Complete the List, Episode 95
Booby Traps Aren't Mr. Tarr's Style (But They Are Mine)
| Monday, September 10, 2018 |
| Contestants: Nolan Werner, Robert Dimitri, Richard Wallace |
| The Forbes article about Richard's doctoral dissertation. |
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| Categories |
| Fore! | Paper or Plastic? |
| This Has Nothing to Do with Microsoft Excel | It's Still Beating |
| The Times They Are a-Changin' | Over 300 Seasons and Counting |
| Coming to Agreement | Booby Traps Aren't Mr. Tarr's Style (But They Are Mine) |
| Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Nolan - Booby Traps Aren't Mr. Tarr's Style (But They Are Mine)
| Name an actor or actress who was credited in the 2001 movie Ocean's Eleven in the first 70 seconds of the end credits. |
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| Nolan | Robert | Richard | Not given |
| George Clooney | Brad Pitt | Bernie Mac | Shaobo Lin; Eddie Jemison |
| Carl Reiner | Matt Damon | Andy García |
| Scott Caan | Julia Roberts | Elliott Gould |
| Don Cheadle | Casey Affleck | Don Cheadle |
| ROUND 1 | 12 | 16 | 12 |
ROUND 2Robert - Over 300 Seasons and Counting
| Over 300 seasons of Big Brother have aired worldwide, produced in over 50 countries. Name a country whose first season of Big Brother aired in 2001 or earlier. (Note that the show need not be named Big Brother, just that it uses the general format.) |
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| Robert | Richard | Nolan | Not given |
| United States | United Kingdom | Netherlands | Argentina; Belgium; Greece; Italy; Poland; Portugal; South Africa; Switzerland |
| France | Australia | Canada |
| Spain | Norway | Germany |
| Denmark | Sweden | Ireland |
| ROUND 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 24 | 20 | 16 |
ROUND 3Richard - Fore!
Listener-submitted by Michael Simon.
| Name someone who has won The Masters golf tournament at least twice. |
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| Richard | Nolan | Robert | Not given |
| Tiger Woods | Jack Nicklaus | Arnold Palmer | Seve Ballesteros; Ben Crenshaw; Jimmy Demaret; Nick Faldo; Ben Hogan; Bernhard Langer; Byron Nelson; José María Olazábal; Horton Smith; Tom Watson |
| Phil Mickelson | Sam Snead | Vijay Singh |
| Bubba Watson | Sergio García | Jones |
| Gary Player | Rory McIlroy | Gary Player |
| ROUND 3 | 8 | 4 | 3 |
| TOTAL | 28 | 20 | 27 |
HALFTIME
| 0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
| IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Nolan | Robert | Richard |
| was the movie The Exorcist first released? | 1973 | 1974 | 1972 | 1975 |
| did the first episode of the TV series Lost first air? | 2004 | 2005 | 2004 | 2004 |
| was Ariana Grande born? | 1993 | 1993 | 1992 | 1995 |
| did the New York Mets win their most recent World Series? | 1986 | 1985 | 1986 | 1986 |
| was Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory first published? | 1964 | 1946 | 1965 | 1964 |
| did the Pennsylvania Turnpike open as the first long distance limited-access highway in the United States? | 1940 | 1965 | 1925 | 1955 |
| did King George VI of the United Kingdom die? | 1952 | 1955 | 1954 | 1947 |
| did the Golden Gate Bridge open? | 1937 | 1935 | 1935 | 1910 |
| HALFTIME | | 5 | 6 | 4½ |
| TOTAL | | 25 | 33 | 32½ |
ROUND 4Nolan - The Times They Are a-Changin'
Listener-submitted by Luke Daniels.
| Name a U.S. state which is located in multiple time zones. |
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| Nolan | Robert | Richard | Not given |
| Kentucky | Tennessee | Florida | Idaho; Nebraska; Kansas; North Dakota; South Dakota |
| Indiana | Texas | Alaska |
| Georgia | Nevada | Arizona |
| Montana | Michigan | Oregon |
| ROUND 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 |
| TOTAL | 29 | 41 | 38½ |
ROUND 5Robert - It's Still Beating
Listener-submitted by Chris Burke.
| Huey Lewis and the News's song "The Heart of Rock & Roll" mentions fourteen cities by name or mickname where the heart of rock & roll is still beating. Name the city name, or city nickname that Huey Lewis calls out in the song. |
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| Robert | Richard | Nolan | Not given |
| Cleveland | Hollywood
[Los Angeles, Sunset Strip] | Cleveland | New York; Baton Rouge; Tulsa; Austin |
| D. C. | San Anton(io) | Kansas City |
| Oklahoma City | Seattle | Detroit |
| Philadelphia
[Liberty Town] | San Francisco | Boston |
| ROUND 5 | 8 | 8 | 5 |
| TOTAL | 49 | 46½ | 34 |
According to Wikipedia, Huey Lewis was born in New York City and raised in Marin County, California. |
ROUND 6Richard - Paper or Plastic?
Listener-submitted by Matt Carberry.
| United States Federal Reserve Notes are made of paper. Canadian banknotes, on the other hand, are made from polymer, a.k.a. plastic. Name an American or Canadian bank that is one of the world's 50 largest banks by market capitalization, as of May 31, 2018. |
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| Richard | Nolan | Robert | Not given |
| Bank of America | Wells Fargo | (JPMorgan) Chase | American: Morgan Stanley; Goldman Sachs; U.S. Bank; Capital One
Canadian: Royal Bank of Canada (RBC); Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD); Scotiabank (Bank of Nova Scotia); BMO (Bank of Montreal); CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) |
| Citibank
[Citi, Citigroup] | PNC | Citibank
[Citi, Citigroup] |
| SunTrust | Federal Reserve | SunTrust |
| Bank of New York (BNY Mellon) | Bank of Canada (in both official languages) | Bank of Canada |
| ROUND 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 |
| TOTAL | 52½ | 38 | 52 |
"Market capitalization" is the total value of all of a publicly traded company's stock (share price × number of shares); thus, while the central banks of both nations were named, neither is a publicly traded entity, and thus both are incorrect. |
GRAND FINALE
| Category: Mathematics |
| How many prime numbers less than 100 are there? |
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| Answer and bounds | Nolan | Robert | Richard |
27
25
23 | 27 | 25 | 27 |
| WAGER | 16 | 8 | 1 |
| FINAL SCORE | 54 | 60 | 53½ |
| Winner: Robert Dimitri |