Complete the List, Episode 63
We're Going To See What's Underneath Giants Stadium
Contestants: Jonathan Graham, Matt Carberry, Tom Sargent |
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Categories |
This Is Not About Curling | I'll Have a Little Bacon Cheeseburger All the Way |
Point A to Point B | There Is No I in Team, but There Is an Emmy |
Stadt Stats | A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste |
People Who Are Not E. L. James | The Most Ambitious Crossover Event in History |
Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Jonathan - Point A to Point B
Name an automobile make that, according to GoodCarBadCar.net, had at least 1.5% of the U.S. market share of all vehicle sales in the first quarter of 2018. |
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| Jonathan | Matt | Tom | Not given |
| Ford | Toyota [Scion] | Chevrolet | Hyundai; GMC; Ram; Mazda; Mercedes-Benz; BMW; Lexus |
| Honda | Jeep | Nissan |
| Chrysler | Lincoln | Subaru |
| Kia | Dodge | Volkswagen |
ROUND 1 | 6 | 6 | 8 |
ROUND 2Matt - This Is Not About Curling
Listener-submitted by David Kendall.
Name a team that plays in either the National Hockey League or the Canadian Football League, and is based in Canada. |
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| Matt | Tom | Jonathan | Not given |
| Montréal Canadiens | Winnipeg Jets | Toronto Maple Leafs | B.C. Lions; Calgary Stampeders; Edmonton Eskimos; Saskatchewan Roughriders |
| Edmonton Oilers | Vancouver Canucks | Calgary Flames |
| Ottawa Senators | Winnipeg Blue Bombers | Montréal Alouettes |
| Hamilton Tiger-Cats | Toronto Argonauts | Ottawa Redblacks |
ROUND 2 | 16 | 8 | 8 |
TOTAL | 22 | 16 | 14 |
ROUND 3Tom - I'll Have a Little Bacon Cheeseburger All the Way
Listener-submitted by Michael Simon.
Besides bacon and cheese, which do cost extra, name a burger topping available at no extra charge at Five Guys Burgers and Fries. |
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| Tom | Jonathan | Matt | Not given |
| onion [raw or grilled] | pickle | lettuce | A.1. sauce; green pepper; bar-b-que sauce; hot sauce |
| jalapeño peppers | mayonnaise | ketchup |
| mustard | tomato | relish |
| mushroom | mushroom | mushroom |
ROUND 3 | 16 | 7 | 7 |
TOTAL | 32 | 21 | 29 |
HALFTIME
0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Jonathan | Matt | Tom |
was the film Pinocchio first released? | 1940 | 1935 | 1944 | 1944 |
did the first episode of the television series Star Trek first air? | 1966 | 1966 | 1966 | 1965 |
was the massively selling Led Zeppelin album Physical Graffiti first released? | 1975 | 1975 | 1975 | 1976 |
will the Summer Olympics next be held in North America? | 2028 | 2028 | 2028 | 2024 |
was Tom Clancy's novel Patriot Games first published? | 1987 | 1985 | 1986 | 1984 |
was Nelson Mandela elected President of South Africa? | 1994 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 |
was Saddam Hussein executed? | 2006 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
was Earl Warren named Chief Justice of the United States, serving for over fifteen years? | 1953 | 1955 | 1952 | 1955 |
HALFTIME | | 6½ | 7½ | 6 |
TOTAL | | 27½ | 36½ | 38 |
ROUND 4Jonathan - Stadt Stats
Name a city in Germany with at least 500,000 people, as per the country's 2015 estimates. |
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| Jonathan | Matt | Tom | Not given |
| Berlin | Munich | Frankfurt (am Main) | Stuttgart; Dortmund; Leipzig; Bremen; Hanover |
| Dusseldorf | Hamburg | Bonn |
| Essen | Dresden | Nuremberg |
| Cologne | Cologne | Kaiserslautern |
ROUND 4 | 16 | 7 | 4 |
TOTAL | 43½ | 43½ | 42 |
ROUND 5Matt - A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Listener-submitted by Michael Simon.
Name a school in the 2018 Top 20 of the U.S. News & World Report ranking of historically black colleges or universities. |
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| Matt | Tom | Jonathan | Not given |
| Howard University | Grambling State University | Morehouse College | Claflin University; Clark Atlanta University; Delaware State University; Dillard University; Fisk University; Hampton University; Jackson State University; Johnson C. Smith University; Morgan State University; North Carolina A&T State University; North Carolina Central University; Spelman College; Tougaloo College; University of Maryland - Eastern Shore |
| Southern University | Tuskegee University | Bethune-Cookman University |
| Alcorn State University | Florida A&M University | Xavier University of Louisiana |
| Mississippi Valley State University | Coppin State University | Tennessee State University |
ROUND 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
TOTAL | 47½ | 46 | 47½ |
ROUND 6Tom - People Who Are Not E. L. James
Listener-submitted by Cory Harris.
In 1990, Oscar Hijuelos won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Name any author who has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction since 1990. |
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| Tom | Jonathan | Matt | Not given |
| Morrison | Margaret Atwood | Morrison | Jane Smiley; Robert Olen Butler; E. Annie Proulx; Carol Shields; Richard Ford; Steven Millhauser; Michael Cunningham; Jhumpa Lahiri; Michael Chabon; Richard Russo; Jeffrey Eugenides; Edward P. Jones; Marilynne Robinson; Geraldine Brooks; Cormac McCarthy; Junot Díaz; Elizabeth Strout; Paul Harding; Jennifer Egan; Adam Johnson; Donna Tartt; Anthony Doerr; Viet Thanh Nguyen; Colson Whitehead; Andrew Sean Greer (No award was presented in 2012.) |
| Angelou | Philip Roth | Jonathan Franzen |
| Brown | John Cheever | Paula Hawkins |
| Saunders | John Updike | John Green |
ROUND 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
TOTAL | 46 | 51½ | 47½ |
GRAND FINALE
Category: Happy Victoria Day! |
As this episode is being released on Victoria Day, this question is about Queen Victoria. What anniversary of her birth will be celebrated on May 24, 2018? |
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Answer and bounds | Tom | Matt | Jonathan |
218 199 180 | 135 | 199 | 200 |
WAGER | 6 | 15 | 12½ |
FINAL SCORE | 40 | 62½ | 64 |
Winner: Jonathan Graham |