“Beat the Bridge” 6/14

T: Brandy, Imani & Shaloy

R1: 
Famous People- IMANI (facts about “The Rock”)

#1: He’s under 50 & he’s over 50- UNDER 50
#2: Played college baseball at Florida St. & played college football at Univ. of Miami- FOOTBALL
#3: Voiced Bruno in “Encanto” & voiced Maui in “Moana”- MAUI
#4: Born in California & born in Australia- CALIFORNIA 
#5: Once wrestled as Rocky Creed & once wrestled as Rocky Maivia- ROCKY MAIVIA
#6: Hosted “The Titan Games” & hosted “Floor Is Lava” on NETFLIX- “FLOOR IS LAVA”
#7: 1st film role in “The Mummy Returns” & 1st film role in “The Game Plan”- “THE GAME PLAN”
BANKED $800

Geography- SHALOY (countries bordering Germany)

#1: Turkey & France- TURKEY
#2: Czech Republic & Tunisia- CZECH REPUBLIC 
#3: Austria & Ireland- AUSTRIA
#4: Belgium & Portugal- BELGIUM
#5: Italy & Denmark- DENMARK
#6: Greece & Poland- POLAND
#7: Luxembourg & Liechtenstein- LIECHTENSTEIN
#8: Switzerland & Finland- SWITZERLAND
#9: Norway & Netherlands- NORWAY
BANKED $1K (CT: $1800)

R2: Movies (courtroom films)

#1: “Kramer vs. Kramer” & “Joe Versus the Volcano”- “KRAMER VS. KRAMER”
#2: “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly”, “Good Will Hunting” & “A Few Good Men”- “A FEW GOOD MEN”
#3: “Erin Brockovich” & “Florence Foster Jenkins”- “ERIN BROCKOVICH”
#4: “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, “Legally Blonde” & “Atomic Blonde”- “ATOMIC BLONDE” (A: “Legally Blonde”)
#5: “MARSHALL”, “LINCOLN” & “HARRIET”- “HARRIET” (A: “MARSHALL”)
#6: “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”, “Liar Liar” & “Runner Runner”- “LIAR LIAR”
#7: “The Rainmaker” & “Rain Man”- “RAIN MAN”
BANKED $900 (CT: $2700)

R3: Names- IMANI (things w/ “Little” or “Lil” in their names) 

#1: “Old Town Road” singer, “Holiday Road” singer & “On the Road Again” singer- “OLD TOWN ROAD”
#2: Butterworth’s, Crocker & Debbie- DEBBIE
#3: Movie where Jim Carrey found missing animals, movie where Eddie Murphy talked to animals & movie where Kevin James worked at a zoo- EDDIE MURPHY
#4: Dayanara & Piper show, Celeste & Renata TV show & Abbi & Ilana show- CELESTE & RENATA
#5: Miniature horse on “Parks and Recreation”, cat on “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” & dog on “FRASIER”- CAT (A: Horse)
#6: Movie where a family traveled in a yellow van, “If you’re a bird, I’m a bird” movie & movie where they wore pink on Wednesdays- MOVIE WHERE FAMILY TRAVELED IN YELLOW VAN
#7: Rat that cooked under a hat, mouse that got adopted by a family & mouse that ran away from Tom- MOUSE GOT ADOPTED BY FAMILY
#8: Smalls & Squints movie, Alfalfa & Darla movie & Harry & Marv movie- ALFALFA & DARLA (CT: $6800)

FR:
1st: Shaloy
Succotash ingredients: Beets & broccoli, corn & lima beans & peas & carrots- BEETS & BROCCOLI (A: Corn & lima beans)
2nd: Brandy
Viola Davis’ OSCAR-winning film: “The Help”, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” & “Fences”- “THE HELP” (A: “Fences”)
Largest of Christopher Columbus’ ships: SANTA MARIA
Vietnamese noodle soup: Ramen, wonton & pho- PHO
Letter to right of J on keyboard: H, K & Y- K
A Brief History of Time author: Stephen Hawking, Madeleine L’Engle & Robert Jordan- STEPHEN
“Thomas & Friends” train character: Coal, Diesel & Ethanol- DIESEL
Banksy art piece: “Girl with Balloon”, “Frog with Crown” & “Cat with Mouse”- “GIRL WITH BALLOON”
Name of Reese Witherspoon’s son: Tennessee, Kentucky & Texas- TENNESSEE
Darius Rucker band: Hootie & the Blowfish, Barenaked Ladies & Sister Hazel- BARENAKED LADIES (A: Hootie & the Blowfish)

“Beat the Bridge” 6/13

T: Zach (third wheel of this trio who grew up in the northeast), Molly & Eric (Molly’s fiance)

R1:
Nature- ZACH (animals & their young- animals correctly paired w/ the name of its young)

#1: Tiger fry & dog puppy- DOG PUPPY
#2: Echidna calving & sheep lamb- SHEEP LAMB
#3: Deer fawn & raccoon fawn- DEER FAWN
#4: Pigeon pidge & rat pup- RAT PUP
#5: Fox kit & bear calf- FOX KIT
#6: Owl owlet & panda pandaling- PANDA PANDALING 
#7: Hedgehog hedgelet & elephant calf- ELEPHANT CALF
#8: Zebra foal & koala smolt- ZEBRA FOAL

HOLLYWOOD- MOLLY (movie & TV aliens- characters not from Earth)

#1: Spock & Captain Kirk- SPOCK
#2: “Indiana Jones” & Han Solo- HAN SOLO
#3: “The Great Gazoo” & “The Great Gatsby”- “THE GREAT GAZOO”
#4: “THOR” & Star-Lord- “THOR”
#5: Lilo & Stitch- STITCH
#6: “ROBOCOP” & “ALF”- “ALF”
#7: “TRANSFORMERS” & “Power Rangers”- “TRANSFORMERS”

R2: Hobbies (card games)

#1: Apples to Apples & “Medal of Honor”- APPLES TO APPLES
#2: Connect 4, Go Fish & Trouble- GO FISH
#3: Euchre & parcheesi- EUCHRE
#4: Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering & Warhammer 40,000- MAGIC: THE GATHERING
#5: Craps & klondike- KLONDIKE
#6: Mancala, pachinko & Yu-Gi-Oh- YU-GI-OH
#7: Bridge & GO- BRIDGE

R3: Movies- MOLLY (Best Actor nominations for those who played the real person they were listed w/) 

#1: Christian Bale Andy Kaufman, Daniel Day-Lewis Abraham Lincoln & Gary Oldman Orson Welles- DANIEL & ABRAHAM
#2: Austin Butler Elvis Presley, Eddie Redmayne Tony Hawk & Pedro Pascal Desi Arnaz- AUSTIN & ELVIS
#3: Bradley Cooper Chris Kyle, Jonathan Pryce Pope John Paul II & Matthew McConaughey Shel Silverstein- BRADLEY & CHRIS
#4: Ralph Fiennes Charles Dickens, Harrison Ford J. Paul Getty & Forest Whitaker Idi Amin- FOREST & IDI
#5: Christian Bale George W. Bush, Russell Crowe John Forbes Nash & Will Smith Mike Tyson- RUSSELL & JOHN
#6: Chadwick Boseman Malcolm X, Leonardo DiCaprio Howard Hughes & Edward Norton Wayne Gretzky- LEONARDO & HOWARD
#7: Bryan Cranston J. Edgar Hoover, Ed Harris Andy Warhol & Frank Langella Richard Nixon- FRANK & RICHARD

FR:
1st: Molly
Face on the $100 bill: Benjamin Franklin- Alexander Hamilton & Andrew Jackson- BENJAMIN
Slurpee store: 7-eleven, Circle K & Walgreens- 7-ELEVEN
# of face cards in a standard deck: 10, 12 & 16- 12
Owned by Jeff Bezos: Boston Globe, New York Times & Washington Post– WASHINGTON POST
Red Cross headquarters: Denmark, England & Switzerland- SWITZERLAND
Prime number: 33, 37 & 51- 51 (A: 37)
2nd: Zach
’90s nickelodeon cartoon: “Johnny Bravo”, “The Powerpuff Girls” & “HEY ARNOLD!”- “HEY ARNOLD!”
49th state: Alaska, Hawai’i & Oklahoma- ALASKA
Higher value in SCRABBLE: G, F & K- K
1st “Big Brother” winner: Eddie McGee, Will Kirby & Lisa Donahue- WILL (A: Eddie)
Moon of Jupiter: Callisto, Phobos & Titan- TITAN (A: Callisto)

“Beat the Bridge” 6/12

T: Lawrence, Matthew & Jacqueline

R1:

Famous People: MATTHEW (movies & TV shows feat. Idris Elba)
#1: “THOR” & “BATMAN”- “THOR”
#2: “The Office” & “Parks and Recreation”- “THE OFFICE”
#3: “The Dark Tower” & “Zero Dark Thirty”- “THE DARK TOWER”
#4: “THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE” & “Sonic the Hedgehog 2”- “SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2”
#5: “The Wire” & “Ozark”- “THE WIRE”
#6: “ALIEN: COVENANT” & “Prometheus”- “PROMTHEUS”
#7: “Hijack” & “Severance”- “HIJACK”

Food: JACQUELINE (types of mushrooms)
#1: Portobello & mortadella- PORTOBELLO
#2: Shirataki & shiitake- SHIITAKE
#3: Clam & oyster- OYSTER
#4: Lion’s mane & dragon’s beard- LION’S MANE
#5: Wood eye & wood ear- WOOD EAR
#6: Hedgehog & armadillo- ARMADILLO
#7: Button & zipper- BUTTON
#8: Sticky top & slippery jack- STICKY TOP
#9: White timpani & black trumpet- WHITE TIMPANI
NO BANK (CT: $2300)

R2: Toys (toys & other items inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame)
#1: Ken & Barbie- BARBIE
#2: Crayola crayons, fingerpaints & Sharpies- CRAYOLA
#3: Blanket & mattress- BLANKET
#4: Bratz doll, Chatty Cathy & G.I. JOE- G.I. JOE
#5: ATARI 2600 & beeper- ATARI 2600
#6: Guess Who?, Clue & SORRY!- CLUE
#7: Cardboard box & wooden crate- WOODEN CRATE
#8: Etch-a-Sketch & Magna Doodle- ETCH-A-SKETCH (CT: $4800)

R3: TV- LAWRENCE (“American Idol” judges)
#1: Janet Jackson, Randy Jackson & Howard Stern- RANDY
#2: Shakira, Christina Aguilera & Jennifer Lopez- JENNIFER
#3: Steven Tyler, Nick Jonas & Adam Levine- STEVEN
#4: Sharon Osbourne, Ellen DeGeneres & Sofia Vergara- SHARON
#5: Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus & Ariana Grande- KATY
#6: Mariah Carey, Gwen Stefani & Alicia Keys- MARIAH
#7: Robin Thicke, Usher & Lionel Richie- LIONEL
#8: Nicki Minaj, Jennifer Hudson & Nicole Scherzinger- JENNIFER (A: Nicki)
#9: Harry Connick, Jr., John Legend & Niall Horan- HARRY (CT: $8900)

FR:
1st: Jacqueline
Irish liqueur: Baileys, Kahlua & Amaretto- BAILEYS
Library “decimal” classification system: Dewey, Dawson & David- DAWSON
2nd: Matthew
Rolling rock logo: Goat, horse & giraffe- HORSE
Musical set in Cook County Jail: “Hairspray”, “GREASE” & “CHICAGO”- “GREASE” (A: “CHICAGO”)
Color on a Rubik’s Cube: Brown, pink & white- WHITE
# of Great Lakes: 4, 5 & 6- 4 (A: 5)

“Beat the Bridge” 6/11

P: Kelly, Judy & Kristi

R1:

Economics: KRISTI (world’s 10 most expensive cities acc. to the Worldwide Cost of Living Index for 2022)
#1: New York & Tokyo- NEW YORK
#2: Brussels & Singapore- SINGAPORE
#3: Dublin & San Francisco- SAN FRANCISCO
#4: Geneva & Rome- GENEVA
#5: Hong Kong & Sydney- HONG KONG
#6: Toronto & Zurich- ZURICH
#7: London & Paris- PARIS

Movies: KELLY (movies inspired by TV shows)
#1: “TRON & “STAR TREK”- “STAR TREK”
#2: “MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE” & “The Bourne Identity”- “THE BOURNE IDENTITY”
#3: “21 Jump Street” & “Hill Street Blues”- “21 JUMP STREET”
#4: “BAYWATCH” & “Point Break”- “BAYWATCH” 
#5: “Ride Along” & “CHiPs”- “CHIPS”
#6: “SPY” & “CHARLIE’S ANGELS”- “CHARLIE’S ANGELS”
#7: “Wild Wild West” & “Stagecoach”- “WILD WILD WEST”
#8: “Inherent Vice” & “MIAMI VICE”- “MIAMI VICE”

R2: Books (Mr. Men & Little Miss characters)
#1: Mr. Bump & Mr. Misadventure– MR. MISADVENTURE
#2: Little Miss Frazzle & Little Miss Scatterbrain– LITTLE MISS SCATTERBRAIN
#3: Little Miss Raincloud, Little Miss Thunderstorm & Little Miss Sunshine– LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
#4: Little Miss Telephone & Little Miss Chatterbox– LITTLE MISS CHATTERBOX
#5: Mr. Hot, Mr. Lazy & Mr. Simple– MR. LAZY 
#6: Little Miss Christmas & Little Miss Easter– LITTLE MISS CHRISTMAS
#7: Mr. Maybe, Mr. Clean & Mr. Messy– MR. MESSY
#8: Little Miss Fabulous & Little Miss Shopaholic– LITTLE MISS FABULOUS (CT: $5900)

R3: Music (Stevie Wonder top 10 hits)- KRISTI
#1: “I Just Called to Say I Love You”, “I Just Wanted You to Know” & “I Just Want to Make Love to You”- “I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU”
#2: “Please Mr. Postman”, “Return to Sender”, “Signed, Sealed, Delivered”- “SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED”
#3: “Superstition”, “Supersymmetry” & “Super Trouper”- “SUPERSTITION”
#4: “Higher Ground”, “Higher Love” & “The High Road”- “HIGHER GROUND”
#5: “All My Life”, “For Once in My Life” & “Love of My Life”- “FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE”
#6: “Part-Time Lover”, “Time After Time” & “Time to Say Goodbye”- “PART-TIME LOVER”
#7: “Get Up and Dance”, “Straight Up” & “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)”- “UPTIGHT” (CT: $10K- they’ll have a chance at the $15K maximum)

FR:
1st: Kristi
Civic carmaker: Honda, BMW & TESLA- HONDA
Fruit w/ fuzzy skin: Durian, kiwi & passionfruit- KIWI
Oldest “SNL” host: Betty White, Charlton Heston & Ruth Gordon- BETTY
Place mentioned in Beach Boys’ “Kokomo”: Havana, Barbados & Bermuda- BERMUDA
Italian sculptor of “David”: Leonardo, Michelangelo & Raphael- MICHELANGELO
Civilization that gifted the Trojan Horse: Spaniards, Greeks & Persians- GREEKS
Founder of R.E.M. Beauty: Jessica Alba, Gabrielle Union & Ariana Grande- GABRIELLE (A: Ariana)
2nd: Kelly
Johnson Space Center city: Jacksonville, Houston & Phoenix- HOUSTON
Wore jersey number 99: Derek Jeter, Michael Jordan & Wayne Gretzky- WAYNE
Gift requested in “Santa Baby”: Limousine, private jet & yacht- PRIVATE JET (A: Yacht)
Nobel Prize category: French, drama & chemistry- CHEMISTRY
More expensive gemstone: Blue diamond, emerald & ruby- BLUE DIAMOND

DEBUT: “Beat the Bridge”

1st Team: Elizabeth, Jason (classically trained pianist) & Liz

R1: Music & Books- MUSIC & JASON (the right answers are Motown songs, while the wrong answers are ’90s rom-coms)

Right answers in this round are worth $200 & making it across will add a $300 bonus. If a player steps on 3 wrong answers their turn’s over & their bank for the rd will be cut in half. Along the way the teammates can secretly hit a Bank It button to bank the money accumulated up to that point.

#1: “Super Freak” & “Sleepless in Seattle”- “SUPER FREAK”
#2: “Can’t Hardly Wait” & “Baby Love”- “BABY LOVE”
#3: “Do You Love Me” & “Drive Me Crazy”- “DO YOU LOVE ME” (Contours)
#4: “Picture Perfect” & “I Choose You”- “I CHOOSE YOU” (Willie Hutch)
#5: “She’s All That” & “My Guy”- “MY GUY” (Mary Wells)
#6: “Now and Then” & “Come See About Me”- “COME SEE ABOUT ME” (Supremes)
#7: “Sliding Doors” & “Time Will Reveal”- “TIME WILL REVEAL” (DeBarge)($1700)

BOOKS & ELIZABETH (they’re looking for foods eaten by the title character in The Very Hungry Caterpillar)

#1: Apple & banana- APPLE
#2: Grape & watermelon- WATERMELON
#3: Bacon & sausage- SAUSAGE
#4: Lettuce & pickle- PICKLE
#5: Orange & pineapple- ORANGE
#6: Pastrami & salami- SALAMI
#7: Carrot cake & chocolate cake- CHOCOLATE CAKE ($3400)

R2: Movies- LIZ (films starring “The Rock”)

Right answers are worth $300 & the bonus is $400.

#1: “MOANA” & “Wreck-It Ralph”- “WRECK-IT RALPH”
#2: “The Core” & “San Andreas”- “SAN ANDREAS”
#3: “The Jungle Book”, “Jungle Cruise” & “SPEED 2: Cruise Control”- “SPEED 2: CRUISE CONTROL” (A: “Jungle Cruise”)
#4: “Krampus”, “Tooth Fairy” & “Jack Frost”- “TOOTH FAIRY”
#5: “Patch Adams” & “Black Adam”- “BLACK ADAM”
#6: “The Recruit”, “True Lies” & “Central Intelligence”- “TRUE LIES” (A: “Central Intelligence”)

BANKED $900 (CT: $4300)

R3: Atlanta- JASON (people or things from that city)

Every right answer now is worth $500 & making it across adds $600.

#1: Coca-Cola headquarters, Pepsi headquarters & Nestle headquarters- COCA-COLA
#2: Home of the Braves, home of the Marlins & home of the Orioles- BRAVES
#3: Emerson College, Elon University & Emory University- EMORY 
#4: T-Pain, T.I. & Ice-T- T.I.
#5: TV show created by & starring Quinta Brunson, TV show created by & starring Rob Mcelhenny & TV show created by & starring Donald Glover- DONALD GLOVER
#6: “Walk the Line”, “Driving Miss Daisy” & “The Green Mile”- “DRIVING MISS DAISY”
#7: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr. & Rosa Parks- MALCOLM X (A: MLK)
#8: 1988 Summer Olympics, 1996 Summer Olympics & 2000 Summer Olympics- ’00
#9: “Real Housewives” Cynthia Bailey & Kandi Burruss, “Real Housewives” Dorinda Medley & Ramona Singer & “Real Housewives” Lisa Rinna & Kyle Richards- DORINDA & RAMONA (A: Cynthia & Kandi)

BANKED $3K (CT: $7300)

FR: The team has 1:30 to answer 10 Q’s correctly. 1 player answers Q’s until they answer wrong (at which point the clock stops) & the category changes for each level. If they succeed $5K will be added to their bank; otherwise, their winnings will fall to $1K.

1st: Liz
Charmin toilet paper mascots: Lions, tigers & bears- BEARS
Created by Shonda Rhimes: “Designated Survivor”, “Scandal” & “The West Wing”- “SCANDAL”
Variety of lemon: Euphoria, Emperor & Eureka- EUPHORIA (A: Eureka)
2nd: Elizabeth
Formulated the laws of motion: Galileo, Newton & Einstein- NEWTON
Bird that lays blue eggs: Ostrich, robin & goose- ROBIN
Type of massage: Lumpia, lymphatic & lamister- LYMPHATIC
“It’s a Wonderful Life” angel: Clarence, Louis & Maurice- CLARENCE
Nadia Comaneci perfect 10 event: Floor exercise, uneven bars & vault- UNEVEN BARS
What gas plants absorb in photosynthesis: Nitrogen, oxygen & carbon dioxide- CARBON DIOXIDE
Correct U.S. Bill of Rights amendment: 22nd amendment term limits for presidency, 2nd amendment freedom of speech & 12th amendment introduced prohibition of liquor- 12TH (A: 22nd)
RuPaul’s last name: Thomas, Charles & Willis- WILLIS