Decades '17 - Day 16 - Grand Finale!
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2017 5:37 am
Decades '17 - Day 16
October 23, 2017
Grand Finale!
COMING & GOING
Beginning in 1972, a well-known TV personality hosted a live special on the final night of the year. He continued to host until he suffered a stroke in 2004. A co-host joined the original host the next year and continued until the original host's death in 2012. The new host is still there. (Got that?)
Name the show. (3 points)
Name the original host. (3 points)
Name the new host. (3 points)
Bonus: Who hosted on short notice on the last day of 2004 while the original host recuperated? (3 points)
WILL & GRACE
1986
An album by Paul Simon wins album of the year and record of the year at 1987 Grammys.
The former owner of the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns and Chicago White Sox (and true baseball legend) dies at the age of 71.
Name the album. (3 points)
Name the baseball guy. (3 points)
TV SHOWS & THEME SONGS
2000
A famous sketch from Saturday Night Live featured a fictional music producer ('The' Bruce Dickinson) overseeing the recording of a popular 1976 rock song, which in turn featured fictional, overzealous musician Gene Frenkle. The sketch is considered of the greatest of all time and helped spawn a popular catchphrase.
Name the catchphrase. (3 points)
Name the band and song used in the sketch. (3 points)
Name the actor (the show's host) playing 'The' Bruce Dickinson. (3 points)
Name the SNL member playing Gene Frenkle. (3 points)
BEFORE & AFTER
2010s
"He" was a former decathlon gold medal winner and reality TV star. "She" received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award during the 2015 ESPY Awards. "They" are the same person.
Name them. (3 points each)
WORDS & MUSIC
1994
Fourteen years after a band member commented that they would play together again "when Hell freezes over," the band played together again and released a live album appropriately called "Hell Freezes Over."
Name the band. (3 points)
Bonus: Name the studio album this band released 13 years later, their first since 1979. (3 points)
AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
1971
A top secret study titled "United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense" was discovered and released by a military analyst in 1971, first brought to the attention of the public on the front page of The New York Times. He was awarded The Ridenhour Courage Prize in 2004.
Name the more common title for this document. (3 points)
Name the award-winning analyst who discovered and released the study. (3 points)
KINGS & QUEENS
1975
A British band consisting of Robert Fripp, John Wetton, David Cross and Bill Bruford released a live album in 1975 titled USA which included a nearly 9-minute version of their hit, "21st Century Schizoid Man".
A TV detective series reboot premiered in 1975. Each episode contained a "Challenge to the Viewer" with the detective breaking the fourth wall to go over the facts of the case and invite the audience to solve the mystery on their own, immediately before the solution was revealed.
Name the band. (3 points)
Name the TV detective. (3 points)
Bonus: Name the actor in the title role. (3 points)
Total points: 48
Thanks for playing Decades '17!
October 23, 2017
Grand Finale!
COMING & GOING
Beginning in 1972, a well-known TV personality hosted a live special on the final night of the year. He continued to host until he suffered a stroke in 2004. A co-host joined the original host the next year and continued until the original host's death in 2012. The new host is still there. (Got that?)
Name the show. (3 points)
Name the original host. (3 points)
Name the new host. (3 points)
Bonus: Who hosted on short notice on the last day of 2004 while the original host recuperated? (3 points)
WILL & GRACE
1986
An album by Paul Simon wins album of the year and record of the year at 1987 Grammys.
The former owner of the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns and Chicago White Sox (and true baseball legend) dies at the age of 71.
Name the album. (3 points)
Name the baseball guy. (3 points)
TV SHOWS & THEME SONGS
2000
A famous sketch from Saturday Night Live featured a fictional music producer ('The' Bruce Dickinson) overseeing the recording of a popular 1976 rock song, which in turn featured fictional, overzealous musician Gene Frenkle. The sketch is considered of the greatest of all time and helped spawn a popular catchphrase.
Name the catchphrase. (3 points)
Name the band and song used in the sketch. (3 points)
Name the actor (the show's host) playing 'The' Bruce Dickinson. (3 points)
Name the SNL member playing Gene Frenkle. (3 points)
BEFORE & AFTER
2010s
"He" was a former decathlon gold medal winner and reality TV star. "She" received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award during the 2015 ESPY Awards. "They" are the same person.
Name them. (3 points each)
WORDS & MUSIC
1994
Fourteen years after a band member commented that they would play together again "when Hell freezes over," the band played together again and released a live album appropriately called "Hell Freezes Over."
Name the band. (3 points)
Bonus: Name the studio album this band released 13 years later, their first since 1979. (3 points)
AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
1971
A top secret study titled "United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense" was discovered and released by a military analyst in 1971, first brought to the attention of the public on the front page of The New York Times. He was awarded The Ridenhour Courage Prize in 2004.
Name the more common title for this document. (3 points)
Name the award-winning analyst who discovered and released the study. (3 points)
KINGS & QUEENS
1975
A British band consisting of Robert Fripp, John Wetton, David Cross and Bill Bruford released a live album in 1975 titled USA which included a nearly 9-minute version of their hit, "21st Century Schizoid Man".
A TV detective series reboot premiered in 1975. Each episode contained a "Challenge to the Viewer" with the detective breaking the fourth wall to go over the facts of the case and invite the audience to solve the mystery on their own, immediately before the solution was revealed.
Name the band. (3 points)
Name the TV detective. (3 points)
Bonus: Name the actor in the title role. (3 points)
Total points: 48
Thanks for playing Decades '17!