Encore Question of August 28th, 1999.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York.
Answers:
Tonight I'm in 8th place with 17990 after a bad OnBeat round put me 5000 points behind The Regulars table although they've only got four brains there tonight. I've also taken over KAV, as Kimmo has gone off to play pool in the JukeBox round. Bill MADDOG has taken over the board KRONK for his lookalike friend John (?), and Daryl INDEBT make up the bar team.
My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp....5000/5000....1/16...12 way tie for 1st.
OnBeat...7750/14000...11th/16...7 way tie for 1st at 12750.
JukeBox...12500/20000...10th/16...ELVIS wins round but VIKING has lead with 15440.
Triviaoke...17990/28000...8th/15...STNCOLD wins round and has lead.
Quite a selection of groups in the answers so this question could be about anything. 50% of points on the line. The Player's Plus standard is 20000.
Question:...Guitarist Donald Roeser of _____________ was also known as 'Buck Dharma'.
At last some answer I knew right off for maybe only the third time this year. I tipped the team off and Bill and I started naming off the guitarists in the other bands. This shouldn't put us any higher in the standings against The Regulars seven boards but it was more fun to actually know the answer right away after all these months.
Correct Answer:.....4. Blue Oyster Cult.
[Extra Fact: The hard rock group from Long Island scored their first gold album with 'Agents of Fortune'.]
I used to hear their song 'Don't Fear The Reaper' in the oldies rotation on Rock102 Buffalo in the late 1970s before it was used in a movie. I didn't remember the guy's real name but I've read the nick name.
I'm right and retain 8th and move up to 9th with KAV. I finish with 26985 points. That earns me 3000+ Players Plus points. The bar finishes 7th in North America with a 33701 average. There are no individual rankings displayed except Joe STNCLD who finished 10th on the Network Top 20.
Here's how our bar did:
Player............preEncore.....Final.......Rank....
STNCLD............22568..........33852........35.....10th on Network Top 20 board.
VIKING...............22494..........33741........36.....
MOLSON...........22470...........33705........37.....
KELLY...............22417............33625........38.....
ENIGMA............22389............33584........40....
ALKIE.................22333............33499........46....
ELVIS.................20222............30333...............
ROCKET............17990.............26985...........
FROGGY............17644.....X.......8832...........
KAV.....................16846.............25269..........
INDEBT...............15781............23671..........
MADDOG.............15094............22641..........
HUGGS................14316............21474..........
KRONK.................12920............19380..........
MONROB...............8271.....X........4135..........
Other games:
8:00pm...Countdown...9771/15000...5th/18...1000+ Players Plus points...I finish 1239th in NA...bar is 13th in North America with a 10772 average...KRONK wins.
8:30pm...Countdown...10202/15000...1st/18...2000+ points...I finish 69th in NA...bar is 16th in North America with a 9195 average.
9:00pm...Wipeout...8589/15000...3rd/16...1000+ points...I finish 1729th in NA...bar is 125th...MOLSON wins.
9:30pm...SunSportsCountdown...10836/15000...2nd/17...1000+ points...I finish 17th overall in SOnt...bar is 4th in Southern Ontario with a 10073 average...KELLY wins and is 9th on the Top 20 board and 15th overall.
Both our groups have a beef with one question. 'What country is (Leafs center) Yannick Perreault from?' The correct answer is 'Yugoslavia'...so minus 250 for everyone who answered. The complaint was they asked this question last week and the answer was 'Canada' and the extra fact both weeks was 'he's from Sherbrooke Quebec Canada'.
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