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

Well, here's hoping that TomD or someone else from The Content Team will see this...

Countdown, 1:30 P.M. Pacific, Q6 - Question asked what a carotenoid is (pigment). "Carotenoid" was spelled correctly in the question, but in the factoid it was spelled "CARTONEOIDS". :cry:

IDJIT5500 · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:02 pm **Posts:** 404

in six tonight 1/19/12 during the marathon round there was a question about a coastal city in pakistan. the correct answer was karachi. the problem was with the clue. the clue was "capital city." islamabad is the capital of pakistan. fortunately there was no islamabad among the answers. largest city could work for a clue, but the clue should be changed.

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

Sometime on Tuesday, 1/24/2012, there was a question on automobile companies. One of the choices should have been Alfa Romeo, but it was horribly bungled as "ALPHA ROMEO". :cry:

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

Think it was Glory Daze there was what I thought was a bad clue, by the pure letter of the law it was OK, but still pretty bad IMO.

The last clue referred to HORS, don't remember exactly what it was. The answer was a name with HORS at the start. However HORatio Alger was also still a choice. Just think a more unique clue could be used.

BO

dexter · **Joined:** Fri Jan 22, 2010 12:55 pm **Posts:** 23

For Lunchtime Trivia, Wed 1/25/12 at 11:45am MST, the question was Jack Nicholson was in all the following movies except... The answer was the Great Santini, and the answer was correct as listed. However, the factoid after the question said something about Robert Duvall's character had a hard time balancing between Army and his family life. The Great Santini was in the Marines, not the Army.

L PATO · **Joined:** Tue Sep 13, 2011 1:29 am **Posts:** 16

On Wednesday January 25th, during the 1st part of Marathon Six in the Games category. The question was: The New England Patriots Tim Tebow's father holds what job? Pretty sure I'm still cleaning up the mess after the bartender's head exploded, he was a good man.

Rackme32 · **Joined:** Sat Jan 30, 2010 5:13 pm **Posts:** 272

-BO- wrote:

Think it was Glory Daze there was what I thought was a bad clue, by the pure letter of the law it was OK, but still pretty bad IMO.

The last clue referred to HORS, don't remember exactly what it was. The answer was a name with HORS at the start. However HORatio Alger was also still a choice. Just think a more unique clue could be used.

BO

Some of us at The Old Barn bit on this one, too.

spotes · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:27 pm **Posts:** 1558

There was a question on Thursday 1-26 which asked "The northern arm of the Ligurian Sea is known as the Gulf of ____."
The second eliminator clue said "Not a nice pad." which was supposed to eliminate Padua.
Since Venice was still a viable option, you may want to alter that "nice" to something else. It could be confusing.

Also on Thursday, "Besides being gases, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide also share what other trait?"
The desired answer was "colorless".
"Poisonous" was also on the list.
Since one could die from either carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide poisoning, I think that makes them poisonous by default.
But I've been wrong before...

FrankC · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:15 pm

spotes wrote:

There was a question on Thursday 1-26 which asked "The northern arm of the Ligurian Sea is known as the Gulf of ____."
The second eliminator clue said "Not a nice pad." which was supposed to eliminate Padua.
Since Venice was still a viable option, you may want to alter that "nice" to something else. It could be confusing.

Also on Thursday, "Besides being gases, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide also share what other trait?"
The desired answer was "colorless".
"Poisonous" was also on the list.
Since one could die from either carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide poisoning, I think that makes them poisonous by default.
But I've been wrong before...

Carbon Dioxide is not poisonous. We breath it all the time. You die from lack of oxegen in a high CO2 atmosphere. I forget what the percentage is. Carbon monoxide is poisonous. I believe it bonds with and destroys red blood cells.

spotes · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:27 pm **Posts:** 1558

FrankC wrote:

Carbon Dioxide is not poisonous. We breath it all the time. You die from lack of oxegen in a high CO2 atmosphere. I forget what the percentage is. Carbon monoxide is poisonous. I believe it bonds with and destroys red blood cells.

You can die of carbon dioxide poisoning. It's called hypercapnia.
It's not just a lack of oxygen. It's elevated levels of CO2 not being processed properly.
I think anything the medical community labels a "poisoning" should probably be considered "poisonous".
Meh...if doctors knew what they were doing, they wouldn't call it a "practice"...
Like when they said John Dillinger died of lead poisoning. :mrgreen:

GAMBIT · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2012 4:01 am

Q6 I think it was, in Glory Daze tonight went "Chin Ho Kelly was killed in the last episode of what series?" Kelly was in Hawaii Five-0(the 1968-80' original of course; he's alive and well in the current series) and he was killed in the last episode- of Season 10...the series' final episode at the end of Season 12 had no major characters dying but featured Steve McGarrett finally capturing the elusive Wo Fat(in very cartoonish fashion, if you ever see it)...

Darrell/GAMBIT

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

While not incorrect answers, IIRC there were at least a couple of regurgitated questions during Tuesday's games.

Believe it was the 4:00 P.M. Countdown game, when two questions asking the city where Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus (Montgomery, AL) were asked. My increasingly decrepit, fragile lil mind also remembers another question that was asked during either that game or the preceding Countdown game, then somewhat regurgitated in the Showdown Lightning Round. :cry:

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

liljol wrote:

While not incorrect answers, IIRC there were at least a couple of regurgitated questions during Tuesday's games.

Believe it was the 4:00 P.M. Countdown game, when two questions asking the city where Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus (Montgomery, AL) were asked. My increasingly decrepit, fragile lil mind also remembers another question that was asked during either that game or the preceding Countdown game, then somewhat regurgitated in the Showdown Lightning Round. :cry:

There were two differently worded questions with different distractors asking where Rosa Parks rode the bus in that CD game. The other regurgitated question asked about the first female prime minister of Jamaica, first in CD, then in either SD or BB.

Frustrating QC for sure.

BO

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

It was on a SIX matching round Q so unlikely to reappear, and was easy to get, but for the record "verbatim" is not a French phrase, but a Latin word.

I suppose it may show up in some French works as a borrowed Latin word, but "mot pour mot" is the French language equivalent.

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

I spent over a decade in Shotokan and Shorin-ryu karate study. The idiots who thought karate was a WRONG answer for "which martial art can be practiced with or without weapons"? tonight are beneath contempt. Yes I'm more than well aware of etymology, but that's like pretending that orchids have testicles.

http://www.shotokai.com/ingles/others/weapons.html

clevr · **Joined:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:24 am **Posts:** 19

There was a question on lunchtime trivia February the 10th which asked which river did Tiberius cross during his reign. The correct answer given was the Thames. The Danube was also a choice. The Danube was the correct answer. Roman troops did not invade England until the rule of Caligula.

ANON · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:59 pm **Posts:** 2291

clevr wrote:

There was a question on lunchtime trivia February the 10th which asked which river did Tiberius cross during his reign. The correct answer given was the Thames. The Danube was also a choice. The Danube was the correct answer. Roman troops did not invade England until the rule of Caligula.

Technically, Julius Caesar (and troops) invaded England twice in the 50s B.C.E., although the Romans did not stay there.

But yes, the question is incorrect.

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

clevr wrote:

There was a question on lunchtime trivia February the 10th which asked which river did Tiberius cross during his reign. The correct answer given was the Thames. The Danube was also a choice. The Danube was the correct answer. Roman troops did not invade England until the rule of Caligula.

So did you quit that game to protect your average?

If so, BT must screw up a question in most of the games you play.....

BO

yuiou · **Joined:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:27 pm **Posts:** 4

Speed game question Feb 22

Prowler, Hornet, Tomcat, all fighter jets? Not really. A Prowler is a variant of the A6 Intruder a ground attack aircraft. The Prowler is an Electronic Counter Measures platform which wouldn't be classified nor serve as a fighter jet.

I was hoping to find "firework product available from psuedo-legal distributor" as the choice answer :idea:

dexter · **Joined:** Fri Jan 22, 2010 12:55 pm **Posts:** 23

Tues, 2/21/12, Lunchtime Trivia, 12:30pm MST. The question was, which is not true of Darth Vader? The answer was he was killed by Han Solo, which was incorrect correct answer. However, the factoid said that Luke killed Vader after a long light saber battle, or something to that effect. Now, it has been a long time since I saw this movie, but wasn't Vader killed by the Emperor, and not Luke? After Luke had those bolts of electricity shot at him by the Emperor, didn't Vader pick the Emperor up and throw him out of the ship and that was what killed Vader?

pengwn · **Posted:** Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:30 am

dexter wrote:

Tues, 2/21/12, Lunchtime Trivia, 12:30pm MST. The question was, which is not true of Darth Vader? The answer was he was killed by Han Solo, which was incorrect correct answer. However, the factoid said that Luke killed Vader after a long light saber battle, or something to that effect. Now, it has been a long time since I saw this movie, but wasn't Vader killed by the Emperor, and not Luke? After Luke had those bolts of electricity shot at him by the Emperor, didn't Vader pick the Emperor up and throw him out of the ship and that was what killed Vader?

Luke cut off Vader's arm in the duel, at which point the Emperor exhorted Luke to kill him. Luke refused, the Emperor growled "So be it!" and started frying Luke. Vader agonized over his own loyalties for a few seconds, before picking up the Emperor and throwing him over the rail, down into the reactor core I believe

I wouldn't say anyone killed Vader, but the combination of lightsaber injury and force lightning exposure was too much for an already mutilated body to take

Nomar · **Posted:** Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:48 pm

I saw that question as well, and the second choice said he was the head of empire which is not true.

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

since when does XLVI mean 44??

diablo2112 · **Joined:** Fri Oct 14, 2011 10:25 pm **Posts:** 155

Rhino wrote:

since when does XLVI mean 44??

Yep, appallingly bad error, especially since this was our 6k question in Final Six. For those that didn't play, the question was basically "what do the roman numerals in Super Bowl XLVI" signify? The correct answer, 46, wasn't even on the list. The buzz time answer was 44. Doh!

BUD · **Posted:** Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:00 pm

46 was on the list.

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