Complete the List, Episode 10
"Game of Thrones" Star Ed Sheeran
Thursday, August 10, 2017 |
Contestants: Josh Frumkin, Bruce Saunders, Melanie Tannenbaum Hepler |
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Categories |
Someone Has Done This Eighteen Times | Try to Spell This Out |
You Might Have Watched These People When You Were Sick | Disco Disco Duck |
Hey, Alexa! Hey, Alexa! | They're Wizards, Mostly |
Black Gold, Texas Tea | Not from the Sky |
Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Josh - They're Wizards, Mostly
At 493, Cornelius Fudge is the 21st most often mentioned character by name in the Harry Potter series of books (the main seven). Name any character mentioned more often. |
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| Josh | Bruce | Melanie | Not given |
| Harry Potter | Hermione (Granger) | Ron Weasley | Sirius Black; Fred Weasley; Remus Lupin; George Weasley; Arthur Weasley; Ginny Weasley; Minerva McGonagall; Molly Weasley; Dolores Umbridge; Alastor (Mad-Eye) Moody; Vernon Dursley |
| Albus Dumbledore | Albus Dumbledore | (Severus) Snape |
| Draco Malfoy | Draco Malfoy | Voldemort |
| Rubeus Hagrid | Rubeus Hagrid | Neville (Longbottom) |
ROUND 1 | 8 | 5 | 8 |
ROUND 2Bruce - Disco Disco Duck
In 2014, Billboard magazine released its top twenty hits of the 1970s, as per the Hot 100. Name a musical act that had at least one song in the top twenty. |
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| Bruce | Melanie | Josh | Not given |
| The Bee Gees | Donna Summer | The Jackson 5 | Debbie Boone; Chic; Andy Gibb; Wings; Tony Orlando & Dawn; Carly Simon; Wild Cherry; Roberta Flack; The Emotions; Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band; Gloria Gaynor |
| Elton John | Aretha Franklin | The Knack |
| The Eagles | Barbra Streisand | Marvin Gaye |
| Rod Stewart | Rod Stewart | Diana Ross |
ROUND 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
TOTAL | 9 | 13 | 12 |
ROUND 3Melanie - Try to Spell This Out
Listener-submitted by Ben Wiles.
Name one of the most common non-English languages, in various forms, cited as a language of origin at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, containing at least twenty words between 1996 and 2014. (For example, Old English and Middle English would both count as English.) |
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| Melanie | Josh | Bruce | Not given |
| Latin | German | French | Japanese; Afrikaans; Yiddish; Hindi; Sanskrit; Hawaiian; Urdu; Persian; International Scientific Vocabulary |
| Greek | Spanish | Italian |
| Arabic | Dutch | Hungarian |
| Hebrew | Russian | Portuguese |
ROUND 3 | 8 | 8 | 6 |
TOTAL | 21 | 20 | 15 |
HALFTIME
0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Josh | Bruce | Melanie |
did the James Cameron film Avatar premiere? | 2009 | 2009 | 2009 | 2009 |
did the television series Bonanza air its first episode? | 1959 | 1961 | 1959 | 1956 |
was Ed Sheeran born? | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1983 |
did the Los Angeles Dodgers most recently win a World Series? | 1988 | 1988 | 1981 | 1990 |
did Canadian Alice Munro win the Nobel Prize in Literature? | 2013 | 2015 | 1987 | 2010 |
was George McGovern the Democratic Party candidate for President of the United States? | 1972 | 1972 | 1972 | 1972 |
did the Battle of the Bulge, occurring in the Ardennes Forest, begin? | 1944 | 1944 | 1942 | 1944 |
was Martin Luther King, Jr. born? | 1929 | 1929 | 1922 | 1930 |
HALFTIME | | 14 | 8 | 5½ |
TOTAL | | 34 | 23 | 26½ |
ROUND 4Josh - You Might Have Watched These People When You Were Sick
Name a person who was won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host, an award first presented in 1974. |
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| Josh | Bruce | Melanie | Not given |
| Alex Trebek | Allen Ludden | Bob Barker | Peter Marshall; Bert Convy; Richard Dawson; Dick Clark; Betty White; Ben Stein & Jimmy Kimmel; Tom Bergeron; Meredith Vieira; Ben Bailey; Todd Newton; Steve Harvey; Craig Ferguson (Wayne Brady won at the 45th Daytime Emmy Awards, presented in April 2018.) |
| Pat Sajak | Chuck Woolery | Regis Philbin |
| Wink Martindale | Chuck Barris | Drew Carey |
| Monty Hall | Monty Hall | Wayne Brady |
ROUND 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
TOTAL | 38 | 25 | 30½ |
(Andy cited Hollywood Game Night as the series for which Craig Ferguson won; it was actually Celebrity Name Game.) |
ROUND 5Bruce - Black Gold, Texas Tea
Listener-submitted by Jay Johnson.
Name a country which is a member of OPEC. |
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| Bruce | Melanie | Josh | Not given |
| Saudi Arabia | Iraq | Kuwait | Algeria; Angola; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Libya; Nigeria |
| Venezuela | Iran | Oman |
| Norway | Ecuador | Qatar |
| Canada | United Arab Emirates | Yemen |
ROUND 5 | 4 | 16 | 4 |
TOTAL | 29 | 46½ | 42 |
ROUND 6Melanie - Hey, Alexa! Hey, Alexa!
According to Alexa's web rankings, name any of the twenty most visited websites in the United States, as of July 12, 2017. |
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| Melanie | Josh | Bruce | Not given |
| Google | eBay | Amazon | Reddit; Wikipedia; Netflix; Imgur; LinkedIn; Instagram; Craigslist; Twitch; Live.com; Tumblr; Pornhub; Diply; Wikia |
| Facebook | ESPN.com | Twitter |
| YouTube | Pinterest | Snapchat |
| Etsy | CNN.com | Yahoo! |
ROUND 6 | 6 | 2 | 6 |
TOTAL | 52½ | 44 | 35 |
GRAND FINALE
Category: USA! USA! USA! |
How many total medals did the United States win (gold, silver, and bronze) at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro? |
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Answer and bounds | Bruce | Josh | Melanie |
133 121 109 | 83 | 110 | 110 |
WAGER | 14 | 9 | 8 |
FINAL SCORE | 21 | 53 | 60½ |
Winner: Melanie Tannenbaum Hepler |