This week, we dip our toes into the king of podcast genres, True Crime, with six trivia questions about murder, mayhem, and… music. We also chat about literature, football, and what passed for prison reform 100 years ago.
2:24: Q1 (Everything Else): Serial, which made true crime one of the top podcast genres, won what award in April 2015, which is named after a businessman and philanthropist and is awarded for influential and informative stories in TV, radio, and online media?
8:22: Q2 (Times & Places): What prison in New York, considered one of the most progressive prisons back in the early 20th century, hosted many true crime-worthy serial killers like Albert Fish, David Berkowitz, and Gary Evans?
13:58: Q3 (Sports & Games): A documentary was recently released on Netflix called Killer Inside: The Mind of which athlete who was convicted in 2015 for allegedly shot and killed two men, which many people believe was due to a lack of impulse control from chronic traumatic encephalopathy from playing football?
21:58: Q4 (Music): The 1977 song “In Germany Before the War”, based on a 1931 film called M about serial child killer Hans Beckert, was written by what singer-songwriter who later became known for writing film scores for films like Meet the Parents, The Natural, and various animated films?
28:41: Q5 (Arts & Literature): What non-fiction novel, written by Truman Capote and published in 1965 is about the murders of four members of the Herbert Clutter family in small town Kansas and is credited with establishing the modern novelistic style of the true crime genre?
34:32: Q6 (Movies & TV): In 2016, three different TV channels premiered shows related to the O.J. Simpson trial. In February, 2016 FX had a season of an anthology series dedicated to it, then in April, Investigation Discovery channel premiered a documentary about it with archival news coverage, and in June, ESPN premiered a five-part documentary series about it. Name two of these programs.
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Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0
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