Encore Question of January 24th, 2004.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.

Answers:

  1. Flaming Lips
  2. Roxy Music
  3. Pavement
  4. Sonic Youth
  5. The Yardbirds

Tonight I'm playing alone with three boxes, ROCKET, LITBOX, and non P+ board BSTARS in honour of the new expansion CPSL soccer team Windsor Border Stars who will start play this season playing some games in Windsor and some across the river in Detroit. I'm using this board because Nick IAMINU had left earlier and I didn't turn his board in. And here I was worried that I won't have anyone to play with when Toronto bans smoking in bars starting this June. It can't get any lonelier already!

My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp...ROCKET...4000/5000...1st/8...my three boards co-win round with KIRK.
.............LITBOX...4000/5000...1st/8...I start off strong but miss the last two questions.
............BSTARS...4000/5000...1st/8.
OnBeat...ROCKET...1100/14000...1st/9...my three boards win round...7 right, 2 wrong.
...........LITBOX...12500/14000...1st/9.
...........BSTARS...12500/14000...1st/9.
JukeBox...ROCKET...16204/20000...1st/9...ROCKET wins round.  
...........LITBOX...15489/20000...3rd/9.
...........BSTARS...15952/20000...2nd/9.
my LITBOX doesn't take my answer right away.  I got the signal last game that the board was 'OUT OF RANGE' but didn't
bother changing it.  There was only one instance in this game but the 10:00pm game it happened about three times.  
It certainly made it less fun and distracted me from the hockey game.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...21815/28000...1st/8...ROCKET wins round.
.........LITBOX...20993/28000...2nd/8.
.........BSTARS...20875/28000...3rd/8.
I get through with no -250s this round but have two with less than 200 points including a Beatles song where the 
phrases:  Hey Girl, Say Girl, and Stay Girl all appear somewhere in the song "Eight Days A Week" and we had 
to race ahead and think what part of the song they'll start quoting from.

Now the Encore answers come up. Big variety of names. This could be anything.

Encore Question:...This rock band with Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore was the leader of "The Daydream Nation".

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I don't know this. Well let's see, I'd recognize the names of the guys in The Yardbirds (everybody) and Roxy Music (not the background players). I park all my boards on '3'. I'm having a problem with Flaming Lips because I thought the leader's name was somewhat unusual. Now I've seen them play at the SARSstock concert back in the summer. It would be really embarrassing to miss this if they were the answer. One 'normal' guy and the rest were dressed in bunny suits. OK I won't switch to them even though they had some unusual album titles.

Correct Answer:....4. Sonic Youth

[NTN Extra Fact:...Despite critical acclaim the 1988 album failed to chart.]

Great (sarcastically), not only do I have to memorize the 22,000 albums that have ever made the Billboard charts, I now have to memorize the ones that didn't! Actually seeing the usual suspects in other bars that got it right, I should have known because this group is one of the musical darlings of the NTN quizwriters with every move by the band chronicalled in the OnBeat rounds over the last few years. Also if the woman's name in their group would have appeared, I would have picked them. I know nothing about Pavement. I missed the Encore for the first time this new year and the first time in my last five visits. If only I could have thought of Wayne Coyne as singer from the Flaming Lips, I could have moved on with sorting out the two remaining choices.

I'm wrong but still win with ROCKET at 10907 because everyone else in the bar was wrong. I finish 6492 in North America. I earn only 1500+ Players Plus points for not meeting this week's 15000 standard. The bar finishes 1758th in North America with an 8896 average. [NTN.com moved us up to 597th of 2169 bars]. If I'd have got the Encore right, I would have finished in the Network Top 20.

Here's how the rest of the bar did: 
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank
ROCKET	21815	x	10907	6492	2739
LITBOX	20993	x	10497	6623	2905	 
BSTARS	20875	x	10437	6643	2933
SQUID	13937	x	 6969	7758	4600
KIRK	11340	x	 5670	8176	5720
HIPPO	11132	x	 5566	8209	5807
LG	 4396	x	 3956	8727	7367
GLL	 1000	x	  500	9839   11283
[NTN listed a total of 11935 players]

Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 2,844,500 and LITBOX at 657,500 P+ points.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...10589/15000...1st/9...1000+ points...I'm 810th in NA.
..........LITBOX...10496/15000...2nd/9...1000+ points...I'm 891st in NA...the bar is 17th in NA with a 9766 average.
8:30pm...RetroTVCountdown...ROCKET...11138/15000...2nd/9...1000+ points...I'm 16th overall in Canada...the bar is 3rd in Canada with a 10521 average.
..............LITBOX...11112/15000...3rd/9...1000+ points...I'm 17th overall in Canada...all new questions...one Simpsons question that I of course miss letting the pack catch up to me. HIPPO wins on the last question and finishes 12th on the Network Top 20.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...11380/15000...1st/7...1000+ points...I'm 1719th in NA...the bar is 712th.
...............LITBOX...10325/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 2487th in NA.

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