Encore Question of June 18th, 2005.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
Answers:
Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX all alone. There were no other players in the bar until four boards were given out to a group during the OnBeat round.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/2...my two win round. ..........LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/7. I go 1 for 2 in guessing but knew everything else. OnBeat...ROCKET...11500/14000...1st/6...my two win round. ..........LITBOX...11500/14000...1st/6. 7 right and 2 wrong. I forgot to bring my notes that I copy from an internet site at home so just had my week old Billboard magazine with me. JukeBox...ROCKET...15997/20000...1st/6...ROCKET wins round. ...........LITBOX...15983/20000...2nd/6. I was outvoted three times but sometimes that worked in my favour as I saw a JukeBox recap of the opposites and twice I wouldn't have done as well if I had my choice. Triviaoke...ROCKET...20530/28000...1st/6...LITBOX wins round. .........LITBOX...20520/28000...2nd/6. I took two -250s this round and it was for the 'new' songs. Didn't know Peter Yorn nor Will Smith falling for 'Hitch' as the rhyme like the name of his new movie.
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Now the Encore answers come up. I know three of these guys. This could be hard.
Encore Question:...He played bass in the 1960's super group Blind Faith:
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In the OnBeat round they'd ask a Cream question that I missed because I need math lessons to count back 35 years. Is Jack Bruce one of the choices in this Encore? No! Once the choices come back I throw out most of them by instruments. Ginger Baker of Cream was a drummer. Jimmy Page is a guitarist. Steve Winwood? Not a bass player. That leaves two. I know I've read the name Rick Grech before so choose him. No reason to split. I don't know the other guy. I'm trapped and don't tell the other players which would have helped out bar.
Correct Answer:....1. Rick Grech
[NTN Extra Fact:...Grech had previously been a member of the UK band called Family.]
Actually as my book lists the band had Eric Clapton of course, Ginger Baker and Steve Winwood, and Rick Grech so it was wise for me to go about trying to pick out the instruments. I'd read about the band within the last two years when they released an expanded version of their one album.
I'm right and win as ROCKET at 30795. I finish 34th in all North America. The bar finishes at 1073rd in all North America. I earn 3000+ points for meeting this week's standard of 15000 points. I needed 32728 to make the Top 20 tonight. [NTN.com moved our bar up to 79th out of 1923 bars with a 14852 average].
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank ROCKET 20530 30795 34 77 LITBOX 20520 30780 35 78 JACKIE 5885 x 4708 5188 4014 JAVEX 5435 x 3805 ---- 4686 ALICAT 4637 x 4174 5733 4432 BLEWME 0 x 0 9999 ---- [NTN.com listed 7833 players]
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 3,226,000 P+ points and LITBOX at 1,030,000.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...3833/15000...2nd/2...500+ points...I'm 6532nd in NA...the bar is 2366th.
..............LITBOX...3849/15000...1st/2...500+ points...I'm 6517th in NA...I'm here in time for the last seven questions.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...9129/15000...2nd/2...1000+ points...I'm 254th in NA...bar is 1757th in NA.
..............LITBOX...9136/15000...1st/2...1000+ points...I'm 253rd in NA.
8:30pm...Tuned In Countdown...ROCKET...9746/15000...2nd/2...1000+ points...I'm 109th in NA.
..............LITBOX...9763/15000...1st/2...1000+ points...I'm 108th in NA...bar is 1608th in NA.
One Simpsons questions this week. The guy who does Homer's voice does some minor character too who I'd never heard of.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
I miss 500+ points this week as I only can cover two answers in a Dodge ad challenge. 1 in 3 chance. Correct answer was 3. Black this week.
10:00pm...RetroTV...ROCKET...13511/15000...1st/6...1000+ points...I'm 80th in NA.
..............LITBOX...13487/15000...2nd/6...1000+ points...I'm 83rd in NA...bar is 441st.
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