Sunday School - Season 2, Week 4
What is Sunday School?
Sunday School is a free series of quizzes consisting of one extra question for each theme from a past week of School of Trivia. (Essentially, it’s a once-a-week version of the School of Trivia league.) Feel free to forward this along to those who might be interested! You can check your scores on the "Sunday" tab of the leaderboard page. If you enjoy these quizzes, I hope you'll consider joining the league! (Season 13 starts on Monday, January 2.) More info about how it all works can be found here.
Links
Sunday School Season 1 results
Sunday School - Season 2, Week 1
Sunday School - Season 2, Week 2
Sunday School - Season 2, Week 3
Winter theme entries
Edgar Winter: musician who scored a #1 Billboard Hot 100 hit in 1972 with the instrumental rock song “Frankenstein”
The Winter of Our Discontent: final published novel of John Steinbeck, title taken from the opening lines of Shakespeare’s Richard III
The Winter Palace: former residence of Russian tsars, now part of the Hermitage Museum
winter wheat: classification of wheat named for when it grows
Winterset: Maxwell Anderson play inspired by the Sacco and Vanzetti case
Sunday School - Season 2, Week 4
[Q1] Day 11 - “Frankenquiz”: IN 1971, GENERAL MILLS INTRODUCED THEIR FIRST TWO CEREALS BASED ON MONSTERS: COUNT CHOCULA, AND THE ONE NAMED FOR THIS CHARACTER SEEN HERE — THE FORMULA HAD TO BE CHANGED AFTER REPORTS OF SOME CHILDREN’S POOP TURNING PINK
[Q2] Day 12 - “The Hunchback of Bosworth Field”: IT’S HIM, HI, HE’S THE PROBLEM, IT’S HIM — SHAKESPEARE’S RICHARD III IS ONE OF LITERATURE’S CLASSIC EXAMPLES OF THIS KIND OF MAIN CHARACTER THAT SHARES ITS NAME WITH A TAYLOR SWIFT SONG, WHO’S CONSPICUOUSLY LACKING IN THE ATTRIBUTES WE TRADITIONALLY FIND ADMIRABLE IN A PROTAGONIST
[Q3] Day 13 - “Learner’s Hermit”: OFTEN CALLED A HERMIT, THIS RECLUSIVE AUTHOR WROTE SEVERAL SHORT STORIES FEATURING THE GLASS FAMILY, WHO CONSISTED OF RETIRED VAUDEVILLE PERFORMERS LES AND BESSIE GLASS AND THEIR 7 CHILDREN (SEYMOUR, BUDDY, BOO BOO, WALT, WAKER, ZOOEY, AND FRANNY)
[Q4] Day 14 - “Read ‘em and Wheat”: THOUGH NOT AN OFFICIAL NICKNAME, “THE WHEAT STATE” ONCE APPEARED ON LICENSE PLATES IN THIS U.S. STATE THAT’S IN A PERENNIAL BATTLE WITH NORTH DAKOTA TO BE THE COUNTRY’S #1 WHEAT PRODUCER
[Q5] Day 15 - “R.I.P. S&V”: FUTURE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE FELIX FRANKFURTER ARGUED FOR SACCO AND VANZETTI’S INNOCENCE, PUBLISHING AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE CASE IN THIS “MONTHLY” MAGAZINE CO-FOUNDED BY PROMINENT WRITERS SUCH AS RALPH WALDO EMERSON AND HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Quiz link: Sunday School - Season 2, Week 4
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Alex