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Grand Finale

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ11300364
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Grande Finale, Grand Final, Grande Final, Grand Finale, may refer to:

Events

Grand Finale (Cassini), the final phase of the Cassini orbiter mission to Saturn

Grande Finale, Jackson County Apple Festival, Jackson, Jackson County, Ohio, USA; the concluding parade of the annual festival

The Grande Finale, Miss Universe Nepal; the final competition segment

The Grand Finale, an annual fundraiser by the Polish charity Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity

Sport

Grand final, a game that decides a sports league's premiership (or championship) winning team

Grand Finale (V8 Supercars), the name given to the final round of the V8 Supercar Championship Series from 2004 to 2008

Grande Finale Attijariwafabank, 2009 Alps Tour; a golf tournament in Morocco

AFL Women's Grand Final, women's Australian-rules football annual match in Australia

AFL Grand Final, Australian Football League Australian-rules football annual match in Australia

WAFL Grand Final, Australian-rules football Western Australia Football League premiership game in Western Australia

NRL Grand Final, Australian rugby league National Rugby League annual match in Australia

NBL Grand Final, Australian basketball annual National Basketball League championship series

Super League Grand Final, British rugby league Super League championship game in England

Challenge Tour Grand Final, men's professional golf tournament

LETAS Grand Finale, women's professional golf tournament

Players Championship Grand Final, the finale of the Players Tour Championship in snooker

Music

Grand finale in a piece of music composition

Grande Finale, Festival 500, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada; the concluding concert at the annual choir music festival

"Grande Finale: Seishun Days", 2009 concert tour by Breakerz (Japanese: ブレイカーズ, romanized: Bureikazu)

Albums

Final Fantasy VI: Grand Finale, 1994 album of videogame music

Grande Finale, 1986 album by Björn Afzelius

Grande Finale, 2007 album by Magnifico (musician)

Grande Finale, 2014 album by Pippo Pollina

Songs

"Grand Finale" (song), a 1998 song and video single by DMX, Method Man, Nas, and Ja Rule; off the soundtrack album Belly from the film Belly

"Grande Finale", a song by Alice Cooper from his 1972 album School's Out (album)

"Grand Finale", the seventh and final section of the 1976 Rush song "2112"

"The Grand Finale", a song by Styx from their 1977 album The Grand Illusion

"The Grand Finalé", a song by The D.O.C. from their 1989 album No One Can Do It Better

"Edward Scissorhands: The Grande Finale", 1990 song by Danny Elfman for the film Edward Scissorhands; see Music for a Darkened Theatre: Film & Television Music Volume Two

"GRAND FINALE", 2009 single by Breakerz (Japanese: ブレイカーズ, romanized: Bureikazu)

"Grande Finale", 2014 single by Studio Killers

Television

The Genius: Grand Final (Korean: 더 지니어스: 그랜드 파이널, romanized: Deo Jinieoseu: Geulaendeu Paineol), 2015 season 4 of Korean game show The Genius

'Grand Finale', a game show round, the final segment of any episode of the U.S. TV show Vs.

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