WAMC's Ian Pickus and resident quizzer Mike Nothangel switch seats for a show about the media.
Last week's challenge
Start with the word HALF-SISTER. Rearrange the letters to spell a seven-letter word for things that cigarettes have and a three-letter word for what cigarettes produce. What are the words?
Answer: FILTERS and ASH.
THIS WEEK'S CATEGORY: THE MEDIA
On-air questions: On this date in 1889, the first edition of the Wall Street Journal rolled off the presses. It was initially a version of news bulletins delivered by Dow Jones & Company to Wall Street traders. Today, the paper has the largest circulation in the country, ahead of USA Today. So today our quiz is all about the media.
1. Univision, BuzzFeed, Politico, the Washington Post, The Daily Beast, The Des Moines Register, and the Huffington Post are among the outlets that have found themselves banned from whose events so far in 2016?
2. Now a common euphemism among young people, the first documented use of a phrase that mentions a certain streaming service was in a 2009 tweet by a user named NoFaceNina. What is the phrase?
3. The media company that owns an eponymous Chicago newspaper, the LA Times, the Baltimore Sun and several other outlets recently renamed itself and released an instantly-mocked video explaining its goals of “optimizing content.” What is the sci-fi sounding new name of this company?
4. For Better or Worse, Love Thy Neighbor, The Haves and Have Nots and If Loving You Is Wrong are television series from media mogul Tyler Perry. On which network, whose name is a synonym for possess, do these programs air?
5. Ex-ESPN personality Bill Simmons is beginning a new life at HBO this summer, including a show called Any Given Wednesday. His migration to the network also includes a new website called The Ringer, modeled after the ESPN site he ran named after which legendary sportswriter?
Extra credit
1. Which comedy central host — also the creator of the Bernie Mac Show and a writer on In Living Color and The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air — hosted this year’s White House Correspondents Dinner, garnering headlines for using the n-word?
2. The patriarch on which beloved HBO series is frequently seen reading his hometown newspaper, the Newark Star-Ledger?
This week's challenge
Start with the phrase COPY EDITORS. Rearrange the letters and you can spell a five-letter genre of music and a six-letter type of literature. What are the words?
ANSWERS
On-air questions
1. Donald Trump (Post editor Marty Baron’s response? ““The Post will continue to cover Donald Trump as it has all along — honorably, honestly, accurately, energetically and unflinchingly.”
2. "Netflix and chill” (The company didn’t acknowledge the meme until 2015 on an official tumblr post)
3. Tronc (Tribune online content)
4. Oprah Winfrey (OWN)
5. Grantland (Rice)
Extra credit
1. Larry Wilmore
2. The Sopranos