Encore Question of August 23rd, 2003.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
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Tonight I'm playing my two boards with Nick IAMINU and Pedro PEDRO, who joined in time for the JukeBox round. I reached 20000 points on both my boards with one question to spare.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/3...I co-win round with IAMINU. ...........LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/3. At least the last six questions were '1' for the answer and I soon caught on and used that whenever I needed to guess. OnBeat...ROCKET...11000/14000...1st/3...my two boards win round. ..........LITBOX...11000/14000...1st/3...6 right, 3 wrong. A new guy called Pedro suggests some answers and I convince him to play. JukeBox...ROCKET...16287/20000...1st/4...PEDRO wins round. ...........LITBOX...16287/20000...1st/4. Triviaoke...ROCKET...20774/28000...1st/4...my two boards win round. ...........LITBOX...20774/28000...1st/4...About two -250s.
Now the Encore answers come up. Old songs. From Broadway? This should be tough.
Encore Question:...In 1965 Ray Charles entered the Hot 100 with an update of this Roaring 20's standard:
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I don't know this. I guess Honeysuckle Rose thinking I've read that somewhere. I don't even know the song although I know Willie Nelson must have sang it. I start imagining Ray Charles singing Makin' Whoopee and say to Nick "Now watch it be 1" but just stay frozen there. Nick has gone with my first suggestion and Pedro had wandered off to another part of the bar not betting or answering at all.
Correct Answer:....1. Makin' Whoopee
[NTN Extra Fact:...The classic was written by Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn].
I co-win with my synchronized fingers for ROCKET and LITBOX at 10387 each. I'm ranked 6485th in North America as it looks like we've been linked back to the Americans who play the game. I was a little disappointed as I was just trying to get used to the new system. However if I had hit the Encore I would have finished around 15th on the Network Top 20. I earn only 1500+ points for not meeting this week's 15000 point standard. The bar is ranked 1470th in North America with a 6456 average.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank ROCKET 20774 x 10387 6485 1582 LITBOX 20774 x 10387 6485 1583 IAMINU 16323 x 8161 7238 2565 PEDRO 6713 x 3357 8864 6385 of 9160 players ntn.com moved us up to 680th of 1890 bars.
Other games:...I start the evening with 2,661,000 for ROCKET and 493,500 for LITBOX.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...1354/15000...3rd/4...500+ points...I miss my ranking...bar is 1050th in NA.
.......................LITBOX...1354/15000...3rd/4...500+ points...I miss my ranking...I'm here in time for the last two questions.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...10923/15000...1st/3...1000+ points...I'm 1635th in NA...bar is 1635th.
.............HITMEN...6614/15000...3rd/3...not a P+ player...4935th in NA...I logged on as LITBOX on a dead board and couldn't log on with that name for over half hour.
8:30pm...RetroTV...ROCKET...12680/15000...1st/3...1000+ points...I'm 6th on the Network Top 20 in Canada...bar is 123rd in Canada.
..............HITMEN...12671/15000...2nd/3...not a P+ player...I'm 7th in Canada.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...11776/15000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 1598th...bar is 1061st.
...............LITBOX...11785/15000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 1591st in NA.
10:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...10374/15000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 1675th in NA...bar is 560th.
............LITBOX...10420/15000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 1638th in NA.
Saturday night looked open for me for quite a few weeks but the soccer league had so many games to put off in the last two weekends that they may have to play Saturday nights to finish their schedule by (Canadian) Thanksgiving in the middle of October.
I saved my e-mail address book and messages to a file before I changed computers and I can't seem to open it now. Hey Rob and Sean. I see your names up there for top scores on other nights of the week but please send me a message privately at robing@eol.ca about why you don't come out Saturday nights anymore. Thanks.
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