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SIQ on Monday March 26. Matching round was match the coach to the team which he led to the Stanley Cup. You put down that Michel Therien led the Penguins to the Cup. That is incorrect. Dan Bylsma officially led the team to the cup and was the coach for last 20 some games of the season.

There was a question today asking "Which of these native people were not found in Central or South America?"
This question had not one, not two, but THREE correct answers from which to choose.
"Aztecs" - Mexico is NOT in central America.
"Arawaks" - Caribbean islands are considered North American and neither central nor southern.
And "Pueblos" -the one BT was looking for that I didn't even get to as I stewed over which of the other two I was going to get screwed on.
Let the canings begin!!!

I dunno; if I recall the Arawaks were also present on mainland South America when the Europeans came over and I think you can make an argument the the Aztecs ranged into Central America. (A teensy bit into modern Guatemala?)

I shouldn't have to "make an argument" during the course of answering a trivia question.
Good trivia questions are not open to interpretation.
I could also "make an argument" that at least one person from the Pueblos had to have wandered down to Central or South America as well thereby invalidating that answer.
There's no good way to turn this sow's ear into a silk purse.
Besides, a silk purse wouldn't match my outfit.

I have it on good authority that no Pueblo ever made such a wandering. Seriously though, the arguable part I meant was more about where North America ends and where Central America begins. I certainly didn't mean it was a great question, but it was certainly better than the one I've seen a couple of times lately: "Which is not the capital of an island nation?" Choices include Sofia and San Juan.

I doubt Groo was Pueblo. But, boy, if he was...
Traditionally, Central America consists Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.
I'm operating under the assumption that no one's rewritten the rules on me. It was good enough for me as a kid and it's good enough now...

While not technically an incorrect question....there was a very lame question in Trendalicous tonight (which I believe was a previous Playback question). The question says something like which of these Lady Gaga songs has a Madonna-like feel to it?

The first problem with that question is it's subjective. Any question that's subjective is a bad trivia question.

A bigger problem, as just one example, is that "Alejandro" was one of the incorrect answer choices. Here is one critic's opinion of "Alejandro:"

Bill Lamb from About.com compared "Alejandro" with Madonna's 1987 "classic" song "La Isla Bonita", though with a "contemporary edge."

For those reasons, I think the question should be nuked.

Along the lines of "lame" questions is the one asking what building can be found at 10236 Charing Cross Road.
Really BT?
Do you think that people should know the address of every private residence in the entire world? Or maybe just America?
This California home cookin' obscurata is getting a smidge carried away.
Or is this part of the plan to help drive up west coast numbers? If so, then kudos.

The Stevie Wonder incident revisited...

Playback Headliner Round...All of these Styx songs were released in the 1980s except:

Show Me The Way (1990)
Lady (1974)

This is not an incorrect qquesstion, but the scores on HOF do not match the scores on Traveling Trophy. Get them in sync.

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Frank

Googled that... the Playboy Mansion IS kinda famous, but who the heck would know its address?

The only way to make this any sort of fair question would be to have the distractors be other buildings with at least somewhat well-known addresses...

That might be because the HOF scores are the average of the top 5 P+ member scores while the Traveling Trophy is still using the old "determined by averaging the six (6) highest Playmaker scores" -- at least that's what the rules say.

That is not the problem. The HOF is averaging 6 scores even though only 5 are highlighted. I checked. Something else is going on. The interesting thing is that some of the Travelling Trophy ranking scores do match the HOF, while some others are higher than the HOF scores.

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Frank

It could be that the Travelling Trophy is including the non-P+ scores in the average - like the HOF previously did.

I think you are correct. I can not think of another explanatiuon.

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Frank

One of the Countdowns on Thursday, April 12. Paraphrased:

What country produced the F-86 Sabre airplane?

Buzztime's answer: Canada

Correct answer: United States

The original F-86 Sabre jet was first built by North American Aviation, a US company, and entered service with the USAF in 1949. The F-86E served with distinction in Korea as a front-line fighter.

Canadair, a Canadian company, built a clone of the F-86E under license from North American Aviation, designated the CL-13 (not F-86), for Britain's RAF in 1950. It did not enter service with the RAF until 1952.

Didn't the Australians also produce the F86 or I am I thinking of something else?

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Frank

The Aussies built a version of it, Frank, as well as Japan and Italy, but all were built under license from North American Aviation.

88 million? When 66 million was an option? Christ. Maybe if you move Texas northward a few hundred miles....

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According to the 2012 World Almanac, the population of the Midwest in 2010 was 66,927,001. I have generally been satisfied with the accuracy of Thursday Topix, but this is a glaring error on BT's part.

This, of course, is in regard to tonight's Topix on the Midwest. The errant question was one of the last ones in the game, asking about that region's total population. As Rhino stated, BT's answer of 88M was incorrect; the correct choice was 66M.

-- RWM

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In the main database for Countdown, question is "Where is the Mosquito Coast?" Both Honduras and Nicaragua are given as possible answers. The correct answer per Buzztime was Nicaragua, though most certainly Honduras is also correct. It would be prudent to remove one of these 2 correct answers from this question.

SIX tonight, one of the Marathon World questions asked in which province Great Slave Lake could be found

A great bungle, as that lake is in the Northwest Territories. Alberta, the "correct" answer, is where one finds Lesser Slave Lake

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Why not downgrade Plutonium to a dwarf element?

The question was "What is the Venus de Milo missing"?

Among the choices were 1) arms, and 2) tiara. I'm quite confident that the famous sculpture is missing both of these items.

In Glory Days 6-19-2012, the question was: "The Airport in Grand Rapids Michigan is named for?" The (correct) answer was given as Gerald R. Ford. The flavor text was incorrect, stating that Ford was born in Grand Rapids before serving as a congressman from Michigan. Ford was born in Omaha, Nebraska.

Interesting! That was a question on Jeopardy today.

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Frank