NTN Encore Question of February 3rd, 2007.
Played at Joe Mercury's in Toronto Ontario.
Answers:
Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX with Sean METLCA, Rob COSMO, Phil PLBAAB and Danny DANNYS.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4000/5000...2nd/10...METLCA wins round with 4500. ..........LITBOX...4000/5000...2nd/10. Well this run was better than last week but not as good as I wanted. OnBeat...ROCKET...11000/14000...2nd/10...my two and METLCA, COSMO, DANNYS win round. ..........LITBOX...11000/14000...2nd/10. 7 right and 2 wrong was OK. Phil got us one right but most of the others were from me. Looks like scoring 20000 before the Encore is remote after this start. JukeBox...ROCKET...14664/20000...2nd/10...COSMO wins round and is in lead. ...........LITBOX...14664/20000...2nd/10. I'd have liked to do better in this round. Triviaoke...ROCKET...20916/28000...1st/10...ROCKET wins round. .........LITBOX...20827/28000...3rd/10. I take one -250 on the last question. I guess two by knowing the title but not the lyrics and Phil gets us one too.
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Now the Encore answers come up. The 1970s. If it's song titles I should be OK but if it's names of group members I will be in trouble.
Encore Question:..."Hooked On A Feeling" was a hit for both BJ Thomas and which 1970's group?:
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I know this before the answers come back up. I shout it out loud because of all the distractions going on at the time so I don't know who else would have known. I think this is very easy so don't think a Top 20 finish is possible for me but our team should be OK with an over 30000 average.
Correct Answer:....4. Blue Swede
[NTN Extra Fact:...The song was written by Mark James who also penned the Elvis hit "Suspicious Minds".]
I remember this somewhat novelty song when it came out. A few years later I remember reading a book about subliminal advertising and the author made a point of mentioning this song that the caveman type overture "ooga chuga, ooga chuga" slowen down was actually the guys singing "who got sucked off, who got sucked off". I found that hard to believe. Any way that doesn't seem to matter in these times when two versions of Akon's song "I Want To Love You" are out there.
I'm right and win as ROCKET with 31374. I finish 10th on the Network Top 20 in all North America. The bar is 6th in North America with a 30368 average. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard which I don't notice what it was.
[ntn.com drops us down to 7th out of 1896 bars]
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank ROCKET 20916 31374 10 33 COSMO 20816 31294 12 35 LITBOX 20827 31240 13 37 METLCA 19761 29641 20 66 PLBAAB 18862 28293 427 94 DANNYS 18732 28098 493 101 TCB 13125 19687 ???? 566 HEVY D 12159 18238 3829 705 COOCH 6000 x 3000 8984 5776 JULIUS 4500 x 2250 9238 6577 [ntn.com listed 9029 players]
Danny was a new player and co-worker of Sean. We don't really know how good he is because he didn't bring his glasses so had trouble reading the questions. "What's the answer?" but the question hadn't come up yet. That could be distracting. He talks like he's a classic rock expert. Let's see what next week begins. It was also funny to see his reaction later to the tone-deaf Jerry singing "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" when karoake started. Like Sean said, we've gotten used to it but any newcomer must be knocked over.
Other games:...I was visiting tonight so don't know what my Players Plus points were.
7:30pm...Triviaoke...ROCKET...4783/15000...6th/6...500+ points...I'm 4895th in NA...TCB wins and is 13th on the Network Top 20.
the bar is 13th in NA with an 8593 average.
I was here in time for the last five questions.
8:00pm...Jukebox...ROCKET...10926/14000...1st/10...1000+ points... I'm 466th in NA.
.............LITBOX...10905/14000...2nd/10...1000+ points...I'm 485th in NA...bar is 17th in NA with a 10738 average.
8:30pm...Tuned-in TV...ROCKET...10865/15000...4th/10...1000+ points...I'm 832nd...bar is 247th in NA.
...............LITBOX...10886/15000...3rd/10...1000+ points...I'm 814th in NA.
No Simpson's questions this week. Great!
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...14022/15000...2nd/8...1000+ points...I'm 19th in NA.
..............LITBOX...14042/15000...1st/8...1000+ points...I'm 18th on the Network Top 20 in NA...bar is 7th in NA with a 13741 average.
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