Encore Question of February 12th, 2005.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
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Tonight I'm playing two boards ROCKET and LITBOX with Rob COSMO and Sean METLCA/CAPER. We're at a table and I get a waitress to change a monitor so I can see the questions easier.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/7...my two boards co-win round with METLCA. ..........LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/7. I split twice and am right once for each one. This seemed more difficult than the last few weeks. OnBeat...ROCKET...12500/14000...1st/7...our five boards win this round. ..........LITBOX...12500/14000...1st/7. We go 8 for 9 in this round. My cheat notes help and Rob gets another. Pretty good round. JukeBox...ROCKET...16859/20000...2nd/8...COSMO wins round and takes the lead with 17582. ...........LITBOX...16858/20000...3rd/8. We chose Kenny Chesney for one over 50 Cent but got the 50 Cent question anyway even though it was a 3-3 vote and we saw the 50 Cent name disappear. Fortunately it was a gimme. I just chose Chesney as an omen because I had his Greatest Hits CD in my walkman tonight and was playing it for only the first time! Triviaoke...ROCKET...22298/28000...3rd/9...CAPER wins round. .........LITBOX...22297/28000...4th/9. I took only one -250 but had a few last second changes for a few hundred. This is good to play with friends.
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Now the Encore answers come up. Yeah....I should know everything about these groups. Boy George tried out for Bow Wow Wow before landing in Culture Club. An incarnation of The Ants were drafted over to be in Bow Wow Wow.
Encore Question:...Lots of Gen-X teens jumped around to this new wave act's hit song "I Want Candy":
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Easy for me. I have it before the answers come back up. I suppose if you heard that song and didn't catch the DJ announce the group, Annabella Lwin's voice sounded like Deborah Harry in Blondie but it just wasn't going to fool me. One of them asks if I was sure. Yep. I leaned over to another table where a group had a board going but stopped playing for awhile when their food arrived.
Correct Answer:....3. Bow Wow Wow
[NTN Extra Fact:...This song was originally recorded by 1960's garage band The Strangeloves.]
I'm right and hold at 3rd as ROCKET with 33447. I finish 18th overall in North America. The bar finishes 5th in North America with a 33581 average. I earn 3000 Players Plus points for making this week's standard of 17000. COSMO wins with 34918 points and is 13th in North America. He finishes 5th on the bar's Hall Of Fame board knocking off one of my scores. [NTN.com keeps us in 7th place among 2194 bars].
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank COSMO 23279 34918 13 36 CAPER 22484 33726 16 60 ROCKET 22298 33447 18 63 LITBOX 22297 33445 19 64 METLCA 21580 32370 20 84 BLUE 6507 x 3254 7903 7883 PETCH 4040 x 2020 8698 8971 BECKS 2217 3325 7857 7820 [NTN.com listed 11241 players]
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 3,142,000 P+ points and LITBOX at 949,500.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...3449/15000...5th/5...1000+ points...I'm 6595th in NA...bar is 1041st.
...............LITBOX...3449/15000...5th/5...1000+ points...I'm here in time for the last five questions...COSMO wins.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...11330/15000...4th/7...1000+ points...I'm 64th in NA...bar is 20th.
..............LITBOX...11349/15000...3rd/7...1000+ points...I'm 63rd in NA.
8:30pm...Tuned In Countdown...ROCKET...11098/15000...5th/7...1000+ points...I'm 306th in NA.
..............LITBOX...11117/15000...4th/7...1000+ points...I'm 302nd in NA...bar is 85th.
No Simpsons questions this week. Yeah!
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...12443/15000...3rd/10...1000+ points...missed my ranking.
............LITBOX...12451/15000...2nd/10...1000+ points...I'm ?? in NA...bar is 326th.
We may have this team together again in a few weeks.
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