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Any Questions #501: "Color Television"

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WAMC's Ian Pickus and resident quizzer Mike Nothnagel close the blinds to binge some TV.

Last week's challenge
Twenty-seven MLB players are in the 500 home-run club. Which has the shortest last name?
Answer: MEL OTT.

THIS WEEK'S CATEGORY: COLOR TELEVISION
On-air questions: The weather is getting nicer, folks are getting outside more, so let’s do a quiz about watching television. I'll give you the titles of four episodes from a series with a color in its title and you name the series.

1. "Litchfield’s Got Talent", "How To Do Life", "The Big House", "Be Free"
2. "Oliver Buys a Farm", "The Hooterville Image", "The City Kids", "Won’t You Come Home, Arnold Ziffel?"
3. "Anchors Away", "Q&A on FYI", "The World According to Avery", "Eldin Imitates Life"
4. "The Entire History of You", "Fifteen Million Merits", "San Junipero", "USS Callister"
5. "Steve Gets the Sniffles", "Mailbox’s Birthday", "Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper Day", "Can You Help?"

Extra credit
1. “Once, In St. Olaf”, “Zborn Again”, “The Bloom Is Off The Rose”, “And Ma Makes Three”
2. “Travels With Andy”, “A.D.A. Sipowicz”, “Bale to the Chief”, “He’s Not Guilty, He’s My Brother”

This week's challenge
Start with the title ORPHAN BLACK. Change one letter to a C and you can rearrange the result to spell a six-letter word for a black substance and a five-letter word for a substance that is often white. What are the words?

ANSWERS
On-air questions

1. Orange is the New Black
2. Green Acres
3. Murphy Brown
4. Black Mirror
5. Blue’s Clues

Extra credit
1. Golden Girls
2. NYPD Blue

 

A lifelong resident of the Capital Region, Ian joined WAMC in late 2008 and became news director in 2013. He began working on Morning Edition and has produced The Capitol Connection, Congressional Corner, and several other WAMC programs. Ian can also be heard as the host of the WAMC News Podcast and on The Roundtable and various newscasts. Ian holds a BA in English and journalism and an MA in English, both from the University at Albany, where he has taught journalism since 2013.
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