Complete the List, Episode 41
Isn't That Supposed To Be Gary, Indiana?
| Thursday, February 8, 2018 |
| Contestants: Courtney Smith, Gary Middleton, Bruce Saunders |
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| Categories |
| May the List Be with You | Elementary Vocabulary |
| The World Court | Antebellum |
| No, X-Files and Will & Grace Don't Count | Oh, the Books You Can Write! |
| More than Half | From A to B |
| Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Courtney - May the List Be with You.
| Name any character with ninety or more English lines from the first seven Star Wars films combined. The most recent movie in the series (The Last Jedi) does not count. |
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| Courtney | Gary | Bruce | Not given |
| Luke Skywalker | Princess Leia (Organa) | Han Solo | Finn; Rey; Emperor Palpatine; Qui-Gon Jinn; Poe Dameron; Jar Jar Binks; Kylo Ren; Mace Windu |
| Darth Vader
[Anakin Skywalker] | C-3PO | Yoda |
| Obi-Wan Kenobi | Lando Calrissian | Chewbacca |
| Padmé Amidala | Count Dooku | Count Dooku |
| ROUND 1 | 8 | 6 | 4 |
ROUND 2Gary - From A to B.
Listener-submitted by Michael Simon.
| The "A" and the "B" are the only letters in this group's name. Gold, the 1992 greatest hits album by Swedish pop group ABBA, is one of the top selling albums of all time. Name one of the tracks on this album. |
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| Gary | Bruce | Courtney | Not given |
| Mamma Mia! | Dancing Queen | SOS | Chiquitita; Fernando; I Have a Dream; Knowing Me, Knowing You; Lay All Your Love on Me; One of Us; Thank You for the Music; The Name of the Game; Voulez-Vous |
| Take a Chance on Me | Waterloo | The Winner Takes It All |
| Money, Money, Money | I Do, I Do, I Do (, I Do, I Do) | Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) |
| Does Your Mother Know | Super Trouper | Super Trouper |
| ROUND 2 | 8 | 16 | 7 |
| TOTAL | 14 | 20 | 15 |
ROUND 3Bruce - Antebellum.
| Name a U.S. state that entered the Union between the start of the 19th century and the secession of South Carolina. |
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| Bruce | Courtney | Gary | Not given |
| Maine | Illinois | Louisiana | Mississippi; Alabama; Michigan; Texas; Iowa; Minnesota; Oregon |
| Missouri | Kansas | Ohio |
| Florida | Indiana | California |
| Tennessee | Arkansas | Wisconsin |
| ROUND 3 | 6 | 6 | 8 |
| TOTAL | 26 | 21 | 22 |
HALFTIME
| 0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
| IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Courtney | Gary | Bruce |
| was the movie Gandhi first released? | 1982 | 1985 | 1935 | 1983 |
| did the first episode of The Honeymooners first air? | 1955 | 1955 | 1951 | 1954 |
| did George Harrison of The Beatles die? | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2001 |
| did Rob Manfred become Commissioner of Baseball? | 2015 | 1935 | 1925 | 2015 |
| was Slaughter-house Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, first published? | 1969 | 1965 | 1965 | 1962 |
| did the dissolution of the Soviet Union occur? | 1991 | 1991 | 1991 | 1992 |
| were the Pentagon Papers first published by The New York Times? | 1971 | 1973 | 1975 | 1971 |
| did the famous Dunkirk evacuation take place? | 1940 | 1944 | 1942 | 1943 |
| HALFTIME | | 4½ | 3½ | 6½ |
| TOTAL | | 25½ | 25½ | 32½ |
ROUND 4Courtney - No, X-Files and Will & Grace Don't Count.
| Not counting The X-Files and Will & Grace, fourteen different currently airing American scripted primetime television series have lasted for 150 episodes or greater. Name them. |
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| Courtney | Gary | Bruce | Not given |
| Modern Family | The Big Bang Theory | Blue Bloods | Law & Order: SVU; Grey's Anatomy; Criminal Minds; Supernatural; NCIS: Los Angeles; The Middle; Hawaii Five-O |
| Family Guy | The Simpsons | NCIS |
| American Dad | Chicago Med | Elementary |
| South Park | South Park | South Park |
| ROUND 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 31½ | 29½ | 36½ |
ROUND 5Gary - Elementary Vocabulary.
| Name an element of the periodic table whose chemical symbol is also a word found in the 2015 edition of Collins Scrabble Words. |
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| Gary | Bruce | Courtney | Not given |
| iodine (I) | sodium (Na) | iron (Fe) | lithium (Li); neon (Ne); silicon (Si); titanium (Ti); arsenic (As); molybdenum (Mo); indium (In); tellurium (Te); barium (Ba); lanthanum (La); holmium (Ho); erbium (Er); tantalum (Ta); osmium (Os); bismuth (Bi); polonium (Po); astatine (At); americium (Am); einsteinium (Es); nobelium (No) |
| beryllium (Be) | helium (He) | gold (Au) |
| bromine (Br) | argon (Ar) | rayon |
| aluminum (Al) | sulfur (S) | silver (Ag) |
| ROUND 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 33½ | 42½ | 35½ |
ROUND 6Bruce - The World Court.
Listener-submitted by Michael Simon.
| In March 2017, FOX Sports ranked the top 20 NBA players of all time who were born outside of the fifty United States and Washington, DC. Give the name of one of those players. |
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| Bruce | Courtney | Gary | Not given |
| Steve Nash | Yao (Ming) | Hakeem Olajuwon | Tim Duncan; Patrick Ewing; Dominique Wilkins; Pau Gasol; Kyrie Irving; Detlef Schrempf; Vlade Divac; Luol Deng; Rik Smits; Andrew Bogut; Peja Stojakovic; Al Horford |
| Manu Ginobili | Manu Ginobili | (Drazen) Petrovic |
| Dirk Nowitzki | Tony Parker | Dikembe Mutombo |
| (pass) | Thompson | Toni Kukoc |
| ROUND 6 | 6 | 10 | 12 |
| TOTAL | 48½ | 45½ | 45½ |
GRAND FINALE
Category: From the U.S. Census Bureau
Suggested by Lisa Wolfisch. |
| It's the only state more populous than Canada. What is the population of California, as per the July 1, 2017 estimate as given by the U.S. Census Bureau? |
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| Answer and bounds | Courtney | Gary | Bruce |
43,490,318
39,536,653
35,582,988 | 52,000,000 | 61,500,000 | 39,000,000 |
| WAGER | 15 | 5½ | 13½ |
| FINAL SCORE | 30½ | 40 | 62 |
| Winner: Bruce Saunders |