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It’s been a while since we were tied at the end of a season, but it happened again, so we’re back for one last Season 15 showdown! Five questions each, winner takes all!


1:07: Q1: What 1976 sci-fi action film, now considered a cult classic, was adapted from a novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton, and stars Michael York as the title character, a “sandman” who hunts down people who refuse to die upon turning 30?


2:54: Q2: Born on the 4th of July, 1872, who was the 30th President of the United States of America?


3:43: Q3: Cancer patient Rachel Kushner is one of the three title characters of what 2012 debut novel by Jesse Andrews, which was adapted into a film in 2014?


4:52: Q4: In what 1965 James Bond film does Bond end up in the Bahamas, where he meets Emilio Largo, a member of SPECTRE who wears an eyepatch and is ultimately killed by Domino?


5:38: Q5: Capricorn is one of five districts of the province of Limpopo, in what nation, whose three capitals are located in other provinces?


6:12: Q6: “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” is the most popular song from what 1959 musical about a woman named Rose who is an aggressive stage mother to her two daughters, Baby June and Louise?


6:44: Q7: “Fire” is a 2016 single by what hugely popular boy band, off their album The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever, which also includes the songs “Run”, “Save Me” and “I Need U”?


7:37: Q8: The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner in 2008 was Junot Diaz’s novel about a Dominican boy growing up in New Jersey, called “The Brief Wondrous Life of” whom?


8:17: Q9: As an adjective, this word can mean “polite”, while as a noun, it can refer to a liqueur.


8:51: Q10: Currently at the site where the Sesquicentennial Exposition was sits the South Philadelphia Sports Complex.  Name the three stadia that comprise this sports complex.


Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0


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