John Ratzenberger as Major Derlin
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| Author: | zog741 [ Fri Apr 26, 2013 11:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | May 2013 Topix |
It's been on Buzztime's site for a couple of days, but here is the list:
May 3 – Police Dramas May 9 – Popular Websites May 10 – Mother/Daughter Actors May 16 – Marine Life May 17 – JJ Abrams May 23 – British Monarchs May 24 – Arrested Development May 30 - U.S. National Parks May 31 - Lead Singers One game that I don't feel strong at but should make a go at anyway is 5/23. Enough questions on that subject on Brainbuster or Showdown... May play 5/2, and probably will play 5/30. -- RWM |
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| Author: | tchoiniere [ Thu May 02, 2013 9:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
I really enjoyed Baseball Pitchers tonight. Nailed 13 out of 15 and am kicking myself over 1 of the ones that I missed...other one I had no clue on and kept missing.... I am angry at missing the "who pitched a 14 Inning CG in a 2-1 World Series game?" I went with Whitey Ford but then saw Ruth and changed much too late. Had absolutely no clue on Bo Belinsky and should have just gone based on a funny name |
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| Author: | kaufman [ Fri May 03, 2013 8:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
Bo I knew. Just fanned on where the ageless pitcher (Moyer?) was last year, and had no idea on Q15 (the one-legged guy), other than that the answer wasn't 4 or 5. I agree, decent game. |
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| Author: | tchoiniere [ Fri May 03, 2013 9:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
kaufman wrote: Bo I knew. Just fanned on where the ageless pitcher (Moyer?) was last year, and had no idea on Q15 (the one-legged guy), other than that the answer wasn't 4 or 5. I agree, decent game. I made an educated guess on Bert Shepard between him and 1 other answer. |
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| Author: | tchoiniere [ Sat May 04, 2013 10:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
We had another great Topix last night with Police Dramas, ending with a 13.7 average or so. More newer stuff than we were hoping for but still managed a great score. Only question we butchered was the last one. Also, had a great Star Wars trendlalicious except for me booting the Yoda question forgetting about his light saber battle with Count Dooku in the 2nd movie... |
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| Author: | Nomar [ Sat May 04, 2013 1:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
tchoiniere wrote: We had another great Topix last night with Police Dramas, ending with a 13.7 average or so. More newer stuff than we were hoping for but still managed a great score. Only question we butchered was the last one. Also, had a great Star Wars trendlalicious except for me booting the Yoda question forgetting about his light saber battle with Count Dooku in the 2nd movie... I wanted to play the Star Wars game, but my nephew had a baseball game yesterday. |
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| Author: | tchoiniere [ Sat May 04, 2013 2:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
Nomar wrote: tchoiniere wrote: We had another great Topix last night with Police Dramas, ending with a 13.7 average or so. More newer stuff than we were hoping for but still managed a great score. Only question we butchered was the last one. Also, had a great Star Wars trendlalicious except for me booting the Yoda question forgetting about his light saber battle with Count Dooku in the 2nd movie... I wanted to play the Star Wars game, but my nephew had a baseball game yesterday. You missed a good one. Was 12 for 12 blew one and then had to guess and then nailed the last one. First fun Trendalicious in a while |
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| Author: | Nomar [ Sat May 04, 2013 2:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
tchoiniere wrote: Nomar wrote: tchoiniere wrote: We had another great Topix last night with Police Dramas, ending with a 13.7 average or so. More newer stuff than we were hoping for but still managed a great score. Only question we butchered was the last one. Also, had a great Star Wars trendlalicious except for me booting the Yoda question forgetting about his light saber battle with Count Dooku in the 2nd movie... I wanted to play the Star Wars game, but my nephew had a baseball game yesterday. You missed a good one. Was 12 for 12 blew one and then had to guess and then nailed the last one. First fun Trendalicious in a while What was the one you had to quess? |
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| Author: | -BO- [ Sat May 04, 2013 6:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
Wish I would have played, anybody willing and able to reproduce the questions? |
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| Author: | tchoiniere [ Sat May 04, 2013 9:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
Nomar, we guessed on "which director and friend did George Lucas base the character of Harrison Ford on?" I went Spielberg, it was Coppolla. Bo, I assume you mean Star Wars Trendalicious In no particular order and paraphrased 1. Name the planet Luke Skywalker grew up on 2. Senator Palpatine became Darth_______? 3. Who was Luke's friend and fellow pilot in the Rebel Alliance 4. Name the Cheers actor that was in Empire Strikes Back 5. Name the Ewok that befriends Leia 6. What was the name of the animal the Alliance used on Hoth? 7. What was the name of the animal that the Tusken Raiders rode? 8. What name was originally not in the credits for Star Wars? 9. The aforementioned friend of Lucas question 10. Which movie did we first see Yoda in a light saber duel? 11. What name did Luke always call Obi Wan Kenobi? 12. Who was the pilot of the Millenium Falcon? 13. What does Leia call Han Solo in Empire Strikes back? 14. Who piloted Slave 1? 15. The odds of surviving a ________ are 3240 to 1 said C3PO 1. Tattooine 2. Sidious 3. Wedge Antilles 4. John Ratzenberger 5. Wicket 6. Taunton 7. Bantha 8. James Earl Jones 9. Francis Ford Coppolla 10. Attack of the Clones 11. Ben 12. Han Solo 13. Nerf Herder 14. Boba Fett 15. Asteroid Field If you were asking about Topix, forget about it... |
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| Author: | Nomar [ Sat May 04, 2013 9:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
John Ratzenberger as Major Derlin
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| Author: | -BO- [ Sat May 04, 2013 10:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
Thanks for the Q's. |
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| Author: | poman [ Fri May 24, 2013 1:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
zog741 wrote: May 24 – Arrested Development This explains the one tonight. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/LIFE/usa ... T_ST_U.htm http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/LIFE/usa ... e_ST_U.htm |
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| Author: | tchoiniere [ Fri May 24, 2013 2:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
poman wrote: zog741 wrote: May 24 – Arrested Development This explains the one tonight. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/LIFE/usa ... T_ST_U.htm http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/LIFE/usa ... e_ST_U.htm Thanks for reminding me not to play... |
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| Author: | instlouis [ Fri May 24, 2013 3:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
Quote: May 24 – Arrested Development As Kramer once said, "I'm out." |
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| Author: | zog741 [ Fri May 24, 2013 3:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
I enjoyed last night's British Monarch's. Scored in the low 11s, although had I stuck to my guns on the last question with George III would have just missed 12K. Not a great score, but better than I expected. Congratulations to those, including West Park Station and Adams Mill, who did well. -- RWM |
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| Author: | zzuupp [ Fri May 24, 2013 9:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
We geezed two do-able ones. Otherwise, I was quite happy with my score |
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| Author: | IDJIT5500 [ Sun May 26, 2013 9:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
zog741 wrote: I enjoyed last night's British Monarch's. Scored in the low 11s, although had I stuck to my guns on the last question with George III would have just missed 12K. Not a great score, but better than I expected. Congratulations to those, including West Park Station and Adams Mill, who did well. -- RWM thanks. i have to say i was very proud of the guys winning british monarchs one night and then coming back to win arrested development the next. |
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| Author: | -BO- [ Fri May 31, 2013 11:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
Due to poor planning walked in on Q1 of tonight's Star Trek game, so didn't play but watched. Decent mix of Q's leaning to ToS, but dabbling in TNG, DS9, Voyager, an original cast movie, and one Q each from the reboot series. Didn't know which movie Shatner directed, no problem on the rest. Didn't stick around for rankings but would think there would be at least one perfect location and multiple perfect individual scores. |
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| Author: | poman [ Fri May 31, 2013 11:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
-BO- wrote: Due to poor planning walked in on Q1 of tonight's Star Trek game, so didn't play but watched. Decent mix of Q's leaning to ToS, but dabbling in TNG, DS9, Voyager, an original cast movie, and one Q each from the reboot series. Didn't know which movie Shatner directed, no problem on the rest. Didn't stick around for rankings but would think there would be at least one perfect location and multiple perfect individual scores. Correct Answer! You earned 1000 points  One location scored 15000, and there were eleven 15000s on the top 20 individuals leaderboard. (West Coast results may vary) |
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| Author: | liljol [ Sat Jun 01, 2013 10:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
Well, hell. One of the first questions in the 5/31 Lead Singers game asked for one of the lead singers of The Drifters (Johnny Moore), who were described in the question as a British group.  Notwithstanding that the Wiki page for The Drifters mentions that they moved to Britain in the early 70s or thereabouts, seems like whomever in The NTN Buzztime Content Team was stretching way more than a lil to call them a British group. 
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| Author: | tchoiniere [ Sat Jun 01, 2013 10:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
liljol wrote: Well, hell. One of the first questions in the 5/31 Lead Singers game asked for one of the lead singers of The Drifters (Johnny Moore), who were described in the question as a British group. Notwithstanding that the Wiki page for The Drifters mentions that they moved to Britain in the early 70s or thereabouts, seems like whomever in The NTN Buzztime Content Team was stretching way more than a lil to call them a British group. Threw us way off too. Awful first round didnt help either |
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| Author: | zog741 [ Sat Jun 01, 2013 11:42 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
U.S. National Parks was fun. If we had one more player at Chicago Sams at the start of the game, we would have made a team effort, but we still did pretty well. In that game, my best precalls were the NP that started in 2000 (Cuyahoga Valley) and the park near Seward, Alaska (Kenai Fjords). On the down side, I blew the first question, and was slow to pick up on the park with glacial features (Voyageur). Given that May had a U.S. National Parks Topix, I half expect to see a Canadian National Parks game in the near future. If it happens, I'll be ready.  -- RWM |
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| Author: | tchoiniere [ Sat Jun 01, 2013 4:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
zog741 wrote: U.S. National Parks was fun. If we had one more player at Chicago Sams at the start of the game, we would have made a team effort, but we still did pretty well. In that game, my best precalls were the NP that started in 2000 (Cuyahoga Valley) and the park near Seward, Alaska (Kenai Fjords). On the down side, I blew the first question, and was slow to pick up on the park with glacial features (Voyageur). Given that May had a U.S. National Parks Topix, I half expect to see a Canadian National Parks game in the near future. If it happens, I'll be ready. -- RWM I was on Voyageur but Al pulled me off on to King's Canyon and we were slow getting back... |
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| Author: | kaufman [ Sat Jun 01, 2013 4:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: May 2013 Topix |
zog741 wrote: U.S. National Parks was fun. If we had one more player at Chicago Sams at the start of the game, we would have made a team effort, but we still did pretty well. Why not multibox? After my one early-evening playing companion left mid-Six, I was in fact left playing five boxes alone during the Marathon round. And then ISSUES was able to arrive, so our two-headed team was able to work to a third-place finish in the National Park game
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