Encore Question of July 3rd, 1999.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York.
Answers:
I'm in 12th place in the bar playing in a group of seven all squeezed in along the counter of the bar. The Regulars have four players and eight boxes and have all eight top places. My downfall has been the OnBeat round with five right, four wrong and I wasn't able to catch up after that.
My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp....5000/5000....five way tie for 1st with our group of ZEDMAN, JD, BERGIE, DBA, BERGIE.
OnBeat...9000/14000...13th/19...STNCOLD in lead with 12250.
JukeBox...14153/20000...13th/18...KELLY wins round, STNCOLD has lead with 17413.
Triviaoke...20763/28000...12th/18
This Encore question could be just about anything but I put 50% on the line.
Question:...Latina singing sensation Shakira hails from __________
BERGIE Richard is laughing when he sees this and passes the word. He heard of her when he was on holidays a few months ago in Venezuela. She knew where she was from and that she looked like Alanis Morissette. GHQ Kimmo had arrived midway through the game and was also on that trip and had a big smile on his face. I didn't even take time to think I didn't know the answer and just thanked Richard and passed the word to the end of the bar.
Correct Answer:.......1. Columbia
Added extra:...Shakira Rapoll left home at age 13 and recorded her first album at age 14.
I'm right and finish 4th in the bar with 31144. I earn 3000+ Players Plus points for making the 11000 point standard in this week's game. The bar is Number 1 in North America with a 31741 average! The Regulars all guess wrong. ZEDMAN Bill wins with 32626 and makes our bar's Hall Of Fame in 10th spot. The final standings don't give a rank for any of us so I've put together the Top 100 from the ntn.com site.
Safety in numbers as I didn't know the answer. I expect the only reason we had seven players together for this game is 'The Swamp' (the upstairs room with a second bar and pool tables was closed for a private party). When I got home, the last Billboard magazine I bought had their annual spotlight on the Latino music scene which I'd left unread.
Here's how our bar did:
Player........preEncore........Final..........Rank...
STNCOLD......24392.....x.....12196.................ENIGMA Joe gets a 2nd board for the first time.
MOLSON........23438.....x......11719......................
VIKING............23389.....x......11695......................
ENIGMA..........23034.....x......11517......................
OLE JR............23012.....x......11506......................
JARVIS............22966.....x......11483.......................
KELLY..............22614.....x......11307.......................
ALKIE...............22476.....x.......11238......................
ZEDMAN..........21751..............32627..........13th.....
JD.....................21398..............32097..........17th.....
BERGIE............21391..............32087..........18th.....
ROCKET...........20763..............31145..........24th.....
LEAFAN............20502..............30753..........27th.....
DBA...................17353..............20823......................
YARITE.............16646......x........8323......................
GHQ...................12081..............18121......................
AT (?)...................9781......x.........7825......................
PLAYER...............4543.................6815.....................
Other games:
8:00pm...Countdown...11949/15000...2nd/9...1000+ Players Plus points...I finish 457th in North America...bar is 132 in NA...BERGIE wins.
8:30pm...Countdown...13176/15000...2nd/17...2000+ points...I finish 76th in NA...bar is 15th in NA with a 12449 average...BERGIE wins and is 38th in NA.
9:00pm...Wipeout...11980/15000...1st/17...1000+ points...I finish 20th on the Top 20 board and 38th overall in NA...bar is 6th in North America with an 11098 average.
9:30pm...CountdownSunSports...11350/15000...2nd/18...1000+ points...I finish 17th overall of 412 players in Southern Ontario...bar is 4th in S Ont with an 11051 average...LEAFAN wins and is 6th on Top 20 board, 7th overall.
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