Monday, June 11, 2018

Correct, unique: 2 points

Correct, repeated: 1 point

Incorrect: 0 points

Player doubled the category

Since the year without a World Series in 1994, fifteen different teams have lost at least one World Series. Name them.
	Dan	Ryan	Mike	Not given
	New York Yankees	Kansas City Royals	St. Louis Cardinals	San Francisco Giants; Houston Astros; Detroit Tigers; Philadelphia Phillies
	Cleveland Indians	New York Mets	Tampa Bay Rays
	Atlanta Braves	Colorado Rockies	Los Angeles Dodgers
	Milwaukee Brewers	San Diego Padres	Texas Rangers
ROUND 1	6	8	16

In 2014, the Frozen soundtrack spent a string of eight consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 album chart. Since the year 2000, fifteen other artists have had one or more albums that have spent five or more consecutive weeks at No. 1. Name those artists.
	Ryan	Mike	Dan	Not given
	Santana	Taylor Swift	Beyoncé	NSYNC; Eminem; Nelly; The Beatles; Creed; Shania Twain; Norah Jones; Usher; Josh Groban; Susan Boyle
	Adele	Katy Perry	Justin Timberlake
	Drake	Lady Gaga	OutKast
	50 Cent	Sugar Ray	Bruno Mars
ROUND 2	16	2	0
TOTAL	24	18	6

Name someone who has hosted an American stand-alone version of Pyramid, Family Feud, or Match Game.
	Mike	Dan	Ryan	Not given
	Dick Clark	Steve Harvey	Gene Rayburn	Family Feud: John O'Hurley; Al Roker Pyramid: Bill Cullen; John Davidson; Mike Richards Match Game: Ross Shafer, Michael Burger
	Richard Dawson	(Ray) Combs	(Richard) Karn
	Alec Baldwin	Michael Strahan	Louie Anderson
	Donny Osmond	Donny Osmond	Donny Osmond
ROUND 3	8	7	7
TOTAL	26	13	31

IN WHAT YEAR…	Correct year	Dan	Ryan	Mike
was the movie The Revenant first released?	2015	2015	2015	2015
did the first episode of the television series Will & Grace first air?	1998	1993	1998	2001
was Meat Loaf's album Bat Out of Hell first released?	1977	1976	1977	1985
did boxer Rocky Marciano announce his retirement, finishing his career 49-0?	1956	1965	1955	1964
was Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude first published in his native Spanish?	1967	1955	1966	1952
was Lloyd Bentsen the Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States?	1988	1988	1988	1974
was the radioactive element plutonium first discovered and isolated?	1940	1925	1943	1941
did Canada's easternmost province officially change its name to Newfoundland and Labrador?	2001	1945	2005	1996
HALFTIME		3½	7	3
TOTAL		16½	38	29

The show received some "viewer" mail because a category about the Tropic of Cancer was named "Henry James." Therefore, a category about "The Ambassadors" named Henry Miller. Name a U.S. President or Vice President who at one point served as U.S. Ambassador to another country or the UN, OR a country recognized by the United States that it does not currently maintain diplomatic relations with.
	Dan	Ryan	Mike	Not given
	Thomas Jefferson	John Adams	Thomas Jefferson	Presidents: James Buchanan; George H. W. Bush; William Henry Harrison; James Monroe; Martin Van Buren Vice Presidents: Walter Mondale; Hannibal Hamlin; George M. Dallas; Levi P. Morton; William R. King; Charles G. Dawes Countries without diplomatic relations with the U.S.: Iran; Bhutan
	Libya	John Quincy Adams	James Madison
	Nelson Rockefeller	Taiwan	Aaron Burr
	North Korea	Palestine	East Timor
ROUND 4	4	6	1
TOTAL	20½	44	30
Andy explained his ruling on "Libya" as though he were American - especially curious in light of his newly minted status as an alleged national security threat - but caught himself while ruling on "North Korea."

According to IMDb, The Aviator is the twenty-fifth highest grossing biography feature film of all time in the U.S. Name any biography feature film that grossed more, not counting inflation.
	Ryan	Mike	Dan	Not given
	Straight Outta Compton	12 Years a Slave	Gandhi	American Sniper; The Blind Side; Lincoln; The Greatest Showman; A Beautiful Mind; Hidden Figures; Catch Me If You Can; The Pursuit of Happyness; The Sound of Music; The King's Speech; Argo; Patch Adams; American Gangster; Lone Survivor; Sully; Good Morning Vietnam; Lee Daniel's The Butler; Remember the Titans; Unbroken; Captain Phillips
	Erin Brockovich	Ray	Walk the Line
	Schindler's List	The Passion of the Christ	The Theory of Everything
	The Wolf of Wall Street	The Iron Lady	Malcolm X
ROUND 5	6	0	2
TOTAL	50	30	22½

Name a UN full member state measured to have at least 7,000 km (4,350 mi) of coastline, according to the CIA World Factbook.
	Mike	Dan	Ryan	Not given
	Russia	Australia	Canada	New Zealand; China; Greece; United Kingdom; Italy; Denmark; Turkey
	India	United States	Indonesia
	Mexico	Japan	Philippines
	Brazil	Chile	Norway
ROUND 6	8	12	8
TOTAL	38	34½	58

GRAND FINALE

Category: Mountains
Mount Logan is the tallest mountain in Canada and the second tallest in North America. How tall, in feet, is Mount Logan?
Answer and bounds	Dan	Mike	Ryan
21,506 19,551 17,596	17,401	13,250	17,069
WAGER	4	13	3½
FINAL SCORE	30½	25	54½
Winner: Ryan Kloefkorn Meyers