Encore Question of March 26th, 2005.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
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Tonight I'm playing with Dale BOBME/BOBME2 and Bill MADDOG and Marlo ZIGGY. I always notice Dale's score as scores of the month but he doesn't play Saturday nights so he needed some help with the rules for this game. Bill kept wandering off during earlier games but he concentrated on this game. Marlo started playing while we were playing in the Triviaoke round.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/9...I think five of our boards won the round. ..........LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/9. I guess 1 for 1 but listen to Dale for a wrong answer. OnBeat...ROCKET...10500/14000...3rd/9...BOBME and MADDOG win round. ..........LITBOX...10500/14000...3rd/9. I go only 6 for 9 and think my stupid season has started because I was away at a pre-season soccer game this afternoon instead of reading Billboard Online. I could help the others but when we had to guess a few, they were just better than me. Looks like it will be a stuggle to reach 20000 points before the Encore question. JukeBox...ROCKET...15526/20000...1st/9...ROCKET and LITBOX win round. ...........LITBOX...15526/20000...1st/9. Our group got all the categories I wanted. Good thing I owned the Genesis album "Invisible Touch" as there were two questions about that. Triviaoke...ROCKET...22245/28000...1st/9...ROCKET and LITBOX win round. .........LITBOX...22245/28000...1st/5. I took only one -250s this week so that was good news. The bar had cranked up the canned music before the round started so I was worried about being distracted. Hey I made my 20000.
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Now the Encore answers come up. This looks tough.
Encore Question:...Which soul star won a 2002 Grammy Award for the album "Don't Give Up On Me"?
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I don't know this. Another award show question. That cost me in the JukeBox round with a question about the MTV awards. None of us know the answer. I try to eliminate the guys who I think who have died and mentally toss '4' and '5' but take it back when I remember reading that Percy Sledge was coming out with an album. I also mix up Wilson Pickett with Otis Redding. I'm down to the first three and put out Booker T as I think I'd remember if I'd read anything about him in recent times. I've already answered '1' and only think it can be '3' because that seems to be the quizmakers favourite Encore number in the last six months. I don't know anything about this guy except that he made the same kind of music as the others...
Correct Answer:....3. Solomon Burke
[NTN Extra Fact:...Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, and Tom Waits contributed songs for the album.]
I'm wrong and drop to third as both ROCKET and LITBOX at 11123. I finish 184th in all North America. The bar finishes 840th in North America. I earn only 1500 Players Plus points for missing this week's standard of 16000. Bill wins as MADDOG with 31591 points. One of Dale's boards gets it right and he was swearing that he couldn't get his other board to ring in with the right answer despite frantically pressing it. Bill said he guessed the name he'd never heard of.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank LITBOX 22245 x 11123 284 ROCKET 22245 x 11123 284 MADDOG 21061 31591 35 BOBME 20725 x 10363 306 BOBME2 17090 25635 102 GOTCHA 8920 x 4460 5591 PATTI 6923 x 5539 4525 ZIGGY 5246 x 2623 7407 DREW 0 x 0 9999 KOTTER -274 0 9999
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 3,173,500 P+ points and LITBOX at 981,000.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...1754/15000...6th/6...500+ points...I'm 8130th in NA...bar is 729th...GOTCHA wins.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...12405/15000...2nd/10...1000+ points...I'm 38th in NA...bar is 41st.
..............LITBOX...12424/15000...1st/10...1000+ points...I'm 37th in NA.
Lots of help with Dale here.
8:30pm...Tuned In Countdown...ROCKET...8742/15000...2nd/11...1000+ points...I'm 555th
..............LITBOX...8742/15000...2nd/11...1000+ points...I'm 555th...bar is 491st...BOBME wins.
One Simpsons question this week and I guessed it right.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...12750/15000...2nd/10...1000+ points...I'm 258th in NA.
............LITBOX...12750/15000...2nd/10...1000+ points...I'm 258th in NA...bar is 226th in NA...BOBME wins.
That would make three weeks of getting Encore answers wrong in a row (OK didn't play three weeks in a row). My worst slump in all my years of playing. I was thinking if I the streak stretches to five weeks, I'll stop playing or least stop posting a recap.
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