Complete the List, Episode 8
That's What You Get For Being A Downer
| Contestants: Doug Hicton, Gord Reid, Terrence Jordan |
| First listener-submitted category. |
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| Categories |
| The Best of the 20th Century | The Landlord's Category |
| There Were Just Three Networks Back Then | They Can Shred |
| Twelve Figures or More | Oft-Used Descriptors |
| Know Your Canada | Science |
| Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Doug - Know Your Canada
| Name any of the fifteen most populous census metropolitan areas in Canada, as per Canada's 2016 census. |
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| Doug | Gord | Terrence | Not given |
| Toronto | Montréal | Vancouver | Kitchener-Waterloo; St. Catharines-Niagara; Halifax; Oshawa; Victoria |
| Ottawa | Calgary | Edmonton |
| Winnipeg | Hamilton | Saskatchewan |
| London | Québec City | Québec City |
| ROUND 1 | 16 | 16 | 5 |
ROUND 2Gord - Science
| Name an element on the periodic table that is considered to be a pnictogen, chalcogen, or halogen - that is, IUPAC groups 15 through 17. |
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| Gord | Terrence | Doug | Not given |
| nitrogen | chlorine | phosphorous | selenium; antimony; tellurium; bismuth; polonium; astatine; moscovium; livermorium; tennessine |
| sulfur | silicon | oxygen |
| bromine | barium | flourine |
| arsenic | sodium | iodine |
| ROUND 2 | 8 | 2 | 8 |
| TOTAL | 24 | 7 | 24 |
ROUND 3Terrence - They Can Shred
| In 2011, Rolling Stone released a list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. Name anyone who made the top twenty on their list. |
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| Terrence | Doug | Gord | Not given |
| Jimi Hendrix | (Eric) Clapton | Eddie Van Halen | George Harrison; B. B. King; Duane Allman; Albert King; David Gilmour; Freddy King; Derek Trucks; Neil Young; James Burton |
| Stevie Ray Vaughn | (Carlos) Santana | Jimmy Page |
| Slash | Chuck Berry | Pete Townshend |
| Keith Richards | Les Paul | Jeff Beck |
| ROUND 3 | 12 | 8 | 8 |
| TOTAL | 19 | 32 | 32 |
HALFTIME
| 0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
| IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Doug | Gord | Terrence |
| was the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest released? | 1975 | 1975 | 1976 | 1961 |
| did the "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" episodes of The Simpsons originally air? | 1995 | 1996 | 1995 | 1997 |
| was the Iron Butterfly album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida the Billboard year-end No. 1 album? | 1969 | 1973 | 1968 | 1988 |
| did a Major League Baseball player most recently win the batting Triple Crown? (leading their league in batting average, home runs, and RBI in the same season) | 2012 | 2011 | 2014 | 2013 |
| was Alice Walker's novel The Color Purple first published? | 1982 | 1980 | 1980 | 1984 |
| did the Battle of Dien Bien Phu occur during the First Indochina War? | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1956 |
| was the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution adopted, allowing for income tax? | 1913 | 1916 | 1916 | 1914 |
| did the Hindenburg catch fire and was destroyed, in an attempt to dock in New Jersey? | 1937 | 1936 | 1933 | 1937 |
| HALFTIME | | 6½ | 5½ | 4½ |
| TOTAL | | 38½ | 37½ | 23½ |
ROUND 4Doug - Oft-Used Descriptors
| According to the Oxford English Corpus in 2011, name any of the twenty most commonly used adjectives in the English language. |
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| Doug | Gord | Terrence | Not given |
| good | bad | great | (These were not read by Andy during the episode. Jay Johnson pointed this out, and Andy issued a brief Episode 8b that contained the full list of twenty.)
first; last; long; little; own; other; high; different; small; large; next; young; important |
| new | light | nice |
| old | big | small |
| right | wrong | awesome |
| ROUND 4 | 8 | 2 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 46½ | 39½ | 27½ |
ROUND 5Gord - There Were Just Three Networks Back Then
| Name an American primetime television series that finished in the top five in the Nielsen ratings at some point between 1970 and 1980. |
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| Gord | Terrence | Doug | Not given |
| All in the Family | M*A*S*H | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Alice; Angie; Bonanza; Bridget Loves Bernie; Charlie's Angels; Chico and the Man; Family Affair; Hawaii Five-O; Here's Lucy; Ironside; Laverne & Shirley; Marcus Welby, M.D.; Mayberry R.F.D.; Mork & Mindy; Rich Man, Poor Man; Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In; Sanford and Son; That's Incredible!; The Bionic Woman; The Flip Wilson Show; The Waltons; Three's Company |
| 60 Minutes | Taxi | The A-Team |
| Diff'rent Strokes | The Jeffersons | Maude |
| Gunsmoke | The Love Boat | Happy Days |
| ROUND 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 45½ | 31½ | 50½ |
ROUND 6Terrence - The Landlord's Category
Listener-submitted by David Kendall.
| Name a property on a standard American Monopoly board that one may build houses and/or hotels on. |
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| Terrence | Doug | Gord | Not given |
| Boardwalk | Park Place | Marvin Gardens | Mediterranean Avenue; Vermont Avenue; Connecticut Avenue; States Avenue; Virginia Avenue; Tennessee Avenue; New York Avenue; Kentucky Avenue; Atlantic Avenue; Pacific Avenue; Pennsylvania Avenue |
| St. Charles Place | Michigan Avenue | Oriental Avenue |
| Ventnor Avenue | St. James Place | Illinois Avenue |
| North Carolina Avenue | Baltic Avenue | Indiana Avenue |
| ROUND 6 | 8 | 6 | 8 |
| TOTAL | 39½ | 56½ | 53½ |
GRAND FINALE
| Category: Pop Music |
What is the length, in seconds, of "American Pie" - the longest song to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 music chart?
(Full length of parts one and two, not radio edit.) |
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| Answer and bounds | Terrence | Gord | Doug |
568 (9:28)
517 (8:37)
466 (7:46) | 660 (11:00) | 463 (7:43) | 500 (8:20) |
| WAGER | 16 | 16 | 10 |
| FINAL SCORE | 23½ | 37½ | 66½ |
| Winner: Doug Hicton |