Hey, hit parade listeners, a couple of quick announcements. We've got an unusual schedule for August.

Essentially, we're giving you two special bridge episodes this month. 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 brain teasers. 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 hip 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. Now, without further ado, enjoy our live

hip parade trivia showdown. The Hi everybody this is Chris Malamphi host of Hip Parade and

welcome to Slates Wednesday Night Live this This is our extra special hit parade trivia

competition with some of my friends here at Slate. We're going to give them all

some trivia challenges tonight and then at the end of each round they're going to turn the tables on me.

So it's going to be a very exciting head-to-head competition.

By sheer coincidence, our four contestants tonight all have names starting with D. So to quote the old hip-hop song, we're throwing some D's on it tonight. And our first contestant for our slate trivia

is Dana Stevens.

Dana is Slate's movie critic and co-host

of the Slate Culture Gabfest.

Dana, are you there?

I'm here and I'm ready.

All right, thank you so much for agreeing to join us tonight.

I heard you on the Culture Gabfest today talking about your anxiety about doing some trivia.

So are you ready to give a go?

I just have to say that I am the offspring.

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