Encore Question of August 11th, 2001.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
Answers:
Tonight I've got two boards in this game and am playing with Richard BERGIE/GORF and Bill MADDOG. I have a slight lead playing for the first time in about a month.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp....ROCKET...4500/5000...2nd/6 all alone on my two boards. ..........LITBOX...4500/5000...MADDOG wins with 5000 points. OnBeat...ROCKET...12500/14000...2nd/6...BERGIE wins round with a perfect round and leads with 13000...I'm pleased with a round of 8 right and 1 not answered. .........LITBOX...12500/14000. JukeBox...ROCKET...17355/20000...2nd/8. ..........LITBOX...17371/20000...1st/8...GOD wins wins round. We voted for the Beach Boys questions. "I Get Around" chart position and the Charles Manson "Cease To Exist" relationship that was a previous Encore question. Triviaoke...ROCKET...22690/28000...2nd/9. ............LITBOX...22984/28000...1st/9...LITBOX wins round.
The answers come up for television shows that I don't know very well. Oh boy...
Encore Question:...This show dedicated its 200th episode to the late Linda McCartney.
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Well I shouldn't have known this but I think I know because after about nine years, I watched the last ten minutes of this show and read the ending credits earlier in the day. I pass my hunch to the others.
Correct Answer:...4. The Simpsons
[NTN Extra Fact:...Linda & Paul McCarney lent their voices to the 1995 episode entitled "Lisa The Vegetarian".]
I'm right! I saw part of the episode where Homer was elected mayor and he solved the city's financial problems by letting Springfield's garbage dumps take in other cities' garbage too until it backed up through the sewers. The closing credits say 'dedicated to Linda McCartney'. I guess that was the 200th episode. What a one in 300 chance of seeing that show, one show in the last nine years? Amazing!
I'm right and finish with 34476 for LITBOX. I earn 3000 Players Plus points on both boards for meeting this week's standard for which I was unsure. I'm 59th and 65th in North America and the bar is ranked 21st.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank LITBOX 22984 34476 59 ROCKET 22690 34035 65 BERGIE 21364 32046 529 MADDOG 20939 31409 717 GORF 19208 28812 1485 PATAP 16255 x 8127 7598 GOD 11012 16518 5118 RCCC 3274 4584 8645 MCFISH 1795 2693 9204
On my way home I double back to the bar to show the CD in my walkman is "Tug Of War" by Paul McCartney! I had bought this months earlier to replace my vinyl copy and hadn't played it until this week. Spooky!
Other games:...I start the evening with 1457300 Players Plus points for ROCKET and 49500 for LITBOX.
8:00pm...Countdown...11471/15000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 1471st in NA...bar is 265th.
8:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...9353/15000...3rd/3...2000+ points...I'm 2072nd.
.................................LITBOX....9362/15000...2nd/3...2000+ points...I'm 2064th in NA...bar is 1199th with only three boards playing.
9:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...12357/15000...1st/3...1000+ points...I'm 269th in NA.
...............................LITBOX...12344/15000...2nd/3...1000+ points...I'm 279th in NA...bar is 925th.
9:30pm...Wipeout...ROCKET...7505/15000...4th/7...1000+ points...I'm 4413rd in NA...bar is 950th?
..............................LITBOX...7713/15000...3rd/7...1000+ points...I'm 4258th in NA...PATAP wins.
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