Complete the List, Episode 72 (2018-06-21)

Complete the List, Episode 72

Well, It's Your Double…

Thursday, June 21, 2018

Contestants: Scott Gant, Dan Gibson, Will Travis
Links to the mentions at the end: People in the Audience of a Ray Stevens Concert Gant Family Adoption National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

Categories
The Commish	They Tried to Kill Us, We Won, Let's Eat
Not Fake News	Easy as 1, 2, 3
Sitting on Top of the World	It Ain't Over Till the Fat Lady Sings
Nine Nine Nine, Fantastic Number Nine	Almost Always the Bridesmaid

Correct, unique: 2 points Correct, repeated: 1 point Incorrect: 0 points Player doubled the category

ROUND 1

Scott - Easy as 1, 2, 3
Listener-submitted by Tristan Bauer.

There have been twenty-one acts that have hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 with a number in their name. Name those numerical acts.

Scott Dan Will Not given

98 Degrees Maroon 5 One Direction 21 Savage; All-4-One; B2K; Dave Clark Five; D4L; The Four Seasons; The Four Tops; Hi-Five; Matchbox Twenty; 112; Stars on 45; The Three Degrees; Three Dog Night

The Jackson 5 50 Cent 2 Chainz

2 Live Crew Boyz II Men Fifth Harmony

The Fifth Dimension UB40 U2

ROUND 1 6 8 2

ROUND 2

Dan - Sitting on Top of the World
Listener-submitted by Bruce Saunders.

Name a UN member whose average elevation is greater than 1,400 meters above sea level. Switzerland just misses at 1,350.

Dan Will Scott Not given

Bolivia Nepal Peru Lesotho; Afghanistan; China; Armenia; Rwanda; Mongolia; Burundi; Georgia

Chile Bhutan Argentina

Andorra Liechtenstein Antarctica

Tajikistan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan

ROUND 2 6 6 3

TOTAL 14 8 9

ROUND 3

Will - They Tried to Kill Us, We Won, Let's Eat
Listener-submitted by Jonathan Graham.

The title of this category is a stereotypical summary of most Jewish holidays. Name any Jewish holiday that happens once a year.

Will Scott Dan Not given

Yom Kippur Hanukkah Rosh Hashanah Fast of Gedalia; Hoshana Rabbah; Shemini Atzeret; Tenth of Tevet; Tu Bishvat; Fast of Esther; Lag Ba'Omer; Yom Ha'atzmaut/Israel Independence Day; Fast of the Seventeenth of Tammuz; Tisha B'Av/Ninth of Av

Passover Passover Sukkot

Purim Purim Simchat (Torah)

Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Rememberance Day) Yom HaShoah Shavuot

ROUND 3 16 5 16

TOTAL 24 14 30

HALFTIME

0-1 year away: 1 point

2-5 years away: ½ point

>5 years away: 0 points

IN WHAT YEAR… Correct year Scott Dan Will

was the film The Hurt Locker first released? 2009 2006 2009 2008

did the television channel MTV first broadcast? (In the parlance of Archer, that's "M" as in "Mancy," not "N" as in "Nancy.") 1981 1982 1983 1982

was Gotye and Kimbra's "Somebody That I Used to Know" the Billboard year-end No. 1 song? 2012 2014 2011 2011

did Maurice "Rocket" Richard become the first NHL player to score fifty goals in a season? 1945 1948 1940 1935

was Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged first published? 1957 1954 1957 1955

was the CN Tower in Toronto completed? 1976 1974 1974 1975

did Croatia, Macedonia, and Slovenia become independent from the former Yugoslavia? 1991 1997 1992 1991

was OPEC founded in Baghdad, Iraq? 1960 1936 1960 1965

HALFTIME 3½ 6½ 6

TOTAL 17½ 36½ 30

ROUND 4

Scott - Nine Nine Nine, Fantastic Number Nine

Name someone who was confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States since January 1, 1950, but is no longer a current Supreme Court justice.

Scott Dan Will Not given

William Rehnquist Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia Lewis Powell Jr.; Harry Blackmun; Arthur Goldberg; Potter Stewart; Charles Evans Whittaker; John Marshall Harlan II

Thurgood Marshalll David Souter (John Paul) Stevens

Kennedy (Warren) Burger Abe Fortas
(Earl) Warren Byron White William Joseph Brennan
ROUND 4 6 8 8

TOTAL 23½ 44½ 38

ROUND 5

Dan - Not Fake News

Name any of the top twenty American-based newspapers (they must actually publish a physical newspaper) as ranked by their website's Alexa ranking in the United States as of June 9, 2018.

Dan Will Scott Not given

The New York Times The Washington Post Miami Herald New York Post; Houston Chronicle; The Hill; San Francisco Chronicle; Chicago Tribune; The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ)/The Times (Trenton); The Mercury News (San Jose, CA); The Boston Globe; The Seattle Times; The Oregonian; Atlanta Journal-Constitution; The Washington Times; The Sacramento Bee; Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)

USA Today The Wall Street Journal Chicago Sun-Times

Los Angeles Times Boston Tribune The Dallas Morning News

The Arizona Republic The Arizona Republic The Arizona Republic

ROUND 5 8 3 3

TOTAL 52½ 41 26½

ROUND 6

Will - It Ain't Over Till the Fat Lady Sings
Listener-submitted by Ryan Kloefkorn Meyers.

During the 2017-2018 worldwide opera season, twenty-four different men composed the fifty most frequently performed operas. Name any of those composers.

Will Scott Dan Not given

(Giacomo) Puccini (Giacomo) Puccini (Wolfgang Amadeus) Mozart Ludwig von Beethoven; Vincenzo Bellini; Ralph Benatzky; Antonin Dvorák; Engelbert Humperdinck; Gaetano Donizetti; Christoph Willibald Gluck; Charles Gounod; Emmerich Kálmán; Franz Lehár; Jules Massenet; Jacques Offenbach; Johann Strauss II; Richard Strauss; Pyotr Tchaikovsky; Carl Maria von Weber

(Giuseppe) Verdi (Richard) Wagner (Gioachino) Rossini

(Ruggero) Leoncavallo (Ruggero) Leoncavallo (Georges) Bizet

Pietro Mascagni Pietro Mascagni (John) Adams

ROUND 6 8 10 6

TOTAL 49 36½ 58½

GRAND FINALE

Category: Television

On May 14, 1998, the Seinfeld finale became the fifth most watched series finale in the history of American television. To the nearest 100,000 people, how many people watched the Seinfeld finale?

Answer and bounds Scott Will Dan

83,900,000
76,300,000
68,700,000 129,300,000 2,000,000 70,000,000

WAGER 16 16 7

FINAL SCORE 20½ 33 65½

Winner: Dan Gibson

CTL archive home | Matt's Jeopardy! page | Matt's home page

There have been twenty-one acts that have hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 with a number in their name. Name those numerical acts.

	Scott	Dan	Will	Not given
	98 Degrees	Maroon 5	One Direction	21 Savage; All-4-One; B2K; Dave Clark Five; D4L; The Four Seasons; The Four Tops; Hi-Five; Matchbox Twenty; 112; Stars on 45; The Three Degrees; Three Dog Night
	The Jackson 5	50 Cent	2 Chainz
	2 Live Crew	Boyz II Men	Fifth Harmony
	The Fifth Dimension	UB40	U2
ROUND 1	6	8	2

IN WHAT YEAR…	Correct year	Scott	Dan	Will
was the film The Hurt Locker first released?	2009	2006	2009	2008
did the television channel MTV first broadcast? (In the parlance of Archer, that's "M" as in "Mancy," not "N" as in "Nancy.")	1981	1982	1983	1982
was Gotye and Kimbra's "Somebody That I Used to Know" the Billboard year-end No. 1 song?	2012	2014	2011	2011
did Maurice "Rocket" Richard become the first NHL player to score fifty goals in a season?	1945	1948	1940	1935
was Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged first published?	1957	1954	1957	1955
was the CN Tower in Toronto completed?	1976	1974	1974	1975
did Croatia, Macedonia, and Slovenia become independent from the former Yugoslavia?	1991	1997	1992	1991
was OPEC founded in Baghdad, Iraq?	1960	1936	1960	1965
HALFTIME		3½	6½	6
TOTAL		17½	36½	30

Category: Television
On May 14, 1998, the Seinfeld finale became the fifth most watched series finale in the history of American television. To the nearest 100,000 people, how many people watched the Seinfeld finale?

Answer and bounds	Scott	Will	Dan
83,900,000 76,300,000 68,700,000	129,300,000	2,000,000	70,000,000
WAGER	16	16	7
FINAL SCORE	20½	33	65½
Winner: Dan Gibson