Encore Question of September 11th, 1999.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York.
Answers:
Tonight I'm in 6th place with a low score but only about 2000 points behind the leaders because noone did well in the OnBeat round. There were some questions in that round I stayed out of.
My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp....4000/5000...6th/18...5 players tied at 4500.
OnBeat...6500/14000...11th/18...KELLY,MOLSON, VIKING win round and lead with 8750.
JukeBox...10960/20000...10th/18...KAV wins round...KELLY in lead with 12821.
Triviaoke...17367/28000...6th/18...KELLY in lead with 19530.
A great variety of answers in the choices. I should know anything they ask. I've been saying the answer would be #1 all night because of the pattern the Encore questions have followed. Let's try that out.
Question:...The late Bob Herbert was the man who created __________.
I've never heard of him but I know enough about the Beatles to know it certainly wasn't them. Also New Kids On The Block was Maurice Starr, who was looking for a white group like his New Edition. Five seconds and two are gone. I've already pressed in Backstreet Boys thinking that The Archies were Don Kirshner (The Rock Concert host) and The Spice Girls said they created themselves from friendships. The others are mumbling out 2, 3 and 4. Would they dare put '4' again? It was Bob Montana drew the comic strip, maybe there was someone who linked the show with this. I switched to '4' listening to what Richard BERGIE was answering, he'd won about 5 games in a row until the Sports trivia. I was thinking back to the time I won the Village People creator question when most picked Milli Vanilli.
Correct Answer:...3 Spice Girls
[extra fact:...He placed a newspaper ad in 1994 which was answered by Ginger, Sporty, Scarey and Posh.]
I'm wrong and fall to 12th with 8683 points. That was good for 1500 Players Plus points for not meeting the 16000 standard tonight. I finish 7379th in North America. The bar is 16th in North America with 27803 points thanks to the Regulars being right. Bill MADDOG says 'Didn't you know that one Robin?, he died a few weeks ago'. Well there's my problem.
Here's how our bar did:
Player...........preEncore........Final........Rank....
KELLY..............19530...........29295...........1160....
GOD.................18775...........28163............1501....
MOLSON..........18293...........27439............1720....
VIKING..............18253...........27379............1738....
ELVIS................17826...........26739............1931....
ROCKET............17367.....X......8683.............7379....
KAV....................17346...........26019............2148....
MADDOG...........17149...........25723............2238....
ENIGMA.............16844...........25266............2376....
BERGIE..............15842....X......7921.............7603....
BENNO...............15660...........18792............4329....
OMLET................13279...X......10623............6794....
Q..........................12376...X.......6188.............8132....
COACH................11680...X.......9344.............7180....
JASAS.....?..........10214...X.......5107.............8458....
PIGGY...................9850...X........4925.............8513....
ZEUS.....................7309...X........3605.............8897....
YYYYYY................5431...X........2715.............9180....
Everyone was being nice to me tonight. Kim MOLSON/VIKING came over to invite me to play with the Regulars. Joe ENIGMA told us that he has been awarded a position as an NTN question maker. Well I had made up my mind that this would be my last game but on my walk home I modified that to be that I would still play when I have the time but I wouldn't update my pages for the rest of the year. You can read why in my 'goodbye' article.
Other games:
8:30pm...Countdown...5888/15000...12th/16...1500+ Players Plus points...I finish 4973rd in North America...bar is 281st...BERGIE wins...getting here before the 6th question would have helped my score.
9:00pm...Wipeout...10209/15000...2nd/13...1000+ points...I finish 769th in NA...bar is 18th in North America with a 9874 average....BERGIE wins.
9:30pm...SunSportsCountdown...7909/15000...1000+ points?...146th in SOnt...bar is 14th in Southern Ontario with an 8695 average...ELVIS wins.
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