NTN Encore Question of February 9th, 2008.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York, Ontario.

Answers:

  1. Wilson Pickett
  2. Walter Jackson
  3. Otis Redding
  4. Al Green
  5. Sam Cooke

Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX, with Rob COSMO/METLCA, and Phil PLBAAB.

My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp...ROCKET...3500/5000...2nd/10...GORDO wins round with 4500.
...........LITBOX...3500/5000...2nd/10...I go 1 for 4 on guessing...our five boards end with 3500.
OnBeat...ROCKET...11500/14000...1st/7...our five boards win round with 8 right, 1 wrong.
..........LITBOX...11500/14000...1st/7...Rob got us two answers.
I'm quite pleased with this and am back up to a decent score...two questions about the SuperBowl entertainment 
last week.
JukeBox...ROCKET...16624/20000...1st/10...ROCKET wins round.
...........LITBOX...16581/20000...2nd/11...Rob got us two of these.
Past Grammy winners were four of the questions.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...20726/28000...1st/11...COSMO wins round.
...........LITBOX...20661/28000...2nd/11...I take three -250 scores this round including the last question about 
the 'new' song to limp just over 20000.

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Now the Encore answers come up. Soul singers? It's not our strongest category. None of us know who Walter Jackson is.

Encore Question:...This soul singer recorded "Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay" days before he died:

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I know this right away. I have a greatest hits collection of this artist and this was a Number 1 song. I know this question has been asked many times over the years in other rounds.

Correct Answer:....3. Otis Redding

[NTN Extra Fact:...Redding passed away on December 10th, 1967 and the song became a #1 hit in January 1968.]

I'm right and win as ROCKET with 31089. I finish 31st overall for all North America. The bar is 11th in North America with a 30754 average. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 20000.
(ntn.com moved us up to 10th place out of 1985 bars)

Here's how the rest of the bar did: 
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank
ROCKET	20726		31089	  31	  95
LITBOX	20661		30991	  32	  98
COSMO	20611		30916	  33	 102
METLCA	20324		30486	  39	 112
PLBAAB	20193		30289	  41	 122
CHATZ	13899		20848	 325	 934
GORDO	12297		18445	 417	1410
KIMCHEE	 4000	x	 2000  10000	6879
GOHABS	 3750	x	 1875  10001	7020
KOTTER	 1041	x	  521  10002	8360
HYUK	  435	x	  217  10003	8859
(ntn.com listed 9422 players)	

Other games:...I started the evening with ROCKET at 3,868,000+ Player's Plus points and LITBOX at 1,569,500+.
7:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...3387/15000...7th/11...500+ points...I'm 6436th in NA...CUE wins.
............LITBOX...3366/15000...8th/11...500+ points...I'm 6458 in NA...bar is 919th...I'm here in time for the last five questions.
7:30pm...Triviaoke...ROCKET...10791/15000...2nd/6...1000+ points...I'm 53rd in NA.
................LITBOX...10816/15000...1st/6...1000+ points...I'm 52nd in NA...the bar is 186th in NA.
only one 0 question but playing this game well didn't carry over to the Triviaoke round in Playback.
8:00pm...JukeBox...ROCKET...10207/14000...4th/6...1000+ points...I'm 43rd in NA...PLBAAB wins.
................LITBOX...10816/14000...2nd/6...1000+ points...I'm 41st in NA...bar is 14th in NA with a 9986 average.
8:30pm...Tuned In Trivia...ROCKET...13327/15000...3rd/9...1000+ points...I'm 116th in NA...bar is 13th in NA with a 13672 average.
..........LITBOX...13318/15000...4th/9...1000+ points...I'm 117th in NA...COSMO wins and is 16th on the Network Top 20.
I needed a lot of help this game.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...13315/15000...1st/12...1000+ points...I'm 328th in NA.
.............LITBOX...13261/15000...2nd/12...1000+ points...I'm 367th in NA...bar is 77th.

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