S18 E1 - On the Move

Quiz and Hers

It’s been an eventful offseason, and we just closed on our first house (WHAT??)! So, to celebrate, Justin has written six trivia questions all about moving! We’ve also packed some discussions of art, football, and folk music!

2:40: Q1 (Movies & TV): What actor and comedian known for co-writing Blazing Saddles, co-starring in Superman III, and accidentally lighting himself on fire also starred in the film Moving?

9:29: Q2 (Times & Places): Though people our age might know it better as a computer game, what route across North America was traveled by some 80,000 people moving to start new lives in the Pacific Northwest between 1840 and 1869?

16:41: Q3 (Everything Else): What man moved from Germany to New York, then settled in San Francisco, where he founded his namesake company, the first to manufacture what we now call blue jeans?

24:56: Q4 (Sports & Games): Named for a major industry in their former home, what Texas-based NFL team moved to a new home in Nashville to become the Tennessee Titans in 1997?

33:42: Q5 (Arts & Literature): The Movings, a painting by Louis-Léopold Boilly depicting a 19th-century family moving house, moved in 1982 to its current home in what art museum, the most prominent in the Second City?

39:03: Q6 (Music): According to Local First Bank, one of the “seven songs to play after closing on your new home” is “Homeward Bound” by what folk-rock duo of the 1960s?

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

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