David - We've Got a Place Down South, Part II
Listener-submitted by Matt Carberry.
Thursday, May 3, 2018 |
Contestants: David Kendall, Dustin Resch, Brian Nieves | |
Categories | |
It Was the Summer of '69 | No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Die |
Nothing But Net | Wouldn't Fifty Percent Plus One Be Easier? |
We've Got a Place Down South, Part II | Shaka, When the Walls Fell |
I Grow Tired of Asking You | Nearly Six Billion and Counting |
Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
Part one dealt with European countries. This time around, name a country that maintains an active research station in the Antarctic, and whose capital is NOT in Europe. Both permanent and seasonal research facilities count for the purposes of this list. | ||||
David | Dustin | Brian | Not given | |
China | United States | Canada | Ecuador; Pakistan; Peru; Uruguay | |
Argentina | Japan | Australia | ||
Chile | Brazil | India | ||
South Africa | South Korea | New Zealand | ||
ROUND 1 | 16 | 8 | 6 |
Name a character, or the character or portrayed or voiced them, who appeared in at least twenty episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. (At this point, we had a brief stoppage of taping, as David's daughter interrupted with news that one of their goldfish had passed away. I'd like to offer condolences to David on behalf of everyone. Now, back to the game.) | ||||
Dustin | Brian | David | Not given | |
Whoopi Goldberg [Guinan] | Sir Patrick Stewart [Jean-Luc Picard] | Jonathan Frakes [William T. Riker] | Gates McFadden/Beverly Crusher; Majel Barrett/Computer; James G. Becker/Youngblood; Denise Crosby/Tasha Yar; Diana Muldaur/Katherine Pulaski | |
Brent Spiner [Data] | Brent Spiner [Data] | Worf [Michael Dorn] | ||
LeVar Burton [Geordi La Forge] | LeVar Burton [Geordi La Forge] | Chief (Miles) O'Brien [Colm Meaney] | ||
Marina Sirtis [Deanna Troi] | Wil Wheaton [Wesley Crusher] | Q [John de Lancie] | ||
ROUND 2 | 8 | 6 | 6 | |
TOTAL | 16 | 12 | 22 |
Name a musical act that has performed a primary James Bond theme song, which charted on either the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 or the UK singles chart. | ||||
Brian | David | Dustin | Not given | |
Adele | Wings | Duran Duran | Carly Simon; Sheena Easton; a-ha; Gladys Knight; Rita Coolidge; Tina Turner; Sheryl Crow; Garbage; Chris Cornell | |
Sam Smith | Sam Smith | Shirley Bassie | ||
Madonna | Madonna | Rod Stewart | ||
Tom Jones | Tom Jones | Jack White & Alicia Keys | ||
ROUND 3 | 16 | 5 | 6 | |
TOTAL | 28 | 27 | 22 |
0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | David | Dustin | Brian |
did Brown alumna Emma Watson graduate with a BA in English literature? | 2014 | 1997 | 2014 | 2007 |
did Columbia alumnus Lou Gehrig play the first of 2,130 consecutive Major League Baseball games? | 1925 | 1925 | 1922 | 1946 |
did Cornell alumna Ruth Bader Ginsburg join the U.S. Supreme Court? | 1993 | 1965 | 1993 | 1988 |
was Dartmouth alumna Kirsten Gillibrand appointed to the United States Senate, representing New York? | 2009 | 2003 | 2007 | 1995 |
did Harvard Medical School first admit women? | 1945 | 1905 | 1954 | 1944 |
did President Donald Trump graduate from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business? | 1968 | 1975 | 1968 | 1969 |
did Princeton alumnus and president emeritus Woodrow Wilson become the 28th President of the United States? | 1913 | 1914 | 1912 | 1913 |
was the movie Taxi Driver released, featuring Yale alumna Jodie Foster in her breakout role? | 1976 | 1980 | 1971 | 1976 |
HALFTIME | 2½ | 5½ | 4½ | |
TOTAL | 29½ | 27½ | 32½ |
With the first one released in May 2008, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has consisted of eighteen feature films, with the nineteenth being released on April 27, 2018. Name any of those first eighteen films. | ||||
David | Dustin | Brian | Not given | |
Iron Man | Black Panther | Iron Man 2 | The Incredible Hulk; Thor; Thor: The Dark World; Captain America: The Winter Soldier; Captain America: Civil War; Doctor Strange; Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2; Spider-Man: Homecoming | |
Captain America: Infinity War | Captain America: The First Avenger | Iron Man 3 | ||
The Hulk | Thor: Ragnarok | Marvel's The Avengers | ||
Spider-Man 1 | Ant-Man | Guardians of the Galaxy | ||
ROUND 4 | 2 | 16 | 8 | |
TOTAL | 31½ | 43½ | 40½ |
Name a brand of automobile tire that Consumer Reports rates at least one model of on its website. | ||||
Dustin | Brian | David | Not given | |
Michelin | Goodyear | Firestone | BFGoodrich; Continental; Cooper; Falken; Fuzion; GT Radial; General; Hankook; Laufenn; Maxxis; Nexen; Nitto; Nokian; Sumitomo; Toyo; Uniroyal; Vredestein; Yokohama | |
Pirelli | Bridgestone | Dunlop | ||
Kumho | Kumho | Kumho | ||
Kirkland | Kirkland | Kirkland | ||
ROUND 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | |
TOTAL | 49½ | 45½ | 36½ |
Name a U.S. President who won the presidential election without getting at least 50% plus one of the national popular vote. Note that the popular vote was not recorded until the 1824 election. | ||||
Brian | David | Dustin | Not given | |
Donald Trump | George W. Bush | Jimmy Carter | Abraham Lincoln; Bill Clinton; Grover Cleveland; James Garfield; James Polk; John F. Kennedy; Woodrow Wilson; Zachary Taylor | |
John Quincy Adams | Rutherford B. Hayes | Franklin Pierce | ||
Richard Nixon | Benjamin Harrison | Harry S. Truman | ||
William Howard Taft | James A. Buchanan | William Henry Harrison | ||
ROUND 6 | 6 | 8 | 2 | |
TOTAL | 51½ | 44½ | 51½ |
GRAND FINALE
Category: Counting Counties Inspired by a submission by Lisa Wolfisch. | |||
Washington County is the most common county or parish, etc., name in the United States. In fact, more than half of the states of the U.S. have a Washington County. How many U.S. states have a Washington County or Washington Parish? | |||
Answer and bounds | David | Dustin | Brian |
34 31 28 | 42 | 42 | 33 |
WAGER | 14 | 1 | 1 |
FINAL SCORE | 30½ | 50½ | 52½ |
Winner: Brian Nieves |