Encore Question of December 4th, 2004.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
Answers:
Tonight I'm playing with three boards, ROCKET and LITBOX and WIZARD (from the old CPSL team Ottawa Wizards) with Richard BERGIE/MUGLUG and Dougie HEMI.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...2nd/8...my three are in second. HEMI wins with 5000. ..........LITBOX...4500/5000...2nd/8. ..........WIZARD...4500/5000...2nd/8...1 for 2 in straight guessing. OnBeat...ROCKET...12500/14000...2nd/8...my three co-win round with HEMI. ..........LITBOX...12500/14000...2nd/8. ..........WIZARD...12500/14000...2nd/8...next best player has 8000. I score 8 right and 1 wrong. I only miss the indie band debut I'd never heard of. JukeBox...ROCKET...17760/20000...2nd/8...ROCKET wins round...HEMI is still in the lead. ...........LITBOX...17740/20000...3rd/8. ...........WIZARD...17546/20000...4th/8. We got to control any category we wanted with six of the eight boards. I was just listening to the Pearl Jam greatest hits CD earlier in the day and this week the answer comes up. Triviaoke...ROCKET...20639/28000...1st/8...BERGIE wins round. .........LITBOX...20599/28000...2nd/8. .........WIZARDS...20293/28000...3rd/8. I take four -250s in this round. Plenty of 'oldies' from before I was born which I often do well on because the answers are the most logical but not this week. I also get the Dido song wrong unlike Richard but I don't hear him give me the answer. The song was playing on the sound system of the bar about fifteen minutes earlier.
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Now the Encore answers come up. They're all girl groups?
Encore Question:...Fans of the band enjoy the guitar playing of Allison Robertson:
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I don't know this but before the answers came back I said I wasn't guessing the Dixie Chicks because I know their names. I knew the two main front women for Hole (Courtney Love and Melissa Auf Der Maur) but can only partially rule them out as there are other members. I'm going for The Donnas as I know that none of them are actually named 'Donna' and they have had a new CD out recently. About half way through I think of Union Station playing with Alison Krauss and say they're all guys. Richard said he's splitting but I think Slater-Kinney which was an Encore choice within the last two months were the actual names of two in the band.
Correct Answer:....5. The Donnas
[NTN Extra Fact:...The Donnas are an all female rock band from California.]
I'm right and win as ROCKET with 30958. I finish 22nd in North America. The bar finishes 9th in all North America with a 29948 average. I earn 3000 Players Plus points for meeting this week's standard which I missed before the game started. That's another Hall of Fame score because we still haven't had ten games with the new Playmakers. [ntn.com keeps us in 9th place out of 1946 bars]
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank ROCKET 20639 30958 22 66 LITBOX 20599 30898 23 68 WIZARD 20293 30439 24 71 HEMI 19708 29562 28 89 BERGIE 18591 27886 35 130 MUGLUG 18571 x 9286 * 1848 NOBODY 11726 12898 * 1125 JUDE 10332 x 9299 * 1845 PAUL 0 x 0 9999 ---- * one of the three finished 1273rd. The others signed off before the rankings came up. [ntn.com listed 9069 players]
Twelve correct Encores in a row! Just missed being a Top 20 player for the fourth game in a row for the times I do get to play.
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 3,096,500 P+ points and LITBOX at 904,500.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...12403/15000...2nd/10...1000+ points...I'm 45th in NA...bar is 63rd.
..............LITBOX...12410/15000...1st/10...1000+ points...I'm 44th in NA.
I scored 0 on the first question--an easy Simpson's question because I was still logging in as a P+ player. First
try it didn't take.
8:30pm...Tuned In Countdown...ROCKET...9495/15000...5th/10...1000+ points...I'm 2033rd in NA.
..............LITBOX...9541/15000...4th/10...1000+ points...I'm 1994th in NA...bar is 449th...BERGIE wins.
Simpson't free...hurray.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...12899/15000...3rd/7...1000+ points...I'm 132nd in NA.
............LITBOX...12891/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 131st in NA.
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