Complete the List, Episode 75
Nuclear Gandhi
Contestants: Matt Coleman, Murugu Manickam, Andrew Brown |
First game hosted by Andy in which he did not write any of the six selected main categories. Murugu plugged Camp Kesem at the end of the show. |
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Categories |
Fast Kicking, Low Scoring, and Ties | Racing into the Future |
Smog Creation | It's a Long Road to Canterbury |
Henry F | Grey Roots |
Nuclear Gandhi | The Dude Abides |
Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Matt - Racing into the Future
Listener-submitted by Matt Carberry.
As of August 2017 (i.e. prior to Star Trek: Discovery), and excluding main cast members, twenty different races appeared in at least fifteen live-action episodes of Star Trek series. Name them. |
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| Matt | Murugu | Andrew | Not given |
| Vulcan | Human | Human | Bolian; Jem'Hadar; Vorta; El-Aurian; Changeling; Andorian; Betazoid; Ktarian; Xindi; Kazon; Tellarite (Morn appeared in ninety-four episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; therefore, Lurian should have also been a correct response, but was not on the list submitted to the show. The archivist regrets the oversight.) |
| Bajoran | Klingon | Borg |
| Ferengi | Trill | Romulan |
| Cardassian | Q | Tribble |
ROUND 1 | 8 | 6 | 5 |
ROUND 2Murugu - Fast Kicking, Low Scoring, and Ties
Listener-submitted by Matt Carberry.
Name a team that has qualified for the knockout stages of the men's 2018 FIFA World Cup. |
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| Murugu | Andrew | Matt | Not given |
| Argentina | Brazil | Mexico | Uruguay; Denmark; Switzerland; Sweden; Colombia |
| Russia | Portugal | Spain |
| Croatia | France | Japan |
| England | Belgium | Belgium |
ROUND 2 | 16 | 16 | 7 |
TOTAL | 22 | 21 | 15 |
ROUND 3Andrew - It's a Long Road to Canterbury
Listener-submitted by Robert Dimitri.
In the surviving work to which we have access today, there are twenty-four existing stories titled according to the name of the pilgrim doing the telling in Geoffrey Chaucer's influential but unfinished Middle English work The Canterbury Tales. Name those pilgrims. |
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| Andrew | Matt | Murugu | Not given |
| The Knight | The Miller | The (Nun's) Priest | The Reeve; The Cook; The Man of Law; The Summoner; The Clerk; The Merchant; The Squire; The Franklin; The Physician; The Shipman; The Prioress; Sir Thopas; Melibee; The Monk; The Second Nun; The Canon's Yeoman; The Manciple; The Parson |
| The Wife of Bath | The Wife of Bath | The Wife of Bath |
| The Pardoner | The Pardoner | The Narrator |
| The Friar | The Friar | The Friar |
ROUND 3 | 8 | 5 | 4 |
TOTAL | 29 | 20 | 26 |
HALFTIME
0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Matt | Murugu | Andrew |
was the Best Picture Oscar-winning film Gigi first released? | 1958 | 1958 | 1955 | 1957 |
did HBO begin broadcasting? | 1972 | 1973 | 1978 | 1975 |
did Band Aid first release "Do They Know It's Christmas?" as a charity single? | 1984 | 1985 | 1983 | 1985 |
did the New York Yankees win their most recent World Series? | 2009 | 2009 | 2004 | 2008 |
was John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men first published? | 1937 | 1936 | 1947 | 1937 |
did ZIP Codes begin to be used by the U.S. Postal Service? | 1963 | 1964 | 1933 | 1965 |
was eBay founded? | 1995 | 1997 | 1997 | 1995 |
was the Pentagon building dedicated? | 1943 | 1948 | 1964 | 1945 |
HALFTIME | | 7 | 2½ | 6½ |
TOTAL | | 27 | 28½ | 35½ |
ROUND 4Matt - Nuclear Gandhi
Listener-submitted by Ryan Kloefkorn Meyers.
In the original Sid Meier Civilization computer game, there were fifteen playable empires. Name them. |
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| Matt | Murugu | Andrew | Not given |
| United States (American) | Roman | Indian | Aztec; Babylonian; German; Japanese |
| Greek | British (English) | Chinese |
| French | Mongolian | Zulu |
| Mayan | Egyptian | Russian |
ROUND 4 | 6 | 8 | 8 |
TOTAL | 33 | 36½ | 43½ |
ROUND 5Murugu - Smog Creation
Listener-submitted by Michael Simon.
Name any of the top sixteen coal producing states in the United States in 2016. Each produced at least 5,000,000 tons. |
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| Murugu | Andrew | Matt | Not given |
| West Virginia | Pennsylvania | Kentucky | Illinois; Indiana; North Dakota; New Mexico; Alabama; Arizona |
| Ohio | Texas | Tennessee |
| Virginia | Montana | Wyoming |
| Colorado | Mississippi | Utah |
ROUND 5 | 8 | 6 | 6 |
TOTAL | 44½ | 49½ | 39 |
ROUND 6Andrew - The Dude Abides
Listener-submitted by Robert Dimitri.
The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, have collaborated on a total of seventeen feature-length films released to theaters for which one or both of them are credited as the director. Name those films. |
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| Andrew | Matt | Murugu | Not given |
| The Big Lebowski | No Country for Old Men | Fargo | A Serious Man; The Ladykillers; Intolerable Cruelty; The Man Who Wasn't There; The Hudsucker Proxy; Blood Simple |
| Raising Arizona | Burn After Reading | True Grit |
| O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Inside Llewyn Davis | Miller's Crossing |
| Hail, Caesar! | Barton Fink | Hail, Caesar! |
ROUND 6 | 8 | 16 | 7 |
TOTAL | 57½ | 55 | 51½ |
GRAND FINALE
Category: Canada |
Canada Day is celebrated on July 1, and the nation will celebrate its 151st birthday this year. How many different people have served as Prime Minister of Canada? |
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Answer and bounds | Murugu | Matt | Andrew |
25 23 21 | 30 | 30 | 25 |
WAGER | 16 | 16 | 14½ |
FINAL SCORE | 35½ | 39 | 72 |
Winner: Andrew Brown |