NTN Encore Question of January 19th, 2008.
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, Phil PLBAAB, and LeeAnn MS M.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/6...my two boards and MS M win round at 4500. ...........LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/6...I go 2 of 3 in guessing and was helped on one other. OnBeat...ROCKET...11500/14000...1st/6...my boards go 7 for 9 with CSOMO. ..........LITBOX...11500/14000...1st/6...my friends get me to change one answer right, one answer wrong. JukeBox...ROCKET...16600/20000...2nd/6...LITBOX wins round. ...........LITBOX...16623/20000...1st/6...I got outvoted for a Run DMC question but ended up getting it before everyone else. Triviaoke...ROCKET...23567/28000...2nd/6...LITBOX wins round. ...........LITBOX...23588/28000...1st/6...I don't take any -250 scores this round thanks to Rob who got me to change off one for about 150 points and one for almost full marks. The last question as usual was about a current chart hit and I knew the Timbaland song because the title was in the answer.
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Now the Encore answers come up. Quite a variety of song titles from different eras. This could be anything.
Encore Question:...'When I was young, I never needed anyone' is the first line of this hit 1975 song:
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I know this before the answers come back up. After I read the lyric I start singing the chorus out loud. Great. I say it's the old Eric Carmen song and Rob says it's also sang by Celine Dion. Yeah, that's two ways of getting it. If the choice was also The Beatles song 'Help' that might have got me to think for another two seconds.
Correct Answer:....2. All By Myself
[NTN Extra Fact:...Singer Eric Carmen wrote the lyrics and used the melody by Sergei Rachmaninov.]
I'm right and win as LITBOX at 35382. I finish 4th in North America on the Network Top 20. The bar is 6th in North America with a 33605 average. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 19000 points. I finish 2nd on this bar's Hall of Fame board which has 10th place at just over 11000.
(ntn.com leaves us at 6th out of 1922 bars).
After missing last week's Encore I can tell the difference in how I'll feel the rest of the week.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank LITBOX 23588 35382 4 4 ROCKET 23567 35350 6 7 COSMO 23014 34521 8 18 MS M 21497 32245 12 46 PLBAAB 20354 30531 30 74 METLCA 19677 27547 95 190 KIMCHI 343 x 171 10000 8576 (ntn.com lists 9068 players)
Other games:...I'm visiting so don't know what my Player's Plus are.
7:30pm...Triviaoke...ROCKET...9438/15000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 116th in NA.
I'm here in time for the last 12 questions. I leave almost an hour earlier tonight to get to this two subway ride away bar at about the same time as when I walk to the local bar. I pick up a second board after this game.
8:00pm...JukeBox...ROCKET...11707/14000...2nd/6...1000+ points...I'm 313rd in NA.
................LITBOX...11716/14000...1st/6...1000+ points...I'm 306th in NA...bar is 10th in NA with a 10461 average....they list me at 11th on the Network Top 20.
8:30pm...Tuned In Trivia...ROCKET...12193/15000...5th/8...1000+ points...I'm 686th in NA...bar is 125th in NA.
..........LITBOX...12227/15000...3rd/8...1000+ points...I'm 660th in NA...COSMO wins.
I have a lot of help this game. None of us knew The Simpson's question.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...13082/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 170th in NA...help in this game too.
.............LITBOX...13082/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 170th in NA...bar is 291st in NA.
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