Monday, June 18, 2018

Correct, unique: 2 points

Correct, repeated: 1 point

Incorrect: 0 points

Player doubled the category

Tim Burton has directed eighteen feature films. Name them.
	Lindsey	Gena	Kate	Not given
	Batman	The Nightmare Before Christmas	Coraline	Pee-wee's Big Adventure; Edward Scissorhands; Ed Wood; Mars Attacks!; Sleepy Hollow; Planet of the Apes; Big Fish; Corpse Bride; Dark Shadows; Frankenweenie; Big Eyes; Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
	Batman Returns	Alice in Wonderland (2010)	Batman Returns
	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
	Beetlejuice	Through the Looking Glass	Beetlejuice
ROUND 1	8	4	3

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration identifies nineteen nuts as tree nuts for the purpose of identifying allergens in food. Give me the name of any of those nuts. (According to the FDA, in order to be comprehensive, this list employs broad scientific categories that may include a species that currently has no food use, and the fact that a species falls within a scientific category on the list does not mean that the species is appropriate for food use.)
	Gena	Kate	Lindsey	Not given
	pine nut	almond	pecan	beech nut; butternut; chestnut; chinquapin; coconut; ginko nut; hickory nut; lichee nut; pili nut; sheanut
	hazelnut [filbert]	walnut	macadamia nut [bush nut]
	Brazil nut	cashew	pistachio
	peanut	peanut	peanut
ROUND 2	6	6	6
TOTAL	10	9	14

Silver was eliminated from the composition of all circulating U.S. coinage in 1971. Name any individual who has been depicted on a U.S. coin minted for circulation since that year.
	Kate	Lindsey	Gena	Not given
	George Washington	Abraham Lincoln	Thomas Jefferson	Jean Baptiste Charbonneau; Sequoyah; Jim Thorpe; Caesar Rodney; Helen Keller; John Muir; King Kamehameha; Duke Ellington; Oliver Hazard Perry; William Jasper; Frederick Douglass; George Rogers Clark
	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	John F. Kennedy	Sacagawea
	Susan B. Anthony	Theodore Roosevelt	Dwight D. Eisenhower
	John Adams	Benjamin Franklin	Barack Obama
ROUND 3	6	6	6
TOTAL	15	20	16
From 2007 through 2011, Presidential $1 Coins were minted in quantities for circulation, and in reduced quantities thereafter. Thus, the archivist submits that any of the first twenty U.S. Presidents - George Washington through James A. Garfield - should have been a correct response.

IN WHAT YEAR…	Correct year	Lindsey	Gena	Kate
was the Best Picture Oscar winner The Best Years of Our Lives first released?	1946	1945	1945	1946
did the final episode of The Beverly Hillbillies first air?	1971	1958	1977	1972
was the Backstreet Boys' self-titled debut album first released?	1996	1997	1996	1998
was the Stanley Cup most recently not awarded?	2005	2004	2004	2003
was Stephen King's The Outsider first published?	2018	2012	2012	2011
did the USSR make Laika the first dog in orbit on Sputnik 2?	1957	1975	1956	1958
was the first Apple Macintosh computer sold?	1984	1987	1984	1984
was the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified, barring poll taxes in national elections?	1964	1965	1965	1965
HALFTIME		4½	6	6
TOTAL		24½	22	21

Name anyone who has been a judge on the U.S. version of The Voice, through the most recently aired fourteenth season.
	Lindsey	Gena	Kate	Not given
	Blake Shelton	Adam Levine	Christina Aguilera	Usher; Jennifer Hudson
	Kelly Clarkson	Miley Cyrus	Gwen Stefani
	Alicia Keys	Pharrell Williams	Pharrell Williams
	Cee Lo Green	Shakira	Cee Lo Green
ROUND 4	16	16	6
TOTAL	40½	38	27

As of January 2018, and not adjusted for inflation, give the name of one of the twenty costliest tropical cyclones or hurricanes in U.S. history.
	Gena	Kate	Lindsey	Not given
	Andrew	Katrina	Harvey	Ike; Wilma; Rita; Charley; Irene; Matthew; Frances; Allison; Jeanne; Floyd; Gustav
	Irma	Maria	Maria
	Ivan	Sandy	Sandy
	Isabel	Hugo	Hugo
ROUND 5	8	16	5
TOTAL	46	43	45½

Based on gross registered tonnage, name a country or territory ranked in the top twenty that has the largest fleets of registered trading vessels. The list is based on the annual maritime shipping statistics provided by the British Government and the Department for Transport. It is complete and correct for the year ending 2012.
	Kate	Lindsey	Gena	Not given
	United States	China	Japan	Panama; Liberia; Marshall Islands; Hong Kong; Singapore; Bahamas; Malta; Greece; Cyprus; Spain; Italy; Norway; South Korea; Bermuda; Antigua and Barbuda
	Saudi Arabia	United Kingdom	Germeny
	France	Canada	Philippines
	Australia	India	Denmark
ROUND 6	0	4	6
TOTAL	43	49½	52

GRAND FINALE

Category: Basketball
Including both regular season and playoffs, how many total games were played in the 2017-18 NBA season?
Answer and bounds	Kate	Lindsey	Gena
1,443 1,312 1,181	1,350	2,500	3,850
WAGER	10	3	2
FINAL SCORE	53	46½	50
Winner: Kate Hadley