Complete the List, Episode 39
Sorry, Miss English Teacher
| Thursday, January 25, 2018 |
| Contestants: Nette Compton, Julie Roth, Kate O'Connor |
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| Categories |
| State Business Only | Yotta, Yotta, Yotta |
| The Ball Is Round, Part II | These Might Make You Feel Old |
| We All Had to Work Late | H to the Izzo |
| Why Did the Bard Give One So Many More Lines than the Other? | V to the Biz, Eh? |
| Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Nette - These Might Make You Feel Old
Listener-submitted by Eric Sutherland.
| Name a film released between January 1, 1986 and December 1, 2000 that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. |
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| Nette | Julie | Kate | Not given |
| Shakespeare in Love | Titanic | Philadelphia | Gladiator; Unforgiven; The Silence of the Lambs; Dances with Wolves; Driving Miss Daisy; Rain Man; The Last Emperor; Platoon |
| The English Patient | Moonstruck | Good Will Hunting |
| Schindler's List | Forrest Gump | Braveheart |
| The Godfather | Casino | American Beauty |
| ROUND 1 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
ROUND 2Julie - Why Did the Bard Give One So Many More Lines than the Other?
| In the play Hamlet, fourteen characters have forty lines or more. Name them. |
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| Julie | Kate | Nette | Not given |
| Hamlet | Desdemona | Ophelia | Claudius; Gertrude; Rosencrantz; First Player; King Hamlet/ghost/Hamlet's father; First Clown/Gravedigger; Marcellus; Guildenstern; Osric |
| Polonius | Polonius | Yorick |
| Laertes | Laertes | Horatio |
| Falstaff | Falstaff | King Richard |
| ROUND 2 | 12 | 2 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 16 | 6 | 10 |
ROUND 3Kate - State Business Only
Listener-submitted by Jay Johnson.
| Twelve U.S. state capitals, per the 2010 U.S. Census, have a municipal population (not metropolitan) of fewer than 50,000 people. Name them. |
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| Kate | Nette | Julie | Not given |
| Montpelier (VT) | Portland, ME | Concord (NH) | Pierre, SD; Frankfort, KY; Dover, DE; Annapolis, MD; Jefferson City, MO; Olympia, WA; Harrisburg, PA |
| Augusta, ME | Helena, MT | Cheyenne, WY |
| Carson City, NV | Baton Rouge (LA) | Bismarck (ND) |
| Juneau, AK | Hartford, CT | Santa Fe, NM |
| ROUND 3 | 12 | 2 | 2 |
| TOTAL | 18 | 12 | 18 |
HALFTIME
| 0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
| IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Nette | Julie | Kate |
| was the film version of Gone with the Wind first released? | 1939 | 1939 | 1938 | 1939 |
| did the FOX Television network begin broadcasting? | 1986 | 1985 | 1977 | 1988 |
| did Michael Jackson die? | 2009 | 2011 | 2009 | 2011 |
| did a players' strike result in the World Series not being played? | 1994 | 1997 | 1991 | 1994 |
| was the Truman Capote work Breakfast at Tiffany's first published? | 1958 | 1955 | 1957 | 1958 |
| was the United States Department of Energy established? | 1977 | 1972 | 1945 | 1977 |
| did Charles Lindbergh make the first solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight? | 1927 | 1925 | 1927 | 1927 |
| did the failed invasion, known as the Bay of Pigs invasion, take place? | 1961 | 1963 | 1961 | 1963 |
| HALFTIME | | 5 | 5½ | 6½ |
| TOTAL | | 17 | 23½ | 24½ |
ROUND 4Nette - V to the Biz, Eh?
| Nineteen different companies on the Fortune 500 have at least 250,000 employees. Name those companies. |
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| Nette | Julie | Kate | Not given |
| Amazon | Apple | Bank of America | Kroger; Yum! Brands; IBM; Home Depot; Walgreens; General Electric; Albertsons; Wells Fargo; AT&T; PepsiCo; Cognizant Technology Solutions |
| Walmart | Target | Exxon(Mobil) |
| McDonald's | FedEx | UPS |
| Chase | Starbucks | Berkshire Hathaway |
| ROUND 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 23 | 29½ | 28½ |
ROUND 5Julie - H to the Izzo
| The Recording Industry Association of America has certified eighteen different Jay-Z albums gold or higher. Name them - either studio, collaborative, live, or extended play albums. |
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| Julie | Kate | Nette | Not given |
| Magna Carta (… Holy Grail) | 4:44 | The Black Album | Reasonable Doubt; In My Lifetime, Vol. 1; Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter; The Dynasty: Roc La Familia; The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse; Kingdom Come; The Blueprint 3; The Best of Both Worlds; Unfinished Business; Jay-Z: Unplugged; Collision Course |
| The Blue Album | (Vol. 2…) Hard Knock Life | (Vol. 2…) Hard Knock Life |
| American Gangster | (The) Blueprint | American Gangster |
| Watch the Throne | Watch the Throne | Watch the Throne |
| ROUND 5 | 6 | 7 | 5 |
| TOTAL | 35½ | 35½ | 28 |
ROUND 6Kate - The Ball Is Round, Part II
| Name a current NBA franchise that has won an NBA title in its current location. |
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| Kate | Nette | Julie | Not given |
| Cleveland Cavaliers | Boston Celtics | (San Antonio) Spurs | Philadelphia 76ers; Washington Wizards; Portland Trail Blazers; Milwaukee Bucks; Dallas Mavericks |
| Golden State Warriors | Chicago Bulls | Miami Heat |
| Los Angeles Lakers | New York Knicks | (Indiana) Pacers |
| Houston Rockets | Detroit Pistons | Utah Jazz |
| ROUND 6 | 8 | 16 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 43½ | 44 | 39½ |
GRAND FINALE
| Category: Chemistry |
| To four significant digits, what is the atomic weight of the noble gas neon? |
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| Answer and bounds | Julie | Kate | Nette |
22.19
20.18
18.17 | 18.04 | 20.14 | 16.54 |
| WAGER | 12 | 16 | 15½ |
| FINAL SCORE | 27½ | 59½ | 28½ |
| Winner: Kate O'Connor |