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I Love The 1880s 

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Let's go to your next game. Stephanie, what is something you miss about the '80s?

STEPHANIE HAGADORN: I miss the movies.

EISENBERG: The movies?

HAGADORN: The movies in the '80s.

EISENBERG: Like, which one?

HAGADORN: Well, I just liked that you could, like, settle everything on the slopes, you know?

(LAUGHTER)

HAGADORN: (Laughter) A simpler time, you know?

EISENBERG: Yeah, it was a simpler time.

EISENBERG: Alyssa, what is something you miss about the '80s?

ALYSSA SABLE²: So I lived about four years of my life in the '80s. So I miss, you know, being coddled and catered³ to...

EISENBERG: Sure.

SABLE: ...You know, basically, 24 hours a day.

(LAUGHTER)

EISENBERG: Carried?

SABLE: Yeah, shout out to my mom, who's here (laughter), so...

EISENBERG: That's nice. Well, the '80s were an eventful decade for Dallas. The city got a new mass-transit system, faced financial challenges, built big buildings and even bigger hair. Those things happened in the 1980s. And they also happened in the 1880s.

So Jonathan and I will continue to draw those parallels in a trivia game about the 1880s called '80s Nostalgia⁴. Stephanie, you won the last game. So if you win this, you are in the final round. Alyssa, you need to win this or our intern⁵ will tell you what year she was born in.

SABLE: (Laughter).

(LAUGHTER)

EISENBERG: It makes everyone feel bad.

All right, here we go. In the 1980s, Aerosmith's song, "Love In An Elevator" was all the rage.

JONATHAN COULTON: In the 1880s, the elevator was all the rage thanks to the development of very tall buildings, also known as what?

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COULTON: Alyssa?

SABLE: Skyscrapers⁶.

COULTON: That's correct.

EISENBERG: Correct, yeah.

(APPLAUSE)

COULTON: In the 1980s, TV audiences gawked at "General Hospital's" alliterative pair Luke and Laura.

EISENBERG: In the 1880s, live audiences gawked at the circus show produced by what alliterative pair?

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EISENBERG: Stephanie?

HAGADORN: Barnum and Bailey's.

EISENBERG: Absolutely.

(APPLAUSE)

EISENBERG: Technically⁷, it's Barnum & Bailey. I like that you made it, like, the liqueur (laughter).

HAGADORN: Possessive.

(LAUGHTER)

EISENBERG: In the 1980's, people were terrified by Stephen King's "Cujo," a fictional⁸ dog with rabies.

COULTON: In the 1880s, people were terrified by actual rabies until a vaccine⁹ was developed by what French chemist, also known for sterilizing¹⁰ milk?

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COULTON: Stephanie?

HAGADORN: Louis Pasteur.

COULTON: You've got it.

(APPLAUSE)

EISENBERG: In the 1980s, "Flashdance" depicted¹¹ the double life of a welder¹², who was secretly a maniac¹³ on the floor.

COULTON: In the 1880s, what popular book depicted the double life of a physician, who was secretly a straight-up maniac?

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COULTON: Stephanie?

HAGADORN: "Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde."

COULTON: Yeah, that's right.

EISENBERG: Yeah.

SABLE: Oh, it's so obvious.

HAGADORN: (Laughter).

(APPLAUSE)

COULTON: In the 1980s, popularity soared for the band AC/DC.

EISENBERG: In the 1880s, popularity soared for AC, as in alternating current, during Thomas Edison's rivalry¹⁴ with which inventor?

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EISENBERG: Alyssa?

SABLE: That was a premature¹⁵ buzz (laughter).

(LAUGHTER)

EISENBERG: But you're in.

COULTON: It's Billy something.

(LAUGHTER)

SABLE: Billy, it's - I know, yeah, it's - yeah, it's - starts with Billy.

COULTON: You know it's Billy something.

(LAUGHTER)

SABLE: I'm going to have to pass that one.

EISENBERG: Stephanie, can you steal?

HAGADORN: Tesla.

EISENBERG: That's right.

(APPLAUSE)

EISENBERG: All right, this is your last clue. In the 1980s, Pictionary encouraged slapdash sketching¹⁶.

COULTON: In the 1880s, George Seurat's painting, "A Sunday On La Grande Jatte," encouraged painstaking¹⁷ application of small dots of color, a style known as what?

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COULTON: Alyssa?

SABLE: Pointillism.

COULTON: Yeah, that's right.

EISENBERG: Yeah.

(APPLAUSE)

EISENBERG: Never play Pictionary with Seurat, takes forever.

(LAUGHTER)

COULTON: Also, you have to stand way back to see what the hell he's drawing.

EISENBERG: (Laughter) exactly.

(LAUGHTER)

EISENBERG: Puzzle Guru Art Chung, how did our contestants¹⁹ do?

ART CHUNG: We had two great contestants. Stephanie, congratulations, you've won both games. And you're moving on to the final round.

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EISENBERG: It's settled. Our finalists are Marcy and Stephanie. And they will face off in our final round at the end of the show. If you've been bragging²⁰ about your trivia skills since the 1980s or even the 1880s, just go to amatickets.org to become a contestant¹⁸. And coming up, we're going to fast forward to the 1990s for a game about boy bands with our special guest, Brooklyn Decker. I'm Ophira Eisenberg. And you're listening to ASK ME ANOTHER from NPR.

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1 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

2 sable   

n.黑貂；adj.黑色的

参考例句：

• Artists' brushes are sometimes made of sable.画家的画笔有的是用貂毛制的。
• Down the sable flood they glided.他们在黑黝黝的洪水中随波逐流。

3 catered   

提供饮食及服务( cater的过去式和过去分词 )； 满足需要，适合

参考例句：

• We catered for forty but only twenty came. 我们准备了40客饭菜，但只来了20个人。
• They catered for everyone regardless of social rank. 他们为所有人服务而不计较其社会地位。

4 nostalgia   

n.怀乡病，留恋过去，怀旧

参考例句：

• He might be influenced by nostalgia for his happy youth.也许是对年轻时幸福时光的怀恋影响了他。
• I was filled with nostalgia by hearing my favourite old song.我听到这首喜爱的旧歌，心中充满了怀旧之情。

5 intern   

v.拘禁，软禁；n.实习生

参考例句：

• I worked as an intern in that firm last summer.去年夏天我在那家商行实习。
• The intern bandaged the cut as the nurse looked on.这位实习生在护士的照看下给病人包扎伤口。

6 skyscrapers   

n.摩天大楼

参考例句：

• A lot of skyscrapers in Manhattan are rising up to the skies. 曼哈顿有许多摩天大楼耸入云霄。
• On all sides, skyscrapers rose like jagged teeth. 四周耸起的摩天大楼参差不齐。

7 technically   

adv.专门地，技术上地

参考例句：

• Technically it is the most advanced equipment ever.从技术上说，这是最先进的设备。
• The tomato is technically a fruit,although it is eaten as a vegetable.严格地说，西红柿是一种水果，尽管它是当作蔬菜吃的。

8 fictional   

adj.小说的，虚构的

参考例句：

• The names of the shops are entirely fictional.那些商店的名字完全是虚构的。
• The two authors represent the opposite poles of fictional genius.这两位作者代表了天才小说家两个极端。

9 vaccine   

n.牛痘苗，疫苗；adj.牛痘的，疫苗的

参考例句：

• The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives.脊髓灰质炎疫苗挽救了数以百万计的生命。
• She takes a vaccine against influenza every fall.她每年秋季接种流感疫苗。

10 sterilizing   

v.消毒( sterilize的现在分词 )；使无菌；使失去生育能力；使绝育

参考例句：

• The nurse is sterilizing the surgical instruments. 护士在把外科手术器具消毒。 来自辞典例句
• By testing, steam is the ble sterilizing method for herbal medicine. 这些方法难以保证药性，或有残留，要不然就是费用昂贵。 来自互联网

11 depicted   

描绘，描画( depict的过去式和过去分词 )； 描述

参考例句：

• Other animals were depicted on the periphery of the group. 其他动物在群像的外围加以修饰。
• They depicted the thrilling situation to us in great detail. 他们向我们详细地描述了那激动人心的场面。

12 welder   

n电焊工

参考例句：

• He left school at 15 to become an apprentice to a welder.他15岁离开了中学成为一个焊接工人的学徒。
• Welder done at least once a month when the dust handling.焊机时每月至少做一次除尘处理。

13 maniac   

n.精神癫狂的人；疯子

参考例句：

• Be careful!That man is driving like a maniac!注意！那个人开车像个疯子一样！
• You were acting like a maniac,and you threatened her with a bomb!你像一个疯子，你用炸弹恐吓她！

14 rivalry   

n.竞争，竞赛，对抗

参考例句：

• The quarrel originated in rivalry between the two families.这次争吵是两家不和引起的。
• He had a lot of rivalry with his brothers and sisters.他和兄弟姐妹间经常较劲。

15 premature   

adj.比预期时间早的；不成熟的，仓促的

参考例句：

• It is yet premature to predict the possible outcome of the dialogue.预言这次对话可能有什么结果为时尚早。
• The premature baby is doing well.那个早产的婴儿很健康。

16 sketching   

n.草图

参考例句：

• They are sketching out proposals for a new road. 他们正在草拟修建新路的计划。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• "Imagination is busy sketching rose-tinted pictures of joy. “飞舞驰骋的想象描绘出一幅幅玫瑰色欢乐的场景。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险

17 painstaking   

adj.苦干的；艰苦的，费力的，刻苦的

参考例句：

• She is not very clever but she is painstaking.她并不很聪明，但肯下苦功夫。
• Through years of our painstaking efforts,we have at last achieved what we have today.大家经过多少年的努力，才取得今天的成绩。

18 contestant   

n.竞争者，参加竞赛者

参考例句：

• The company will furnish each contestant with a free ticket.公司将为每个参赛者免费提供一张票。
• The personal appearance and interview of the contestant is another count.参加比赛者的个人仪表和谈话也是一项。

19 contestants   

n.竞争者，参赛者( contestant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The competition attracted over 500 contestants representing 8 different countries. 这次比赛吸引了代表8个不同国家的500多名参赛者。
• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency. 两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。 来自《简明英汉词典》

20 bragging   

v.自夸，吹嘘( brag的现在分词 )；大话

参考例句：

• He's always bragging about his prowess as a cricketer. 他总是吹嘘自己板球水平高超。 来自辞典例句
• Now you're bragging, darling. You know you don't need to brag. 这就是夸口，亲爱的。你明知道你不必吹。 来自辞典例句