Complete the List, Episode 12
Because Anything Can Happen
| Thursday, August 24, 2017 |
| Contestants: Ryan Hall, George Watson, Chris King |
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| Categories |
| Someone Has Done This Eighteen Times | Some Have Been Around Since 1872 |
| The Above Joke Was Ruined on July 15 - Thank You, Switzerland! | One of the Giants of American Letters |
| Chemistry AF | Great Classic TV Episodes |
| They're Good Cars, Brent | Not from the Sky |
| Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Ryan - Some Have Been Around Since 1872
| Name any U.S. National Park that received one million or more recreational visitors in the year 2016. |
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| Ryan | George | Chris | Not given |
| Yosemite | Great Smoky Mountains | Yellowstone | Rocky Mountain; Olympic; Grand Teton; Glacier; Cuyahoga Valley; Hawaii Volcanoes; Hot Springs; Mount Rainier; Shenandoah; Death Valley; Haleakala; Capitol Reef |
| Grand Canyon | Mammoth Cave | Sequoia |
| Kings Canyon | Zion | Arches |
| Bryce Canyon | Acadia | Joshua Tree |
| ROUND 1 | 6 | 6 | 8 |
ROUND 2George - Great Classic TV Episodes
| Name a television series which placed at least one episode inside the top twenty of TV Guide's 1997 list of the greatest television episodes of all time. |
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| George | Chris | Ryan | Not given |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Cheers | I Love Lucy | (Not read by Andy. Source.)
ER; The Odd Couple; The Dick Van Dyke Show; The Bob Newhart Show; The X-Files; The Twilight Zone; Fawlty Towers; Wiseguy; Columbo; The Simpsons |
| All in the Family | The Sopranos | M*A*S*H |
| The Andy Griffith Show | WKRP in Cincinnati | The Honeymooners |
| The Cosby Show | Seinfeld | Taxi |
| ROUND 2 | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| TOTAL | 10 | 12 | 22 |
ROUND 3Chris - Chemistry AF
| Name an element on the periodic table whose chemical symbol (NOT its name) begins with an "A" or an "F." |
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| Chris | Ryan | George | Not given |
| flourine (F) | aluminum (Al) | lead (Pb) | actinium (Ac); arsenic (As); flerovium (Fl); francium (Fr)
(The symbol for antimony is Sb.) |
| silver (Ag) | argon (Ar) | iron (Fe) |
| astatine (At) | gold (Au) | gold (Au) |
| americium (Am) | fermium (Fm) | fermium (Fm) |
| ROUND 3 | 16 | 8 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 28 | 30 | 14 |
HALFTIME
| 0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
| IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Ryan | George | Chris |
| was the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? first released? | 1967 | 1967 | 1968 | 1966 |
| did Family Feud first air on television? | 1976 | 1978 | 1977 | 1977 |
| was the Michael Jackson album Thriller first released? | 1982 | 1983 | 1982 | 1981 |
| did the Toronto Blue Jays most recently win a World Series? | 1993 | 1993 | 1993 | 1997 |
| was J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye first published? | 1951 | 1947 | 1957 | 1959 |
| was John Kerry the Democratic nominee for President of the United States? | 2004 | 2004 | 2004 | 2004 |
| did KDKA Pittsburgh, one of the world's first radio stations, begin broadcasting? | 1920 | 1921 | 1920 | 1915 |
| was George Marshall's "Marshall Plan" signed into law? | 1948 | 1947 | 1947 | 1948 |
| HALFTIME | | 7 | 7 | 6 |
| TOTAL | | 37 | 21 | 34 |
ROUND 4Ryan - One of the Giants of American Letters
| Name a work by John Steinbeck that has been classified as either a novel or a novella. |
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| Ryan | George | Chris | Not given |
| The Grapes of Wrath | Travels with Charley (In Search of America) | Of Mice and Men | Cup of Gold; To a God Unknown; In Dubious Battle; The Moon Is Down; Sweet Thursday; The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication; The Winter of Our Discontent; The Wayward Bus; Burning Bright |
| East of Eden | Absalom, Absalom! | The Pearl |
| Cannery Row | Cannery Row | Tortilla Flat |
| The Red Pony | The Red Pony | The Red Pony |
| ROUND 4 | 8 | 2 | 7 |
| TOTAL | 45 | 23 | 41 |
ROUND 5George - Someone Has Done This Eighteen Times
| Name anyone who has hosted the Academy Awards at least twice. |
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| George | Chris | Ryan | Not given |
| Bob Hope | Billy Crystal | Chris Rock | Jack Lemmon; Jerry Lewis; Conrad Nagel; David Niven; Jack Benny; Chevy Chase; Sammy Davis Jr.; Jane Fonda; Goldie Hawn; Walter Matthau; Richard Pryor; Frank Sinatra; James Stewart
(Jimmy Kimmel joined this list with the 90th Academy Awards in 2018, but was not on it at the time of recording.) |
| Johnny Carson | Whoopi Goldberg | Ellen DeGeneres |
| Steve Martin | Jon Stewart | (David) Letterman |
| Steve Allen | Jay Leno | Steve Allen |
| ROUND 5 | 12 | 6 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 35 | 47 | 49 |
ROUND 6Chris - The Above Joke Was Ruined on July 15 - Thank You, Switzerland!
| Name a male or female tennis player that has won at least seven Grand Slam singles titles in the Open Era. |
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| Chris | Ryan | George | Not given |
| Serena Williams | Roger Federer | Martina Navratilova | Pete Sampras; Jimmy Connors; Ivan Lendl; Mats Wilander; Margaret Court; Monica Seles; Billie Jean King; Evonne Goolagong; Justine Henin |
| Novak Djokovic | Rafael Nadal | Steffi Graf |
| Andre Agassi | Chris Evert | Bjorn Borg |
| John McEnroe | Venus Williams | Rod Laver |
| ROUND 6 | 8 | 8 | 6 |
| TOTAL | 55 | 57 | 41 |
GRAND FINALE
| Category: Basketball |
| Kareem Abdul-Jabbar holds the NBA record for scoring the most number of career regular season points. What is that record total? |
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| Answer and bounds | George | Chris | Ryan |
42,225
38,387
34,549 | 38,597 | 11,500 | 47,000 |
| WAGER | 15½ | 3 | 15 |
| FINAL SCORE | 56½ | 52 | 42 |
| Winner: George Watson |