This week, Justin proves that there’s no idea so bad that he won’t revisit it, because he’s designed another two-part, 12-question game, this time themed around the signs of the Chinese Zodiac! We also talk about weird books, anime, and Egyptian mythology!
4:06: Q1 (Arts & Literature): What Nobel Prize-winning German author wrote the novel
The Rat, though he is better known for
The Tin Drum?
11:32: Q2 (Sports & Games): Owen Lloyd “Ox” Parry was a tackle who played three seasons in the 1930s for what NFL team, the only one whose official
, legal name includes the word “football”?
18:35: Q3 (Music): Jackie “Tiger” Brown is one of the principal characters in what “play with music” by Bertolt Brecht, which is famous for the song “The Ballad of Mack the Knife”?
27:50: Q4 (Times & Places): Br’er Rabbit is a trickster character in the folklore of what African-American ethnic group, who have their own unique Creole language, and primarily live in the Lowcountry and Sea Islands of the Carolinas and Georgia?
35:53: Q5 (Movies & TV): The
Dragon Ball anime franchise includes, of course,
Dragon Ball, and its direct sequel
Dragon Ball Z. Name any
one of the other anime series in the franchise.
41:30: Q6 (Everything Else): What Egyptian goddess obtained her power by placing a snake in Ra’s path, and later reassembled her husband Osiris’s dead body before resurrecting him?
Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0
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