Thursday, April 26, 2018

Correct, unique: 2 points

Correct, repeated: 1 point

Incorrect: 0 points

Player doubled the category

Name any standard sub variety available for purchase from SUBWAY in the United States, according to the menu on the SUBWAY USA website.
	Valerie & Charles	Liz & Omar	Eric & Ashley	Not given
	Italian Hero (B.M.T.)	Subway Club	Turkey Breast	Chicken & Bacon Ranch Melt; Rotisserie-Style Chicken; Spicy Italian; Steak & Cheese; Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki
	Veggie (Delite)	Meatball (Marinara)	Pizza
	(Black Forest) Ham	Cold Cut Combo	Roast Beef
	Salami	(Classic) Tuna	(Oven Roasted) Chicken
ROUND 1	6	8	6

Donovan Mitchell of the Utah Jazz was 16th in the NBA in 2017-18 with 187 made three-pointers. Name any NBA player with more three-pointers made in the 2017-18 NBA season.
	Liz & Omar	Eric & Ashley	Valerie & Charles	Not given
	Steph Curry	Steph Curry	Steph Curry	Paul George; Kemba Walker; Damian Lillard; Wayne Ellington; Eric Gordon; Joe Ingles; Robert Covington; Allen Crabbe; Bradley Beal; J.J. Redick; C.J. McCollum
	James Harden	James Harden	Kevin Durant
	Russell Westbrook	Russell Westbrook	Russell Westbrook
	Klay Thompson	Kyle Lowry	Klay Thompson
ROUND 2	6	4	2
TOTAL	14	10	8

Name an element on the periodic table whose name, or its symbol, begins with the letter C.
	Eric & Ashley	Valerie & Charles	Liz & Omar	Not given
	cesium (Cs)	calcium (Ca)	carbon (C)	cerium (Ce); copernicium (Cn); curium (Cm)
	cobalt (Co)	cobalt (Co)	copper (Cu)
	chlorine (Cl)	chlorine (Cl)	cadmium (Cd)
	chromium (Cr)	chromium (Cr)	californium (Cf)
ROUND 3	8	5	8
TOTAL	18	13	22

IN WHAT YEAR…	Correct year	Valerie & Charles	Liz & Omar	Eric & Ashley
was the Disney animated film 101 Dalmatians first released?	1961	1967	1965	1963
did the television series Full House air its final episode?	1995	1988	1995	1992
was the REO Speedwagon album High Infidelity the Billboard year-end No. 1 album?	1981	1976	1981	1975
did the Washington Capitals play in their first National Hockey League game?	1974	1948	1975	1982
was Veronica Roth's Divergent first published?	2011	2007	2011	2011
did Hawaii enter the Union?	1959	1959	1959	1935
was the International Space Station occupied for the first time?	2000	1996	2004	2002
was the Ferrari 125S, the first car bearing the Ferrari name, first produced?	1947	1931	1945	1955
HALFTIME		2½	6½	2½
TOTAL		15½	28½	20½

Since The Killers hit No. 1 with Wonderful Wonderful about six months ago, nineteen different music acts have had a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 album chart. Name them.
	Valerie & Charles	Liz & Omar	Eric & Ashley	Not given
	Ed Sheeran	Cardi B	Cardi B	Shania Twain; Pink; Niall Horan; Kenny Chesney; U2; Luke Bryan; Eminem; Camila Cabello; Fall Out Boy; Bon Jovi; Logic; XXXTentacion; Jack White; The Weeknd
	The Chainsmokers	Taylor Swift	Sam Smith
	Meghan Trainor	Migos	Carrie Underwood
	Drake	Justin Timberlake	Pentatonix
ROUND 4	0	8	3
TOTAL	15½	36½	23½
[Archivist's note: Andy did not list NF among the correct responses not given; his album Perception held the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200 on the chart dated 2017-10-28, subsequent to Wonderful Wonderful on 2017-10-14.]

Name someone who has served as Secretary of State of the United States since the end of World War II on August 14, 1945. Acting Secretaries do not count.
	Liz & Omar	Eric & Ashley	Valerie & Charles	Not given
	Hillary Clinton	Colin Powell	Condoleeza Rice	Warren Christopher; Lawrence Eagleburger; George P. Shultz; Edmund Muskie; Cyrus Vance; William P. Rogers; Dean Rusk; Christian Herter; John Foster Dulles; Dean Acheson; George Marshall; James Byrnes
	John Kerry	John Kerry	Janet Reno
	Madeleine Albright	Madeleine Albright	Alexander Haig
	(James) Baker	(Rex) Tillerson	Henry Kissinger
ROUND 5	16	6	6
TOTAL	52½	29½	21½
[Archivist's note: The size of this list did not change between recording and release; at the official time of the episode's release (04:00 EDT), Mike Pompeo had neither been confirmed by the United States Senate nor sworn in as Secretary of State (both those events happened later the same day).]

Name a city in Texas with more than 150,000 residents, as of the 2015 estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau. (City proper, not metropolitan statistical area.)
	Eric & Ashley	Valerie & Charles	Liz & Omar	Not given
	Houston	Dallas	Austin	Garland; Irving; Amarillo; Grand Prairie; Brownsville; McKinney; Frisco; Pasadena
	San Antonio	Fort Worth	Arlington
	El Paso	Corpus Christi	Lubbock
	Bushtown	Laredo	Plano
ROUND 6	12	16	8
TOTAL	41½	37½	60½

GRAND FINALE

Category: The Spirit of '72 Listener-submitted by Matt Carberry.
In 1972, Bobby Fischer famously defeated Boris Spassky for the World Chess Championship in a match staged in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavík. What was the population of Iceland on January 1, 2018?
Answer and bounds	Valerie & Charles	Eric & Ashley	Liz & Omar
383,295 348,450 313,605	200,000	330,000	300,000
WAGER	11½	12	1
FINAL SCORE	26	53½	59½
Winners: Liz Hudson & Omar Mahmood