NTN Encore Question of January 5th, 2008.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York, Ontario.
Answers:
Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX, with Rob COSMO, Sean METLCA and Phil PLBAAB. LeAnn is also here but not playing.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/7...my two boards and METLCA and PLBAAB win round at 5000. ...........LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/7...I can't remember having to guess at anything. OnBeat...ROCKET...13000/14000...1st/7...my two boards and METLCA and PLBAAB win round with 8 of 9. ..........LITBOX...13000/14000...1st/7...Phil comes up with two that I wouldn't have got. The shop didn't get in their shipment of Billboard magazines this week but these news items were from awhile back. I should have got the tour gross question and we would have swept this category. JukeBox...ROCKET...18209/20000...2nd/7...LITBOX wins round. ...........LITBOX...18211/20000...1st/7...the categories were pretty clear this week. Triviaoke...ROCKET...23096/28000...2nd/7...METLCA wins round and takes lead. ...........LITBOX...23094/28000...3rd/7...one -250 question on a Lenny Kravitz lyric. I get the last question which is always about a current chart song by having it's title in the lyrics. Rob gets us the Olivia Newton-John song quickly.
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Now the Encore answers come up. All these groups are pretty mainstream and well known. I don't know what the question could be about but I feel like I should be able to get it. Oh-oh I've picked one of their CDs to play on the walk down here. I wonder if this would be like the spooky choice of last week where one of only three cassettes I carry in my car bag was the answer last week?
Encore Question:..."Sledgehammer", "Take Me Home", and "All I Need Is A Miracle" are all songs by former members of:
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Yep got this from the first word! I know all these songs well. I think everyone at our table would have got this on their own. Yep this gave me a strange feeling as it is the Genesis CD "Genesis Live/The Way We Walk Volume One: The Shorts" that I am playing on my walkman today.
Correct Answer:....1. Genesis
[NTN Extra Fact:...The songs are by Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, and Mike Rutherford.]
I'm right and stay in 2nd with ROCKET at 34644. I finish 11th overall in all North America. The bar is 8th in North America with a 32165 average. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 21000.
METLCA wins at 35062 and finishes #7 on this bar's Hall of Fame board and 9th on the Network Top 20.
(ntn.com kept us in 8th place out of 1676 bars).
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank METLCA 23375 35062 9 43 ROCKET 23096 34644 11 47 LITBOX 23094 34641 12 48 COSMO 18922 28383 77 213 PLBAAB 18730 28095 85 225 GOHABS 11766 x 10590 4288 2876 GORDO 8321 12481 3268 2577 (ntn.com lists 7537 players).
Other games:...I had played at this bar on New Year's Eve with Rob and Phil and racked up an extra 7000+ points as ROCKET that night. I hadn't played a 'general knowledge' game of Countdown or Wipeout for a few years.
I started the evening with ROCKET at 3,836,500+ Player's Plus points and LITBOX at 1,538,500+.
7:30pm...Triviaoke...ROCKET...5695/15000...6th/7...500+ points...I'm 865th in NA...COSMO wins.
................LITBOX...5717/15000...5th/7...500+ points...I'm 830th in NA...I'm here in time for the last 11 questions and ring up at least five wrong answers. I'm glad this wasn't an omen for the Triviaoke part of the Playback game.
8:00pm...JukeBox...ROCKET...10797/14000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 55th in NA.
................LITBOX...10850/14000...1st/7...1000+ points...I'm 53rd in NA...bar is 143rd in NA.
8:30pm...Tuned In Trivia...ROCKET...13483/15000...1st/7...1000+ points...I'm 308th in NA...bar is 37th in NA.
..........LITBOX...13482/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 309th in NA.
I have a lot of help this game.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...10222/15000...3rd/6...1000+ points...I'm 112th in NA.
.............LITBOX...10255/15000...2nd/6...1000+ points...I'm 110th in NA...bar is 153rd in NA.
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