Bonus rounds are where The Dozen lives or dies. The regular trivia is fine, the categories are fun, but the bonus is the part you actually clip and send to the group chat. A 6-year worldwide gross list is a nasty one too — you've got to remember pandemic-era releases, the Top Gun: Maverick monsters, the Barbenheimer summer, every Avatar sequel, and whatever Marvel decided to push out before it stopped working. Plenty of room to whiff.
Compton's answer of "Dune 2: Just In Case" became the runaway moment of the round.
That's the move when you've burned through the obvious ones and you're just naming sequels of things that were definitely big, hoping one of them snuck into the top 30. It's the trivia equivalent of guessing C on the SAT. And honestly, given the 2024 box office, "Just In Case" was not the worst process — Dune: Part Two absolutely belongs on that list, the hedge was just the funny part.
The full bonus-round clip with every team's attempt at the Top 30.
The match that produced it was a real one too: a Top 8 seeding spot on the line between the 6-Booze Ponies (Compton, Feitelberg, Dana Beers) and the 7-Ryders (Keegs, KFC, Robbie Fox) in the final regular-season week. Feits called it a "gotta win" for both sides, which is about right — at that part of the standings, one bad bonus round is the difference between a real seed and a play-in feeling.
The official Top 8 matchup card going into the premiere.
The other thing the league quietly snuck in this week: a DraftKings-sponsored question about the SG/SF the Nets signed in 2016 who later led the NBA in 3pt% in 2019 after averaging just 2.5 PPG in Cleveland. That's a Joe Harris layup if you've watched any Nets basketball in the last decade, but it's the kind of stat-sandwich clue The Dozen has gotten really good at — specific enough that you feel smart for getting it, vague enough that one wrong guess sinks you.
The sponsored Nets-era trivia question that ran alongside the movie bonus.
Whole match is up if you want to see how the Top 30 actually shook out and whether "Dune 2: Just In Case" cashed. It's the kind of bonus round that's going to get re-run in highlight packages all postseason — broad enough that everyone at home can play along, mean enough that even the regulars start guessing sequels by feel.