NTN Encore Question of December 30th, 2006.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.
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Tonight I'm playing with three boards as ROCKET, LITBOX, and TOROFC (short for Toronto FC, the new MLS soccer team starting up in this city in April) with Richard playing BERGIE and ADMIN just to make up the five boards to try to rank the bar. I missed reading my e-mail earlier in the day so I didn't realize my other friends were at the other bar.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/5...my three boards co-win round with BERGIE/ADMIN. ..........LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/5. ..........TOROFC...4500/5000...1st/5. I went 1 for 2 in guessing. We still don't agree that the correct name for a group of Elvis Presley imitators is "Elvi" instead of "Elvises". I've heard the phrase "Elvises" in newscasts. OnBeat...ROCKET...12500/14000...1st/5...my three boards co-win with BERGIE/ADMIN. ..........LITBOX...12500/14000...1st/5. ..........TOROFC...12500/14000...1st/5. 8 right and 1 wrong had me very pleased. I guessed one out of two right. JukeBox...ROCKET...18393/20000...3rd/5...BERGIE wins round. ...........LITBOX...18400/20000...2nd/5. ............TOROFC...18252/20000...5th/5...this is where I need a third hand. Hey this was a lot better than last week. Richard got me the answer about some guy we hadn't heard of having a cancer operation. Great logic--most successful that doctor's can do something! Triviaoke...ROCKET...23111/28000...2nd/5...LITBOX wins round. .........LITBOX...23123/28000...1st/5. .........TOROFC...22446/28000...3rd/5. I took two -250s this round which was quite an improvement on last week. I guessed one lyric for an old song I'd never heard before as "New Year's Day" rather than other holidays because of the time of season.
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Now the Encore answers come up. U2 albums! Richard then names out the question before it's even displayed! Amazing!
Encore Question:...Which of U2's early albums featured the song "New Year's Day"?
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Richard was right about the question. When he said it before the question came up, I immediately believed him. The logic was during the Triviaoke when they asked the holiday based question. He said to William LEAFS who arrived too late to get into this game, that he had done this once before; when Colombia came up and they asked about the then unknown Shakira and our bar won against all North America for the only time I've ever been on a team that's ever done that. I asked him what was the right answer. I do remember a similar Encore about U2's first album and I had a 50/50 shot at Boy and October. I own these albums too. Shame on me for not being sure.
Correct Answer:....4. War
[NTN Extra Fact:...The song's lyrics inspired the title of their next album, "Under A Blood Red Sky".]
The actual order of their release was Boy, October, War, Under A Blood Red Sky, and The Unforgettable Fire.
I'm right and win as LITBOX with 34684. I finish 5th on the Network Top 20 in all North America. The bar is 4th in North America with a 32163 average. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 19000 points. I place 7th on this bar's Hall Of Fame.
[NTN.com left us in 4th place out of 1797 bars].
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank LITBOX 23123 34684 5 7 ROCKET 23111 34666 6 8 TOROFC 22446 33670 7 17 BERGIE 19431 29146 192 58 ADMIN 19100 28650 359 68 [NTN.com listed 8346 players]
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 3,551,000 and LITBOX with 1,282,000 Players Plus points.
7:30pm...Triviaoke...ROCKET...8676/15000...3rd/3...1000+ points...I'm 2508th in NA...BERGIE wins.
...............LITBOX...8701/15000...2nd/3...1000+ points...I'm 2486th in NA...bar is 1320th.
I wasn't signed in time for the first three questions.
8:00pm...Jukebox...ROCKET...10998/14000...1st/3...1000+ points... I'm 282nd in NA...I'm 7th on this bar's Hall of Fame in the last year.
.............LITBOX...10912/14000...2nd/3...1000+ points...I'm 358th in NA...bar is 1086th in NA.
8:30pm...Tuned-in TV...ROCKET...11212/15000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 418th in NA...bar is 608th in NA.
...............LITBOX...11234/15000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 399th in NA.
One Simpson's questions this week but Richard knew the answer.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...12733/15000...2nd/4...1000+ points...I'm 421st in NA.
..............LITBOX...12738/15000...1st/4...1000+ points...I'm 420th in NA...bar is 910th.
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