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The Topix for the upcoming month are:

June 2 - Explorers
June 3 - Blues Music
June 9 - Roman Catholic Saints
June 10 - Wedded Bliss
June 16 - Open Bar
June 17 - Songs about Drinks
June 23 - Guys Named Bill
June 24 - Men Behaving Badly
June 30 - Venus

Looking forward to the first and last Topix among these choices.

-- RWM

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"...It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED...."

Ok June 16 is gonna be about National Sports Bars while I expect to see songs by Toby Kieth, Tracy Byrd, The Champs and George Thorogood on the 17th.

Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen n Hugh Grant will be in the 24th Topix.

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Mitch (MTCHWF/WLFFLY)

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

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Considering I will be gone from the 9th to the 19th, Im only looking forward to the 2nd and the 24th...wish I was going to be around the 16th and 17th.

I like June 2 and 9. Explorers and Saints. There were saints that were also explorers.

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Frank

Gotta say that I've seen worse categories.

Some seem pretty open-ended, like "Guys Named Bill" & "Men Behaving Badly".

I'll definitely play the "Blues" game, barring any unforeseen obstacles.

Not a terriblee list. I suspect open bar will use all those mixed drink questions BT is fond of so may skip that Thursday game and will also play a rare voluntary Fri game foe Blues (hoping to Koresh it's about the genre not titles/bands containing the word "blue", and hoping to Koresh's sainted child brides that they at least ask some questions about original 20s-40s blues rather than 15 Bonnie Raitt aand Johnny Lang album listings).

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Likewise on the Blues, hoping for Peetie Wheatstraw, Son House, Blind Willie McTell, Mississippi John Hurt, etc questions.

If it's not "popular" music, I might know some of it.

I guess I just not a popular kinda guy.

There once was a Topix about Venus
Played by a man with a sizeable p--
[tremendous explosion!]

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/°v°\ • Every time Linux boots, a penguin gets its wings
I'm a solipsistic conspiracy theorist. I'm sure I must be up to something, and I won't stop until I find out what
Why not downgrade Plutonium to a dwarf element?

I should have seen that one ... coming!

-- RWM

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"...It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED...."

Enjoyed the Blues Music game. A tad more recent CD/song questions than I would have liked, but not too overboard.

Looking at the HoF for the Blues Music game, there are two scores in the Top 5 from the same site showing that the game was a REPEAT game for them.

Did they reboot the system or something?

How does somethng like that happen?

Usually what happens is that a site's computer will lose its connection to Buzztime HQ and fail to download the new game for that week. When this happen it will just replay the previous week's game.

Gotcha!

Thanks, I wasn't sure if this was some new phone app jive.

Nice game Mitchwolf! Only Thurogood and Keith...and just like in Playback, if you were born before 1985, you really didn't need to go out and play this game.

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Malort. It's not just for breakfast anymore.

Those alt rock questions like Godsmack's "Whiskey" ruined my perfect game. my 2nd handle MTCHWLF unofficially was 5th nationwide.

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Mitch (MTCHWF/WLFFLY)

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

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F CUBS!!!!! FBOSOX!!!!!

FPDRES!!!!! FCHGRS!!!!!

Charlie Sheen was off the bat but it went to different directions. Like I didn't know that Bela Lugosi was a bad boy til in the factoid that the line "I wanna eat your blood" was in "Ed Wood", the bio of the bad boy cross dressing B-Movie director.

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Mitch (MTCHWF/WLFFLY)

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

Enjoyed last night's Topix, but it was also a slight disappointment. In order to throw some of the better players off, they threw a couple of questions related to something other than astronomy. I consider that to be a little below the belt. On a Thursday-night Topix of "Venus", I expect the questions to be about the planet, not on a Renaissance painting of the namesake goddess. Although about 11 of the 15 questions were about the planet, but it should have been 15 questions.

None of the astronomy questions were (in my opinion) very hard, and this is why there were several perfect scores in last night's game. (I would rather have seen no more than one perfect score, otherwise I would consider Topix to have been too easy.)

To the curious who may have missed the game, here were the questions, paraphrased by my feeble memory...

Venus is the solar system's ______ planet ((hottest)
Venus completes its orbit in just under this many days (225)
In 1991 which mission started orbiting Venus taking radar images of the entire planet? (Magellan)
Venera 3 became the first spacecraft to land on another planet on March 1 of which year? (1966)
Venus de Milo is sculpture that is famous for her missing (arms)
Of all planetary orbits, Venus is the (least eccentric).
Venus' atmosphere is 96 percent (carbon dioxide).
Venus has an almost identical diameter to which other planet? (Earth)
"The Worship of Venus" was completed around 1520 by this painter. (Titian)
The symbol for Venus is identical to the symbol for (female)
Venus is the Roman goddess of love and beauty. Who is the Greek equivalent? (Aphrodite)
The two "continents" of Venus are Aphrodite Terra and ______ Terra? (Ishtar)
Which feature does the planet Venus lack? [clouds, magnetic field, volcanoes, impact craters, atmosphere] (magnetic field)
Maxwell Montes, the highest mountain on Venus, is named for this scientist (James Maxwell)

That is 14 of the 15 questions, and I might not have named the correct Renaissance painting; the artist in question painted four works with "Venus" as part of the title.

-- RWM

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"...It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED...."

Very much agree. That renaissance art is for me stronger than astronomy does not enter into it. This pollutiion of Thursday Topix can bite anyone - it got me on the song question in the Great Lakes game for instance. It's a bad habit that the editors manage to avoid in the Friday game. No Friday Topix on Wham would have 13 questions on george Michael and .....the other guy, then 2 on Roy Lichtenstein works.

The Titian work is "Venus of Urbino" BTW. One of my favorite painters. Not his brst work, but well executed.

Oh and yes the astronomy questions were mostly none too threatening. I expected a bit more on the unique features like tesserae and the canals. Magnetic field was a bit of a toughie perhaps, as iron-cored terrestrial planets generally have them. Admit I guessed on the Venera 3 date too - recalling details of specific spaceflights has never been a strong point.

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First of all, great game, Rhino.

The one question where I did not get 1000 points was the one regarding the Titian painting. As for the astronomy questions, there was no guessing at all. The Venera 3 question would have made me sweat if 1965 were also a choice, but as it was, the choices were too far apart to present a challenge.

I think a great question would have been "Which surface feature is not on Venus?" And I think that many people would be thrown if Sedna Planitia was one of the choices.

Still trying to recall that one other question.

-- RWM

(When is BT going to fix the problem with the garbled network scores?)

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"...It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED...."

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liljol, still residing in a humble lil abode in Buzztime's Backyard, San Diego County, in The Horribly Site-Poor Golden State, California...

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F CUBS!!!!! FBOSOX!!!!!

FPDRES!!!!! FCHGRS!!!!!

Sure yeah yeah yeah but since when did Friday Topix called "Law and Order" ask questions on 16th Century British jurists? Seems like "letter rather than spirit" pontificating only applies to non pop-culture games..

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I generally haven't complained about BT games, unless there has been factual errors. But moving from magnetic fields to Renaissance paintings to the symbol of femininity are rather drastic shifts for a game where one is to "get down to specifics..."

If in a few months the Topix is "Saturn", I fully expect that the questions would be about the planet or its satellites, with maybe one about the god it is named for. I certainly will complain if I blow a question related to a car.

-- RWM

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"...It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED...."

That was shocking!