Complete the List, Episode 35
Here Is The Category That Everybody Else For The Past Month Has Been Avoiding
| Contestants: David Kendall, Kaberi Chakrabarty, Joe Nguyen |
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| Categories |
| Number One on the Court… Maybe Not Number One in Your Hearts | A Night at the Symphony |
| We've Got You Covered | That's a Mighty Long Time |
| The Syndicate | Billions and Billions Served |
| Not a Lot of Say | …And The Debate Rages On |
| Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1David - A Night at the Symphony
| Timpani, percussion, and harp are three of the instruments used by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Name any other instrument used by the symphony. |
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| David | Kaberi | Joe | Not given |
| trumpet | violin | cello | piccolo; English horn; bass clarinet; contrabassoon; trombone; bass trombone |
| oboe | viola | flute |
| French horn | bassoon | double bass |
| sousaphone | clarinet | tuba |
| ROUND 1 | 6 | 16 | 8 |
ROUND 2Kaberi - Not a Lot of Say
| Name a state that, in the 2016 presidential election, cast either three or four electoral votes. |
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| Kaberi | Joe | David | Not given |
| Rhode Island | Hawaii | Connecticut | Montana; New Hampshire |
| Delaware | Alaska | Wyoming |
| North Dakota | Idaho | South Dakota |
| Maine | Vermont | New Mexico |
| ROUND 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 24 | 16 | 10 |
ROUND 3Joe - Number One on the Court… Maybe Not Number One in Your Hearts
Listener-submitted by Michael Simon.
| Name someone who has served as Chief Justice of the United States. |
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| Joe | David | Kaberi | Not given |
| John Roberts | John Jay | William Rehnquist | John Rutledge; Oliver Ellsworth; Morrison Waite; Melville Fuller; Edward Douglass White; William Howard Taft; Charles Evans Hughes; Harlan F. Stone; Fred M. Vinson |
| Earl Warren | (Warren) Burger | (Felix) Frankfurter |
| John Marshall | (Louis) Brandeis | (Oliver Wendell) Holmes |
| (Salmon) Chase | (Salmon) Chase | (Roger) Taney |
| ROUND 3 | 8 | 5 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 24 | 15 | 28 |
HALFTIME
| 0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
| IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | David | Kaberi | Joe |
| was the movie The Sound of Music first released? | 1965 | 1965 | 1965 | 1961 |
| did the first episode of Leave It to Beaver air? | 1957 | 1954 | 1957 | 1955 |
| was the Eagles' album Hotel California first released? | 1976 | 1973 | 1974 | 1978 |
| did Moscow host the Summer Olympics? | 1980 | 1980 | 1980 | 1980 |
| was Jan Martell's Life of Pi first published? | 2001 | 2004 | 2002 | 2009 |
| was the Treaty of Versailles signed? | 1919 | 1918 | 1918 | 1919 |
| did West Germany and East Germany officially reunify? | 1990 | 1990 | 1990 | 1991 |
| did India gain its independence? | 1947 | 1947 | 1947 | 1947 |
| HALFTIME | | 6½ | 7½ | 5½ |
| TOTAL | | 21½ | 35½ | 29½ |
ROUND 4David - Billions and Billions Served
| Name a song whose music video has been viewed at least two billion times on YouTube, as of December 21, 2017. |
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| David | Kaberi | Joe | Not given |
| Baby | Despacito | Gangnam Style | See You Again; Shape of You; Sorry; Uptown Funk; Sugar; Bailando; Roar; Lean On; Dark Horse; Hello; All About That Bass; Counting Stars; Chantaje; Thinking Out Loud |
| (What Does) The Fox (Say?) | Shake It Off | Gentleman |
| Wrecking Ball | Single Ladies | Blank Space |
| Blurred Lines | Maps | Swish Swish |
| ROUND 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 21½ | 39½ | 33½ |
ROUND 5Kaberi - That's a Mighty Long Time
Listener-submitted by Michael Simon.
| According to the Internation Commission on Stratigraphy, the Phanerozoic eon, which began 541 million years ago, is divided into three eras, with those eras divided into a total of twelve periods. Name one of these geologic eras and periods. |
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| Kaberi | Joe | David | Not given |
| Mesozoic | Paleozoic | Cenozoic | Neogene; Paleogene; Silurian; Ordovician; Cambrian |
| Cretaceous | Jurassic | Triassic |
| Mississipian | Devonian | Quarternary |
| Permian | Carboniferous | Pleisozoic |
| ROUND 5 | 6 | 16 | 12 |
| TOTAL | 45½ | 49½ | 33½ |
ROUND 6Joe - …And The Debate Rages On
| Box Office Mojo lists nineteen movies that have grossed at least $50 million (not counting inflation), are released after 1980, are set during Christmas, but are not specifically about Christmas. Name them. |
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| Joe | David | Kaberi | Not given |
| Die Hard | Home Alone | Home Alone 2 | Iron Man 3; Catch Me If You Can; Batman Returns; Gremlins; Rocky IV; Prometheus; Trading Places; While You Were Sleeping; The Family Man; Lethal Weapon; The Holiday; The Family Stone; The Last Boy Scout; Eyes Wide Shut |
| The Santa Clause | Die Hard 2 | Love Actually |
| (Dr. Seuss' How) the Grinch (Stole Christmas)
(2000, starring Jim Carrey) | National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation | Krampus |
| A Madea Christmas | Sleepless in Seattle | …When Harry Met Sally |
| ROUND 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 51½ | 37½ | 49½ |
GRAND FINALE
| Category: Geographic Name's the Same |
| The United States has a pair of well-known cities known as Portland - one in Maine, one in Oregon. As the crow flies, how many miles apart are these two Portlands? |
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| Answer and bounds | David | Kaberi | Joe |
2,793
2,539
2,285 | 2,940 | 3,100 | 3,600 |
| WAGER | 16 | 16 | 15½ |
| FINAL SCORE | 21½ | 33½ | 36 |
| Winner: Joe Nguyen |