Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site moscom.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!rochester!ritcv!moscom!de From: de@moscom.UUCP (Dave Esan) Newsgroups: net.misc,net.games.trivia Subject: Re: Trivial Pursuit Error Message-ID: <237@moscom.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 10:48:52 EDT Article-I.D.: moscom.237 Posted: Tue Oct 9 10:48:52 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 07:31:24 EDT Distribution: net Organization: MOSCOM Corp, East Rochester, NY Lines: 33 Xref: 5925 1228 R Interesting that you brought up trivial pursuit and its errors. I played the game a few times and besides finding certain questions not within my definition of trivia, and certainly not in the definition of the category, I found at least three errors that I could document. Yours makes a fifth (I discovered a fourth in an ad in Time magazine). The ones I've found are: 1.A baseball game is not over until? (I will not discuss the use of English in this question.) Do they want the real answer, the Yogi Berra answer, or the Casey Stengel answer? They chose "until the last out." This is not true since obviously a game can end when the home team scores the winning run in the bottom of the ninth or later, in a forfeit, or in a rain shortened game. 2. What planet did Mariner explore? Answer: Venus. Correct answer: Venus and Mars. 3. Which was the first country to legalize abortion? Answer: Iceland, 1933. Correct answer: USSR in 1917 (okay don't hit me, it was Russia at the time, and not the USSR until later). 4. And in Time, in an ad for the game they asked: D'Artangan (sp?) was the leader of which group? Answer: The Three Musketeers. Correct answer: If these guys had read the book they would know that Athos was the leader and that D'Artangan was a person attempting to join the group. In answer to your query, I do not believe that JFK had any last words, and that My God I've been shot, were said by John Connally in the same car. I can't prove this, and may be wrong. I would interested in other people could post to net.trivia any additional errors they find in trivial pursuit, or any of the dozens of look alikes that have surfaced. David Esan