Complete the List, Episode 2
We've Got Three Dumbos Here
| Contestants: Wesley Wells, Matthew Kimberlin, David Kendall |
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| Categories |
| Hoop It Up | Blockbusters of Yesteryear |
| No, Ironside Is Not on This List | Views from the List |
| The Year Was 1950 | They Wrote Really Well |
| The Dreaded Opera Category | We've Got Chemistry |
| Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Wesley - We've Got Chemistry
| Give the full English name of any element that has a one-letter symbol. |
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| Wesley | Matthew | David | Not given |
| hydrogen (H) | boron (B) | iodine (I) | flourine (F); yttrium (Y) |
| carbon ( C) | potassium (K) | tungsten (W) |
| nitrogen (N) | sulfur (S) | phosphorus (P) |
| oxygen (O) | vanadium (V) | uranium (U) |
| ROUND 1 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
ROUND 2Matthew - Blockbusters of Yesteryear
| There were twenty-four films released between 1937 and 1960 that when, adjusting for ticket inflation to 2014 levels, grossed over $300 million in North America. Name them. (Ticket sales from all releases count toward a film's total.) |
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| Matthew | David | Wesley | Not given |
| Gone with the Wind | Citizen Kane | The Wizard of Oz | Sergeant York; The Bells of St. Mary’s; Duel in the Sun; The Best Years of Our Lives; Cinderella; The Greatest Show on Earth; Peter Pan; House of Wax; The Robe; The Caine Mutiny; Rear Window; Lady and the Tramp; Around the World in 80 Days; The Ten Commandments; The Bridge on the River Kwai; Sleeping Beauty; Ben-Hur; Psycho; Swiss Family Robinson |
| King Kong | Bambi | Casablanca |
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Fantasia | Pinocchio |
| Dumbo | Dumbo | Dumbo |
| ROUND 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| TOTAL | 20 | 20 | 18 |
ROUND 3David - The Year Was 1950
| In 1950, there were 18 cities proper in the United States that had a population of greater than 500,000. Name them. |
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| David | Wesley | Matthew | Not given |
| New York City | Chicago | Los Angeles | Baltimore; St. Louis; Washington, DC; San Francisco; Pittsburgh; Milwaukee; Buffalo; New Orleans; Minneapolis |
| Detroit | Houston | Philadelphia |
| Atlanta | Boston | Dallas |
| Cleveland | Cincinnati | San Diego |
| ROUND 3 | 6 | 8 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 26 | 26 | 24 |
HALFTIME
| 0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
| IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Wesley | Matthew | David |
| were an Olympic Games most recently held in North America? | 2010 | 2010 | 2010 | 2010 |
| was U2's album The Joshua Tree released? | 1987 | 1989 | 1986 | 1985 |
| did Queen Elizabeth II begin her reign as Queen of England? | 1952 | 1957 | 1952 | 1952 |
| did Albino Luciani serve as Pope John Paul I for only 33 days before his death? | 1978 | 1932 | 1978 | 1978 |
| did the famous Normandy landings from World War II occur? | 1944 | 1944 | 1945 | 1944 |
| was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone first published in the United Kingdom? | 1997 | 1991 | 1999 | 1999 |
| was Pluto first reclassified as a dwarf planet? | 2006 | 2005 | 2005 | 2006 |
| were the first Oscars presented? | 1929 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 |
| HALFTIME | | 5 | 7½ | 7 |
| TOTAL | | 31 | 31½ | 33 |
ROUND 4Wesley - The Dreaded Opera Category
| According to Operabase, 19 composers have seen their collective works performed over 1,000 times over the past 5 opera seasons. Name them. |
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| Wesley | Matthew | David | Not given |
| Richard Wagner | Giuseppe Verdi | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Gaetano Donizetti; Jacques Offenbach; George Frederic Handel; Franz Lehár; Emmerich Kálmán; Engelbert Humperdinck; Benjamin Britten; Leoš Janácek; Vincenzo Bellini; Ruggero Leoncavallo |
| Giacomo Puccini | Georges Bizet | Pyotr Tchaikovsky |
| Gioachino Rossini | Johann Strauss | Ludwig von Beethoven |
| Richard Strauss | Aaron Copland | Aaron Copland |
| ROUND 4 | 8 | 6 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 39 | 37½ | 37 |
ROUND 5Matthew - Hoop It Up
| Name an NBA player with 25,000 or more NBA points. (This is only the NBA; ABA totals are not included.) |
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| Matthew | David | Wesley | Not given |
| Michael Jordan | Larry Bird | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Shaquille O'Neal; Moses Malone; Elvin Hayes; Hakeem Olajuwon; Oscar Robertson; Dominique Wilkins; Tim Duncan; Paul Pierce; John Havlicek; Kevin Garnett; Alex English; Reggie Miller |
| Kobe Bryant | Dennis Rodman | Wilt Chamberlain |
| Karl Malone | LeBron James | Jerry West |
| Dirk Nowitzki | Dirk Nowitzki | Magic Johnson |
| ROUND 5 | 8 | 3 | 6 |
| TOTAL | 45½ | 40 | 45 |
ROUND 6David - Views from the List
| In 2016, thirty-one different artists had a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart. Name them. |
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| David | Wesley | Matthew | Not given |
| Taylor Swift | Drake | Adele | David Bowie; Panic! At The Disco; Future; The 1975; Kendrick Lamar; Gwen Stefani; Lady Gaga; Jeezy; Bon Jovi; Zayn; The Lumineers; Prince; Blink 182; DJ Khaled; A Tribe Called Quest; Metallica; Frank Ocean; Barbra Streisand; Travis Scott; Jason Aldean; Shawn Mendes; Solange; Green Day; Kings of Leon; The Weeknd; J. Cole |
| Rihanna | Beyoncé | Imagine Dragons |
| Kanye West | Chance the Rapper | Justin Bieber |
| Florida Georgia Line | Ariana Grande | Katy Perry |
| ROUND 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| TOTAL | 44 | 49 | 47½ |
GRAND FINALE
| Category: The Great State of Michigan |
| What is the listed capacity of Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, also known as "The Big House"? |
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| Answer and bounds | David | Matthew | Wesley |
118,361
107,601
96,841 | 103,000 | 105,000 | 120,000 |
| WAGER | 16 | 3 | 15 |
| FINAL SCORE | 60 | 50½ | 34 |
| Winner: David Kendall |