NTN Encore Question of December 22nd, 2007.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York, Ontario.
Answers:
Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX, with Rob COSMO and Phil PLBAAB. I don't realize until we're through the OnBeat round that we haven't bothered to get a fifth board. After two rounds I was thinking we weren't having a great round anyway. It's my birthday today and I turned 49.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...3500/5000...4th/7...PLBAAB wins round with 5000. ...........LITBOX...3500/5000...4th/7...I go 1 for 4 in guessing...my two are tied with GORDO. OnBeat...ROCKET...11500/14000...3rd/7...our four boards win at 8 out of 9. ..........LITBOX...11500/14000...3rd/7...I guessed Alan Jackson at the White House just by knowing he'd be coming out with an album soon but I hadn't heard the story. I thought I wasn't doing well after missing one but did finish well. Rob got a crucial one. JukeBox...ROCKET...16205/20000...4th/7...COSMO wins round and is in lead. ...........LITBOX...16206/20000...3rd/7...two very difficult Rush questions that Phil (our Rush expert) had to think hard on for partial marks. It would have been possible to choose six Christmas themed categories. Triviaoke...ROCKET...23711/28000...3rd/7...COSMO wins round. ...........LITBOX...23695/28000...4th/7...no -250s this round as half the questions were Christmas songs. I even get the full 1000 for the new song as I read the title of Jordin Sparks first hit is 'Tattoo' (but have never heard it).
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Now the Encore answers come up. I'm thinking Christmas songs just because of the choice Elmo & Patsy. I can think of two other artists that have had Christmas albums and Rob know a third with a Christmas song.
Encore Question:..."All I Want For Christmas Is You" is a holiday favorite first recorded in 1994 by:
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I said before the question came up that they'd asked a Mariah Carey song "All I Want For Christmas Is You" last week in the JukeBox round so it couldn't be that one....then the question came up....we answered and I had enough time to get to the other side of the bar to make sure Richard BERGIE as the fifth best player had chosen that answer so the bar could rank high.
Correct Answer:....1. Mariah Carey
[NTN Extra Fact:...missed it as I was walking back to my group's table..]
I'm right and stay in 3rd with ROCKET at 35566 points. I finish 9th overall in all North America. The bar is 4th in North America with a 35100 average. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 21000.
COSMO wins at 37720 and finishes #1 on our bar's Hall of Fame board.
[ntn.com leaves us 4th place out of 1620 bars.]
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank COSMO 25147 37720 3 9 PLBAAB 24789 37183 5 13 ROCKET 23711 35566 9 33 LITBOX 23965 35542 10 34 BERGIE 19662 29493 114 252 CHATZ 16215 24322 1443 693 GORDO 9260 x 4630 8371 4023 [ntn.com lists 6774 players]
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 3,814,500+ and LITBOX at 1,525,500+ Players Points.
7:30pm...Triviaoke...ROCKET...3882/15000...5th/7...500+ points...I'm 3772nd in NA.
................LITBOX...3882/15000...5th/7...500+ points...I'm 6772nd in NA...I'm here in time for the last seven questions.
bar is 365th in NA...I'm not sure who won.
8:00pm...JukeBox...ROCKET...12579/14000...1st/7...1000+ points...I'm 10th in NA.
................LITBOX...12559/14000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 11th in NA...bar is 12th in NA with an 11108 average...I'm 6th on the Hall of Fame.
8:30pm...Tuned In Trivia...ROCKET...11288/15000...2nd/9...1000+ points...I'm 473rd in NA...bar is 120th in NA.
..........LITBOX...11271/15000...3rd/9...1000+ points...I'm 488th in NA.
I have a lot of help this game or I wouldn't have made the 9000 point standard.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...12423/15000...2nd/8...1000+ points...I'm 747th in NA.
.............LITBOX...12423/15000...2nd/8...1000+ points...I'm 747th in NA...bar is 20th in NA with an 11015 average.
Better study New Year's songs for next week!
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