NTN Encore Question of June 16th, 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've just heard the news tonight that this bar will be closing in six weeks so the developer can build condos!
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...3500/5000...3rd/7...TCB and PLBAAB win round with 4000. ..........LITBOX...3500/5000...3rd/7. I go about 2 for 5 in guessing the answers I don't know. At least I knew half the answers without guessing. OnBeat...ROCKET...10500/14000...2nd/7...COSMO wins round with 8 right and 1 wrong. ..........LITBOX...10500/14000...2nd/7. I had 7 right and 2 wrong with me going about 2 for 4 in guessing. Still catching up on music news. JukeBox...ROCKET...15748/20000...4th/7...COSMO wins round. ...........LITBOX...15756/20000...3rd/7. A pretty good round for us. I got the two Kiss questions easy enough. Triviaoke...ROCKET...17980/28000...4th/7...COSMO wins round. .........LITBOX...17975/28000...5th/7. I fell apart by getting the last four questions wrong for -250 each. Very frustrating.
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Now the Encore answers come up. Quite a variety of styles here.
Encore Question:...Keith Godchaux and Brent Mydland were both keyboardists for this legendary band:
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I'd never heard of these two guys. I could rule out The Eagles, Rolling Stones, and Aerosmith right away so we were down to two choices. I thought I knew some of the guys in The Grateful Dead and these weren't them. Echo & The Bunnymen were really one constant guy and frequently changing lineups. [actually that's not true]. I compare thoughts with Phil. Are Echo & The Bunnymen legends? Well maybe in Liverpool and quite a long career. We're all in for Echo.
Correct Answer:....3. Grateful Dead
[NTN Extra Fact:...Four of the keyboardists for the band have died at early ages inspiring rumours of a curse.]
I'm wrong and fall to 5th with ROCKET at 8990. I finish 7033rd in North America. The bar is 1529th in North America. I earn only 1500+ points for not making this week's standard of 18000 points. [ntn.com moved us up to 152nd out of 1883rd bars with an 11857 average]. TCB wins.
If we'd have got this right, our group would have made the Top 20. Individually, we'd have needed well over 30000 so we weren't close. I should have had that question like I should have had last week's Encore too. When I have a 50% chance of being right I often am. Should have thought that Grateful Dead were more 'legendary'.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank COSMO 20274 x 10362 6580 1627 PLBAAB 18695 x 9348 6915 1845 METLCA 18652 x 9326 6922 1847 ROCKET 17980 x 8990 7033 1909 LITBOX 17975 x 8988 7034 1910 TCB 14175 21262 2983 467 HEVY D 13148 x 6574 7830 2652 [ntn.com listed 8107 players]
Other games:...I'm visiting so I don't know my Player's Plus points.
8:00pm...JukeBox...ROCKET...13429/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 5th in NA.
.............LITBOX...13442/1500...1st/7...1000+ points...I'm 4th in NA...the bar is 6th in NA with a 12637 average.
8:30pm...Tuned In Trivia...ROCKET...9420/15000...5th/7...1000+ points...I'm 2014th in NA.
............LITBOX...9455/15000...4th/7...I'm 1984th in NA...bar is 367th in NA...HEVY D wins.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...13306/15000...3rd/7...1000+ points...I'm 67th in NA.
..............LITBOX...13303/15000...4th/7...1000+ points...I'm 68th in NA...bar is 7th in NA with a 13489 average.
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