S6 E5 - The Great Podcaster's Strike of 2019 - a podcast by Quiz and Hers

This week, Justin has gone on strike, with six questions about labor disputes and disagreements. We also strike up conversations about a musical film, sports history, and current events.

1:38: Q1 (Times & Places): Perhaps the most famous strike in US history is this nationwide 1894 railroad strike, which shares its name with the Chicago neighborhood where it started, the railroad car manufacturing company involved, and the industrialist who founded that company.

8:49: Q2 (Sounds & Screen): Featuring music by Alan Menken and starring a young Christian Bale, what strike-centric 1992 Disney film was later adapted into a highly successful stage musical?

17:07: Q3 (Science): 1873 saw the first of many strikes by American miners of this energy source, a combustible sedimentary rock, typically mined in the form of anthracite or lignite, which also arguably played a significant role in the recent student-led “climate strike”.

25:49: Q4 (Everything Else): Two competing start-ups both saw numerous employees share in strikes on March 25 and May 9, 2019, the days of the companies’ initial public offerings, to protest low wages and a lack of benefits.  Name both of the companies.

32:58: Q5 (Arts & Literature): What author, amateur philosopher, and champion of free-market capitalism wrote a novel with the working title The Strike, which was ultimately published as Atlas Shrugged?

40:55: Q6 (Sports & Games): Technically a lockout, not a strike, a major North American sports league has only ever cancelled an entire season due to a labor dispute once, in 2004-2005.  Which of the Big Four sports leagues suspended its operations during this season, because the league and its players could not agree on a payment structure?

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