It's All Relative

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OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST:

Now we're going to crown this week's grand champion. Let's bring back Dan (ph), Marr (ph), Patty (ph), Jessica (ph) and Tyler (ph) to play our Ask Me One More final round. Our puzzle guru Art Chung will lead this final round called It's All Relative.

ART CHUNG, BYLINE: So this game has nothing to do with Einstein, but in this final round, every correct answer will be a word or phrase that contains a type of relative. So, for example, if I said, in the United States, it's celebrated on the second Sunday in May, the answer is Mother's Day. We're going to play this spelling bee-style, so one wrong answer and you're out. You only have a few seconds to give me that answer. The last person standing is our ASK ME ANOTHER grand winner. For your prize, you'll receive a grab bag of "Sesame Street" goodies and a copy of Sonia's memoir, "Becoming Maria," in which she may or may not tell you how to get to Sesame Street. Here we go.

Dan, this fictional character is the leader of a group of tiny blue creatures who live in the forest.

DAN RODRIGUEZ: Papa Smurf.

CHUNG: That's right. Marr, this film starred Whoopi Goldberg as a singer who disguises herself as a nun.

MARR EHRENBERG: "Sister Act."

CHUNG: "Sister Act" is correct. Patty, this film by Ethan and Joel Coen, loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, starred George Clooney as Ulysses Everett McGill. Shaking your head...

P. MARR: I'm sorry.

CHUNG: That's OK. Step aside. Jessica, do you know the answer?

JESSICA CALLAHAN: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

CHUNG: That's correct. Thank you Patty for playing. We're to Tyler. This Broadway musical, later made into a film, weaves a story around songs from the ABBA catalogue.

TYLER PATLA: "Mama Mia."

CHUNG: That's correct.

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CHUNG: Back to Dan. The slightly tart, green variety of apple is popular in pies.

RODRIGUEZ: Granny Smith.

CHUNG: Granny Smith is correct, well done.

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CHUNG: Marr, contrary to that rumor about Mikey from Life Cereal, you won't die if you mix this is fizzy candy with some soda.

EHRENBERG: Pop Rocks.

CHUNG: Well done.

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CHUNG: Jessica, Dorothy lived with her in Kansas before being swept away to Oz. Three seconds.

CALLAHAN: Aunt....

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CHUNG: No, sorry...

CALLAHAN: That's ok.

CHUNG: You're out of time. Tyler....

PATLA: Auntie Em.

CHUNG: That's correct. We have to say goodbye to Jessica. Dan, released in 1979, it's one of the most popular, and some would say annoying, Christmas recordings of all time.

RODRIGUEZ: Mama, Daddy....

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JONATHAN COULTON, BYLINE: Mama-Daddy Christmas.

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CHUNG: I'm going to have to give you three seconds on that, do you - I don't think you have the answer. Marr, do you know the answer?

EHRENBERG: "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer."

CHUNG: That's right. Sorry about that Dan. We're down to two players, Tyler and Marr. Tyler, the single by the band "Train" was a top-selling song on the U.S. iTunes site in 2010.

PATLA: "Hey Soul Sister."

CHUNG: That's right.

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CHUNG: Marr, Katey Sagal won a Golden Globe in 2011 for playing the matriarch of a motorcycle gang on this FX series.

EHRENBERG: "Sons of Anarchy."

CHUNG: You got it.

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CHUNG: Tyler, this Ira Levin novel tells the story of a woman who suspects that the eerily-perfect homemakers in her Connecticut town are robots.

PATLA: "The Stepford Wives."

CHUNG: Nice pull.

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CHUNG: Marr, Steve Martin and Diane Keaton play the parents in this 1991 remake of a 1950 Spencer Tracy film.

EHRENBERG: "Father Of The Bride."

CHUNG: That's right.

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CHUNG: Tyler, this 1970 sitcom starred Red Foxx and Demond Wilson as owners of a junkyard.

PATLA: I don't know.

CHUNG: Alright. Marr, if you know the answer, you're our winner.

EHRENBERG: "Sanford And Son."

CHUNG: You got it.

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EISENBERG: That is our show. Thank you so much for playing. Check out our podcast on iTunes or Stitcher and you can find us on Facebook or Twitter at NPR ASK ME ANOTHER. And come see us live, or apply to be a contestant. Just go to amatickets.org. ASK ME ANOTHER's puzzle guru is Art Chung.

CHUNG: Hey, my name anagrams to narc thug.

EISENBERG: Our musician is Jonathan Coulton.

CHUNG: Thou jolt a canon.

EISENBERG: Additional puzzle writing by Eric Feinstein, Jess Miller, Greg Pliska, Mary Tobler, Christine Walters and senior writer Kieran Lurray (ph). ASK ME ANOTHER is produced by Denny Shin, Lina Misitzis, Mike Katzif and Anabel Bacon,along with Anya Grundmann. We are recorded by David Whittemore, Kirstin Mueller and David Hertkin. Our executive producer is Jesse Baker. ASK ME ANOTHER was created by Eric Nuzum. We'd like to thank our home in Brooklyn, N.Y., The Bell House.

CHUNG: Hot heel blues.

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EISENBERG: And our production partner WNYC. I'm her ripe begonias.

CHUNG: Ophira Eisenberg.

EISENBERG: And this was ASK ME ANOTHER from NPR.

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