Encore Question of February 26th, 2005.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.

Answers:

  1. Stevie Wonder
  2. Bob Dylan
  3. Peter Gabriel
  4. Van Morrison
  5. John Cougar Mellencamp

Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX with Rob COSMO, Sean METLCA, and Phil PLBAAB who'd arrived just in time.

My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/10...my two boards co-win round with COSMO and METLCA.  
..........LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/10.
I'm 1 for 2 in guessing answers and again falter on the 10th question.
OnBeat...ROCKET...12500/14000...1st/10...my two boards co-win round with PLBAAB and COSMO.  
..........LITBOX...12500/14000...1st/10.
I go 8 for 9 in this round.  I miss out a tour question about Sting that I'd read a few weeks ago.  Someone said it 
from another booth before I realized they were playing.  I'd thought of it too after guessing something else 
but didn't have time to change.
JukeBox...ROCKET...18201/20000...1st/11...my two boards win round. 
...........LITBOX...18201/20000...1st/11.
I did excellent in this round with lots of help although alone I might have chosen different categories.  The guys 
at my table knew the answers right off for the ones I didn't.   I think overall they boosted my score by at least 2000.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...24674/28000...1st/11...COSMO wins round.
.........LITBOX...24674/28000...1st/11.
I took only one -250 again this week so was quite pleased.
 

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Now the Encore answers come up. Quite a variety of choices. I don't even think of any similarities while dictating the scores so far.

Encore Question:...His "Solsbury Hill" is a song of pride and liberation:

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I only dictate three words of this question before blurting out Peter Gabriel. I know he did this song. Everybody in? I turn around to the booth beside ours and make sure they have the answer. "I own this album". (well pretty sure as the first four Peter Gabriel albums were all called "Peter Gabriel"). [Yep I've got three out of four of them]. Hey we've got a score good enough for the Top 10.

Correct Answer:....3. Peter Gabriel

[NTN Extra Fact:..."Grab your things, I've come to take you home" sings Gabiel on the moving 1977 recording.]

Now if they'd turned this into a Triviaoke style Encore I'd have been in trouble because I only remember him singing the title line and the flute in this song.

I'm right and win as LITBOX and ROCKET at 37011. As LITBOX I finish 8th on the Network Top 20 in all North America. The bar finishes 6th in North America with a 36071 average. I earn 3000 Players Plus points for making this week's standard of 19000. I finish 2nd on the bar's Hall Of Fame board knocking off one of my lower scores. [NTN.com ended up knocking us down to 7th out of 2163 bars].

Here's how the rest of the bar did: 
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank
LITBOX	24674		37011	   8	  48
ROCKET	24674		37011	   8	  49
COSMO	24618		36927	   9	  51
PLBAAB	23449		35173	  14	  75
METLCA	22822		34233	  22	  96
NOBODY	13715	x	 6858	----	5182	
SPEACH	11972		17958	 714	1943
SCARR	11338		17007	----	2134
JUGS	 4648		 5112	7356	6580
BIGWIG	 3388		 5082	7372	6604
[NTN.com listed 11472 players.  I had Canada's top score]

Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 3,155,500 P+ points and LITBOX at 963,000.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...9701/15000...4th/7...1000+ points...I'm 196th...bar is 56th.
..............LITBOX...9701/15000...4th/7...1000+ points...I'm 196th in NA...BERGIE wins.
One of the front doors of the Frog was closed so I went in the second door and saw Rob and Sean. I'd promised to play with them this week. When I went up to the bar to get Playmakers I saw Richard BERGIE but he wanted to stay where he was so he stayed at the bar and won this game.
8:30pm...Tuned In Countdown...ROCKET...9735/15000...4th/10...1000+ points...I'm 234th in NA.
..............LITBOX...9774/15000...3rd/10...1000+ points...I'm 231st in NA...bar is 153rd...COSMO wins.
One Simpsons questions this week which none of us got.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...13503/15000...4th/8...1000+ points...I'm 112nd in NA.
............LITBOX...13503/15000...4th/8...1000+ points...I'm 112nd in NA...bar is 15th in North America.

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