Complete the List, Episode 68
I'd Like To Change My Category Choice
Contestants: Bobby Goldstein, Dave Brown, Dan Blake |
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Categories |
The Power of Love | Category Five |
Insert Cheesy Pun Here | The Story of My Life |
I Go to School in Scotland | Which Way You Goin’, Billy? |
Leave the Keys | Not an EGOT, but a Nog |
Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Bobby - Insert Cheesy Pun Here
Name any of the top twenty cheese exporting countries worldwide in 2017, based on total value of exports. |
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| Bobby | Dave | Dan | Not given |
| United States | France | Switzerland | Denmark; New Zealand; Belgium; Ireland; Australia; Poland; Belarus; Austria; Greece; Saudi Arabia; Luxembourg; Lithuania |
| Italy | Germany | United Kingdom |
| Spain | Sweden | Mexico |
| Netherlands | Canada | Argentina |
ROUND 1 | 8 | 4 | 4 |
ROUND 2Dave - Leave the Keys
Listener-submitted by Matt Carberry.
Leave the keys at home, because you’re about to take transit. Name a city whose largest rapid transit system (also known as a metro or a subway) has at least 160 stations. Interchange stations (that is, stations that have multiple sets of platforms in one location) only count as one station. |
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| Dave | Dan | Bobby | Not given |
| Japan | New York City | Tokyo | Seoul; Beijing; Madrid; Guangzhou/Canton; Shenzhen; Barcelona; Nanjing; Delhi; Wuhan |
| London | Berlin | Paris |
| Moscow | Chicago | Toronto |
| Shanghai | Mexico City | Rome |
ROUND 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
TOTAL | 10 | 10 | 12 |
ROUND 3Dan - I Go to School in Scotland
In the Harry Potter universe, Hogwarts offers classes in fourteen different subjects to young wizards. Name them. |
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| Dan | Bobby | Dave | Not given |
| Potions | Transfiguration | Dark Arts [Defense Against the Dark Arts] | Astronomy; Arithmency; Muggle Studies; Flying; Alchemy |
| Charms | Care of Magical Creatures | Care of Magical Creatures |
| Divination | History of Magic | Divination |
| Ancient Runes | Herbology | Herbology |
ROUND 3 | 16 | 16 | 5 |
TOTAL | 26 | 28 | 15 |
HALFTIME
0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Bobby | Dave | Dan |
was the film Terms of Endearment first released? | 1983 | 1982 | 1994 | 1987 |
did the first episode of Iron Chef America first air? | 2005 | 1996 | 2003 | 2005 |
was the Kanye West album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy first released? | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2012 |
is Qatar scheduled to host the FIFA World Cup? | 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | 2022 |
was Arundhati Roy’s Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things first published? | 1997 | 1995 | 1985 | 1994 |
did Richard Nixon receive a Presidential pardon? | 1974 | 1975 | 1977 | 1975 |
was the first Toyota car, the Toyota Standard Sedan, first built? | 1936 | 1958 | 1955 | 1954 |
was the civil rights organization known as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded? | 1957 | 1961 | 1965 | 1961 |
HALFTIME | | 5 | 2½ | 5 |
TOTAL | | 33 | 17½ | 31 |
ROUND 4Bobby - Which Way You Goin’, Billy?
Name a country that had an IKEA store before the first American IKEA opened near Philadelphia in 1985. |
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| Bobby | Dave | Dan | Not given |
| Sweden | Denmark | Germany | Japan; Australia; Canada; Hong Kong; Singapore; Iceland; Saudi Arabia; Kuwait |
| Norway | Netherlands | Finland |
| United Kingdom | Austria | France |
| Belgium | Spain | Switzerland |
ROUND 4 | 6 | 8 | 6 |
TOTAL | 39 | 25½ | 37 |
ROUND 5Dave - The Power of Love
Listener-submitted by Chris Parsons.
Name a country that has won tennis’s Davis Cup. |
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| Dave | Dan | Bobby | Not given |
| France | United States | Australia | Argentina; Croatia; Russia; South Africa |
| Spain | Switzerland | Sweden |
| England [Great Britain] | Soviet Union | Germany |
| Serbia | Italy | Czechoslovakia [Czech Republic] |
ROUND 5 | 16 | 6 | 8 |
TOTAL | 41½ | 43 | 47 |
ROUND 6Dan - Not an EGOT, but a Nog
Listener-submitted by Michael Simon.
Of course, EGOT refers to the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony; however, N-O-G means the Nobel Prize, Oscar, and Grammy. Name a Bob Dylan song that appears on Disc One of the 2010 release of The Essential Bob Dylan, which covers his career from approximately the early to mid-seventies. |
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| Dan | Bobby | Dave | Not given |
| Blowin’ in the Wind | The Times They Are a-Changin’ | Freight Train Blues | Forever Young; I Shall Be Released; I Want You; If Not for You; It Ain’t Me, Babe; It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue; Just Like a Woman; Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door; Lay, Lady, Lay; Maggie’s Farm; Positively 4th Street; Subterranean Homesick Blues; Tangled Up in Blue; You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere |
| (pass) | Mr. Tambourine Man | Like a Rolling Stone |
| (pass) | Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 | All Along the Watchtower |
| Light in the Sky on Friday | Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright | Gospel Plow |
ROUND 6 | 2 | 8 | 4 |
TOTAL | 45 | 55 | 45½ |
GRAND FINALE
Category: People |
As per the Population Reference Bureau estimates of mid-2017, how many people have been born in the history of planet Earth? |
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Answer and bounds | Dan | Dave | Bobby |
119,317,759,126 108,470,690,115 97,623,621,104 | 17,394,621,074 | 15,000,000,000 | 103,000,000,000 |
WAGER | 3½ | 12½ | 7 |
FINAL SCORE | 41½ | 33 | 62½ |
Winner: Bobby Goldstein |