Encore Question of February 19th, 2005.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.

Answers:

  1. Faithless
  2. Evanescence
  3. Basement Jaxx
  4. Daft Punk
  5. Flaming Lips

Tonight I'm playing alone with two boards ROCKET and LITBOX.

My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/3...my two boards win round.  
..........LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/3.
I'm 3 for 4 in guessing answers in a tougher round than most weeks.
OnBeat...ROCKET...11500/14000...1st/3...my two boards win round.  
..........LITBOX...11500/14000...1st/3.
I go 7 for 9 in this round.  About half the questions were about the Grammy Awards.  That was easy
but I missed Kenny Chesney's new album because I was only thinking of the subtitle and should
have read the front page of Billboard to see the title of Tori Amos's book. Could make it tough to
reach 20000.
JukeBox...ROCKET...16697/20000...1st/3...my two boards win round. 
...........LITBOX...16697/20000...1st/3.
I got to choose the categories.  One more question I knew from watching/reading about the Grammys.  Shouldn't
have gone for the second Kinks question as I don't know them in depth. 
Triviaoke...ROCKET...22588/28000...1st/3...my two boards win round.
.........LITBOX...22588/28000...1st/3.
I took only one -250 so was quite pleased this week.
 

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Now the Encore answers come up. So much for me thinking it would be Country artists because on a television I kept seeing Ashley Judd cheering at a University of Kentucky basketball game. Bands from the last few years? Could be tough.

Encore Question:...Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe make up this electronic music duo:

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I don't know this but start pitching answers before they come back up. Evanescence isn't that musical style and they're not a duo. Flaming Lips is a trio at minimum plus however many other people they can round up to wear animal costumes! Wrong musical style too. Daft Punk would have French names. I'm playing "Where's Your Head At" in my head which does turn out to be a Basement Jaxx tune. Hey they won the first ever Electronic/Dance Album award at the Grammys. I'm in for '3' and signal for BABES who's been tough in the other games tonight. A friend I thought saw my hand signal. I can't think of who Faithless is. I don't need any more time.

Correct Answer:....3. Basement Jaxx

[NTN Extra Fact:...The duo's album "Kish Kash" upon won the 2005 Grammy for Best Electronic/Dance Album.]

[Turns out Faithless is an electronic quartet with Dido's brother Rollo Armstrong as a member. I also noticed in the OnBeat round they referred to last Sunday's Grammy broadcast as 2004 winners].

I'm right and win as LITBOX and ROCKET at 33882. As LITBOX I finish 20th on the Network Top 20 in all North America. The bar finishes 1004th. I earn 3000 Players Plus points for making this week's standard of 19000. I finish 8th on the bar's Hall Of Fame board knocking off one of my scores. [NTN.com listed the bar as 103rd of 2217 bars with a 16023 average].

Here's how the rest of the bar did: 
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank
LITBOX	22588		33882	  20	  51
ROCKET	22588		33882	  20	  52
BABES	13273	x	12351	????	1744
[NTN.com listed 11163 players]

Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 3,149,000 P+ points and LITBOX at 956,500.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...2066/15000...3rd/4...500+ points...I'm 8236th in NA...bar is 1728th.
...............LITBOX...2066/15000...3rd/4...500+ points...I'm 8236th in NA.
I'm here in time for the last four questions...BABES wins.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...11078/15000...2nd/4...1000+ points...I'm 110th...bar is 975th.
..............LITBOX...11079/15000...1st/4...1000+ points...I'm 109th in NA.
8:30pm...Tuned In Countdown...ROCKET...10150/15000...1st/3...1000+ points...I'm 397th in NA.
..............LITBOX...10131/15000...2nd/3...1000+ points...I'm 398th in NA...bar is 1492nd.
No Simpsons questions this week. Yeah!
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...11284/15000...2nd/2...1000+ points...I'm 256th in NA.
............LITBOX...12303/15000...1st/2...1000+ points...I'm 254th in NA...bar is 1735th.

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