MINISODE: Season 7 Tiebreaker Shootout - a podcast by Quiz and Hers

Ten episodes just wasn’t enough this season, because we ended the season tied.  So, we’re back with a ten-question tiebreaker shootout to crown the Season 7 champion!

1:43: Q1: What video game company developed Rage and Rage 2, which combine the first-person shooting mechanics found in Doom and Quake with racing?

3:25: Q2: What children’s book by Ezra Jack Keats about a young African American boy in winter, which received the Caldecott Medal in 1963, was number one on the list of Top Checkouts of all time by the New York Public Library?

4:18: Q3: One of the many, many popular songs titled “Hurricane” is a protest song about the arrest of boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, by this folk singer, born Robert Allen Zimmerman.

5:19: Q4: What surgeon on MASH played by Alan Alda was able to stay calm while treating critically wounded patients in the Korean War and was also known for his pranks and his womanizing ways?

7:59: Q5: The city of Tunis was the target of the disastrous Eighth Crusade, which was launched by this French king, who had also launched the Seventh Crusade, and is today the only French king to have been canonized as a saint.

9:04: Q6: What president, born on August 20, 1833 became the first sitting president to attend a Major League Baseball game in 1892 when his hometown Cincinnati beat the Washington Senators?

12:20: Q7: In Roman mythology, what mountain nymph was cursed by Juno, fell in love with Narcissus, and eventually faded away, leaving only the sound of her voice?

13:28: Q8: What American pop rock band that formed in 1970 in Philadelphia had a top 40 hit with the single “You Make My Dreams” as well as number 1 hits with “Rich Girl”, “Kiss on My List”, “I Can’t Go For That”, and “Maneater”?

14:42: Q9: The “Patient Abuse” sketch is notable for being co-written by Graham Chapman and this English author, who went on to write Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, as well as a humorous sci-fi series that, like the sketch, satirized nightmarish bureaucracy.

15:53 Q10: What small dog of the bull lineage and named after a city was the first American breed recognized by the American Kennel Club?

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