Encore Question of May 21st, 2005.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
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Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX with Mark MARKEE. We've only got the only three boards playing this game so can't expect a good bar score.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...3500/5000...3rd/3...LITBOX and MARKEE win round. ..........LITBOX...4000/5000...1st/3. I do get one completely wrong but split on a few other answers. OnBeat...ROCKET...10500/14000...2nd/3...ROCKET and LITBOX win round. ..........LITBOX...11000/14000...1st/3. 7 right and 2 wrong. That's pretty good in that I didn't read Billboard On-Line news the last few days of headlines. I had the week before's Billboard magazine that I took to the soccer game but lent it to someone so they could read the cover story on the band System Of A Down and got it back at the end of the game so I couldn't even glance at it at halftime. By the time I'd drove home it was time to walk to the pub so no time to read either. Mark made a key contribution by knowing the location where the Rolling Stones announced their tour plans. JukeBox...ROCKET...15888/20000...2nd/3...ROCKET and MARKEE win round. ...........LITBOX...16381/20000...1st/3. A good round for me. We got the categories we wanted. Mark wanted 'Elvis Presley' which I thought could be about anything and we got burned on that instead of going for 'The Proclaimers' which I'm sure was easier. Triviaoke...ROCKET...20071/28000...2nd/3...ROCKET wins round. .........LITBOX...20537/28000...1st/3. I took three -250s this round. For Avril Lavigne and The Game I even own the albums for but couldn't get them right. Those songs before I was born, I seem to get them though week after week. Many of the answers this week were '3' or '5'.
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Now the Encore answers come up. Well I don't know what they're up to here. I convince Mark to risk 50% as I say I'll know it. Johnny Marr was in The Smiths and later The The. I've met him which made me feel better as in the TV trivia games Mark has met so many of the stars from his time living in Los Angeles.
Encore Question:...The 1980 release 'Crocodiles' was the debut release of which UK band?
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Oops. I'll have to take that back and say I don't know it. Well I try to show that I'm working on it by reasoning out loud. I have The Smiths debut which was named 'The Smiths'. I say not the Psychedelic Furs because it was too early. Not New Order as they were still Joy Division. I say I'm going with Echo & The Bunnymen but think maybe I should split. It will be three weeks before I'm back here. Long time to sulk if I'm wrong! No split. There goes my theory of bands that were in the headlines the last month will be an Encore answer. New Order and Psychedelic Furs I've read about very recently.
Correct Answer:....3. Echo & The Bunnymen
[NTN Extra Fact:...The album features such tracks as 'Going Up', 'Pride' and 'Rescue'.]
Lucky me. After getting home I find from my music book that this album never made the Top 200 charts. Another animal title 'Porcupine' made the charts later. I've read something about them in the last year about a comeback but would have made it easier for myself if I'd memorized when I was reading animal named group=animal named album.
I'm right and win as LITBOX at 30805. I finish 20th in all North America. The bar finishes at 461st in all North America with just three players. I earn 3000+ points for meeting this week's standard of 15000 points. [ntn.com moves us up to 50th place out of 1945 bars with a 17643 average].
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank LITBOX 20537 30805 20 46 ROCKET 20071 30106 23 58 MARKEE 18205 27307 40 136 [ntn.com listed 8496 players]
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 3,213,000 P+ points and LITBOX at 1,017,000.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...1155/15000...2nd/3...500+ points...I'm 8459 in NA.
..............LITBOX...1145/15000...3rd/3...500+ points...I'm here in time for the last two question...MARKEE wins.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...10191/15000...1st/3...1000+ points...I'm 114th in NA...bar is 1158th in NA.
..............LITBOX...10152/15000...2nd/3...1000+ points...I'm 117th in NA...MARKEE wins.
8:30pm...Tuned In Countdown...ROCKET...9819/15000...2nd/3...1000+ points...I'm 183rd in NA.
..............LITBOX...9774/15000...3rd/3...1000+ points...I'm 186th...bar is 1133rd in NA...MARKEE wins.
One Simpsons questions which I of course didn't know.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
I win 500+ points as ROCKET for winning a Dodge ad challenge. 1 in 3 chance. Correct answer was 2. White this week.
10:00pm...RetroTV...ROCKET...12001/15000...1st/3...1000+ points...73rd in NA.
..............LITBOX...11945/15000...2nd/3...1000+ points...76th in NA...bar is 1052nd.
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