NTN Encore Question of November 24th, 2007.
Played at The Squire & Firkin in Etobicoke, 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 Squire & Firkin. LeeAnn is at our table but does not have a board.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/5...my two boards win and the others have 4000. There are no other players. ...........LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/5...I go 2 for 3 in guessing. OnBeat...ROCKET...13500/14000...1st/5...all five of our boards go 9 for 9. ..........LITBOX...13500/14000...1st/5...I read about four of these facts in the Billboard magazine I read on the subway getting here. Rob helped with one so we could sweep this category. JukeBox...ROCKET...18044/20000...1st/5...my two win round. ...........LITBOX...18044/20000...1st/5. We've done better in this round other weeks. The Buddy Holly questions were very easy (name of his back up band and first #1 when the other choices were by other artists). The albums of 2007 were very easy too. Triviaoke...ROCKET...24458/28000...1st/5...my two win round. ...........LITBOX...24458/28000...1st/5...I only take one -250 for this round and it was for the last question which usually is a 'new' song but this week was the Adam Sandler Thanksgiving song in honour of the American holiday this week.
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Now the Encore answers come up. Songs of the 1980s. We should get this. I'm thinking it would be something in a video of the song. No disturbances like last week although the monitors are quite far away and I've been squinting for much of the game. The good thing appears I don't have to beg for another board as I was just invited to 'help myself' to another board up at the bar.
Encore Question:...Which immortal 1980's tune's chorus contains the words "Thank You" in another language?:
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Hmm. Well I've heard the first song in English and it's not that. Briefly thinking that 3 and 5 aren't in another language at all. What are the lyrics of 2 about? Nah they are in English except for the chorus. Rob has said #4. Yep that's it. That's among the first things I ever recorded on my VCR (a BETA) back in 1983 was the Casey Kasem countdown of the top 10 songs and he said what the words to Mr Roboto meant. (see NTN extra below).
Correct Answer:....4. Mr Roboto
[NTN Extra Fact:...As the song later makes clear, "Domo Arigoto" means "Thank you very much" in Japanese.]
I'm right and win as ROCKET and LITBOX at 36687 points. I finish 10th on the Network Top 20 in all North America. The bar is 6th in North America with a 36040 average. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 15000...I finish 1st on this bar's Hall of Fame board which isn't saying much as the 10th best score is only 4000 something.
[NTN.com moved us up to 5th place out of 1645 bars].
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank ROCKET 24458 36687 10 23 LITBOX 24458 36687 10 23 COSMO 24224 36336 14 29 PLBAAB 23832 35748 17 46 METLCA 23163 34744 20 59 [NTN.com listed 7323 players]
Other games:...I was visiting this week so I don't know what my Players Points balance was.
7:30pm...Triviaoke...ROCKET...2112/15000...3rd/4...500+ points...I'm 1579th in NA...bar is 19th in NA with a 2752 average.
I'm get a board in time for the last 5 questions...METLCA wins and is 18th in NA with 6072. Where are the other bars?
8:00pm...JukeBox...ROCKET...12197/14000...3rd/5...1000+ points...I'm 239th in NA...bar is 7th in NA with a 12402 average.
..............LITBOX...12196/14000...4th/5...1000+ points...I'm 240th in NA...COSMO wins and is 12th with 12809.
8:30pm...Tuned In Trivia...ROCKET...12984/15000...3rd/5...1000+ points...I'm 21st in NA...bar is 4th in NA with a 12621 average.
..........LITBOX...13022/15000...4th/5...1000+ points...COSMO wins and is 10th in NA with 13319.
I have a lot of help this game. There's no way I would have met the 9000 point standard without them.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...13349/15000...2nd/5...1000+ points.
.............LITBOX...13349/15000...2nd/5...1000+ points...bar is 148th in NA...METLCA wins...I'm better at this game than the Tuned-In TV which has 50% questions about current television or within the last ten years. I guess the Simpson's question right though.
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