three locations in the world called Crab Island, one of which is found in what New York-Vermont-Quebec lake, which was legally considered the sixth Great Lake for 18 days in 1998?39:57: Q4 (Sports & Games): To “catch a crab” is an error in which one fails to release one’s oar blade from the water on time, in what very demanding sport th

This week, we’re staying up past our bedtime, because Hallie has written six trivia questions all about notable moments on late night shows! We also talk about football, high fantasy, and hip-hop!2:05: Q1 (Times & Places): On September 24, 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that he would be running to replace what Democratic governor of California in a recall election?9:47: Q2 (Arts & Literature): Late Show host Stephen Colbert can answer most questions about Lord of the Rings but recently, he failed to remember where the Ents met within a forest in The Two Towers.  I’m not mean enough to ask that, but I will ask you to name the larger forest.17:26: Q3 (Music): What jazzy hip hop band is the house band for NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon?26:42: Q4 (Sports & Games): On Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s Mean Tweets segment, someone tweeted, “JJ Watt kinda looks like a fat @macklemore hahaha”.  Watt currently plays for what NFL team?37:17: Q5 (Everything Else): La

We have a pretty “major” episode this week because Justin has written six trivia questions all about famous generals. We also “private”ly discuss “colonels” of truth about military history, TV shows, and classic literature. “Lieutenant”.2:02: Q1 (Sports & Games): The Washington Generals are primarily known for being the longsuffering opponents of what much more famous sports team?8:35: Q2 (Arts & Literature): General Scheisskopf – which literally means “shithead” in English – is a minor, minor, minor, minor character in what satirical Joseph Heller novel?16:26: Q3 (Times & Places): What American General famously promised the Philippines “I shall return”, in 1942?29:04: Q4 (Movies & TV): What action-comedy TV series introduced viewers to an orange 1969 Dodge Charger nicknamed the “General Lee”?34:48: Q5 (Everything Else): While the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force call their four-star officers “Generals”, what is the equivalent rank in the Navy, Coast Guard, Public Health Com

This week, we take a “trip” back to the nicest year of the 20th century, because Hallie has written six trivia questions all about events that happened in 1969. We also chat about baseball, Oscar winners, and the space race!2:20: Q1 (Everything Else): On January 2, 1969, what Australian-American businessman purchased the British newspaper, The News of the World, before buying and creating hundreds of other publishing outlets, including Fox News and The Wall Street Journal?9:13: Q2 (Music): On January 30, 1969, what band gave their last public performance on the roof of Apple Records in London?19:14: Q3 (Arts & Literature): What controversial novel, published on March 31, 1969, is a science-fiction/anti-war novel about the life of Billy Pilgrim, and was partially based on the experiences of its author as a prisoner of war?30:29: Q4 (Movies & TV): Released on May 25, 1969, what film starring Dustin Hoffman and John Voight earned them both Oscar nominations and won the award for Best Picture?37:30: Q5 (T

This week, we question everything, because Justin has written six trivia answers, and Hallie has to give the who, the what, the when, the where, the why, and the how. We also drill down on movie censorship, baseball pitches, and one of Justin’s favorite pieces of classical music!2:46: Q1 (Movies & TV): Who: He was president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America from 1922 to 1945, and the Motion Picture Production Code that governed the content of Hollywood films from 1934 to 1954 is nicknamed for him.10:23: Q2 (Arts & Literature): What: Often called the first novel in history, it was first published prior to 1021 by Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu.19:04: Q3 (Times & Places): When: The decade in which sovereignty over Hong Kong and Macau was transferred to China.28:35: Q4 (Music): Where: It’s the location that Antonin Dvorak’s ninth symphony is “from”, per its title.36:38: Q5 (Everything Else): Why: Because this temperature, equivalent to -273.15 degrees Celsius, is the c

Hallie is in the holiday spirit a bit early, because this week, she has six trivia questions about everyone’s favorite(?) Christmastime rom-com, Love, Actually. We also talk about drinking games, Colin Firth, and a musician who died far too young.3:53: Q1 (Movies & TV): Colin Firth who plays Jamie in Love Actually, received his first Academy Award nomination for what 2009 film about an unmarried gay British university professor who is depressed and living in Southern California in 1962?13:05: Q2 (Times & Places): Lucia Moniz, the actress and singer who plays Aurelia, the housekeeper who is Colin Firth’s love interest, is from what country, which got its independence from the Kingdom of Leon with the Treaty of Zamora in 1143 A.D, making Afonso Henriques its first king?23:27: Q3 (Everything Else): The year after Love Actually premiered in 2003, Laura Linney and Liam Neeson worked together again on a film in which the titular character is what real-life professor who wrote Sexual Behavior in the Human Ma

This podcast is always about braaaaiiiinnssssss, but especially this Halloween season, because Justin has written six trivia questions about the undead menace, zombies! We also bite into discussions of philosophy, hockey, and a hilarious movie trilogy!1:50: Q1 (Music): What song sung by The Zombies, which arguably has a redundant title, became a surprise hit in the United States in 1969, over a year after it was originally released?7:35: Q2 (Times & Places): What government agency – which has had its hands full over the past couple of years – released a graphic novel in 2011 that uses a zombie apocalypse to illustrate the importance of emergency preparedness?14:38: Q3 (Everything Else): A “philosophical zombie” is a hypothetical kind of person who behaves indistinguishably from ordinary people yet lacks the “access” type of what quality, sometimes also called awareness, sentience, or subjective experience?27:01: Q4 (Sports & Games): According to americaninno.com, the Hartford Whalers left behind a “zo

Howdy, trivia fans! This week, Hallie takes us on a trivia-tinged trip to the Old West, full of shootouts, saloons, and some serious stumpers! We also shoot off discussions a classic film, a lesser-known American artist, and some history you’ve definitely forgotten since school!2:18: Q1 (Music): The Louisiana Purchase, which opened up much of America to westward expansion, also included small portions of which 2 Canadian provinces, north of Montana and North Dakota?12:57: Q2 (Everything Else): Although his cousin was the founder of America’s oldest gunmaker and the rest of his family fought in most of the American Wars, what man chose instead to study art at Yale and later became one of the main artists known for painting images of the Old West?24:03: Q3 (Sports & Games): What shooting sport uses pistols and is based on the glamorized art of gunslingers of the Old West, although they use blanks or wax bullets?36:56: Q4 (Movies & TV): What 1969 Western film is about outlaws who run away to Bolivia afte

We’re back for our the premiere of our fourteenth (!) season, and this week, Justin has written six trivia questions all about canals! We also sail into discussions of Irish music, video games, and one of the weirder events of the past couple of very weird years.3:03: Q1 (Times & Places): What famous canal was derisively referred to as “Clinton’s Big Ditch” while it was being constructed, but saw 33,000 commercial shipments in 1855?9:21: Q2 (Music): In a song that has become an Irish standard, what titular object “went jingle-jangle, all along the banks of the Royal Canal”?16:44: Q3 (Sports & Games): The Panama Canal is one of the “wonders” that you can build in what series of turn-based strategy games, originally developed by Sid Meier?24:45: Q4 (Movies & TV): The canals of Venice, California, appear prominently in what 1984 horror movie, which featured Johnny Depp in his film debut, and introduced us to the murderous Freddy Krueger?33:58: Q5 (Arts & Literature): Canaletto’s The Entrance to t

In the season 13 finale, it’s another weird Hallie theme, because she’s written six trivia questions about people named Carmen. We also talk martial arts, troubling literature, and terrible TV!3:03: Q1 (Music): The opera Carmen is based on an 1845 novella by what French writer, a pioneer of the novella who also wrote La Venus d’Ille and Colomba?10:06: Q2 (Times & Places): Carmen Kass is a model who also ran for the European Parliament after her homeland joined the European Union in 2004.  Name this country, bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland and to the west by the Baltic Sea.17:46: Q3 (Sports & Games): In 2013, Carmen Marton became Australia’s first world champion in what Korean martial art, which emphasizes punching and kicking techniques?28:49: Q4 (Arts & Literature): In what 1955 novel is the title character really named Dolores although the unreliable narrator sometimes also calls her Carmen?39:36: Q5 (Movies & TV): Carmen Electra’s breakthrough acting role was as Lani McKenzie i

D’oh! This week, we finally have a trivia game about The Simpsons! We also have some cromulent discussions of TV history, baseball, and one of the great American writers!1:53: Q1 (Movies & TV): The first network to successfully compete with the “Big Three” since the demise of the DuMont Television Network in 1956, what network rose to prominence with the unexpected success of The Simpsons?8:16: Q2 (Times & Places): What Dutch-speaking region of Northern Belgium shares its name with a family of secondary characters on The Simpsons?12:48: Q3 (Sports & Games): The Triple-A minor league affiliate of the Colorado Rockies got their name from a Simpsons gag.  Name this sciencey-sounding team, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.20:58: Q4 (Arts & Literature): Widely considered to be the moment that The Simpsons jumped the shark, the title of the episode “The Principal and the Pauper” references the work of what writer?26:30: Q5 (Music): Who invented the instrument that Lisa plays in the school band?34:13

We’re putting in work this week, because Hallie has written six trivia questions about jobs, vocations, professions, and careers. We also work on our knowledge of art, music, and TV!2:31: Q1 (Times & Places): Tawaifs, who practiced the oldest profession in the world, along with contributing to dance, theatre, and the Urdu literary customs, catered to the nobility of what Empire that began in 1526?9:24: Q2 (Movies & TV): What was the title profession of the TV character who previously worked at a bridal shop in Flushing, Queens and then as a door-to-door makeup salesperson?14:32: Q3 (Arts & Literature): What artist founded the Revolutionary Union of Technical Workers, Painters, and Sculptors and frequently painted farmworkers?22:52: Q4 (Everything Else): What profession, which began in ancient Egypt, focused on the aims of chrysopoeia and perfection of the body and soul?28:23: Q5 (Music): What song, written by Bob Marley and most famously covered by Eric Clapton, is about someone who is being track

This week, we’re on Island Time, because Justin has written six trivia questions all about Hawaii! We also talk about Oscar-winning movies, classic literature, and an absolutely, utterly insane sport.1:47: Q1 (Times & Places): What decade saw both the overthrow of Hawaii’s last monarch, Queen Lili’uokalani, and the annexation of Hawaii by the United States as an organized, incorporated territory?7:22: Q2 (Music): What Hawaiian musician, whose popularity peaked in the 1960s, is best known for the song “Tiny Bubbles”?15:42: Q3 (Everything Else): Identify the volcano goddess of traditional Hawaiian religion, whose name differs by a single diacritical mark from the nickname of one of the greatest soccer players in history.23:39: Q4 (Movies & TV): What 1954 Best Picture winner, based on a novel by James Jones, tells the tragic stories of three soldiers stationed in Hawaii in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor?29:25: Q5 (Arts & Literature): What author set his short story “Koolau the Leper” in a

This week, Hallie gets medieval, with six trivia questions all about the famous Knights of the Round Table! We also get into roundtable discussions of chivalry, folk music, and one of our favorite recent movies (and its terrible sequel)!2:04: Q1 (Movies & TV): In what 2014 film based on a comic series, are the agents all named for knights of the Round Table?7:19: Q2 (Times & Places): Prior to the Code of Chivalry popularized by the legend of the Knights of the Round Table, there was an uncodified code in Europe called the noble what, a term for the environment in which one was expected to behave a certain way?12:28: Q3 (Sports & Games): Gareth was named a Knight of the Round Table by Sir Lancelot after he challenged him in what game, which comes from the French for “to approach” or “to meet”?21:15: Q4 (Arts & Literature): In the novel Ready Player One, the main character uses what avatar name, a version of the name of the knight who was the original hero in the quest for the Holy Grail before

This week, Justin has written six trivia questions about people, places, and things all called “Homer”. We also talk about American history, baseball, and (yes, of course), The Simpsons!1:36: Q1 (Times & Places): Homer was the first name of the plaintiff in what 1896 Supreme Court case, which upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation, and was later de facto overruled by Brown v. Board of Education?8:23: Q2 (Movies & TV): Homer, the patriarch of the Simpson family, is voiced by this man, who also voices “Grampa” Abe Simpson, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby, Sideshow Mel, and numerous other Simpsons characters.14:41: Q3 (Arts & Literature): What nineteenth-century American artist is best known for his seascapes, including The Fog Warning, The Gulf Stream, and Eight Bells?  (First and last name required)22:04: Q4 (Everything Else): HOMER1, HOMER2, and HOMER3 are examples of what basic unit of heredity, a sequence of nucleotides that encodes the synthesis of a protein?29:

Today is a “junior” episode of the podcast, because Hallie has written six trivia questions about people with the initials J.R.! We also talk about early American history, baseball, and dogs, because we have a dog now!2:04: Q1 (Arts & Literature): Jean Rhys wrote what novel, meant to be a postcolonial prequel to Jane Eyre, which takes place mainly in the Caribbean but is named after a body of water in the North Atlantic named for a type of seaweed?6:15: Q2 (Times & Places): Who is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia and was also married to the daughter of a local leader of the Algonquin tribe?10:45: Q3 (Music): John Joseph Lydon, the lead singer of the Sex Pistols, is better known by what stage name, which was originally given to him because his lack of oral hygiene caused his teeth to turn green?21:51: Q4 (Movies & TV): What American choreographer, director, dancer, and theater producer won five Tony Awards and also won the Academy

We’re off to the Midwest today, because Justin has written six trivia questions all about the Windy City itself, Chicago! We also shoot the breeze about baseball, classic rock, and a modern legend of television!2:20: Q1 (Everything Else): Considered the leading thinker of the Chicago School of Economics, what champion of free market principles wrote A Monetary History of the United States, and won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976?6:22: Q2 (Music): Also the government agency that oversees the Windy City’s buses and elevated subway, what was the original, longer name of the rock band now known as “Chicago”?12:06: Q3 (Sports & Games): Originally called the White Stockings, what National League team plays its home games at Wrigley Field, on Chicago’s North Side?21:45: Q4 (Arts & Literature): What painting, said to be the most parodied in history, was submitted to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930 by its painter – who also happened to have studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – won

This week, we have a bit of trivia horseplay, because Hallie has written six trivia questions all about horses! We also gallop into discussions of European history, classic rock, and, yes, the sport you’re probably thinking of.1:50: Q1 (Times & Places): A stallion named Copenhagen nearly kicked what owner’s head off after carrying him for 17 hours during the Battle of Waterloo, almost accomplishing what the French could not?6:21: Q2 (Sports & Games): In polo, what do they usually call the mounts even though many of them are Thoroughbreds ranging from 58-64 inches tall (or 147 to 163cm)?11:35: Q3 (Everything Else): The Pack Horse Library Project was a book delivery program in the Appalachian Mountains that was part of what New Deal agency which carried out public works projects?18:23: Q4 (Movies & TV): What American singer and actor who later gave his name to a fast food restaurant chain, starred in an eponymous radio and TV show with his Golden Palomino, Trigger?22:39: Q5 (Arts & Literature):