S7 E3 - Oh the Weather Outside is... Deadly

Quiz and Hers

This week, we quiz up a storm, with six questions all about extreme weather and natural disasters! We also talk about traditional Japanese art, the American Revolution, and a very strange Hollywood coincidence.

2:01: Q1 (Sports & Games): Bizarrely, there are three NHL teams with names that fit the theme of this evening’s game: the Carolina Hurricanes, the Tampa Bay Lightning, and this team, who play their home games at Denver’s Pepsi Center.

9:58: Q2 (Times & Places): Contrary to myth, when the Continental Army was camped out at this famously frigid site during the winter of 1777, the weather was actually pretty mild – it turns out, most of the deaths were due to disease, not frostbite and exposure.

18:08: Q3 (Arts & Literature): One of the masterpieces of Japanese woodblock printing is Katsushika Hokusai’s Great Wave Off this Honshu prefecture.

26:53: Q4 (Music): The Flood, a short opera retelling the Biblical flood story, was choreographed by George Balanchine, and written by this Russian composer, who is probably better known for ballets like The Firebird.

34:33: Q5 (Movies & TV): Inexplicably, 1997 saw the release of two separate films about a group of people trying to survive catastrophic lava flows.  One, starring Pierce Brosnan, is named for the fictional town where it is set; the other, starring Tommy Lee Jones, is set in LA, and has a decidedly more straightforward title.  Name either of them.

44:53: Q6 (Everything Else): What is the most common term in contract and tort law for the types of natural disasters we’ve just spent 45 minutes to an hour quizzing about?

Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0

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Wired Article: https://www.wired.com/2012/11/your-guide-to-volcanoes-in-movies/

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