Complete the List, Episode 89
What's My Name?
| Contestants: Idris Mercer, Pat Kavanaugh, Nolan Werner |
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| Categories |
| Fore! | A Century of Trends |
| Tall People in Charge | Avoiding a Wipeout This Time |
| Projections May Mess You Up | The Number Seventy, Part II |
| Smart People Get Things Named After Them | This Is Not an Adam Sandler Category |
| Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Idris - Tall People in Charge
| Name a U.S. President whose listed height is at least six feet tall. |
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| Idris | Pat | Nolan | Not given |
| Abraham Lincoln | Barack Obama | George H. W. Bush | George Washington; Chester Arthur; Andrew Jackson; James Monroe; John Tyler; James Buchanan; James A. Garfield; Warren G. Harding |
| Lyndon Johnson | Gerald Ford | Franklin Roosevelt |
| Bill Clinton | George W. Bush | Thomas Jefferson |
| John F. Kennedy | Ronald Reagan | Donald Trump |
| ROUND 1 | 8 | 6 | 16 |
ROUND 2Pat - This Is Not an Adam Sandler Category
Name a film in which Drew Barrymore appeared that grossed at least $40 million domestically, adjusted for ticket price inflation, as per Box Office Mojo.
(After the first pass, Andy added that bit parts and cameos count.) |
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| Pat | Nolan | Idris | Not given |
| E.T. | Ever After | The Wedding Singer | Batman Forever; Scream; Beverly Hills Chihuahua; He's Just Not That Into You; Wayne's World 2; Curious George; Altered States; Music and Lyrics; Blended; Boys on the Side; Firestarter |
| Charlie's Angels | Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle | 50 First Dates |
| Never Been Kissed | Never Been Kissed | Fever Pitch |
| (pass) | Riding in Cars with Boys | The Craft |
| ROUND 2 | 6 | 7 | 6 |
| TOTAL | 12 | 23 | 14 |
ROUND 3Nolan - Smart People Get Things Named After Them
Listener-submitted by Jeremy Cahnmann.
| There are sixteen people who have had an element on the periodic table named after them. Name the element. |
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| Nolan | Idris | Pat | Not given |
| curium | einsteinium | fermium | nobelium; lawrencium; hahnium*; roentgenium; oganesson; gallium; samarium
* The official IUPAC name of the element with atomic number 105 is dubnium, for the Russian town that hosts the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. |
| seaborgium | copernicium | galileium |
| rutherfordium | bohrium | pittsburghium |
| mendelevium | meitnerium | argon |
| ROUND 3 | 8 | 16 | 2 |
| TOTAL | 31 | 30 | 14 |
HALFTIME
| 0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
| IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Idris | Pat | Nolan |
| did Marilyn Monroe die? | 1962 | 1962 | 1961 | 1958 |
| did the game show The $10,000 Pyramid debut? | 1973 | 1975 | 1973 | 1975 |
| was Aretha Franklin's debut album Songs of Faith first released? | 1956 | 1958 | 1956 | 1965 |
| were the Winter Olympics most recently held in Japan? | 1998 | 1998 | 1998 | 1998 |
| was Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game first published? | 1985 | 1985 | 1983 | 1985 |
| did Arizona and New Mexico celebrate their centennial? | 2012 | 2012 | 2012 | 1935 |
| did Google launch Gmail? | 2004 | 2003 | 2007 | 2007 |
| did Israel declare its independence? | 1948 | 1948 | 1948 | 1947 |
| HALFTIME | | 7 | 7 | 4½ |
| TOTAL | | 37 | 21 | 35½ |
ROUND 4Idris - The Number Seventy, Part II
| Name a show that received at least three nominations for program, directing, acting, or writing (the major categories) for the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards, to be awarded on September 17, 2018. |
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| Idris | Pat | Nolan | Not given |
| Black-ish | Orange is the New Black | Modern Family | The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story; Atlanta; Saturday Night Live; Game of Thrones; Barry; The Crown; Godless; The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; The Americans; Black Mirror; Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert; Patrick Melrose; GLOW; The Looming Tower; Ozark; Silicon Valley; This Is Us |
| Mom | The Big Bang Theory | The Handmaid's Tale |
| Stranger Things | Better Call Saul | Westworld |
| Fresh Off the Boat | Big Little Lies | Brooklyn Nine-Nine |
| ROUND 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 41 | 21 | 39½ |
ROUND 5Pat - Projections May Mess You Up
| Excluding any Antarctic claims, but including other claims and inland water, name any country in the world with an area larger than that of Mexico. |
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| Pat | Nolan | Idris | Not given |
| Russia | Canada | United States | India; Argentina; Denmark; Saudi Arabia |
| Brazil | Australia | China |
| Algeria | Kazakhstan | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Mongolia | Sudan | Iran |
| ROUND 5 | 12 | 6 | 6 |
| TOTAL | 33 | 45½ | 47 |
ROUND 6Nolan - A Century of Trends
| Donna is the nineteenth most popular female baby name of the last hundred years (1918-2017), according to the U.S. Social Security Administration. Name any female baby name more popular than Donna. |
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| Nolan | Idris | Pat | Not given |
| Mary | Jennifer | Elizabeth | Patricia; Barbara; Susan; Sarah; Karen; Nancy; Lisa; Betty; Dorothy; Sandra; Ashley; Kimberly |
| Catherine | Anne | Jessica |
| Linda | Emma | Grace |
| Theresa | Margaret | Jane |
| ROUND 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 49½ | 51 | 37 |
Katherine was no. 41 (579,728); Catherine was no. 44 (564,786); Kathryn was no. 75 (412,625). Adding those together gives a total between Patricia (no. 2) and Jennifer (no. 3). |
GRAND FINALE
| Category: Football |
| Including regular season and playoffs, how many National Football League games are scheduled for this season, which begins on September 6, 2018? |
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| Answer and bounds | Pat | Nolan | Idris |
293
267
241 | 182 | 290 | 267 |
| WAGER | 12 | 2½ | 1 |
| FINAL SCORE | 25 | 52 | 52 |
| TIEBREAKER | | 23 | 0 |
| Winner: Idris Mercer |