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TomD · **Joined:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:55 am **Posts:** 172

tchoiniere wrote:

In the 7pm CD, what site opened on the centennial of Washingtons Inauguration in 1889? Answer was GW Bridge but correct answer is Washington Square Arch. The bridge opened in 1931.

Funny part was me ignoring teammates and going with GW Bridge having seen it in the past. They ignored me then I had a perfect score for CD. Should get an asterisk next to my gold....

Yet another of many questions that makes an editor scratch his head and go WTF?

Thanks for pointing out this egregious error.

TomD · **Joined:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:55 am **Posts:** 172

bo wrote:

On the flipside, my teammates and I were raving about the quality of the questions last night in STC. Even the ones we didn't know!.

Quality is my middle name!!!

QBB · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:22 am **Posts:** 68

In tonight's Topix game there was a question about "Bette Davis Eyes". I forget the exact wording, but it implied that it was a "hit" (I know - a subjective term) in 1974 - the year it was written. The Kim Carnes version mentioned was popular in 1981.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Davis_Eyes

TomD · **Joined:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:55 am **Posts:** 172

QBB wrote:

In tonight's Topix game there was a question about "Bette Davis Eyes". I forget the exact wording, but it implied that it was a "hit" (I know - a subjective term) in 1974 - the year it was written. The Kim Carnes version mentioned was popular in 1981.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Davis_Eyes

You are correct. The song was written in 1974 but was not a hit by Kim Carnes until 1981.

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

Countdown, 3:30 P.M. Pacific, Q8 had a factoid that included "...AND ORIGINATOR..." Believe that should have been "...AN ORIGINATOR..."

QBB · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:22 am **Posts:** 68

Today's Glory Daze - There was a question about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It used his given name as "Lewis Ferdinand Alcindor". It should be "Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor"

.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar

TomD · **Joined:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:55 am **Posts:** 172

liljol wrote:

Countdown, 3:30 P.M. Pacific, Q8 had a factoid that included "...AND ORIGINATOR..." Believe that should have been "...AN ORIGINATOR..."

You are right. AND is now AN.

TomD · **Joined:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:55 am **Posts:** 172

QBB wrote:

Today's Glory Daze - There was a question about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It used his given name as "Lewis Ferdinand Alcindor". It should be "Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor"

.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar

You are right. The correction has been made.

-BO- · **Joined:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:20 pm **Posts:** 2303

Two nasty spelling errors in SD tonight 7/12.

Miniature PODDLE and HEPTATIS.

BO

TomD · **Joined:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:55 am **Posts:** 172

-BO- wrote:

Two nasty spelling errors in SD tonight 7/12.

Miniature PODDLE and HEPTATIS.

BO

Yes. I also saw at least two others. Thanks for reporting them.

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

Question 3, 3:15 P.M. Pacific BT game - Question went something like "Which of these artists says he's seen fire and he's seen rain?" - James Taylor

Factoid went something like "Other hits by James Taylor include 'Sweet Baby Jane' and 'You've Got A Friend'"...

"Sweet Baby James" was Taylor's second album, which included "Fire and Rain"; however the title song was not a Billboard Top 40 hit.

Dante · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:38 am

-BO- wrote:

Two nasty spelling errors in SD tonight 7/12.

Miniature PODDLE and HEPTATIS.

BO

Not misspellings. Two new STDs. My poddle and heptatis leave some very nasty rashes.

TomD · **Joined:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:55 am **Posts:** 172

liljol wrote:

Question 3, 3:15 P.M. Pacific BT game - Question went something like "Which of these artists says he's seen fire and he's seen rain?" - James Taylor

Factoid went something like "Other hits by James Taylor include 'Sweet Baby Jane' and 'You've Got A Friend'"...

"Sweet Baby James" was Taylor's second album, which included "Fire and Rain"; however the title song was not a Billboard Top 40 hit.

You are correct. At least you didn't get the Glory Daze version of this question in which the "fun fact" says:

RICHARD PRYOR'S VERSION
GOES LIKE THIS: `I'VE
SEEN FIRE AND--AAH! IT'S
BURNING ME!'

:shock:

Falcon · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 1:47 pm

TomD wrote:

-BO- wrote:

Two nasty spelling errors in SD tonight 7/12.

Miniature PODDLE and HEPTATIS.

BO

Yes. I also saw at least two others. Thanks for reporting them.

Yes, but Victor Emmanuel doesn't count. He was in a Countdown after an Italian flag question.

I still think that we should have gotten credit for picking 'toy poddle' as having the shortest lifespan. See, it's gone in under 24 hours!

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

Well, it should be lil if any surprise that I am way more than a lil unhappy with (IIRC) the first match-up in yesterday's Six.

Bad enough, of course that the eternally damnable junior university was chosen as one of the match-ups.

Given what I remember as the question (something like "...match the school named for a famous person with its state...", then the eternally damnable junior university should not have been a choice on that basis, since it was not named for the (in)famous robber baron, but for his not very well known son.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University

Jethro · **Posted:** Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:46 am

There were two certainly correct answers for the extremely vague science question in the final round of Six last night. Asked to identify which of the listed objects could be classified as a living fossil, both Gingko trees and crocodiles were choices.

Akbar71 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:46 am

Jethro wrote:

There were two certainly correct answers for the extremely vague science question in the final round of Six last night. Asked to identify which of the listed objects could be classified as a living fossil, both Gingko trees and crocodiles were choices.

Wiki says that a living fossil has no close relatives.

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

Akbar71 wrote:

Jethro wrote:

There were two certainly correct answers for the extremely vague science question in the final round of Six last night. Asked to identify which of the listed objects could be classified as a living fossil, both Gingko trees and crocodiles were choices.

Wiki says that a living fossil has no close relatives.

Well, in what was one of the few good calls my increasingly decrepit, fragile lil mind is capable of making these days

, I managed to get my teammies off croc and on gingko.

<--...maybe my consuming more than a lil gingko helped a lil...

<--...yeah, right...

Jethro · **Posted:** Thu Jul 14, 2011 3:36 pm

Akbar71 wrote:

Jethro wrote:

There were two certainly correct answers for the extremely vague science question in the final round of Six last night. Asked to identify which of the listed objects could be classified as a living fossil, both Gingko trees and crocodiles were choices.

Wiki says that a living fossil has no close relatives.

And if you scroll a little further down the same Wikipedia article, into the Reptiles subsection of the Animals section, you will see that "Crocodilia" is listed.

Akbar71 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:55 pm

Jethro wrote:

Akbar71 wrote:

Jethro wrote:

There were two certainly correct answers for the extremely vague science question in the final round of Six last night. Asked to identify which of the listed objects could be classified as a living fossil, both Gingko trees and crocodiles were choices.

Wiki says that a living fossil has no close relatives.

And if you scroll a little further down the same Wikipedia article, into the Reptiles subsection of the Animals section, you will see that "Crocodilia" is listed.

Come on- if I'm lazy enough to go to Wiki for the answer, you think I'm really going to scroll down the page?

Bonzo · **Joined:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 2:18 pm **Posts:** 262

There were a couple screw-ups tonight:

First, in Ask It Already there was a question which stated "All these Alfred Hitchcock films except..." I forget the rest of the question, I believe it was something like "feature an abduction" or something like that. Anyway, one of the choices was "Tupac", which clearly is not an Alfred Hitchcock film.

Secondly, in Six there was a question asking to match the astronomical term to the type of heavenly object it relates to. The matches Buzztime wanted were:

umbra - sunspots
sygyzy - moon

I believe this is a poor question. While sunspots have umbras, so can moons, as umbra is the term used for shadows cast by the moon during a solar eclipse or on the moon during lunar eclipse. Also, the term sygyzy is used to signify three celestial bodies in alignment. While a moon could be one of the objects in a sygyzy, it's not really a moon specific term.

tchoiniere · **Posted:** Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:30 pm

Tonights Topix contained numerous spelling mistakes such as album (ablum) and Winnipeg (winnieg)

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

Last question of matching round of SportsIQ last night had Oklahoma listed twice as an option. Fortunately, the fourth question went 1-2-3-4-5, so I guessed it was going to be 5-4-3-2-1. 3 & 1 both wanted Oklahoma. Unfortunately, I can't say I was that lucky the rest of the game :oops:

TomD · **Joined:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:55 am **Posts:** 172

All the recent errors have been reported or fixed. Thanks to everyone for catching them.

QBB · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:22 am **Posts:** 68

In tonight's SIX game, there was a matching round question that had MLK day matched with Feb. 21. In 2011, MLK day was Jan. 17. President's day was Feb. 21.

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