Complete the List, Episode 66
It Helps If You Actually Listen To The Person Running The Game
Contestants: Jon Klein, Michael Rankins, Paul Paquet |
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Categories |
War Games | Euro Beats |
More than 37 Million Served | Lots of Vitamins |
Landslides and Other Results | You Win or You Die |
Back to the Shire | The Most Ambitious Crossover Event in History |
Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
ROUND 1Jon - War Games
Listener-submitted by Michael Simon.
Give the name of one of the pieces in the original classic version of the board game Stratego. |
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| Jon | Michael | Paul | Not given |
| miner | bomb | spy | colonel; marshal; sergeant |
| flag | cannon | general |
| major | captain | major |
| scout | lieutenant | scout |
ROUND 1 | 8 | 6 | 6 |
ROUND 2Michael - More than 37 Million Served
Listener-submitted by Katie Raney.
Seventeen airports in North America served at least 37,000,000 passengers in 2015. Name either one of these airports or the city it serves - though in the case of multiple airports in a city, you must be specific. |
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| Michael | Paul | Jon | Not given |
| Atlanta (Hartsfield – Jackson) [ATL] | (Chicago) O'Hare [ORD] | (New York) John F. Kennedy [JFK] | (Las Vegas) McCarran [LAS]; Charlotte Douglas [CLT]; (Phoenix) Sky Harbor [PHX]; Seattle–Tacoma [SEA]; Orlando [MCO]; (Mexico City) Benito Juárez [MEX] |
| San Francisco [SFO] | Los Angeles International [LAX] | (Boston) Logan [BOS] |
| Dallas – Ft. Worth [DFW] | Toronto Pearson [YYZ] | Newark (Liberty) [EWR] |
| Houston Bush [IAH] | Denver [DEN] | Miami [MIA] |
ROUND 2 | 8 | 8 | 6 |
TOTAL | 14 | 14 | 14 |
ROUND 3Paul - The Most Ambitious Crossover Event in History
Name a film which was released in 2018 and has grossed at least $100 million (US) worldwide to date, as of May 23, 2018. |
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| Paul | Jon | Michael | Not given |
| Black Panther | Blockers | Avengers: Infinity War | Operation Red Sea; Detective Chinatown 2; Monster Hunt 2; Maze Runner: The Death Cure; Tomb Raider; Paddington 2; Insidious: The Last Key; Red Sparrow; A Wrinkle in Time; The Commuter; Game Night; The Monkey King 3 |
| Ready Player One | Pacific Rim Uprising | Rampage |
| Deadpool 2 | Jumanji (Welcome to the Jungle) | Peter Rabbit |
| A Quiet Place | A Quiet Place | Fifty Shades Freed |
ROUND 3 | 8 | 3 | 8 |
TOTAL | 22 | 17 | 22 |
HALFTIME
0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Jon | Michael | Paul |
was the movie The Full Monty first released? | 1997 | 1997 | 1997 | 1997 |
did the final episode of The Sopranos first air? | 2007 | 2008 | 2008 | 2008 |
was the Adele album 25 released? | 2015 | 2014 | 2016 | 2015 |
was the famous sports arena known as the Boston Garden demolished? | 1998* | 1988 | 1988 | 1985 |
was George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four first published? | 1949 | 1948 | 1947 | 1949 |
did the Concorde make its maiden flight, although it did not begin commercial flights until much later? | 1969 | 1965 | 1968 | 1965 |
did Francisco Franco of Spain die? | 1975 | 1974 | 1975 | 1977 |
did Winston Churchill retire as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom? | 1955 | 1954 | 1954 | 1958 |
HALFTIME | | 7½ | 7½ | 6½ |
TOTAL | | 24½ | 29½ | 28½ |
* Andy awarded all three players full credit on Question 4, having realized that he inadvertently included a second 1990s year in the round. This is the second instance of such an error; the first was in Episode 15. |
ROUND 4Jon - Euro Beats
Since the beginning of the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1958, thirteen different European countries have had a musical act reach No. 1 on that music chart. Name them. |
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| Jon | Michael | Paul | Not given |
| United Kingdom | Ireland | Sweden | Belgium; Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic/Czechia; Greece |
| France | Germany [West Germany] | Denmark |
| Norway | Spain | Italy |
| Austria | Switzerland | Netherlands |
ROUND 4 | 8 | 6 | 12 |
TOTAL | 32½ | 35½ | 40½ |
ROUND 5Michael - Back to the Shire
Listener-submitted by Adam Holquist.
Of the forty-eight ceremonial counties of England, there are twenty-five that end in the letters "-shire." Four are East Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire. Name any of the others. |
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| Michael | Paul | Jon | Not given |
| Worcestershire | Yorkshire | Lancashire | Bedfordshire; Berkshire; Buckinghamshire; Cambridgeshire; Derbyshire; Gloucestershire; Herefordshire; Hertfordshire; Oxfordshire; Warwickshire; Wiltshire |
| Shropshire | Cheshire | Nottinghamshire |
| Hampshire | Devonshire | Northamptonshire |
| Staffordshire | Lincolnshire | Leicestershire |
ROUND 5 | 8 | 4 | 8 |
TOTAL | 43½ | 44½ | 40½ |
(Andy misstated Michael's score at this point as 33½.) |
ROUND 6Paul - Lots of Vitamins
Listener-submitted by Katie Raney.
According to the Produce Marketing Association, the sixteenth most purchased fruit in the United States is raspberry. Name any fruit purchased more than raspberry. |
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| Paul | Jon | Michael | Not given |
| orange | apple | banana | watermelon; lemon; cantaloupe; avocado; cherry; lime |
| grape | strawberry | peach |
| pear | blueberry | pineapple |
| raspberry | grapefruit | nectarine |
ROUND 6 | 6 | 12 | 12 |
TOTAL | 50½ | 52½ | 55½ |
GRAND FINALE
Category: Auto Racing |
Back in 1996, Arie Luyendyk (yes, the father of the famous The Bachelor contestant) set the one-lap qualifying record in the Indianapolis 500, at 237.498 mph. How many seconds did it take Luyendyk to make one lap of the 2½-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway? You may give your answer to three decimal places. |
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Answer and bounds | Paul | Jon | Michael |
41.684 37.895 34.106 | 94.8 | 38.321 | 57.19 |
WAGER | 16 | 4 | 8 |
FINAL SCORE | 34½ | 56½ | 47½ |
Winner: Jon Klein |