Encore Question of November 16th, 2002.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
Answers:
Tonight I'm playing with Rob COSMO and Sean METLCA/LIZZY. We have enough trouble keeping two monitors turned to NTN as patrons want to see the hockey game.
My game so far had gone like this with two boxes: TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/6...my two boards sweep round with COSMO. ...........LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/6 OnBeat...ROCKET...11000/14000...1st/6...COSMO, METLCA, LIZZY, LITBOX win .........LITBOX...12000/14000...5th/6...seven right and two wrong...and I would have had less but didn't have time to switch LITBOX to the wrong answer. JukeBox...ROCKET...16259/20000...5th/8...METLCA wins round and is in lead. ............LITBOX...17262/20000...2nd/8. Triviaoke...ROCKET...21708/28000...3rd/8...COSMO wins round and takes lead. ...........LITBOX...22709/28000...2nd/8.
The answers come up and I realize I don't know any of these guys. Seeing the names I'm thinking this is a time they'll ask about stars of eighty years ago or something about side-men. Should I even risk 50%? Sure down with the ship!
Encore Question:...It was the real name of slain rapper Jam Master Jay:
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Wow I can't even dictate the question into my microrecorder before I have to blurt out the answer. So we have the answer before the list of choices comes back up. He was killed only a few weeks ago. I'm a lot better at matching names with groups than songs with albums. My friends say they would have picked this too. Well we may make the Top 20 for the bar...
Correct Answer:...3. Jason Mizell
[NTN Extra Fact:...He and fellow Run DMC member Joseph 'Run' Simmons grew up in New York.]
We're all right and hold our positions. I finish with 34063 for LITBOX good for 10th overall and 32562 for ROCKET at 20th overall. The bar finishes 6th in North America with a 33391 average. COSMO wins with 35838 and is 6th on the Network Top 20. I earn 3000+ Players Plus points for meeting this week's standard of 17000.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank NTN Top 100 COSMO 23832 35838 6 19 6th on Network Top 20 LITBOX 22709 34063 10 28 ROCKET 21708 32562 20 45 METLCA 21563 32345 59 52 LIZZY 21433 32149 119 54 IAMINU 12062 x 6031 8146 SQUIRE 3545 3899 8801 STONER 3204 4806 8522
Good thing we got a fifth board for our table! Winning bar had only 37xxx and for us to finish 6th must have meant a lot of bars found the Encore tough.
Other games:...I start the evening with 2,354,500 P+ for ROCKET and 277,500 P+ for LITBOX.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...8761/15000...3rd/4...1000+ points...I'm 3436th in NA...bar is 913rd.
............LITBOX...6775/15000...4th/4...1000+ points...I'm 4924th in NA...METLCA wins...I have to restart the game with a different board for the last 12 questions for ROCKET and then am offered a second one with 10 questions to go for LITBOX.
8:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...10623/15000...3rd/6...2000+ points...I'm 1019th in NA...bar is 82nd.
.............LITBOX...10617/15000...4th/6...I'm 1024th in NA...COSMO wins with 13568, 16th on Netword Top 20.
9:00pm...Encore (see above)
10:00pm...Countdown (although it used the RetroTV templates)
.............ROCKET...11056/15000...1st/11...1000+ points...I'm 1415th in NA...bar is 197th.
............LITBOX...11038/15000...2nd/11...1000+ points...I'm 1429th in NA.
10:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...11793/15000...3rd/8...1000+ points...I'm 160th in NA...bar is 10th in North America.
...............LITBOX...11802/15000...2nd/8...1000+ points...I'm 158th in NA.
The 11:00pm game turns out to be a RetroTV Wipeout game but I'm on my way out.
I won't be here next week but neither will they. Maybe in two weeks we'll get The Frog & Firkin back to the top.
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