NTN Encore Question of April 21st, 2007.
Played at Joe Mercury's in Toronto, Ontario.
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Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX with Sean METLCA, Rob COSMO, and Phil PLBAAB. We haven't done too well tonight and I'm well below the 20000 that I always try for before the Encore question.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4000/5000...2nd/9...EDGAR wins with 4500. ..........LITBOX...4000/5000...2nd/9. I go 0 for 2 on the two answers that I don't know. That's still one better than last week. OnBeat...ROCKET...10000/14000...1st/5...my two boards and PLBAAB and METLCA win. ..........LITBOX...10000/14000...3rd/5. 6 right and 3 wrong was disappointing. I needed help or I would have only gotten 5 right. Things could go downhill until November as I start to concentrate on the soccer season. JukeBox...ROCKET...15085/20000...2nd/9...HEVY D wins round. ...........LITBOX...15085/20000...2nd/9. We do pretty good this round except for picking the Bob Seger question. Duran Duran videos were easy enough. Triviaoke...ROCKET...18214/28000...1st/9...my two boards win round as I have the fingers in synch to keep them with the same scores. .........LITBOX...18214/28000...1st/9. I take at least four -250 in this round and a few for +200 or +300. Too tough.
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Now the Encore answers come up. They are all Beatles songs. I should know everything they can throw for this.
Encore Question:...A few bars of the French national anthem can be heard on the beginning of which Beatles song?:
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I know this right away and wait to see if the others do but they're looking elsewhere. Concentrate! I start singing the song and ensure that everyone's in on the right answer. I don't think we'll move up on this question.
Correct Answer:....4. All You Need Is Love
[NTN Extra Fact:...Excerpts from "Greensleeves" and "In The Mood" can be heard later on. ]
I'm right and win with both ROCKET and LITBOX at 27321. I finish 1341st overall in all North America. The bar is 71st in North America. I earn
3000+ points for making this week's standard of 16000 points.
[NTN.com moves us up to 23rd out of 1776 bars with a 26388 average].
This was a number one song on the charts and a huge difference in fairness from the REM question they asked two weeks ago. I know this song quite well and could have got the "In The Mood" part of if that had been asked.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank ROCKET 18214 27231 1341 179 LITBOX 18214 27231 1341 179 COSMO 17826 26739 1525 210 PLBAAB 16860 25290 1985 296 METLCA 16849 25273 1990 297 NAGROM 13021 19531 3810 792 TCB 12098 18147 ---- 937 EDGAR 11765 17632 4412 1018 HEVY D 11502 17253 4532 1065 [NTN.com listed 7610 players]
Other games:...I'm visiting so don't know what my Players Plus scores are:
7:30pm...Triviaoke...ROCKET...10656/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 17th in NA...COSMO wins and is 15th on the Network Top 20.
...........LITBOX...10636/15000...3rd/7...1000+ points...I'm 18th in all NA...bar is 10th in NA with a 10169 average.
Doing in this game has no relation for me as to how I do in the Triviaoke round of Playback.
8:00pm...Jukebox...ROCKET...12483/14000...1st/8...1000+ points...I'm 20th on the Network Top 20 in NA.
.............LITBOX...12289/14000...3rd/8...1000+ points...I'm 177th in NA...bar is 13th in NA with an 11740 average.
8:30pm...RaceDay/General Countdown...ROCKET...6929/15000...4th/9...1000+ points...I'm 39th in NA on this alternate choice game...bar is 11th in NA
out of the 16 bars that played this game.
...............LITBOX...6889/15000...5th/9...1000+ points...I'm 40th in NA.
We answer the first two questions for NASCAR racing then the board gets reset for the 5th question of general trivia and we start over again. Good. I
still have time to make the P+ standard. More fun than having no clue about stock car racing for all 15 questions.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...13627/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 48th in NA.
..............LITBOX...13358/15000...4th/7...1000+ points...I'm 66th in NA...bar is 15th in NA with a 13012 average...COSMO wins and is 18th with a score of 14118..
I have a lot of help this game. Each game has LITBOX start behind because I forget that I get asked between games on that board what game I want to play.
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