Complete the List, Episode 3
One Way To Embiggen Your Score
Contestants: Loren Lee Chen, Mike Duval, Cody Vest |
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Categories |
You'll Be Seeing These in 2018 | Directors Not Named Alan Smithee |
Arthur Nielsen's Television Scouts | Not Elvis Costello |
God Save the King (or Queen) | The Bard's Making Him Talk Again? |
Panama Is a Hat | The Soviets Had Many Stans |
Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Loren - Arthur Nielsen's Television Scouts
Name an American prime time television series that has topped the end-of-season Nielsen ratings at least twice. |
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| Loren | Mike | Cody | Not given |
| CSI(: Crime Scene Investigation) | NCIS | American Idol | 60 Minutes; All In The Family; Bonanza; Dallas; ER; Gunsmoke; Laverne & Shirley; NBC Sunday Night Football; Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In; The Beverly Hillbillies |
| M*A*S*H | Law & Order | Seinfeld |
| Two and a Half Men | The Big Bang Theory | I Love Lucy |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Murphy Brown | The Cosby Show |
ROUND 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
ROUND 2Mike - The Bard's Making Him Talk Again?
Twenty different characters have 600 or more lines in a single Shakespeare play. Name them. |
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| Mike | Cody | Loren | Not given |
| Falstaff | Hamlet | Macbeth | King Henry V; Timon (of Athens); Duke (from Measure for Measure); Antony; Titus Andronicus; Leontes (from The Winter's Tale); Rosalind (from As You Like It); Cleopatra; Coriolanus; Romeo; Pericles |
| Richard III | Iago | King Lear |
| Julius Caesar | Othello | Othello |
| Prospero | Brutus | Brutus |
ROUND 2 | 6 | 16 | 6 |
TOTAL | 8 | 24 | 8 |
ROUND 3Cody - Directors Not Named Alan Smithee
Twenty-two film directors had at least two of their films make the AFI's 2007 list of the top 100 films of all time (the AFI's second Top 100 list). Name them. |
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| Cody | Loren | Mike | Not given |
| Steven Spielberg | James Cameron | Francis Ford Coppola | Robert Altman; Frank Capra; Charlie Chaplin; Michael Curtis; John Huston; Elia Kazan; David Lean; George Lucas; Sidney Lumet; Mike Nichols; Alan J. Pakula; Martin Scorcese; George Stevens; Billy Wilder; Robert Wise; William Wyler |
| Stanley Kubrick | (Alfred) Hitchcock | Orson Welles |
| John Ford | Quentin Tarantino | Fellini |
| Victor Fleming | (Akira) Kurosawa | Brian De Palma |
ROUND 3 | 8 | 2 | 2 |
TOTAL | 32 | 10 | 10 |
HALFTIME
0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Loren | Mike | Cody |
did the Montréal Canadiens win their most recent Stanley Cup? | 1993 | 1994 | 1993 | 1972 |
was the armistice signed that ended the Korean War? | 1953 | 1959 | 1954 | 1957 |
did Hurricane Katrina ravage the US Gulf Coast? | 2005 | 2005 | 2005 | 2005 |
was the film Mary Poppins released? | 1964 | 1968 | 1962 | 1964 |
was Taylor Swift born? | 1989 | 1989 | 1989 | 1989 |
did Wheel of Fortune first air on NBC daytime? | 1975 | 1977 | 1977 | 1981 |
was George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four first published? | 1949 | 1948 | 1948 | 1949 |
did Calvin Coolidge become President of the United States? | 1923 | 1923 | 1925 | 1924 |
HALFTIME | | 12 | 13 | 5½ |
TOTAL | | 22 | 23 | 37½ |
ROUND 4Loren - You'll Be Seeing These in 2018
There are fifteen different sport disciplines that take place at the Winter Olympics. Name them. (For example, a sport would be swimming, a discipline would be synchronized swimming, and an event would be pairs synchronized swimming.) |
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| Loren | Mike | Cody | Not given |
| figure skating | ice hockey | (short track / Apolo Ohno) speed skating | long track speed skating; Nordic combined; freestyle skiing; snowboarding |
| downhill skiing [Alpine skiing] | curling | luge |
| bobsled | skeleton | ski jumping |
| biathlon | cross-country skiing | cross-country skiing |
ROUND 4 | 8 | 8 | 7 |
TOTAL | 30 | 31 | 44½ |
ROUND 5Mike - The Soviets Had Many Stans
There are fifteen current countries (United Nations members) who used to be a part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Name them. |
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| Mike | Cody | Loren | Not given |
| Russia | Uzbekistan | Ukraine | Moldova; Tajikistan; Latvia |
| Kyrgyzstan | Kazakhstan | Turkmenistan |
| Belarus | Georgia | Lithuania |
| Azerbaijan | Armenia | Estonia |
ROUND 5 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
TOTAL | 39 | 52½ | 38 |
ROUND 6Cody - Not Elvis Costello
Name an Elvis Presley song that, over the course of his career, went to No. 1 or No. 2 on Billboard's pop charts (either the Hot 100 or a predecessor). |
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| Cody | Loren | Mike | Not given |
| Heartbreak Hotel | Hound Dog | All Shook Up | I Want You, I Need You, I Love You; Too Much; Don’t; Hard Headed Woman; A Big Hunk O’ Love; Stuck On You; It’s Now Or Never; Are You Lonesome Tonight; Surrender; Good Luck Charm; Good Luck Charm; Return To Sender; Burning Love |
| Jailhouse Rock | Can't Help Falling in Love | Blue Suede Shoes |
| Suspicious Minds | A Little Less Conversation | Love Me Tender |
| Don't Be Cruel | Don't Be Cruel | Don't Be Cruel |
ROUND 6 | 8 | 5 | 5 |
TOTAL | 60½ | 43 | 44 |
GRAND FINALE
Category: Broadway |
As of June 11, 2017, how many performances has The Phantom of the Opera had on Broadway? |
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Answer and bounds | Loren | Mike | Cody |
13,444 12,222 11,000 | 1,223 | 10,521 | 12,480 |
WAGER | 1 | 16 | 1 |
FINAL SCORE | 42 | 28 | 61½ |
In this episode, the contestants revealed their responses and wagers before Andy announced the correct answer and the upper and lower bounds. |
Winner: Cody Vest |