Encore Question of December 11th, 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 Bill MADDOG and Marlo ZIGGY. Richard BERGIE and Don MOLLY have arrived during the JukeBox round.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/10...my two co-win round with MADDOG although Bill and Marlo had mixed up their boards. ..........LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/10...I'm 1 for 1 on guessing. OnBeat...ROCKET...12000/14000...1st/10...my two co-win round with MADDOG. ..........LITBOX...12000/14000...1st/10. I score 7 right and 2 wrong which was OK...another band I hadn't heard of. JukeBox...ROCKET...16846/20000...1st/10...my two win round. ...........LITBOX...16846/20000...1st/10. The Aerosmith questions were tough. "Who's the oldest?" and "What TV commercial did they do?" Triviaoke...ROCKET...22204/28000...1st/12...FREEKS wins round. .........LITBOX...22204/28000...1st/12. I take two -250s in this round. I switched answers on the Adam Sandler novelty tune or I would have had a Top 20 finish. Got some help in this round to improve my score.
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Now the Encore answers come up. Quite a variety here
Encore Question:...What singer scored big in 2003 with her "Kiss My Brass" tour?
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I don't have to wait for the answers to come back up before calling this out. Bette Midler came through Toronto or the casino just out of town and there were interviews and review in our local papers. Everybody in? Well we control six boards but they're not all the top six. I don't even think of moving about.
Correct Answer:....5. Bette Midler
[NTN Extra Fact:...The tour grossed nearly $1,000,000 a night.]
I'm right and win as ROCKET with 33306. I finish 21st in North America. The bar finishes 26th in North America with a 27551 average as the players with better scores than our two late arrivals miss this one. I earn 3000 Players Plus points for meeting this week's standard of 21000. That's 4th on our Hall of Fame scoreboard out of the eight times they've played this game on the new Playmakers.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank ROCKET 22204 33306 21 LITBOX 22204 33306 21 MADDOG 20474 30711 59 ZIGGY 18808 28212 91 LEGO 17462 x 12224 258? FREEKS 15892 x 7946 * BEARZ 13926 x 6963 * BFLO 13640 x 6820 * PINGU 13263 x 11937 264? BERGIE 5359 8038 3210? MOLLY 3798 5697 * UNCLE 743 x 372 * EL NINO 0 x 0 * * didn't cycle through a second time and two boards logged off before the rankings were displayed.
BERGIE could have done better but he started on a board that I'd given back during the 8:30pm game because the player UNCLE was on the same frequency trying to log in. The new barmaid put the board back in the recharger and half hour later Richard asked for a board and our bartender gave him that one. So anything like me getting the Adam Sandler song right ("Captain Kirk and Mr Spock" saw those two characters on television this morning), Richard getting a 'good' board earlier, or me running over to the other side of the bar would have got our bar a Top 20 ranking.
Thirteen correct Encores in a row! Just missed being a Top 20 player again this week.
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 3,102,500 P+ points and LITBOX at 910,500.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...858/15000 (time for two questions)...4th/6...500+ points...I'm 9223rd in NA.
..............LITBOX...217/15000 (time for one question)...500+ points...I'm 9805 in NA...missed bar ranking...BEARZ wins.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...6417/15000...6th/7...500+ points...I'm 2768th in NA...bar is 542nd.
..............LITBOX...6319/15000...7th7...500+ points...I'm 2879th in NA...my worst score since they brought in the new system.
general knowledge but I just had to wait for the answers which now mean less than 200 points...ZIGGY wins.
8:30pm...Tuned In Countdown...ROCKET...7606/15000...6th/8...1000+ points...I'm 2901st in NA.
..............LITBOX...UNCLE overrides my final score...1000+ points...I did earn the points though...bar is 467th...can't remember who won.
Simpson't free...hurray.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...11055/15000...1st/10...1000+ points...I'm 165th in NA.
............LITBOX...11055/15000...1st/10...1000+ points...I'm 165th in NA...synchronized fingers two games in a row!
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