GONE D wrote:
I saw a Countdown question recently where the tag line identified Gregory III, rather than Gregory XIII, as the creator of the Gregorian calendar. 1582? Gregory III did fine work, no doubt. Or so I chant.
I think this was originally in a Showdown game years ago. I guess they didn't fix it. I remember another pope question several years ago for which the "correct" answer was (I think) Pius IX when it was supposed to be Pius XI. I have seen similar things with kings, too. Roman numerals are easy for proofreaders to skip over, I guess.
GONE D wrote:
Was it in 2013 that Buzztime perpetrated the April Fool's Day Massacre, where every correct answer earned a single point?
No, that was 2014--But only in the East Network. They fixed it for the west re-broadcast.
GONE D wrote:
And then, almost to the day, six months later, on Final Showdown, the foolish writer introduced a factoid to the effect that Gregory XIII brought Valentine's Day into the liturgical calendar?
I could be wrong, but I think you may be referring to the 31 March 2015 game, for which the final question asked which holiday Gregory XIII made an official holiday in 1582, and the "correct" answer was "Mardi Gras." The high score on the network for that game was under 40k. The post-mortem of that question can be found here:
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2902GONE D wrote:
I bear no grudge.
This is good--grudges are heavy, and they don't have a handle.