Complete the List, Episode 88
Please Laugh, Andy, Please Laugh
| Thursday, August 16, 2018 |
| Contestants: AJ Mass, Melanie Tannenbaum Hepler, Lee DiGeorge |
AJ's podcast, Beat My Guest.
Lee recommends the Flutie Foundation, and adds: "in truth, lots of local groups do wonderful local outreach, getting different important services to people who need." |
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| Categories |
| Stan Ross Just Missed This List | Grey Roots |
| The Outer Layer | I'm the Only One |
| Things Often Get Spelled with a U | The Number Seventy |
| I Bet Fifteen Will Drop Off the Charts Quickly | Hasta la Vista, Baby |
| Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1AJ - Hasta la Vista, Baby
| Name an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie not part of the Terminator series which has grossed at least $70 million domestically, adjusted for ticket price inflation, according to Box Office Mojo. Bit parts or cameo roles count. |
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| AJ | Melanie | Lee | Not given |
| True Lies | The Running Man | Twins | Eraser; Conan the Barbarian; The Expendables; The Expendables 2; Conan the Destroyer; Red Heat |
| Predator | Kindergarten Cop | Commando |
| Last Action Hero | Total Recall | End of Days |
| Batman & Robin | Jingle All the Way | Junior |
| ROUND 1 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
ROUND 2Melanie - Things Often Get Spelled with a U
| Name a current member state of the (British) Commonwealth of Nations with a population of at least 10,000,000 people. |
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| Melanie | Lee | AJ | Not given |
| Canada | New Zealand | England
[United Kingdom] | Tanzania; Kenya; Uganda; Malaysia; Mozambique; Ghana; Cameroon; Sri Lanka; Malawi; Zambia; Rwanda |
| Australia | Bangladesh | Jamaica |
| India | Nigeria | Pakistan |
| Singapore | South Africa | Zimbabwe |
| ROUND 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 14 | 14 | 12 |
ROUND 3Lee - I Bet Fifteen Will Drop Off the Charts Quickly
| Andrew is the nineteenth most popular male baby name in the United States of the past hundred years (1918-2017), according to the Social Security Administration. Name any name more popular than Andrew. |
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| Lee | AJ | Melanie | Not given |
| John | Matthew | Benjamin | James; Robert; David; Richard; Joseph; Thomas; Charles; Daniel; Anthony; Mark; Steven |
| Paul | Donald | Noah |
| Michael | Jason | Mason |
| Christopher | Ethan | William |
| ROUND 3 | 8 | 4 | 2 |
| TOTAL | 22 | 16 | 16 |
HALFTIME
| 0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
| IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | AJ | Melanie | Lee |
| was the film Hello, Dolly! first released? | 1969 | 1955 | 1966 | 1967 |
| did Alex Trebek first host a televised episode of Jeopardy!? | 1984 | 1983 | 1984 | 1984 |
| did the soundtrack to Mamma Mia! reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart? | 2008 | 2008 | 1979 | 2008 |
| did Chick Anderson utter "he's moving like a tremendous machine!" in reference to Secretariat? | 1973 | 1972 | 1936 | 1973 |
| was Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas! first published? | 1957 | 1966 | 1952 | 1959 |
| did General McAuliffe reply "NUTS!" during the Siege of Bastogne? | 1944 | 1943 | 1943 | 1947 |
| was Yahoo! founded? | 1994 | 1995 | 1994 | 1995 |
| did Jeb Bush use an exclamation point in his campaign logo when running for President? | 2016 | 2016 | 2015 | 2016 |
| HALFTIME | | 6 | 5 | 6½ |
| TOTAL | | 22 | 21 | 28½ |
ROUND 4AJ - Stan Ross Just Missed This List
Listener-submitted by Kris Eve & Jeremy Cahnmann (partly).
| Name a Major League Baseball player who had at least 3,000 hits for one team. (The player need not have played his entire career with one team.) |
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| AJ | Melanie | Lee | Not given |
| Roberto Clemente | Cal Ripken Jr. | Hank Aaron | Cap Anson; Al Kaline; Willie Mays; Carl Yastrzemski |
| Derek Jeter | Ty Cobb | Stan Musial |
| George Brett | Alex Rodriguez | Robin Yount |
| Tony Gwynn | Pete Rose | Craig Biggio |
| ROUND 4 | 16 | 6 | 16 |
| TOTAL | 38 | 27 | 44½ |
ROUND 5Melanie - The Outer Layer
| Name any of the seventeen most abundant elements by weight in the Earth's crust. |
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| Melanie | Lee | AJ | Not given |
| carbon | aluminum | iron | sodium; magnesium; potassium; titanium; hydrogen; phosphorous; manganese; flourine; barium; strontium; sulfur |
| nitrogen | silicon | nickel |
| oxygen | cobalt | lead |
| calcium | gold | silver |
| ROUND 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| TOTAL | 33 | 48½ | 40 |
ROUND 6Lee - The Number Seventy
| Name a television series nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series or Outstanding Drama Series for the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards, to be presented on September 17. |
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| Lee | AJ | Melanie | Not given |
| Game of Thrones | The Handmaid's Tale | Silicon Valley | Barry; Black-ish; Curb Your Enthusiasm; The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt; The Crown |
| Saturday Night Live | Atlanta | Westworld |
| Stranger Things | Big Little Lies | The Americans |
| This Is Us | The Big Bang Theory | GLOW |
| ROUND 6 | 6 | 4 | 16 |
| TOTAL | 54½ | 44 | 49 |
GRAND FINALE
| Category: Music |
| According to the Chart History section of Billboard's website, as of August 16, 2018, how many different songs did Aretha Franklin chart (in any position, from No. 1 to No. 100) on the Billboard Hot 100 music chart? |
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| Answer and bounds | AJ | Melanie | Lee |
80
73
66 | 82 | 42 | 54 |
| WAGER | 16 | 8 | 11 |
| FINAL SCORE | 28 | 41 | 43½ |
| Winner: Lee DiGeorge |