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 |
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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 1Ian - 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. |
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| 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 2Jeff - 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. |
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| 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 3Andrew - 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. |
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| 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 4Ian - 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. |
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| 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 5Jeff - 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. |
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| 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 6Andrew - 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. |
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| 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? |
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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 |