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

Answers:

  1. Cheap Trick
  2. Talking Heads
  3. The B-52s
  4. Journey
  5. The Mosquitos

Tonight I'm playing with Richard BERGIE/PUTA and have three boards going for this game so we can go for a ranking bar score. ROCKET and LITBOX and TLLYNX (named for the Toronto Lady Lynx W-League team). PUTA means 'whore' in Spanish.

My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/5...all five of our boards win round.  
..........LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/5.
..........TLLYNX...4500/5000.
We're 1 for 2 in guessing answers.
OnBeat...ROCKET...12500/14000...1st/5...all five win again.  
..........LITBOX...12500/14000...1st/5.
..........TLLYNX...12500/14000.
We go 8 for 9 for a very good round.  If I'd listened to Richard for Mya in a horror movie and he'd listened to me 
saying Backstreet Boys were coming back, we'd have had a perfect round.
JukeBox...ROCKET...18321/20000...1st/5...ROCKET and LITBOX win round. 
...........LITBOX...18321/20000...1st/5.
...........TLLYNX...18070/20000...5th/5.
We got all the categories we wanted.  'Dark Side' turned out to be the Dark Side Of The Moon album.  The only Top 40
hit had 'Time' as the correct answer but my music book lists 'Money' which wasn't a choice as reaching #13.  Richard 
gave me the Time answer right away.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...24407/28000...1st/5...ROCKET and LITBOX win round.
.........LITBOX...24407/28000...1st/5.
..........TLLYNX...23555/28000...3rd/5.
I took only one -250s this week so that was good news.  Help from Richard here.
 

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Now the Encore answers come up. Everybody I've heard of except The Mosquitos.

Encore Question:...Randy Jackson of American Idol fame was a temporary bassist for this arena band:

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I don't know this. I've never watched the show so couldn't pick on if it's ever mentioned in the credits. The only thing I've ever looked at about Randy Jackson is found out he's not the same guy as Randy Jackson, the younger brother of Michael Jackson. I wasn't going to go with a group I'd never heard of although I could see Richard's strategy. I thought there was a time when two guys left Cheap Trick and maybe the word 'Arena band' made me feel better. The four bands I knew were all white in their membership at least when I'd seen pictures of them. No I'll stay with '1' , an omen that I was playing a compilation album and it had a Cheap Trick song on it. (but earlier today I'd read that Journey was reforming but I'd forgotten that).

Correct Answer:....4. Journey

[NTN Extra Fact:...A member in 1983 and 1986 he performed on the albums "Frontiers" and "Raised On Radio".]

I'm wrong but still win as both ROCKET and LITBOX at 12204. I finish 262nd in all North America. The bar finishes 1427th in North America. I earn only 1500 Players Plus points for missing this week's standard of 21000. [NTN.com moved us up to 297th out of 2108 bars in North America with a 11707 average].

The scores weren't very good again this week. It now seems possible that I may have got last week's Encore as I noticed METLCA was playing last week and got it right. I need a movie watching friend. This week? I just would have had to read more.

Here's how the rest of the bar did: 
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank
ROCKET	24407	x	12204	 262	1899
LITBOX	24407	x	12204	 262	1900
TLLYNX	23553	x	11777	 273	1987
BERGIE	22362	x	11181	 288	2121
PUTA	22343	x	11172	 ----	2123
[NTN.com listed 10153 players]

Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 3,168,500 P+ points and LITBOX at 976,000.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...1746/15000...2nd/3...500+ points...I'm 8100th in NA...bar is 2048th.
.............LITBOX...746/15000...3rd/3...500+ points...I'm 9188th in NA...I'm here in time for the last two questions and last question for my second board...FREEKS wins.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...10594/15000...1st/2...1000+ points...I'm 237th in NA...bar is 1747th.
..............LITBOX...10594/15000...1st/2...1000+ points...I'm 237th in NA.
Another survey for 'live entertainment' this week. 8:30pm...Tuned In Countdown...ROCKET...10864/15000...1st/2...1000+ points...I'm 10000th!
..............LITBOX...10864/15000...1st/2...1000+ points...I'm 10000th!...bar is 1668th.
Two Simpsons questions this week to drive down my score.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...12750/15000...3rd/6...1000+ points...I'm 767th in NA.
............LITBOX...12769/15000...2nd/6...1000+ points...I'm 753rd in NA...bar is 871st in NA.
At least 20 perfect games from individuals shown in the rankings.

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