Encore Question of January 15th, 2005.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.

Answers:

  1. Dr John
  2. Art Neville
  3. David Bartholomew
  4. Wilson Pickett
  5. Stevie Wonder

Tonight I'm playing partly on my own but Marlo/Ruth are working the MADDOG board and Bruce B B has arrived near the end of the Triviaoke round. I'm using ROCKET and LITBOX and a not P+ board, DSTORM named for the CPSL Durham Storm soccer team.

My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/4...my three boards win round.  
..........LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/4.
..........DSTORM...5000/5000...1st/4.
I didn't really have to guess anything in this round.
OnBeat...ROCKET...13000/14000...1st/4...ROCKET and DSTORM win round.
..........LITBOX...12000/14000...3rd/4.
..........DSTORM...13000/14000...1st/4.
I score 8 right and 1 wrong.  I had read the Rock Hall of Fame nominees a month ago but couldn't decide between 'Heart' 
and 'The Pretenders'.  Marlo said 'Heart'.  My only guess was Jadakiss's song partner on New Year's Eve but reading 
he has a duet with Mariah Carey gave me that one right.  I was disappointed that the playmaker didn't get one other 
answer for LITBOX.  I must have answered and had my fingers over to the third playmaker and didn't look down to see  
what I'd answered.
JukeBox...ROCKET...18980/20000...1st/4...LITBOX wins round. 
...........LITBOX...17987/20000...3rd/4.
...........DSTORM...18819/20000...2nd/4.
I got the categories I wanted.  Forced to take New Age over the alternate, I mumbled "If this isn't about Enya 
then I'm in trouble" and up came a question about Enya's family's band Clannad. Easy!  I took over the MADDOG 
board this round when both Marlo and Ruth went out to smoke.  Can't smoke inside a Toronto bar anymore.  Working four 
boards is tough.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...24560/28000...1st/5...LITBOX wins round.
.........LITBOX...23576/28000...3rd/4.
..........DSTORM...23978/28000...2nd/4.
I took one -250 for this round...the song by the new group Modest Mouse; I've never heard it.

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Now the Encore answers come up. This could be tough because there's a few names I'm not sure of.

Encore Question:..."Right Place, Wrong Time" was the only Top 20 single from this piano man:

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Got this before the answers came back on. I heard this song within the first two years of me getting my own radio and listening to pop stations. Bruce starts singing it so there was the back up. 30 seconds to go. Does this seem easy? Everyone knows Stevie Wonder has had MANY hits, Wilson Pickett wasn't known as a piano player so we'd be down to three choices. Art from the Neville Brothers, David Bartholomew I can't remember ever hearing about. Oh well I'm just glad I knew the song.

Correct Answer:....1. Dr John

[NTN Extra Fact:...The funky hit was a harbringer of the disco sound that caught fire a few years later.]

I knew his real name, this song, and his appearance on SCTV with John Candy in the mock movie Polynesiantown.

I'm right and win as ROCKET with 36840. I finish 10th in North America. The bar finishes 103rd in North America with a 27207 average. I earn 3000 Players Plus points for meeting this week's standard of 15000. I finish 1st on the bar's Hall of Fame scores and have the first nine of ten positions. This must prove noone played Christmas Day and New Years Day. [NTN.com moved our bar up to 25th place. Too bad we didn't have a fifth board sooner and we would have ranked in the top 20].

Here's how the rest of the bar did: 
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank
ROCKET	24560		36840	  10	  31
DSTORM	23978		35967	  15	  41
LITBOX	23576		35364	  20	  52
MADDOG	18575		27862	 120	 310
B B	 -250		   0	9999	7152
[NTN.com listed 7151 players]

Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 3,118,500 P+ points and LITBOX at 926,500.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...3335/15000...5th/7...500+ wins...I'm 6060th in NA...BARKLY wins.
............LITBOX...3365/15000...4th/7...0+ points...logged off...oops see that I hadn't signed on properly.
I'm here in time for the last five questions.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...10132/15000...1st/6...1000+ points...I'm 71st in NA...bar is 948th.
..............LITBOX...10079/15000...2nd/6...1000+ points...I'm 73rd in NA.
8:30pm...Tuned In Countdown...ROCKET...11166/15000...2nd/4...1000+ points...I'm 971st in NA.
..............LITBOX...11195/15000...1st/4...1000+ points...I'm 948th in NA...bar is 1627th.
I scored well because there weren't really any 1990 nor 2000 era television questions again this week.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...11041/15000...2nd/4...1000+ points...I'm 154th in NA.
............LITBOX...11053/15000...1st/4...1000+ points...I'm 153rd in NA...bar is 1320th.

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