Encore Question of January 17th, 2004.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
Answers:
Tonight I'm playing alone with three boxes, ROCKET, LITBOX, and non P+ board LYNX in honour of the A-League team team Toronto Lynx (I can't remember ever using this name before). I'm using this board because Nick IAMINU had left earlier and I didn't turn his board in.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/5...my three boards win round. .............LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/5...I go 2 of 3 in guesses. ............LYNX...4500/5000...1st/5...my nearest rival has 2500. OnBeat...ROCKET...12500/14000...1st/6...my three boards win round...8 right, 1 wrong. ...........LITBOX...12500/14000...1st/6. ...........LYNX...12500/14000...1st/6. I had one answer as a complete guess as it could have been any of the five...my logic, the thinnest woman who would host a cooking show. JukeBox...ROCKET...17703/20000...1st/7...ROCKET and LITBOX win round. ...........LITBOX...17703/20000...1st/7...two lucky guesses for good points in this round. ...........LYNX...17521/20000...3rd/7...can't keep this board from losing points. closest contender is SQUID with 8912. I haven't seen anybody with a board from my vantage point. Triviaoke...ROCKET...23407/28000...1st/7...ROCKET wins round. .........LITBOX...23391/28000...2nd/7. .........LYNX...22869/28000...3rd/7...I take only one -250 in this round and one for less than 200 points.
Now the Encore answers come up. Big variety of names. OK they are all places used in songs. I start matching up titles with artists.
Encore Question:...It's the final stop on Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited":
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I don't know this but should be able to pitch all the other answers out. 5=Eddy Grant, 4=Bruce Springsteen (although for a flash I think of Steve Miller for Jungle Love), 2=The Beatles. Now Cadillac Ranch is Bruce Springsteen from a guy at work who sang along with that cassette in his car when he once gave me a ride. But maybe Springsteen got the idea from one of Dylan's songs. Well I'll go with '1'. That's trapped me at the bar so I don't run over to the one player I've seen between the last round playing this game. They wouldn't have '1' for two weeks in a row? I don't feel all that confident.
Correct Answer:....1. Desolation Row
[hey it rhymes with last week's answer].
[NTN Extra Fact:..."The Titanic sails at dawn..." sings Dylan on the haunting 11 minute all acoustic track.]
I'm right and win as ROCKET at 35011. I'm shown as finishing 9th on the Network Top 20 for all North America. I earn 3000+ Players Plus points for meeting this week's 19000 standard (same as last week). The bar finishes 368th in North America with a 23467 average as the other players get the Encore question wrong. [ntn.com moved the bar up to 46th of 2128 bars].
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank ROCKET 23407 35111 9 48 9th on the Network Top 20 LITBOX 23391 35087 10 49 LYNX 22869 34303 12 59 SQUID 11543 x 5771 8247 5241 KIRK 7848 x 7063 7855 4506 DOH 1409 x 845 9743 9986 BIERE 1062 x 850 9741 9980 [ntn.com lists 11064 players]
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 2,832,500 and LITBOX at 645,500 P+ points.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...4327/15000...7th/7...500+ points...I'm 6782nd in NA.
.............LITBOX...4351/15000...6th/7...500+ points...I'm 6764 in NA...B B wins...I'm here in time for the last five questions.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...11266/15000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 1573rd in NA.
..........LITBOX...11266/15000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 1573rd in NA...synchronized fingers.
8:30pm...RetroTVCountdown...ROCKET...10650/15000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 465th in Canada...bar is 408th in NA.
..............LITBOX...10637/15000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 476th in Canada...all new questions...two Simpsons questions and some 1990s shows. If that's how these games are run now, I won't be finishing high any more.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...9316/15000...1st/6...1000+ points...I'm 2969th in NA...the bar is 1718th.
...............LITBOX...9316/15000...1st/6...1000+ points...I'm 2969th in NA...I was showing a couple that just arrived here how to play and the ability to change their answer.
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