Encore Question of January 29, 2000.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York.

Answers:

  1. Peter Cetera
  2. Ozzy Osbourne
  3. Dee Snyder
  4. Steve Tyler
  5. Sammy Hagar

Tonight I'm back playing at The Frog & Firkin and have seen a lot of my friends tonight. It really is only our group who's playing this game although we're awkwardly spread out around the bar. The Regulars aren't here although it's possible they are at Hurricanes. We've got most of the boxes out. I've got the top two places with ROCKET and LITBOX so I can split my Encore answer.

My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp....ROCKET...4000/5000...2nd/11? in 5 way tie...DBA wins with 4500.
..................LITBOX...3500/5000...7th/11?
OnBeat....ROCKET...9750/14000...1st/13...2 way tie.
.................LITBOX...9250/14000...2nd/13...six right, one wrong, and the last two I didn't risk an answer.
JukeBox...ROCKET...13260/20000...3rd/13....GHQ and BERGIE in lead.
.................LITBOX...12849/20000...4th/13.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...20297/28000...1st/13.
...................LITBOX...19886/28000...2nd/13.

I put 50% of my points on the line for this question about lead singers although at the time all I can think about is that the Encore question is finally about rock and roll.

Question:...Which musician's career started as lead singer for the group 'Montrose'?

I don't know about this one and don't have my music book open as I've spent the whole time dictating the scores of our bar into my microrecorder at the 'risk points now' segment. Oops I'm marooned here. Richard (BERGIE, GHQ) said it was Sammy Hagar, why? 'Montrose in California'. Great I put one board on '5' but the other on '1'. I had enough time to reverse my 'good board' ie ROCKET to '5' and LITBOX to '1' but I didn't.

Note:..This was the third time in the game NTN offered Steve Tyler/Aerosmith as an answer (maybe making up for a fiasco caused when they said in last week's OnBeat round that Marty Friedman of Megadeth had left Aerosmith).

Correct Answer:...5 Sammy Hagar

[Extra NTN fact:...He is best known as the singer who replaced David Lee Roth in Van Halen].

From my book, unopened on my lap:...Montrose, hard rock band from San Francisco led by Ronnie Montrose on guitar, Sammy Hagar vocals, four albums made the charts between 1974 and 1976, no singles made it. The connection was also referenced under Sammy Hagar so I could have had it easy enough. I've also read that passage of the book before but couldn't think of it. Thanks Richard!

I win with LITBOX at 29829 points as I let ROCKET crash to 10149. The bar finishes 131st in North America. After seeing this, I realized that if I'd have put both boards on Sammy Hagar, our bar would have averaged 29356 which would have just nicked the Top 20. I earn 3000+ Players Plus points for LITBOX for meeting this week's 21000 point standard and only 1500+ for ROCKET. They only cycled through the scores once so I missed our top 3 placings against North America.

Here's how our bar did:
Player........preEncore......Final.......Rank....
ROCKET.......20297......X...10149.......6819....
LITBOX.........19886............29829.........???....
BERGIE........19872............29808..........???....
GHQ..............19872............29808..........???....
REDEYE.......17928............26892.........1571....
LEAFAN........16313............24469.........2331....
MADDOG.......14319......X.....7159.........7756....
KPTKT............13999.....X......6999.........7806....
DBA.................13958...........20937.........3438....
KAV..................13328.....X......6664.........7911....
ZEDMAN.........10576............15864.........5028....
FERREL............8833......X......7957.........7508....
Y.........................4091.....X......2045..........9359....

Other Games:
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...5187/15000...8th/8...500+ points...IMSLOW wins...(getting started before the 10th question would have helped my score)...I didn't catch our bar or my personal position.
8:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...9579/15000...4th/8...2000+ points...166th in NA....
.....................................LITBOX...9551/15000...5th/8...2000+ points...194th in NA...MRFROG wins with 11871 is 15th overall and 10th on the Top 20 board.
the bar is 8th in North America with a 10580 average.
9:00pm...Wipeout...ROCKET...10730/15000...1st/11...1000+ points...48th in NA.
.................................LITBOX...10730/15000...1st/11...1000+ points...48th in NA.
bar is 8th in NA with a 9824 average.
9:30pm...SunSportsCountdown...LITBOX...10312/15000...2nd/8...1000+ points...68th in S Ont.
.................................ROCKET...10293/15000...3rd/8...1000+ points...69th in S Ont....BERGIE wins...13th on Network...bar is 7th in Southern Ontario with a 10475 average...I got a lot of help in this game.

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