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In the matching round of Six last night there were two questions which came directly from Sporcle quizzes. One had you match the capital city of a country to that country's most populous city; the other was matching U.S. cities to their population as of 1850. Here are the links to the two quizzes:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/GeoExpert/ ... ybycapital

http://www.sporcle.com/games/Unidentifiedkiwi/USA_1850

Wow. Talk about lazy question writers.

Actualy, BT tonight borrowed a a Topix question for Six. Yellowstone.

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Frank

Well, come on now; you can't possibly think someone would be there for both games...they were, like, five minutes apart!

Neat site.

Took me a couple of minutes to get the hang of answering the questions but the quizzes are pretty good

Much better than funtrivia.com

I have been noticing this for months; it is not a one time, nor is it even a rare occurring thing. JOO and I both use Sporcle a fair amount, and anytime we play Six there are often 2 or 3 that we say "well, I've played this game on Sporcle." The only difference is, matching the word to the number of times it appears in a Beatles song is way harder than just choosing the top 100 and seeing where they end up (http://www.sporcle.com/games/Anonymous/commonbeatleswords, notice the publication date, definitely within a week or two of when that question showed up in Six).

Most of these ridiculous "almanac" questions we've been having (as we refer to them, as they seem that the question writer just flipped to a random page in the almanac) are actually directly from Sporcle (here's another you guys might remember: http://www.sporcle.com/games/coffee_producers.php).

The real giveaway, though, was the matching question a few weeks ago that read nearly word for word (I could be slightly off); "Match the country to the liters of beer consumed per capita in 2004:" Now, that question in and of itself it quite ridiculous (I recall missing most if not all of them), and we immediately pointed out "That's a game on Sporcle," but the fact that the question specifically was asking for the year 2004 seemed a bit strange. Well, here's why:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/world_beer_consumption.php

Really pretty disappointing if you ask me. There really are 1 or 2 of these every single week in Six, and even having played the games on Sporcle before doesn't help, since the nature of these questions is not to match the answer to the exact amount.