Complete the List: the firsts

Episode 1

• First category selected — "The Tools of Ignorance Is Bliss"
• First category doubled — "The Tools of Ignorance Is Bliss," by Harvey Silikovitz
• First response given — Johnny Bench, by Harvey Silikovitz
• First response cribbed — Johnny Bench, by Tova Perlmutter
• First doubled halftime round — Tova Perlmutter
• First winner — Harvey Silikovitz

Episode 2

• First clean sweep — Round 1, "We've Got Chemistry"
• First round doubled by all players — Round 1, "We've Got Chemistry"
• First 48-point round (the maximum possible aggregate total in a three-player game) — Round 1, "We've Got Chemistry"

Episode 3

• First 60+ main game (i.e. pre-final round) — Cody Vest

Episode 5

• First game with three clean sweeps — Round 2, "God Save the King (or Queen)"; Round 4, "Since I Was Born"; Round 6, "Wordful Sketches by Boz"
• First "two-four" (all responses in the six main rounds correct and unique) — Jeff Frank
• First 75+ full game — Jeff Frank
• First final round with all responses correct — Jeff Frank, Ben Ingram, and Dren Rollins
• First final round "bullseyes" (responses within 1% of the target number) — Jeff Frank and Dren Rollins

Episode 4 (released after Episode 5)

• First final round with all responses incorrect — Kaberi Chakrabarty, Trevor Mahoney, and Lisa Schlitt

Episode 6

• First two-contestant game — Bevan Narinesingh vs. Brett Chandler
• First "standard format" halftime — movies, television, music, sports, literature, three history/general questions, in that order
• First "Witness Protection Program" category (re-named) — Round 4, "Sadly, Firefly Would Not Make This List"; previously "No, Ironside Is Not on This List"

Episode 7

• First "runaway" game (a lead of at least 17½ points entering the final round) — Steve Bahnaman

Episode 8

• First listener-submitted category — Round 6, "The Landlord's Game," submitted by David Kendall

Episode 11

• First perfect halftime round — Jeremy Cahnmann
• First playing of a category that was passed three times — Round 3, "Twelve Figures or More"

Episode 15

• First (of only two) instances where two halftime round questions inadvertently referenced the same decade — the second was Episode 66

Episode 18

• First returning players — Lindsey Henry, Cody Vest, and Cory Harris

Episode 19

• First two-time winner — Jeremy Cahnmann

Episode 20

• First final round with an exactly correct response — Jeff Henderson

Episode 27

• First game featuring two-person teams — Mara Apostol & Idris Mercer vs. Natasha Baker-Bradley & Jason Hess vs. Bill & Jamie Logan

Episode 28

• First (and to date, only) "total wipeout," a non-final round in which no points were scored — Round 2, "They Were England's Newest Hitmakers"

Episode 32

• First three-time contestant — Matthew Kimberlin
• First listener-submitted final round — by Lisa Wolfisch, category: "The Last Jedi? Not So Fast!"

Episode 33

• First game with all women as contestants — Miranda Prince, Sally Neumann, and Jill Gilbert

Episode 34

• First game where a category on the Hoffa List was resurrected — Round 2, "Out of This World"
• First "less than twelve items" category (i.e. designed especially for two-player games) — Round 1, "You Done Messed Up, PricewaterhouseCoopers"

Episode 35

• First playing of a category that was passed four times — Round 2, "Not a Lot of Say"

Episode 36

• First "wild pitch" in the final round (response was off the target number by at least a factor of ten) — Dan Felsenheld

Episode 43

• First player to finish first, second, and third in different games — Dan Blake
  (Thanks to Jonathan Graham for the suggestion.)

Episode 45

• First halftime round containing a year in the 1800s — question 7

Episode 47

• First instance of a tie entering the final round — Pat Frappier and Matt Carberry; Pat prevailed

Episode 48

• First instance of a tie after the final round, and thus, the first use of the tiebreaker — Jeff Garst and Colby Burnett; Jeff prevailed

Episode 50

• First game not hosted by Andy — he was a contestant, and won

Episode 51

• First two-team game — Ken Pendola & Matt Artz vs. Neal Fischer and Jeff Culver (the four players comprise the team behind the Triviality podcast)

Episode 52

• First (and to date, only) four-contestant game — Jeff Frank, Jeremy Cahnmann, Jason Sterlacci, and Harvey Silikovitz
• First 16-response clean sweep — Round 4, "Seventeen Hundred"
• First three-time winner — Jeremy Cahnmann
• First (and necessarily, only) fourth-place finish — Harvey Silikovitz

Episode 55

• First four-time contestant — Wesley Wells

Episode 58

• First listener-submitted halftime round — by Matt Carberry

Episode 60

• First halftime round containing future years — questions 1, 2, and 7

Episode 64

• First (and to date, only) episode tagged "EXPLICIT" in Apple Podcasts — there were twenty-nine bleeps

Episode 75

• First game hosted by Andy in which he wrote none of the six main categories

Episode 78

• First 16-point (perfect and doubled) halftime round — Kyle Hirshon & Mike Klauss
• First halftime round with all eight years exact — Kyle Hirshon & Mike Klauss

Episode 80

• First themed game — James Bond

Episode 86

• First five-time contestant — Wesley Wells

Episode 93

• First episode where Andy and all of the players were in the same location — Sean Baizana, Jim Brennan, and Jason Broersma; they were in Ottawa, Ontario

Season 2, Episode 2

• First game hosted by Andy in which he wrote none of the eight rounds — Episode 83 is close, but one of the halftime questions was written by Andy

Season 2, Episode 5

• First "double overtime" game — in which a second final question was needed to decide the game, because the two tied players were equally far away in the final round

Season 2, Episode 13

• First episode in which no game was played — the episode was a retrospecive of the show's history to date

Season 3, Episode 1

• First game streamed on Andy's Twitch channel — as part of the Fall 2019 Gamers vs. MS streaming marathon

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