Complete the List, Episode 91
Me + Music = Fail
| Contestants: Steve Bahnaman, Addy Lewis, Joe Nguyen |
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| Categories |
| A League of Winners | Yes, There Are Enough for a Category |
| There Are Even Spelling Standards, Too | Avoiding a Wipeout This Time |
| Leading Ladies | Over 300 Seasons and Counting |
| Roll for Initiative | Where There's a Will, There's a Way |
| Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Steve - Roll for Initiative
Listener-submitted by Andrew Brown.
| Name any Dungeons and Dragons 5e (5th Edition) basic playable class, accoding to the Player's Handbook. |
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| Steve | Addy | Joe | Not given |
| Fighter | Cleric | Fighter | Monk; Paladin; Rogue; Sorcerer; Wizard |
| Bard | Druid | Bard |
| Barbarian | Ranger | Ranger |
| Warlock | Thief | Thief |
| ROUND 1 | 16 | 12 | 3 |
ROUND 2Addy - Where There's a Will, There's a Way
Listener-submitted by Jeffrey Rivett.
| Name a movie in which Will Smith appeared that grossed at least $90 million in North America, adjusted for ticket price inflation, as per Box Office Mojo. |
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| Addy | Joe | Steve | Not given |
| Independence Day | Men in Black | Men in Black II | The Pursuit of Happyness; Enemy of the State; I, Robot; Made in America; Ali; Seven Pounds |
| Men in Black 3 | Bad Boys | Bad Boys II |
| Hancock | Wild Wild West | Suicide Squad |
| Hitch | Shark Tale | I Am Legend |
| ROUND 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| TOTAL | 20 | 11 | 24 |
ROUND 3Joe - A League of Winners
Listener-submitted by Luke Daniels.
| Name any team from Spain, Germany, England, or Italy which qualified for the 2018—2019 UEFA Champions League by finishing in the top four of their domestic league the previous season. |
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| Joe | Steve | Addy | Not given |
| Liverpool | Manchester City | Juventus | Valencia; Schalke 04; Napoli; Roma |
| Barcelona | Real Madrid | Manchester United |
| Bayern Munich | Atlético Madrid | Inter Milan |
| Tottenham (Hotspur) | (1899) Hoffenheim | Borussia Dortmund |
| ROUND 3 | 16 | 8 | 8 |
| TOTAL | 27 | 32 | 28 |
HALFTIME
| 0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
| IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Steve | Addy | Joe |
| was actor Will Smith born? | 1968 | 1969 | 1973 | 1971 |
| did the first episode of the television series Shark Tank air? It's the American version of the international Dragon's Den series of programs. | 2008 | 2006 | 2011 | 2007 |
| were The Rolling Stones inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? | 1989 | 1989 | 1986 | 1988 |
| was the European Cup renamed the UEFA Champions League? | 1992 | 1994 | 1996 | 1995 |
| did author George Orwell die? | 1950 | 1952 | 1955 | 1965 |
| was Doctors Without Borders (Médécins Sans Frontieres) founded? | 1971 | 1972 | 2004 | 1943 |
| was the element known as curium first intentionally synthesized? | 1944 | 1937 | 1947 | 1910 |
| did Amelia Earhart become the first lady to fly solo across the Atlantic? | 1932 | 1928 | 1936 | 1931 |
| HALFTIME | | 5 | 3½ | 4 |
| TOTAL | | 37 | 31½ | 31 |
ROUND 4Steve - There Are Even Spelling Standards, Too
Listener-submitted by Chris King.
| Name an element on the periodic table of the elements whose preferred English spelling, as per IUPAC, contains exactly six letters. (Because it appeared during halftime, curium is removed from the list.) |
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| Steve | Addy | Joe | Not given |
| carbon | iodine | helium | cerium; nickel; osmium; sulfur
(IUPAC's preferred spelling of element 55 is caesium, vice cesium.) |
| oxygen | sodium | radium |
| erbium | silver | barium |
| indium | copper | cobalt |
| ROUND 4 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| TOTAL | 45 | 39½ | 39 |
This third clean sweep ties this episode with Episode 5 for the most in a game.
Andy forgot to credit Chris King as the author of this category; he rectified that oversight at the start of Episode 92. |
ROUND 5Addy - Leading Ladies
Listener-submitted by Luke Daniels.
| Name anyone who has served as First Lady of the United States in the last eighty years. (A last name only is insufficient.) |
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| Addy | Joe | Steve | Not given |
| Michelle Obama | Hillary Clinton | Melania Trump | Pat Nixon; Betty Ford; Rosalynn Carter |
| Barbara Bush | Laura Bush | Nancy Reagan |
| Jacqueline Kennedy | Mamie Eisenhower | Lady Bird Johnson |
| (pass) | Eleanor Roosevelt | Bess Truman |
| ROUND 5 | 6 | 8 | 8 |
| TOTAL | 45½ | 47 | 53 |
ROUND 6Joe - Yes, There Are Enough for a Category
| Name a country that has a land border with the People's Republic of China. |
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| Joe | Steve | Addy | Not given |
| Russia | Mongolia | Nepal | Bhutan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan |
| Vietnam | India | North Korea |
| Pakistan | Kazakhstan | Afghanistan |
| Laos | Myanmar | Cambodia |
| ROUND 6 | 8 | 8 | 6 |
| TOTAL | 55 | 61 | 51½ |
GRAND FINALE
| Category: Geography |
| It's about 25% farther than Seattle to Miami. What is the distance, as the crow flies, between New York City and London, England, in kilometers? |
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| Answer and bounds | Addy | Joe | Steve |
6,133
5,576
5,019 | 4,400 | 8,333 | 5,600 |
| WAGER | 16 | 1 | 10½ |
| FINAL SCORE | 35½ | 54 | 71½ |
| Winner: Steve Bahnaman |