Complete the List, Episode 64
Andy, This May Have Been A Mistake
Contestants: Cory Anotado, Bob Hagh, Christian Carrion |
The players in this episode are the founders of the 24-Hour Game Show Marathon, whose proceeds benefit Child's Play. The beginning of this episode carried a warning: "Hey, everyone. So I know that there are a few of my listeners that listen to this episode with their children or in their classrooms. And I think I'd recommend that you listen to this episode first on your own, and make the decision yourself whether you're comfortable listening to it publicly. Thanks for listening!" (It is the first episode to be tagged "explicit" in iTunes.) |
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Categories |
What's the Formula, Anyway? | Which Is Really the Cradle? |
This Lab Is Top Secret | There Is No I in Team, but There Is an Emmy |
Henry James | Songs from the 6 |
Farben and Colores | A Category for the Kids |
Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Cory - What's the Formula, Anyway?
Listener-submitted by Eric Sutherland.
Name a country in which a Formula One has been held, or is scheduled to be held, in 2018. |
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| Cory | Bob | Christian | Not given |
| Monaco | United Kingdom | United States | Bahrain; China; Azerbaijan; Spain; Canada; Austria; Hungary; Belgium; Singapore; Russia; Brazil; United Arab Emirates |
| Germany | Australia | South Africa |
| France | Italy | Japan |
| Mexico | Sweden | Denmark |
ROUND 1 | 8 | 6 | 4 |
ROUND 2Bob - A Category for the Kids
Listener-submitted by Hunter York.
Since they were first given out at the 2002 (74th) Academy Awards, there have been a total of twelve different Disney or Pixar films that have won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Name them. |
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| Bob | Christian | Cory | Not given |
| Coco | Up | Frozen | Ratatouille; Brave; Big Hero 6; Zootopia |
| Inside Out | Tangled | WALL-E |
| Finding Nemo | Toy Story 3 | Finding Dory |
| The Incredibles | Toy Story 2 | Monsters Inc. |
ROUND 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 |
TOTAL | 14 | 12 | 12 |
ROUND 3Christian - Songs from the 6
Name a song by Drake, either as a main or featured artist, that charted at No. 10 or higher on the Billboard Hot 100. |
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| Christian | Cory | Bob | Not given |
| God's Plan | Hotline Bling | God's Plan: The Sequel | Lead: Best I Ever Had; Forever; Find Your Love; Make Me Proud; Take Care; Hold On, We're Going Home; Summer Sixteen; One Dance; Fake Love; Passionfruit; Portland; Diplomatic Immunity Featured: Right Above It (Lil Wayne); What's My Name? (Rihanna); She Will (Lil Wayne); I'm on One (DJ Khaled); Fuckin' Problems (ASAP Rocky); Love Me (Lil Wayne); Look Alive (BlocBoy JB); Walk It Talk It (Migos) |
| Nice for What | Nice for What | Nice for What |
| Work (by Rihanna) | Jumpman | Love This |
| Back to Back | Started from the Bottom | Mambo No. 5 |
ROUND 3 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
TOTAL | 18 | 17 | 15 |
HALFTIME
0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Cory | Bob | Christian |
was the movie Quiz Show first released? | 1994 | 1994 | 1992 | 1994 |
was Pat Sajak born? | 1946 | 1954 | 1945 | 1945 |
did Wink Martindale have a hit song with his recording of "Deck of Cards"? | 1959 | 1962 | 1968 | 1959 |
did Michael Strahan play in his final National Football League game? | 2008 | 2012 | 2007 | 2009 |
was the novel The Running Man first published? | 1982 | 1974 | 1977 | 1978 |
was the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco completed? | 1972 | 1986 | 1995 | 1965 |
did famous game show host Monty Hall die? | 2017 | 2017 | 2017 | 2018 |
did Caesars Palace open in Las Vegas? It served as the taping location for the game show Caesars Challenge. | 1966 | 1958 | 1963 | 1965 |
HALFTIME | | 3 | 4½ | 6½ |
TOTAL | | 20 | 19½ | 24½ |
ROUND 4Cory - There Is No I in Team, but There Is an Emmy
Listener-submitted by Adam Holquist.
Through 2017, there have been eighteen television series that have won twenty or more Primetime Emmy Awards. Name them. |
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| Cory | Bob | Christian | Not given |
| Game of Thrones | Saturday Night Live | The Simpsons | Frasier; The Mary Tyler Moore Show; Cheers; The Carol Burnett Show; Hill Street Blues; The Daily Show; American Masters; All in the Family; Boardwalk Empire; 24; NYPD Blue |
| Breaking Bad | The West Wing | Law & Order |
| Modern Family | The Sopranos | Curb Your Enthusiasm |
| ER | Friends | The Cosby Show |
ROUND 4 | 6 | 12 | 2 |
TOTAL | 26 | 31½ | 26½ |
ROUND 5Bob - This Lab Is Top Secret
Listener-submitted by Lisa Wolfisch.
In 2017, sixteen companies spent at least $5.36 billion in R&D (research and development). Ten were tech companies, six were not. Name them. |
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| Bob | Christian | Cory | Not given |
| Apple | Microsoft | Tesla | Johnson & Johnson; Merck; Ford; Facebook; Pfizer; General Motors; Oracle; Celgene; IBM |
| Amazon | Nike | Google [Alphabet] |
| Cisco [Sisqó] | Coca-Cola | Boeing |
| Qualcomm | Samsung | Intel |
ROUND 5 | 8 | 2 | 8 |
TOTAL | 39½ | 28½ | 34 |
ROUND 6Christian - Which Is Really the Cradle?
Name a President of the United States who was born in either Virginia or Ohio. No President has been born in either state since the 29th. |
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| Christian | Cory | Bob | Not given |
| James Madison | Abraham Lincoln | George Washington | William Henry Harrison; Zachary Taylor; Benjamin Harrison; Woodrow Wilson; William Howard Taft; Warren G. Harding |
| James K. Polk | Thomas Jefferson | (James) Buchanan |
| James Monroe | Rutherford Hayes | (John) Tyler |
| Ulysses S. Grant | James A. Garfield | Barack Obama William McKinley |
ROUND 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
TOTAL | 34½ | 40 | 45½ |
GRAND FINALE
Category: U.S. History |
Idaho and Wyoming were both admitted to the Union in the same year. What anniversary of that event will they both be celebrating in 2018? |
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Answer and bounds | Christian | Cory | Bob |
140 128 116 | 126 | 125 | 118 |
WAGER | 16 | 11 | 2½ |
FINAL SCORE | 50½ | 51 | 48 |
Winner: Cory Anotado |
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By the archivist's count, there were twenty-nine distinct bleeps in this episode... which is twenty-eight more than in the entire previous history of the podcast. Andy promised to donate 50¢ for each point scored by the players in this game. The aggregate score of 149½ thus yielded a donation of $74.75, which Andy rounded up to $75. |