Encore Question of April 3rd, 2004.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
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Tonight I'm playing with three boards, ROCKET, LITBOX, and T LYNX (for the Toronto Lynx soccer team). I'd taken over that third board after Kevin JAGUAR left before the Playback game started. Also at the bar was Bill MADDOG, Marlo ZIGGY, and Brian OLDUDE.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...5000/5000...1st/8...my three boards win round. OnBeat...13000/14000...1st/8...my three boards win round...8 right and 1 wrong was great as I was expecting with going out this afternoon to the Travel Show, I'd miss the latest news but I made sure to glance at the online news a few times earlier in the week. JukeBox...ROCKET...17510/20000...2nd/8...LITBOX wins round. ...........LITBOX...17582/20000...1st/8. ...........T LYNX...17300/20000...3rd/8. Triviaoke...ROCKET...21760/28000...2nd/8...ZIGGY wins round. .........LITBOX...21832/28000...1st/8. .........T LYNX...21334/28000...3rd/8...I take three -250s in this round which wasn't quite as bad as last week. I was thinking of juggling ROCKET to get it into the lead because the last non-ROCKET score on the bar's Hall of Fame board would disappear as it was the one year anniversary of COSMO putting up a 36xxx score. No, this game wasn't going so good.
Now the Encore answers come up. Oh oh. Mostly jazz artists. Sure I'll bet the maximum of 50% just like Bill.
Encore Question:...Which jazz saxophonist hosted the 1987-1990 syndicated series 'Night Music'?
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I don't know this but don't think it would be Bruce Springsteen's player Clarence Clemons. I don't know enough about them to pick out one who didn't play saxophone. [my music book lists them all as saxophonists]. I was thinking of Branford Marsalis as a backup answer because he worked as the bandleader on The Tonight Show but leaned to David Sanborn because I was thinking of something on PBS and thought I'd seen him listed for some concerts so maybe to have him host this show, he'd trade off some specials. I also dictated the question wrong as "1997-1990" so maybe I had more recent times in mind. I offered my answer to the group but only Bill went with it as it turned out. Wasn't last week's answer '1'? [no it wasn't!] I think the others went for Dave Koz.
Correct Answer:....5. David Sanborn
[NTN Extra Fact:...Lorne Michael's of Saturday Night Live was the show's executive producer.]
Another week of being right for the wrong reasons. I'm right and win with LITBOX at 32748. I finish 295th overall for all North America. I earn 3000+ Players Plus points for meeting this week's standard of 20000 points. The bar finishes 16th in North America with a 28203 average. [ntn.com lists 2060 bars]
My LITBOX board places 9th and 10th on the bar's Hall of Fame board but really this week any score would have grabbed those places. Over the months I should be able to displace that with ROCKET.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank LITBOX 21832 32748 295 66 ROCKET 21760 32640 327 68 T LYNX 21334 32001 516 82 ZIGGY 20254 x 10127 6998 3142 OLDUDE 18080 x 9040 7321 3690 MADDOG 17346 26019 2289 380 GUNNER 14821 x 7411 7803 4888 MARE 11741 17611 4781 1200 [ntn.com listed 11083 players]
Good to see Bill, Marlo and Brian again. Nick arrived just when the scores were being displayed so I gave him my third board.
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 2,955,500 P+ points and LITBOX at 765,500.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...2073/15000...5th/7...500+ points...I'm 8455th in NA...bar is 1025th...OLDUDE wins...I'm here in time for the last three questions.
...........LITBOX...2061/15000...6th/7...500+ points.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...10526/15000...4th/7...1000+ points...I'm 2043rd in NA.
..........LITBOX...11313/15000...1st/6...1000+ points...I'm 1448th in NA...bar is 356th in NA...ZIGGY wins.
8:30pm...RetroTVCountdown...ROCKET...12507/15000...2nd/6...1000+ points...I'm 70th in Canada...the bar was 5th in Canada with a 11849 average.
..............LITBOX...12515/15000...1st/6...1000+ points...I'm 64th in Canada.
Great! Not a lot of 1990s television questions this week. Marlo helped me with a few.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...12559/15000...2nd/9...1000+ points...I'm 695th in NA...bar is 299th.
...............LITBOX...12575/15000...1st/9...1000+ points...I'm 683rd in NA.
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