NTN Encore Question of March 24th, 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 Sean METLCA, Rob COSMO, and Phil PLBAAB.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...3000/5000...2nd/11...my two boards are in a multi-player tie. KIMCHI wins round with 3500. ..........LITBOX...3000/5000...2nd/11. I had a lot of guessing in this round and may have only known three or four for sure. OnBeat...ROCKET...9000/14000...1st/11...my two and COSMO and METLCA co-win round. ..........LITBOX...9000/14000...1st/11. 6 right and 3 wrong was just OK. I thought I'd done worse because of a slow start in this round. Doesn't look like there's much chance of hitting 20000 this week before the Encore. JukeBox...ROCKET...14951/20000...2nd/11...COSMO wins round. ...........LITBOX...14951/20000...2nd/11. I got the categories I wanted for 'One Hit Wonders' and 'Brotherly Love'. Rob got the Madonna questions right as we ran this category for almost a perfect round. Triviaoke...ROCKET...17693/28000...2nd/11...COSMO wins round. .........LITBOX...17693/28000...2nd/11. I take three or four -250 in this round and one for about +32. I own the 10,000 Maniacs album with 'Trouble Me' but get it wrong. I have never heard the new Modern Jumpsuit Apparatis song but get it right for 1000. That eighth question of the round is usually some current chart song that I never get right.
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Now the Encore answers come up. I don't know what this could be.
Encore Question:...This 1987 album was the The Jesus & Mary Chain's follow up to their debut album "Psycho Candy":
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The other guys are distracted and I tell them the answer is 'Munki'.
Correct Answer:....1. Darklands
[NTN Extra Fact:...Darklands features such songs as 'April Skies' and 'Happy When It Rains'. ].
I've read the 'Munki' album title in the last year (which I later realize is not a good reason for picking this answer. I think it was because I read a story about the group possibly re-forming after years of being inactive). I had to wait until I got home to check that all these albums were by the group. The oldest album was listed first and the newest last and the others in their order. The group's third album 'Barbed Wire Kisses' was missing which should have made it easier to guess 'Darklands' (their second) if I knew more about the group.
I didn't realize these were all albums by the group. The only one I'd ruled out was 'Darklands' as that brought to mind Bruce Springsteen (which whoops was a song of his actually titled 'Badlands'). It's the first time I've missed the correct Encore answer in 2007.
I'm wrong and drop to 3rd as ROCKET and LITBOX with 8847. I finish 20th on the Network Top 20 in all North America although I know there's something wrong with the rankings. The bar is 5th in North America with a 10971 average. I earn only 1500+ points for missing this week's standard of 16000 points.
I expect our rankings to hold up because so many teams have enough players that they can split their boards and ensure a right answer or those players who only risk 10% on the Encore question.
[ntn.com drops our ranking to 56th out of 1881 bars]
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank COSMO 18272 x 9136 19 1211 ROCKET 17693 x 8847 20 1317 COSMO 17693 x 8847 20 1317 METLCA 16576 x 8288 57 1497 PLBAAB 13829 x 6915 1704 2045 KIMCHI 13158 19737 3 84 BERGIE 11173 x 5587 3298 2857 JEREMY 7748 x 3874 5352 4271 MADDOG 4997 ----- ---- SILENT 3193 x 2874 6552 5150 [ntn.com listed 8103 players]
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 3,629,000+ and LITBOX at 1,327,000 Players Plus points.
Our bar average was hurt by not having a 5th board at our table until 8:45pm.
7:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...221/15000...7th/8...500+ points...I'm 9833rd in NA...BERGIE wins.
............LITBOX...221/15000...7th/8...500+ points...I'm 9833rd in NA...bar is 429th.
I'm here in time for the last question.
7:30pm...Triviaoke...ROCKET...11627/15000...1st/7...1000+ points...I'm 17th on the Network Top 20 for all NA.
...........LITBOX...11610/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 18th in all NA...bar is 9th in NA with a 9919 average....I'm 5th on this bar's Hall of Fame for the last year.
8:00pm...Jukebox...ROCKET...11447/14000...1st/10...1000+ points...I'm 372nd in all NA.
.............LITBOX...11395/14000...2nd/10...1000+ points...I'm 416th in all NA...bar is 118th in NA with a 12574 average...I'm 10th on this bar's Hall of Fame for the last year.
8:30pm...Tuned-in TV...ROCKET...10718/15000...4th/11...1000+ points...I'm 1993rd in NA...bar is 123rd in NA.
...............LITBOX...10696/15000...5th/11...1000+ points...I'm 2010th in NA...METLCA wins.
No Simpson's questions this week which is great.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...13924/15000...1st/10...1000+ points...I'm 68th in NA.
..............LITBOX...13905/15000...2nd/10 tied with COSMO...1000+ points...I'm 69th in NA...bar is 48th in NA.
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