Random Pursuit:We Keep Our Rocks Modestly Covered

Random Pursuit episode 33, posted March 13, 2024.
Game Show episode 226
Host: Erika Ensign
	Scorekeeper: Steven Schapansky
	
==== Contestants ====
* Erik Stadnik
* Annette Wierstra
* Sarah Murphy
* Kyle Anderson
* Scott Ensign
==== Editions ====
* 2000s
* 20th Anniversary Edition
* 90's Time Capsule Edition
* Baby Boomer Edition
* Chex Pocket Trivia - '50s & '60s
* Chex Pocket Trivia - Music
* Chex Pocket Trivia - T.V.
* Classic Edition
* Decades 2010-2020
* Doctor Who (2013 - UK)
* Doctor Who (2013 - US)
* Doctor Who (2018)
* Dungeons & Dragons
* DVD Pop Culture
* Family Edition - Grownups (Turquoise)
* Family Edition - Kids (Yellow)
* Friends
* Genus 5
* Genus Edition
* Genus II
* Genus III
* Genus IV
* Junior - Fourth Edition
* Junior Trivia I (5-9)
* Junior Trivia II (10-13)
* Marvel Studios – The Infinity Saga: Ultimate Edition
* Millennium
* Silver Screen Edition
* Star Trek 50 Anniversary
* Star Wars Classic Trilogy Collector's Edition
* The 1960's
* The 1980's
* The Lord of the Rings Movie Trilogy Collector's Edition
* Totally 80's
* TV Edition
* UK Globetrotter
* Volume 6
* Walt Disney Family Edition - Grownups Box
* Walt Disney Family Edition - Kids Box
== Round 1 ==
Contestant	DieRoll	Edition/Category 	Question 	Answer 	Correct?	Notes
Erik 	5 	MillenniumSports & Leisure 	What automatic weapon was once marketed as "the ideal weapon for the protection of large estates, ranches, plantations, etc."?	The Thompson submachine gun	❌ 	
Annette 	5 	The Lord of the Rings Movie Trilogy Collector's EditionWarfare	What race of Middle Earth beings made Sting? 	The Elves 	❌ 	
Sarah 	2 	Doctor Who (2013 - US)Companions 	What was the home world of Jabe, the tree woman that the Ninth Doctor met on Platform One? 	Cheem 	❌ 	
Kyle 	5 	Family Edition - Grownups (Turquoise)Sports & Leisure 	What was the first U.S. milk chocolate bar, produced in Pennsylvania in 1903? 	The Hershey bar 	✅ 	
Kyle 	2 	MillenniumArts & Entertainment 	What aging pop icon forgot the lyrics to We Can Work It Out on MTV Unplugged? 	Paul McCartney 	✅ 	
Kyle 	2 	Silver Screen EditionTitles 	What film could have been retitled Mary Poppins Goes Topless? 	S.O.B. 	✅ 	[1]
Scott 	6 	Walt Disney Family Edition - Grownups BoxWorld of Leisure 	Is Friday a Senior Fun Day at Disneyland? 	Yes 	❌ 	
1: Free choice of edition
=== Round 1 Standings ===
Contestant	Score
Kyle 	3
Erik 	0
Annette 	0
Sarah 	0
Scott 	0
== Round 2 ==
Contestant	DieRoll	Edition/Category 	Question 	Answer 	Correct?	Notes
Erik 	3 	2000sScience & Tech 	Subcategory: Call a Doctor. According to Popular Science Online, Pro Football players get whacked in the head as many as 500 times a season. True or false?	False. Make that 1500. Ouch!	❌ 	
Annette 	6 	2000sThe Arts 	Subcategory: Mimics. What Inside the Actors Studio host did Will Ferrell perfectly parody in guest celebrity interviews on SNL? 	James Lipton 	❌ 	
Sarah 	4 	Genus IIIScience & Nature 	How long did it take someone to win Joseph Bramah's prize for picking his newly designed lock: 67 hours, 67 days, or 67 years? 	67 years 	✅ 	
Sarah 	3 	2000sScience & Tech 	Subcategory: App Happy. Which tech giant launched the aptly named Rooms, an app that creates invite-only personalized chat rooms? 	Facebook 	❌ 	
Kyle 	6 	Genus EditionSports & Leisure 	Who won the 1960 Olympic light heavyweight boxing gold medal? 	Cassius Clay 	❌ 	
Scott 	3 	The Lord of the Rings Movie Trilogy Collector's EditionGood Characters	What race of beings originally made the eight seeing stones? 	Elves 	❌ 	
=== Round 2 Standings ===
Contestant	Score
Kyle 	3
Sarah 	1
Erik 	0
Annette 	0
Scott 	0
== Round 3 ==
Contestant	DieRoll	Edition/Category 	Question 	Answer 	Correct?	Notes
Erik 	1 	Silver Screen EditionSettings 	What Martin Scorsese film opened with a shot of steam rising from a Manhattan manhole? 	Taxi Driver 	✅ 	
Erik 	5 	Silver Screen EditionProduction 	What's the term for the day's shooting that returns from the lab for viewing by the powers that be? 	The rushes 	✅ 	
Erik 	4 	Volume 6Science & Nature 	What disease did the FDA approve the fast-working drug malarone to treat in 2000? 	Malaria 	❌ 	
Annette 	5 	Junior - Fourth EditionNature 	What animal has the largest ears? 	Elephant 	✅ 	
Annette 	1 	Genus 5People & Places 	What south-central U.S. state is home to towns called Flippin, Grubbs, Yellville and Gassville? 	Arkansas 	❌ 	
Sarah 	3 	20th Anniversary EditionNews 	What fish's skin did Chilean designer Claudia Escobar use to make bikinis to send ripples through the fashion world in 2001?	Salmon 	❌ 	
Kyle 	6 	20th Anniversary EditionGame Time 	What record setting running back when asked how defenses could stop him suggested, "kidnap me"? 	Walter Payton	❌ 	
Scott 	5 	Family Edition - Kids (Yellow)Sport & Leisure	Which of Snap!, Crackle! and Pop! wears a stocking cap? 	//Crackle!// 	❌ 	
=== Round 3 Standings ===
Contestant	Score
Kyle 	3
Erik 	2
Annette 	1
Sarah 	1
Scott 	0
== Round 4 ==
Contestant	DieRoll	Edition/Category 	Question 	Answer 	Correct?	Notes
Erik 	2 	Genus IIEntertainment 	What singer came into the world in Vita, Manitoba in 1927 as Juliette Sysak? 	Juliette 	❌ 	
Annette 	4 	Genus IIIScience & Nature 	What substance builds up in overexcited muscles, causing soreness and stiffness? 	Lactic acid? 	✅ 	
Annette 	3 	20th Anniversary EditionNews 	What did Corpus Christi's Sunrise Mall ban shoppers from wearing backwards, claiming they signified gang membership in 1994?	Baseball caps 	✅ 	
Annette 	1 	Family Edition - Grownups (Turquoise)People & Places	What are you commonly called if you worship at a church of the Latter-day Saints? 	 	✅ 	[1]
Sarah 	6 	Family Edition - Grownups (Turquoise)Wild Card 	What was Ben Rogers Lee practicing in the Alabama woods when he was pelted with birdshot from a nearby turkey hunter? 	Turkey calls 	❌ 	
Kyle 	6 	TV EditionWild Card 	what Russian premier did David Susskind talk into appearing on his program? 	Khrushchev 	✅ 	
Kyle 	5 	Chex Pocket Trivia - Music 	What Russian wrote the score for the Gary Cooper film High Noon? 	Dimitri Tiomkin	❌ 	
Scott 	5 	Silver Screen EditionProduction 	What Cary Grant facial feature was Columbia's ideal for its casting of Golden Boy? 	His chin 	✅ 	
Scott 	5 	Junior Trivia I (5-9)Geography/Space 	What are the largest pieces of land on Earth called? 	Continent 	✅ 	[2]
Scott 	6 	Genus IIIWild Card 	What clothing accessory became a fashion fad with Raiders of the Lost Ark? 	A fedora 	✅ 	
1: A Mormon2: Free choice of edition
=== Round 4 Standings ===
Contestant	Score
Annette 	4
Kyle 	4
Scott 	3
Erik 	2
Sarah 	1
== Round 5 ==
Contestant	DieRoll	Edition/Category 	Question 	Answer 	Correct?	Notes
Erik 	5 	Decades 2010-2020Game On 	In 2016, developer Lima Sky announced it would be launching an esports league around what endless jumping game? 	Doodle Jump 	❌ 	
Annette 	3 	Genus IVHistory 	What 1920s president suffered five nervous breakdowns before he was sworn in? 	Warren G. Harding 	❌ 	
Sarah 	1 	Genus IIGeography 	What country is home to the world's oldest exposed rocks? 	Canada 	❌ 	
Kyle 	2 	2000sSports & Hobbies 	Subcategory: Shopping. A mall in which country was the largest in the world when it opened in Guangdong province in 2005, but had only a handful of actual stores by 2013?	China 	✅ 	
Kyle 	6 	The 1980'sWild Card 	What newspaper hit the streets in 1982 in boxes designed to look like TV sets? 	USA Today 	❌ 	
Scott 	3 	Walt Disney Family Edition - Grownups BoxWorld of People	What Ivy League university, apart from Yale, bestowed an honorary degree on Walt Disney? 	Harvard 	✅ 	
Scott 	5 	20th Anniversary EditionInnovations 	What famed South African surgeon told Time, "anything that makes life happier is good for you. That's why sex is good for the heart."? 	Dr. Christian Barnard	❌ 	
=== Round 5 Standings ===
Contestant	Score
Kyle 	5
Annette 	4
Scott 	4
Erik 	2
Sarah 	1
== Round 6 ==
Contestant	DieRoll	Edition/Category 	Question 	Answer 	Correct?	Notes
Erik 	1 	Genus 5People & Places 	What city is connected to Cambridge via the Longfellow Bridge? 	Boston 	✅ 	
Erik 	2 	Genus 5Arts & Entertainment 	What movie has Mickey Rourke slamming back drink after drink at a bar called The Golden Horn? 	Barfly 	❌ 	
Annette 	2 	Genus 5Arts & Entertainment 	What Euro-pop group snubbed a billion dollar offer to reunite for a 100 concert tour in 2000? 	Abba 	✅ 	
Annette 	3 	90's Time Capsule EditionViewing	From 1992: What movie gives Jack Nicholson the chance to yell at Tom Cruise, "you can't handle the truth"? 	A Few Good Men	✅ 	
Annette 	2 	Decades 2010-2020Bingeworthy 	What show starring Rutina Wesley as Nova Bordelon, one third of the estranged Bordelon siblings, is based on a book by Natalie Baszile	Queen Sugar 	❌ 	
Sarah 	6 	The 1960'sWild Card 	What convicted murderer entered the world as Jack Leon Rubinstein? 	Jack Ruby 	❌ 	
Kyle 	1 	Volume 6People & Places 	What nation's town of Erzurum hosts the national Cirit championships a sport where men on horseback fling javelins at each other? 	Turkey 	✅ 	
Kyle 	2 	MillenniumArts & Entertainment 	What songstress was named after a Paint Your Wagon song about the wind? 	Mariah Carey 	✅ 	
Kyle 	5 	2000sEntertainment 	Subcategory: Reality TV. From which novel does the show Big Brother, airing since 2000, get its name? 	1984 	✅ 	
Scott 	2 	Decades 2010-2020Bingeworthy 	Who played cyber terrorist and former MI6 operative Raoul Silva in Skyfall? 	Javier Bardem 	❌ 	
=== Round 6 Standings ===
Contestant	Score
Kyle 	8
Annette 	6
Scott 	4
Erik 	3
Sarah 	1
== Final Round ==
Contestant	DieRoll	Edition/Category 	Question 	Answer 	Correct?	Notes
Kyle 	1 	The 1960'sPersonalities 	Who became the Gallup polls most admired man of 1967 when LBJ's popularity plummeted? 	Dwight D. Eisenhower	❌ 	
Sarah 	5 	20th Anniversary EditionInnovations 	What did three physicists call the new state of matter they produced to earn the 2001 Nobel Prize: caseous, coagulant, or condensate? 	Condensate 	✅ 	
Sarah 	6 	Family Edition - Kids (Yellow)Wild Card	Who earned 33% less than the other in 1990, female or male secretaries? 	Female 	✅ 	
Sarah 	1 	Genus 5People & Places 	What Minnesota city is the world's busiest freshwater port? 	Duluth 	❌ 	
Erik 	2 	MillenniumArts & Entertainment 	What daytime talk show host informed the world "I am irreverent. I am opinionated, but I'm not perky"? 	Kathy Lee Gifford 	❌ 	
Scott 	5 	Doctor Who (Unknown Edition)Monsters 	What was the name of Oswin Oswald's ship that had crashed on the Dalek Asylum planet: the Alaska, the Antarctica, the Savannah or the Reef?	The Alaska 	❌ 	[1]
Annette 	4 	FriendsSeason 6 & 7 	What is the name of the card game that Chandler invents in order to trick Joey into taking his money? 	Cups 	❌ 	
1: Which particular Doctor Who edition the question came from was not specified
=== Final Standings ===
Contestant	Score
Kyle 	8
Annette 	6
Scott 	4
Erik 	3
Sarah 	3