For the folling month:
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Any typos are mine and mine alone.

If the Titanic is about the historical Titanic, I might enjoy. If it's about that godawful turdstain of a movie, well, I think not.

Titanic game recap, as reconstructed from very brief notes scribbled in the margin of my New York Times crossword:

1) She was built for the British (White Star) Line
2) Her sister ships were the Britannic and: (Olympic)
3) Builders Harland & Wolff were located in this city: (Belfast)
4) On April 10, 1912, she sailed from: (Southampton, England)
5) A massive ship, she measured just over: (882 feet)
[This one was a little tricky. The word "massive" led me to expect gross tonnage]

6) Which part of the ship measured 78 feet high and 15 feet long? (Rudder)
7) After sailing from England, she next stopped in (Cherbourg), France
8) This man captained Titanic: (Edward J. Smith)
9) She sunk about 400 miles off the coast of: (Newfoundland)
10) This hymn is widely rumored to be the last song played by the orchestra: (Nearer My God To Thee)

11) Which tycoon [of the five listed] perished in the sinking? (John Jacob Astor IV)
12) What nearby ship rescued the survivors? (Carpathia)
13) Survivor Dick Williams went on to become a famous: (Tennis player)
[This was the iceberg that sunk many games, including my own]
14) A Franco-American expedition led by Jean-Louis Michel and Robert Ballard found the wreck in: (1985)
15) The Titanic lies at a depth of just over: (12,000 feet)

Anyone even vaguely interested in the subject knew all the answers except Williams though - that's why it was a game good for padding averages but useless for finding out who had a better knowledge of the topic.

The question was undoubtedly meant as a toughie to "separate the men from the boys."

You sound upset.

Actually, pengwn, I am in partial agreement. But there should have been one or two more tough questions, not a half-dozen. The questions were easy enough after finding them on Wikipedia. But this afternoon, I asked some of the questions of a co-worker who is reasonably intelligent but not about the Titanic. He would not have done well at last night's game. Nor would most people. Most people wouldn't know where the Titanic was assembled, let alone the highest-ranking surviving crew member.

I would have graded last night's game a B or B+.

-- RWM

Which is welcomed, but a 15-question game should have around a half-dozen such questions

The writer(s) did avoid any of the contentious material and stuck to indisputable facts for the most part, and I for one appreciate that. In the case of the hymn question, that's a well-established rumour, and the wording made that clear. Nothing at all concerning the various Titanic movies, or prescient literature published prior to 1912, which I was quite pleased about

I do think they could have dug a little deeper, such as:
A question concerning the engine room, such as number of boilers or daily coal consumption
"Who was the most senior officer to survive Titanic's sinking?", listing five of the eight command officers
"What was the name of the lookout who first spotted the fatal iceberg?"
"What was Titanic's radio call sign?" CQD and RMS would be decent distractors
"Which amenity was *not* available on board?" Wrong answers there could include Swimming pool, Turkish bath, Post office, Barber shop and Gymnasium

Okay, I'm going to stop myself here. These are merely 15 question games, after all. This one I think I would grade B- at best

Well I'm sure Al ansewered a majority of the questions and I'm sure you took full advantage of the game. would say nice job, but I m sure your sandbagging instinct took over

Upset? No. Disappointed in BT's continuing inability to put together a Topix that is interesting, challenging, discriminating and free from irrelevancies for people who know the topic though.

As an aside I'd be genuinely interested in why you think so though as it's not the first assumption like that about posts I've made - no profanity, insults, hyperbole that I can see here. PM if preferred.

Well, you weren't there, were you? Ask Al about the game next time you see him.

Dante, the above comment is clearly inappropriate.

-- RWM

Upset and disapppointed are similar to me. I get dissapointed and upset when things or people do not rise to my expectations.