NTN Encore Question of January 27th, 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/CYCLER and Phil PLBAAB. Sean is not here tonight.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...3000/5000...5th/10...MADDOG wins round with 4000. ..........LITBOX...3000/5000...5th/10. I guessed one out of five correct in this round for about my worst TuneUp round ever. OnBeat...ROCKET...9000/14000...4th/10...COSMO, CYCLER, PLBAAB go 8 right 1 wrong. ..........LITBOX...9000/14000...4th/10. 6 right and 3 wrong was OK but I'm not sure why my friends got more than one ahead of me in that round. Looks like scoring 20000 before the Encore is remote after this start. JukeBox...ROCKET...14812/20000...4th/9...my two boards win round. ...........LITBOX...14812/20000...4th/9. Triviaoke...ROCKET...20442/28000...4th/9...my two boards win round. .........LITBOX...20442/28000...4th/9. I take one -250 on the last question and one that I changed for 55 points but safely made 20000 points.
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Now the Encore answers come up. "They're all dead" says Phil. "No they're not", I say. That would actually help me in a minute. Everyone in for 50%!
Encore Question:...This blues legend was an in-house guitarist at Chess Records for much of the 60's:
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I don't know this but before the answers come back I've thrown out Herbie Hancock as being too young to be there in the 1960s. I'm in for BB King. Hmm. I say Miles Davis played the trumpet. Then I say Jimmy Cliff is from the Caribbean. "Wouldn't BB King be too famous (to be a studio musician)?" says Phil. Good point. Yep let's change with five seconds to spare...
Correct Answer:....3. Buddy Guy
[NTN Extra Fact:...Eric Clapton once called Guy the best guitarist alive.]
We notice that an Ohio bar won tonight for once so I have to joke, "Hey Cadillac Jack's, that's got the house band where Buddy Guy plays!". "Really?", I get Phil to bite. "Nooo".
I'm right and stay in 4th as LITBOX and ROCKET with 30663. I finish 395th overall in all North America. The bar is 9th in North America with a 31719 average. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 17000 points.
[ntn.com leaves us in 9th place out of 2010 bars]
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank PLBAAB 22116 33174 8 25 COSMO 21485 32227 18 46 CYCLER 21246 31869 21 53 LITBOX 20442 30663 395 81 ROCKET 20442 30663 395 81 KIMCHEE 12482 x 6241 ???? 3765 MADDOG 10910 16365 4874 847 BOSHOG 8861 x 4431 8045 5205 AIRYYZ 8469 x 4235 8673 5340 [ntn.com listed 9637 players]
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 3,577,500+ and LITBOX at 1,306,000+ Players Plus points.
7:30pm...Triviaoke...ROCKET...3441/15000...5th/7...500+ points...I'm 6928th in NA...COSMO wins.
......................LITBOX...3526/15000...4th/7...500+ points...I'm 6852nd in NA.
I was here in time for the last five questions.
8:00pm...Jukebox...ROCKET...12329/14000...2nd/7...1000+ points... I'm 23rd in NA.
.............LITBOX...12329/14000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 23rd in NA...bar is 7th in NA with an 11659 average.
8:30pm...Tuned-in TV...ROCKET...10491/15000...5th/10...1000+ points...I'm 1246th...bar is 8th in NA with a 10733 average.
...............LITBOX...10541/15000...4th/10...1000+ points...I'm 1287th in NA.
No Simpson's questions this week. Great!
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...11436/15000...2nd/14...1000+ points...I'm 767th in NA.
..............LITBOX...11437/15000...1st/14...1000+ points...I'm 766th in NA...bar is 319th in NA.
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