Complete the List, Episode 24
I'm Sorry, John Kerry, I Remember You!
Contestants: Pat Kavanaugh, Sally Neumann, Charlie Fritz |
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Categories |
More than Half Aren't Hall of Famers | The Answer Here Is a Number Too |
In My Lifetime | At the Turn of What Century? |
It's Time for This Category | Steven |
Across the Pond | The Dreaded Opera Category |
Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Pat - Steven
Name a film directed by Steven Spielberg that received at least one Oscar nomination. |
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| Pat | Sally | Charlie | Not given |
| Schindler's List | Jaws | The Color Purple | 1941; A.I. - Artificial Intelligence; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Empire of the Sun; Hook; Jurassic Park; Lincoln; Minority Report; Saving Private Ryan; The Adventures of Tin-Tin; The Lost World; War of the Worlds |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark | E.T. (The Extra-Terrestrial) | Munich |
| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Catch Me If You Can | Amistad |
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Bridge of Spies | War Horse |
ROUND 1 | 8 | 8 | 16 |
ROUND 2Sally - Across the Pond
In the United Kingdom, The Beatles had twelve studio albums chart in the top five. Name them. |
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| Sally | Charlie | Pat | Not given |
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | The White Album (The Beatles) | Abbey Road | Beatles for Sale; With the Beatles |
| Help! | Revolver | Rubber Soul |
| Magical Mystery Tour | Please Please Me | Yellow Submarine |
| A Hard Day's Night | Meet the Beatles! | Let It Be |
ROUND 2 | 6 | 6 | 8 |
TOTAL | 14 | 22 | 16 |
ROUND 3Charlie - The Dreaded Opera Category
As per Operabase, name any of the twenty most performed operas worldwide between the 2010-11 and 2015-16 performance seasons. |
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| Charlie | Pat | Sally | Not given |
| Carmen | Rigoletto | The Magic Flute | Madame Butterfly; The Barber of Seville; Don Giovanni; Die Fledermaus; Hansel and Gretel; The Elixir of Love; Cosě fan tutte; Eugene Onegin; Nabucco; The Merry Widow; Il trovatore |
| La bohčme | The Marriage of Figaro | Tosca |
| Aida | The Ring Cycle (Der Ring des Nibelungen) | La traviata |
| Turandot | Romeo and Juliet | Idomeneo |
ROUND 3 | 8 | 4 | 6 |
TOTAL | 30 | 20 | 20 |
HALFTIME
0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Pat | Sally | Charlie |
was the Best Picture Oscar nominee Love Story first released? | 1970 | 1973 | 1973 | 1969 |
did the premiere episode of Sesame Street first air? | 1969 | 1969 | 1969 | 1978 |
was Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet the Billboard year-end No. 1 album? | 1987 | 1987 | 1987 | 1985 |
did Barcelona, Spain host the Summer Olympics? | 1992 | 1992 | 1992 | 1993 |
was Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 first published? | 1953 | 1952 | 1953 | 1959 |
did a Democratic candidate for President most recently lose both the Electoral College and popular vote? | 2004 | 2004 | 1938 | 2004 |
did the FBI obtain its current name, with J. Edgar Hoover as its director? | 1935 | 1963 | 1925 | 1936 |
was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed? | 1949 | 1948 | 1949 | 1947 |
HALFTIME | | 6½ | 5½ | 5 |
TOTAL | | 26½ | 25½ | 35 |
ROUND 4Pat - The Answer Here Is a Number Too
Name a square number between 1 and 150 inclusive. |
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| Pat | Sally | Charlie | Not given |
| 144 | 4 | 25 | 1 |
| 81 | 36 | 49 |
| 9 | 100 | 121 |
| 64 | 16 | 169 |
ROUND 4 | 8 | 8 | 6 |
TOTAL | 34½ | 33½ | 41 |
ROUND 5Sally - It's Time for This Category
Name a U.S. state at least partially in the Mountain Time Zone. |
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| Sally | Charlie | Pat | Not given |
| Colorado | Wyoming | Utah | Oregon; Oklahoma; Texas |
| Kansas | Nevada | Arizona |
| New Mexico | Montana | Idaho |
| South Dakota | North Dakota | Nebraska |
ROUND 5 | 16 | 8 | 16 |
TOTAL | 49½ | 49 | 50½ |
(Archivist's note: while the small town of Kenton, Oklahoma, observes Mountain Time informally, Oklahoma officially lies entirely within the Central Time Zone.) |
ROUND 6Charlie - More than Half Aren't Hall of Famers
Listener-submitted by Michael Simon.
As of October 2017, Mickey Mantle is 18th on the all-time home run list with 536 home runs. Name a player ahead of Mantle on the all-time home run list. |
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| Charlie | Pat | Sally | Not given |
| Barry Bonds | Hank Aaron | Mark McGwire | Willie Mays; Jim Thome; Sammy Sosa; Frank Robinson; Harmon Killebrew; Rafael Palmeiro; Reggie Jackson; Manny Ramirez; Mike Schmidt |
| Albert Pujols | Ken Griffey Jr. | Cal Ripken Jr. |
| (Ted) Williams | Ernie Banks | Babe Ruth |
| (Alex) Rodríguez | (David) Ortiz | (Alex) Rodríguez |
ROUND 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
TOTAL | 55 | 56½ | 54½ |
GRAND FINALE
Category: Languages |
According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2015, how many Americans spoke Spanish as their native language? |
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Answer and bounds | Sally | Charlie | Pat |
44,050,374 40,045,795 36,041,216 | 45,000,000 | 35,000,000 | 28,000,000 |
WAGER | 16 | 16 | 15 |
FINAL SCORE | 38½ | 39 | 41½ |
Winner: Pat Kavanaugh |