Complete the List, Episode 79
This Is Not a Category I Would Ask to the Prom
| Contestants: Bill Zimmerman, Richard Wallace, Troy Osborne |
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| Categories |
| The Commish | That's a Lot of Sales |
| Six Years Is a Long Time | Optimus Prime |
| Mare Nostrum | The Granddaddy of Them All |
| Better than Ezra | The All-Powerful Sarlacc |
| Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Bill - Six Years Is a Long Time
There are fifteen music acts who have had at least one album spend at least 300 total weeks on the Billboard 200 album chart. Name them.
(This refers to the main album chart, not the catalog chart.) |
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| Bill | Richard | Troy | Not given |
| The Eagles | Michael Jackson | Pink Floyd | Bob Marley and the Wailers; Journey; Metallica; Guns 'n' Roses; Eminem; Nirvana; Bruno Mars; Creedence Clearwater Revival; Carole King; AC/DC; Lana Del Rey |
| The Beatles | Madonna | U2 |
| Garth Brooks | The cast of Glee | Elvis Presley |
| Adele | The Beach Boys | Taylor Swift |
| ROUND 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
ROUND 2Richard - The Granddaddy of Them All
Listener-submitted by Courtney Smith.
| is a nickname for the largest show in professional wrestling, that being WWE's WrestleMania. Name any metropolitan area that has played host to WrestleMania. |
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| Richard | Troy | Bill | Not given |
| New York City | Dallas | New Orleans | Atlantic City; Toronto; Indianapolis; Hartford; Boston; Philadelphia; Orlando; Atlanta; San Francisco |
| Seattle | Detroit | Los Angeles |
| Houston | Chicago | Miami |
| Phoenix | Las Vegas | Las Vegas |
| ROUND 2 | 8 | 8 | 14 |
| TOTAL | 10 | 10 | 18 |
ROUND 3Troy - Mare Nostrum
Listener-submitted by Michael Simon.
| Name a United Nations member state with territory located on the mainland European continent that borders the Mediterranean Sea. |
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| Troy | Bill | Richard | Not given |
| Spain | Italy | France | Montenegro; Slovenia |
| Greece | Portugal | Monaco |
| Croatia | Albania | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| United Kingdom | San Marino | Turkey |
| ROUND 3 | 16 | 4 | 8 |
| TOTAL | 26 | 22 | 18 |
HALFTIME
Listener-submitted by Tristan Bauer.
| 0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
| IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Bill | Richard | Troy |
| was the film The Princess Bride first released? | 1987 | 1984 | 1987 | 1985 |
| did the original version of the game show Concentration air its very first episode? | 1958 | 1962 | 1965 | 1965 |
| was Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable" the Billboard year-end No. 1 song? | 2007 | 2007 | 2005 | 2005 |
| did Mark Spitz win a then-record seven gold medals in the Summer Olympics? | 1972 | 1974 | 1972 | 1976 |
| was R. J. Palacio's Wonder first published? | 2012 | 2012 | 2015 | 2013 |
| was James Buchanan inaugurated as President of the United States? | 1857 | 1857 | 1857 | 1856 |
| is Halley's Comet projected to next pass near earth? | 2061 | 2062 | 2061 | 2062 |
| was the original Sony PlayStation released in North America? | 1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 1995 |
| HALFTIME | | 6 | 5½ | 5½ |
| TOTAL | | 28 | 23½ | 31½ |
ROUND 4Bill - Optimus Prime
Listener-submitted by Eugene Byon.
| George Washington is the first President of the United States, or POTUS No. 1. Donald Trump is No. 45. Name a U.S. President whose POTUS number is a prime number. |
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| Bill | Richard | Troy | Not given |
| John Adams | Thomas Jefferson | George Herbert Walker Bush | James K. Polk; Millard Fillmore; Rutherford B. Hayes; Benjamin Harrison; Warren G. Harding |
| James Monroe | Andrew Jackson | George W. Bush |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Andrew Johnson | Richard Nixon |
| Martin van Buren | Herbert Hoover | Woodrow Wilson |
| ROUND 4 | 4 | 16 | 6 |
| TOTAL | 32 | 39½ | 37½ |
ROUND 5Richard - The Commish
Listener-submitted by Michael Simon.
| Name someone who has served as National Football League Commissioner or Commissioner of Major League Baseball. |
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| Richard | Troy | Bill | Not given |
| Bud Selig | Bud Selig | Paul Tagliabue | NFL: Elmer Layden; Bert Bell; Austin Gunsel; Pete Rozelle
MLB: Ford Frick; William Eckert; Bowie Kuhn; Peter Ueberroth; Bart Giamatti |
| (Rob) Manfred | (Kenesaw Mountain) Landis | Fay Vincent |
| Roger Goodell | Roger Goodell | Roger Goodell |
| (A. B. "Happy") Chandler | (A. B. "Happy") Chandler | Johnson |
| ROUND 5 | 8 | 5 | 5 |
| TOTAL | 47½ | 42½ | 37 |
ROUND 6Troy - The All-Powerful Sarlacc
Listener-submitted by Robert Dimitri.
| In 1983's Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, twelve actors were named in the first minute of the end credits, in a separate, more prominent position than the supporting cast listing. Name those twelve performers. |
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| Troy | Bill | Richard | Not given |
| Harrison Ford | Mark Hamill | Carrie Fisher | Peter Mayhew; Sebastian Shaw; Ian McDiarmid |
| Billy Dee Williams | James Earl Jones | Anthony Daniels |
| Warrick | Alec Guinness | Kenny Baker |
| Frank Oz | Frank Oz | (David) Prowse |
| ROUND 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 |
| TOTAL | 48½ | 44 | 53½ |
GRAND FINALE
| Category: The Super Bowl |
| How many combined points have been scored by all teams over the fifty-two Super Bowl games? |
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| Answer and bounds | Bill | Troy | Richard |
2,677
2,434
2,191 | 2,100 | 2,912 | 1,456 |
| WAGER | 10 | 7 | 1 |
| FINAL SCORE | 34 | 41½ | 52½ |
| Winner: Richard Wallace |