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The Topix and Trendalicious for February 2015. Again, I will edit this post as the remaining Topix become available...

Thursday Topix Themes:
February 5: Winter White
February 12: Cakes and Pastries
February 19: Lesser-Known Presidents
February 26: Big Cats

Friday Topix Themes:
February 6: Breaking Bad
February 13: TV and Movie Sweets
February 20: In Memoriam 2014
February 27: Julianna Moore

Trendalicious Themes:
February 6: Super Bowl Commercials
February 13: Creepy Couples
February 20: Drinking Games
February 27: Oscar Nods

(The Topix for 2/19 and 2/20 are grayed-out as they appeared on the BT site before but are not there now...)

On this list, 2/19 sounds interesting and I will probably play it. I'm also very curious about 2/5; I expect there to be meteorological questions about places that get lots of snow, but obviously I'll have to play to know for sure. (Actually, the game could also be similar to the Silver and Red Topix recently...) I don't usually play on Fridays, but the morbid side of me might be tempted to play the Topix on 2/20.

-- 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...."

You won't find their faces on dollars or on cents?

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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?

Or on a looney.

-- RWM

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I died in thirty days!

The adequate, forgettable, occasionally regrettable, caretaker Presidents of the U.S.A.!

Gonna be good times. That and Breaking Bad on Feb. 6.

I had thought the Lincoln Topix game from a year ago was the most tone deaf insultingly easy of its kind until tonight.

I very very rarely play Fri Topix. When I do I generally don't even bother with the Wikipedia scan I tend to do for Thur games that pique my interest. I probably watched 30-40% of Breaking Bad, only once, mostly years ago. But I found it entertaining and thus played the Topix game.

There were two questions out of 15 that weren't immediately obvious to anyone who had watched more than a couple episodes, regardless of any review anyone decided to do, and one of them - on the surface the hardest - had 4/5 options that were nonsensical. (Charles Baker? Never heard of the cove, but when only one of the 5 answers was a BB character it was a pretty simple guess).

So basically anyone who remembered or guessed Jane's job who also watched more than a handful of episodes had a guaranteed perfect score, as the two full pages of perfects and my wife's 57th because she looked away for the wrong couple of seconds demonstrated.

Even with Lincoln we had to know or guess one, albeit only one, much more obscure fact.

I need to play more Friday games I guess. If that's the level of questions for the most highly regarded and widely recommended TV show of all time (setting? Walt's wife's name? His teaching subject? Meth color? Saul wasn't called Heisenberg? Car Wash? Come the fuck on....) how hard can it be?

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Please forgive any strange typos or grammar errors. I am typically using voice recognition software to enter text, and sometimes editing works differently from how I expect.

Yes, it was quite the softball game, the Friday topix are not usually like this. We were expecting 2 tough questions but they never materialized. The tattoo artist one was one of the easy ones. The one that we lost 4 or 5 perfect boxes on was the all these except question.

However, we were quite surprised to see only one perfect bar on the east feed given how incredibly simple the game was. I was thinking there should have been 5 or 6.

Guess it really wasn't all that easy to hit 15 straight times 5 boxes.

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OC BUD - Grotto Pizza DE near Ocean City MD

LET'S GO ....Caps and Os!!!!

Yeah, I was thinking that I would have to work for it a little in the final five, but it never came up. The only question where people lost points was the Skinny Pete question, and that's only because I was initially looking for Badger. But there was never a question where I had any doubt about the answer.

Someone on our team at Wild Bill's in Woodbury MN precalled Badger for Jessie's friend so I lost a few points looking for him. I hesitated for an instance on Marie's occupation too. That game was fairly easy, but some of the Friday games are clearly aimed at the much younger crowd. They might have horror films as a topic and none of the questions will be about films before 2013.

The Super Bowl Commercials Trendalicious was none before 2015.

Trendalicious is a game MAIINLY for the younger crowd.... So I am not surprised

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

Any guesses as to if those Feb 19-20 topics are correct? I know buzztime was rotating in the upcoming Topix games every two weeks now instead of doing it monthly, but it looks like a bug popped up in that system (imagine that).

I'm pretty sure they are correct. I entered them when they appeared on BT's site, and two of the upcoming January Topix were missing. The 2/19 and 2/20 Topix then disappeared when BT posted the missing January games, which is when I grayed-out the latest February Topix.

-- 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...."

The February Topix is now completed.

-- 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...."

So who is this Julianna Moore? I could see them doing a game on her sister (?) Julianne, but ...

Well I should offer positive opinions as readily and forcefully as negative so I must say I really enjoyed today's obscure Presidents game much more than the recent asinine softball Breaking Bad offering, despite both scoring and ranking far lower on it. There was a good mix of easy, middling, tough, and obscure questions that should have kept anybody from vaguely aware to expert interested. Broad scope in both era and subtopic that did not rely exclusively on Wikipedia and were mostly genuinely interesting as facts as well as questions. No idea if Thur and Fri Topix are written by the same person but far better effort today in any case. Well done!

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No crossword, so it'll have to be a cocktail napkin recap tonight, in about 15 minutes

*900 seconds later*

1. Jane Means Appleton married this future President in 1834:
2. The nickname of William McKinley:
3. He was taught to read by future First Lady Eliza McCardle:
4. James Buchanan was the only President who was:
5. He was elected President thanks to the support of the Mugwumps:
6. The middle initial in Chester A. Arthur's name stands for:
7. Which President was a major-general in the Army?
8. What was the year Warren Harding took office as President?
9. Nicknamed 'Old Man Eloquent,' he served nine terms in Congress after his presidency:
10. Which event took place after Polk's presidency?
(1. Civil War - 2. Lewis & Clark expedition - 3. California gold rush - 4. War of 1812 - 5. Reconstruction)
11. He was born in Summerhill, NY, on January 7, 1800:
12. Benjamin Harrison was known by this nickname:
13. He was sworn in as President at his home in Plymouth, Vermont:
14. Martin Van Buren was one of the founders of the ______ party
15. Who was the winner of the controversial 1876 election?

Answers

1. Franklin Pierce
2. Idol of Ohio
3. Andrew Johnson
4. Unmarried
5. Grover Cleveland
6. Alan
7. Zachary Taylor
8. 1921
9. John Quincy Adams
10. California gold rush
11. Millard Fillmore
12. The Human Iceberg
13. Calvin Coolidge
14. Democratic
15. Rutherford B. Hayes

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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?

So that's one question each on Presidents 6, 8, 11-15, 17, 19, 21-25*, 29, and 30.

I guess William Henry Harrison qualifies as well-known, because he died in thirty days
http://youtu.be/NMbpWCiGyqA

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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?

For those (although plural may be stretching it...) who care, 2 and 5 were the ones that brought me to some grief.

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Please forgive any strange typos or grammar errors. I am typically using voice recognition software to enter text, and sometimes editing works differently from how I expect.

Actually I called the answer for question #2 knowing only that McKinley was from Ohio, but was hardly sure of my educated guess. I also needlessly bled points on Question #11 (Fillmore)

We averaged around 12K. When our scores appear online, I expect Sliders to be 6th, maybe 7th. Better than I thought we'd do.

This was one of the better Topix, in my opinion.

-- RWM

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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!!!!!

Little Jimmy Dickens is what proved to be the divider for us. We had three perfects going into that one. A little surprising since we are solid with country music trivia most night. I guessed correctly and got 15,000, but it was a real team effort. We all had one or two that the others would not have known for a perfect score on the question.

All entertainment but no Phillip Seymour Hoffman?

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BUD - Stained Glass Pub Silver Spring MD
OC BUD - Grotto Pizza DE near Ocean City MD

LET'S GO ....Caps and Os!!!!

A few other snubs there. Tyler, Garfield, arguably Taft or Ford, but at least they did show up as wrong answer options, as did a few other folks, who could presumably be eliminated just because they were lesser lesser-knowns.

Or Harold Ramis, Shirley Temple, Casey Kasem, Eli Wallach, or Bob Hoskins. I'd mention Mike Nichols but he got an entire game dedicated to him.