Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - Wednesday Night Live: Music Trivia
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🗓️ 14 August 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Hey, Hit Parade listeners—we’ve got an unusual schedule for August. Today’s show is a recording of last week’s installment of Slate’s Wednesday Night Live, which was a live Hit Parade trivia edition. I was the host, and I got to quiz several Slate luminaries on Billboard chart brainteasers. We had a blast.
Then, later this month, in the place where we would normally bring you a full-length story, we’ll instead be doing a super-sized edition of our regular Hit Parade—“The Bridge” show. We’ll be following up last month’s Yacht Rock episode with some very special guests. You won’t want to miss it.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening Ad Free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.1 | Hey, Hit Parade listeners. |
| 0:05.3 | A couple of quick announcements. |
| 0:07.6 | We've got an unusual schedule for August. |
| 0:11.2 | Essentially, we're giving you two special bridge episodes this month. |
| 0:16.4 | Today's show is a recording of last week's installment of Slate's Wednesday Night Live, |
| 0:23.2 | which was a live hit parade trivia edition. |
| 0:27.0 | I was the host, and I got to quiz several Slate luminaries on Billboard Chart Brain Teasers. |
| 0:33.9 | We had a blast. |
| 0:36.0 | Then, later this month, in the place where we would normally bring you a full-length |
| 0:40.8 | story, we'll instead be doing a supersized edition of our regular Hip Parade the Bridge show. We'll be |
| 0:49.8 | following up last month's Yacht Rock episode with some very special guests. |
| 0:55.5 | You won't want to miss it. |
| 0:57.0 | Now, without further ado, enjoy our of Hit Parade, and welcome to Slate's Wednesday Night Live. |
| 1:25.8 | This is our extra special hit parade trivia competition |
| 1:30.5 | with some of my friends here at Slate. We're going to give them all some trivia challenges |
| 1:37.0 | tonight. And then at the end of each round, they're going to turn the tables on me. So it's |
| 1:41.6 | going to be a very exciting head-to-head competition. |
| 1:49.7 | By sheer coincidence, our four contestants tonight all have names starting with D. |
| 1:54.8 | So, to quote the old hip-hop song, we're throwing some D's on it tonight. |
| 2:00.6 | And our first contestant for our Slate trivia is Dana Stevens. Dana is Slate's movie critic and co-host of the Slate |
| 2:04.0 | Culture Gab Fest. Dana, are you there? I'm here and I'm ready. All right. Thank you so much for |
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