Show Notes
This week, Justin delivers six trivia questions all about the mail, or the post, or whatever you call it wherever you’re listening from. We also open up discussions of basketball, art, and a classic sitcom!
3:01: Q1 (Sports & Games): Now a coach at his alma mater Louisiana Tech, what retired NBA star holds the record for most free throws made, and was nicknamed “the Mailman” for his consistent delivery?
9:11: Q2 (Everything Else): In the 1860s, the United States Postal Service started issuing what kind of prepaid promissory notes, which are generally more trusted than personal checks, and can also be purchased from Western Union or your local convenience store?
19:34: Q3 (Music): What band’s song “Across the Sea” was inspired by a letter sent to frontman Rivers Cuomo from a fan in Japan?
31:03: Q4 (Arts & Literature): What American artist painted
Postman Reading Mail, as well as over 300 other cover illustrations for the
Saturday Evening Post?
37:25: Q5 (Movies & TV): The recurring character Newman is a mailman, and the nemesis of the titular character of what American sitcom?
47:32: Q6 (Times & Places): Arguably more famous than it was historically significant, what mail service promised delivery from Missouri to California in ten days, but shut down in 1861 after just 18 months, when the first transcontinental telegraph made it obsolete?
Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0
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