Encore Question of July 20th, 2002.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.

Answers:

  1. Sam Cooke
  2. Otis Redding
  3. Al Green
  4. Wilson Pickett
  5. Ray Charles

Tonight I'm playing with Bill OH YA, Doug CRANKY, Bill MADDOG, and Marlo ZIGGY. We're having a pretty good game although Rob and Sean at one of the tables are winning the game with their three boards. Still with the right answer, our bar can have a good score.

My game so far had gone like this with my two boards:
Tune Up...ROCKET...4500/5000...2nd/9...COSMO wins round with 5000.
...........LITBOX...4500/5000...2nd/9.
OnBeat...ROCKET...11500/14000...3rd/9...COSMO and LITBOX win round with 8/9.
..........LITBOX...12500/14000...2nd/9...This is the first week I've been here that
incorrect OnBeat answers don't count as -250.
I have gradually fallen off keeping up on current news events so I was lucky this week.
JukeBox...ROCKET...17419/20000...3rd/9...LITBOX wins round and takes lead. 
..........LITBOX...18414/20000...1st/9.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...23718/28000...5th/9...MADDOG wins round.
..........LITBOX...24748/28000...2nd/9...COSMO has lead.

The answers come up and this would be something about soul singers. Oh well, in with 50% answer.

Encore Question:...Al Jackson and James Mitchell were one time bandmates of this king of soul music:

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I don't know this. I wonder if my book would help me? I stopped bringing it for a few months now. What do I have two boards for? Well I can split. Let's cover Sam Cooke and Otis Redding. Everybody's on their own but I don't take Bill MADDOG's selection.

Correct Answer:...3. Al Green

[NTN Extra Fact:...He was also backed by tenor saxophonist Andrew Love and trumpeter Wayne Jackson.]

I don't feel so bad as after I got home I couldn't find this fact in my music book for any of these four sidemen.

I'm wrong and drop to 5th and 8th. I finish with 12374 for LITBOX and 11859 for ROCKET. No individual rankings are given this week preventing further embarassment. The bar is ranked 11th in North America with a 25591 average. I earn only 1500+ Players Plus points for failing to meet this week's 20000 standard. MADDOG wins.

Here's how the rest of the bar did:
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	NTN Top 100
COSMO	25686	x	12843		(only Americans were listed
LITBOX	24748	x	12374		on the the NTN website).
METLCA	24307	x	12153	
LIZZY	24066	x	12033
ROCKET	23718	x	11859
MADDOG	23168		34752		20th on Network Top 20
CRANKY	23073		34609
ZIGGY	22254		33381
OH YA	21172	x	10586

Other games:...I start the evening with 2,304,000 P+ for ROCKET and 243,300 P+ for LITBOX when I get a second board.
7:30pm...Countdown...2695/15000...6th/6...500+ points...I'm 8002 in NA...bar is not ranked...MARK wins...I'm here in time for the last three questions.
8:00pm...Countdown...8495/15000...4th/7...1000+ points...I'm 3479th in NA...bar is not ranked...LIZZY wins.
8:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...12532/15000...1st/7...2000+ points...I'm 40th in NA...bar is not ranked.
...........LITBOX...12427/15000...2nd/7...2000+ points...I'm 45th in NA.
9:00pm...Wipeout...ROCKET...9091/15000...3rd/8...1000+ points...I'm 3409th in NA...CRANKY wins.
.............LITBOX...9127/15000...2nd/8...1000+ points...I'm 3383rd in NA...no bar rankings.
9:30pm...Wipeout...ROCKET...12073/15000...2nd/8...1000+ points...I'm 1032nd in NA...no bar rankings.
................LITBOX...12059/15000...3rd/8...1000+ points...I'm 1042nd in NA...ZIGGY wins.

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