NTN Encore Question of January 13th, 2007.
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.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/5...my two boards co-win round with COSMO and PLBAAB. ..........LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/5. I went 0 for 1 in guessing and got help on another one. OnBeat...ROCKET...11500/14000...1st/5...my two boards co-win with COSMO and PLBAAB. ..........LITBOX...11500/14000...1st/5. 7 right and 2 wrong was OK. JukeBox...ROCKET...15787/20000...1st/5...ROCKET wins round. ...........LITBOX...15778/20000...2nd/5. I would like to have done better on this round. Some of the other categories I found out were easier than our choices. Triviaoke...ROCKET...22195/28000...1st/5...PLBAAB wins wins round. .........LITBOX...22173/28000...2nd/5. I didn't take any -250s this week but had one for less than 200 and one for less than 400. I was pleased to be safely past 20000 this round.
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Now the Encore answers come up. Billy Joel songs. Rob says this could be match a song with an album. That would be tough for me.
Encore Question:...Billy Joel traded in his piano for synthesizer on this fast paced pop hit:
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I'm glad I concentrated on 'fast pace' as I'm already going "nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk........" in time with the instrumental break of the tune of the correct answer. With 27 seconds to go I turned down the other songs one by one. My friends joked that they'd missed the answer but when the scores came up I could see they were right.
Correct Answer:....1. Pressure
[NTN Extra Fact:...The song from "The Nylon Curtain" reached Number 20 on the Pop Singles Chart in 1982.]
Now if that had been the question I'd have been in trouble.
I'm right and win as ROCKET with 33292. I finish 23rd overall in all North America. I just missed the Top 20 by less than 400 points. The bar is 11th in North America with a 32179 average. Wow, second week in a row for the same bar ranking. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 20000 points.
[ntn.com moved us up to 10th place out of 1539 bars]
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank ROCKET 22195 33292 23 54 LITBOX 22173 33259 24 55 COSMO 21670 32505 35 70 METLCA 20638 30957 58 123 PLBAAB 20590 30885 60 125 [ntn.com listed 6639 players]
Other games:...I start the night with ROCKET at 3,558,000 and LITBOX at 1,293,000 Player's Plus points.
7:30pm...Triviaoke...ROCKET...867/15000...3rd/4...500+ points...I'm 9349th in NA...METLCA wins.
......................LITBOX...855/15000...4th/4...500+ points...I'm 9358th in NA.
I was here in time for the last question.
8:00pm...Jukebox...ROCKET...11786/14000...3rd/5...1000+ points... I'm 20th in NA.
.............LITBOX...11803/14000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 18th in NA...bar is 16th in NA with a 10443 average.
8:30pm...Tuned-in TV...ROCKET...10834/15000...4th/5...1000+ points...I'm 745th...bar is 44th in NA.
...............LITBOX...10861/15000...3rd/5...1000+ points...I'm 768th in NA...COSMO wins.
No Simpson's questions this week. Great!
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...14697/15000...3rd/5...1000+ points...I'm 14th in NA.
..............LITBOX...14709/15000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 13th in NA...bar is 8th in NA with a 14319 average...COSMO wins and is 7th in NA.
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