Complete the List, Episode 40 (2018-02-01)

Complete the List, Episode 40

It Seems So Obvious When You Give The Whole List

Thursday, February 1, 2018

Contestants: Ian Greig, Jeff Henderson, Andrew Long

Categories
Thanks for the Films	We All Had to Work Late
The Other Major League	Have You Mastered the Art?
Yotta, Yotta, Yotta	One-Quarter American
More than Half	Album, Noun, One or More Recordings Produced As a Single Unit

Correct, unique: 2 points Correct, repeated: 1 point Incorrect: 0 points Player doubled the category

ROUND 1

Ian - Album, Noun, One or More Recordings Produced As a Single Unit

In 2015, Billboard magazine released a list of the top 200 albums of all time, as compiled by overall performance on the Billboard 200 album chart between 1963 and 2015. Name an artist who had an album in the top 25. A point system was used that gave more weight to albums higher on the chart for longer.

Ian Jeff Andrew Not given

The Beatles Michael Jackson The Beach Boys Adele; Bruce Springsteen; Garth Brooks; Alanis Morissette; Nickelback; Carole King; Whitney Houston; Lady Gaga; Herb Albert & the Tijuana Brass; Shania Twain; Fleetwood Mac; Usher; Paula Abdul; Billy Ray Cyrus; Celine Dion; Carrie Underwood; MC Hammer; Def Leppard
(The soundtracks to The Sound of Music, Dr. Zhivago, The Bodyguard, and Frozen were in the top 25, but the question specified "an artist.")

Mariah Carey Britney Spears Taylor Swift

U2 ABBA Pink Floyd

The Eagles Madonna AC/DC

ROUND 1 0 2 2

ROUND 2

Jeff - Thanks for the Films

"Thanks" can mean "thank you," or it can mean "T. Hanks" - as in, Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks has appeared in fifteen films that have grossed $100 million or more in North America, not counting inflation, according to Box Office Mojo. Name them. Voice-only roles (the Toy Story films, The Polar Express) do not count.

Jeff Andrew Ian Not given

Forrest Gump Philadelphia Big The Da Vinci Code; Apollo 13; The Green Mile; Angels and Demons; A League of Their Own; Road to Perdition

Saving Private Ryan Saving Private Ryan Captain Phillips

Catch Me If You Can Sully Cast Away

You've Got Mail You've Got Mail Sleepless in Seattle

ROUND 2 8 4 8

TOTAL 10 6 8

ROUND 3

Andrew - We All Had to Work Late
Listener-submitted by Michael Simon.

Name someone who has served as the regular host of NBC's The Tonight Show or Late Night, or CBS's The Late Show or The Late Late Show.

Andrew Ian Jeff Not given

Johnny Carson Craig Ferguson Jay Leno Seth Meyers; Tom Snyder; Craig Kilborn

David Letterman Jimmy Kimmel Conan O'Brien

Steve Allen Jimmy Fallon Stephen Colbert

Jack Paar Jack Paar James Corden

ROUND 3 16 5 16

TOTAL 22 13 26

HALFTIME

0-1 year away: 1 point

2-5 years away: ½ point

>5 years away: 0 points

IN WHAT YEAR… Correct year Ian Jeff Andrew

was the movie Marty first released? 1955 1955 1955 1955

did the first episode of the television series The Beverly Hillbillies first air? 1962 1965 1961 1962

was John Lennon assassinated? 1980 1980 1981 1980

did Lou Gehrig give his "luckiest man on the face of the earth" speech? 1939 1927 1948 1944

was Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary first published? 1996 2003 1997 1996

did the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrate upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere? 2003 1992 2004 2003

did Spiro Agnew resign as Vice President of the United States? 1973 1975 1972 1971

did the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explode in the Gulf of Mexico? 2010 2011 2012 2010

HALFTIME 4 6½ 7

TOTAL 17 32½ 29

ROUND 4

Ian - One-Quarter American

In 2013, Time magazine released a list of the 100 most significant figures in history. Name any American who made the list of 100.

Ian Jeff Andrew Not given

George Washington Franklin D. Roosevelt Barack Obama Theodore Roosevelt; Ulysses Grant; Benjamin Franklin; George W. Bush; Alexander Hamilton; Woodrow Wilson; James Madison; Mark Twain; Edgar Allan Poe; Joseph Smith; John Adams; Andrew Jackson; Elvis Presley; Robert E. Lee; Harry Truman; Grover Cleveland

(Abraham) Lincoln Thomas Edison Richard Nixon

Thomas Jefferson Steve Jobs John F. Kennedy
Rockefeller (Ronald) Reagan Bill Clinton
ROUND 4 6 6 4

TOTAL 23 38½ 33

ROUND 5

Jeff - Have You Mastered the Art?
Listener-submitted by Nette Compton.

Name an item that is an ingredient in Julia Child's bœuf bourguignon recipe, as per Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

Jeff Andrew Ian Not given

beef Burgundy (red) wine salt bacon; beef stock/bouillon; tomato paste; thyme; crumbled bay leaf; butter; parsley

(olive or cooking) oil carrots pepper

onion celery garlic

mushroom flour mushroom

ROUND 5 8 6 7

TOTAL 46½ 39 30

ROUND 6

Andrew - Yotta, Yotta, Yotta
Listener-submitted by Eric Sutherland.

In the International System of Units (SI), there are twenty prefixes, from yocto (10^-24) to yotta (10²⁴). Not all of those prefixes have a power evenly divisible by three, though. Name one of the other prefixes that has a power evenly divisible by three.

Andrew Ian Jeff Not given

tri kilo giga zetta; exa; femto; atto; zepto

mega milli tera

peta nano centi

deci micro pico

ROUND 6 4 16 6

TOTAL 43 46 52½

GRAND FINALE

Category: Literature

Ray Bradbury would not have won NaNoWriMo - that is, National Novel Writing Month - with his Fahrenheit 451. What was the word count of that famous Ray Bradbury work?

Answer and bounds Andrew Ian Jeff

50,730
46,118
41,506 31,894 80,000 18,000

WAGER 10 1 5

FINAL SCORE 33 45 47½

Winner: Jeff Henderson

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In 2015, Billboard magazine released a list of the top 200 albums of all time, as compiled by overall performance on the Billboard 200 album chart between 1963 and 2015. Name an artist who had an album in the top 25. A point system was used that gave more weight to albums higher on the chart for longer.

	Ian	Jeff	Andrew	Not given
	The Beatles	Michael Jackson	The Beach Boys	Adele; Bruce Springsteen; Garth Brooks; Alanis Morissette; Nickelback; Carole King; Whitney Houston; Lady Gaga; Herb Albert & the Tijuana Brass; Shania Twain; Fleetwood Mac; Usher; Paula Abdul; Billy Ray Cyrus; Celine Dion; Carrie Underwood; MC Hammer; Def Leppard (The soundtracks to The Sound of Music, Dr. Zhivago, The Bodyguard, and Frozen were in the top 25, but the question specified "an artist.")
	Mariah Carey	Britney Spears	Taylor Swift
	U2	ABBA	Pink Floyd
	The Eagles	Madonna	AC/DC
ROUND 1	0	2	2

IN WHAT YEAR…	Correct year	Ian	Jeff	Andrew
was the movie Marty first released?	1955	1955	1955	1955
did the first episode of the television series The Beverly Hillbillies first air?	1962	1965	1961	1962
was John Lennon assassinated?	1980	1980	1981	1980
did Lou Gehrig give his "luckiest man on the face of the earth" speech?	1939	1927	1948	1944
was Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary first published?	1996	2003	1997	1996
did the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrate upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere?	2003	1992	2004	2003
did Spiro Agnew resign as Vice President of the United States?	1973	1975	1972	1971
did the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explode in the Gulf of Mexico?	2010	2011	2012	2010
HALFTIME		4	6½	7
TOTAL		17	32½	29

Category: Literature
Ray Bradbury would not have won NaNoWriMo - that is, National Novel Writing Month - with his Fahrenheit 451. What was the word count of that famous Ray Bradbury work?

Answer and bounds	Andrew	Ian	Jeff
50,730 46,118 41,506	31,894	80,000	18,000
WAGER	10	1	5
FINAL SCORE	33	45	47½
Winner: Jeff Henderson