Encore Question of March 22nd, 2003.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
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Tonight I'm playing on my two boards with Rob COSMO and Sean METLCA/VOIVOD. I've met my 20000 standard but with a better Triviaoke round, we could have gone further past that level.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...2nd/8...COSMO wins round. ................LITBOX...4500/5000...2nd/8...my two are in a four way tie for 2nd. OnBeat...ROCKET...11500/14000...1st/8...my two and METLCA/VOIVOD cowin round. ............LITBOX...11500/14000...1st/8...7 right, 2 wrong was just OK. JukeBox...ROCKET...16649/20000...4th/8...COSMO wins round. ............LITBOX...16639/20000...5th/8. Triviaoke...ROCKET...21878/28000...5th/7...COSMO wins round. ............LITBOX...21930/28000...I had at least two -250s this round.
The answers come up and I'm thinking I should know this. It may be about group members or album titles.
Encore Question:...Who first made the Modern Rock chart with the 1993 single "We Are The Normal"?
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I don't know this but think it should be either Nine Inch Nails or Smashing Pumpkins as the other bands started after that 1993 date. An unusual title like that makes me think more along the lines of Nine Inch Nails. Rob and Sean are thinking between the same two choices. Let's wait for it...
Correct Answer:...2. Goo Goo Dolls
[NTN Extra Fact:...They first made the Modern Rock album chart with 14 track release "Hold Me Up".]
I'm wrong but we all hold our places. I finish 4th and 5th with 10966 and 10939. I earn only 1500+ Players Plus points for not reaching this week's 15000 point standard. I finish 6676th and 6684th. The bar finishes 1248th in North America (boosted to 279th on the NTN.com site). COSMO wins.
Goo Goo Dolls from Buffalo and the Maple Leafs playing the Buffalo Sabres in a hockey game in the background.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank NTN.com site COSMO 23427 x 11713 6449 1518 METLCA 22216 x 11108 6633 1688 VOIVOD 22117 x 11059 6647 1700 LITBOX 21932 x 10966 6676 1726 ROCKET 21878 x 10939 6684 1740 MARE 11123 x 10011 6965 2108 BIGPUN 7767 8544 74xx
Big disappointment and I was only playing the Goo Goo Dolls within the last month getting it in the $5.00 used pile. "A Boy Named Goo" came out in 1995 I was thinking and 'Name' was their first hit. I expected that any indie album would compile a previous hit for their first mainstream album. Back at home where I could look it up in my book, I found the album "Hold Me Up" never made the Top 200 Album charts which meant it never sold more than 5500 copies in any one week. A compilation album came out in 2001 with some of their early stuff but that only made the charts for one week at position 164. Probably less that 10000 copies exist. I turned my anger towards NTN. The last few weeks they've offered pretty obscure stuff. For the second time in a month they've asked a question about the Modern Rock charts.
One week ago the question had us name a single that made Number 68 on the Top 100. I just happened to own this Corrs album that reached position 131 during a four week chart run.
Two weeks ago NTN set us up for a Neil Diamond final then expected us to name a song that Chris Isaak covered on one of his albums (never a single).
What a waste of an hour. I'll give it one more week of playing and then I have some alternatives from wasting my time playing NTN!
Other games:...I start the game with 2,496,000+ for ROCKET and 358,000 for LITBOX.
7:30pm...Countdown...157/15000...11th/11...500+ points...I'm 9843rd...bar is 29th in North America with a 10192 average...METLCA wins...I'm here in time to log in during the 15th question.
8:00pm...Countdown...9920/15000...3rd/6...1000+ points...1000+ points...I'm 769th...bar is 13th in North America with a 9912 average...METLCA wins.
8:30pm...RetroTVCountdown...ROCKET...13329/15000...3rd/6...1000+ points...I'm 13th in NA...bar is 4th in North America with a 13338 average.
..............LITBOX...13311/15000...4th/6...1000+ points...I'm 14th in NA...METLCA wins as 5th in NA.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...9387/15000...3rd/6...1000+ points...I'm 3312nd in NA...bar is 1052nd...COSMO wins.
............LITBOX...9392/15000...2nd/6...1000+ points...I'm 3302nd in NA.
10:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...10884/15000...3rd/5...1000+ points...I'm 749th in NA...bar is 163rd.
............LITBOX...10891/15000...2nd/5...1000 points...I'm 743rd in NA...COSMO wins.
On Friday night I drove out to Mississauga for a meeting of fans of the Toronto Lynx soccer team. We met the coach and owners of the team to ask question before their training camp opened. I thought I'd show off after the questions were asked. Yikes, just in time for a special one hour Oscar themed game. I don't watch movies so I was humming along in 8th (last) place. Didn't realize we were to type in a year for a film by skipping the "19" in the century and just go to the '85' or whatever. However I got my act together and ended up winning the game coming from behind and ending with 21066. I was 3491st in North America and the bar was 942nd
10:00pm...Countdown...9019/15000...2nd/9...1000+ points...I'm 2015th in NA...bar is 370th...SMEW wins.
It was fun with me taking hints from the co-owner of the team.
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