Encore Question of February 5th, 2005.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
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Tonight I'm playing alone using two boards ROCKET and LITBOX. I've moved along the bar so I can see better without the glare of the overhead light.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/4...my two boards win round. ..........LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/4. I went two for three in guessing. OnBeat...ROCKET...13500/14000...1st/5...my two win round. ..........LITBOX...13500/14000...1st/5. I go 9 for 9 in this round. Hey this is an excellent score so far. JukeBox...ROCKET...19272/20000...1st/8...my two win round. ...........LITBOX...19272/20000...1st/8. I got all the categories I wanted. Two 'The Sound Of Music' questions and two on Brian Wilson. There's some penpal site I joined years ago where I answered my favourite song as 'Brian Wilson' by Barenaked Ladies. Is this going to be one of those once a year games where everything goes right?... Triviaoke...ROCKET...23236/28000...1st/5...TIFF wins round. .........LITBOX...23236/28000...1st/5. Nope! I took three -250s for this round and it could have been worse except a guy doing a crossword puzzle beside me gave me the answer to the often asked Guns'N Roses lyric.
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Now the Encore answers come up. Hmm well one group's from a different era than the rest.
Encore Question:..."I'm not growing up, I'm just burning out" is a lyric made popular in the 1990's by:
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Well before the answers come back up I know it's not The Grass Roots because they haven't been heard from since the early 1970s. No one else I can put out. And I thought I'd suffered enough on Triviaoke questions this week. Well I choose the NTN quizmasters favourite group Sonic Youth even though I don't know of any of their songs. I think that REM isn't quite that gloomy in the 1990s but I'm not sure. Green Day would be perfect but then Pearl Jam could sing this line.
Correct Answer:....5. Green Day
[NTN Extra Fact:...The song is found on the 1993 album "Dookie".]
I'm wrong and fall to 3rd on my two boards at 11618. I finish 3428th in North America. The bar finishes 1289th in North America. I earn only 1500 Players Plus points for missing this week's standard of 16000. TIFF wins. [NTN.com moved us up to 282nd of 2251 bars]
It's worse than that as I was playing that album two weeks ago when I played their 'American Idiot' CD and wanted to compare their sound a decade apart. The song is called "Burnout" and I had the lyrics but didn't read them. I played the song again when I got home but have forgotten it already the next morning. Getting the Encore right would have just edged me into the top 20. They gave us a Green Day vs Bad Religion question in the Tune Up round which I guessed right. I avoided both the Alt Rock Frontmen questions in the JukeBox round but now I couldn't get around not knowing this.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank ROCKET 23236 x 11618 3428 2967 LITBOX 23236 x 11618 3428 2968 TIFF 18797 28195 144 296 DWC 15728 23592 218 793 FPSKS 4473 x 2237 8734 9435 [NTN.com listed 11534 players]
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 3,137,500 P+ points and LITBOX at 945,000.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...9644/15000...1st/4...1000+ points...I'm 150th in NA...bar is 1002nd.
..............LITBOX...9644/15000...1st/4...1000+ points...I'm 150th in NA.
8:30pm...Tuned In Countdown...ROCKET...12292/15000...1st/4...1000+ points...I'm 101st in NA.
..............LITBOX...12292/15000...1st/4...1000+ points...I'm 101st in NA...bar is 930th.
about half the questions were old tv shows. no Simpsons questions this week.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...11310/15000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 89th in NA.
............LITBOX...11310/15000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 89th in NA...bar is 969th.
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