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Congrats to the NTN monkeys for a great final question tonight.

Category: Royals. Question: What do Edward The Confessor of England, Louis IX of France and Stephen I of Hungary have in common?

Just try and google that question! You can't just look up one of the three; ya gotta put them all in your search argument. Then by the time you're finished, when the point award is probably down to 20% or less, you still won't find much to help you. Either you know the answer or you don't--a laptop will get you to their commonality eventually but not soon enough to be of use in this game.

Maybe that's why there were no cheater borg bars in the top twenty tonight.

Well done, lads!

Finally!!!!

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Tiffany

Occassional Haunt - Jax Tavern, Forest Park, OH

And the answer is......4?? 42....the answer to life, the universe and everything

Could someone please post a recap as best as possible. I was unable to make it to play Showdown tonight and it sounds like it was a tough game. Was it a good one?

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Homer:No beer and tv make Homer something something.
Marge:Go crazy?
Homer:Don't mind if I do!

I got it right on one of my boxes but I total forgot the answer now.

S O B, I agree. Its unsearchable. I should've use my voice recorder app so I can post the hidden answer.

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Mitch (MTCHWF/WLFFLY)

Co-Home Bar: Buffalo Wild Wings Edwardsville, IL and Time Out in St Louis, MO

Answer: They were all beatified.
ANON made the same observation: Impossible to borg.

Actually I can recall 3 Pyramid Round questions that were distinctly borg-repellent as well. It's almost as if BT made a conscious effort to thwart the wetware-impaired.

Tough game, apparently. We were astonished to wind up in 5th place with a score barely north of 50k.

Any theories as to which question might have been the neutron bomb? For us it was the analeptic.

Congrats to Houlihans of Westbury for winning--no demolishing the field by over 5,000 points. And to The Concert Pub for beating us out of second place by four points.

We were also fallen by the analeptic final Pyramid question...

It was especially impressive in that most un-Googlable questions are also un-precallable (i.e., "Which of these is not..."). I was able to pre-call this one (okay--close to pre-call--I said they were all sainted). Had we not missed one of the pyramid questions we would have had a good night at the annual Mensans get-together, this year at the Buffalo Wild Wings in Portland, finishing 13th. (Our top score was close to 2x the next highest score in the bar for the last year!)

--Rick Magnus