Encore Question of April 26th, 2003.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
Answers:
Tonight I'm playing with Richard BERGIE/WTF and working three boards (ROCKET/LITBOX/FLAMES-for the CPSL league Durham Flames soccer team) so we can have five boards for our bar average. During JukeBox, Dave VADER (a player I'd noticed before from the old Joe Grinders bar days) arrived and joined us at the bar but started 11,500 behind.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/7...my three boards plus BERGIE and WTF win round. ..........LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/7. ..........FLAMES...4500/5000...1st/7. OnBeat...ROCKET...11500/14000...1st/7...my three win round with 7 right, 2 wrong. ..........LITBOX...11500/14000...1st/7. ..........FLAMES...11500/14000...1st/7. Round was OK but I could have been better if I'd read some more about Country music. JukeBox...ROCKET...17468/20000...1st/8...ROCKET and LITBOX win round. ..........LITBOX...17468/20000...1st/8. ..........FLAMES...17135/20000...3rd/8...couldn't keep a third board going as fast with two hands. Triviaoke...ROCKET...21561/28000...1st/9...BERGIE wins round. ..........LITBOX...21561/28000...1st/9. ..........FLAMES...20866/28000...5th/9...I might have taken about two -250s in this round and made a few switches to avoid some more so not as bad as last week.
The answers come up and I'm worried that I don't know much about Rap music. I never finished a list of rappers 'real names' and their songs and arrest records aren't my speciality. Oh well in with 50% as usual.
Encore Question:...Who reached his commercial peak with the album "Harlem World"
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I blurt out the answer before the answers come back up. No consideration for spoiling everyone else's fun. I own that album but haven't played it yet after picking it up in the $5 bin late last year. Everyone's answered? Now we just have to wait 25 seconds and find out we're right...
Correct Answer:...1 Mase
[NTN Extra Fact:...The retired rapper's 1997 album has sold more than 4 million copies.]
I found the Extra Fact trickier than the question because I didn't realize he'd retired. HESEUS was within earshot but the other two players must have known it too.
My two P+ boards win with scores of 32341 each (synchronized fingers!) but I'm glad I had a third board to keep the bar in for top 20 ranking. I finish 762nd in NA on each board. The bar finishes 15th in North America with a 32009 average. I earn 3000+ Player's Plus points for meeting this week's standard of 19000.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank NTN.com rank ROCKET 21561 32341 762 118 LITBOX 21561 32341 762 119 BERGIE 21374 32061 842 127 WTF 21377 32005 858 131 FLAMES 20866 31299 1060 150 BC 12359 18539 4704 1048 VADER 9484 14226 5936 1711 KERIN 9031 13547 6130 1862 HESEUS 1105 1657 9526 9492 of 11103 players
Other games:...I start the evening with 2,542,500 points for ROCKET and 390,000 for LITBOX.
7:30pm...Countdown...0/15000...5th/7 in three way tie...500+ points...I'm 9999th in NA...bar is 1429th...FREEKS wins...I'm logging on during the last question but earn points anyway.
8:00pm...Countdown...10731/15000...1st/7...1000+ points...I'm 1800th in NA...bar is 658th.
8:30pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...12278/15000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 17th in Canada.
........LITBOX...12323/15000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 16th in Canada...bar is 17th in Canada with a 9750 average.
9:00pm...Playback (see above)
10:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...13345/15000...1st/8...1000+ points...499th in NA.
.........LITBOX...13290/15000...2nd/8...1000+ points...538th in NA...bar is 82nd...I was pleased because I knew the US got to play a RetroTV game while the Canadians just got the template for it !
10:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...13909/15000...2nd/9...1000+ points...I'm 19th in NA.
.........LITBOX...13928/15000...1st/9...1000+ points...I'm 17th in NA on the Network Top 20...bar is 17th in North America with a 12689 average.
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