Thursday, August 9, 2018

Correct, unique: 2 points

Correct, repeated: 1 point

Incorrect: 0 points

Player doubled the category

Name a city where at least one game was played at the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
	Tim & Cheyenne	Wesley & Kristin	Not given
	Moscow	Saint Petersburg	Kaliningrad; Kazan; Nizhny Novgorod; Rostov-on-Don; Samara; Saransk; Volgograd
	Sochi	Vladivostok
	Novosibirsk	Novosibirsk
	Svalbard	Yekaterinburg
ROUND 1	4	4

Name the U.S. state of primary affiliation that is different from a birth state of a U.S. Vice President since Spiro Agnew's resignation on December 6, 1973.
	Wesley & Kristin	Tim & Cheyenne	Not given
	Delaware	Texas	New York
	Indiana	Tennessee
	Wyoming	Michigan
	Minnesota	West Virginia
ROUND 2	8	6
TOTAL	12	10

Name someone who has provided their voice to at least 100 episodes of The Simpsons.
	Tim & Cheyenne	Wesley & Kristin	Not given
	Hank Azaria	Kelsey Grammer	Nancy Cartwright; Harry Shearer; Julie Kavner; Pamela Hayden; Tress MacNeille; Karl Wiedergott; Maggie Roswell; Russi Taylor; Marcia Wallace; Chris Edgerly
	Dan Castallaneta	Dan Castallaneta
	Phil Hartman	Phil Hartman
	David Hyde Pierce	Yeardley Smith
ROUND 3	4	3
TOTAL	14	15

IN WHAT YEAR…	Correct year	Tim & Cheyenne	Wesley & Kristin
was Clint Eastwood born?	1930	1932	1937
did the first stand-alone episode of The Simpsons first air?	1989	1989	1986
did The Jackson 5 reach No. 1 (on the Billboard Hot 100) with "ABC"?	1970	1973	1975
did England host the FIFA World Cup?	1966	1966	1966
did Shakespeare's Globe Theatre re-open?	1997	2003	1945
did the state of Ohio celebrate its bicentennial?	2003	1995	1991
was current Vice President Mike Pence born?	1959	1953	1955
did a team of Russian and American scientists announce the discovery of what is now known as tennessine?	2010	2016	2016
HALFTIME		3	2½
TOTAL		17	17½
(Each halftime question was related to one of the eight main categories.)

Name a Shakespeare play whose length is fewer than 20,000 words.
	Wesley & Kristin	Tim & Cheyenne	Not given
	The Tempest	Titus Andronicus	A Comedy of Errors; Macbeth; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Timon of Athens; Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Julius Caesar; Twelfth Night
	A Midsummer Night's Dream	The Taming of the Shrew
	The Winter's Tale	The Winter's Tale
	Coriolanus	Much Ado About Nothing
ROUND 4	4	0
TOTAL	21½	17

Clint Eastwood has directed fifteen films that have grossed at least $100 million domestically, adjusted for inflation. Name them.
	Tim & Cheyenne	Wesley & Kristin	Not given
	Million Dollar Baby	Gran Torino	American Sniper; Unforgiven; Space Cowboys; The Bridges of Madison County; Firefox; The Outlaw Josey Wales; Mystic River; Sully; The Gauntlet; Pale Rider; Heartbreak Ridge; Absolute Power
	Letters from Iwo Jima	Trouble with the Curve
	Flags of Our Fathers	Sudden Impact
	In the Line of Fire	Dirty Harry
ROUND 5	4	4
TOTAL	21	25½ (29½)
(It seems that this category was mistakenly doubled for Wesley & Kristin as well; they were credited with 29½ at the end of the round, and that error propagated through the remainder of the game. The scores in parentheses are those given by Andy. The outcome of the game was not affected.)

Name an element on the periodic table whose English name begins with an "H" or an "I".
	Wesley & Kristin	Tim & Cheyenne	Not given
	hydrogen	helium	hassium
	iodine	iron
	indium	iridium
	hafnium	holmium
ROUND 6	16	8
TOTAL	41½ (45½)	29

GRAND FINALE

Category: Game Shows
Including the three tournaments and all consolation prizes, how much in prize money was awarded to Jeopardy! contestants over the show's 34th season, which concluded on July 27, 2018?
Answer and bounds	Tim & Cheyenne	Wesley & Kristin
$6,168,635 $5,607,850 $5,047,065	$5,700,000	$4,900,000
WAGER	16	1
FINAL SCORE	45	40½ (44½)
(This Grand Finale is similar to the one used in Episode 34.)
Winners: Tim Edwards & Cheyenne Fletcher