Encore Question of October 30th, 2004.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.

Answers:

  1. Wandering Zombie
  2. Reincarnated Child
  3. Sinking Ship
  4. Mass Murderer
  5. Lonely Vampire

Tonight I'm playing with two boards, ROCKET and LITBOX all alone. At least I didn't have to explain why I still had blue coloured ears. Couldn't completely wash off the food colouring for a costume I wore to work. I came as a member of the Blue Man Group dressing in all black, with a pair of drumsticks and the tubing from our shop-vac vacuum cleaner as well as blue dyed face and hands. I had to be in mime like the guys in the group so I couldn't explain who I was but one of the judges realized what I was carrying on as and awarded me one of the photo albums as a prize. Home to scrub off but couldn't get those ears clean yet! I was here at my usual time because kids weren't going out trick or treating until Sunday night which was a change from years ago when Halloween couldn't be on a Sunday in this city.

My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp...ROCKET...4000/5000...3rd/4...LITBOX and BMONEY win round.  
..........LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/4...I split on one answer and was 2 of 3 for guessing.
OnBeat...ROCKET...10000/14000...2nd/4...my two co-win round with LILSIT.
..........LITBOX...10500/14000...1st/4.
I score 6 right and 3 wrong.  LILSIT was late in arriving for the start of the game and just stayed at the bar until 
his food arrived and he found a table but he gave me an answer I couldn't have guessed and I gave him a few.
JukeBox...ROCKET...14824/20000...2nd/4...my two win round.
...........LITBOX...15324/20000...1st/4.
The themes were mostly Halloween and the American election.  The Charles Manson/Beach Boys song was
a previous Encore question years ago.  I got outvoted for one Marilyn Manson song but got full marks for 
knowing his former name.  The fun of knowing who else knew it was taken away on the new playmaker system
by the display only giving the score after the question, not showing how the players did on that one question and
instead pushing an advert.  The system does that every third or fourth question it seemed.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...19535/28000...2nd/4...my two win round.
.........LITBOX...20035/28000...1st/4....One -250 answer and two that I earned less than 100 points.
The last question pushed me just over 20000 points on one of my boards.  

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Now the Encore answers come up. They continue with the Halloween theme.

Encore Question:...Bruce Springsteen's haunting ballad "Nebraska" deals with a/an:

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I don't know this as I've never heard the song. I think Bruce Springsteen as a serious artist and I try to pick the most 'normal' topic he would sing about. I know the "In Cold Blood" story was a state next door but it seemed like the best answer. I'm frozen at the bar because I'm not sure and I said I'd only go over and tell LILSIT if I knew the answer. Oh well not a great score for me tonight anyway.

Correct Answer:....4. Mass Murderer

[NTN Extra Fact:...It's about the killing spree of murderer Charlie Starkweather.]

I'm right and win as LITBOX with 30052. I finish 55th in all North America. [ntn.com moved me down to 123rd]. I earn 3000 Players Plus points for meeting this week's 20000 standard. The bar finishes 1335th in North America. [ntn.com moved us up to 212nd out of 1812 bars with a 14239 average]. My score tonight put me Number 3 in our Hall of Fame because this was only the third time these new playmakers had ever played this game! Every week I've been getting worse.

Here's how the rest of the bar did: 
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank
LITBOX	20035		30052	  55	 123
ROCKET	19535		29302	  67	 150
LILSIT	12989	x	 6495	6307	3859
BMONEY	10696	x	 5348	6959	4459
[ntn.com listed 7886 players]

Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 3,072,500 P+ points and LITBOX at 881,000.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...878/15000...4th/5...0+ points...I'm 8975th in NA.
.............LITBOX...878/15000...4th/5...0+ points...I'm 8975th in NA...bar is 1636th...JEREMY wins.
I'm here in time for the last two questions. I don't realize that I haven't logged in for P+ points. It seems I can't use the numeric keypad to log in my password, only the numbers over the alpha keyboard.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...5963/15000...4th/4...1000+ points...I'm 3552th in NA...bar is 1136th.
..............LITBOX...9275/15000...2nd/4...1000+ points...I'm *161st NA...BTR wins.
I took a long time to get my P+ points signed on and I restarted my ROCKET board after five questions.
*BTR won but he logged off so when my score showed 161st position it may have actually been 1181st (second place ranking).
8:30pm...Tuned In Countdown...ROCKET...8059/15000...2nd/3...1000+ points...I'm 3044th in NA.
..............LITBOX...8079/15000...1st/3...1000+ points...I'm 3027th in NA...bar is 1775th.
two Simpson's questions this week helped pull down my score.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...10135/15000...1st/2...1000+ points...I'm 154th in NA.
...............LITBOX...10116/15000...2nd/2...1000+ points...I'm 155th in NA...bar is 1802nd.

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