Encore Question of December 12, 1998.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York.

Answers:

  1. London
  2. Amsterdam
  3. Madrid
  4. Rome
  5. Vienna

Tonight I was invited to play with 'the regulars' as both our teams were reduced by the holiday season and winter holidays. Our Playback team tonight was JARVIS and two of his schoolmates, and MOLSON and KELLY.

I'll start arranging this comparable to one of my American readers who likes to compare round by round.

TuneUp.........3000/5000............6 way tie for 1st...(too many cooks?).
OnBeat.........10750/14000.........3 way tie for 1st.
JukeBox.......15372/20000.........3rd/15th
Triviaoke......22097/28000.........2nd/15th

We didn't start off too well as we had only 3000/5000 in the TuneUp round, one of my worst ever. OnBeat is where teamwork really helped my score.

All of us put 50% on the line for this question.

Question:...The very first '3 Tenors' concert was performed in this city in 1990.

Well JARVIS said 'World Cup Final' a split second after the question went up. The '1990' assured the city as being Rome. Then we showed off of what teams played in the final--Germany vs Argentina, the score etc. I wonder if they choose these questions by 'names in the news' as one of the tenors Luciano Pavarotti would be the first ever 'classical' music guest star on 'Saturday Night Live' in the history of the show that started half hour later.

Correct Answer...........4. Rome

I'm right and finish with 33145 points. That earns me 3000+ Players Plus points. I finish 2nd of 15 in the bar and 19th in North America (although I don't find that out until later in the week as the rankings weren't posted). The bar finishes 5th with a 31052 average.

Encore Round:
Player............preEncore...............Final............Rank: MOLSON.............22209.................33313.............7th...
ROCKET..............22097.................33145............19th..
JARVIS................21338.................32007.............27th..
KELLY..................20008.................30012.............40th..
PASADG..............17856.................26784.............86th..
FROGGY..............16352.................24528......................
ELRICK.................15883...................7941......................
MADDOG..............13879.................20819.....................
Y............................13682.................20523.....................
MARV....................13361.................14697.....................
FERREL................12690.................13959.....................
AVRM.....................8239....................9805.....................
RGP........................7591....................9109.....................
JEB.........................6289....................3145.....................
WORD....................5147....................2573.....................

KELLY came from nowhere as she had a bum machine that she eventually traded in for a new game board. I recognized it as I had given it back about an hour before!

Other games:
8:00pm...Countdown...11493/15800...2nd/5...I'm 86th in Canada...bar is 177th...I earn 1000+ Player Plus points...JARVIS wins.
8:30pm...Countdown...10656/15000...2nd/7...I'm 133rd in North America(?)...bar is 24th... 2000+ points...JARVIS wins.
9:00pm...Wipeout...10708/15000...3rd/8...I'm 1647th in North America...bar is 658th...1000+ points...WORD wins.
9:30pm...SunSports Trivia (Countdown)...1st/14...I'm 3rd in Southern Ontario...bar is 5th with a 10052 average...1000+ points.
10:00pm...Playback (see above).

Again I was surprized to win a sports trivia game. I think real sports fans don't have a board so they can concentrate on the hockey game on some of the other sets in the bar.

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