Monday, November 4, 2019

Correct, unique: 2 points

Correct, repeated: 1 point

Incorrect: 0 points

Player doubled the category

From the series's inception in 1988 with John Madden Football through Madden NFL 2000, John Madden himself appeared on the cover of each annual Madden NFL video game. Name any National Football League player that has appeared on the cover of an English-language console version of a Madden NFL game since then.
	Daniel	Joe	Mike	Not given
	Michael Vick	Tom Brady	Drew Brees	Eddie George; Daunte Culpepper; Marshall Faulk; Ray Lewis; Donovan McNabb; Shaun Alexander; Vince Young; Troy Polamalu; Barry Sanders; Richard Sherman; Odell Beckham Jr.; Terrell Owens; Patrick Mahomes
	Adrian Peterson	Antonio Brown	Brett Favre
	LaDainian Tomlinson	Larry Fitzgerald	Rob Gronkowski
	Ben Roethlisberger	Peyton Hillis	Calvin Johnson
ROUND 1	4	16	16

On January 31, 2019, Family Guy celebrated its twentieth anniversary of its debut episode in 1999. In those twenty years, a score - the theme song - has remained virtually unchanged. Please give any word, five letters or length or longer, that appears in the Family Guy theme song.
	Joe	Mike	Daniel	Not given
	family	violence	movies	seems; today; those
	laugh	fashioned [old-fashioned]	values
	theirs	lucky	things
	which	where	positively
ROUND 2	8	8	8
TOTAL	24	24	12

Jennifer Lawrence narrated the 2016 IMAX film A Beautiful Planet, which grossed just over $15 million. Name any film in which she appeared that grossed more, as per Box Office Mojo.
	Mike	Daniel	Joe	Not given
	The Hunger Games	American Hustle	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	Red Sparrow; House at the End of the Street; Mother!
	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2	Silver Linings Playbook
	X-Men: Days of Future Past	X-Men: First Class	X-Men: Apocalypse
	Dark Phoenix	Passengers	Joy
ROUND 3	8	16	8
TOTAL	32	28	32

IN WHAT YEAR…	Correct year	Daniel	Joe	Mike
was the film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers first released?	2002	2002	2001	2002
did television broadcasting begin in New Zealand?	1960	1958	1955	1965
did the song "Royals" by Lorde spend nine consecutive weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100?	2013	2013	2013	2014
did the All Blacks rugby team tour apartheid South Africa, leading to an Olympic boycott?	1976	1977	1992	1975
did Keri Hulme win the Booker Prize for her novel The Bone People?	1985	1984	1985	1985
did New Zealand celebrate the 100th anniversary of extending universal suffrage to women?	1993	1997	1965	1995
did Ernest Rutherford win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry?	1908	1936	1915	1905
was the 300th anniversary of Abel Tasman becoming the first European to reach New Zealand?	1942	1964	1975	1945
HALFTIME		5	3½	6
TOTAL		33	35½	38
Archivist's note: question 3 is a repeat of question 3 from halftime of Season 2, Episode 11, written by the same author — namely, me. That halftime round was played several months after I initially submitted it; thus, I thought it would never be played, so I re-purposed the music question into this one. As the hiatus lengthened, I lost any hope of this round ever seeing the light of day…

Name any programming language used by at least 5% of professional developers, according to Stack Overflow's 2019 developer survey.
	Daniel	Joe	Mike	Not given
	JavaScript	Python	Java	Bash/Shell/PowerShell; TypeScript; Swift; Kotlin; VBA; Objective C; Assembly
	C#	C++	SQL
	Ruby	R	PHP
	Go	Linux	HTML [CSS]
ROUND 4	8	6	8
TOTAL	41	41½	46

Ignoring the current holder of the office, there are twelve preferred forenames of U.S. Presidents that are exactly six letters in length. Name them.
	Joe	Mike	Daniel	Not given
	George	Ronald	Gerald	(none)
	Calvin	Andrew	Dwight
	Barack	Martin	Warren
	Thomas	Grover	Lyndon
ROUND 5	8	8	8
TOTAL	49½	54	49

This is the third episode with three clean sweeps, after Episode 5 and Episode 91.

The 2019 biopic in question here is Rocketman — which, as we learned a couple of episodes ago, didn't quite gross $100 million. According to Setlist.fm's setlists, name a song that has appeared at least 900 times on an Elton John setlist.
	Mike	Daniel	Joe	Not given
	Rocket Man	Daniel	Crocodile Rock	Bennie and the Jets; Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me; I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues; Philadelphia Freedom; Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting; The Bitch Is Back; Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word; Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding; Sad Songs (Say So Much); Take Me to the Pilot
	Tiny Dancer	Levon	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
	Your Song	I'm Still Standing	Candle in the Wind
	Saturday Night's Alright	Someone Saved My Life Tonight	Can You Feel the Love Tonight?
ROUND 6	6	6	6
TOTAL	60	55	55½
Note from Matt: as I noted in the chat, and remained in the edited version — Daniel's 55 points is, to date, the highest score entering the final round for a player in third place; narrowly overtaking Sally Neumann's 54½ at this stage in Episode 24.

GRAND FINALE

Category: Sports on Television Listener-submitted by Tristan Bauer (adapted).
Rounded to the nearest 1,000 people, how many people watched Super Bowl XLIV in 2015 — the most-watched television broadcast in U.S. history by number of viewers?
Answer and bounds	Daniel	Joe	Mike
125,886,000 114,442,000 102,998,000	109,000,000	110,000,000	115,000,000
WAGER	16	16	12
FINAL SCORE	71	71½	72
The question is stated above as Andy read it. He got the year correct — that is, the most-watched television broadcast in American history was the Super Bowl that aired on February 1, 2015 — he gave the wrong ordinal number. It was Super Bowl XLIX (49), not XLIV (44).
Winner: Mike Cameron