NTN Encore Question of June 3rd, 2006.
Played at Joe Mercury's in Toronto Ontario
Answers:
Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX with Rob COSMO, Sean METLCA and Phil PLBAAB. It is a surprise that I am here tonight because I took the subway and a streetcar downtown to get to a soccer stadium and found out the game was cancelled because of the heavy downpour had waterlogged the field so I ended up walking to Joe Mercury's and was here at my usual time.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...4th/9...METLCA, COSMO, and PLBAAB win round. ..........LITBOX...4500/5000...4th/9...I was tied with someone else. We got help on one from Phil that I would have got wrong. OnBeat...ROCKET...12500/14000...1st/9...COSMO wins with 9 right. ..........LITBOX...12500/14000...1st/9. 8 right and 1 wrong was great as although I hadn't read the Billboard web site because I knew I wasn't coming out this week, I had been to the electronics store and saw the "What's New" CD rack. JukeBox...ROCKET...16897/20000...3rd/9...METLCA wins round. ...........LITBOX...16883/20000...4th/9. Triviaoke...ROCKET...22295/28000...3rd/11...ROCKET wins round. .........LITBOX...22280/28000...4th/11. I take two -250 this round (what else is new?).
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Now the Encore answers come up. Song titles. I start from the bottom naming who sang what but don't get through them all before the betting round starts. Hey, no kidding around, everybody in for 50%?
Encore Question:...In this song a woman reads a newspaper story of an actor who had died when he was drinking:
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I don't know this right off. This is like an extra Triviaoke question. Well I don't think it's "Building A Mystery". If "Brick" is that Dazz 1970s disco song are there any words at all? [probably meant the 1998 Ben Folds Five song which I've never heard, lucky it wasn't that. Oops no such song as what I was thinking and I'm not confusing it with 'Brickhouse"] Well I'd already chosen "Tom's Diner" the Suzanne Vega song because I know that it's a 'story' song. I fight the other guys off choosing The Wallflowers "One Headlight". Now I finally realize Natalie Imbruglia song is "Torn". Nope wouldn't be that. Have we all guessed the same thing? So many Encore answers this last year have been #3 .
Correct Answer:....3. Tom's Diner
[NTN Extra Fact:...Suzanne Vega sings "I open up the paper there's a story of an actor..."]
I'm right and stay in 3rd as ROCKET with 33442. I finish 21st overall in North America (wow same position now for three week's in a row). The bar is 8th in North America with a 33451 average. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 16000 points. COSMO wins and is 9th on the Network Top 20. [ntn.com kept us in 8th place out of 1952 bars].
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank COSMO 23739 35608 9 42 METLCA 22568 33852 19 75 ROCKET 22295 33442 21 83 LITBOX 22280 33420 22 84 PLBAAB 20623 30934 50 159 HEVY D 15997 23995 1817 540 T N T 10949 x 7665 7386 3142 KID 9154 x 4577 8439 4850 PINA 4500 x 2250 9232 6511 JOE 422 x 211 9928 8429 FIZBIN 0 x 0 9999 [ntn.com listed 8580 players]
Other games:...I'm visiting so don't know by P+ points.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...2375/15000...7th/9...500+ points...I'm 8252nd in NA...NAGROM wins.
...................LITBOX...2333/15000...8th/9...I'm 8283rd in NA...bar is 609th...I'm here in time for the last four questions.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...11597/15000...1st/8...1000+ points...I'm 1302nd in NA.
............LITBOX...11580/15000...2nd/8...1000+ points...I'm 1315th in NA...bar is 372nd.
8:30pm...Tuned In TV Countdown...ROCKET...12606/15000...3rd/8...1000+ points...I'm 68th...METLCA wins.
...............LITBOX...12658/15000...2nd/8...bar is 11th in North America with an 12617 average.
No Simpsons question this week...Great!...I got a lot of help this game or I don't think I would have reached the 9000 P+ standard.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...12512/15000...3rd/6...1000+ points...I'm 840th in NA.
..............LITBOX...12540/15000...2nd/6...1000+ points...I'm 819th in NA...bar is 339th.
Once again for the last few questions Phil turns one of the television monitors to the bar's in-house/security cams where we watch the Karaoke singers and I can't see the trivia. It was worth it for the laughs...I've got my camera here tonight because I thought I'd take soccer pictures but take a few. Nothing better to displace the photos I already have on my site but they look OK.
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