Thursday, August 23, 2018

Correct, unique: 2 points

Correct, repeated: 1 point

Incorrect: 0 points

Player doubled the category

Tom Hardy's two highest-grossing movies of all time are The Dark Knight Rises and Inception. Besides Tom Hardy, name any of the ten first-billed actors in those films. There are sixteen total actors and actresses on this list.
	Cody	Gail	Lindsey	Not given
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Leonardo DiCaprio	Christian Bale	Marion Cotillard; Matthew Modine; Alon Abutbul; Ken Watanabe; Dileep Rao; Cillian Murphy; Tom Berenger; Pete Postlethwaite
	Anne Hathaway	Anne Hathaway	Gary Oldman
	Joseph Gordon-Levitt	Daniel Craig	Ellen Page
	Morgan Freeman	Morgan Freeman	Michael Caine
ROUND 1	8	3	8

In 1986 and 1987, the first two classes of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame included twenty-four solo artists and groups in the performers category, all of whom began their careers before the British Invasion in 1964. Give the name of any of these performers.
	Gail	Lindsey	Cody	Not given
	Chuck Berry	Gladys Knight	Elvis Presley	James Brown; The Coasters; Eddie Cochran; Sam Cooke; Bo Diddley; Fats Domino; The Everly Brothers; Marvin Gaye; Bill Haley; B.B. King; Little Richard; Clyde McPhatter; Ricky Nelson; Roy Orbison; Carl Perkins; Smokey Robinson; Muddy Waters; Jackie Wilson (Big Joe Turner was inducted as a performer in 1987, but was not read out among the leftovers.)
	Aretha Franklin	Aretha Franklin	Frank Sinatra
	Stevie Wonder	Ray Charles	Dean Martin
	Jerry Lee Lewis	Buddy Holly	Buddy Holly
ROUND 2	6	5	3
TOTAL	9	13	11

As per the Oxford English Corpus of 2011, name any of the twenty most commonly used verbs in the English language.
	Lindsey	Cody	Gail	Not given
	walk	be	say	have; make; know; take; come; think; look; want; give; use; find; ask; work
	go	do	tell
	eat	see	talk
	listen	get	can
ROUND 3	2	8	4
TOTAL	15	19	13

IN WHAT YEAR…	Correct year	Cody	Gail	Lindsey
was the Best Picture Oscar-nominated movie All the President's Men first released?	1976	1975	1988	1978
did the first episode if The X-Files first air?	1993	1992	1998	1996
was Rihanna's hit song "Umbrella" first released?	2007	2007	2010	2008
did the NBA's Kansas City Kings move to Sacramento, California?	1985	1983	1979	1985
was Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men first published?	1946	1945	1949	1955
did James Meredith become the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi?	1962	1965	1965	1965
did Nelson Mandela die?	2013	2013	2003	2016
was a 49-star American flag first officially flown?	1959	1956	1959	1948
HALFTIME		6½	3	4
TOTAL		25½	16	19

Nielsen ratings track the top-rated (most popular) show for each television season. Name any show that was ranked No. 1 in a season from the 1980-1981 television season onwards.
	Cody	Gail	Lindsey	Not given
	American Idol	M*A*S*H	ER	60 Minutes; Dynasty; Roseanne; Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?; Survivor; CSI:; NCIS; The Big Bang Theory
	Cheers	The Cosby Show	Friends
	Seinfeld	L.A. Law	Frasier
	Sunday Night Football	Dallas	Monday Night Football
ROUND 4	16	4	8
TOTAL	41½	20	27

Name a triangular number greater than one and less than 100.
	Gail	Lindsey	Cody	Not given
	3	6	9	45; 55; 66; 78; 91
	24	30	10
	60	15	21
	90	28	36
ROUND 5	2	6	6
TOTAL	22	33	47½

Name any U.S. President who is considered to be the only U.S. President born in their respective state. (In cases where an eact birthplace my be in dispute, please use where the President claimed he was born.)
	Lindsey	Cody	Gail	Not given
	Bill Clinton	Jimmy Carter	Calvin Coolidge	Richard Nixon; Ronald Reagan; Herbert Hoover; Gerald Ford; Grover Cleveland; James Buchanan
	Barack Obama	William Henry Harrison	(Franklin) Pierce
	George W. Bush	George H. W. Bush	Harry Truman
	Andrew Jackson	Abraham Lincoln	Dwight Eisenhower
ROUND 6	8	4	8
TOTAL	41	51½	30

GRAND FINALE

Category: Fast Food Listener-submitted by Tristan Bauer.
According to their official website, as of August 16, 2018, how many Subway restaurants operate in the United States?
Answer and bounds	Gail	Lindsey	Cody
27,644 25,131 22,618	9,800	4,500	25,000
WAGER	5	16	6
FINAL SCORE	25	25	57½
TIEBREAKER	15,331	20,631
Winner: Cody Vest
The rules statement does not explicitly apply the tiebreaker to ties for other than first place. However, it isn't within the archivist's prerogative to disregard a direct statement on that matter from the host. Because this tiebreaker format wasn't in force in the only previous instance of a tie for second, the outcome of Episode 17 - George Stankow & Jonathan Graham sharing second place - remains unchanged.