NTN Encore Question of October 13th, 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 Rob COSMO, Sean METLCA and Phil PLBAAB at The Frog & Firkin.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/6...my two boards and CSOMO and METLCA won round. ..........LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/6. no real guessing this round except for the one we got wrong. OnBeat...ROCKET...10500/14000...2nd/6...METLCA wins round with 7 right. ..........LITBOX...10500/14000...2nd/6. I go 6 right and 3 wrong and got help on two of them. Still lots to read up on current music. JukeBox...ROCKET...16457/20000...3rd/6...LITBOX wins round. ...........LITBOX...16439/20000...2nd/6. We did great in this round with some very easy Jacksons questions. The other choices weren't even Jackson 5 songs/albums. Triviaoke...ROCKET...23043/28000...3rd/6...ROCKET wins this round. .........LITBOX...23061/28000...2nd/6. Another good round for me. Lots of help in this round. I took only one -250 this round.
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Now the Encore answers come up. Duos! But what a variety of acts. Phil has gone outside. Will he be back in time?
Encore Question:...In 1981 a free concert in Central Park by this duo was attended by over 400,000 people:
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I'm reading the first four words into my microrecorder when I know the answer. Rob has already said the answer a second before me. Sean makes sure the PLBAAB board is answered.
Correct Answer:....1. Simon & Garfunkel
[NTN Extra Fact:...The reunion concert took place on September 19th and sparked a Top 10 live album.]
Yeah Rob and I say about the Top 10 hit. We had the answer "Wake Up Little Suzie" in the Tune Up round.
I'm right and stay in 2nd as LITBOX at 34591 points. I finish 4th overall in all North America. The bar is 3rd in North America with a 33261 average. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 20000. Sean won and finished 1st on the Network Top 20 and 3rd on this bar's Hall Of Fame board.
[ntn.com kept our bar in 3rd place out of 1546 bars]
I was surprised that our bar ranked so high. I would have rated the Encore as easy. I did buy the "Concert In Central Park" CD within the last five years. Maybe this makes up for not knowing that Jay Z was the second biggest touring act between July 2006-2007 in the OnBeat round. We haven't had a top player for many years since Shakira was an unknown in the English speaking world.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank METLCA 23803 35704 1 1 LITBOX 23061 34591 4 11 ROCKET 23043 34564 5 12 COSMO 21566 32349 7 32 PLBAAB 19398 29097 18 61 GORDO 3000 x 1500 9478 4816 [ntn.com listed 6368 players]
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 3,762,500+ and LITBOX at 1,480,500+ P+ points.
7:30pm...Triviaoke...ROCKET...6968/15000...1st/6...1000+ points...I'm 4505th overall in NA...bar is 1446th in NA. There's no monitor turned to NTN until the 6th question.
8:00pm...Optional Trivia...ROCKET...9814/15000...2nd/8...1000+ points...I'm 10th in NA.
.............LITBOX...9814/15000...2nd/8...1000+ points...I'm 10th in NA...bar is 8th (and last) in NA. I don't know why they had this game programmed because I'd have liked to play JukeBox. This was a general trivia game which I haven't played for a few years.
8:30pm...Tuned In Trivia...ROCKET...9743/15000...1st/8...1000+ points...I'm 1576th in NA...bar is 637th in NA.
................LITBOX...9743/15000...1st/8...1000+ points...I'm 1576th in NA.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...12177/15000...1st/6...1000+ points...I'm 1146th in NA.
..............LITBOX...12177/15000...1st/6...1000+ points...I'm 1146th in NA...bar is 38th in NA.
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