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 after executing several train robberies in the Wyoming area?51:26: Q6 (Arts & Literature): What Fortune 500 company, whose logo is a gladiator, got the first contract for a transcontinental stage line to carry mail from Missouri to California and then got into financial services in the money order business?Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0E-Mail: quizandhers@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quizandhers/Twitter: https://twitter.com/quizandhersInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/quizandhers/The List Game Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-list-game/id1291797303Moxie/Your Brain on Facts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-brain-on-facts/id1347915211

Quiz and Hers

S14 E2 - Quiz Fight at the Okay Podcast

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 the Grand Canal is one prominent work from a later incarnation of what “School” of art, which is named for the city where you would find the Grand Canal?38:43: Q6 (Everything Else): What was the name of the ship that obstructed the Suez Canal earlier this year, single-handedly grinding global trade to a halt?Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0E-Mail: quizandhers@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quizandhers/Twitter: https://twitter.com/quizandhersInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/quizandhers/History of the Atlantic World Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-of-the-atlantic-world/id1363411819Brain Ladle Podcast: http://www.brainladletrivia.com/Cormac on Twitter: @CormacsThoughts  

S14 E1 - Route Canals

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 in what action-drama TV show, which began in 1989 and moved settings in 1999 from L.A. to Hawaii?50:29: Q6 (Everything Else): What company’s logo features the tutti-frutti hat worn by Carmen Miranda in the film The Gang’s All Here?Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0E-Mail: quizandhers@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quizandhers/Twitter: https://twitter.com/quizandhersInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/quizandhers/Massive Late Fee Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/massive-late-fee/id1439705386Brain Ladle Podcast: http://www.brainladletrivia.com/Cormac on Twitter: @CormacsThoughts 

S13 E10 - Where in Quiz & Hers is Carmen (Not Sandiego)?

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: Q6 (Everything Else): The episode “Homer the Great” introduces us to the Stonecutters, a parody of what real-world fraternal organization, which actually traces its roots to medieval guilds of stonecutters?Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0E-Mail: quizandhers@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quizandhers/Twitter: https://twitter.com/quizandhersInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/quizandhers/BiCurean Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bicurean/id1378822013Trivia Rewrites Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/11p7jE73IlHf2boxqMl4RC?si=NzcthXR2QTinmxQ1WbsOMA&nd=1 

S13 E9 - Justin and Hallie Go To Springfield

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 tracked down for killing someone of a certain profession when he actually killed someone in the same field but of a higher ranking?36:25: Q6 (Sports & Games): What Big Four sports team was named after a profession that only exists in one of the United States, but oddly enough, not the state in which the team is located?Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0E-Mail: quizandhers@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quizandhers/Twitter: https://twitter.com/quizandhersInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/quizandhers/Skeptical Skeptics Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/skeptical-skeptics/id1441503478Brain Ladle Podcast: http://www.brainladletrivia.com/Cormac on Twitter: @CormacsThoughts 

S13 E8 - Working 9 to 5

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 Hawaiian leper colony, though he is probably better known for a couple of novels about dogs?35:00: Q6 (Sports & Games): What grueling long-distance race has held its “World Championship” in Hawaii since 1978, and, despite its name, has nothing to do with a popular Marvel character?Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0E-Mail: quizandhers@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quizandhers/Twitter: https://twitter.com/quizandhersInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/quizandhers/Bore Meets World Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bore-meets-world-a-boy-meets-world-podcast/id1357883583Trivia Rewrites Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/11p7jE73IlHf2boxqMl4RC?si=NzcthXR2QTinmxQ1WbsOMA&nd=1

S13 E7 - Aloha from Podcast-Land

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 writers changed it to Galahad? Give me either the knight’s name or the version used as his avatar28:09: Q5 (Everything Else): In some stories, Arthur’s fate is left a mystery, but in the poem, Morte Arthur, he dies and his body is received by what real leader of the Church of England?32:42: Q6 (Music): What American folk singer and songwriter who performed at Woodstock is best known for the songs “We Shall Overcome”, “Diamonds & Rust”,  and “Sweet Sir Galahad”?Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0E-Mail: quizandhers@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quizandhers/Twitter: https://twitter.com/quizandhersInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/quizandhers/Body Count Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/body-count/id1445765613Shane on Twitter: @BlueGuilGaming

S13 E6 - The Knights of the Round Table

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?29:05: Q5 (Music): What mononymous singer, known for the songs “Who Will Save Your Soul” and “You Were Meant for Me”, and whose last name is Kilcher, grew up in Homer, Alaska?35:43: Q6 (Sports & Games): What former San Francisco Giant holds both the Major League Baseball record for career home runs, with 732, and the Major League Baseball record for homers hit in a single season, with 73?  Despite this, he has so far been denied entry into the Hall of Fame, due to his association with performance enhancing drugs.Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0E-Mail: quizandhers@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quizandhers/Twitter: https://twitter.com/quizandhersInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/quizandhers/Retro Late Fee Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-late-fee/id1459736089Moxie/Your Brain on Facts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-brain-on-facts/id1347915211

S13 E5 - An Odyssey of Homers

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 Award for Best Director for West Side Story along with Robert Wise?28:02: Q5 (Everything Else): What dog breed originated from dogs bred and used, mainly for fox hunting,  by an English Reverend?33:32: Q6 (Sports & Games): What baseball player played for the Kansas City Monarchs then the Montreal Royals before debuting with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947?Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0E-Mail: quizandhers@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quizandhers/Twitter: https://twitter.com/quizandhersInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/quizandhers/Things I Found Online Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/things-i-found-online-podcast/id1282866232Brain Ladle Podcast: http://www.brainladletrivia.com/Cormac on Twitter: @CormacsThoughts 

S13 E4 - Who Is J.R.?

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 third prize, and $300, but is now one of the most famous works in the Institute?28:00: Q5 (Times & Places): Named for the square in Chicago where it occurred, what pivotal moment in the labor movement began as a peaceful protest for an eight-hour workday on May 4, 1886, and ended with at least 11 people dead?33:35: Q6 (Movies & TV): What television producer created the Chicago franchise, which consists of Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Chicago Med, and Chicago Justice?Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0E-Mail: quizandhers@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quizandhers/Twitter: https://twitter.com/quizandhersInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/quizandhers/We’re Watching Here Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-watching-here/id1450972000Shane on Twitter: @BlueGuilGaming

S13 E3 - A Trip to the Windy City

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): What is the name of the hardworking but naïve cart horse in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, who acts as an allegory for the Russian working class?29:09: Q6 (Music): “Wild Horses” off what English rock band’s album Sticky Fingers was their second US-only single and hit number 28 on the charts, not quite as high as hits off their previous album, Let It Bleed?Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0E-Mail: quizandhers@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quizandhers/Twitter: https://twitter.com/quizandhersInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/quizandhers/Wasting Time Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wasting-time/id1457843139Guestimate Quiz on Twitter: Guestimate Quiz on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GuestimateQ

S13 E2 - Horsing Around on Quiz and Hers

We’re back for lucky season 13! To start us off, Justin has written six trivia questions with numeric answers counting down from six to one. We also talk about classical music, classic literature, and a classic movie!2:35: Q1 (Everything Else): Originally developed at Motorola, and later successfully used by companies like Johnson & Johnson and Texas Instruments, what set of techniques for improving manufacturing quality derives its name from the field of statistical quality control?8:01: Q2 (Sports & Games): Not to be confused with the “Power Five” what is the most common collective term for the American Athletic Conference, Conference USA, the Mid-Atlantic Conference, the Mountain West Conference, and the Sun Belt Conference?14:13: Q3 (Times & Places): Rising to prominence during the Cultural Revolution, and later blamed for its spectacular failure, what is the usual collective term for the Chinese radicals Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen?22:54: Q4 (Music): Originally dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte, what symphony was retitled the Eroica?  Note: the answer should be of the form ______’s Symphony Number _______.31:30: Q5 (Arts & Literature): Two Shakespeare plays have the word “two” in their title.  One might be his first play; the other is a collaboration, and probably his last play.  Name the two of them.38:41: Q6 (Movies & TV): Two movies with the word “one” in their title have won the Academy Award for Best Picture.  One of them is 1934’s It Happened One Night.  The other one is this 1975 Jack Nicholson film based on a novel by Ken Kesey.Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0E-Mail: quizandhers@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quizandhers/Twitter: https://twitter.com/quizandhersInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/quizandhers/Docs That Rock Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/docs-that-rock-podcast/id1399865196Brain Ladle Podcast: http://www.brainladletrivia.com/Brainwave Trivia on Twitter: @BrainwaveTrivia

S13 E1 - The First (Not Final) Countdown

We may come off as book smart (or maybe not), but this week, Hallie is out to prove that she’s “street” smart, with six trivia questions about different kinds of roads, streets, boulevards, and everything in between. We also talk about American literature, country music, and fast food.2:00: Q1 (Times & Places): Known as the “most beautiful avenue in the world” and home to many luxury shops, theatres, and cafes, what avenue gets its name from a paradise in Greek mythology?7:24: Q2 (Arts & Literature): What American writer, best known for his 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, also wrote the novel If Beale Street Could Talk and the book-length essay No Name in the Street?11:57: Q3 (Sports & Games): What court sport, which originated in London prisons in the 19th century, is played by two players in a four-walled court with a small rubber ball?20:53: Q4 (Movies & TV): What 1950 dark comedy, later adapted into a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, is about Norma Desmond, a former silent-film star and is named after a major thoroughfare in Hollywood?27:04: Q5 (Music): Just a few years after releasing the song “On the Road Again”, Willie Nelson joined Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson to form what country supergroup that toured the world and had platinum record sales?32:42: Q6 (Everything Else): What fast food chain started in a Shell gas station on the northern part of US Route 25 next to the Appalachian Mountains and, in addition to its signature dish, served steaks and country ham?Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0E-Mail: quizandhers@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quizandhers/Twitter: https://twitter.com/quizandhersInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/quizandhers/How Will I Die? Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-will-i-die-pod/id1449548959Brain Ladle Podcast: http://www.brainladletrivia.com/Cormac on Twitter: @CormacsThoughts 

S12 E10 - Hittin' the Streets with Quiz and Hers

Something smells a little fishy this week, because Justin has written six trivia questions all about fish! We also dive into discussions of classic literature, economics, and a film director that you may have heard of.2:30: Q1 (Music): Although he also had a mildly successful career as a solo country in artist in the 2000s and 2010s, what musician is much better known as the front man of the rock band Hootie & the Blowfish? 12:02: Q2 (Times & Places): Fishing has been an integral part of their economy since they were colonized by Scandinavians in the late eighth century, and still remains their largest economic sector.  Name this subarctic Scottish archipelago, whose largest settlement is Lerwick.20:02: Q3 (Sports & Games): There are two professional baseball teams in the state of Florida that fit the theme of today’s game.  One is the Miami Marlins.  Name the other one.30:55: Q4 (Arts & Literature): What Pulitzer Prize-winning 1952 short novel focuses almost entirely on the struggle between its two principal characters, one of which is an enormous marlin?40:39: Q5 (Everything Else): There are strict limits on the amount of striped bass and blackfish that can be fished in New York  But, because demand outstrips the legal supply, fish poachers still catch the fish and sell them on this kind of illegal, exchange.47:34: Q6 (Movies & TV): What director had a fairly inauspicious start to his career, when he directed 1982’s Piranha II: The Spawning?  He would later go on to direct some other projects that were  more successful.Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0E-Mail: quizandhers@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quizandhers/Twitter: https://twitter.com/quizandhersInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/quizandhers/TV Tuners Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tv-tuners/id1418941362Cormac on Twitter: @CormacsThoughts Forbes Article from Question 5: https://www.forbes.com/2010/06/25/poaching-fishing-black-market-lifestyle-food-nyc-dec.html?sh=5cbe095f56ff

S12 E9 - This Episode Seems a Little Fishy

This week, Hallie has gone Full Hallie, and written an entire game about words invented by William Shakespeare, which doesn’t exactly narrow it down. We also play around (get it?) with discussions of video games, medicine, and music we are way too young for!2:22: Q1 (Sports & Games): What word invented by Shakespeare, which is a synonym of feline, could be used to describe the Pokemon Meowth and Persian?9:42: Q2 (Times & Places): What first lady of the United States shares a name with a term invented by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet, used by Juliet’s nurse as a term of endearment but possibly referring to a loose woman?15:10: Q3 (Movies & TV): The nickname of Burt Reynolds’ character in what 1977 comedy about two bootleggers trying to smuggle beer across state lines was invented by Shakespeare and based on an Italian word?24:32: Q4 (Arts & Literature): Bloodsucking, a word invented by Shakespeare in Henry VI Part 3, could be used to describe the characters in the novels The Queen of the Damned and The Vampire Lestat by what author?32:56: Q5 (Everything Else): In King Lear, Shakespeare was the first to use what word, which he used to describe someone with pock-marks from syphilis but today is a word for someone with a seizure disorder?41:21: Q6 (Music): In Richard III, Clarence says “not to relent” is beastly, devilish, and this word, which is the title of what 2020 song by Megan Thee Stallion, her first top 10 hit in the United States?Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0E-Mail: quizandhers@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quizandhers/Twitter: https://twitter.com/quizandhersInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/quizandhers/Time Sensitive Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/time-sensitive/id1452429903Cormac on Twitter: @CormacsThoughts 

S12 E8 - What's In a Name?

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