Complete the List, Episode 23
Truman Capote Was Very, Very Prescient, That's All
| Thursday, November 2, 2017 |
| Contestants: Jonathan Klein, Dan Blake, AJ Mass |
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| Categories |
| I Need Two Hands to Count This | Come Fly Away |
| A Nice Night on the Hardwood | A Night at the Museum |
| Indivisible | We've Known About These for Over a Century |
| Pretty Good, but Not Marvelous | I May Play Collins, but This Is Not a Scrabble Category |
| Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Jonathan - Come Fly Away
Listener-submitted by Bruce Saunders.
| Based on 2016 statistics, name one of the top twenty busiest airports in the world, based on passenger traffic. |
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| Jonathan | Dan | AJ | Not given |
| O'Hare [ORD] | London Heathrow [LHR] | John F. Kennedy [JFK] | Beijing [PEK]; Tokyo Haneda [HND]; Hong Kong [HKG]; Dallas/Fort Worth [DFW]; Amsterdam Schiphol [AMS]; Frankfurt [FRA]; Istanbul Atatürk [IST]; Guangzhou Baiyun [CAN]; Singapore Changi [SIN]; Denver [DEN]; Seoul Incheon [ICN]; Bangkok Suvarnabhumi [BKK] |
| Atlanta (Hartsfield-Jackson) [ATL] | Los Angeles International [LAX] | (Paris) Charles de Gaulle [CDG] |
| Dubai [DXB] | Mexico City (Benito Juárez) [MEX] | Rome (Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino) [FCO] |
| Tokyo Narita [NRT] | Shanghai (Pudong) [PVG] | Washington Reagan (National) [DCA] |
| ROUND 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
ROUND 2Dan - I Need Two Hands to Count This
| Name an actor or actress who has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor or Best Actress (just those two categories, not supporting) at least six times. |
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| Dan | AJ | Jonathan | Not given |
| Meryl Streep | Tom Hanks | Marlon Brando | Bette Davis; Paul Newman; Peter O'Toole; Jack Lemmon; Dustin Hoffman; Greer Garson; Ingrid Bergman; Jane Fonda; Richard Burton; Sissy Spacek; Deborah Kerr |
| Bradley Cooper | Jack Nicholson | Katharine Hepburn |
| Brad Pitt | Spencer Tracy | Al Pacino |
| Jennifer Lawrence | Jimmy Stewart | Laurence Olivier |
| ROUND 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| TOTAL | 8 | 8 | 12 |
ROUND 3AJ - We've Known About These for Over a Century
| Name any natural satellite in our solar system that was first discovered before 1900. |
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| AJ | Jonathan | Dan | Not given |
| Earth's moon | Ganymede | Titan | Amalthea; Ariel; Callisto; Dione; Hyperion; Iapetus; Mimas; Phoebe; Rhea; Tethys; Titania; Umbriel |
| Phobos | Io | Deimos |
| Europa | Oberon | Miranda |
| Enceladus | Triton | Enceladus |
| ROUND 3 | 8 | 8 | 5 |
| TOTAL | 16 | 20 | 13 |
HALFTIME
| 0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
| IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Jonathan | Dan | AJ |
| was the film American Graffiti released? | 1973 | 1974 | 1974 | 1976 |
| did the first episode of the television series Two and a Half Men first air? | 2003 | 2002 | 2004 | 2003 |
| was Ace of Base's "The Sign" the Billboard year-end No. 1 song? | 1994 | 1995 | 1993 | 1994 |
| did LeBron James win his first NBA championship? | 2012 | 2013 | 2011 | 2012 |
| was Truman Capote's In Cold Blood first published? | 1966 | 1962 | 1961 | 1943 |
| did the Supreme Court rule in Brown v. Board of Education? | 1954 | 1953 | 1954 | 1964 |
| was Michael Dukakis the Democratic nominee for President of the United States? | 1988 | 1988 | 1988 | 1988 |
| did a nuclear test balloon crash near Roswell, New Mexico, leading to a UFO conspiracy? | 1947 | 1947 | 1947 | 1957 |
| HALFTIME | | 7½ | 7½ | 4½ |
| TOTAL | | 27½ | 20½ | 20½ |
ROUND 4Jonathan - Indivisible
Listener-submitted by Michael Simon.
| Name a prime number greater than 100 but less than 200. |
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| Jonathan | Dan | AJ | Not given |
| 101 | 103 | 107 | 109; 131; 139; 149; 151; 157; 167; 179; 181; 191 |
| 113 | 193 | 137 |
| 143 | 163 | 143 |
| 173 | 127 | 197 |
| ROUND 4 | 6 | 8 | 6 |
| TOTAL | 33½ | 28½ | 26½ |
ROUND 5Dan - Pretty Good, but Not Marvelous
| Name any of the twenty most published DC Comics characters (by overall appearance, not necessarily having their own specific comic). |
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| Dan | AJ | Jonathan | Not given |
| Superman | Batman | Joker | Alfred; Commissioner Gordon; Green Arrow; The Martian Manhunter; Hawkman; Supergirl; The Black Canary; Perry White; Batgirl |
| Robin
[Dick Grayson, Nightwing] | Wonder Woman | Spider-Man |
| Aquaman | The Green Lantern | Lex Luthor |
| Lois Lane | The Flash | Jimmy Olsen |
| ROUND 5 | 8 | 8 | 6 |
| TOTAL | 36½ | 34½ | 39½ |
ROUND 6AJ - A Nice Night on the Hardwood
Listener-submitted by Nolan Werner.
| Name any NBA player who has scored more than 60 points in a single game. (This does NOT include the ABA.) |
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| AJ | Jonathan | Dan | Not given |
| Wilt Chamberlain | Kobe Bryant | Michael Jordan | Carmelo Anthony; Gilbert Arenas; Rick Barry; Elgin Baylor; Devin Booker; Tom Chambers; Joe Fulks; Bernard King; Karl Malone; George Mikan; Tracy McGrady; Shaquille O'Neal; David Thompson; Klay Thompson; Jerry West |
| George Gervin | David Robinson | Steph Curry |
| Dominique Wilkins | Allen Iverson | LeBron James |
| Pete Maravich | Kareem Abdul-Jabber/Lew Alcindor | Larry Bird |
| ROUND 6 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| TOTAL | 46½ | 51½ | 48½ |
GRAND FINALE
| Category: At the Movies |
| Rogue One: A Star Wars Story had the highest domestic box office gross of any movie released in 2016. How much did that movie gross domestically, according to Box Office Mojo? |
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| Answer and bounds | AJ | Dan | Jonathan |
$585,395,056
$532,177,324
$478,959,592 | $500,000,017 | $938,462,117 | $746,000,000 |
| WAGER | 16 | 14 | 13½ |
| FINAL SCORE | 62½ | 34½ | 38 |
| Winner: AJ Mass |