That's up there with the question "What's the colour of the maple leaf on the Canadian flag?" in the game Canada Eh! a month or two ago! (The flag, in colour, is the background of every question).

I shouldn't complain, though, most of the questions are pretty good, although there are too many entertainment and sports ones for my taste. As with the other games, these tend to be obscure with most or all the answers being plausible, while the geography or history ones are usually easy, with only one or two plausible answers, and the scientific ones often badly worded or ambiguous. It is great to get more Canadian questions, though, and I'm sure that many U.S. players would enjoy it as well, if Buzztime would allow you to opt for it over the Countdowns on at that time.

That's up there with the question "What's the colour of the maple leaf on the Canadian flag?" in the game Canada Eh! a month or two ago! (The flag, in colour, is the background of every question).

I shouldn't complain, though, most of the questions are pretty good, although there are too many entertainment and sports ones for my taste. As with the other games, these tend to be obscure with most or all the answers being plausible, while the geography or history ones are usually easy, with only one or two plausible answers, and the scientific ones often badly worded or ambiguous. It is great to get more Canadian questions, though, and I'm sure that many U.S. players would enjoy it as well, if Buzztime would allow you to opt for it over the Countdowns on at that time.

I don't mind the Canadian-content questions and never have. I'd much rather see that than obscure entertainment questions. And, given Canada's size, population, and importance, I think one Canada question per Countdown game is fine; I wish there would be more, personally.

-- RWM

I don't mind the Canadian-content questions and never have. I'd much rather see that than obscure entertainment questions. And, given Canada's size, population, and importance, I think one Canada question per Countdown game is fine; I wish there would be more, personally.

-- RWM

Importance, you make me laugh.

An almost limitless supply of topics and you think one question every game should be about Canada? Do you also think 3 questions every game should be about the United States?

The problem with the obscure entertainment questions isn't the material, it's the fact there are way too many of them. And now you want BT to make the exact same mistake with Canada questions.

I had no idea that 30 million folks up north propped up our country of 330 million. Sounds like we need to diversify.

I don't mind the Canadian-content questions and never have. I'd much rather see that than obscure entertainment questions. And, given Canada's size, population, and importance, I think one Canada question per Countdown game is fine; I wish there would be more, personally.

-- RWM

Correct me if I'm wrong here but shouldn't you be clamoring for one question per game about Albania...

Correct me if I'm wrong here but shouldn't you be clamoring for one question per game about Albania...

I think the Canucks deserve a Canadian question every once in a while. Heck, for every one Canadian question Buzztime asks, they ask hundreds more about other countries. Additionally, NTN really owes our friends to the north some Canadian questions, because there are many bars there that have Buzztime trivia. (I will also add that Canadians know much more about the United States, than we know about Canada.)

p.s. One of my Grandfathers was from Prince Edward Island, so I might have a personal bias when it comes to giving Canadians a fair shake.

p.p.s. Going back to how TEVERETT started this thread, I vaguely remember hearing somwhere that NTN began in Texas with QB1. Does anybody know if there is any truth to my foggy recollection?

Sure Canada deserves some questions, but one per game is simply stupid.

QB1 was NTN's first game in 1984, the concept was conceived by Dan Klosterman in the late 60's who at that time was in the Houston Oilers organization. But am fairly certain NTN was always headquartered in CA, so you're sorta right but not completely.

It got so bad that I started enacting a measure of civil disobedience by refusing to finish every single game that had Canadian content. It once kept me from finishing 20 out of 22 games one Saturday; only two games all afternoon/evening without Canadian content. Ughh.
Don't get me wrong, I think Canada's swell. But you guys really aren't interesting enough to take up that much of my time.

An almost limitless supply of topics and you think one question every game should be about Canada? Do you also think 3 questions every game should be about the United States?

The problem with the obscure entertainment questions isn't the material, it's the fact there are way too many of them. And now you want BT to make the exact same mistake with Canada questions.

I had no idea that 30 million folks up north propped up our country of 330 million.

Please tell me that there are no Canadian car companies!