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In the 6/20/12 SIX game, one of the match round questions required pairing the name of an actress with the movie in which she played a "call girl." The one for Leslie Caron was "Gigi." Now, granted the character was being groomed to be a mistress, or courtesan, but that's not exactly the same as a prostitute--plus it's hard to imagine there being "call girls" in France in the early 1900s unless they had a lot more telephones than one imagines. Perhaps NTN/BT should have consulted with their folks at Dictionary.com that do Lexitopia, as they could have told them the term didn't even come into use until America in the 1930s.

Brooke/AARDVK

Today at Lunchtime Trivia (mostly Lexitopia Trivia):

What movie featured Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder paired together?

Answer: Trading Places (Stir Crazy and Silver Streak weren't even choices)...

The question was actually (paraphrasing) "What movie was originally intended as a vehicle for Pryor and Wilder".

YEAH!!

I think the Spider-Man promos are getting a little carried away.
The golfer's name is not Web Simpson.
It's Webb.

Glad I didn't play SIQ last night. That would've pissed me off to no end

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Why not downgrade Plutonium to a dwarf element?

Dadgummit!
I thought I was right on that clue for '91.
But it's hockey.
How can one ever be truly sure...?

ether? nitrous oxide?

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The people in charge of writing that question were sacked. The people who sacked those people were sacked. The people who sacked those people who sacked those people have been sacked..

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Just finished the 6:30pm ET Countdown. One of the questions asked which country the antiplano is located. I have to think the writers meant to ask about the altiplano and correctly made Bolivia my guess. If BT is reading this thread (they certainly had in the past), please look at this question.

-- RWM

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To Buzztime:

Andy Reid was the coach of the EAGLES in Super Bowl XXXIX against the Patriots which means he would be the last Eagles coach to lose a Super Bowl unless the question read something about the 70's or 80's and if it did I apologize.

Timmy

Are you talking about SIQ last night? I think it just said match coach to team he lost super bowl with.

Or Raymond Berry would be wrong and it would be Belicheck, Rauch would be wrong as that would be Callahan etc...

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Tonight, there was a Countdown question involving K2 (the world's second-highest mountain.) The factoid stated that K2's altitude was 28,750 feet. That figure is incorrect; K2's height is 28,250 feet. (Wikipedia states 28,251).

-- RWM

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Tonight in SIQ a question asked how many majors did Tiger Woods have. Desired answer was 14. Tiger has won 14 professional majors but 17 total majors once his 3 U.S. Ams are counted. Now, I knew BT would want 14 because the ignorance and laziness of the mainstream media always uses the 14 number without clarification. 17 was thankfully not a choice, but it is the true answer to the question that was asked.

Mon, 8/13/12, 11:45am MST Lunchtime Trivia, the question was, What is the characteristic of the dance called the Shimmy? The correct answer was gyrating torso, but the final clue was Head Games, pointing to the incorrect answer of bobbing head.

Custer Topix Thursday Aug 16. Question about what brothers were cavalry officers in Custer's command. Answer was Boston Custer, but he was not an officer he was a civilian employee acting as forage master and packer.

The executive in charge of content quality was NOT one of the people let go. He was the one that got promoted. For real.

TFM

In a scramble in get-a-clue round tonight, a q about Rockford Files, said scramble answer was "Pontiac Camaro".

No such thing. It was either a Chevy Camaro or a Pontiac Firebird.

Wow.

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F CUBS!!!!! FBOSOX!!!!!

FPDRES!!!!! FCHGRS!!!!!

Ferrari Pacer.

8/28/12 Showdown

Correct answer was PROVOST, distractor which had not been eliminated was PROFESSOR. Third clue was PRO blah blah blah thereby pointing to two possible answers.

The clue was "Pro Choice" - so you had a "choice" between provost and professor. I hope you chose wisely.

ROFL! That's pretty good.

While our group was on the right answer from the get-go, some poor random player at the bar went with professor and took the -250.

By the way, for the final game of SIQ can I request a final slam on my Missouri Tigers? Perhaps a 5th down question?