This week, we strap on the pads and hit the gridiron, because Hallie has written six trivia questions all (sort of) related to NFL team names! We also huddle up and talk about English history, baseball, and classic rock!
2:43: Q1 (Times & Places): The Minnesota Vikings are so named because Minnesota is the center of Scandinavian American culture. Name either of the two real Vikings who claimed the English throne before the Norman conquest.
7:46: Q2 (Sports & Games): What Major League Baseball team with the second-most World Series wins of any team were originally called the Brown Stockings?
14:15: Q3 (Movies & TV): What actor who starred in a film that shares its name with the University of Alabama’s teams also starred in a film that includes the name of the only NFL team to have two players rush for 2,000 yards in a season?
22:46: Q4 (Arts & Literature): One-third of the title of what 1950 novel shares a name with an NFL team who has not won a championship game since before the Super Bowl era?
31:55: Q5 (Everything Else): The only NFL team to have a perfect season is named for what animal, the most well-known species of which is
Tursiops truncatus?
38:56: Q6 (Music): What band’s greatest hits album from 1976, fittingly titled
Their Greatest Hits, is the best-selling album in the United States, having sold 38 million copies?
Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0