We hate getting things wrong. That's why we hire fact checkers. But sometimes, things still go wrong and we need to be held accountable - and our fact checkers and writers need to be flogged on a live webcam.
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A couple more miscues sneaked into the quiz last week. Andrew and Bobb of Opal Divine's (Marina) in Austin both wrote in after Saturday's quiz to say that that Neil Diamond song you like post-ironically is just called America, not "Coming to America." Today!
A couple days before that, Robert wrote in from Monroe's in Loveland CO, complaining that we left Cary out of our list of the 10 biggest cities in North Carolina. Sure enough, that lump on the side of Raleigh has more than 135,00 people in it - and three of them are former NHL players according to Wikipedia, so I suppose I should be careful what I say about it.
This disappointing run of form has left us below 99.8% accuracy for the first time since mid-January. If we see bruises the next time you see us, that's from whipping ourselves. It stings!
Photo: neildiamond.com
Did you know that Jamie Farr served in Korea as well as Alan Alda? We didn't, and so we cost a point for Jacob's team* from West End Pub on Wednesday. Sorry!
*Not the same thing as Team Jacob.
A surprising number of people wrote in to show off their knowledge of Dwayne "The Rock" Johson's acting repertoire after Wednesday's Random Knowledge round. And sure enough, Faster was ever-so-slightly more recent than The Other Guys and Whatever the Fuck Else We Had Down, so we hereby grant all those teams one point retroactively (or two, if they Jokered).
It's a small price to pay for your dignity, after all.
For the second time this month, we've been brought down by the goddamned San Antonio Spurs.
Sunday's speed round asked for the 10 cities that have exactly one Big Four sports franchise (MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL, don'tcha know). But yeah, it turns out there are 11 of those bastards, and the one we missed was the great city of San Antonio.
The first one to point this out was Quizmaster Matt in Denver - which is odd, since we have three Sunday night quizzes in Austin, a mere hour and a half from the jilted city.
Anyway yeah, this is what we in the business call an Absolute Son of a Bitch, and it does knock our 2012 accuracy down a tick to 99.81%. We'll get you next time, Spurs!
Flickr photo by Keith Allison via Wikipedia.