Show Notes
This week, Hallie has six trivia questions about alternative answers to the oldest joke in the book. Why? Who knows. We also talk about a famous artist, chess, and Justin’s favorite animal!
2:30: Q1 (Times & Places): The joke doesn’t translate well into languages like French or Italian where it takes on a slightly different meaning. In those languages, only newspapers with which specific ideology are fitting responses?
10:07: Q2 (Arts & Literature): Although he mainly painted circus people in reddish tones for a couple of years, what artist who is best known for a black and white painting also painted
Woman with a Vase and
The Charnel House in black and white?
21:14: Q3 (Movies & TV): What 1993 film fits the joke with the only color in the film being a little girl in a red coat?
29:27: Q4 (Everything Else): A sunburnt version of what animal of the family Spheniscidae is often included as an alternative answer to the joke?
34:18: Q5 (Music): Known for heating up the red carpet and heating up Katniss’s dress in the Hunger Games: Catching Fire, what American singer-songwriter, best known for the song “It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over”, released his album
Black and White America in 2011?
40:14: Q6 (Sports & Games): Whose chess board was black and white and blue all over when he was beaten by a computer named Deep Blue, the first computer to beat a chess World Champion?
Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0
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