Encore Question of February 21st, 2004.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
Answers:
Tonight I'm playing with five boards as I started out with three, ROCKET and LITBOX and L CITY (in honour of the CPSL team London City). I'd invited Pedro PEDRO over from further down the bar although he warned me he was leaving in ten minutes. I had him work the CC board. At the end of the TuneUp round he did leave so that left me juggling all five boards.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/5...my three boards win round. .............LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/5. ............L CITY...4500/5000...1st/5...PEDRO/CC with 4000 points. OnBeat...ROCKET...12500/14000...1st/5...I have four boards go 8 right, 1 wrong...Pedro shut off his CC board which I didn't realize that the light hadn't just blinked off to save energy. 7 and 2 for it. ...........LITBOX...12500/14000...1st/5. ..........L CITY...12500/14000...1st/5. .........PEDRO...12000/14000...4th/5. .........CC...11000/14000...5th/5. Hey the first movie I'd seen in at least six months and only to use up an expiring voucher and it was asked this week! Ice Cube starring in Barbershop 2. JukeBox...ROCKET...17643/20000...1st/5...ROCKET wins round. ...........LITBOX...17616/20000...2nd/5. ..........L CITY...17126/20000...3rd/5. .........PEDRO...16553/20000...4th/5. ........CC...15699/20000...4th/5. Well at least with having all the boards, I didn't have to worry about being outvoted for the categories I wanted. Triviaoke...ROCKET...23082/28000...1st/5...ROCKET wins round. .........LITBOX...23041/28000...2nd/5. .........L CITY...21972/28000...3rd/5. .........PEDRO...21092/28000...4th/5. .........CC...20527/28000...5th/5. I took the first question for -250 and rescued a later question for between 2xx and 44 points on the five boards.
Now the Encore answers come up. I know all these guys. Maybe it's a collaboration with another artist so it could be hard.
Encore Question:...His gruff baritone voice adds resonance to 'Let Her Cry':
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I recognize this as a Hootie & The Blowfish song so that means I think of Darius Rucker before the answers come back up. Now punch in the answer on each board.
Correct Answer:....3. Darius Rucker
[NTN Extra Fact:...His band Hootie & The Blowfish first made a splash with 'Hold My Hand'.]
I'm right and win with ROCKET at 34623. I finish 41st in North America. I earn 3000+ Players Plus points for meeting this week's standard of 20000. The bar finishes 15th in North America with a 32914 average.
Nick (IAMINU) came back to the bar just when I was ready to leave at 10:30pm. "Well you're no DAVETV" he said after I explained my difficulty in running five boards. It was worst in the two timed rounds of JukeBox and Triviaoke when I'd rush my answers to try to maximize the points and then have to change answers when I'd change my mind. Also it was five boards but only one brain! I needed all five boards for the bar score to rank in the Top 20 and tonight even working only two boards, I'd have to have finished with another 1000 points before my ROCKET board was on the individual Top 20. [ntn.com knocked us down to 16th out of 2182 bars.]
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank ROCKET 23082 34623 41 116 LITBOX 23041 34561 42 118 L CITY 21972 32958 74 183 PEDRO 21092 31638 121 269 CC 20527 30791 383 344 [ntn.com listed 12034 players]
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 2,882,500 P+ points and LITBOX at 695,500.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...4915/15000...5th/5...500+ points...I'm 6231st in NA.
.............LITBOX...4916/15000...4th/5...500+ points...I'm 6230th in NA...bar is 1013th...IAMINU wins...I'm here in time for the last five questions.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...9671/15000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 2659th in NA.
..........LITBOX...9643/15000...3rd/5...1000+ points...I'm 2681th in NA...bar is 515th...IAMINU wins.
8:30pm...RetroTVCountdown...ROCKET...12275/15000...1st/4...1000+ points...I'm 6th in Canada...the bar is 220th in Canada.
..............LITBOX...12272/15000...2nd/4...1000+ points...I'm 7th in Canada...Wow, no Simpsons questions this week. Some 1990s television
questions and the first two questions of the game I fluked 2000 with straight 1 in 5 guessing.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...10090/15000...2nd/2...1000+ points...I'm 2567th in NA...the bar is 1889th.
...............LITBOX...10098/15000...1st/2...1000+ points...I'm 2561st in NA.
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