Show Notes
It’s party time, because this week, Justin has six trivia questions all about cocktails! We also pour out some discussions of baseball, poetry, and a famous crime movie (but probably not the one you’re thinking of)!
2:19: Q1 (Movies & TV): What 1971 crime thriller film starring Gene Hackman won the Oscar for Best Picture, and lends its name to a cocktail consisting of equal parts Cognac and Amaretto
9:07: Q2 (Sports & Games): While a “Harvey Wallbanger” is vodka, Galliano, and orange juice, “Harvey’s Wallbangers” was a nickname for the power-hitting 1982 incarnation of what MLB team, whose name is related to a different alcoholic beverage?
14:39: Q3 (Times & Places): Noted for the brutal tactics they used against the Irish Republican Army, what “colorful” British reinforcements from the Irish War of Independence share their name with a drink made of a dark stout and a pale ale?
21:33: Q4 (Music): Typically consisting of equal parts dark rum, vodka, and orange juice, the “Brass Monkey” is also the name of a song on the 1986 album Licensed to Ill, by what American rap-rock group?
27:08: Q5 (Arts & Literature): An “Ancient Mariner” is a complex Tiki drink whose name comes from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by what British Romantic poet, who published it in Lyrical Ballads, co-written with William Wordsworth?
32:13: Q6 (Everything Else): Composed of gin, dry Vermouth, orange bitters, maraschino, and Absinthe, what cocktail shares its name with the American name for the style of men’s attire that Brits call a “dinner suit”?
Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0
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