NTN Encore Question of April 1st, 2006.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.

Answers:

  1. The Smashing Pumpkins
  2. Nirvana
  3. Pearl Jam
  4. Goo Goo Dolls
  5. Sublime

Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX with Rob COSMO, Sean METLCA, and Phil PLBAAB. Noone was playing video poker tonight so I was able to get a second board just before game time.

My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp...ROCKET...4000/5000...2nd/7...METLCA wins round with 4500.  
..........LITBOX...4000/5000...2nd/7.
I went 1 for 3 in guessing.
OnBeat...ROCKET...11000/14000...3rd/7...PLBAAB with round with 8 of 9.  
..........LITBOX...11000/14000...3rd/7...I go 7 for 9 in this round.
7 right and 2 wrong was alright with Rob getting me one.
JukeBox...ROCKET...16231/20000...2nd/7...ROCKET wins round. 
...........LITBOX...16218/20000...3rd/7.
'Robin' is one of the categories.  I get the Stevie Wonder song from the album title but don't know the 
name of Bush's drummer.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...22911/28000...1st/9...ROCKET wins round.
.........LITBOX...22892/28000...2nd/9.
I took only one -250 (and it was for the modern song) this round and now have a similar score as last week.  

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Now the Encore answers come up. Maybe this will be group members.

Encore Question:..."Rotten Apples" was a 2004 greatist hits compilation from which popular 1990's band?:

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I don't know this right away. Rob says the answer before I start to think. I'd have thought it would be a natural if I'd put together 'apples' and 'pumpkins' as a strange name and this album came out less than two years ago. I can only rule out Pearl Jam because I own their greatest hits album "Rearview Mirror" from last year and somehow know it's not Nirvana [big box set last year had a different name]. I steer Phil off Pearl Jam but he goes for Goo Goo Dolls. On the walk home I think that I should have got that answer right away.

Correct Answer:....1. The Smashing Pumpkins

[NTN Extra Fact:...The Pumpkins hits include "1979" and "Tonight Tonight".]

I'm right and win as ROCKET. I finish 12th in North America with 34366. The bar is 9th in North America with a 30187 average. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 16000 points. [ntn.com kept our bar in 9th place out of 1885 bars]

Here's how the rest of the bar did: 
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank
ROCKET	22911		34366	  12	  38
LITBOX	22892		34338	  13	  39
COSMO	21971		32956	  26	  54
METLCA	21899		32956	  27	  56
PLBAAB	21884	x	10942	6250	2063
MADDOG	11294	x	 5607	8078	4506
MACE	10952		16428	4369	1198
BERGIE	4000	x	 2000	9314	7168
RATFNK	1891	x	  945	9576	8263
[ntn.com listed 9206 players]		

Other games:...I start this evening with ROCKET at 3,410,500 P+ points and LITBOX at 1,158,500 P+.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...3005/15000...5th/7...500+ points...I'm 7347th in NA...I miss the bar score...COSMO wins.
I've got a board in time for the last five questions.
I get lots of help for all these games.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...12045/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 571st in NA...bar is 129th...JEREMY wins.
8:30pm...Tuned In TV Countdown...ROCKET...7914/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 2981st in NA...bar is 612th in NA...COSMO wins.
One Simpsons question this week and we don't know it. It took until the last question for me to meet the 7000 point standard.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
There was the Dodge Truck pull mini-game tonight...I split my boards but didn't get the right one as it was "3. Black".
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...12476/15000...2nd/8...1000+ points...I'm 747th in NA...COSMO wins.
.............LITBOX...12454/15000...3rd/8...1000+ points...I'm 763rd in NA...bar is 217th in NA.

Next week I better read up on music before Saturday because I'll be at a Travel Expo with some friends in the afternoon.

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