Encore Question of November 13th, 2004.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
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Tonight I'm playing with three boards, ROCKET and LITBOX and T LYNX with Richard BERGIE/REG. We each asked for an extra board to control five and get a good bar score. If Richard hadn't mentioned it, I wasn't going to bother but now I'm glad he did.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/5...All five boards co-win round. ..........LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/5...we go 0 for 1 on guessing when we don't know England invented the grand piano. ..........T LYNX...4500/5000. OnBeat...ROCKET...11500/14000...1st/5...my three win round. ..........LITBOX...11500/14000...1st/5. ..........T LYNX...11500/14000...1st/5. I score 7 right and 2 wrong. I spent more time than usual reading up on music news but couldn't improve on last week's score. First question was not given away in last week's Encore question. Name of Simple Plan's latest album "Still Not Getting Any". I was waiting for that. JukeBox...ROCKET...15710/20000...1st/5...BERGIE wins. ...........LITBOX...15710/20000...1st/5. ...........T LYNX...15447/20000...3rd/5...need a third arm to be able to click in at the same time. not the greatest category choices but we controlled the boards so it was our fault. Triviaoke...ROCKET...21634/28000...1st/5...ROCKET and LITBOX win round. .........LITBOX...21634/28000...1st/5....one -250 answers this round on an Aerosmith question. .........T LYNX...20763/28000...3rd/5.
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Now the Encore answers come up. This could be difficult.
Encore Question:...Raphael Saadiq was formerly a member of this 1990's R&B group:
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I don't know this right off. I can rule out Bell Biv Devoe because those were the actual surnames of the guys in the group. I know the names of the Boyz II Men guys and he wasn't one of them. That still leaves three groups. I knew that Alicia Keys song 'Diary' is a duet with these guys. Maybe now I wished I had played it but I only got that a few weeks ago. One of those guys had gone off to be in the supergroup 'Lucy Pearl'. That name was on my mind. I'd earlier told Richard I was thinking of '3' or '5' but said I'd decided to switch to '1'. He felt like answering '3' but changed for me. This could be ugly.
Correct Answer:....1. Tony! Toni! Tone!
[NTN Extra Fact:..."Instant Vintage" and "Ray Ray" are his two solo studio albums.]
Never made the Top 200 album charts, sang on four Top 100 singles though. This was the guy who was in Lucy Pearl so I must have had that name in the back of my mind.
I'm right and win as ROCKET with 32451. I finish 11th in all North America. I earn 3000 Players Plus points for meeting this week's 15000 standard. The bar finishes 6th in North America with a 31424 average. [ntn.com kept us in 6th place out of 1948 bars]. Good ranking because we played five boards for two brains. My score tonight put me Number 4 in our Hall of Fame (first time as ROCKET) because this was only the fifth time these new playmakers had ever played this game!
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank ROCKET 21634 32451 11 31 LITBOX 21634 32451 11 32 T LYNX 20763 31144 20 49 BERGIE 20365 30577 22 56 REG 20334 30501 23 60 [ntn.com listed 9025 players]
Wow, ten correct Encores in a row! Now that streak wouldn't have been that long if I'd come every week and hadn't missed so many games in the summer and fall. I should be here next week but maybe not the week after as I may at a swim night party.
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 3,084,500 P+ points and LITBOX at 893,000.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...61/15000...2nd/2...500+ points...I'm 9949th in NA...BERGIE wins...I'm still logging on during the last question.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...10553/15000...1st/3...1000+ points...I'm 116th in NA...bar is 1307th.
..............LITBOX...10533/15000...2nd/3...1000+ points...I'm 117th in NA.
8:30pm...Tuned In Countdown...ROCKET...10288/15000...1st/3...1000+ points...I'm 1122nd in NA.
..............LITBOX...10288/15000...1st/3...1000+ points...I'm 1122nd in NA...bar is 1365th.
Simpson't free...hurray.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...12346/15000...2nd/3...1000+ points...I'm 111th in NA.
...............LITBOX...12346/15000...2nd/3...1000+ points...I'm 111th in NA...bar is 1126th...BERGIE wins.
my scores were boosted this week thanks to Richard's answers.
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