NTN Encore Question of January 12th, 2008.
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/COSMOO, and Phil PLBAAB.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...2nd/11...PLBAAB wins round at 5000. ...........LITBOX...4500/5000...2nd/11...our other four boards are tied at 4500. OnBeat...ROCKET...12500/14000...3rd/11...COSMO goes 9 for 9 and takes lead. ..........LITBOX...12500/14000...3rd/11...our other boards go 8 for 9 which pleases me. I needed help with about three answers that I hadn't heard about. JukeBox...ROCKET...16701/20000...3rd/11...COSMO wins round. ...........LITBOX...16701/20000...3rd/11...our first two choices weren't good as we had to wait until the third clue but after that we did alright. Triviaoke...ROCKET...20270/28000...3rd/11...PLBAAB wins round. ...........LITBOX...20270/28000...3rd/11...I take three -250 scores this round and needed help to not mess up more.
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Now the Encore answers come up. Hard rock groups? Well we see one of them doesn't belong. We'd got two Metallica questions this game which we answered easy enough but an Encore question would be tougher. Sean isn't here this week so we could be in trouble.
Encore Question:...CBS refused to release the speed metal band's controversial 1986 album "Reign Of Blood":
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Well this question only puts out more more answer for me. I knew it wasn't the pop softies "a-ha" before the question was asked. Now with this question I could only put out "Poison" because I'd be able to recognize the titles of this big-hair band's albums if I saw them. That still leaves three. I thought it would be Anthrax and settle for that album. I'm guessing that Motorhead with an album title like 'Ace Of Spades' didn't have blood and gore titles. [OK it made the UK charts and is well known in Toronto but the rest of that logic isn't completely correct]. Rob asks if we should split but I say no. I probably would have gone for Megadeth if that was up there.
Correct Answer:....3. Slayer
[NTN Extra Fact:...Slayer has been hailed by some as the greatest speed metal album of all time.]
I'm wrong and fall to 4th on both my boards with 10135. I finish 2663rd in North America. The bar is 2115th (oh come on!) in North America with a 10760 average. I earn only 1500+ points for not making this week's standard of 15000.
GORDO wins with 12412 points...only betting 10% but being right.
(ntn.com moves us up to 199th best bar out of 1226 bars...just like I thought, this company can't muster 2115 bars anymore).
It's been many months since I've missed the correct Encore answer. I've been conveniently not here on the week's that I wouldn't have known or had help from my friends. I think this is one of those weeks that Sean METLCA would have been the one to get it for us.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank COSMO 21355 x 10678 2270 1810 PLBAAB 20880 x 10440 2442 1839 ROCKET 20270 x 10135 2663 1896 LITBOX 20270 x 10135 2663 1896 COSMOO 20057 x 10029 2739 1907 TDJ 13065 x 6533 5270 2783 GORDO 11284 12412 1014 1607 MADDOG 10355 x 5177 6252 3372 VID 9514 x 4757 6556 3558 ASZMAN 6000 x 3000 7828 4501 AMANDA 2000 x 1000 9276 5719 (ntn.com lists 6896 players and shows quite a few playing a repeat game).
Although I had my back to the screen, the televisions were turned to the NFL football games rather than the hockey game. There wasn't any interest in the Ottawa Senators. The Toronto Maple Leafs game started at 10:00pm as they are on a road trip. As the New England vs Jacksonville game was still close at halftime, the televisions weren't changed by the time I left. The Maple Leafs are headed to finish worst in the league this year.
Other games:...I started the evening with ROCKET at 3,843,000+ Player's Plus points and LITBOX at 1,544,500+.
7:30pm...Triviaoke...ROCKET...8085/15000...2nd/6...1000+ points...I'm 73rd in NA...COSMO wins.
................LITBOX...7811/15000...3rd/6...1000+ points...I'm 90th in NA...I'm here in time for the last 11 questions.
8:00pm...JukeBox...ROCKET...10335/14000...1st/8...1000+ points...I'm 23rd in NA.
................LITBOX...10335/14000...1st/8...1000+ points...I'm 23rd in NA...bar is 15th in NA with a 9050 average.
8:30pm...Tuned In Trivia...ROCKET...9801/15000...4th/8...1000+ points...I'm 71st in NA...bar is 12th in NA with a 9920 average.
..........LITBOX...9819/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 70th in NA...COSMO wins and is 8th on the Network Top 20 with 11605.
I have a lot of help this game.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...13197/15000...4th/9...1000+ points...I'm 64th in NA...help in this game too.
.............LITBOX...13217/15000...3rd/9...1000+ points...I'm 63rd in NA...bar is 14th in NA with a 13269 average.
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