document_title: America's Got Talent (season 13)

question_text: when are america's got talent finals 2018

question_tokens: when are america 's got talent finals 2018

text: America's Got Talent (season 13)

text: Preliminary auditions

text: The season had preliminary open call auditions in Orlando, Cincinnati, Savannah, Milwaukee, Houston, Las Vegas, New York City, Nashville, and Los Angeles.[5] As in years past, prospective contestants could also submit online auditions.[6]

text: Auditions were taped from March 6-23 at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles[7] and began to air on May 29, 2018.[8]

text: Golden buzzer

text: The golden buzzer returned for its fifth consecutive season. Any act that receives the golden buzzer during the judges' auditions will be sent directly to the live shows and will not compete in the Judge Cuts round. In the first episode, Tyra Banks was the first to press the golden buzzer for acrobatic and dance group Zurcaroh.[8] Simon Cowell was second to press it for 40-year-old singer Michael Ketterer. Howie Mandel was third to press it for 13 year old singer Courtney Hadwin. Mel B was fourth to press it for 15 year old singer Amanda Mena. Heidi Klum was the final judge to use the golden buzzer, using it for 15 year old singer Makayla Phillips.

text: Judge Cuts

text: The Judge Cuts rounds began airing on Tuesday, July 17, 2018. Like the previous season, one guest judge will join the judges' panel each show and will be given one golden buzzer opportunity to send an act straight to the live shows. Eighteen acts perform each week instead of twenty as in the previous three seasons. Of the eighteen acts performing each week seven acts advance including the guest judge's golden buzzer which immediately advances if used. Guest judges will not be given a red buzzer to use. Any act that will receive all four red buzzers will be immediately eliminated from the competition. The four guest judges are Ken Jeong, Olivia Munn, Martina McBride, and Chris Hardwick, who was also a guest judge in the previous season.[9] The final Judge Cuts episode aired on August 7, 2018. This is the first Judge Cuts rounds in history where no acts received four red buzzers.

text: After the Judge Cuts, three wildcards were chosen from eliminated acts to perform in the live shows: Daniel Emmet, Human Fountains and Front Pictures (who did not perform in the Judge Cuts round).

text: Golden Buzzer

text: The golden buzzer also returned for the Judge Cuts round. Each week during the Judge Cuts a guest judge will have the option to use their golden buzzer on any act. An act that receives the golden buzzer during the Judge Cuts round will not face elimination and will advance automatically to the live shows. In the first week of the Judge Cuts Ken Jeong pressed his golden buzzer for the Voices of Hope Children's Choir. In week 2, Olivia Munn pressed her Golden Buzzer for Angel City Chorale. In the third week, Martina McBride pressed her Golden Buzzer for Quin and Misha, a ballroom dance duo. Chris Hardwick gave the season’s final Golden Buzzer for Flau’jae, a 14-year old rapper, in the final week of the Judge Cuts.

text:
Key

 Buzzed

 Golden buzzer

  Advanced

  Quarterfinal Wildcard

  Eliminated

  Advanced Immediately

text: Week 1

text: Guest judge: Ken Jeong

text: Date: July 17, 2018

text:
Act

Order

Performance type

Buzzes

Result

Cowell

Klum

Jeong

Mel B

Mandel

Junior New System

1

Dance Group

Advanced

Harold & Regan

2

Dance Duo

Eliminated

Us the Duo

3

Band

Advanced

Kevin Blake

4

Magician

Eliminated

Mochi

5

Diabolo Artist

Advanced

Lilly Wilker

6

Animal Impressionist

Eliminated

Oscar and Pam

7

Singing Dog & Pianist

Eliminated

Daniel Emmet

8

Opera Singer

Quarterfinal Wildcard

Voices of Hope

9

Choir

Advanced Immediately

Aaron Crow

10

Danger Act

Advanced

Carmen Lynch

11

Stand-up Comedienne

Eliminated

Christina Wells

12

Singer

Advanced

Patches

13

Rapper

Eliminated

Andrew Johnston

14

Singer

Eliminated

Celina and Filiberto

15

Dance Duo

Eliminated

Trinh Tra My

16

Aerialist

Eliminated

Jack Tenney

17

Trampolinist

Eliminated

Duo Transcend

18

Trapeze Duo

Advanced

text: Week 2

text: Guest judge: Olivia Munn

text: Date: July 24, 2018

text:
Act

Order

Performance type

Buzzes

Result

Cowell

Klum

Munn

Mel B

Mandel

Human Fountains

1

Novelty Act

Quarterfinal Wildcard

Shin Lim

2

Close-up Magician

Advanced

The Melisizwe Brothers

3

Band

Eliminated

Macey Mac

4

Singer/Guitarist

Eliminated

Sophie Fatu

5

Singer

Eliminated

Reyes del Swing

6

Salsa Dance Troupe

Eliminated

The Future Kingz

7

Dance Group

Advanced

Lioz Shem Tov

8

Comedy Mentalist

Eliminated

Angel City Chorale

9

Choir

Advanced Immediately

Shannon and Reckon

10

Dog Act

Eliminated

EXISDANCE

11

Multimedia Dance Act

Eliminated

Hans

12

Singer/Accordionist/Dancer

Advanced

Vivien Vajda

13

Jump Rope Acrobat

Eliminated

Rob Lake

14

Illusionist

Advanced

Leah Mathies

15

Singer/Guitarist

Eliminated

Hunter Price

16

Singer/Guitarist

Eliminated

Joseph O'Brien[a]

17

Singer/Pianist

Advanced

Vicki Barbolak

18

Stand-up Comedienne

Advanced

text: Jump up ^ Simon Cowell forced Joseph O'Brien to stop performing during his act. After given the opportunity, O'Brien chose to perform for a second time. His result is based off the second performance.

text: Week 3

text: Guest judge: Martina McBride

text: Date: July 31, 2018

text: This is the second Judge Cuts episode in the show's history in which an act with at least one "X" buzzer was nevertheless promoted to the live shows.

text:
Act

Order

Performance type

Buzzes

Result

Cowell

Klum

McBride

Mel B

Mandel

The Savitsky Cats

1

Cat Act

Advanced

Blue Tokyo

2

Acrobatic Dance Group

Eliminated

OC Music and Dance

3

Orchestral Band

Eliminated

The PAC Dance Team

4

Dance Group

Advanced

Angel Garcia

5

Singer

Eliminated

Jeffrey Li

6

Singer

Eliminated

Ms. Trysh

7

Singer

Eliminated

Kazi

8

Singer/Guitarist

Eliminated

Bone Hampton

9

Stand-up Comedian

Eliminated

Quin and Misha

10

Ballroom Dance Duo

Advanced Immediately

Noah Guthrie[a]

11

Singer/Guitarist

Advanced

Jules and Jerome

12

Teeterboard Duo

Eliminated

Fratelli Rossi

13

Acrobatic Duo

Eliminated

Bensax International

14

Saxophonist

Eliminated

Oliver Graves

15

Stand-up Comedian

Eliminated

UDI Dance

16

Blacklight Dance Group

Advanced

We Three

17

Band

Advanced

The Sacred Riana

18

Illusionist

Advanced

text: Jump up ^ Simon Cowell forced Noah Guthrie to stop performing during his act. After given the opportunity, Guthrie chose to perform for a second time. His result is  based off the second performance.

text: Week 4

text: Guest judge: Chris Hardwick

text: Date: August 7, 2018

text: This is the first time in America's Got Talent Judge Cuts history where two or more acts that have been buzzed went on to the live shows.

text:
Act

Order

Performance type

Buzzes

Result

Cowell

Klum

Hardwick

Mel B

Mandel

Brian King Joseph

1

Electric Violinist

Advanced

Yumbo Dump

2

Comedy Duo

Advanced

Academy of Villains

3

Dance Group

Eliminated

Da RepubliK

4

Dance Group

Advanced

Berlin

5

Singer/Pianist

Eliminated

Sergey and Sasha

6

Acrobatic Duo

Eliminated

Flau'jae

7

Rapper

Advanced Immediately

Elijah Holt

8

Trampolinist

Eliminated

Sixto and Lucia

9

Quick Change Duo

Eliminated

Brody Ray

10

Singer/Guitarist

Eliminated

Ronnie Lamarque

11

Singer

Eliminated

Glennis Grace

12

Singer

Advanced

Diabolowalker

13

Diabolo Dance Group

Eliminated

Troy James

14

Contortionist

Eliminated

Street Drum Corps

15

Percussion Group

Eliminated

NUNNABOVE

16

Band

Eliminated

Lord Nil

17

Escape Artist

Advanced

Samuel J. Comroe

18

Stand-up Comedian

Advanced

text: Quarterfinals

text: The quarterfinals were broadcast live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles starting on August 14, 2018 with twelve acts performing each night.[10] The following night the results will be announced to the public with seven of the twelve acts proceeding to the semifinals.[11] Each week viewers of the show also have the opportunity to send one act, determined by popular vote, using "Google's Instant Save", sometimes also known as the "Dunkin' Save" due to a sponsorship contract with Dunkin Donuts, via the America's Got Talent app or the official website.[12][13] In the first week of the Quarterfinals, Human Fountains received a buzzer from Cowell and Lord Nil received one from Mel B. In the second week of the Quarterfinals, Yumbo Dump received a buzzer from Klum.

text:
Key

 Buzzed

 Judges' Choice

  Advanced (Won Public Vote)

  Advanced (Won Judges' Choice)

  Advanced (Recived Google's Instant Save / Dunkin' Save)

  Advanced (Received Judges' Wildcard)

  Eliminated

  Eliminated (Lost Judges' Choice)

text: Week 1 (August 14–15)

text: Guest: Darci Lynne Farmer

text:
Act

Order

Performance type

Buzzes

Result

Cowell

Klum

Mel B

Mandel

Mochi

1

Diabolo Artist

Lost Judges' Choice

Human Fountains

2

Novelty Act

Eliminated

Angel City Chorale

3

Choir

Google's Instant Save / Dunkin' Save

The PAC Dance Team

4

Dance Group

Eliminated

Amanda Mena

5

Singer

Advanced

Junior New System[a]

6

Dance Group

Won Judges' Choice

We Three

7

Band

Advanced

Lord Nil

8

Escape Artist

Eliminated

Flau'jae

9

Rapper

Eliminated

Shin Lim

10

Close-up Magician

Advanced

Vicki Barbolak

11

Stand-up Comedienne

Advanced

Courtney Hadwin

12

Singer

Advanced

text: Jump up ^ After the Judges' choice was split evenly, Junior New System was revealed to have received more of the public vote and therefore advanced to the next round.

text: Week 2 (August 21–22)

text: Guests: The Illusionists and Light Balance

text:
Act

Order

Performance type

Buzzes

Result

Cowell

Klum

Mel B

Mandel

Makayla Phillips

1

Singer

Google's Instant Save / Dunkin' Save

Da RepubliK

2

Dance Group

Won Judges' Choice

Noah Guthrie

3

Singer/Guitarist

Advanced

Yumbo Dump

4

Comedy Duo

X[a]

X[b]

Eliminated

Samuel J. Comroe

5

Stand-up Comedian

Advanced

Voices of Hope

6

Choir

Advanced

The Savitsky Cats

7

Cat Act

Eliminated

Glennis Grace

8

Singer

Advanced

The Sacred Riana

9

Illusionist

Eliminated

Quin and Misha

10

Ballroom Dance Duo

Eliminated

Front Pictures

11

Multimedia Performance Act

Received Judges' Wildcard

Duo Transcend

12

Trapeze Duo

Advanced

text:
Jump up ^ Cowell buzzed the act, but then took his buzzer back at the end.

Jump up ^ Mel B buzzed the act, but then took her buzzer back at the end.

text: Week 3 (August 28–29)

text: Guest: Beautiful Broadway

text:
Act

Order

Performance type

Buzzes

Result

Cowell

Klum

Mel B

Mandel

The Future Kingz

1

Dance Group

Lost Judges' Choice

Us the Duo

2

Band

Advanced

Daniel Emmet

3

Opera Singer

Google's Instant Save / Dunkin' Save

Brian King Joseph

4

Electric Violinist

Advanced

Aaron Crow

5

Danger Act

Won Judges' Choice

Joseph O'Brien

6

Singer/Pianist

Eliminated

Hans

7

Singer/Accordionist/Dancer

Eliminated

UDI Dance

8

Blacklight Dance Group

Eliminated

Christina Wells

9

Singer

Advanced

Zurcaroh

10

Acrobatic Group

Advanced

Rob Lake

11

Illusionist

Eliminated

Michael Ketterer

12

Singer

Advanced

text: Semifinals

text: The live semifinals started on September 4, 2018. They featured the 21 acts voted to the semifinals, plus the judges' semifinal wildcard pick. Each week, eleven acts performed; five went through to the finals, and six were eliminated.

text:
Key

 Buzzed

 Judges' Choice

  Advanced (Won Public Vote)

  Advanced (Won Judges' Choice)

  Advanced (Recived Google's Instant Save / Dunkin' Save)

  Eliminated

  Eliminated (Lost Judges' Choice)

text: Week 1 (September 4–5)

text:
Act

Order

Performance description

Buzzes

Result

Cowell

Klum

Mel B

Mandel

Amanda Mena

1

Singer; performed "Happy" by Pharrell.

Eliminated

Junior New System

2

Dance Group; dancers performed with a basketball themed red stiletto extravaganza to "Work Bitch" by Britney Spears, "Bang Bang" by Jessie J ft. Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj, and "Lose Control" by Missy Elliott ft. Ciara & Fatman Scoop.

Eliminated

Us the Duo

3

Band; performed an original song called "Broke".

Eliminated

Voices of Hope

4

Choir; performed "Defying Gravity" from Wicked by Idina Menzel.

Lost Judges' Choice

Shin Lim

5

Close-up Magician; started the act by placing a card in his back pocket "for later". He asked Heidi to pick a card and sign it. He put the signed card down and after he made a gesture, smoke began to rise from beneath it, at which point the card was shown to be blank. He opened his mouth, smoke came billowing out, and Heidi's card appeared from it. He placed her card in a plastic bag and then asked Tyra to pick a card and sign it. Tyra's card jumped from Shin's hand to his vest pocket, and thence to the card that started in his back pocket. Tyra's card then appeared in his mouth amidst a cloud of smoke, then switched places with Heidi's card in the plastic bag before the two cards switched back. He put both cards into the plastic bag and then vanished them in full view of the audience. Finally, he placed the remaining cards back in the box, and when smoke began pouring from the box he crushed it flat, making the box immediately disappear.

Advanced

Makayla Phillips

6

Singer; performed "Who You Are" by Jessie J.

Eliminated

Front Pictures

7

Multimedia Performance Act; starts in outer space and then gets a low oxygen tank. Ends up swimming with sea creatures such as turtles, dolphins, and whales.

Eliminated

Duo Transcend[a]

8

Trapeze Duo; performed a dangerous trapeze act for half of the performance, and the other half was a fire roller skate act where Mary hung onto Tyce with just her legs wrapped around his neck.

Won Judges' Choice

Samuel J. Comroe

9

Stand-up Comedian; explains about being the only kid out of his six siblings with tourettes. Then talks about how a woman tried to pray away his Tourette Syndrome. He ends with a story about how he was at a party with his black friends and the cops came. The cops told him to blink twice if he was in danger, and having tourettes he is likely to blink, so his black friends had to run.

Google's Instant Save / Dunkin' Save

Michael Ketterer

10

Singer; performed "When I Look At You" by Miley Cyrus.

Advanced

Zurcaroh

11

Acrobatic Group; the act was set in Egypt. Start with a dance on the floor, and then began leaping and flipping from the air while other members held gold wings and swung them simultaneously. They ended with two men swinging from a rope that dangled from the ceiling, and then made a human tower where the little girl on the top jumped down.

Advanced

text: Jump up ^ After the Judges' choice was split evenly, Duo Transcend was revealed to have received more of the public vote and therefore advanced to the finale.

text: Week 2 (September 11–12)

text: Guest: BTS[14] and A Magical Cirque Christmas

text:
Act

Order

Performance description

Buzzes

Result

Cowell

Klum

Mel B

Mandel

Christina Wells

1

Singer; performed "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" by Aretha Franklin.

Eliminated

Da RepubliK

2

Dance Group; dancers mixed a combination of flipping and dancing to "Get Ugly" by Jason Derulo, "Hit the Floor" by Twista ft. Pitbull, and "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-Lot.

Eliminated

Noah Guthrie

3

Singer; performed "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston.

Eliminated

Daniel Emmet

4

Opera Singer; performed "Somewhere" from West Side Story by Reri Grist.

Won Judges' Choice

Angel City Chorale

5

Choir; performed "The Rising" by Bruce Springsteen.

Eliminated

Aaron Crow

6

Danger Act; starts the act with a video of Crow asking Howie for his help in this routine. It then cuts back to the main stage with Howie trapped in a box. In total there are four boxes. Crow first asks Heidi to choose a box out of the four, then ask Mel B to do the same. Heidi selected box 3 and Mel B picked box 1. Crow proceeded to cut a rope that crushed box 3. He then did the same thing to box 1. Simon then had to pick a box which turned out to be box 4, Crow then crushed box 4. Finally, Crow opened box 2 and Howie was inside and safe.

Eliminated

Vicki Barbolak

7

Stand-up Comedienne; talks about how she is extra attracted to Italian men. She says the best way to get a guy to notice you is to trace your body. Next, she explains that no diet has worked for her in the past. She ends talking about if a cop caught her drunk in her trailer, she would just trace her body.

Advanced

We Three

8

Band; performed an original song called "Make Up".

Lost Judges' Choice

Glennis Grace

9

Singer; performed "This Woman's Work" by Kate Bush.

Google's Instant Save / Dunkin' Save

Brian King Joseph

10

Electric Violinist; started in the audience and made his way to the main stage. Performed "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio ft. L.V. to an electric mix on the song.

Advanced

Courtney Hadwin

11

Singer; performed "Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf.

Advanced

text: Finals

text: The final performances took on September 18, followed by the final results show aired on September 19, 2018. No acts were buzzed.

text: During the finale results, the top 5 acts were revealed first; then they were eliminated in reverse ranking from fifth place to third place.

text:
Key

  Advanced to the Top 5

  Top 10

text:
Act

Order

Performance Description

Result

Brian King Joseph

1

Electric Violinist; performed "Heartless" by Kanye West to an electric beat on the song. Joseph was surrounded by fire and two drummers.

Advanced

Daniel Emmet

2

Opera Singer; gives an opera take on "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran.

Top 10

Vicki Barbolak

3

Stand-up Comedienne; starts by saying she thought the finale was a bathing suit contest. She proceeds to strip into her bathing suit and talk about her time as a stripper. Chats about all the accomplishments her grandson has in school, to later say he is homeschooled. She says her dad is an ex-football player, and she has the typical looks of a football player's daughter. Ends with talking about Hooter's and how she wants tom open a restaurant for women called, "Woodpeckers".

Top 10

Glennis Grace

4

Singer; performed "Run" by Snow Patrol.

Top 10

Zurcaroh

5

Acrobatic Group; started all lined up in a row. They broke out and performed a ritual dance to "Baba Yetu". Next, they created a human tower, and threw the little girl at the top off. They showed a scene where a little boy sees a girl acrobat and is scared of her appearance. The remaining acrobats do a flag routine. The little boy comes back and isn't scared of the girl anymore. They end the routine by making another human tower and throwing three girls in the air to be caught.

Advanced

Samuel J. Comroe

6

Stand-up Comedian; explains how he met his wife. Tells a story about a guy he met that was squeezing his girlfriend's butt. The guy then walked up to Comroe and said he doesn't really have tourettes because he doesn't cuss. Comroe said when he cusses it is from the heart. He finishes talking about how he does not like rude people. If you honk at him, he will follow you home. If he opens the door and you don't say thank you, he will pull you back in.

Advanced

Courtney Hadwin

7

Singer; performed "River Deep, Mountain High" by Tina Turner.

Top 10

Shin Lim

8

Close-up Magician; played piano for a bit, and talked about how he used to play piano until carpal tunnel made him stop, then got Tyra to randomly select a card. He then made multiple copies of this card appear and disappear, and displayed the name of the card with floating playing cards.

Advanced

Duo Transcend

9

Trapeze Duo; opens with both at the top of the trapeze. Mary blindfolds Tyce, and proceeds to dangle for his leg in the air. She then does many flips by just holding onto his arms. Mary stands on Tyce's shoulders and jumps down with Tyce just barely catching her. They continue to do flips. Mary takes off his blindfold and holds him by just her arms. They conclude by Mary dropping Tyce, on purpose.

Top 10

Michael Ketterer

10

Singer; performed "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell.

Advanced

text: Finale

text: Guest performers in the finale included Kiss, Bebe Rexha, The Struts, Plácido Domingo, and Lindsey Stirling. Other celebrity appearances included David Spade, Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbaja-Biamila.[15]

text: The following chart describes the acts, appearances and segments presented during the finale.

text:
Act(s)

Performance Description

Glennis Grace

Singer; Guest performer Bebe Rexha sang a duet with Grace of her song "Meant to Be".

Samuel J. Comroe

Stand-up Comedian; Clips were shown of Comroe performing and acting as a judge to comment on the Mel B's performance as a stand-up comedienne.

Courtney Hadwin

Singer; Guest performer The Struts sang a duet with Hadwin of their song "Could Have Been Me" and Janis Joplin's version of "Piece of My Heart" song.

Daniel Emmet

Opera Singer; Guest performer Plácido Domingo sang a duet with Emmet of Les pêcheurs de perles opera song "Au fond du temple saint" (generally known as "The Pearl Fishers Duet").

Vicky Barbolak

Stand-up Comedienne; Guest performer David Spade performed together with Barbolak.

Michael Ketterer

Singer; Sang "The Courage To Love" by Garth Brooks.

Shin Lim

Close-up Magician; Guest volunteers Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbaja-Biamila

Brian King Joseph & Duo Transcend

Electric Violinist and Trapeze Duo; Guest performer Lindsey Stirling and Joseph performed performed "Roundtable Rival" and "The Force of Nature" while Duo Transcend performs.

Zurcaroh

Acrobatic Group; Guest performer Lindsey Stirling

text:
Key

  1st place (Winner)

  2nd place (Runner-ups)

  3rd place

  4th place

  5th place

text:
Act

Result

Shin Lim

Winner

Zurcaroh

Runner-Ups

Brian King Joseph

3rd place

Samuel J. Comroe

4th place

Michael Ketterer

5th place

text: Top 36 acts

text:
Key

     Winner

     Runner-up

     Third Place

     Top 5

     Finalist

     Semifinalist (lost judges' vote)

     Semifinalist (lost audience vote)

     Quarterfinalist (lost judges' vote)

     Quarterfinalist (lost audience vote)

 Golden buzzer (Auditions)

 Golden buzzer (Judge Cuts)

 Judges' wild card (quarterfinals)

 Judges' wild card (semifinals)

text:
Name of Act

Age(s)

Genre

Act

Hometown

Quarterfinal

Semifinal

Result

Shin Lim

26

Magic

Close-up Magician

Acton, Massachusetts

1

1

Winner

Zurcaroh

8–39

Acrobatics

Acrobatic Group

 Götzis, Austria

3

1

Runners-Up

Brian King Joseph

27

Music

Electric Violinist

Los Angeles, California

3

2

3rd place

Samuel J. Comroe

30

Comedy

Stand-up Comedian

Los Angeles, California

2

1

4th place

Michael Ketterer

40

Singing

Singer

Anaheim, California

3

1

5th place

Courtney Hadwin

13

Singing

Singer

 County Durham, England

1

2

Finalist (Won Public Vote)

Daniel Emmet

25

Singing

Opera Singer

Las Vegas, Nevada

3

2

Finalist (Won Judges' Vote)

Duo Transcend

29 & 32

Acrobatics

Trapeze Duo

Salt Lake City, Utah

2

1

Finalist (Won Judges' Vote)

Glennis Grace

40

Singing

Singer

 Amsterdam, Netherlands

2

2

Finalist (Won Dunkin' Save)

Vicki Barbolak

60

Comedy

Stand-up Comedienne

Oceanside, California

1

2

Finalist (Won Public Vote)

Voices of Hope

5–17

Singing

Choir

Orange County, California

2

1

Semifinalist (Lost Judges' Vote)

We Three

21–27

Singing

Band

McMinnville, Oregon

1

2

Semifinalist (Lost Judges' Vote)

Aaron Crow

49

Danger

Danger Act

 Bruges, Belgium

3

2

Eliminated

Amanda Mena

15

Singing

Singer

Boston, Massachusetts

1

1

Eliminated

Angel City Chorale

19–88

Singing

Choir

Los Angeles, California

1

2

Eliminated

Christina Wells

42

Singing

Singer

Houston, Texas

3

2

Eliminated

Da RepubliK

15–32

Dance

Dance Group

 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2

2

Eliminated

Front Pictures

41 & 43

Variety

Multimedia Performance Act

 Kiev, Ukraine

2

1

Eliminated

Junior New System

18–25

Dance

Dance Group

 Manila, Philippines

1

1

Eliminated

Makayla Phillips

16

Singing

Singer

Canyon Lake, California

2

1

Eliminated

Noah Guthrie

24

Singing

Singer/Guitarist

Greer, South Carolina

2

2

Eliminated

Us the Duo

27 & 28

Singing

Band

Los Angeles, California

3

1

Eliminated

Mochi

29

Variety

Diabolo Artist

 Shizuoka, Japan

1

N/A

Quarterfinalist (Lost Judges' Vote)

The Future Kingz

7–23

Dance

Dance Group

Chicago, Illinois

3

N/A

Quarterfinalist (Lost Judges' Vote)

Flau'jae

14

Music

Rapper

Savannah, Georgia

1

N/A

Eliminated

Hans

"19"

Variety

Singer/Accordionist/Dancer

 Adelaide, Australia

3

N/A

Eliminated

Human Fountains

24–29

Variety

Novelty Act

Los Angeles, California

1

N/A

Eliminated

Joseph O'Brien

20

Singing

Singer/Pianist

Columbia, Tennessee

3

N/A

Eliminated

Lord Nil

38

Danger

Escape Artist

 Italy

1

N/A

Eliminated

Quin and Misha

70 & 35

Dance

Ballroom Dance Duo

Orlando, Florida

2

N/A

Eliminated

Rob Lake

35

Magic

Illusionist

Norman, Oklahoma

3

N/A

Eliminated

The PAC Dance Team

15–18

Dance

Dance Group

Sahuarita, Arizona

1

N/A

Eliminated

The Sacred Riana

25

Magic

Illusionist

 Jakarta, Indonesia

2

N/A

Eliminated

The Savitsky Cats

24 & 45

Animal

Cat Act

 Ukraine

2

N/A

Eliminated

UDI Dance

20–37

Dance

Blacklight Dance Group

 Tomsk, Russia

3

N/A

Eliminated

Yumbo Dump

31 & 34

Comedy

Comedy Duo

 Okayama, Japan

2

N/A

Eliminated

text: International broadcast

text: This season is being aired in Asia within 48 hours of being broadcast in the US. It airs on AXN starting May 31, 2018 (UTC+8).[16][17]

text: In the United Kingdom and Ireland the first episode was brought to Netflix on May 31. In Singapore, the show was broadcast on MediaCorp Channel 5 every Thursday starting May 31, 2018.[18]

text: Ratings

text: U.S. Nielsen ratings

text:
Episode

Title

First air date

Timeslot (EDT)

Rating(18–49)

Share(18–49)

Viewers(millions)

NightlyRank

WeeklyRank

1

Auditions Week 1

May 29, 2018

Tuesday  8:00 p.m.

2.5

11

12.16

1[19]

3[20]

2

Auditions Week 2

June 5, 2018

2.2

10

11.27

1[21]

3[22]

3

Auditions Week 3

June 12, 2018

2.3

10

11.46

1[23]

1[24]

4

Auditions Week 4

June 19, 2018

2.2

10

11.86

1[25]

1[26]

5

Auditions Week 5

June 26, 2018

2.0

9

11.32

1[27]

1[28]

6

Auditions Week 6

July 10, 2018

2.1

9

11.55

1[29]

1[30]

7

Judge Cuts 1

July 17, 2018

2.1

9

11.33

1[31]

1[32]

8

Judge Cuts 2

July 24, 2018

2.0

8

11.68

1[33]

1[34]

9

Judge Cuts 3

July 31, 2018

2.1

9

11.83

1[35]

1[36]

10

Judge Cuts 4

August 7, 2018

1.9

9

11.04

1[37]

1[38]

11

Quarterfinals, Week 1 (Performances)

August 14, 2018

2.1

10

11.10

1[39]

1[40]

12

Quarterfinals, Week 1 (Results)

August 15, 2018

Wednesday  8:00 p.m.

1.5

8

9.85

2[41]

2[40]

13

Quarterfinals, Week 2 (Performances)

August 21, 2018

Tuesday  8:00 p.m.

2.1

9

11.21

1[42]

1[43]

14

Quarterfinals, Week 2 (Results)

August 22, 2018

Wednesday  8:00 p.m.

1.6

8

9.69

1[44]

2[43]

15

Quarterfinals, Week 3 (Performances)

August 28, 2018

Tuesday  8:00 p.m.

1.9

8

10.78

1[45]

1[46]

16

Quarterfinals, Week 3 (Results)

August 29, 2018

Wednesday  8:00 p.m.

1.5

7

9.90

2[47]

2[46]

17

Semifinals, Week 1 (Performances)

September 4, 2018

Tuesday  8:00 p.m.

1.8

8

10.69

1[48]

5[49]

18

Semifinals, Week 1 (Results)

September 5, 2018

Wednesday  8:00 p.m.

1.5

7

9.89

2[50]

7[49]

19

Semifinals, Week 2 (Performances)

September 11, 2018

Tuesday  8:00 p.m.

1.9

8

10.75

1[51]

4[52]

20

Semifinals, Week 2 (Results)

September 12, 2018

Wednesday  8:00 p.m.

1.6

8

10.15

1[53]

5[52]

21

The Finals

September 18, 2018

Tuesday  8:00 p.m.

2.3

10

12.99

1[54]

2[55]

22

Season Finale

September 19, 2018

Wednesday  8:00 p.m.

2.1

10

12.88

1[56]

3[55]

text: Special episodes

text:
Specials

Title

First air date

Timeslot (EDT)

Rating(18–49)

Share(18–49)

Viewers(millions)

NightlyRank

WeeklyRank

S1

Best of Auditions

July 11, 2018

Wednesday  8:00 p.m.

0.9

5

5.98

2[57]

4[30]

S2

Road to Lives

August 9, 2018

Thursday  8:00 p.m.

0.7

3

3.82

2[58]

21[38]

text: Contestants who appeared in other seasons or shows

text:
Act

Television show

Season

Result

Notes

Academy of Villains

America's Got Talent

7

Semifinalist

Sergey and Sasha

10

Cut Before Judge Cuts

Silicon Valley Girls

11

Cut Before Judge Cuts

Auditioned as "Trio Grace"

Junior New System

Asia's Got Talent

1

Finalist

Received the golden buzzer during the semifinals.[59]

The Sacred Riana

2

Winner

[60]

Yumbo Dump

Semi-Finalist

[61][62]

UDI

Britain's Got Talent

9

Finalist

Wes-P

12

Semi-Finalist

Auditioned as "Mr. Uekusa"

Aaron Crow

7

Semi-Finalist

La France a un incroyable talent

11

Semi-Finalist

Zurcaroh

12

Finalist

Received the golden buzzer during the auditions.[63]

David Pereira

8

Finalist

Got Talent España

1

Finalist

Noah Guthrie

Glee

6

N/A

Played Roderick Meeks[64]Recurring role; 12 episodes.

Lioz Shem Tov

Israel's Got Talent

1

Semi-Finalist

Jeffrey Li

Little Big Shots

1

N/A

Rob Lake

Masters of Illusion

3

N/A

Shin Lim

Penn & Teller: Fool Us

2

Fooler

4

Jimmy Ichihana

Non-Fooler

Flau'jae

The Rap Game

3

Final Four

Troy James

Showtime At The Apollo

1

N/A

Glennis Grace

Eurovision Song Contest

50 (2005)

Semi-Finalist

Dutch contestant with "My Impossible Dream"

Soundmixshow

10 (1994)

Winner

Sang "One Moment in Time" by Whitney Houston

Courtney Hadwin

The Voice Kids (UK)

1

Finalist

One-chair turn from Danny Jones.[65]

Angel Garcia

La Voz Kids (US)

2

Eliminated in the Battles

Auditioned as "Angelito Garcia". One-chair turn from Prince Royce.

Amanda Mena

Winner

Three-chair turner and joined Team Royce.[66]


document_title: Aircraft principal axes

question_text: the movement of an aircraft about its normal axis is called

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text: Aircraft principal axes

text: Principal axes[edit]

text:
Normal axis, or yaw axis — an axis drawn from top to bottom, and perpendicular to the other two axes. Parallel to the fuselage station.
Lateral axis, transverse axis, or pitch axis — an axis running from the pilot's left to right in piloted aircraft, and parallel to the wings of a winged aircraft. Parallel to the buttock line.
Longitudinal axis, or roll axis — an axis drawn through the body of the vehicle from tail to nose in the normal direction of flight, or the direction the pilot faces. Parallel to the waterline.

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text: Normally, these axes are represented by the letters X, Y and Z in order to compare them with some reference frame, usually named x, y, z. Normally, this is made in such a way that the X is used for the longitudinal axis, but there are other possibilities to do it.

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text: Vertical axis (yaw)[edit]

text: The yaw axis has its origin at the center of gravity and is directed towards the bottom of the aircraft, perpendicular to the wings and to the fuselage reference line. Motion about this axis is called yaw. A positive yawing motion moves the nose of the aircraft to the right.[1][2] The rudder is the primary control of yaw.[3]

text: Lateral axis (pitch)[edit]

text: The pitch axis (also called lateral or transverse axis[4]) has its origin at the center of gravity and is directed to the right, parallel to a line drawn from wingtip to wingtip. Motion about this axis is called pitch. A positive pitching motion raises the nose of the aircraft and lowers the tail. The elevators are the primary control of pitch.[3]

text: Longitudinal axis (roll)[edit]

text: The roll axis (or longitudinal axis[4]) has its origin at the center of gravity and is directed forward, parallel to the fuselage reference line. Motion about this axis is called roll. An angular displacement about this axis is called bank.[3] A positive rolling motion lifts the left wing and lowers the right wing. The pilot rolls by increasing the lift on one wing and decreasing it on the other. This changes the bank angle. The ailerons are the primary control of bank. The rudder also has a secondary effect on bank.[5]

text: Relationship with other systems of axes[edit]

text: These axes are related to the principal axes of inertia, but are not the same. They are geometrical symmetry axes, regardless of the mass distribution of the aircraft.[citation needed]

text: In aeronautical and aerospace engineering intrinsic rotations around these axes are often called Euler angles, but this conflicts with existing usage elsewhere. The calculus behind them is similar to the Frenet–Serret formulas. Performing a rotation in an intrinsic reference frame is equivalent to right-multiplying its characteristic matrix (the matrix that has the vector of the reference frame as columns) by the matrix of the rotation.[citation needed]

text: History[edit]

text: The first aircraft to demonstrate active control about all three axes was the Wright brothers' 1902 glider.[6]


document_title: Timeline of particle discoveries

question_text: who discovered the subatomic particles of an atom

text: Timeline of particle discoveries

text: This is a timeline of subatomic particle discoveries, including all particles thus far discovered which appear to be elementary (that is, indivisible) given the best available evidence. It also includes the discovery of composite particles and antiparticles that were of particular historical importance.

text: More specifically, the inclusion criteria are:

text:
Elementary particles from the Standard Model of particle physics that have so far been observed. The Standard Model is the most comprehensive existing model of particle behavior. All Standard Model particles including the Higgs boson have been verified, and all other observed particles are combinations of two or more Standard Model particles.
Antiparticles which were historically important to the development of particle physics, specifically the positron and antiproton. The discovery of these particles required very different experimental methods from that of their ordinary matter counterparts, and provided evidence that all particles had antiparticles—an idea that is fundamental to quantum field theory, the modern mathematical framework for particle physics. In the case of most subsequent particle discoveries, the particle and its anti-particle were discovered essentially simultaneously.
Composite particles which were the first particle discovered containing a particular elementary constituent, or whose discovery was critical to the understanding of particle physics.

text:
Time
Event

1800
William Herschel discovers "heat rays"

1801
Johann Wilhelm Ritter made the hallmark observation that invisible rays just beyond the violet end of the visible spectrum were especially effective at lightening silver chloride-soaked paper. He called them "oxidizing rays" to emphasize chemical reactivity and to distinguish them from "heat rays" at the other end of the invisible spectrum (both of which were later determined to be photons). The more general term "chemical rays" was adopted shortly thereafter to describe the oxidizing rays, and it remained popular throughout the 19th century. The terms chemical and heat rays were eventually dropped in favor of ultraviolet and infrared radiation, respectively.[1]

1895
Discovery of the ultraviolet radiation below 200 nm, named vacuum ultraviolet (later identified as photons) because it is strongly absorbed by air, by the German physicist Victor Schumann[2]

1895
X-ray produced by Wilhelm Röntgen (later identified as photons)[3]

1897
Electron discovered by J. J. Thomson[4]

1899
Alpha particle discovered by Ernest Rutherford in uranium radiation[5]

1900
Gamma ray (a high-energy photon) discovered by Paul Villard in uranium decay[6]

1911
Atomic nucleus identified by Ernest Rutherford, based on scattering observed by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden[7]

1919
Proton discovered by Ernest Rutherford[8]

1931
Deuteron discovered by Harold Urey[9][10] (predicted by Rutherford in 1920[11])

1932
Neutron discovered by James Chadwick[12] (predicted by Rutherford in 1920[11])
Main article: Discovery of the neutron

1932
Antielectron (or positron), the first antiparticle, discovered by Carl D. Anderson[13] (proposed by Paul Dirac in 1927 and by Ettore Majorana in 1928)

1937
Muon (or mu lepton) discovered by Seth Neddermeyer, Carl D. Anderson, J.C. Street, and E.C. Stevenson, using cloud chamber measurements of cosmic rays[14] (it was mistaken for the pion until 1947[15])

1947
Pion (or pi meson) discovered by C. F. Powell's group, including César Lattes(first author) and Giuseppe Occhialini (predicted by Hideki Yukawa in 1935[16])

1947
Kaon (or K meson), the first strange particle, discovered by George Dixon Rochester and Clifford Charles Butler[17]

1950
Λ0 (or lamda baryon) discovered during a study of cosmic-ray interactions[18]

1955
Antiproton discovered by Owen Chamberlain, Emilio Segrè, Clyde Wiegand, and Thomas Ypsilantis[19]

1956
Electron antineutrino detected by Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan (proposed by Wolfgang Pauli in 1930 to explain the apparent violation of conservation of energy in beta decay)[20] At the time it was simply referred to as neutrino since there was only one known neutrino.

1962
Muon neutrino (or mu neutrino) shown to be distinct from the electron neutrino by a group headed by Leon Lederman[21]

1964
Xi baryon discovery at Brookhaven National Laboratory[22]

1969
Partons (internal constituents of hadrons) observed in deep inelastic scattering experiments between protons and electrons at SLAC;[23][24] this was eventually associated with the quark model (predicted by Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig in 1964) and thus constitutes the discovery of the up quark, down quark, and strange quark.

1974
J/ψ meson discovered by groups headed by Burton Richter and Samuel Ting, demonstrating the existence of the charm quark[25][26] (proposed by James Bjorken and Sheldon Lee Glashow in 1964[27])

1975
Tau discovered by a group headed by Martin Perl[28]

1977
Upsilon meson discovered at Fermilab, demonstrating the existence of the bottom quark[29] (proposed by Kobayashi and Maskawa in 1973)

1979
Gluon observed indirectly in three-jet events at DESY[30]

1983
W and Z bosons discovered by Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer, and the CERN UA1 collaboration[31][32] (predicted in detail by Sheldon Glashow, Mohammad Abdus Salam, and Steven Weinberg)

1995
Top quark discovered at Fermilab[33][34]

1995
Antihydrogen produced and measured by the LEAR experiment at CERN[35]

2000
Tau neutrino first observed directly at Fermilab[36]

2011
Antihelium-4 produced and measured by the STAR detector; the first particle to be discovered by the experiment

2012
A particle exhibiting most of the predicted characteristics of the Higgs boson discovered by researchers conducting the Compact Muon Solenoid and ATLAS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider[37]

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document_title: Supreme Allied Commander

question_text: who was the supreme commander of the western allied forces in europe

text: Supreme Allied Commander

text: World War II[edit]

text: This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

text: During World War II, the Allied leaders appointed Supreme Allied Commanders to manage the multi-nation, multi-discipline fighting forces for a particular theatre of war. These Supreme Allied Commanders were given operational control over all air, land, and sea units in that theatre. In other cases, senior commanders were given the title Commander-in-Chief.

text: These Supreme Allied Commanders – were drawn from the most senior leaders in the British Armed Forces and United States Armed Forces. These commanders reported to the British/American Combined Chiefs of Staff, although in the case of the Pacific and South East Asia, the relevant national command authorities of the American Joint Chiefs of Staff or the British Chiefs of Staff Committee had responsibility for the main conduct of the war in the theatre, depending on the Supreme Commander's nationality.

text: General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower served in successive Supreme Allied Commander roles. Eisenhower was the Commander-in-Chief, Allied Force for the Mediterranean theatre. Eisenhower then served as Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force (SCAEF) in the European theatre, starting in December 1943 with the creation of the command to execute Operation Overlord and ending in July 1945 shortly after the End of World War II in Europe. In 1951, Eisenhower would again be a Supreme Allied Commander, the first to hold the post for NATO (see next section).

text: Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson succeeded Eisenhower in the Mediterranean theatre, given the title Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean. Wilson was succeeded by Field Marshal Harold Alexander, who continued in charge of those Allied forces until the end of the war.

text: Admiral of the Fleet Lord Louis Mountbatten was Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia (SACSEA) throughout most of its existence. He replaced General Archibald Wavell.

text: General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was appointed Supreme Allied Commander, South West Pacific Area (SWPA) on 18 June 1942.[1] However, he preferred to use the title Commander-in-Chief. During the Allied occupation of Japan following the war, MacArthur held the title of Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP).

text: NATO[edit]

text: The term came into use again with the formation of NATO in 1949. In 1952, Allied Command Europe was established, led by Eisenhower. He became the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR). Soon afterwards, Allied Command Atlantic was established, at Norfolk, Virginia, under Lynde McCormick, a U.S. Navy admiral. His title was Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT), and the entire command was usually known as SACLANT. Both Supreme Commander have, until 2009, been American, with a deputy commander from another NATO member, though only British and Germans have held the post.

text: In June 2003, the commands were reshuffled. One command was given responsibility for operations, and one for transforming the military components of the alliance to meet new challenges. In Europe, Allied Command Operations was established from the former Allied Command Europe, and given responsibility for all NATO military operations worldwide. However, for legal reasons[further explanation needed], SACEUR retained the traditional title including Europe.[2] In the United States, SACLANT was decommissioned and Allied Command Transformation established. The headquarters of ACT is at the former SACLANT headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Each has a Supreme Allied Commander as its commander.

text:
Allied Command Operations (ACO) has its headquarters at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), at Mons, Belgium. It is headed by the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR), a U.S. four-star general or admiral also heading U.S. European Command. The current[update] (since 2016) Commander is General Curtis Scaparrotti (Army), who succeeded General Philip M. Breedlove (Air Force).
Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is located in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. It is headed by the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT), a four-star general or admiral. General Stéphane Abrial, the commander from 2009 until 2012, was the first non-American to hold a supreme commander role within NATO. Since then this position has been held by a French Air Force officer. The commander of the organization is currently General Denis Mercier. [3]


document_title: Steve Smith (American Dad!)

question_text: who is steve's singing voice on american dad

question_tokens: who is steve 's singing voice on american dad

text: Steve Smith (American Dad!)

text: Personality[edit]

text: Steve Smith is the baby of the family, Stan and Francine's high-school aged son. He attends Pearl Bailey High School. Steve is portrayed as an enthusiastic, ambitious, and wimpy nerd.[3] In the official series, he is not presented as nerdy as he is in the show's unaired precursory pilot when his appearance, voice and manner greatly contrasted from what they would eventually become. In the precursory pilot, Steve was also gawkier, scrawnier and voiced by Ricky Blitt (as opposed to Scott Grimes). In the official series, he's become emphasized as soft, emotional, cute and endearing. As part of his emotional and sensitive character, Steve is combined with a screechy wail. Despite his wimpy and nerdy characteristics, Steve is particularly conceited and obnoxious. He is all too often a showman, always ready to put on a performance and show off his "talents", typically singing/dance wise.[4][5] Steve is usually accompanied by his equally uncool friends: "Snot", Steve's closest friend with whom he shares a bromance,[6] the two once even having shared in a kiss together (in the episode "License to Till"); Toshi, who is an Asian American and only speaks Japanese; and Barry, who is morbidly obese with an inarticulate, strident, and sloppy vocal quality. Steve possesses a keen interest in the opposite sex and has had an obese girlfriend, Debbie, to which Stan disapproved. Steve's relationship with his father is strained with Stan often behaving judgmentally and intolerantly over Steve's nerdiness, immaturity and sensitivity. Steve has been known to cop attitude, sometimes rightfully so at Stan over his offensive acts.

text: Steve was born on October 7. He is portrayed as a stereotypical geek: he is a bit of a social outcast, wears thick glasses and harbors a strong academic interest in science, especially chemistry.[7][8] More typically geeky traits of Steve's include his interests in Dungeons & Dragons, Harry Potter and Star Wars.[9] Like most unpopular students, Steve is often physically and verbally picked on by the bullies of the more popular social circle. Steve's father, Stan, is often frustrated with Steve, as he would prefer that Steve engage in activities that would improve his social standing, like sports, a conflict that was first explored in the first season episode "All About Steve".[10] Stan sometimes attempts to change Steve, usually unsuccessfully, as when he once gave Steve an experimental performance enhancer. The steroid caused Steve to grow female breasts but also ironically made him more popular at school.[11] Steve looks up to his dad as a role model but his naïvete often leads him to follow his dad's advice or convictions, seemingly blindly. This led him to once openly display homophobia.[12] Another time Steve received a failing grade on a presentation about fossils using information he got from Stan because he thought his dad was intelligent, despite Roger's attempts to convince him otherwise.[13]

text: Steve's mother, Francine, does not care that Steve is a geek,[10] and is more protective of him, seeing him as her "baby", a status she once attempted to prolong by using a special drug to keep him from reaching puberty.[14] Steve's red hair comes from Francine, who actually dyes her hair blonde.[15]

text: Steve does not share many interests with his sister, Hayley, but has occasionally collaborated with her on schemes, such as when they tried to break up a young couple so Hayley could get the guy and Steve the girl, which ended up backfiring on both of them getting the couple killed.[16] They have also tried to teach both of their parents individual lessons, like when they tried to teach Francine not to be racist, only to learn that she was actually prejudiced against left-handed people,[17] or when they exacted revenge against Stan for turning a homeless shelter into a bumfight business.[18]

text: Steve and Roger play video games together, get advice from each other and come up with schemes together.[19] For example, he once planned to make a Girls Gone Wild-type video and market it in order to generate money to buy a video game console.[18] In another scheme, Steve and Roger ran away to New York City to make their fortunes, while the rest of the family thought killed when lightning set the family's treehouse on fire.[13] Steve's tendency to inflate his own ego, combined with Roger's easily irritated and vindictive nature, often leads the latter to physically abuse or play a prank on Steve because of a real or perceived slight or insult. Occasionally, Steve gets even, like when he once conned Roger out of $50,000.[20] Despite their love-hate relationship, Steve considers Roger his best friend, even once intervening to rescue the alien from an abusive relationship.[7]

text: A freshman at Pearl Bailey High School, Steve is a highly capable musician, having taken up the cello to once impress a girl.[21] In a later episode, however, Steve says that he has been playing the cello since he was nine.[22] Steve also plays guitar and sings, which he did as part of a band in the episode "American Dream Factory." In fact, both of the songs Steve's band rehearses ("Livin' on the Run" and "Sunset Blvd"), were originally recorded by Scott Grimes, who voices Steve.[23] Among Steve's other talents are being able to read Elvish, use Morse code, and communicate with dolphins.[9][24]

text: While academically skilled,[10] Steve is also quite naïve and not socially savvy. For example, he knows more about the New York Stock Exchange than about prostitution.[13] As a result, he can sometimes be tricked into believing outrageously implausible lies. Roger typically takes advantage of this, especially when he is upset with Steve or when he is simply bored. Once Roger made Steve believe he was not really Stan and Francine's biological child.[25] Another time Roger tricked Steve into believing he was an adolescent wizard, and took him to a drug dealer's house, telling him it was secretly a wizard's school, and the drug lab inside a Potions class.[26]

text: Although normally even-tempered and relatively tolerant, Steve cries when he is notably upset, but he has also had uncontrolled bursts of rage, during which he breaks nearby objects and screams very loudly.[27] If pressed hard enough, Steve will also hit or attack people, such as when he beat up Beauregard La Fontaine for insulting his father, even though he is generally not aggressive or an adept fighter, as he was unable to even make a fist in "Bully for Steve", for example.[13] He also uses childhood paraphernalia that teenagers have typically outgrown, such as the teddy bear he is implied to sleep with in "Live and Let Fry", and the Care Bears towel he is revealed to use in "Camp Refoogee".

text: Steve has also been shown to occasionally struggle with both substance abuse and an addiction to power. In An Apocalypse to Remember, Steve claims to be hooked on "hallucinogenic berries", which ultimately turn out to be poisonous.[28] In a later episode, Steve develops an addiction to the energy drink Cougar Boost, at one point going as far as to defraud his friends with fake tickets in order to obtain money to procure more of the beverage.[29] In the episode Virtual In-Stanity, Francine derides Stan for picking up a drug bunny as a last minute gift, in the process reminding Stan that they just barely got Steve off the heroin from Stan's previous last second gift.[30] In both the pilot episode and You Debt Your Life, Steve demonstrates an addiction to power; in the former case by taking over the school after being turned down by a girl he was trying to impress,[31] in the latter case due to his obsession with making the morning announcements and deciding what is worth broadcasting to the high school.[32] Furthermore, as shown in the episode Jenny Fromdabloc, it is revealed that among his four friends Steve is considered to be the leader of the group going as far back as elementary school, prompting Roger to call Steve the "King of the Nerds".[33] In most cases when his role as the leader of the group is threatened Steve's drive to maintain this position of power results in erratic behavior such as humiliating his friends with personal or compromising information[33] or threats of physical violence against himself or others.[31] In nearly every case outside of his immediate circle of friends, Steve's position of power or authority ends up stripped or removed from him,[32] or in rare cases, remains with him in a curtailed capacity, as was the case in I am the Walrus.[34]

text: In Hurricane!, it appeared that Steve might have a fetish for Asians and pregnant women, either separately or even both, when Francine found multiple magazines in Steve's bedroom. "Stanny Slickers II: The Legend of Ollie's Gold" and "Stan Time" also imply that Steve has a fetish for robotic women (in the former episode, he tried to build a date out of a vacuum cleaner and was shown to have a fully functioning female robot in Stan's vision of the future where Stan is famous after death, but everyone makes rude comments about his children being freaks. In the later episode, one of Steve's porno movie ideas depicts two women making out and turning into robots in a hot tub). Steve has pursued many women but he is said to become "super gay" in the future in the episode Roger Passes the Bar.

text: Friends[edit]

text: Steve has a small group of friends from school that he regularly spends time with. The boys frequently engage in activities which most teenage boys have outgrown, such as slumber parties.[35] The group includes:

text:
Snot, a teenager with curly hair, some noticeable stubble and acne, he is Steve's best friend. His character appears to be based on Booger from Revenge of the Nerds; he is even voiced by Curtis Armstrong. Snot who is Jewish, once had an affair with Steve's then-girlfriend, Gretchen.[36] It is implied in "Roger Passes The Bar" that Snot has joined the army and turned gay, marrying his commanding officer, LT Randall Santana.
Barry, a morbidly obese and apparently simple-minded boy, he has an inarticulate, strident, and sloppy vocal quality. In the episode "With Friends Like Steve's" he is revealed to be a maniacal, demonic genius made to take special "vitamins" to inhibit these evil tendencies, and cause mental retardation. Without taking the pills, he also speaks in an English accent. It is implied in "Roger Passes The Bar" that he grows up to become a gay poet working at Ithaca College, dating his male students.[24]
Toshi, a multilingual Japanese teenager. Although he seems to understand English, he has yet to speak it, with the exception of "Finances with Wolves", in which he yells "Werewolf!" in unison with Snot and Barry, and "Francine's Flashback", in which he yells "Godzilla!". When he speaks Japanese (generally with a very condescending tone), Steve believes he can understand him, though he really does not. In the season 9 episode "Independent Movie" he says "Go on without me" in Japanese, then saying "please go" in perfect English. Toshi has spoken Russian[37] and speaks Spanish when talking on the phone to Francine (though that could be Francine ignorantly thinking Toshi's Japanese is Spanish).[13] Though they are friends, Toshi's greatest wish is to one day kill Steve.[38] Toshi's parents speak perfect English,[39] as does his younger sister, Akiko, who acts as Toshi's translator in episodes such as "Weiner of Our Discontent" and "The Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls". Toshi apparently knows of Roger Smith being an alien as he once called him "that alien in the wig". It is implied in "Roger Passes The Bar", that he has moved to Kyoto, Japan to become an exotic dancer.

text: Romance[edit]

text: Lisa Silver – a cheerleader whom Steve asks out in the "Pilot" episode. He then runs for school president and when he wins, she starts dating him because of his power. When Steve tries to kiss her, she rejects him by calling him repulsive, leaving Steve heartbroken. Steve then has Stan deport Lisa and her family. Later, in "1600 Candles", Steve asks her out to the school dance. When Stan injects Steve with an aging formula, Steve shows up to meet Lisa as an old man and a little kid. She is about to dump him but gives him another chance. Steve then shows up at the dance normal and they dance. Then Roger arrives and pulls Steve's pants down, revealing his one pubic hair, causing some bullies including a member of the football team to give him a swirly.

text: Kim – In "Stan Knows Best", Steve has Roger dress up like Hayley and pretend to be a burn victim to get a date with Kim. But when Kim spends more time with Roger, Steve calls Roger ugly, causing Kim to leave.

text: Lindsay Coolidge – a girl that Steve asks out in "Francine's Flashback". She only agrees to go out with him if he can find a date for Lindsay's ugly friend, Jewel. Steve tricks Roger to go on a double date with him. When Jewel finds out that Roger is an alien, she tells Lindsay, causing Roger to knock them out. Then Stan has their memories of the date erased. Lindsay returns in "Big Trouble in Little Langley", where she becomes attracted to Steve after he blows things up with the fireworks his grandparents gave him. She said that if he blew up a person, she'd let him touch her boobs. Steve then tries to blow up Roger, but it fails and blasts his fingers off. Paramedics arrive and reattach Steve's fingers, after which Lindsay lets Steve touch her breasts but because of the medication the paramedics gave him, Steve couldn't feel her breasts. Lindsay takes it as an insult and leaves. She next appears in "Choosy Wives Choose Smith", where Steve begins playing the cello to impress her. After his recital, Steve rejects Lindsay and chooses Simon, a stray cat that got run over because of Steve.

text: Betsy White – the daughter of Chuck and Christie White, whom Steve develops a crush on in "Deacon Stan, Jesus Man". Later, Betsy (who had herself become interested in Steve) kisses Steve and because Steve was pregnant with Roger's baby at the time, the baby transferred into Betsy. It causes her parents to disown her and send her to her aunt's farm in Iowa. She became happy to be a teenage mother because it freed her from gymnastics. It is implied that she still loves Steve.

text: Svetlana – a Russian mail-order bride that Steve and his friends accidentally receive in "Of Ice and Men". They later planned on skinny-dipping with her until Hayley shows up and tells them that one of them must marry her. The boys hold a contest to see who will marry Svetlana and Snot wins. But later at the wedding, Toshi woos her over by learning Russian.

text: Gretchen Grossbard – an old woman that Steve meets after Steve's fake grandpa, Lou, dies. The two make out and start dating. Later, when Steve goes to visit her, he finds out she made out with Snot and they break up.

text: Makeva – an African girl that Steve falls in love with when he and Stan get sent to a refugee camp in "Camp Refoogee". Later, Makeva gets kidnapped by the men keeping them hostage. Steve defeats the leader in a race and wins back Makeva, only to find out she has developed Stockholm syndrome and fallen in love with her captor.

text: Hayley Smith – Steve's sister, whom he lusts after. In "Stannie Get Your Gun", Roger tricks Steve into thinking he's adopted so he French kisses Hayley. Then, in "Meter Made", Steve masturbates to a painting of Hayley nude but he was unaware it was her because her face wasn't shown on the painting. This shows that he finds his sister's body attractive.

text: Debbie Hyman – an overweight, goth girl that Steve meets in "The American Dad After-School Special". Steve later asks her out but when Stan meets Debbie, he develops anorexia. Steve thinks Debbie is the cause of his father's condition and breaks up with her. Later, Steve tells Stan that Debbie was the best thing that ever happened to him. Debbie was in the room and heard so the two got back together. She next appears in "Iced, Iced Babies", where she breaks up with Steve. They get back together in "Escape from Pearl Bailey". When Lisa Silver and her friends make fun of Debbie, Steve gets revenge on them. When Debbie finds out, she breaks up with Steve, but Steve claims he was defending her honor and they get back together. Later, in "Bar Mitzvah Hustle", she dumps Steve for Snot's bar mitzvah study partner, Etan, for being more mature. When Steve exposes Etan's true immaturity, she dumps Etan and gets back together with Steve. Later, she finds out Steve was the one who stole Etan's presents and ends her relationship with him again.

text: Jenny Bowen – a girl that Steve flirts with in "Failure is Not a Factory-Installed Option". Jenny only dates guys with cars and when a salesman tricks Stan into buying eight cars, he and his friends invite Jenny and her friends over. When Roger accidentally shows a movie on the neighbor's house, Steve tells her it's a drive-in movie and they watch the movie together. Jenny is disappointed when Steve doesn't make a move. The next night, Steve invites her over but a repo man shows up and takes the cars away. Jenny and her friends later drive off with the repo man.

text: Becky Arangino – a cruise director that Steve meets in "The Vacation Goo", when the Smiths go on vacation. She likes young guys and taking their virginity causing Steve to like her. When Francine jumps overboard, Becky helps the family find her but a storm strands them on a deserted island. When they go in a cave, a cave-in occurs and kills Becky. The Smith are then forced to eat her corpse to survive.

text: Carmen Selectra – when Roger's alter ego Scotch Bingeington hosts a Spring Break party in "Spring Breakup", Carmen comes over to crown him as King of Spring Break. Steve then asks her to take his virginity. She agrees, but when Steve asks for her medical records, she leaves. She then gives Steve her medical records but when Steve finds out she has breast implants, Steve rejects her. When Carmen is about to crown Roger, she tells Steve that she had flown her doctor over to get rid of the implants and is ready to take his virginity. Then the stage collapses and kills her; tragically, if she had kept her implants, she would have survived.

text: Jewel – an ugly girl that Steve makes out with when he gets drunk in "Daddy Queerest".

text: Jeanine Winthrop – a girl that Steve meets in class in "A Jones for a Smith". The two become attracted to each other and when he goes over to her house. They were about to have sex when Jeanine's father steps in. He tells Steve that he's on board with Steve having sex with Jeanine and gives him a condom. Steve then has his family meet Jeanine's family. Stan was addicted to crack at the time and ruined the dinner, causing Jeanine's father to kick them out.

text: Amy – a girl in Steve's science class in "Merlot Down Dirty Shame". When Hayley and Klaus convince Steve is in a dream, he goes to school, kisses Amy then convinces her to jump out the window with him. She is then impaled on a fencepost but she survives.

text: Akiko Yoshida – Toshi's sister that Steve develops a crush on. When Akiko slaps Steve in "Weiner of Our Discontent", Steve gets an erection. Later, Steve goes trick-or-treating with Akiko and flirts with her in "Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls" but she rejects him for a guy named Doug. In the episode "Spelling Bee My Baby", Steve and Akiko are shown openly flirting when an argument between Francine and Mrs. Yoshida turns them into rivals in the national spelling bee. Later, they meet and kiss, and Akiko convinces Steve to sneak out before the bee to meet, but she is kidnapped by Francine and imprisoned, and when Steve goes to meet with Akiko, he reads a note (left by Francine) that shoots him down. Heartbroken, Steve becomes more ruthless when he next sees Akiko at the Spelling Bee (having been released by Mrs. Yoshida) and the two face off. Akiko misspells a word and is eliminated from contention, but after finding out from Francine that she had kidnapped her, Steve intentionally misspells a word to keep Akiko in the competition after she is reprimanded for misspelling her word by her mother. The two continue to misspell words romantically the rest of the night back and forth, to the chagrin of the judges but to the satisfaction of their parents (until they resume their violent confrontation).

text: Ashley – a crazy girl that Steve meets in "Stan's Food Restaurant". Steve begins dating her so she will have sex with him. When he and Snot go on a double date with her, Ashley's friend turns out to be a doll named Julia. Steve is about to say something until Ashley kisses him. When Ashley accuses Snot of raping Julia, the date ends. Steve decides he can't take it anymore and hangs Julia and forges a suicide note. Ashley doesn't buy it and goes to find her murderer and puts off having sex with Steve. Steve leaves her and calls her weird.

text: Reshma – the nicest girl in school that Steve beats up in "License to Till" to become popular, but it backfires. Later, at Vince Chung's party, she kisses Steve and says that when her breasts mature, they're all his.

text: Phyllis – a virtual avatar that Stan creates to bond with Steve in "Virtual In-Stanity". Steve later goes on a date with her to a baseball game; she refuses to kiss him so Steve thinks she wants to be friends and decides to hook up with Chelsea. Stan is determined not to lose Steve so he has Phyllis offer Steve to have sex with her. When Francine finds out, she convinces Stan to accept his life with Steve as it is. Stan then has Phyllis break-up with Steve.

text: Chelsea – a girl that Steve meets in the above episode. When Steve's date with Phyllis is a bust, he finds out Chelsea speaks Orc and he becomes attracted to her and is about to ask her out, but then Phyllis offers Steve to have sex with her and he jumps at the chance. When Francine snaps him out of it, he decides to go out with Chelsea who rejects him for his superficiality.

text: Alicia Wilkner – A girl Steve met at a spin-the-bottle party, who turns out to be Roger in a disguise. Steve dated "Alicia" seven times, though it was actually nine, as Roger drugged Steve with Rohypnol for two of those dates and sarcastically claimed that "nothing happened".

text: In the episode "Roger Passes The Bar", after noting where the three of his friends are in the future, he states that he is "very gay", bringing speculation that he will eventually swing the other way at some point.