Encore Question of March 30th, 2002.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
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Tonight I'm playing with a group of five, Richard BERGIE, Kimmo KAV, Doug CRANKY, Bill MADDOG, and Marlo ZIGGY. I'm playing two boards since just past 8:30pm.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp....ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/12...in six way tie with BERGIE, CRANKY, ZIGGY and KAV. ..........LITBOX...5000/5000. OnBeat...ROCKET...10250/14000...3rd/12...MADDOG wins round...BERGIE leads with 11500. .........LITBOX...10250/14000...3rd/12...6 right and 3 wrong wasn't so good. JukeBox...ROCKET...15467/20000...5th/12. ..........LITBOX...15467/20000...5th/12...ZIGGY wins round...MADDOG in lead. Triviaoke...ROCKET...20043/28000...4th/13. ............LITBOX...20039/28000...5th/13...COSMO wins round. I barely make 20000 with a few -250s.
Well this game hasn't been a classic for us but let's wait for the Encore. It will have to be tough and we'll have to know it or we won't get a good bar score.
The answers come up and I don't bookmark anything except thinking it's a Broadway play, flip to Original Casts. Richard starts naming off the movie stars from '5' and '4'. No Richard, Ted Nugent wasn't in the Broadway production of Damn Yankees!
Encore Question:..."Fugue For Tinhorns" and "Take Back Your Mink" are numbers from this Broadway show.
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I zoom in on the word 'mink' as in mink coat, gangsters and Frank Sinatra talking about dames.. I say 'Guys And Dolls' and that's what Marla offers. I'm only one page away so look it up to rule out my only alternative 'The Pajama Game' which was starting to be offered. Found it! Signalled to Sean and Rob's table but it was a bit late and they weren't looking.
Correct Answer:...3. Guys And Dolls
[NTN Extra Fact:...This show with music by Frank Loesser made its debut on the Great White Way in 1950].
That raised an interesting point of why I found it in my book as I hadn't thought my book only covers 1955 onwards but I found the listing for the 1992 version with Peter Gallagher and Nathan Lane which made #109 on the charts not the #1 version from 1951.
I'm right and stay in 4th and 5th place. I finish 196th and 198th. The bar finishes 3rd in North America with a 31651 average. I earn 3000+ Players Plus points on both boards for meeting this week's standard of 15000. MADDOG wins and is 5th on the Network Top 20. I've been telling the group all night that our scores will disappear by Monday. NTN in California returned my e-mail saying I should contact NTN Canada and my message to them has gone unanswered. Well we enjoy it while we can!
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn top 100 rank (restricted to 5 per bar) MADDOG 22698 34047 5 9 5th on Network Top 20 BERGIE 21917 32875 8 14 ZIGGY 20809 31213 16 30 ROCKET 20043 30065 196 48 LITBOX 20039 30059 198 49 KAV 19437 29155 493 CRANKY 18860 28290 775 COSMET 15877 x 7939 7411 METLCA 15760 x 7880 7430 COSMO 15157 22735 ? STONER 13526 20289 ? SQUIRE 7359 11039 6433 CRUSTY -500 x -1000 10000
Other games:...I start the evening with 1703300 Players Plus points for ROCKET (which proves NTN did give me my points for the Playback game last week) and 133500 for LITBOX.
7:30pm...Countdown...4187/15000...8th/8...I earn 500+ points...I'm 6438th in NA...bar is 18th in North America with a 9650 average...I'm here in time for the last five questions...BERGIE wins.
8:00pm...Countdown...9531/15000...4th/8...1000+ points...I'm 1215th in NA...bar is 9th in North America with a 9701 average...BERGIE wins.
8:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...11882/15000...4th/9...2000+ points...no rankings were given.
...................LITBOX...11983/15000...2nd/9 in tie with SMOKE...2000+ points. BERGIE wins.
9:00pm...Wipeout...ROCKET...11746/15000...1st/13...1000+ points...I'm 1614th in NA...bar is 276th.
................LITBOX...11735/15000...2nd/13...1000+ points...I'm 1622nd in NA.
9:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...8359/15000...5th/10...1000+ points...I'm 3668th in NA...bar is 523rd.
..............................LITBOX...8368/15000...4th/10...1000+ points...I'm 3661st in NA...COSMO wins.
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