NTN Encore Question of November 25th, 2006.
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 Rob COSMO, Sean METLCA, and Phil PLBAAB. Last week we didn't get to play Playback as the system at the other bar wasn't programmed correctly. I got a chance to read through the questions on a message board and thought I would have done well.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/6...my two boards and METLCA and PLBAAB win. ..........LITBOX...5000/5000...3rd/3. OnBeat...ROCKET...14000/14000...1st/6...my two win this round. ..........LITBOX...14000/14000...1st/6. 9 right and 0 wrong was excellent but I did get help on one and guessed two correctly. I think last week I wouldn't have needed any guesses. JukeBox...ROCKET...19633/20000...1st/6...PLBAAB wins round. ...........LITBOX...19633/20000...2nd/6. The themes tonight were all American Thanksgiving foods or sayings although they were related to music like "Cranberries", and "Korn". Triviaoke...ROCKET...25858/28000...1st/6...COSMO wins round. .........LITBOX...25822/28000...1st/6. I didn't take any -250s this round thanks to some help on the Nickelback lyrics. I got the Nickelback OnBeat question right earlier in the game.
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Now the Encore answers come up. Country groups. Oh Oh. If I hit it right, I could get my best score ever but I don't know much about these groups.
Encore Question:...They sing about a man's appreciation for home and family on "My Front Porch Looking In":
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I don't know this. I really can't throw any one out except I don't think it's the Dixie Chicks. When the table offers "Brooks & Dunn", I go with them and I advise them not to split because of our great score so far.
Correct Answer:....1. Lonestar
[NTN Extra Fact:...This upbeat #1 hit was co-written by lead singer Richie McDonald.]
I'm wrong but still win as ROCKET with 12929. I finish 5913th overall in all North America. The bar is 1784th in North America. I earn 1500+ points for not making this week's standard of 18000 points. [ntn.com moved our bar up to 325th out of 1784 bars with a 12047 average].
The scores were quite high but if we'd hit the Encore we would been on the first leader board. I'm not a Country music expert although ironically on my Walkman player I was playing "The Essential Dolly Parton" and "Tim McGraw--Greatest Hits Vol 2".
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank ROCKET 25858 x 12929 5913 1918 LITBOX 25822 x 12911 5918 1922 COSMO 23896 x 11948 6223 2082 METLCA 23061 x 11531 6355 2161 PLBAAB 21834 x 10917 6549 2272 BERGIE 16232 x 8116 7434 3114 [ntn.com listed 6579 players]
Other games:...I start the game with ROCKET at 3,523,000 and LITBOX at 1,256,500 P+ points.
8:00pm...Jukebox...ROCKET...10818/14000...2nd/6...1000+ points...I'm 1452nd in NA...bar is 143rd in NA.
I'm signed in for the last 11.5 questions because the monitor hasn't been changed from the hockey game in our corner. That hasn't stopped me from 'playing blind' but I'm lucky that I wasn't taking -250s which I hadn't realized you could do in this game.
8:30pm...Tuned-in TV...ROCKET...10544/15000...4th/6...1000+ points...I'm 1165th in NA...bar is 53rd in NA.
...............LITBOX...10522/15000...5th/6...1000+ points...I'm 1183rd in NA.
No Simpson's questions this week. Great!
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...12217/15000...3rd/6...1000+ points...I'm 864th in NA.
..............LITBOX...12173/15000...4th/6...1000+ points...I'm 896th in NA...bar is 15th in NA with a 12078 average.
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