Complete the List, Episode 62
Once Again, RuPaul Messed Me Up
Contestants: Chris King, Matt Jones, Matthew Kimberlin |
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Categories |
Put the Brooms Down | Where the Money Is |
Point A to Point B | Youthful Leaders |
Alphabetically First | Singing on Television |
Big Places Across the Pond | He Doesn't Like Doing Sequels |
Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Chris - Alphabetically First
Name an element on the periodic table whose name begins with an "A" or a "B." |
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| Chris | Matt | Matty | Not given |
| argon | berkelium | boron | antimony; bromine |
| aluminum | americium | barium |
| bohrium | astatine | beryllium |
| bismuth | arsenic | actinium |
ROUND 1 | 16 | 8 | 16 |
ROUND 2Matt - Big Places Across the Pond
Name an urban area in the United Kingdom with at least 400,000 residents, as per their 2011 census. |
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| Matt | Matty | Chris | Not given |
| London | Birmingham | Liverpool | Southampton; Newcastle; Nottingham; Sheffield; Bristol; Brighton; Bournemouth |
| Manchester | Glasgow | Edinburgh |
| Leicester | Belfast | Oxford |
| Cardiff | Leeds | Kent |
ROUND 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 |
TOTAL | 16 | 24 | 20 |
ROUND 3Matty - Where the Money Is
Listener-submitted by Michael Simon.
Name a city that is the location of a U.S. Federal Reserve Bank. |
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| Matty | Chris | Matt | Not given |
| San Francisco | Denver | Philadelphia | Cleveland; Minneapolis; Kansas City |
| New York | Atlanta | Dallas |
| Boston | Chicago | St. Louis |
| Richmond | Seattle | Seattle |
ROUND 3 | 8 | 4 | 6 |
TOTAL | 32 | 24 | 22 |
HALFTIME
0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Chris | Matt | Matty |
was the movie The Sting first released? | 1973 | 1976 | 1975 | 1968 |
did the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race originally air? | 2009 | 1998 | 2007 | 2011 |
was John Lennon born? | 1940 | 1938 | 1949 | 1941 |
did Mark McGwire hit 70 home runs? | 1998 | 2002 | 1998 | 1997 |
was Star Quest, Dean Koontz's first novel, first published? | 1968 | 1968 | 1969 | 1975 |
did James Comey become Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation? | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2005 |
did the USA Today newspaper first publish? | 1982 | 1984 | 1980 | 1984 |
did Ray Kroc begin operating his first McDonald's restaurant? | 1954 | 1956 | 1953 | 1956 |
HALFTIME | | 4½ | 5 | 4 |
TOTAL | | 28½ | 27 | 36 |
ROUND 4Chris - Put the Brooms Down
Name a nation that competed at the 2018 World Men's Curling Championship or the 2018 World Women's Curling Championship. |
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| Chris | Matt | Matty | Not given |
| United States | Canada | China | Czech Republic; Italy; Japan; Netherlands; South Korea; Switzerland |
| Norway | England | Sweden |
| Germany | Finland | Denmark |
| Russia | Iceland | Scotland |
ROUND 4 | 8 | 2 | 8 |
TOTAL | 36½ | 29 | 44 |
ROUND 5Matt - Singing on Television
Name a country which has won the Eurovision Song Contest at least twice, through 2017. |
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| Matt | Matty | Chris | Not given |
| Russia | United Kingdom | Sweden | Ireland; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Israel; Denmark; Ukraine |
| Austria | France | Switzerland |
| Norway | Spain | Italy |
| Estonia | Portugal | Germany |
ROUND 5 | 4 | 6 | 8 |
TOTAL | 33 | 50 | 44½ |
ROUND 6Matty - Youthful Leaders
Abraham Lincoln was 52 years, 20 days old when he assumed the Presidency of the United States. Name any U.S. President who was younger when he became President. |
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| Matty | Chris | Matt | Not given |
| Barack Obama | John F. Kennedy | John F. Kennedy | Grover Cleveland; James A. Garfield; Millard Fillmore; John Tyler; Calvin Coolidge; Franklin D. Roosevelt; William Howard Taft; Chester A. Arthur |
| Bill Clinton | Theodore Roosevelt | John Quincy Adams |
| George W. Bush | James K. Polk | Andrew Jackson |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Franklin Pierce | William Henry Harrison |
ROUND 6 | 6 | 8 | 2 |
TOTAL | 56 | 52½ | 35 |
GRAND FINALE
Category: International Relations |
Listener-submitted by Josh Woo.
The Inter-Korean Summit in April 2018 marked the first time a North Korean leader set foot on South Korean territory since the signing of the Korean armistice agreement in 1953. How many days have passed between the signing of the armistice and the Inter-Korean Summit? |
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Answer and bounds | Matt | Chris | Matty |
26,016 23,651 21,286 | 24,500 | 23,500 | 23,725 |
WAGER | 16 | 1 | 2 |
FINAL SCORE | 51 | 53½ | 58 |
Winner: Matthew Kimberlin |