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

I wonder if this was from the same Six writer that had Louis XVI as the answer for a Louis XIV question a couple of years ago during the tourney?
Hmmmm...

xtrain · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:09 pm **Posts:** 470

46 was absolutely not on the list at Broadway Station. We all knew the correct answer, and it wasn't there. Perhaps this is the way Buzztime plans to prevent cheating when there are two feeds: only one feed will have the correct answer.

zog741 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:09 am

The answer "46' was definitely on the list where I played (Coyote Maverick in Danbury, CT); I pressed it immediately, and by the time the error was brought to my attention, it was too late to change it and I took a big, fat zero. So that question cost me 7000 points. Absolutely horrible goof on Buzztime's part!

-- RWM

Torquemada · **Joined:** Mon May 30, 2011 7:05 pm **Posts:** 91

46 was the first choice at the Steel Pit, in Tujunga, CA. The answer they gave as correct for XLVI, "44," was choice #3. We were gathered here together to say goodbye to National Six, and some of us were here to say goodbye to Buzztime, Buzztime gave them the finger for their farewell; which, considering how Buzztime has treated players in the West since the blog post announcing the split said West players won mainly because East players had gone home, was oddly in character. Anyway, we have a couple I doubt will *ever* come back. WTG NTN/Buzztime!

TFM

BUD · **Posted:** Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:56 pm

That's the same answers we had at Hardtimes in Maryland and the question definitely was XLVI.

1. 46
2. 34
3. 44
4. (don't recall something < 40)

So I guess there was at least 2 feeds that were not separated by time zones. I know BT has been scrambling the correct answer number/position to stop the phone hacks playing at 2 different bars. One feed had 46 as possible, the other had 45.

Guess we had a preview of what will be happening with 2 feeds.

poman · **Joined:** Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:05 pm **Posts:** 1514

BUD wrote:

That's the same answers we had at Hardtimes in Maryland and the question definitely was XLVI.

1. 46
2. 34
3. 44
4. (don't recall something < 40)

So I guess there was at least 2 feeds that were not separated by time zones. I know BT has been scrambling the correct answer number/position to stop the phone hacks playing at 2 different bars. One feed had 46 as possible, the other had 45.

Guess we had a preview of what will be happening with 2 feeds.

Just a theory but... these 4-answer questions are sometimes just recycled Countdown questions with one wrong answer choice chopped off. Since buzztime is now rotating the answers, it looks like they've found a way to randomly post three of the four wrong answers from the recycled Countdown question. Of course, it doesn't work very well when they key in the wrong answer (44) as the locked in correct answer :lol:

pengwn · **Posted:** Thu Feb 23, 2012 5:32 pm

poman wrote:

BUD wrote:

That's the same answers we had at Hardtimes in Maryland and the question definitely was XLVI.

1. 46
2. 34
3. 44
4. (don't recall something < 40)

So I guess there was at least 2 feeds that were not separated by time zones. I know BT has been scrambling the correct answer number/position to stop the phone hacks playing at 2 different bars. One feed had 46 as possible, the other had 45.

Guess we had a preview of what will be happening with 2 feeds.

Just a theory but... these 4-answer questions are sometimes just recycled Countdown questions with one wrong answer choice chopped off. Since buzztime is now rotating the answers, it looks like they've found a way to randomly post three of the four wrong answers from the recycled Countdown question. Of course, it doesn't work very well when they key in the wrong answer (44) as the locked in correct answer :lol:

They've been doing that for Buzztime Trivia since 2008. Every so often, the factoid will reference the wrong answer that didn't make the cut

Akbar71 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 23, 2012 11:45 pm

poman wrote:

BUD wrote:

That's the same answers we had at Hardtimes in Maryland and the question definitely was XLVI.

1. 46
2. 34
3. 44
4. (don't recall something < 40)

So I guess there was at least 2 feeds that were not separated by time zones. I know BT has been scrambling the correct answer number/position to stop the phone hacks playing at 2 different bars. One feed had 46 as possible, the other had 45.

Guess we had a preview of what will be happening with 2 feeds.

Just a theory but... these 4-answer questions are sometimes just recycled Countdown questions with one wrong answer choice chopped off. Since buzztime is now rotating the answers, it looks like they've found a way to randomly post three of the four wrong answers from the recycled Countdown question. Of course, it doesn't work very well when they key in the wrong answer (44) as the locked in correct answer :lol:

Yeah, but there are five possible answers in Final SIX.

zog741 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 23, 2012 11:48 pm

Akbar71 wrote:

Yeah, but there are five possible answers in Final SIX.

Four. In the original version of Six, I believe there were five choices in the final round, but now it's just four.

Akbar71 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 23, 2012 11:57 pm

zog741 wrote:

Akbar71 wrote:

Yeah, but there are five possible answers in Final SIX.

Four. In the original version of Six, I believe there were five choices in the final round, but now it's just four.

Huh. I've been playing the damned game every week for four years; you'd think I'd have noticed that. Don't I feel like an ass. Sorry, BUD!

-BO- · **Joined:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:20 pm **Posts:** 2304

In SIQ tonight a Q asked about an NHL player that had been with only one team. Both Martin Brodeur and Nicklas Lidstrom were given as choices. Awesome.

BO

zog741 · **Posted:** Sat Mar 03, 2012 3:23 pm

Countdown which has just completed asked the name of the calendar currently used. The answer was correct as Gregorian. The factoid said something about leap years being used/introduced with current calendar. This factoid should be reviewed; there were leap years in the Julian calendar, but in the Gregorian most century years are standard years.

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

in the thursday six on 3/1 the arts question in the final round asked to identify something about the title character in aida. the choices had two correct answers. one answer was ethiopian princess the other was slave. in the opera aida is an ethiopian princess who becomes an egyptian slave.

ANON · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:59 pm **Posts:** 2292

I can't remember whether it was Brainbuster or Showdown, but one question asked for a city. Among the five choices of cities given, two of them were "Venice" (both #1 and #2 on our feed). Can anyone remember the game/question?

Brandyb · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:30 pm **Posts:** 189

It was in Showdown. I remember commenting on it.

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

ANON wrote:

I can't remember whether it was Brainbuster or Showdown, but one question asked for a city. Among the five choices of cities given, two of them were "Venice" (both #1 and #2 on our feed). Can anyone remember the game/question?

Well, one of the two could have meant Venice, California. :roll:

zog741 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2012 11:05 pm

In one of tonight's Late Shift games, there was a question that went something like this: The number 2012 in Roman Numerals contains two of this letter. Of course 2012 is MMXII. One of the choices was I and another choice was M. Unless I misread the question, both of those are correct answers. During the question, I was the second item eliminated and M emerged as the "correct" answer.

Now, I had been playing trivia for about six hours, so maybe I misread the question; perhaps TomD could look at it.

-- RWM

-BO- · **Joined:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:20 pm **Posts:** 2304

zog741 wrote:

In one of tonight's Late Shift games, there was a question that went something like this: The number 2012 in Roman Numerals contains two of this letter. Of course 2012 is MMXII. One of the choices was I and another choice was M. Unless I misread the question, both of those are correct answers. During the question, I was the second item eliminated and M emerged as the "correct" answer.

Now, I had been playing trivia for about six hours, so maybe I misread the question; perhaps TomD could look at it.

You were definitely mistaken, this question isn't pop culture. 8-)

BO

Akbar71 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:39 am

zog741 wrote:

In one of tonight's Late Shift games, there was a question that went something like this: The number 2012 in Roman Numerals contains two of this letter. Of course 2012 is MMXII. One of the choices was I and another choice was M. Unless I misread the question, both of those are correct answers. During the question, I was the second item eliminated and M emerged as the "correct" answer.

Now, I had been playing trivia for about six hours, so maybe I misread the question; perhaps TomD could look at it.

-- RWM

You are definitely not mistaken. I was too busy to play, but I saw the question. "M" and "I" were the last two choices for us, to boot. I'm thinking they maybe should just lay off of the Roman numerals. Or take a refresher course. Or hire a goddamned editor instead of another marketer.

tiefly · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:54 am **Posts:** 1665

I've spent more than a week thinking about this question:

Paraphrased: The long eared bat is different from other bats in that it's diet consists mainly of:

The answer that BT wanted was "insects".

Don't most bats eat insects, particularly mosquitoes? Are mosquitoes insects?

Poor JETS had to listent to me bitch about this question for three days.

Akbar71 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:41 am

tiefly wrote:

I've spent more than a week thinking about this question:

Paraphrased: The long eared bat is different from other bats in that it's diet consists mainly of:

The answer that BT wanted was "insects".

Don't most bats eat insects, particularly mosquitoes? Are mosquitoes insects?

Poor JETS had to listent to me bitch about this question for three days.

I didn't even see this question and it's raising my blood pressure.

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

FWIW, one of the questions asked during those wonderful NCAA breaks involves The Florida State Seminoles (believe the question included their point guard, whose name I can't remember

). The factoid said something to the effect that Florida State was in The Sweet 16 after beating St. Bonaventure and Cincinnati. Cincinnati eliminated Florida State :roll:

, but was eliminated Thursday by those eternally damnable columbus suckeyes. :cry:

pengwn · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:43 pm

liljol wrote:

FWIW, one of the questions asked during those wonderful NCAA breaks involves The Florida State Seminoles (believe the question included their point guard, whose name I can't remember

). The factoid said something to the effect that Florida State was in The Sweet 16 after beating St. Bonaventure and Cincinnati. Cincinnati eliminated Florida State :roll:

, but was eliminated Thursday by those eternally damnable columbus suckeyes. :cry:

Momentary thread hijack . . .

Once, I borrowed a book of curling stories and anecdotes from the library. There was this one rink that took a trip to Japan, and was billeted by a Japanese family during their stay. One of the players was an Ohio State alumnus, and at one point was referred to by somebody as "Ohio Buckeye," which garnered amazed looks and a few giggles from the Japanese folks. So, when they went sightseeing, the curlers would express themselves at anything interesting by exclaiming "Ohio Buckeye!", to varying levels of shock, embarrassment and humorous responses wherever they happened to be. The reason why, according to the story, is that ohaiyu bakay (not sure of the proper spelling) translates to something along the lines of "good morning, you stupid son-of-a-bitch"

Coincidence that Ohio State named themselves Buckeyes? I think not 8-)

AARDVK · **Joined:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 5:30 pm **Posts:** 558

Akbar71 wrote:

I'm thinking they maybe should . . . hire a goddamned editor instead of another marketer.

I've often thought that myself.

Brooke/AARDVK (a goddamn editor)

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

liljol wrote:

FWIW, one of the questions asked during those wonderful NCAA breaks involves The Florida State Seminoles (believe the question included their point guard, whose name I can't remember

). The factoid said something to the effect that Florida State was in The Sweet 16 after beating St. Bonaventure and Cincinnati. Cincinnati eliminated Florida State :roll:

, but was eliminated Thursday by those eternally damnable columbus suckeyes. :cry:

I decided to not bring up this NCAA question on this thread since it was irrelevant, but it has an error in the question mentioning Michael Snaer "leading this team to the Sweet 16" (oops) as well as the factoid error that you mention.
There's another NCAA question with two correct answers about "which of these events did not happen in this year's tourney" with answers 3 and 5 both being valid.
I'm working under the assumption that these questions are the handiwork of the Six writer.

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