S16 E4 - What's Black and White and Re(a)d All Over?

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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