Encore Question of January 18th, 2003.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
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Tonight we've got a team of Rob COSMO, Sean METLCA and Steve JSBACH along with my two boards. We're doing very well and all should be able to get over 30000 if we get the last question.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/11...my two boards plus COSMO, METLCA, JS BACH and another player MUNGO. ..........LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/11. I only had to guess about twice. OnBeat...ROCKET...14000/14000...1st/11...my two boards and METLCA win round. ..........LITBOX...14000/14000...1st/11. I could name a few answers for the team but was unsure of a few others. JukeBox...ROCKET...18706/20000...2nd/11...COSMO wins round. ..........LITBOX...18731/20000...1st/11. I needed help in this round as some of the category choices listed were between things that I didn't want to answer. Triviaoke...ROCKET...23971/28000...3rd/10...METLCA wins round and takes lead. ..........LITBOX...23992/28000...2nd/10. Even with a big crowd, we still took a -250 and a less than +100 answer.
Well we should be able to get into the Network Top 20 for this bar if we hit this last question. I should be able to get this Encore question from the answers given.
Encore Question:...This pop act vows to 'Make It Big' on its first Number 1 album
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I only dictate the first word into my microrecorder before I blurt out the answer. I own this album on cassette tape and then began true confessions as Sean said he owned it too and 'Red Hot and Dance' for the George Michael song, same reason I bought it. I also say I bought the '45' of "Everything She Wants" because it had an extra verse more than the album.
Correct Answer:...1. Wham!
[NTN Extra Fact:...It's fueled by the success of such hits as "Everything She Wants". It spent 3 weeks at #1 in the US.
I'm right and stay in 2nd and 3rd place. I finish with scores of 35988 and 35957. That ranks as 11th and 12th overall. The bar finishes 9th in North America with an average of 34058. I earn 3000+ Players Plus points for meeting this week's standard of 19000. METLCA wins.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank NTN top 2600 (until I timed out) METLCA 24292 36438 8 49 8th on Network Top 20 LITBOX 23992 35988 11 58 ROCKET 23971 35957 12 59 COSMO 21157 31735 58 219 JSBACH 20116 30174 266 315 MUNGO 15610 x 7805 7482 WALRUS 13531 x 6765 7817 ROCKE2 11561 17341 4406 2539 BB 9640 x 4820 8445 STELLA 8478 11869 6171
Great game but Sean and Rob say they'll only be here only every second week so I'll have to think of something else for me to be on a good team next week. Nine correct Encore answers in a row!
Other games:...I start the evening with P+ points 2,433,000 for ROCKET and 322,000 for LITBOX.
7:30pm...Countdown...1935/15000...5th/5...500+ points...I'm 8540th in NA...bar is 957th...METLCA wins...I'm here in time for the last three question.
8:00pm...Countdown...11293/15000...2nd/8...1000+ points...I'm 1563rd in NA...bar is 228th...COSMO wins.
8:30pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...15000/15000...1st/11...1000+ points...I'm 1st in North America...bar is 85th.
............LITBOX...10000/15000...4th?/11...1000+ points...I'm ???? in NA...I sign on a second board in time for the last ten questions...ROCKET, COSMO and METLCA win with a perfect game.
This is now the fourth time in a row that I've played the same 15 questions of RetroTV. Only 11 perfect games are listed on the Network Top 20 so most other bars must be getting more variety than us. Rob and Sean were outdoing me by guessing the numbers for the answers before they were shown.
9:00pm...Playback (see above)
10:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...11824/15000...3rd/14...1000+ points...I'm 1263rd in NA...bar is 421st.
.......LITBOX...11889/15000...2nd/14...1000+ points...I'm 1215th in NA...WEASEL wins.
10:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...12642/15000...3rd/10...1000+ points...I'm 45th in NA...COSMO wins.
.......LITBOX...12678/15000...2nd/10...1000+ points...I'm 44th in NA...bar is 16th in North America with an 11890 average.
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