Complete the List, Episode 70
1-Year Anniversary Special!
Contestants: Trevor Mahoney, Tom Kelso, Jeremy Cahnmann Andy Saunders |
Hosted and written by Jeremy Cahnmann. Contestant order was not determined by random selection, but by how long the players have known Jeremy (because Andy has known him the longest, he selected third). No "interview" segment prior to the game's start, and the rules statement was placed after Trevor selected the category for Round 1. |
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Categories |
This Round Is Not Aboot Canada | Not Such a Capital Idea |
A Hardy Category | Smart People Get Things Named After Them |
The Category About the Great White Way | There Are No Guns in the Van in This Category |
A Great American Category | Just One More Thing |
Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Trevor - Not Such a Capital Idea
Name any city in the world not in China or India, that is not a national capital, that has a city proper population of at least 3,000,000 people. The city of Toronto is one of the larger cities not on the list, at 2.7 million. |
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| Trevor | Tom | Andy | Not given |
| New York City | São Paulo | Tokyo | Istanbul; Lahore; Ho Chi Minh City; Yangon; Abidjan; Alexandria; Giza; Yokohama; Busan; Incheon; Jeddah; Casablanca; Faisalabad; Durban; Ekurhuleni |
| Los Angeles | Lagos | Shanghai |
| Sydney | Chicago | Karachi |
| Rio de Janeiro | Saint Petersburg | Johannesburg |
ROUND 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
ROUND 2Tom - The Category About the Great White Way
The Tony Awards are tonight (relative to taping), so by the time this airs, they will have already been announced. If "The Band's Visit" wins, it will become the seventeenth Broadway musical with the English word "The" in its name that has won the Tony Award for Best Musical. Name any of the other sixteen, per the titles given on the Tony Awards website. |
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| Tom | Andy | Trevor | Not given |
| The Sound of Music | The Book of Mormon | The Wiz | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Fiddler on the Roof; The Will Rogers Follies; Kiss of the Spider Woman; The Producers; Billy Elliot the Musical |
| The Music Man | The Lion King | The King and I |
| The Mystery of Edwin Drood | The Phanton of the Opera | The Mystery of Edwin Drood |
| In the Heights | The Pajama Game | In the Heights |
ROUND 2 | 8 | 8 | 6 |
TOTAL | 14 | 12 | 12 |
ROUND 3Andy - This Round Is Not Aboot Canada
Name a player that has won either the NHL's Hart Memorial Trophy as regular season MVP* or the Conn Smythe Trophy as MVP of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, who was not born in Canada. Prior to 1994, only Canadian-born players had won the awards. |
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| Andy | Trevor | Tom | Not given |
| Alexander Ovechkin | Jonathan Toews | Jaromir Jagr | Niklas Lindstrom; Henrik Zetterberg; Tim Thomas; Patrick Kane |
| Dominik Hasek | Dominik Hasek | Henrik Sedin |
| Brian Leetch | Chris Chelios | Peter Forsberg |
| Jonathan Quick | Jonathan Quick | Sergei Fedorov |
ROUND 3 | 16 | 2 | 8 |
TOTAL | 28 | 14 | 22 |
* The Hart Memorial Trophy is presented to the most valuable player as voted on by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association, as distinct from the lesser known Ted Lindsay (formerly Lester B. Pearson) Award, which goes to the most outstanding player as voted on by the NHL Players Association. |
HALFTIME
0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Trevor | Tom | Andy |
was Harry Potter born? | 1980 | 1987 | 1989 | 1981 |
did Cal Ripken Jr.'s streak of 2,632 consecutive games played come to an end? | 1998 | 1998 | 1995 | 1998 |
did Beyoncé release her debut studio album, Dangerously in Love? | 2003 | 2003 | 2003 | 2003 |
did the original Broadway production of West Side Story debut? | 1957 | 1958 | 1962 | 1958 |
did the original Ocean's Eleven film come out in theaters? | 1960 | 1965 | 1961 | 1961 |
did Art Fleming last host an episode of Jeopardy!? | 1979 | 1974 | 1978 | 1978 |
did a city host the Olympic Games for the third time, which has only happened once? | 2012 | 2012 | 2012 | 2012 |
was Winnie the Pooh originally published? | 1926 | 1926 | 1926 | 1926 |
HALFTIME | | 6 | 6 | 8 |
TOTAL | | 20 | 28 | 36 |
ROUND 4Trevor - A Great American Category
Name any American author who has sold at least 200,000,000 books of fiction worldwide. (This list does use the most generous estimated sales totals for each author, and does skew to the more modern.) |
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| Trevor | Tom | Andy | Not given |
| James Patterson | Stephen King | Dean Koontz | Harold Robbins; Sidney Sheldon; Gilbert Patten; Horatio Alger; Nora Roberts; Louis L'Amour; Earl Stanley Gardner; Janet Dailey; Robert Ludlum; Stan & Jan Berenstein; Zane Grey; Irving Wallace; Mickey Spillane |
| Danielle Steel | Dan Brown | R. L. Stine |
| Nicholas Sparks | Suzanne Collins | John Grisham |
| Sue Grafton | Tom Clancy | Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) |
ROUND 4 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
TOTAL | 24 | 32 | 44 |
ROUND 5Tom - Just One More Thing
Since Peter Falk won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for playing (Lt. Frank) Columbo, seventeen different men have also won that award. Name them. |
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| Tom | Andy | Trevor | Not given |
| Sterling Brown | (Bryan) Cranston | Martin Sheen | Jeff Daniels; Damian Lewis; James Spader; Michael Chiklis; Mandy Patinkin; Tom Skerritt; Christopher Lloyd; James Earl Jones |
| Jon Hamm | Dennis Franz | Kyle Chandler |
| Rami Malek | Kiefer Sutherland | Rami Malek |
| Andre Braugher | James Gandolfini | James Gandolfini |
ROUND 5 | 8 | 8 | 4 |
TOTAL | 40 | 52 | 28 |
ROUND 6Andy - There Are No Guns in the Van in This Category
Name a band that had an album listed in the top 35 spots of Rolling Stone's list of the 50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time. |
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| Andy | Trevor | Tom | Not given |
| Poison | Guns 'n' Roses | Def Leppard | Skid Row; Faster Pussycat; Kix; Tesla; Extreme; Quiet Riot; Love/Hate; Dokken; White Lion; Hanoi Rocks; Enuff Z'Nuff; David Lee Roth; L.A. Guns; Black 'N Blue; Dangerous Toys; BulletBoys; Slaughter; Great White; Saigon Kick (The No. 35 album on the list was a self-titled album from Badlands; it was not read out.) |
| Mötley Crüe | Journey | Mötley Crüe |
| Bon Jovi | Twisted Sister | Cinderella |
| Whitesnake | Whitesnake | Warrant |
ROUND 6 | 8 | 6 | 14 |
TOTAL | 60 | 34 | 54 |
GRAND FINALE
Category: Television |
Since the original debuted on September 13, 1990, there have been five different scripted U.S. television series from Dick Wolf that have the words "Law & Order" in their titles. How many episodes of those five series have aired? |
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Answer and bounds | Trevor | Tom | Andy |
1,232 1,120 1,008 | 925 | 1,125 | 1,200 |
WAGER | 16 | 16 | 10½ |
FINAL SCORE | 18 | 70 | 70½ |
Winner: Andy Saunders |