Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Correct, unique: 2 points

Correct, repeated: 1 point

Incorrect: 0 points

Player doubled the category

Name anyone (a solo artist or a group) who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame classes of 2017, 2018, or 2019.
	rowan	Amanda	Ashley	Not given
	Nirvana	Janet Jackson	The Tragically Hip	Electric Light Orchestra; Joan Baez; Journey; Tupac Shakur; Yes; Bon Jovi; The Cars; Dire Straits; The Moody Blues; Nina Simone; The Cure; Def Leppard; Radiohead; The Zombies
	Pearl Jam	Stevie Nicks	Stevie Nicks
	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Roxy Music	Red Hot Chili Peppers
	Foo Fighters	AC/DC	AC/DC
ROUND 1	2	6	1

Ralph Breaks the Internet was the fifty-seventh animated movie released by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Of the other fifty-six movies released, sixteen have a one-word title. Name them. (For the purposes of this list, "the" counts as a word, and Pixar movies do not count.)
	Amanda	Ashley	rowan	Not given
	Dumbo	Moana	Aladdin	Tarzan; Dinosaur; Bolt; Zootopia; Frozen
	Bambi	Mulan	Cinderella
	Pocahontas	Tangled	Fantasia
	Hercules	Pinocchio	Hercules
ROUND 2	16	16	7
TOTAL	22	17	9

Name any of the top twenty of the most watched Netflix original shows in 2018, as per TV Time and Business Insider.
	Ashley	rowan	Amanda	Not given
	Breaking Bad	Orange is the New Black	The Crown	A Series of Unfortunate Events; Cable Girls; Marvel's Luke Cage; Santa Clarita Diet; Big Mouth; Altered Carbon; Dark; Sense8; Bojack Horseman; Chilling Adventures of Sabrina; Insatiable; Elite; Marvel's Daredevil; Atypical; Stranger Things; Marvel's Jessica Jones; Black Mirror; Money Heist; 13 Reasons Why
	Game of Thrones	Pose	GLOW
	Bird Box	90 Day Fiancé	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
	Killing Eve	Killing Eve	Killing Eve
ROUND 3	0	2	0
TOTAL	17	11	22
(The archivist doesn't have Netflix either.)

IN WHAT YEAR…	Correct year	rowan	Amanda	Ashley
was the Cecil B. DeMille-directed film The Greatest Show on Earth first released?	1952	1935	1952	1955
did the premiere episode of the TV series This Is Us first air?	2016	2015	2016	2018
was the Zager and Evans song "In the Year 2525" first released?	1969	1967	1969	1945
was Tom Brady born?	1977	1978	1973	1965
was the book Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban first published?	1999	1998	1999	2004
was Sarah Palin the Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States?	2008	2008	2008	1990
did Ronald Reagan give his "TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!" speech at the Brandenburg Gate?	1987	1984	1987	1983
did Canada most recently add a province to Confederation?	1949	1955	1948	1978
HALFTIME		5	7½	2
TOTAL		16	29½	19
Question 8 in this round has been asked before, but WAY back in the show's history - it was Question 7 of halftime in Episode 7.

Name a U.S. state that has a female serving in the United States Senate.
	rowan	Amanda	Ashley	Not given
	Massachusetts	California	California	Alaska; Arizona; Hawaii; Iowa; Maine; Michigan; Nebraska; Nevada; New Hampshire; New York; Tennessee; West Virginia; Wisconsin
	Minnesota	Washington	Washington
	Illinois	Missouri	Illinois
	Mississippi	Mississippi	Mississippi
ROUND 4	16	5	4
TOTAL	32	34½	23
rowan did correctly name Mississippi's junior Senator. "The other guy" was former Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy.

Name a character in Shakespeare's Othello with at least ten speeches in the play, as per Open Source Shakespeare. (No distinction is made as to how many lines the speech lasts.)
	Amanda	Ashley	rowan	Not given
	Othello	Beatrice	Othello	Emilia; Roderigo; Lodovico; Brabantio; Duke of Venice; Montano; Gratiano; Bianca; Rogue Clown
	Desdemona	Desdemona	Desdemona
	Iago	Iago	Iago
	Cassio	Cassio	Cassio
ROUND 5	8	3	4
TOTAL	42½	26	36
(Archivist's prerogative here, referencing rowan's comment on the fourth pass: for one, my family also had such a keyboard growing up. And for two, it reminded me of a particular scene from the film Down Periscope - one that I found hilarious when first viewing it, and even more so after those six years of my twenties. The whole thing is worth watching, but the 1:45 mark is where the connection to this episode will make sense.)

Name a chemical element whose common English name does not end with the letters "m," "e," or "n."
	Ashley	rowan	Amanda	Not given
	cobalt	sulfur	gold	phosphorus; bismuth
	copper	silver	lead
	zinc	arsenic	antimony
	nickel	mercury	nickel
ROUND 6	8	8	7
TOTAL	34	44	49½

GRAND FINALE

Category: Words
How many words, two through fifteen letters in length, can be found in the 2015 edition of Collins Scrabble Words?
Answer and bounds	Ashley	rowan	Amanda
304,329 276,663 248,997	2,200	50,000	423,516
WAGER	4	7	11
FINAL SCORE	30	37	38½
Winner: Amanda Walker