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Happy to hear it got worked out!

I'm glad it's sorted out. There is a final check before you click submit which shows you the exact word that needs to be in the question or correct answer. Having spelled something incorrectly and accidentally myself, I have learned the lesson to check very carefully now.

All sorted! Thanks, editors.

Yes, the question had already been accepted.

I think you can send corrections on submitted questions, and you should do that so the editor can reject the question and let you change the spelling then resubmit. It has to be acceptable at the time of submission or resubmission, so an editor fixing it up will not be any use. I have never actually done this, so am not sure it works. You may need to wait until it has been accepted - then I am sure you can send a correction, using the link to My Contributions: All Accepted Submissions and clicking the corrections link at the end of the question. Then you can submit a correction asking to have it sent back so you can fix the spelling and resubmit.

Trident, I wasn't aware of that. I will remember. Thanks! Have tried what Rossian suggested. If I have to do a new question, so be it.

You could try sending a correction note on it asking the editor to amend the spelling. This might resolve it if you still have the appropriate bingo card.

And here it is: https://www.funtrivia.com/quiz/general/a-gorgeously-gem-studded-quiz-416289.html

That's a long life-span there, l_t!

Unfortunately, the system checks the word verbatim, and there is no way to allow for alternative spellings. The spellings used in the Bingo game are all American spellings, so they are ultimately the ones that have to be used.

Can somebody help me please? I submitted a question that used my Bingo word (mesmerizing), but it hasn't given me credit for it. Possibly because I used the UK English spelling "mesmerising?" I think that's a little bit unreasonable.

A couple tidbits when it comes to centuries and grammar: - Centuries are NOT capitalized (e.g. the 16th century). - You should use a hyphen when "century" is part of an adjective, but you shouldn't when it's used as a noun (a 19th-century invention / an invention invented in the 19th century).

I had the same set and I think they actually pre-date Bingo! Haha!

The frenzied writing of single questions is coming through. My set of the New Question Game today had five or six questions from the same author - all in different categories, but presumably created at about the same time.

If you want to use the century to label them (19th century writer, 20th century painter), then the appropriate century would be the one in which they produced the work for which they are most famous. If they totally cross centuries, then you could indicate that by something like "architect of the late 16th and early 27th centuries", but it is awkward. That is one of the reasons why literary and artistic eras (Elizabethan, Romantic, Baroque) are more commonly used to describe when someone worked.

Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899-2016)

Personally, when I want to say something that is awkward or questionable or would look funny when punctuated correctly, I just reword it. "He was born in 1937 and died in 2010."

My "Time to Refrain" crossword has materialized: https://www.funtrivia.com/crossword/play.cfm?gid=10545

One other thing to note is that there will be refreshes of the word list over time, so theoretically the repeats should be fewer and further between. But there is no accounting for random chance. ;)

There's definitely going to be repeats, especially amongst different players. It will be rare for your own words to repeat too often. It's also probably more obvious to notice Zambezi than, say, "table." There's also the factor that authors might choose terms that they feel as though they can tackle, so some words might get used more often, while others that are a bit more difficult will get passed on. Geographical locations offer a lot of variance: you could write about plants, animals, land features, cultures, etc.