Monday, July 2, 2018

Correct, unique: 2 points

Correct, repeated: 1 point

Incorrect: 0 points

Player doubled the category

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.
	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

Name a team that has qualified for the knockout stages of the men's 2018 FIFA World Cup.
	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

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.
	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

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

In the original Sid Meier Civilization computer game, there were fifteen playable empires. Name them.
	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

Name any of the top sixteen coal producing states in the United States in 2016. Each produced at least 5,000,000 tons.
	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

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.
	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?
Answer and bounds	Murugu	Matt	Andrew
25 23 21	30	30	25
WAGER	16	16	14½
FINAL SCORE	35½	39	72
Winner: Andrew Brown