Monday, November 13, 2017

Correct, unique: 2 points

Correct, repeated: 1 point

Incorrect: 0 points

Player doubled the category

Name any of the first twelve Presidents of the United States of America.
	Ben	Dan	Dren	Not given
	(George) Washington	John Adams	Thomas Jefferson	Zachary Taylor
	(James) Madison	James Monroe	J. Q. (John Quincy) Adams
	Andrew Jackson	John Tyler	Martin Van Buren
	William (Henry) Harrison	Franklin Pierce	(James K.) Polk
ROUND 1	16	6	8

The quote: "Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for ninety minutes, and at the end, the Germans always win." That's one's from Gary Lineker. Fortunately for the rest of the world, Gary Lineker isn't always right. Name countries that have defeated Germany or West Germany at the men's FIFA World Cup. (USSR = Russia, Czechosolovakia = Czech Republic, Yugoslavia = Serbia)
	Dan	Dren	Ben	Not given
	France	Brazil	Spain	Algeria; Austria; Bulgaria; Croatia; Denmark; Hungary; Switzerland; Yugoslavia/Serbia
	Argentina	England	Italy
	Portugal	Sweden	Netherlands
	Czech Republic	East Germany	China
ROUND 2	6	8	4
TOTAL	12	16	20

Name a show that has won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in (Andy's) lifetime, that is, the Emmy Awards presented in 1983 or later.
	Dren	Ben	Dan	Not given
	Modern Family	Frasier	Cheers	30 Rock; The Office; Everybody Loves Raymond; Arrested Development; Sex and the City; Ally McBeal; Murphy Brown; The Golden Girls
	Will & Grace	Seinfeld	Veep
	The Cosby Show	Newhart	Mad About You
	The Wonder Years	Friends	Curb Your Enthusiasm
ROUND 3	8	6	8
TOTAL	24	26	20 (22)
(Archivist's note: Andy erroneously gave Dan's total thus far as 22, and the error propagated through the remainder of the game. The totals in parentheses are those that Dan was credited with at the end of each round.)

IN WHAT YEAR…	Correct year	Ben	Dan	Dren
was The Empire Strikes Back first released?	1980	1980	1983	1980
did the first episode of the television series Monty Python's Flying Circus first air in the United Kingdom?	1969	1969	1968	1969
was Macklemore & Ryan Lewis's "Thrift Shop" the Billboard year-end No. 1 song?	2013	2013	2010	2014
did the Jacksonville Jaguars and Carolina Panthers play in their first NFL games?	1995	1995	2004	1993
was Elizabeth Gilbert's book Eat, Pray, Love first published?	2006	1985	1995	1996
did the Sears Tower, now the Willis Tower, open in Chicago?	1973	1974	1974	1972
did news of the success of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine break?	1955	1955	1956	1954
did Harry S. Truman take office as President of the United States?	1945	1945	1944	1945
HALFTIME		7	5	6½
TOTAL		33	25 (27)	30½

Name any of the fifteen American television markets of at least 700,000 households that airs Jeopardy! at 7:30 local time. These are all within the 42 most populous television markets in the United States.
	Ben	Dan	Dren	Not given
	Atlanta	Washington, D.C.	New York	Phoenix; Seattle; Tampa; Detroit; Cleveland; Indianapolis; San Diego; Cincinnati; West Palm Beach; Greenville, SC; Jacksonville
	Miami	Boston	Philadelphia
	Houston	Los Angeles	San Francisco
	Baltimore	Chicago	Dallas
ROUND 4	4	4	0
TOTAL	37	29 (31)	30½
The archivist, while taking note of the data underlying the comment, strenuously objects to the editorial remark offered by the host at the conclusion of the first pass through this round. (I refer you to review the recording for its content.)

As per the Themed Entertainment Association, name any of the twenty most visited museums in the United States in 2015.
	Dan	Dren	Ben	Not given
	Smithsonian (National) Air & Space Museum	Guggenheim	National Museum of American History	California Science Center; Houston Museum of Natural Science; Denver Museum of Nature and Science; Udvar-Hazy Center; Holocaust Memorial Museum; Museum of Science and Industry; California Academy of Sciences; Museum of Science (Boston); American Art Museum and Portrait Gallery; Children's Museum of Indianapolis
	Metropolitan Museum	Field Museum	(J. Paul) Getty (Center)
	Museum of Modern Art	National Gallery of Art	American Museum of Natural History
	Chicago Art Institute	National Museum of Natural History	Independence Hall
ROUND 5	8	6	6
TOTAL	37 (39)	36½	43

Leo DiCaprio was the narrator of Hubble 3D, which, adjusting for inflation, grossed $57 million in North America and his 16th highest grossing film. Name any of the fifteen films that Leonardo DiCaprio had a major role in that grossed more, adjusting for inflation.
	Dren	Ben	Dan	Not given
	Titanic	Gangs of New York	The Aviator	Catch Me If You Can; The Revenant; Shutter Island; The Man in the Iron Mask; Blood Diamond; The Beach
	Inception	Edward Scissorhands	The Great Gatsby
	The Departed	Romeo and Juliet	The Basketball Diaries
	Django Unchained	The Wolf of Wall Street	The Wolf of Wall Street
ROUND 6	16	6	5
TOTAL	52½	49	42 (44)

GRAND FINALE

Category: Baseball
In 1975, Bob Watson was credited with scoring baseball's one millionth run. According to Baseball Reference, how many runs have been scored in Major League Baseball games since 1876 through to the end of the 2017 regular season?
Answer and bounds	Dan	Ben	Dren
2,134,104 1,940,095 1,746,086	2,500,000	1,610,029	1,400,000
WAGER	9	11½	14
FINAL SCORE	33 (35)	37½	38½
Winner: Dren Rollins