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March March 18 - College Movies
March 19 - Today's Pop Stars .

March 25 - College Basketball
March 26 - Just Desserts .

March 4 - Famous Alumni
March 5 - Film Vamps
March 11 - College Mascots
March 12 - Luck of the Irish
March 18 - College Movies
March 19 - Today's Pop Stars
March 25 - College Basketball
March 26 - Just Desserts .

Nomar wrote:

So nonstop pablum on both days. At least they don't even try to pretend to be balanced between meaningful facts and schlock any more.

Nomar wrote:

WTF? Really, WTF? This might be bad enough for me to jump through the god-awful rings Buzztime has set up to comment on their new (god-awful) website. Just when I was starting to enjoy Topix again. What a pisser.

Thanks Mitch - you beat me to it

Sorry guys, the list got posted before everyone here got the memo about March.

The College-themed Topix is for a promotion will be doing in March (because of March Madness

) and it will run AFTER SIX on Thursdays. It's another "Bonus Topix" that will have prizes etc. Details will be posted next week.

The 8:30 ET/5:30 PT Topix game will be the usual non-entertainment-related Trivia.

Just reviewed the BT site; the Topix for March are:

March 4 - Cars
March 5 - Film Vamps
March 11 - Precious Metals
March 12 - Luck of the Irish
March 18 - World Capitals
March 19 - Today's Pop Stars
March 25 - Bird Watching
March 26 - Just Desserts

There are a few here that I look forward to.

Thanks Mitch - you beat me to it

Sorry guys, the list got posted before everyone here got the memo about March.

The College-themed Topix is for a promotion will be doing in March (because of March Madness

^My guess is they picked that timeslot since NCAA Tournament games are played on Thursdays at 10pm on March 18 & March 25. (There aren't any games on Wednesdays).

Congrats to the folks @ the Getaway in Pittsburgh for a very good game.

zzuupp wrote:

Congrats to the folks @ the Getaway in Pittsburgh for a very good game.

Yes congrats on winning the car topix. Who knew that they know music & cars?? :shock:

Precious Metals is on tonight. I'm going to give it a try. Since high school chemistry was a really long time ago, my score will probably be pretty grim. :roll:

Probably won't stay for the College Topix. I know absolutely nothing about College Mascots

Precious Metals is on tonight. I'm going to give it a try. Since high school chemistry was a really long time ago, my score will probably be pretty grim. :roll:

stevej84 wrote:

Precious Metals is on tonight. I'm going to give it a try. Since high school chemistry was a really long time ago, my score will probably be pretty grim. :roll:

grim can't even begin to describe my score. Egads, even my Immortal Words score was higher :oops:

Too bad I didn't look at the spot price of platinum or production stats of each element by country. if I had, I would have picked up 2,500 points

Author:	Nomar [ Tue Feb 16, 2010 5:10 pm ]
Post subject:	March Topix
March 4 - Famous Alumni March 5 - Film Vamps March 11 - College Mascots March 12 - Luck of the Irish March 18 - College Movies March 19 - Today's Pop Stars March 25 - College Basketball March 26 - Just Desserts .

Author:	zog741 [ Tue Feb 16, 2010 7:52 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: March Topix
Looking forward to April. -- Richard / RWM

Author:	MitchWolf [ Wed Feb 17, 2010 6:39 am ]
Post subject:	Re: March Topix
Nomar wrote: March March 18 - College Movies March 19 - Today's Pop Stars . WOW back to back Pop Culture that week Nomar wrote: March 25 - College Basketball March 26 - Just Desserts . Then none that week.

Author:	Rhino [ Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:14 am ]
Post subject:	Re: March Topix
Nomar wrote: March 4 - Famous Alumni March 5 - Film Vamps March 11 - College Mascots March 12 - Luck of the Irish March 18 - College Movies March 19 - Today's Pop Stars March 25 - College Basketball March 26 - Just Desserts . So nonstop pablum on both days. At least they don't even try to pretend to be balanced between meaningful facts and schlock any more.

Author:	Falcon [ Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:49 am ]
Post subject:	Re: March Topix
Rhino wrote: Nomar wrote: March 4 - Famous Alumni March 5 - Film Vamps March 11 - College Mascots March 12 - Luck of the Irish March 18 - College Movies March 19 - Today's Pop Stars March 25 - College Basketball March 26 - Just Desserts . So nonstop pablum on both days. At least they don't even try to pretend to be balanced between meaningful facts and schlock any more. Is Pablum a dessert? Clearly someone was either thoughtless or wanted to annoy us by putting a movie topic on Thursday and a potentially more interesting one (desserts) on Friday.

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Author:	ranger [ Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:54 am ]
Post subject:	Re: March Topix
Looks like I may skip Topix for March.

Author:	Akbar71 [ Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:41 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: March Topix
Nomar wrote: March 4 - Famous Alumni March 5 - Film Vamps March 11 - College Mascots March 12 - Luck of the Irish March 18 - College Movies March 19 - Today's Pop Stars March 25 - College Basketball March 26 - Just Desserts . WTF? Really, WTF? This might be bad enough for me to jump through the god-awful rings Buzztime has set up to comment on their new (god-awful) website. Just when I was starting to enjoy Topix again. What a pisser.

Author:	MitchWolf [ Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:48 am ]
Post subject:	Re: March Topix
Akbar71 wrote: Nomar wrote: March 4 - Famous Alumni March 5 - Film Vamps March 11 - College Mascots March 12 - Luck of the Irish March 18 - College Movies March 19 - Today's Pop Stars March 25 - College Basketball March 26 - Just Desserts . WTF? Really, WTF? This might be bad enough for me to jump through the god-awful rings Buzztime has set up to comment on their new (god-awful) website. Just when I was starting to enjoy Topix again. What a pisser. Must've heard ya. Now the Topix Page is read as this: March 4 - TBD March 5 - Film Vamps March 11 - TBD March 12 - Luck of the Irish March 18 - TBD March 19 - Today's Pop Stars March 25 - TBD March 26 - Just Desserts The college related Topix was supposed for the Thursday 10p EST Topix for March and not the Thursday 8:30p EST Topix.

Author:	MaryC [ Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:41 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: March Topix
Thanks Mitch - you beat me to it Sorry guys, the list got posted before everyone here got the memo about March. The College-themed Topix is for a promotion will be doing in March (because of March Madness ) and it will run AFTER SIX on Thursdays. It's another "Bonus Topix" that will have prizes etc. Details will be posted next week. The 8:30 ET/5:30 PT Topix game will be the usual non-entertainment-related Trivia.

Author:	Akbar71 [ Fri Feb 19, 2010 2:55 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: March Topix
MaryC wrote: Thanks Mitch - you beat me to it Sorry guys, the list got posted before everyone here got the memo about March. The College-themed Topix is for a promotion will be doing in March (because of March Madness ) and it will run AFTER SIX on Thursdays. It's another "Bonus Topix" that will have prizes etc. Details will be posted next week. The 8:30 ET/5:30 PT Topix game will be the usual non-entertainment-related Trivia. Faith partially restored, Mary. Thanks!

Author:	zog741 [ Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:21 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: March Topix
Just reviewed the BT site; the Topix for March are: March 4 - Cars March 5 - Film Vamps March 11 - Precious Metals March 12 - Luck of the Irish March 18 - World Capitals March 19 - Today's Pop Stars March 25 - Bird Watching March 26 - Just Desserts There are a few here that I look forward to.

Author:	MRBRNS [ Sat Feb 20, 2010 1:09 am ]
Post subject:	Re: March Topix
zog741 wrote: Just reviewed the BT site; the Topix for March are: March 4 - Cars March 5 - Film Vamps March 11 - Precious Metals March 12 - Luck of the Irish March 18 - World Capitals March 19 - Today's Pop Stars March 25 - Bird Watching March 26 - Just Desserts There are a few here that I look forward to. MUCH better. I'll have to try to play some of them, but Spring Break may interfere. Actually, I'd only have a conflict on a Friday and those games I have no interest in, so SCORE!

Author:	legend [ Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:27 am ]
Post subject:	Re: March Topix
MaryC wrote: Thanks Mitch - you beat me to it Sorry guys, the list got posted before everyone here got the memo about March. The College-themed Topix is for a promotion will be doing in March (because of March Madness ) and it will run AFTER SIX on Thursdays. It's another "Bonus Topix" that will have prizes etc. Details will be posted next week. The 8:30 ET/5:30 PT Topix game will be the usual non-entertainment-related Trivia. Mary, you can disregard my pm to you on Buzztime. Thank goodness the college theme was not taken away, fits perfect for March Madness, can't wait. Hopefully I won't be comatose by the time the Topix games come on (after watching basketball all day)!

Author:	ranger [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 12:01 am ]
Post subject:	Re: March Topix
I think there is one early Thursday game that I'll try to make.

Author:	Tim [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:25 am ]
Post subject:	Re: March Topix
Since we're mashing up the Topix schedule, can we go ahead and move the March Madness themed Topix to Wednesdays instead of Thursdays? I know Crackhead and I would love to play those, and the two of us alone wouldn't get worse than 5th nationally, throwing in Scar it'd be tough to get us out of the top 3 on any of those, but none of us play Thursdays and going at 10pm for a single game is a stretch. So since it looks like we changed the schedule to fit complainers why not change it again? Please??

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Author:	poman [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:54 am ]
Post subject:	Re: March Topix
^My guess is they picked that timeslot since NCAA Tournament games are played on Thursdays at 10pm on March 18 & March 25. (There aren't any games on Wednesdays).

Author:	Tim [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 2:19 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: March Topix
poman wrote: ^My guess is they picked that timeslot since NCAA Tournament games are played on Thursdays at 10pm on March 18 & March 25. (There aren't any games on Wednesdays). Which makes even less sense. Fewer people will be playing the trivia games during actual tournament games. An even better reason to move it to Wednesday.

Author:	zzuupp [ Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:19 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: March Topix
Congrats to the folks @ the Getaway in Pittsburgh for a very good game.

Author:	BUD [ Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:32 am ]
Post subject:	Re: March Topix
zzuupp wrote: Congrats to the folks @ the Getaway in Pittsburgh for a very good game. Yes congrats on winning the car topix. Who knew that they know music & cars?? Also saw zzuupp on the boards, good game. We got confused on a couple of questions and fell to 15th. Nice game though, good distribution, not overly easy.

Author:	poman [ Fri Mar 05, 2010 12:05 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: March Topix
BUD wrote: zzuupp wrote: Congrats to the folks @ the Getaway in Pittsburgh for a very good game. Yes congrats on winning the car topix. Who knew that they know music & cars?? Well, it's mutually exclusive We have a guy there (LEDIOM/JEM) that knows EVERYTHING about cars. But he always leaves before Playback starts. Anyway, I told him that there was going to be a Topix game on cars this week, he got very excited & said he'll definitely play that game. Checking his scores this morning, I wasn't surprised in the least bit

Author:	stevej84 [ Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:41 am ]
Post subject:	Re: March Topix
Precious Metals is on tonight. I'm going to give it a try. Since high school chemistry was a really long time ago, my score will probably be pretty grim. Probably won't stay for the College Topix. I know absolutely nothing about College Mascots

Author:	Nomar [ Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:11 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: March Topix
stevej84 wrote: Precious Metals is on tonight. I'm going to give it a try. Since high school chemistry was a really long time ago, my score will probably be pretty grim. Probably won't stay for the College Topix. I know absolutely nothing about College Mascots I would love to play the college game, but nephew has a ball game tonight so I will be waching him play .

Author:	stevej84 [ Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:41 am ]
Post subject:	Precious Metals Topix
stevej84 wrote: Precious Metals is on tonight. I'm going to give it a try. Since high school chemistry was a really long time ago, my score will probably be pretty grim. grim can't even begin to describe my score. Egads, even my Immortal Words score was higher Too bad I didn't look at the spot price of platinum or production stats of each element by country. if I had, I would have picked up 2,500 points

Author:	Rhino [ Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:57 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Precious Metals Topix
stevej84 wrote: stevej84 wrote: Precious Metals is on tonight. I'm going to give it a try. Since high school chemistry was a really long time ago, my score will probably be pretty grim. grim can't even begin to describe my score. Egads, even my Immortal Words score was higher Too bad I didn't look at the spot price of platinum or production stats of each element by country. if I had, I would have picked up 2,500 points The scores for that game were low everywhere. I had a couple of lucky guesses on the countries (not so much on the spot pricing) and whatever chemistry knowledge I retained from high school. Other than that oddly enough the biggest help for me was my fountain pen hobby, since iridium and osmium are used for nib tipping material and most of the others are used for trim pieces (no ruthenium or rhenium as far as as I know, but enough to have a nodding acquaintance with gold, silver and the platinum group). I expected to be in the 200-300 rank range and ended showing up with a sub-12K. Kinda surprised really as it would have leant itself well to the folks who like studying ahead of time, plus wehave enough periodic table nerds out there to nail those Qs.