April 2011 Topix

zog741 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 12:15 am

The Topix for the coming month:

Actually, I like all of the Thursday Topix this time around, although I strangely look forward to 4/7.

-- RWM

Akbar71 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:22 am

zog741 wrote:

The Topix for the coming month:

Actually, I like all of the Thursday Topix this time around, although I strangely look forward to 4/7.

-- RWM

Any Friday Topix fans out there want to swap "MLB Players" for "Cats and Dogs?" BT will do that for us, right?

Rhino · **Joined:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 6:40 pm **Posts:** 633

I will be in Blighty most of the month but only 4/28 will cause me a touch of regret I missed the games. Not a good list for me. I assume 4/8 will be cats and dogs in movies and TV but mildly curious to see if it's more generic and I will still be here so may give that a shot if I head bar-ward that night, and kill it if PC based (and of course assuming no other players).

tchoiniere · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 2:57 pm

Definitely some to look forward to. Especially MLB players.

ranger · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:27 am **Posts:** 630

There are a couple there I might try to play.

pengwn · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:14 pm

Nothing here I'm really excited about, but nothing I want to avoid, either. The Famous TV Lines game might be enough to bring me out for a rare Friday night of trivia, since it's Good Friday and I won't have bowling that night

scar · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:57 pm **Posts:** 2218

zog741 wrote:

The Topix for the coming month:

I would hope they would ask a question about Buffalo Wild Wings

FrankC · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 2:36 pm

scar wrote:

zog741 wrote:

The Topix for the coming month:

I would hope they would ask a question about Buffalo Wild Wings

I would be surprised if there were not a few. I like all the April Topix and surprisingly even the Friday games.

kaufman · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 7:28 pm

Anyone notice that the royal wedding is April 29th? I can almost

guarantee you that one of the questions from the 4/28 game will be:

Which china pattern did Kate choose?

Be very afraid!

Gogetem · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:31 am **Posts:** 788

scar wrote:

zog741 wrote:

The Topix for the coming month:

I would hope they would ask a question about Buffalo Wild Wings

Hopefully, they'll be wise enough to recognize their #1 customer.

zog741 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:22 pm

I enjoyed tonight's Topix. We were short a few players, with Al/TWIT being on vacation and Richte and Tim opting to not play tonight, but the Mill was still either 3rd or 4th. I played two boxes, Rikr played one, and Redram played two.

At least three questions seemed to regard places that weren't particularly rainy, in particular the Rainy Lake question; I believe that area only gets about 25 inches per year. And which city is not on Puget Sound (it was Spokane, which certainly is not a rainy place.) And Manchester may be "Rain City" in England, but having checked the WMO's website, they really don't get all that much - about 30 inches. The one I threw away was the country where the place (started with T) recently had 1,000 inches of rain in one year. It was Colombia; I should have jumped on that and instead got it for only about 250. I knew that the Colombian west coast is one of the rainiest places in the world.

Anyway, I enjoyed the questions, and I found the game to be a challenge.

-- RWM

tchoiniere · **Posted:** Fri Apr 08, 2011 3:35 am

zog741 wrote:

I enjoyed tonight's Topix. We were short a few players, with Al/TWIT being on vacation and Richte and Tim opting to not play tonight, but the Mill was still either 3rd or 4th. I played two boxes, Rikr played one, and Redram played two.

At least three questions seemed to regard places that weren't particularly rainy, in particular the Rainy Lake question; I believe that area only gets about 25 inches per year. And which city is not on Puget Sound (it was Spokane, which certainly is not a rainy place.) And Manchester may be "Rain City" in England, but having checked the WMO's website, they really don't get all that much - about 30 inches. The one I threw away was the country where the place (started with T) recently had 1,000 inches of rain in one year. It was Colombia; I should have jumped on that and instead got it for only about 250. I knew that the Colombian west coast is one of the rainiest places in the world.

Anyway, I enjoyed the questions, and I found the game to be a challenge.

-- RWM

Good job. Wanted to come out but got stuck at work...

BGTUNA · **Posted:** Fri Apr 08, 2011 10:03 pm

As I should have expected, Cats and Dogs was about cats and dogs from recent movies and television shows.

tchoiniere · **Posted:** Sat Apr 09, 2011 8:36 am

BGTUNA wrote:

As I should have expected, Cats and Dogs was about cats and dogs from recent movies and television shows.

And it absolutely sucked...

Nomar · **Posted:** Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:02 pm

tchoiniere wrote:

BGTUNA wrote:

As I should have expected, Cats and Dogs was about cats and dogs from recent movies and television shows.

And it absolutely sucked...

It sure did.

liljol · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:41 pm **Posts:** 2497

Nomar wrote:

tchoiniere wrote:

And it absolutely sucked...

It sure did.

Wonder what the players at Scooter's in Vegas would say. :roll:

zog741 · **Posted:** Sat Apr 09, 2011 7:36 pm

liljol wrote:

Nomar wrote:

tchoiniere wrote:

And it absolutely sucked...

It sure did.

Wonder what the players at Scooter's in Vegas would say. :roll:

“Boy, that game sucked! But it sure sucked less for us than for everyone else!!” :lol:

-- RWM

BGTUNA · **Posted:** Thu Apr 21, 2011 8:24 am

tchoiniere wrote:

Definitely some to look forward to. Especially MLB players.

Good luck trying to get in to play anywhere in the Chicago area with the Bulls and Blackhawks playoff games going on the same night.

zog741 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 21, 2011 1:32 pm

BGTUNA wrote:

tchoiniere wrote:

Definitely some to look forward to. Especially MLB players.

Good luck trying to get in to play anywhere in the Chicago area with the Bulls and Blackhawks playoff games going on the same night.

It can be no worse than trying to play in any sports bar in Connecticut last month on any night that the Huskies were playing! As for the Blackhawks, good luck to them, but I think this is the Canucks' year.

-- RWM

FrankC · **Posted:** Fri Apr 22, 2011 1:41 am

zog741 wrote:

BGTUNA wrote:

tchoiniere wrote:

Definitely some to look forward to. Especially MLB players.

Good luck trying to get in to play anywhere in the Chicago area with the Bulls and Blackhawks playoff games going on the same night.

It can be no worse than trying to play in any sports bar in Connecticut last month on any night that the Huskies were playing! As for the Blackhawks, good luck to them, but I think this is the Canucks' year.

-- RWM

Did anyone play the MLB Topix game tonight? The computer at Diamond Lil's went down and we did not get to play. my Whitesox and Redsox teamies would like to know what some of the questions were. I am just a poor little cubbie.

zog741 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 22, 2011 2:30 am

FrankC wrote:

Did anyone play the MLB Topix game tonight? The computer at Diamond Lil's went down and we did not get to play. my Whitesox and Redsox teamies would like to know what some of the questions were. I am just a poor little cubbie.

Yes, we played it at Adams Mill. Tim (tchoinere) carried our group, as expected. It was a good mix of modern ball players versus Hall-of-Famers.

Those are all that I can currently remember.

-- RWM

FrankC · **Posted:** Fri Apr 22, 2011 2:48 am

zog741 wrote:

FrankC wrote:

Did anyone play the MLB Topix game tonight? The computer at Diamond Lil's went down and we did not get to play. my Whitesox and Redsox teamies would like to know what some of the questions were. I am just a poor little cubbie.

Yes, we played it at Adams Mill. Tim (tchoinere) carried our group, as expected. It was a good mix of modern ball players versus Hall-of-Famers.

Those are all that I can currently remember.

-- RWM

Thank You, SiDave will appreciate it. I think he grew up near there. I know he has played at Adams Mill.

UCFHCY · **Joined:** Fri Jan 15, 2010 2:40 pm **Posts:** 340

zog741 wrote:

FrankC wrote:

Did anyone play the MLB Topix game tonight? The computer at Diamond Lil's went down and we did not get to play. my Whitesox and Redsox teamies would like to know what some of the questions were. I am just a poor little cubbie.

Yes, we played it at Adams Mill. Tim (tchoinere) carried our group, as expected. It was a good mix of modern ball players versus Hall-of-Famers.

Those are all that I can currently remember.

-- RWM

One question that I can remember other than what RWM listed was which player listed is from the Dominican Republic? Albert Pujols

Tolle · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:15 pm **Posts:** 607

Which player is a switch hitter? Chipper Jones

What did Willie Stargell go into the Hall of Fame as (worded much different, but that is a close as I can remember)? CHARISMATIC PATRIARCH

What player was traded on (sometime in 1971)? Nolan Ryan

Which player was known as a center fielder? Richie Ashburn

zog741 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:49 am

Tolle wrote:

What did Willie Stargell go into the Hall of Fame as (worded much different, but that is a close as I can remember)? CHARISMATIC PATRIARCH

I think that last question had to do with the wording inscribed on his statue at PNC Park.

-- RWM

[The above was in error, as I have just seen his HoF picture. Thanks Tim for pointing this out.]

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