Complete the List: Season 2, Episode 9
I Just Don't Like Shouting At People
| Thursday, December 20, 2018 |
| Contestants: Tim Edwards, Doug Hicton, Richard Wallace |
Questionable Company, Tim's trivia syndicate, on Facebook. (email)
Doug's YouTube channel. |
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| Categories |
| Yes, It's Hot in Here | R & R |
| Daniel Webster Was Wrong | An "A" in Geography |
| J | Did These Ever End? |
| A Playing Card Company | He's Pretty Much in Everything |
| Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Tim - An "A" in Geography
| Name a UN member state that has a capital city whose English language name starts with the letter "A." |
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| Tim | Doug | Richard | Not given |
| Andorra | Nigeria | Andorra | United Arab Emirates; Ghana; Algeria; Netherlands; Madagascar; Samoa; Turkmenistan; Eritrea |
| Ethiopia | Kazakhstan | Ethiopia |
| Turkey | Paraguay | Turkey |
| Jordan | Greece | Greece |
| ROUND 1 | 16 | 8 | 4 |
ROUND 2Doug - He's Pretty Much in Everything
| Name a Samuel L. Jackson film which grossed at least $100 million domestically, adjusted for ticket price inflation, as per Box Office Mojo. Voice roles count; bit parts or cameos do not. |
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| Doug | Richard | Tim | Not given |
| Snakes on a Plane | Star Wars (Episode I): The Phantom Menace | Star Wars (Episode III): Revenge of the Sith | Avengers: Age of Ultron; Iron Man 2; Captain America: The Winter Soldier; xXx; Die Hard with a Vengeance; S.W.A.T.; Kong: Skull Island; Unbreakable; The Other Guys; The Legend of Tarzan; Deep Blue Sea; Shaft (2000); Changing Lanes; Rules of Engagement; Jumper |
| Jurassic Park | The Incredibles | Star Wars (Episode II): Attack of the Clones |
| Pulp Fiction | The Incredibles 2 | The Avengers |
| Django Unchained | Kingsman(: The Secret Service) | A Time to Kill |
| ROUND 2 | 6 | 16 | 8 |
| TOTAL | 14 | 20 | 24 |
ROUND 3Richard - J
| The Oxford 3000 is a list of the most important words in English to learn. In that list of 3000 are twenty-seven entries which start with the letter "J." Name any of these words, proper nouns, or multi-word phrases. |
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| Richard | Tim | Doug | Not given |
| James | John | January | jacket; jail; jealous; jeans; jelly; jewelry; join in; joint; joke; journalist; journey; judge; judgment; juice; junior; jury; justice; justified; justify |
| June | July | jump |
| joy | just | job |
| jet | join | jaw |
| ROUND 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
| TOTAL | 24 | 30 | 20 |
HALFTIME
| 0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
| IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Tim | Doug | Richard |
| was the Best Picture Oscar-nominated film District 9 first released? | 2009 | 2008 | 2009 | 2009 |
| did the debut episode of the TV series 21 Jump Street first air? | 1987 | 1990 | 1987 | 1987 |
| was the Three Dog Night hit sone "One" first released? | 1969 | 1969 | 1968 | 1968 |
| did Nadia Comaneci score the first perfect 10 on a gymnastics routine at the Olympic Games? | 1976 | 1976 | 1976 | 1976 |
| did Joseph Heller begin writing the novel that became published eight years later as Catch-22? | 1953 | 1948 | 1953 | 1952 |
| did the most recent U.S. Census take place? | 2010 | 2010 | 2010 | 2010 |
| did the Earth's population surpass 6,000,000,000 people, according to the UN Population Fund? | 1999 | 1985 | 1990 | 1995 |
| were the blacklisted Hollywood Ten cited for contempt of Congress? | 1947 | 1954 | 1952 | 1946 |
| HALFTIME | | 5 | 6½ | 7½ |
| TOTAL | | 35 | 26½ | 31½ |
ROUND 4Tim - Daniel Webster Was Wrong
| Daniel Webster twice refused the Vice Presidency of the United States – had he accepted either, he would have become President. Name a Vice President of the United States who went on to become President, for any reason. |
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| Tim | Doug | Richard | Not given |
| John Adams | George H. W. Bush | Andrew Johnson | Thomas Jefferson; Martin Van Buren |
| Gerald Ford | John Tyler | Harry Truman |
| (Richard) Nixon | (Chester A.) Arthur | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson | (Millard) Fillmore | (Calvin) Coolidge |
| ROUND 4 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| TOTAL | 43 | 34½ | 39½ |
ROUND 5Doug - Yes, It's Hot in Here
Listener-submitted by AJ Mass.
| In 1994, for the first time, Major League Baseball invited all of the leagues' professional mascots to attend the All-Star Game, held that year in Pittsburgh. Name any of the teams who were represented by a mascot at the festivities. |
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| Doug | Richard | Tim | Not given |
| (New York) Yankees | (New York) Mets | (Montréal) Expos | Atlanta Braves; Colorado Rockies; Florida Marlins; Oakland Athletics; Pittsburgh Pirates; Seattle Mariners; Toronto Blue Jays |
| St. Louis Cardinals | (Philadelphia) Phillies | (San Diego) Padres |
| Houston Astros | (Cincinnati) Reds | (Milwaukee) Brewers |
| (San Francisco) Giants | (Baltimore) Orioles | Cleveland Indians |
| ROUND 5 | 4 | 6 | 8 |
| TOTAL | 38½ | 45½ | 51 |
The category refers to the title of Mass's 2014 book. |
ROUND 6Richard - Did These Ever End?
| Name an American primetime scripted television series that has aired on a major American broadcast network, and has aired at least fourteen seasons. |
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| Richard | Tim | Doug | Not given |
| Law & Order | The Simpsons | Gunsmoke | Family Guy; The Jack Benny Program; American Dad!; The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet; Bonanza; My Three Sons; Armstrong Circle Theatre; Dallas; Knots Landing; Criminal Minds; Supernatural; King of the Hill |
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | ER | Lassie |
| NCIS | Saturday Night Live | South Park |
| CSI(: Crime Scene Investigation) | Grey's Anatomy | Death Valley Days |
| ROUND 6 | 8 | 6 | 8 |
| TOTAL | 53½ | 57 | 46½ |
GRAND FINALE
| Category: Christmas |
| Interestingly, an event which occurred the same year as the publication of A Christmas Carol – how many years ago did Sir Henry Cole send what is now considered to be the first Christmas card? |
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| Answer and bounds | Doug | Richard | Tim |
192
175
158 | 175 | 175 | 168 |
| WAGER | 16 | 16 | 13 |
| FINAL SCORE | 62½ | 69½ | 70 |
| Winner: Tim Edwards |