License To ILL

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OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST:

Now we're going to crown this week's grand champion. So let's bring back Jonathan, Risto, Dan and Matt to play our Ask Me One More final round.

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EISENBERG: Our puzzle guru Greg Pliska made this final round titled Licensed To Ill.

GREG PLISKA, BYLINE: And in this game, every correct answer will be a word, phrase or proper noun that contains the letters I-L-L in consecutive order. For example, if I said it's Michael Jackson's best-selling album, you would say "Thriller" because it has I-L-L right in the middle. And for your prize, Sutton will be giving you not only a bag of swag from her TV series "Younger," she has baked you double chocolate chip cookies.

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PLISKA: All right, let's play. Jonathan, a playful pajama party conflict involving rectangular cloth bags stuffed with feathers.

JONATHAN GREENSTEIN: Pillow fight.

PLISKA: Correct. Risto, ABC television drama about country music performers living and working in the capital of Tennessee.

RISTO FILIPPI: "Nashville."

PLISKA: Correct.

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PLISKA: Dan, extremely popular device for cooking meat endorsed by a former world heavyweight boxing champion.

DAN NASCIMENTO: The lean, mean grilling machine? The George Foreman Grill.

PLISKA: Yes, very good.

NASCIMENTO: George Foreman Grill.

PLISKA: I will take that, thank you.

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PLISKA: And Matthew, three-word phrase from the novel "Don Quixote" meaning attacking imagined enemies.

MATT WOOLSEY: Tilt at windmills.

PLISKA: Yes, very good. Thank you.

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PLISKA: All right, the stakes have gotten higher and higher. Jonathan, Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming won a Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering this antibiotic made from mold.

GREENSTEIN: Penicillin.

PLISKA: Correct.

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PLISKA: Risto, the Duchess of Cornwall and the second wife of Britain's Prince Charles.

FILIPPI: Camilla Bowles.

PLISKA: I will take that, absolutely, Camilla Bowles or Camilla Parker Bowles. Dan, in medicine, it's a device that gives an electric shock to a person's heart in order to make it beat normally again.

NASCIMENTO: Defibrillator.

PLISKA: Correct.

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PLISKA: Matthew, Julianne Moore won a best actress Academy Award for her starring role in this 2014 film.

WOOLSEY: I don't know.

PLISKA: OK - shhh, audience - Jonathan, do you know?

GREENSTEIN: It's "Still" something. I think it's "Still Alice."

PLISKA: You are correct.

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PLISKA: Matthew, thank you very much for playing. And we move on with Risto. The 13th president of the United States, his first and last names fit the requirement of this game.

FILIPPI: Millard Fillmore.

PLISKA: Correct, very good.

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PLISKA: Dan, long-haired DJ and musician who creates electronic dance music with a dub-stepped influenced of sound.

NASCIMENTO: Skrillex?

PLISKA: That's correct.

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PLISKA: Jonathan, Mexican filmmaker whose credits include "Pan's Labryinth," "Hellboy," "Pacific Rim" and the TV series "The Strain."

GREENSTEIN: I don't know.

PLISKA: OK. Risto, do you know?

FILIPPI: No.

PLISKA: Dan, for the game, do you know?

NASCIMENTO: No, I don't know.

PLISKA: No? The correct answer - audience, who was it?

AUDIENCE: Guillermo del Toro.

PLISKA: Guillermo del Toro with that tricky Spanish I-L-L sound in there. OK, Jonathan, Irish whiskey brand that's been distilled in Northern Ireland since the early 17th century.

GREENSTEIN: Bushmills.

PLISKA: That's correct.

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PLISKA: Risto, landmark 1988 Public Enemy album, featuring the songs "Bring The Noise" and "Don't Believe The Hype."

FILIPPI: Oh, Public Enemy...

PLISKA: You've got three more seconds.

FILIPPI: No - "License To Ill" - no way.

PLISKA: No? All right, Dan?

NASCIMENTO: Is it "Illmatic?"

PLISKA: No. No, nice guess. That's not it. Jonathan?

GREENSTEIN: "Licensed To Thrill?"

PLISKA: No, I'm sorry that's not it either. The answer to that one is "It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back." Short answer, has anybody got some Bushmills? Could I get a Bushmills?

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EISENBERG: This has never happened before. This is the problem...

JONATHAN COULTON, BYLINE: Very exciting, everybody...

EISENBERG: We have never had three contestants that equally smart.

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COULTON: Well said, well said...

NASCIMENTO: And equally clueless.

GREENSTEIN: Thank you.

PLISKA: I've got another question for you. Risto, it's a shade of red.

FILIPPI: Oh, that's green.

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FILIPPI: Vermilion?

PLISKA: Correct, very good.

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PLISKA: So gentlemen, I'm afraid we've exhausted all the questions we have.

NASCIMENTO: No.

PLISKA: So we're going to split the cookies three ways. Congratulations, you're all a winner.

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EISENBERG: Thanks so much again to Sutton Foster for the pot cookies - I mean, cookies. That's our show. Thanks so much for playing. Remember, you can be a puzzle player any time, any place, by downloading our podcast from iTunes or Stitcher. And if you would like to step up your game and be a contestant, find us on Facebook or Twitter - @NPRAskMeAnother. And come see us live. Go to amatickets.org. ASK ME ANOTHER's puzzle guru is Greg Pliska.

PLISKA: Hey, my name anagrams to sparkle gig.

EISENBERG: Our house musician is Jonathan Coulton.

PLISKA: Thou jolt a cannon.

EISENBERG: Our puzzle editor is Art Chung, with additional puzzle writing by Matt Foster, Greg Lightman, Josiah Madigan, J. Keith van Straaten and senior writer Karen Laurie. ASK ME ANOTHER's produced by Jesse Baker, Josh Rogosin, Denny Shin and Lina Misitzis, along with Anya Grundmann. We are recorded by Bill Moss, Kirstin Mueller and David Hertkin. ASK ME ANOTHER was created by Eric Nuzum. We'd like to thank our home in Brooklyn, N.Y., The Bell House...

PLISKA: Hot heel blues.

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

PLISKA: Ophira Eisenberg.

EISENBERG: And this was ASK ME ANOTHER from NPR.

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