Thursday, November 23, 2017 |
Contestants: Harvey Silikovitz, Laurie MacDougall, Valerie Connors | |
Categories | |
Why Is It Fourteen Now? | They Make Blockbusters |
A Category About Nothing | That Is So Cold |
Not a Lot of Say | Stirred, Not Shaken |
The Big 3-0 for the Big 2-0 | They Were England's Newest Hitmakers |
Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
Name a character that appeared in at least twenty episodes of Seinfeld. You may name either actor or role. | ||||
Harvey | Laurie | Valerie | Not given | |
Jerry Seinfeld | George Costanza [Jason Alexander] | Elaine Benes [Julia Louis-Dreyfus] | Ruthie Cohen/Ruth Cohen; Man on Sidewalk/Norman Brenner; Helen Seinfeld/Liz Sheridan | |
Cosmo Kramer [Michael Richards] | Newman [Wayne Knight] | George's father (Frank Costanza) [Jerry Stiller] | ||
George's mother (Estelle Costanza) [Estelle Harris] | (Jacopo) "J." Peterman [John O'Hurley] | Kenny (Bania) [Steve Hytner] | ||
Susan (Biddle Ross) [Heidi Swedberg] | Jerry's father (Morty Seinfeld) [Barney Martin] | (David) Puddy [Patrick Warburton] | ||
ROUND 1 | 8 | 16 | 4 |
Name a Rolling Stones studio album that charted in at least the top ten in both the United States and the United Kingdom. | ||||
Laurie | Valerie | Harvey | Not given | |
Start Me Up | Start Me Up | Greatest Hits | Out of Our Heads; Aftermath; Between the Buttons; Their Satanic Majesties Request; Let It Bleed; Sticky Fingers; Exile on Main St.; Goats Head Soup; It's Only Rock 'n Roll; Black and Blue; Some Girls; Emotional Rescue; Tattoo You; Undercover; Dirty Work; Steel Wheels; Voodoo Lounge; Bridges to Babylon; A Bigger Bang; Blue & Lonesome | |
(pass) | (pass) | Satisfaction | ||
Gimme Shelter | Gimme Shelter | Gimme Shelter | ||
Live at Altamont | Double Cherry | Brown Sugar | ||
ROUND 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
TOTAL | 16 | 4 | 8 | |
[Archivist's note: the 1968 album Beggars Banquet was not read among the answers not given; it peaked at no. 3 in the UK and no. 5 in the US.] |
Not taking inflation into account, the lifetime output of sixteen different directors has a gross of at least $1.5 billion in North America. Name any of those sixteen directors. | ||||
Valerie | Harvey | Laurie | Not given | |
Steven Spielberg | George Lucas | Francis Ford Coppola | Robert Zemeckis; Christopher Nolan; Ron Howard; Tim Burton; Clint Eastwood; Chris Columbus; J.J. Abrams; David Yates; Gore Verbinski; Sam Raimi | |
James Cameron | Peter Jackson | Peter Jackson | ||
Martin Scorsese | Michael Bay | Michael Bay | ||
Ridley Scott | Quentin Tarantino | Kathryn Bigelow | ||
ROUND 3 | 12 | 6 | 2 | |
TOTAL | 16 | 14 | 18 |
0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Harvey | Laurie | Valerie |
was the Disney film Aladdin first released? | 1992 | 1993 | 1997 | 1992 |
did the final episode of The Andy Griffith Show air? | 1968 | 1965 | 1961 | 1968 |
was Michael Jackson's Thriller the Billboard year-end No. 1 album for the first time? | 1983 | 1983 | 1985 | 1983 |
did Hank Aaron surpass Babe Ruth's career home run total? | 1974 | 1974 | 1977 | 1974 |
was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows first published? | 2007 | 2002 | 2007 | 2007 |
was the League of Nations founded? | 1920 | 1919 | 1939 | 1928 |
did Fidel Castro's forces overthrow Fulgencio Batista in Cuba? | 1959 | 1959 | 1959 | 1956 |
did the Battle of Stalingrad begin? | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1935 |
HALFTIME | 7 | 4 | 5½ | |
TOTAL | 21 | 22 | 21½ |
On November 1, 1999, The Home Depot, Intel, and Microsoft were added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Sixteen companies have been on the Dow Jones Industrial Average for longer. Name them. | ||||
Harvey | Laurie | Valerie | Not given | |
ExxonMobil | AT&T | General Electric | Procter & Gamble; United Technologies; 3M; Merck; American Express; McDonald's; Boeing; J.P. Morgan Chase; Walt Disney; Johnson & Johnson | |
General Motors | General Motors | Caterpillar | ||
Walmart | Macy's | Ford | ||
IBM | Chevrolet | Coca-Cola | ||
ROUND 4 | 12 | 0 | 6 | |
TOTAL | 33 | 22 | 27½ |
Name any of the twenty possible answers inside of a standard Magic 8-Ball. | ||||
Laurie | Valerie | Harvey | Not given | |
Try again | Unclear at this time | Outlook not so good | It is certain; It is decidedly so; Without a doubt; Yes, definitely; You may rely on it; As I see it, yes; Most likely; Outlook good; Reply hazy, try again; Try again later; Better not tell you now; Cannot predict now; Concentrate and ask again; Don't count on it; My reply is no; My sources say no; Very doubtful | |
Yes | No | Yes | ||
Ask next time | Maybe | Signs point to yes | ||
Perhaps | Uncertain | Perhaps | ||
ROUND 5 | 2 | 0 | 5 | |
TOTAL | 24 | 27½ | 38 |
In spite of its name, as of 2016, the Big Ten Conference contains fourteen full members. Name them. | ||||
Valerie | Harvey | Laurie | Not given | |
Maryland | Michigan | Auburn | Indiana; Penn State; Rutgers; Illinois; Iowa; Minnesota; Nebraska; Purdue | |
Louisville | Michigan State | Notre Dame | ||
Ohio State | Wisconsin | University of Miami | ||
Florida | Northwestern | Northwestern | ||
ROUND 6 | 4 | 8 | 1 | |
TOTAL | 31½ | 46 | 25 |
GRAND FINALE
Category: Money Matters | |||
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, what was the median household income in the United States in 2015? (Income and Poverty in the United States, 2015, by Proctor, Semega, and Kollar.) | |||
Answer and bounds | Laurie | Valerie | Harvey |
$62,167 $56,516 $50,865 | $46,000 | $77,000 | $70,000 |
WAGER | 16 | 15½ | 2 |
FINAL SCORE | 9 | 16 | 44 |
Winner: Harvey Silikovitz |