Thursday, December 27, 2018 |
Contestants: Rachel Shuman, Brian Nieves, Ryan Vickers | |
Au suivant!, the game show on Radio-Canada on which Ryan will appear on February 8. (Linked page is in French.) | |
Categories | |
Chauncey's Chances | One Day More |
Higher Education | Just One NFL Team Plays Here |
Happy 75th | 4077 |
A Playing Card Company | She Played an Oscar Winner |
Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
Name a movie not part of the The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit trilogies in which Cate Blanchett appeared that grossed at least $30 million domestically, adjusted for ticket price inflation, as per Box Office Mojo. | ||||
Rachel | Brian | Ryan | Not given | |
(The Lord of the Rings:) The Fellowship of the Ring | Thor: Ragnarok | Thor ("Original Recipe") | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; Cinderella (2015); How to Train Your Dragon 2; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; The Talented Mr. Ripley; Ocean's 8; Robin Hood (2010); The Monuments Men; The House with a Clock in Its Walls; Bandits; Elizabeth; Babel; Hanna; The Missing; Blue Jasmine; An Ideal Husband | |
The Aviator | Shakespeare in Love | Sliding Doors | ||
White Orchid | Polka-Dotted Orchid | The Queen | ||
Coffee and Cigarettes | Coffee and Cigarettes | The Life Aquatic (with Steve Zissou) | ||
ROUND 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Name a city in New York State whose population as per the 2010 U.S. Census is greater than 30,000 people. | ||||
Brian | Ryan | Rachel | Not given | |
New York City | Buffalo | Albany | Mount Vernon; Schenectady; Utica; Troy; Binghamton; Rome; Long Beach; Poughkeepsie; North Tonawanda; Jamestown; Ithaca | |
Springfield | Rochester | White Plains | ||
Niagara Falls | Syracuse | Yonkers | ||
Washington | Plattsburgh | New Rochelle | ||
ROUND 2 | 4 | 12 | 8 | |
TOTAL | 6 | 14 | 10 |
Name a character named in the Spark Notes character list to Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. | ||||
Ryan | Rachel | Brian | Not given | |
Cosette | Eponine | Jean Valjean | Bishop M. Myriel; Mme. Thénardier; M. Gillenormand; Colonel Georges Pontmercy; Enjolras; Fauchelevent; Petit-Gervais; Champmathieu; M. Mabeuf; Patron-Minette (Montparnasse, Babet, Claquesous, and Gueulemer); Felix Tholomyès; Azelma | |
Gavroche | Javert | Fantine | ||
Susan Boyle | Claude | Marius (Pontmercy) | ||
Le Boulanger | Pierre | M. Thénardier | ||
ROUND 3 | 4 | 4 | 16 | |
TOTAL | 18 | 14 | 22 |
0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Rachel | Brian | Ryan |
was the film Invictus first released? | 2009 | 2006 | 2008 | 2011 |
did the first episode of the television series Degrassi Junior High first air? | 1987 | 1987 | 1995 | 1987 |
did Lorde's song "Royals" spend nine weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100? | 2013 | 2015 | 2013 | 2009 |
did England win the men's FIFA World Cup? | 1966 | 1965 | 1966 | 1966 |
did Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot have its English-language premiere at the Arts Theatre in London? | 1955 | 1953 | 1925 | 1932 |
did six colonies federate to form the Commonwealth of Australia? | 1901 | 1945 | 1903 | 1957 |
was the detonation of Smiling Buddha, India's first successful nuclear weapon test? | 1974 | 1998 | 1955 | 1975 |
did Benzair Bhutto become the first head of government to give birth while in office? | 1990 | 1973 | 1985 | 1996 |
HALFTIME | 3½ | 4 | 4 | |
TOTAL | 17½ | 26 | 22 |
According to a statistical model developed by Basketball-Reference.com, Chauncey Billups has an 84.4% chance of being elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Using this same model, there are twenty NBA players not currently in the Hall of Fame that have a greater probability of being elected than Chauncey Billups. Name them. (These could be both active and inactive players.) | ||||
Rachel | Brian | Ryan | Not given | |
(Christian) Laettner | LeBron James | Steph Curry | Kobe Bryant; Tim Duncan; Kevin Garnett; Chris Paul; Paul Pierce; Chris Bosh; Dwight Howard; James Harden; Carmelo Anthony; Vince Carter; Larry Faust; Tony Parker; Pau Gasol; Jack Sikma | |
(Dirk) Nowitzki | Kevin Durant | Steve Nash | ||
Dwyane Wade | Russell Westbrook | Yao Ming | ||
Ray Allen | Kyrie Irving | Kyrie Irving | ||
ROUND 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | |
TOTAL | 21½ | 32 | 24 |
Name a European nation home to a university that was founded before, and has been in continuous operation since, the year 1500. | ||||
Brian | Ryan | Rachel | Not given | |
England | Scotland | France | Austria; Czech Republic; Poland; Portugal; Switzerland | |
Spain | Germany | Italy | ||
Ireland | Sweden | Turkey | ||
Denmark | Norway | Russia | ||
ROUND 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | |
TOTAL | 38 | 30 | 25½ |
Name a character, or the actor or actress who portrayed them, who appeared in at least fifty episodes of the television series M*A*S*H. | ||||
Ryan | Rachel | Brian | Not given | |
(Alan) Alda [Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce] | "Hot Lips" (Maj. Margaret Houlihan) [Loretta Swit] | (Cpl. Maxwell Q. "Max") Klinger [Jamie Farr] | Father Francis Mulcahy/William Christopher; Col. Sherman T. Potter/Harry Morgan; Capt. B. J. Hunnicutt/Mike Farrell; Lt. Nurse Kellye/Kellye Nakahara; Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III/David Ogden Stiers; Maj. Frank Burns/Larry Linville; Private Igor Straminsky/Jeff Maxwell; Roy Goldman/Roy Goldman | |
McLean Stevenson [Lt. Col. Henry Blake] | "Radar" (Cpl. Walter O'Reilly) [Gary Burghoff] | "Radar" (Cpl. Walter O'Reilly) [Gary Burghoff] | ||
(Capt.) "Trapper" John (McIntyre) [Wayne Rogers] | Johnson | (Capt.) "Trapper" John (McIntyre) [Wayne Rogers] | ||
Jones | Smith | Doc | ||
ROUND 6 | 6 | 8 | 4 | |
TOTAL | 36 | 33½ | 42 |
GRAND FINALE
Category: The Southern Hemisphere | |||
According to their official population clock, as at 8:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on December 26, 2018*, what is the population of New Zealand? | |||
Answer and bounds | Rachel | Ryan | Brian |
5,423,493 4,930,449 4,437,405 | 650,000 | 8,000,001 | 4,000,000 |
WAGER | 9 | 1 | 10½ |
FINAL SCORE | 24½ | 35 | 31½ |
* Equivalent to 2:30 p.m. New Zealand Daylight Time on December 27. | |||
Winner: Ryan Vickers |