NTN Encore Question of February 17th, 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, and Phil PLBAAB.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4000/5000...2nd/6...LITBOX and METLCA win round. ..........LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/6. I went 1 for 2 in guessing and split on one other answer. OnBeat...ROCKET...12000/14000...3rd/6...COSMO goes 9 right, 0 wrong to win round and tie for the lead. ..........LITBOX...12500/14000...1st/6. 8 right and 1 wrong was pretty good. I was pleased as every second week when I go to Joe Mercury's I read my copy of Billboard on the subway but this week I saw an old friend from school and ended up talking to him instead of cramming. JukeBox...ROCKET...17071/20000...3rd/5...ROCKET wins round. ...........LITBOX...17568/20000...2nd/5. We avoided all the past Grammy awards categories and that were pleased with the alternatives. Triviaoke...ROCKET...21960/28000...3rd/5...COSMO wins round. .........LITBOX...22475/28000...2nd/5. I take two -250 in this round. Rob steered us wrong on one answer but got me another two including the one for some recent song that I've never heard and usually get wrong (always seems to be the last question of the round is something new).
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Now the Encore answers come up. Blondie songs! I should be able to get this but the others seem confident too. I saw Blondie in concert in the early 1980s at the CNE grounds in Toronto (I've seen less than ten concerts in my life).
Encore Question:...Which Blondie hit was originally recorded by the 60's reggae group 'The Paragons'?:
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Rob gets this one before the answers come back on display. I know all the songs quite well and the answer is the only real reggae sounding song. No problem and 25 seconds to spare.
Correct Answer:....4. The Tide Is High
[NTN Extra Fact:...The track from Autoamerican was Blondie's fourth #1 hit on the pop charts.]
I'm right and stay in 2nd as LITBOX with 33712. I finish 19th in all North America. The bar is 11th in North America with a 32366 average. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 15000 points.
[ntn.com left us in 11th place out of 2003 bars]
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank COSMO 22481 33721 18 57 LITBOX 22475 33712 19 58 ROCKET 21960 32940 27 75 METLCA 21301 31951 44 111 PLBAAB 19673 29509 326 220 [ntn.com listed 9466 players]
Other games:...I'm visiting so don't know what my Players Plus scores are.
8:00pm...Jukebox...ROCKET...12375/14000...2nd/5...1000+ points... I'm 183rd in NA.
.............LITBOX...12377/14000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 182nd in NA...bar is 175th in NA.
8:30pm...Tuned-in TV...ROCKET...10985/15000...3rd/5...1000+ points...I'm 793rd in NA...bar is 144th in NA.
...............LITBOX...11342/15000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 494th in NA...METLCA wins.
One Simpson's questions this week and none of us knew it.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...11856/15000...3rd/5...1000+ points...I'm 1382nd in NA.
..............LITBOX...11858/15000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 1381st in NA...bar is 218th in NA...COSMO wins.
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