Encore Question of February 27, 1999.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York.
Answers:
I have the lead tonight thanks to a good round of OnBeat...8 right, 1 wrong...then holding off the challenge of the Regular's table. Actually I was 3rd through part of Triviaoke but regained the lead with the lyrics to Phil Collins 'Both Sides Of The Story' as I had just happened to play his "Hits" cassette earlier this week in my Walkman.
My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp......4500/5000....(6 way tie for)2nd/16...Y wins with 5000.
OnBeat.....12250/14000....1st/18...I win this round.
JukeBox.....15814/20000....1st/18...Enigma wins round closing to 15754.
Tiriviaoke....20641/28000....1st/18...Kelly wins round.
I put the maximum 50% on the line. All these answers have something to do with U2.
Question:...What was U2's next album following their debut release "Boy"?
I'm not sure about this one. I thought it was one of the first three answers but turned against 'Under A Blood Red Sky' not expecting they'd have enough material to fill a live album as a second album. It shouldn't have been difficult if I'd played their Greatest Hits CD I bought on Boxing Day but I'm still working through them...very timely as I've mentioned to draw out Phil Collins this week. I had picked '1' already but those around me were whispering 'War'. They hadn't given me an answer in this game (some help in other games, I could repay them in the OnBeat round) but I wasn't certain about mine to overrule them except to say what I had. I have read the order in my music book but thinking of the page I guessed one word but not two-three letter albums in a row. I'm sure some of the bar patrons have seen U2 in concert. Toronto was an early supporter of the band when they were just getting started in North America. I wasn't thinking how ugly this would look if I was the only one wrong...
Correct Answer:...1. October
The on screen post game comment was "The 1981 album includes the songs 'Gloria' and 'Rejoice'". My music book lists the order of these albums as 2nd to 6th in the same order as they were listed in the question--1st to 5th--ie unscrambled!
I'm right and end up winning with 30961 points. That was good enough for 89th in North America. The bar came in 9th in North America with a 29932 point average. I earn 3000+ Players Plus points for meeting this week's 13000 point standard. The Regulars four player--five box brain trust led by their music expert ENIGMA making a rare appearance got us into the Network Top 20 as they kept the 2nd to 6th places while my friends crashed.
Here's how the rest of the bar did:
The NTN web site moved me up to 87th and ENIGMA to 100th. It also listed for the first time four bars ahead of us as having played 'R' (rerun?) games and many individuals in those bars in the Top 100. Very suspicious that a bar can have an average of over 39000 points.
Player..........pre-Encore..........Final............Rank.....
ROCKET..........20641............30961..............89........
ENIGMA...........20221............30331............103.......
MOLSON..........20058............30087............109.......
KELLY...............19900............29850............114.......
JARVIS..............18957.............28407............480.......
VIKING..............18933............28407............490.......
FERREL............18319.....x.......9159............6933......
ZEDMAN...........18093.....x.......9047............6971......
Y........................17953.....x.......8977............6994......
TREVBB............16893.....x......8447............7172...(GUNNER from Joe Grinder days couldn't change her name)...
JSBACH.............14647....x......7323.............7548......
BOBME...............13693....x......6847.............7707......
RETRO...............11282....x......7897.............7356......
KITCH..................10853...x......6512.............7819......
FARQUE (?)........10654...x......5327.............8216......
INOUT...................8802...x......4401.............8526......
SECTCY................7947...x......3973.............8669......
NANYA (?).............5289...x......3173.............8937......
Other games:
8:00pm...Countdown...7976/15000...2nd/3...I'm 3155th in North America...the bar is 1739th in NA...I earn 1000+ Players Plus points...JSBACH wins.
8:30pm...Countdown...11396/15000...3rd/11...I'm 1316th in NA...bar is 321st...2000+ points...ENIGMA wins.
9:00pm...Wipeout...9852/15000...4th/13...I'm 1776th in NA...bar is 153rd...1000+ points...JARVIS wins.
9:30pm...SunSportsCountdown...9959/15000...4th/17...I'm 105th in S.Ont...bar is 12th in Southern Ontario with a 10202 average...1000+ points...ENIGMA wins...(I earn the max 1000 for knowing Sheffield United was beaten twice in the same week in English FA Cup play in the manditory soccer question).
10:00pm...Playback...(see above).
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