Dean - Old, Smart, and Rich
Listener-submitted by Michael Simon.
| Thursday, November 30, 2017 |
| Contestants: Dean McGee, Brian Nieves, Jonathan Graham | |
| Categories | |
| Now You're Speaking My Language | They're Good Dogs, Brent |
| Old, Smart, and Rich | Neither Edward Nor a Jet |
| Drive! Home! Safely! | We Sell Magic Beans |
| 481-516-2342 | I Actually Watched an Episode of Fallon Recently |
| Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
| For many years, the Ivy League and Seven Sisters colleges have been synonymous with elite education for men and women in the United States. Name one of those schools. | ||||
| Dean | Brian | Jonathan | Not given | |
| Harvard | Yale | University of Pennsylvania | Mount Holyoke; Radcliffe; Smith; Vassar; Wellesley | |
| Columbia | Princeton | Brown | ||
| Colgate | Bryn Mawr | Dartmouth | ||
| (pass) | Cornell | Barnard | ||
| ROUND 1 | 4 | 16 | 8 | |
| According to the International Coffee Association, the top twenty coffee producing countries in the world produced a total of more than eight million metric tons in 2016. Give the name of one of these top coffee producing countries. | ||||
| Brian | Jonathan | Dean | Not given | |
| Brazil | Indonesia | Colombia | Vietnam; Honduras; India; Uganda; Mexico; Guatemala; Nicaragua; China; Ivory Coast; Costa Rica; Papua New Guinea; Tanzania; El Salvador | |
| Peru | Malaysia | Ethiopia | ||
| Venezuela | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Kenya | ||
| Ecuador | Uruguay | Yemen | ||
| ROUND 2 | 6 | 2 | 6 | |
| TOTAL | 22 | 10 | 10 | |
| Name any language, according to the 2010 U.S. Census, spoken at home by at least 250,000 Americans. | ||||
| Jonathan | Dean | Brian | Not given | |
| Spanish | French | Italian | Greek; Russian; Serbo-Croatian; Persian; Gujarati; Hindi; Urdu | |
| Chinese | German | English | ||
| Tagalog | Polish | Arabic | ||
| Korean | Vietnamese | Japanese | ||
| ROUND 3 | 8 | 8 | 8 | |
| TOTAL | 18 | 18 | 30 | |
| 0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
| IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Dean | Brian | Jonathan |
| was the Disney animated version of Beauty and the Beast first released? | 1991 | 1991 | 1934 | 1992 |
| did the series premiere of Miami Vice first air? | 1984 | 1982 | 1977 | 1981 |
| was Adele's 21 the Billboard year-end No. 1 album for the first time? | 2011 | 2011 | 2010 | 2011 |
| did the Chicago White Sox most recently win a World Series? | 2005 | 2007 | 1995 | 2005 |
| was Catch-22 first published? | 1961 | 1948 | 1946 | 1948 |
| was San Francisco politician Harvey Milk assassinated? | 1978 | 1974 | 1966 | 1975 |
| was the first Time Inc. produced issue of Life magazine, famous for photojournalism, released? | 1936 | 1902 | 1985 | 1935 |
| was General Douglas MacArthur relieved from command? | 1951 | 1951 | 1956 | 1951 |
| HALFTIME | 4½ | 1½ | 6 | |
| TOTAL | 22½ | 31½ | 24 |
| Justin Upton, who finished 2017 with the Los Angeles Angels, finished with 35 home runs in the 2017 Major League Baseball regular season. Name any Major League Baseball player who hit more regular-season home runs in 2017. | ||||
| Dean | Brian | Jonathan | Not given | |
| Aaron Judge | Mike Trout | Joey Votto | J.D. Martinez; Khris Davis; Joey Gallo; Cody Bellinger; Justin Smoak; Logan Morrison; Mike Moustakas; Charlie Blackmon; Marcell Ozuna; Nolan Arenado; Ryan Zimmerman; Jay Bruce; Paul Goldschmidt | |
| (Edwin) Encarnacion | (Edwin) Encarnacion | Giancarlo Stanton | ||
| (Nelson) Cruz | (Nelson) Cruz | Bryce Harper | ||
| (José) Bautista | (José) Bautista | Eugenio Suarez | ||
| ROUND 4 | 6 | 2 | 4 | |
| TOTAL | 28½ | 33½ | 28 | |
| Jimmy Fallon, with over 49,000,000 followers, has the 18th most number of followers on Twitter. Name any account with more. | ||||
| Brian | Jonathan | Dean | Not given | |
| Ashton Kutcher [@aplusk] | President (Donald J.) Trump [@realDonaldTrump] | Kim Kardashian (West) [@KimKardashian] | Katy Perry [@katyperry]; Justin Bieber [@justinbieber]; Rihanna [@rihanna]; Ellen DeGeneres [@TheEllenShow]; YouTube [@YouTube]; Justin Timberlake [@jtimberlake]; Twitter [@Twitter]; Cristiano Ronaldo [@Cristiano]; Britney Spears [@britneyspears]; Selena Gomez [@selenagomez]; CNN Breaking News [@cnnbrk]; Demi Lovato [@ddlovato] | |
| Taylor Swift [@taylorswift13] | Lady Gaga [@ladygaga] | Kanye West [@kanyewest] | ||
| Ariana Grande [@ArianaGrande] | Bruno Mars [@BrunoMars] | Barack Obama [@BarackObama] | ||
| Beyoncé | Jay-Z | William Shatner [@WilliamShatner] | ||
| ROUND 5 | 4 | 2 | 8 | |
| TOTAL | 37½ | 30 | 36½ | |
| In Shakespeare's King Lear, fourteen characters have at least twenty-five lines in the play. Name them. | ||||
| Jonathan | Dean | Brian | Not given | |
| Regan | Lear | Goneril | Edgar; Duke of Kent; Edmund; Fool; Duke of Albany; Duke of Cornwall; First Gentleman; Oswald; King of France | |
| Cordelia | Cordelia | Cordelia | ||
| Ophelia | Portia | Amelia | ||
| Earl of Gloucester | Falstaff | Duke of Marlborough | ||
| ROUND 6 | 12 | 3 | 3 | |
| TOTAL | 42 | 39½ | 40½ | |
GRAND FINALE
| Category: Science | |||
| To five significant digits, what is the standard atomic weight of the element phosphorous? | |||
| Answer and bounds | Dean | Brian | Jonathan |
| 34.071 30.974 27.877 | 29.01 | 15 | 123.45 |
| WAGER | 16 | 5 | 14 |
| FINAL SCORE | 55½ | 35½ | 28 |
| Winner: Dean McGee | |||