Encore Question of December 29, 2001
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
Answers:
Tonight I'm playing with just Richard BERGIE as the others in our group were out of earshot because a twosome of non-players had taken up the valuable counter space for the entire evening. They left just in time for us to push over before the Encore question. Their scores weren't good at all so they must miss our input.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp:...ROCKET...4000/5000...3rd/12 tie. ..........LITBOX...3500/5000...6th/12 tie...BERGIE wins round with 5000. OnBeat:...ROCKET...11750/14000...2nd/12. ..........LITBOX...11250/14000...5th/12...I co-win round with COSMO and METLCA. 8 right and 1 wrong is pretty good but it seemed to be old news like CDs that had actually been in stores for awhile rather than those that wouldn't be out for two weeks! JukeBox...ROCKET...16800/20000...1st/9. ...........LITBOX...16303/20000...2nd/9...LITBOX wins round. I end up wasting a good score by falling for a last clue of 'NOT' and switching back again for about 100 instead of leaving my answer for 1000. The answer for The Who's album 'Live At Leeds' was mispelled as 'Love At Leeds'...Richard's PIPPIN (he'd seen Lord Of The Rings again earlier today)board died during round which cost our bar a better bar ranking. Triviaoke...ROCKET...20513/28000...1st/9. ............LITBOX...20028/28000...2nd/9...METLCA wins round. I almost lost my over 20000 scores with about three -250s at the end.
So this question would be something about tours I was thinking. I bookmark Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, and Talking Heads.
Encore Question:...The concert film "Stop Making Sense" is about this group:
Well I don't even finish dictating the question before I tell our group the answer (gotta be first). Don't need my book this week!
Correct Answer:...2. Talking Heads
NTN Extra Fact:...Jonathan Demme of 'Silence Of The Lambs' fame directed the film.
I'm right and win with 20513 for ROCKET and 20028 for LITBOX. That was good enough to rank 179th and 412nd in North America. I earn 3000+ Players Plus points for meeting this week's standard which I didn't see at the beginning of the game. Our bar was 17th in North America with a 27300 average.
Here's how the rest of the bar did:
Player | preEncore | Final | Rank | |
1 | ROCKET | 20513 | 30769 | .179 |
2 | LITBOX | 20028 | 30042 | .412 |
3 | BERGIE | 17514 | 26271 | 1615 |
4 | METLCA | 17485 | 26227 | 1629 |
5 | COSMO | 15462 | 23193 | 2597 |
6 | CAPER | 12348 | 18522 | 4088 |
7 | CRANKY | ..8274 | ..9929 | 6831 |
8 | MADDOG | ..7862 | 11793 | 6236 |
9 | ZIGGY | ..7178 | 10716 | 6563 |
10 | OH.YA | ..3500 | ..5250 | 8324...Dave COITIS comes in and picks up this abandoned board in time for Encore. |
Other games:...I start the evening with 1583800 P+ points.
7:30pm...Countdown...2867/15000...7th/8...I earn 500+ points...didn't catch my ranking...bar is 679th in NA...COSMO wins...I'm here in time forthe last 3 questions.
8:00pm...Countdown...10860/15000...5th/9...1000+ points...I'm 2062nd in NA...bar is 17th in North America with a 12123 average...MAC wins.
8:30pm...Countdown...12389/15000...3rd/11...2000+ points...I'm 119th...bar is 15th in North America with a 12287 average...MAC wins.
9:00pm...Wipeout...7744/15000...6th/11...1000+ points...I'm 2935th...bar is 7th in North America with a 10422 average...MAC wins.
9:30pm...Wipeout...10152/15000...3rd/11...1000+ points...I'm 2257th...bar is 230th in NA...MAC wins.
Ray MAC who'd been playing with Richard and me leaves and I take over his board as LITBOX with 92500 P+ points.
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