Encore Question of December 14th, 2002.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.

Answers:

  1. Buddy Holly
  2. Jim Morrison
  3. Kurt Cobain
  4. Freddie Mercury
  5. Jimi Hendrix

Tonight I'm playing two boards along with Sean METLCA/CAPER and Rob COSMO/PLBAAB (yeah that second name is the same handle as Phil who's come to this bar over the years).

My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/12...my two and METLCA and CAPER win round.
............LITBOX...5000/5000.
OnBeat...ROCKET...12000/14000...1st/12...our six boards win round.
...........LITBOX...12000/14000...1st/12...I get 7 right, 2 wrong for an OK round.
JukeBox...ROCKET...17916/20000...4th/12...CAPER wins round.
...........LITBOX...17922/20000...3rd/12...I found this round tough even to pick categories I'd
know something about.  I needed help with both Johnny Cash questions and the basketball
question we chose.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...24298/28000...2nd/13...LITBOX wins round.
.........LITBOX...24264/28000...1st/13...I pass Sean's boards on the last question.  We'd been
talking earlier and he mentioned that Triviaoke was usually the time when somebody 
disturbed him.  Yep! Shilpa the waitress brings him a beer then starts talking about how
the new supervisor keeps hounding her blahblahblah.  I change the answer when I see
the rhyme and get about 625 but he misses hearing me and gets -250. 

The answers come up and I'm thinking all these stars have died. Plane crash, drugs, suicide what could they ask? Who was the youngest?

Encore Question:...The late frontman was backed by bassist John Deacon and drummer Roger Taylor.

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I blurt out an answer before the answers even come back on the display. I can fill in the missing guitarist and joke that if they had (Simon Le Bon) Duran Duran they could catch some players as that group's drummer was also named Roger Taylor.

Correct Answer:...4. Freddie Mercury

[NTN Extra Fact:...Queen's original lineup also included lead guitarist Brian May.]

I'm right and win as LITBOX with 36447. I finish 3rd on the Top 20 board for all North America. The Frog & Firkin finishes 2nd in North America with a 35420 average. I earn 3000+ Players Plus points for meeting this week's 16000 point standard.

We are so close to being Number 1 it is a disappointment as if it wasn't for the Triviaoke disturbance or me during OnBeat knowing Busta Rhymes new album title (I'd seen him during the week on the Billboard Awards show and on Carson Daly but I couldn't understand his accent), we'd have won for the first time in years.

Here's how the rest of the bar did:
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	NTN Top 100
LITBOX	24298		36447	   3	 3
ROCKET	24264		36396	   4	 4
METLCA	23500		35250	  10	16
CAPER	23478		35217	  11	17	
PLBAAB	22527		33791	  15	39
COSMO	22282		33423	  17
CHOOCH	11930	x	 5965	8168
LUNA	 8905	x	 4453	8632
UPYURS	 8179	x	 4907	8493
BLAZE	 7210	x	 3605	8893
CRANKY	 1095	x	  547	9832
SQUIER	  801	x	  401	9876
STONER	  288	x	  144	9955
JAD	   0	x	   0	9999

Other games:...I start the game with 2,379,000 P+ points for ROCKET and 292,000 for LITBOX.
7:30pm...Countdown...4896/15000...?th/?...500+ points...I'm 6223rd in NA...bar is 53rd...COSMO wins...(I'm here in time for the last five questions).
8:00pm...Countdown...12625/15000...1st/?...1000+ points...I'm 742nd in NA...bar is 11th in North America with a 12346 average
8:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...14734/15000...?th/?...1000+ points...I'm 41st in NA...bar is 4th in North America with a 14840 average...Rob PLBAAB wins as 14th in NA.
.............LITBOX...8919/15000...9th/10...500+ points...I'm 3224th in NA...I signed on in time for the last nine questions.
This game was exactly the same as the game we'd just played at 8:00pm except that by the times the answers had been displayed, the point counter was down below 950. This made a challenge to guess ahead of where on the board the answer was. "The answer was 'Chickadee', that was #1 wasn't it?" I made a valiant try to get 9 for 1000 on LITBOX but fell short. This game is usually worth 2000+ points so that was another problem with the system.
9:00pm...Playback...(see above).
10:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...13295/15000...1st/13...1000+ points...I'm 431st in NA...bar is 13th in North America with a 12852 average.
...........LITBOX...13260/15000...2nd/13...1000+ points...I'm 456th in NA.
10:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...10614/15000...2nd/15...1000+ points...I'm 961st in NA...I missed bar ranking.
..........LITBOX...10616/15000...1st/15...1000+ points.

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