Complete the List, Episode 9
I Have Problems With This List
| Contestants: Dan Blake, Jim Mudrak, Colby Burnett |
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| Categories |
| The Best of the 20th Century | They Keep Going Back There |
| I Swear to God, This Is Not a Hamilton Category, Part II | They Started to Rock |
| Twelve Figures or More | My Name is Andy, and I'm 17th |
| Tens of Millions of People | Up in the Sky |
| Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Dan - My Name is Andy, and I'm 17th
| According to the Social Security Administration, Andrew was the seventeenth most popular baby name, male or female, in the United States in the 1980s. Give any of the sixteen names more popular than Andrew. (Twelve of these are male names, and four are female.) |
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| Dan | Jim | Colby | Not given |
| Michael | Tyler | James | Christopher; Jessica; Matthew; Jennifer; Joshua; Amanda; Ashley; Robert; John; Jason |
| Daniel | Joseph | Elizabeth |
| Thomas | Patricia | Catherine |
| David | Justin | William |
| ROUND 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
ROUND 2Jim - They Started to Rock
| In 2014, Billboard magazine released its top twenty hits of the 1960s, as per the Hot 100. Name a musical artist (solo artist or band) that had at least one song in Billboard's top twenty. |
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| Jim | Colby | Dan | Not given |
| The Beatles | The Rolling Stones | The Who | Chubby Checker; Percy Faith; Bobby Lewis; The 5th Dimension; The Archies; Ray Charles; Brenda Lee; Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra; Louis Armstrong; The Four Seasons; Jimmy Gilmer; Otis Redding; Jimmy Dean |
| Zager and Evans | Marvin Gaye | The Monkees |
| The Supremes | James Brown | James Brown |
| Three Dog Night | The Doors | Elvis Presley |
| ROUND 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 6 | 6 | 10 |
ROUND 3Colby - I Swear to God, This Is Not a Hamilton Category, Part II
Listener-submitted by Ben Wiles.
| Name a musical not named Hamilton that was nominated for a Tony Award in any category at the 70th Tony Awards (presented in 2016). |
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| Colby | Dan | Jim | Not given |
| School of Rock | Phone Home | Kinky Boots | Bright Star; Shuffle Along; The Color Purple; Fiddler on the Roof; She Loves Me; Spring Awakening; Disaster!; American Psycho; Tuck Everlasting; Dames at Sea; On Your Feet! |
| Waitress | Waitress | Waitress |
| (pass) | Cats | A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark | Hair |
| ROUND 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| TOTAL | 10 | 11 | 7 |
HALFTIME
| 0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
| IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Dan | Jim | Colby |
| was the film Jaws released? | 1975 | 1975 | 1975 | 1975 |
| did the groundbreaking "The Puppy" episode of Ellen air, where Ellen came out as a lesbian? | 1997 | 1997 | 1996 | 1997 |
| was the pop star Rihanna born? | 1988 | 1988 | 1989 | 1986 |
| did the National Hockey League double its size, expanding from six to twelve teams at once? | 1967 | 1966 | 1969 | 1967 |
| was Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (the novel) first published? | 1936 | 1937 | 1937 | 1935 |
| did Richard Nixon give his famous "Checkers" speech? | 1952 | 1958 | 1952 | 1952 |
| did the euro first officially go into circulation as legal tender? | 2002 | 2002 | 2002 | 2000 |
| did Woodrow Wilson deliver his Fourteen Points speech? | 1918 | 1919 | 1918 | 1918 |
| HALFTIME | | 14 | 7½ | 14 |
| TOTAL | | 25 | 14½ | 24 |
ROUND 4Dan - Tens of Millions of People
| Name a country which has land in some part of Europe had has a population of at least 10,000,000 people. (The boundaries of Europe will be generously interpreted.) |
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| Dan | Jim | Colby | Not given |
| Germany | United Kingdom | Russia | Netherlands; Kazakhstan; Belgium; Portugal; Czech Republic; Hungary |
| France | Turkey | Poland |
| Spain | Italy | Ukraine |
| Greece | Belarus | Romania |
| ROUND 4 | 8 | 12 | 8 |
| TOTAL | 33 | 26½ | 32 |
ROUND 5Jim - They Keep Going Back There
| Name a country which has hosted the Olympic Games, either Summer or Winter, more than once (through 2016). |
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| Jim | Colby | Dan | Not given |
| Russia
[Soviet Union] | Canada | United States | Italy; Greece |
| Norway | Australia | Austria |
| Finland | Germany | Great Britain
[United Kingdom] |
| Japan | France | Switzerland |
| ROUND 5 | 6 | 8 | 8 |
| TOTAL | 32½ | 40 | 41 |
ROUND 6Colby - The Best of the 20th Century
| In 1999, the American Film Institute listed the top twenty-five male and the top twenty-five female film stars. Name any female film star on the AFI's list. |
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| Colby | Dan | Jim | Not given |
| Meryl Streep | Greta Garbo | Bette Davis | Marlene Dietrich; Barbara Stanwyck; Claudette Colbert; Grace Kelly; Ginger Rogers; Mae West; Vivien Leigh; Lillian Gish; Shirley Temple; Rita Hayworth; Lauren Bacall; Sophia Loren; Jean Harlow; Carole Lombard; Mary Pickford; Ava Gardner |
| Myrna Loy | Julia Roberts | Katharine Hepburn |
| Audrey Hepburn | Ingrid Bergman | Joan Crawford |
| Marilyn Monroe | Elizabeth Taylor | Judy Garland |
| ROUND 6 | 4 | 6 | 8 |
| TOTAL | 44 | 47 | 40½ |
GRAND FINALE
| Category: Highways & Byways |
| To the nearest full mile, what is the length of Interstate 90, the longest Interstate Highway in the United States, running from Seattle to Boston? |
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| Answer and bounds | Jim | Colby | Dan |
3,323
3,021
2,719 | 3,210 | 3,450 | 3,173 |
| WAGER | 2½ | 3½ | 13½ |
| FINAL SCORE | 43 | 40½ | 60½ |
| Winner: Dan Blake |