NTN Encore Question of April 7th, 2007.
Played at Joe Mercury's in Toronto, Ontario.

Answers:

  1. Man On The Moon
  2. Losing My Religion
  3. Daysleeper
  4. Nightswimming
  5. So. Central Rain

Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX with Sean METLCA, Rob COSMO, and Phil PLBAAB. We've come here for a second week in a row. I wonder why they made that choice but understand we have more chance of getting a television set tuned to NTN as either place we go will be full of hockey fans to watch the Toronto Maple Leafs vs Montreal Canadiens. Yep I was right. We end up crowding around one side of a round table--sitcom style to see one tiny television screen. As if that wasn't enough problem for tonight without the questions being very difficult...

My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp...ROCKET...3500/5000...1st/5...ROCKET and PLBAAB win.
..........LITBOX...3000/5000...3rd/5.
I split on the last question and guess two right and four wrong in the rest of the questions.
I used to know seven or eight without guessing up to the games in the last month.
OnBeat...ROCKET...9500/14000...1st/5...my two boards and PLBAAB and METLCA win.  
..........LITBOX...9000/14000...3rd/5.
6 right and 3 wrong was disappointing.  I should have had one more as I'd read that The Doors won
a lifetime Grammy a few months ago.
JukeBox...ROCKET...14407/20000...1st/5...COSMO wins round. 
...........LITBOX...13890/20000...2nd/5.
We have board control so take the 'Rush' questions and both were about the band.  Phil saves the day on the
second question knowing their song 'Tom Sawyer' was from the 'Moving Pictures' album.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...16083/28000...2nd/5...COSMO wins round and takes lead when he forgets to answer a question.
.........LITBOX...15562/28000...5th/5.
I take five -250 in this round and many were for songs I've heard before.  Too tough.

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Now the Encore answers come up. Well they are all REM songs. This could be obscure. They've asked questions matching up songs with albums before and I remember being wrong.

Encore Question:...The string section of this REM song was arranged by John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin:

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I don't know this. I've never heard anything about John Paul Jones doing anything with this group. The only way I can get through this is to cycle through the songs and think which ones had strings. My mind keeps going to the break in 'Shiny Happy People' but that's not offered. The guys say to split and I can't think of anything better. I have both boards on '3' and switch LITBOX (although I don't realize which one I switch) to '2'.

Correct Answer:....4. Nightswimming

[NTN Extra Fact:...The song from 1992's "Automatic For The People" is an ode to the carefree days of youth. ]

I'm wrong and drop to 3rd with ROCKET with 8042. I finish 7028th overall in all North America. The bar is 746th in North America. I earn only 1500+ points for not making this week's standard of 17000 points. (Why bet 10% when I'm BELOW the standard before the Encore?)
METLCA gets it right on his guess.

[NTN.com moves us up to 95th out of 1954 bars with an 11146 average.]

I don't remember ever hearing the song 'Nightswimming'. It never made the charts as a single. I found I do own the album on cassette tape from about the year it came out. To me this was a tougher question than the Jesus & Mary Chain question.

Here's how the rest of the bar did: 
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank
COSMO	16194	x	 8097	7008
ROCKET	16083	x	 8042	7028
METLCA	16004		24006	 146
PLBAAB	15608	x	 7804	7116
LITBOX	15562	x	 7781	7125
[ntn.com listed 9075 players]	

Two out of the last three weeks with brutally tough games. We're entering my stupid season where I will be concentrating on soccer reporting and won't have time to read current events in music. I was looking at the soccer schedule and seeing that many games are on a Saturday afternoon which means I could still make the trivia, but after tonight I don't think I'll bother. I've noticed at both bars for the last six months, the players have been cut back to just us as the casual players don't bother to get a board anymore.

Other games:...I'm visiting so don't know what my Players Plus scores are:
7:30pm...Triviaoke...ROCKET...1976/15000...5th/5...500+ points...I'm 7171th in NA...COSMO wins.
...........LITBOX...1998/15000...4th/5...500+ points...I'm 7139th in all NA...bar is 15th in NA with a 4570 average.
I'm here in time for the last four questions.
8:00pm...Jukebox...ROCKET...9334/14000...4th/5...1000+ points...I'm 12th in NA.
.............LITBOX...9595/14000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 10th in NA...bar is 9th in NA with a 9622 average...PLBAAB wins and is 9th on the Network Top 20 board in NA.
8:30pm...Tuned-in TV...ROCKET...13392/15000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 5th in NA...bar is 1st in NA with a 13034 average.
...............LITBOX...13407/15000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 3rd on the Network Top 20 in NA...we finish 3, 5, 6, 15 , 16 on our boards. Are we connected to the main system?
I had help and a few guesses.
One Simpson's answer this week as a choice from other cartoons.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...13703/15000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 161st in NA.
..............LITBOX...13744/15000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 154th in NA...bar is 218th in NA.

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