| Thursday, December 28, 2017 |
| Contestants: Miranda Prince, Sally Neumann, Jill Gilbert | |
| Categories | |
| An Idea from Jason Sterlacci | A Night at the Symphony |
| This Is a Scrabble Category | That's a Mighty Long Time |
| A TV Category That Goes to Eleven | Hot and Fast |
| Arrrrr | You Can Bank on Them |
| Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
| Name someone who has appeared in at least nine episodes of the Netflix series Stranger Things. You may name either actor or character. | ||||
| Miranda | Sally | Jill | Not given | |
| Eleven [Millie Bobby Brown] | Winona Ryder [Joyce Byers] | Julie | Lucas Sinclair/Caleb McLaughlin; Karen Wheeler/Cara Buono; Will Byers/Noah Schnapp; Ted Wheeler/Joe Chrest; Officer Powell/Rob Morgan; Officer Callahan/John Reynolds; Dr. Martin Brenner/Matthew Modine; Scott Clarke/Randy Havens; Max Mayfield/Sadie Sink; Billy Hargrove/Dacre Montgomery; Bob Newby/Sean Astin; Florence/Susan Shalhoub Larkin | |
| Dustin (Henderson) [Gaten Matarazzo] | Steve (Harrington) [Joe Keery] | Steve (Harrington) [Joe Keery] | ||
| Chief (Jim) Hopper [David Harbour] | Nancy (Wheeler) [Natalia Dyer] | Paul Reiser [Sam Owens] | ||
| Mike (Wheeler) [Finn Wolfhard] | Jonathan Byers [Charlie Heaton] | Bello | ||
| ROUND 1 | 16 | 8 | 3 | |
| Name a letter that, in Scrabble, has a face value of three points or greater in a standard English-language set. | ||||
| Sally | Jill | Miranda | Not given | |
| X | Z | Q | C; P | |
| Y | J | W | ||
| K | H | F | ||
| V | B | M | ||
| ROUND 2 | 8 | 16 | 8 | |
| TOTAL | 16 | 19 | 24 | |
| Name a landlocked African country. | ||||
| Jill | Miranda | Sally | Not given | |
| Ethiopia | Sudan | Lesotho | The leftovers were not read by Andy, but according to Google Maps: Niger; Central African Republic; Uganda; Rwanda; Burundi; Zambia; Malawi; Zimbabwe; Swaziland | |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | Nigeria | Botswana | ||
| Chad | Kenya | South Sudan | ||
| Mali | Madagascar | Burkina Faso | ||
| ROUND 3 | 6 | 0 | 8 | |
| TOTAL | 25 | 24 | 24 | |
| 0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
| IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Miranda | Sally | Jill |
| was the movie Moneyball first released? | 2011 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 |
| did the first episode of the television series Gilligan's Island first air? | 1964 | 1965 | 1981 | 1966 |
| was the Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon first released? | 1973 | 1974 | 1974 | 1974 |
| did the "Battle of the Brians," between Brian Orser and Brian Boitano, take place in figure skating at the Winter Olympics? | 1988 | 1988 | 1991 | 1984 |
| was Toni Morrison awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature? | 1993 | 2003 | 1963 | 1995 |
| did Alaska become a state? | 1959 | 1952 | 1959 | 1956 |
| did the website Facebook launch? | 2004 | 1996 | 2005 | 2006 |
| did the first Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma! debut on Broadway? | 1943 | 1948 | 1941 | 1949 |
| HALFTIME | 4½ | 5 | 4½ | |
| TOTAL | 28½ | 29 | 29½ |
| Arrrrr… as in the letter "R"… as in the Republican Party. Name the most recent twelve Republican Presidents of the United States. | ||||
| Miranda | Sally | Jill | Not given | |
| (Donald) Trump | George W. Bush | Richard Nixon | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| George H. W. Bush | (Ronald) Reagan | (Dwight D.) Eisenhower | ||
| (Herbert) Hoover | Gerald Ford | Calvin Coolidge | ||
| (William) McKinley | (Warren G.) Harding | (William Howard) Taft | ||
| ROUND 4 | 6 | 8 | 8 | |
| TOTAL | 34½ | 37 | 37½ | |
| In August 2017, QSR magazine ranked the top fifty limited service restaurants in the United States. Name any of the top twenty on the QSR list. (At Miranda's request, Andy defined "limited service restaurant" as "generally an establishment whose patrons generally order or select items and pay before eating. Food and drink may be consumed on-premises, taken out, or delivered to customers' locations.") | ||||
| Sally | Jill | Miranda | Not given | |
| Starbucks | McDonald's | Burger King | Dunkin' Donuts; Chick-fil-A; Panera Bread; Sonic Drive-In; Chipotle; Carl's Jr./Hardee's; Little Caesars; Jack in the Box; Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen | |
| Subway | Taco Bell | Wendy's | ||
| Domino's | Arby's | KFC | ||
| Dairy Queen | Papa John's | Pizza Hut | ||
| ROUND 5 | 16 | 6 | 8 | |
| TOTAL | 53 | 43½ | 42½ | |
| Name any actor or actress who, as of December 14, 2017, has appeared in films grossing a combined $3.2 billion over their career, not counting inflation, as per Box Office Mojo. Bruce Willis just misses the list. | ||||
| Jill | Miranda | Sally | Not given | |
| Tom Cruise | Harrison Ford | Jennifer Lawrence | Samuel L. Jackson; Tom Hanks; Morgan Freeman; Eddie Murphy; Stanley Tucci; Scarlett Johansson; Johnny Depp; Anthony Daniels; Michael Caine; Gary Oldman; Robin Williams; Robert de Niro; Emma Watson | |
| Jim Carrey | George Clooney | Ian McKellen | ||
| Will Smith | Chris Pratt | Patrick Stewart | ||
| Brad Pitt | Matt Damon | Robert Downey Jr. | ||
| ROUND 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 | |
| TOTAL | 47½ | 44½ | 57 | |
GRAND FINALE
| Category: Long-Running Television Series | |||
| Owing to longer television seasons when it aired, Gunsmoke is still the longest running scripted U.S. primetime television series of all time, in terms of number of episodes aired. How many episodes of Gunsmoke aired? | |||
| Answer and bounds | Miranda | Jill | Sally |
| 699 635 572 | 400 | 408 | 600 |
| WAGER | 16 | 11 | 7 |
| FINAL SCORE | 28½ | 36½ | 64 |
| Winner: Sally Neumann | |||