Encore Question of April 17th, 2004.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
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Tonight I'm playing with two boards, ROCKET and LITBOX with Nick IAMINU and Susan PEBS who arrived in the middle of the JukeBox round. Playoff hockey tonight but because the Maple Leafs played the night before, they had the night off so the bar wasn't as crowded.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/4...my two boards co-win round with IAMINU and KILBIL. ..........LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/4. OnBeat...ROCKET...10500/14000...1st/4...my two boards co-win round with IAMINU...6 right and 3 wrong was disappointing. I thought I was fine knowing the Canadian Ron Sexsmith and Nelly Furtado answers but from the other bars scores, it appears they weren't very hard. .............LITBOX...10500/14000...1st/4. JukeBox...ROCKET...14659/20000...2nd/5...LITBOX wins round. ...........LITBOX...14674/20000...1st/5. Triviaoke...ROCKET...19591/28000...2nd/5...PEBS wins round. .........LITBOX...19597/28000...1st/5. I pass 20000 but then take two -250s on the last two questions of the round and fall below that line. The last two were recent hits which always are a struggle for me.
Now the Encore answers come up. I start sizing up the occupations of these guys. The question could be anything.
Encore Question:...Who renamed Columbia's music division Arista back in the 1970s?
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I know that one before the answers come back up. He was just dismissed/forced retirement earlier this year. I make sure the others have it and then recite who everybody else is. "TV host, Motown founder, promoter, 1950's DJ".
Correct Answer:....5. Clive Davis
[NTN Extra Fact:...This music industry big shot was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2000.]
So much for my idea on the walk here tonight that the correct Encore answer wouldn't be '5' three weeks in a row.
I'm right and win with LITBOX at 29395. I finish 1465th on the Network Top 20 for all North America. I earn 3000+ Players Plus points for meeting this week's standard of 15000 points. The bar finishes 824th in North America with a 20772 average. [ntn.com listed us as 75th of 1992 bars]
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank LITBOX 19597 29395 1465 219 ROCKET 19591 29387 1467 220 IAMINU 16961 25441 2613 495 KILBIL 9516 x 6661 8065 4046 PEBS 8650 12975 6232 2084 [ntn.com lists 9987 players]
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 2,980,500 P+ points and LITBOX at 790,500.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...3457/15000...4th/8...500+ points...I'm 7368th in NA...bar is 1280th...SB wins.
...........LITBOX...3452/15000...5th/8...500+ points...I'm 7372nd in NA...I'm here in time for the last five questions.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...8600/15000...4th/7...1000+ points...I'm 2668th in NA.
..........LITBOX...8913/15000...5th/7...1000+ points...I'm 2675th in NA...bar is 241st in NA...CHUNK wins.
8:30pm...RetroTVCountdown...ROCKET...9961/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 1289th in NA...the bar is 10th in Canada with a 9746 average.
..............LITBOX...9918/15000...3rd/7...1000+ points...I'm 1327th in NA...IAMINU wins.
One Simpsons question at the end which we guessed right thanks to Nick. Lots of 1990s/2000s questions knocked down my score.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...12150/15000...2nd/6...1000+ points...I'm 1093rd in NA...bar is 391st.
...............LITBOX...12155/15000...1st/6...1000+ points...I'm 1089th in NA.
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