Encore Question of April 10th, 2004.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.

Answers:

  1. Jersey Thursday
  2. It's Saturday Night
  3. Born On A Friday
  4. Ruby Tuesday
  5. I Don't Like Mondays

Tonight I'm playing with two boards, ROCKET and LITBOX all alone after a guy playing MARKEE left just before the Triviaoke round. I didn't want to play any more boards tonight as I was interested in the hockey game on most of the other monitors in the restaurant. It was a playoff game between Toronto and Ottawa. I thought I wasn't going to get near the bar to see the monitor while on my walk down here but by a break in the 7:30pm game I squeezed into a good seat when a group of three left.

My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp...ROCKET...4000/5000...1st/3...my two boards win round.
..........LITBOX...4000/5000...1st/3...my guessing was only 1 for 3 but I should have had the Robyn question
only I didn't recognize her last name.  I wondered at the time if this would keep me off the Top 20 board.
OnBeat...13000/14000...1st/3...my two boards win round...9 right and 0 wrong was great.  I had one guess
and one fact I'd forgotten.  It helped that I read Billboard.com online a few times this week.  MARKEE only 
scored 3000 and said if it wasn't for me giving him the three answers he'd have been shut out.  As this is the 
'secret score' round, I only noticed his struggles halfway through the round.
JukeBox...ROCKET...17560/20000...2nd/3...LITBOX wins round.
...........LITBOX...17572/20000...1st/3.
I waited for MARKEE to pick a category than voted 3-0.  I thought he was getting ready to leave and he did anyway
at the end of the round.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...24157/28000...2nd/2...LITBOX wins round.
.........LITBOX...24172/28000...1st/2.
No -250s this week but one change to an answer so I was pleased.

Now the Encore answers come up. I had tried to juggle my answers to get ROCKET in the lead so it would have all ten places on the Hall Of Fame Top 10 at this bar but even changing hands didn't change things because the LITBOX board seemed to be more responsive. Now all the answers are days of the week. This has happened before. I start thinking of the artists who did the songs but there's only three I know [actually only two I matched correctly].

Encore Question:...Which day-of-the-week song was a hit for The Boomtown Rats?

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Oh that is one that I know right away. "I Don't Like Mondays" was a hit in Toronto on mainstream and new-wave radio stations. I remember seeing the video on Don Kirchner's Rock Concert before videos were seen on television in any frequency. I was thinking that I'd just mentioned seeing lead singer Bob Geldof in my post of two weeks ago and wondered if the quiz writers actually read it. Er...Thanks then!

[The Rolling Stones "Ruby Tuesday" was the only other 'real' song that made the Top 100. I mixed up the Sam Cooke/Cat Stevens song "Another Saturday Night" as being one of the choices. I guess you just had to know the song.]

Correct Answer:....5. I Don't Like Mondays

[NTN Extra Fact:...The title is taken from a real-life teenage girl's excuse for going on a killing spree.]

I'm right and win with LITBOX at 36258. I finish 13th on the Network Top 20 for all North America. I earn 3000+ Players Plus points for meeting this week's standard of 21000 points. The bar finishes 1382nd in North America with a 14499 average. That's probably the highest rank of any 'two' playmaker outlet this week. [ntn.com moved the bar up to 240th of 1986 locations].

My LITBOX board places 7th and 8th on the bar's Hall of Fame board. ROCKET has all the other places.

Here's how the rest of the bar did: 
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank
LITBOX	24172		36258	  13	  51
ROCKET	24157		36235	  15	  48
[ntn.com lists 9916 players]

Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 2,967,500 P+ points and LITBOX at 777,500.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...13099/15000...1st/4...1000+ points...I'm 580th in NA...bar is 879th.
...........LITBOX...6609/15000...4th/4...1000+ points...I could only manage one playmaker in my lap until I could move up to the bar halfway through the game.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...8914/15000...2nd/3...1000+ points...I'm 2356th in NA.
..........LITBOX...8913/15000...3rd/3...1000+ points...I'm 2357th in NA...bar is 1197th in NA...MARKEE wins.
8:30pm...RetroTVCountdown...ROCKET...8563/15000...3rd/3...1000+ points...I'm 2645th in NA...the bar is 1148th.
..............LITBOX...8593/15000...2nd/3...1000+ points...I'm 2619th in NA...MARKEE wins.
One Simpsons question this week plus about three from shows from the 1990/2000s. When the scores are this bad, they get dumped into the NA mainstream rather than a Canadian only listing.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...11495/15000...2nd/2...1000+ points...I'm 1457th in NA...bar is 1726th.
...............LITBOX...11529/15000...1st/2...1000+ points...I'm 1432nd in NA.

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