Thursday, January 31, 2019

Correct, unique: 2 points

Correct, repeated: 1 point

Incorrect: 0 points

Player doubled the category

Name a 2018 released film that, as of January 21, 2019, has grossed at least $400 million worldwide as per Box Office Mojo.
	Dan	Jason	Tristan	Not given
	Black Panther	Avengers: Infinity War	Incredibles 2	Venom; Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald; Ready Player One; Operation Red Sea; Detective Chinatown 2; The Meg; Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation; Dr. Seuss' The Grinch; Rampage; Bumblebee
	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom	Deadpool 2	Ant-Man and the Wasp
	Aquaman	A Star Is Born	Ralph Breaks the Internet
	Bohemian Rhapsody	Halloween	Mission: Impossible - Fallout
ROUND 1	16	12	8

Name a female tennis player who has won a major (the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, or the US Open) in 2008 or later.
	Jason	Tristan	Dan	Not given
	Serena Williams	(Maria) Sharapova	(Angelique) Kerber	Li Na; Victoria Azarenka; Jelena Ostapenko; Francesca Schiavone; Svetlana Kuznetsova; Ana Ivanovic; Petra Kvitova; Marion Bartoli; Samantha Stosur; Flavia Pennetta
	Sloane Stephens	Vanessa Venus Williams	(Simona) Halep
	Naomi Osaka	Steffi Graf	Kim Clijsters
	Garbiñe Muguruza	Garbiñe Muguruza	(Caroline) Wozniacki
ROUND 2	8	5	8
TOTAL	20	13	24
Andy invoked the "I want to give you points" standard in accepting both responses on the fourth pass - and proceed to flub the pronunciation of Muguruza's first name.

A landlocked country is defined as a country that is completely surrounded by land or only has coastline on closed seas. Name a landlocked UN full member state that is on the Asian continent.
	Tristan	Dan	Jason	Not given
	Mongolia	Afghanistan	Nepal	Armenia
	Kazakhstan	Kyrgyzstan	Azerbaijan
	Turkmenistan	Tajikistan	Uzbekistan
	Cambodia	Laos	Bhutan
ROUND 3	6	8	8
TOTAL	19	32	28

IN WHAT YEAR…	Correct year	Dan	Jason	Tristan
was the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire first released?	2005	2005	2004	2006
was the phrase "we were on a break!" first uttered on the television series Friends?	1997	1996	1997	1996
was the song "Play That Funky Music" (White Boy) first released by Wild Cherry?	1976	1976	1977	1974
did the Dallas Mavericks play in their first NBA game?	1980	1984	1982	1983
was the beloved children's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar first published?	1969	1965	1966	1967
did the U.S. launch USS Nautilus [SSN 571], the first nuclear powered submarine?	1954	1953	1955	1954
was the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission founded?	1934	1938	1919	1928
did the Battle of Okinawa take place?	1945	1945	1943	1941
HALFTIME		6½	5½	5
TOTAL		38½	33½	24

Name any of the words that have appeared in the titles of George R. R. Martin's A Song of [Ice and Fire] series.
	Dan	Jason	Tristan	Not given
	thrones	game	of	clash; storm; feast; for; crows; dance
	a	winter	the
	dragons	kings	fire
	with	swords	in
ROUND 4	8	6	2
TOTAL	46½	39½	26
The statement of the question reversed the words "ice" and "fire." The Winds of Winter is the planned next book in the series.

Name a character, or the actor or actress who portrayed them, who appeared in at least one hundred episodes of either Full House or Boy Meets World.
	Jason	Tristan	Dan	Not given
	Danny Tanner [Bob Saget]	Cory (Matthews) [Ben Savage]	John Stamos [Jesse Katsopolis]	Amy Matthews/Betsy Randle; Eric Matthews/Will Friedle; Shawn Hunter/Rider Strong; Alan Matthews/William Russ
	Topanga (Lawrence) [Danielle Fishel]	(Aunt) Becky (Katsopolis) [Lori Loughlin]	Dave Coulier [Joey Gladstone]
	D.J. Tanner [Candace Cameron Bure]	Kimmy Gibbler [Andrea Barber]	Stephanie Tanner [Jodie Sweetin]
	Mr. (George) Feeny [William Daniels]	Michelle Tanner [Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen]	Michelle Tanner [Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen]
ROUND 5	8	16	7
TOTAL	47½	42	53½
Andy stated that if either Olsen twin had been given, the other would have remained on the table.

Stockholm's own Max Martin is one of the most prolific pop song writers of the last twenty-five years. Name an artist who had a Max Martin written or co-written song chart on the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100.
	Tristan	Dan	Jason	Not given
	Taylor Swift	Britney Spears	Katy Perry	Céline Dion; Adam Lambert; Kesha; Taio Cruz; Usher; the cast of Glee; Jessie J; Justin Bieber; Selena Gomez; Ellie Goulding; Adele ("Bang Bang" is credited equally to Jessie J, Ariana Grande, and Nicki Minaj; Minaj was not on the list of leftovers read out.)
	Backstreet Boys	P!nk	The Weeknd
	Kelly Clarkson	*NSYNC	Ariana Grande
	Robyn	Maroon 5	Justin Timberlake
ROUND 6	8	8	8
TOTAL	50	61½	55½

GRAND FINALE

Category: History
The year 2019 will be what anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years' War?
Answer and bounds	Tristan	Jason	Dan
408 371 334	600	371	350
WAGER	2	15½	11
FINAL SCORE	48	71	72½
Winner: Dan Gibson