Encore Question of September 13th, 2003.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
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Tonight I'm playing with my two boards. Richard BERGIE and Nick IAMINU is at the bar with me and also has the B B board as Bruce had just left before the start of the game and we want to have five boards for the bar average. I'm having a great game with over 23000 before the Encore round.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/7...my two boards co-win with BERGIE and IAMINU/B B. ...........LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/7. OnBeat...ROCKET...12000/14000...2nd/7...BERGIE wins round and has lead with 13000. ..........LITBOX...12000/14000...2nd/7...7 right, 2 wrong...no luck with guessing the two I didn't know. JukeBox...ROCKET...16765/20000...3rd/5...BERGIE wins round and has lead with 17806. ...........LITBOX...16783/20000...2nd/5...Richard has taken over running B B. Triviaoke...ROCKET...23250/28000...2nd/5...ROCKET wins round but LITBOX takes lead. ...........LITBOX...23262/28000...1st/5...one -250s but it was an old Al Jolson song...I've taken over running IAMINU.
Now the Encore answers come up. Hey, I know all these songs. I should be able to get this. No need to run around and tell other players as we've driven them off pulling away in the OnBeat round.
Encore Question:...This 1979 hit was inspired by a girl in LA's Fairfax High.
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I read this question wrong or I would have had this question without thinking. (date=song, the others were from the mid 1980s). I thought the incident was inspired by the girl in 1979! Thinking of the songs I knew from watching the Elvis Costello video that Veronica was an old woman probably suffering from Altzheimer's. '3' and '4' were from English and Irish artists so I put them out and it was just down to the two American songs. 'Oh Sheila' was a Prince copy but that band Ready For The World wasn't from Minnesota; were they from Los Angeles? [Flint Michigan my book says]. 'My Sharona' sounded the most likely and most talked about although I hadn't heard this factoid. The Knack were from California I thought [Yes]. How often is the answer ever '2' anyway? I spread the word and made sure my now three boards had it answered.
Correct Answer:....5. My Sharona
[NTN Extra Fact:...This #1 hit was The Knack's most popular song.]
I win with LITBOX at 34893. I'm ranked 51st in North America. I earn 3000+ for meeting this week's 21000 point standard. The bar is ranked 70th in North America. [ntn.com moved us up to 27th of 1863 bars with a 33181 average]. I earn the twin spots of 7th and 8th for LITBOX on the bar's Hall Of Fame for best Playback score of the last 12 months. We were disappointed that we could only get our bar to 70th when we averaged over 30000 on the lowest board.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank LITBOX 23262 34893 51 145 ROCKET 23250 34875 52 146 BERGIE 22302 33453 77 221 B B 21262 31893 212 335 IAMINU 20530 30795 549 416 ntn.com listed 9145 players
Other games:...I start the evening with 2,690,500 for ROCKET and 521,000 for LITBOX. (strange is as if I earned a week's worth of points between Saturdays without showing up. That's the second time I've said that).
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...0/15000...6th/6...500+ points...I have just signed on one board so far...bar is 724th...BERGIE wins.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...11664/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 21st in NA...bar is 16th in the region with a 9567 average.
.............LITBOX...11536/15000...1st/7...1000+ points...I'm 131st.
8:30pm...RetroTV...ROCKET...15000/15000...1st/7...1000+ points...I'm 1st on the Network Top 20 in Canada for LITBOX...bar is 5th in Canada with a 14729 average for this repeat game.
..............LITBOX...15000/15000...1st/7...1000+ points...IAMINU also has a perfect game. This is the third time I've played this game in four weeks (I wasn't here last week) and the word must be getting out because there were 12 perfect games this time. I didn't bring the answers on a card but it would have made things easier.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...8614/15000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 3713th in NA...bar is 1287th.
...............LITBOX...8593/15000...3rd/5...1000+ points...I'm 3728th in NA.
10:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...11146/15000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 853rd in NA...bar is 614th.
............LITBOX...11169/15000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 834th in NA.
Anyone playing a Retroactive game and the first answer is "3. Flipper" than the whole game goes like this:
3, 5, 2, 4, 2........2, 1, 3, 5, 4........2, 4, 5, 5, 2 (Remember this to impress your friends and complete strangers).
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