Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Correct, unique: 2 points

Correct, repeated: 1 point

Incorrect: 0 points

Player doubled the category

Name a major metropolitan area that has hosted a Super Bowl.
	Josh	Adam	Steve	Not given
	New Orleans	New York	Detroit	San Diego; Phoenix; San Francisco; Jacksonville; Indianapolis
	Seattle	Miami	Los Angeles
	Chicago	Tampa	Atlanta
	Dallas	Minneapolis	Houston
ROUND 1	4	16	16

According to the Produce Marketing Association, the twentieth most purchased vegetable in the United States is asparagus. Name a vegetable that ranks higher. Note that this list uses the culinary definition and not the botanical one.
	Adam	Steve	Josh	Not given
	tomato	onion	lettuce	salad mix; bell pepper; cucumber; corn; garlic; green bean; cauliflower; green onion
	avocado	potato	carrot
	celery	broccoli	cabbage
	spinach	sweet potato	mushrooms
ROUND 2	6	8	8
TOTAL	22	24	12

Name an American individual who has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
	Steve	Josh	Adam	Not given
	Teddy Roosevelt	Barack Obama	Jimmy Carter	Elihu Root; Charles G. Dawes; Frank B. Kellogg; Jane Addams; Nicholas Murray Butler; Cordell Hull; Emily Greene Balch; Linus Pauling; Norman E. Borlaug; Elie Wiesel; Jody Williams (John Raleigh Mott was a co-recipient with Balch of the Peace Prize in 1946, but was not read out.)
	Al Gore	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Henry Kissinger
	Woodrow Wilson	Woodrow Wilson	(George C.) Marshall
	Ralph Bunche	Ralph Bunche	Ralph Bunche
ROUND 3	8	6	7
TOTAL	32	18	29

IN WHAT YEAR…	Correct year	Josh	Adam	Steve
was the film Inglourious Basterds first released?	2009	2008	2013	2010
did the first episode of the television series Roseanne first air?	1988	1988	1992	1988
did the Sex Pistols release the song "God Save the Queen"?	1977	1976	1977	1976
did the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants play their first games in California?	1958	1955	1959	1962
was Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here first published?	1935	1935	1938	1937
did Lech Walesa become President of Poland?	1990	1991	1986	1980
was Benito Mussolini executed?	1945	1943	1945	1946
was Nelson Mandela sent to Robben Island for imprisonment?	1964	1962	1968	1965
HALFTIME		6½	5½	6
TOTAL		24½	34½	38

Name a color of the rainbow in Spanish or German. (There are seven colors in the rainbow for this question.)
	Josh	Adam	Steve	Not given
	rojo	azul	verde	German: orange; gelb; indigoblau; violett
	amarillo	naranja [anaranjado]	morado
	purpura	rot	blau
	violeta	grün	índigo [añil]
ROUND 4	12	8	6
TOTAL	36½	42½	44
At the conclusion of the category, Andy stated that "purple" and "violet" are spectrally distinct, hence Steve's second and Josh's third responses being ruled incorrect.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." That's the opening line of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Name a named character that appears in that work.
	Adam	Steve	Josh	Not given
	Elizabeth (Bennet) Darcy	Fitzwilliam Darcy	Fitzwilliam Darcy	George Wickham; Lydia Bennet; Mr. William Collins; Ms. Caroline Bingley; Lady Catherine de Bourgh; Mr. Gardiner; Mrs. Gardiner; Charlotte Lucas; Georgiana Darcy; Mary Bennet
	Jane Bennet	Kitty Bennet	Mr. (Charles) Bingley
	Mrs. Bingley	Mr. Bennet	Mrs. Bennet
	Frances	Sarah	Sarah
ROUND 5	4	6	5
TOTAL	46½	50	41½

Name a country through which the Tropic of Cancer passes. The country need not be a UN member state.
	Steve	Josh	Adam	Not given
	Mexico	India	People's Republic of China	Algeria; Niger; Libya; Egypt; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates; Oman; The Bahamas; Western Sahara [Morocco]; Mauritania; Mali
	Republic of China (Taiwan)	Philippines	Indonesia
	Pakistan	Bangladesh	Sudan
	Myanmar	Vietnam	Turkey
ROUND 6	6	4	2
TOTAL	56	45½	48½

GRAND FINALE

Category: An HBO Television Series Listener-submitted by Choyon Manjrekar.
Over the course of the entire series, how many human deaths occurred in The Sopranos?
Answer and bounds	Josh	Adam	Steve
101 92 83	10	72	112
WAGER	1	8	9
FINAL SCORE	44½	40½	47
Winner: Steve Bahnaman