Random Pursuit:British Ghosts

Random Pursuit episode 15, posted August 5, 2020.
Game Show episode 137
Host: Erika Ensign
==== Contestants ====
* Paul Cornell
* James Thomson
* Annette Wierstra
* Lizbeth Myles
* Antony Johnston
==== Editions ====
* 2000s
* 20th Anniversary
* 90s
* Baby Boomer
* Chex Pocket Trivia - 50s & 60s
* Chex Pocket Trivia - Music
* Chex Pocket Trivia - TV
* DVD Pop Culture
* Disney Family Edition - Grownups Box
* Disney Family Edition - Kids Box
* Doctor Who
* Genus I
* Genus II
* Genus III
* Genus IV
* Genus V
* Junior Trivia I (5-9)
* Junior Trivia II (10-13)
* Millennium
* Silver Screen
* Star Trek 50th Anniversary
* Star Wars Classic Trilogy Collector's Edition
* TV Edition
* The 1960s
* The 1980s
* UK Globe Trotter
* Volume 6
== Round 1 ==
Contestant	DieRoll	Edition/Category 	Question 	Answer 	Correct?	Notes
Paul 	6 	TV EditionWild Card 	Was Desi Arnaz ever nominated for an Emmy award? 	No 	❌ 	
James 	4 	2000sEvents 	Subcategory: Anniversaries. The fall of what city's wall, allowing free travel from east to west for the first time since 1961, celebrated is 20th anniversary in 2009?	Berlin 	✅ 	
James 	1 	DVD Pop CultureMovies 	What American city is the movie Avalon set in? 	Baltimore 	❌ 	
Annette 	1 	The 1980sPersonalities 	What bible thumper labeled pornographers "the scum on an otherwise tranquil pond"? 	Jimmy Swaggart 	❌ 	
Liz 	8 	Chex Pocket Trivia - 50s & 60s 	What group with the hit song "Come Go With Me" was one of the few racially mixed groups in the 50s? 	The Del-Vikings	❌ 	
Antony 	5 	Genus IScience & Nature 	What genus and species is Man classified as? 	Homo sapiens 	✅ 	
Antony 	5 	Star Wars Classic Trilogy Collector's EditionDroids, Creatures and Aliens	What alien species did C-3PO refer to when he asked, "Do you think they'll melt us down?" 	Jawas 	❌ 	[1]
1: Free choice of edition
=== Round 1 Standings ===
Contestant	Score
James 	1
Antony 	1
Paul 	0
Annette 	0
Liz 	0
== Round 2 ==
Contestant	DieRoll	Edition/Category 	Question 	Answer 	Correct?	Notes
Paul 	2 	20th AnniversarySound & Screen 	What talk show host made Wahoo, Nebraska a temporary home office after the town sent in a cow dung clock with a dead fly stuck to it? 	David Letterman	✅ 	
Paul 	3 	Volume 6History 	Which nation's NASDAQ affiliate did McDonald's choose for its first non-US IPO? 	Japan 	✅ 	
Paul 	2 	Genus IIIArts & Entertainment 	What 1983 video has Michael Jackson stopping a gang fight in West Side Story style? 	Beat It 	❌ 	
James 	3 	Doctor WhoEpisodes & Stories 	In The Sound of Drums, what kind of screwdriver does the master wield? 	Laser 	✅ 	
James 	2 	The 1980sEntertainment 	What singer said "I never had a bad day on that film. I didn't really have to act. I just played myself as a secretary"? 	Dolly Parton 	❌ 	
Annette 	6 	Doctor WhoCast, Crew & Beyond 	which member of the League of Gentlemen starred in the episode Silence in the Library: Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith, Jeremy Dyson, or Steve Pemberton?	Steve Pemberton	❌ 	
Liz 	5 	Junior Trivia I (5-9)Geography/Space	Where is Santa Claus said to live? 	North Pole 	✅ 	
Liz 	3 	MillenniumHistory 	What year did Christopher Columbus claim Cuba for Spain? 	1492 	✅ 	
Liz 	3 	TV EditionDrama 	What detective series was axed by CBS in 1983 but returned after a mail-in campaign by the National Organization for Women? 	Cagney & Lacey 	❌ 	[1]
Antony 	1 	Genus VPeople & Places 	What US state once named John Denver as its poet laureate? 	Colorado 	✅ 	
Antony 	2 	Silver ScreenTitles 	What 1974 flick featured Charles Bronson as a California melon grower who crossed swords with the local mafia? 	Mr. Majestyk 	❌ 	
1: It appears Erika missed that Liz had rolled a 3 on her previous turn, probably because of all the banter in between.
=== Round 2 Standings ===
Contestant	Score
Paul 	2
James 	2
Liz 	2
Antony 	2
Annette 	0
== Round 3 ==
Contestant	DieRoll	Edition/Category 	Question 	Answer 	Correct?	Notes
Paul 	2 	MillenniumArts & Entertainment 	who's the voice for over a dozen Simpsons characters, including Mo, Chief Wiggum and Apu? 	Hank Azaria 	❌ 	
James 	6 	The 1980sWild Card 	What word appeared an average of 21.21 times per page in Donald Trump's bestseller? 	"I" 	❌ 	
Annette 	2 	Baby BoomerStage and Screen 	Who picked up Tony Awards for Rhinoceros, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Fiddler on the Roof? 	Zero Mostel 	❌ 	
Liz 	4 	90sTrends 	From 1999. What apparel chain rubbed animal rights activists the wrong way within "Everybody in Leather" campaign?	The Gap 	✅ 	
Liz 	1 	Star Trek 50th AnniversaryCrew Members	Who was the Chief Medical Officer on the Enterprise prior to Dr. McCoy? 	Dr. Mark Piper 	❌ 	
Antony 	2 	The 1980sEntertainment 	What Brian De Palma flick begins and ends with a shower scene? 	Dressed to Kill	❌ 	
=== Round 3 Standings ===
Contestant	Score
Liz 	3
Paul 	2
James 	2
Antony 	2
Annette 	0
== Round 4 ==
Contestant	DieRoll	Edition/Category 	Question 	Answer 	Correct?	Notes
Paul 	6 	Disney Family Edition - Kids BoxWorld of Leisure 	What famed portrait sports a mustache at Disneyland's Pinocchio's Daring Journey? 	The Mona Lisa 	✅ 	
Paul 	2 	Disney Family Edition - Grownups BoxWorld of Music	What's the colorful title of Culture Club's second album? 	Color by Numbers	✅ 	
Paul 	4 	Genus VScience & Nature 	What physicist's preserved brain revealed that the section controlling abstract thought was unusually big? 	Albert Einstein 	✅ 	
James 	2 	20th AnniversarySound & Screen 	What Network's News anchor Jorge Ramos was watched by more folks in Houston, Miami and LA than Brokaw, Rather or Jennings in 2000?	Univision 	❌ 	
Annette 	5 	The 1960sSports & Leisure 	How many different Big 10 football teams won conference championships in the 60s? 	9 	❌ 	
Liz 	5 	Baby BoomerLives & Times 	Who was the shortest of the original Mercury astronauts? 	Virgil Grissom 	❌ 	
Antony 	1 	The 1980sPersonalities 	So great Dane went Oscarless with Eddie Murphy, Sly Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger? 	Brigitte Nielsen	❌ 	
=== Round 4 Standings ===
Contestant	Score
Paul 	5
Liz 	3
James 	2
Antony 	2
Annette 	0
== Final Round ==
Contestant	DieRoll	Edition/Category 	Question 	Answer 	Correct?	Notes
Paul 	5 	The 1960sSports & Leisure 	What super year was Joe Namath's I Can't Wait Until Tomorrow published? 	1969 	❌ 	
Annette 	1 	Doctor WhoTime Lords 	What is Jackson Lake's profession before he begins to think he is the Doctor? 	A school teacher 	❌ 	
James 	3 	Genus VHistory 	What South American nation got stuck with five-year-old Pedro II as Emperor in 1831? 	Brazil 	✅ 	
James 	2 	Doctor WhoCompanions 	On entering the TARDIS for the first time, what was unusual about the way new companion Clara Oswald described its size? 	She said it's smaller on the outside, whereas most people say it's bigger on the inside.	✅ 	
James 	2 	Junior Trivia I (5-9)Sports/Games	What is attached to a sulky in racing? 	A horse 	❌ 	
Antony 	2 	2000sScience & Tech 	Subcategory: web celebs. What Chris Brown Toon propelled Kevin Jill and their dancing attendants down the aisle in a 2009 wedding video that got 45 million hits?	Forever 	❌ 	
Liz 	3 	MillenniumHistory 	so what presidential advisor was paid $2.5 million to pen his memoirs in 1996? 	Dick Morris 	❌ 	
=== Final Standings ===
Contestant	Score
Paul 	5
James 	4
Liz 	3
Antony 	2
Annette 	0