NTN Encore Question of February 16th, 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, Sean METLCA, and Phil PLBAAB.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4000/5000...1st/9...ROCKET, COSMO, PLBAAB win round with 4000. ...........LITBOX...3500/5000...4th/9...I go 0 for 3 guessing with one split answer. Phil gets me one right and one wrong and Rob another right so I have less guessing. OnBeat...ROCKET...12000/14000...1st/9...my two boards and METLCA win round with 8 for 8 sweep. ..........LITBOX...11500/14000...2nd/9...Phil got us one and I got the rest. Watching the Grammys last week got me half the answers. JukeBox...ROCKET...14832/20000...1st/9...I'm not sure who won this round. ...........LITBOX...14322/20000...4th/9. I can't remember when I've done worse in this round even though we had our choice of categories. I got the one 'Thriller' question we tried because I'd only played the new '25th Anniversary Edition' the night before. Now I feel I won't get to 20000 before Encore. Triviaoke...ROCKET...22732/28000...1st/10...ROCKET wins round. ...........LITBOX...22218/28000...4th/10...I didn't take any -250 scores this round including the last question about 'new' songs--Rhiannon's "Don't Stop The Music".
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Now the Encore answers come up. Song titles. I've heard of all of them. Rob says to watch out for which era doesn't fit.
Encore Question:...Which song is a Valentine to a legendary movie star?
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I know this right away. The answers haven't come back up yet but I'm thinking the Elton John song. Yep there it is. This would be the original version before the lyric alteration to fit in at the Princess Diana funeral. I say the first few lines of the lyrics and name the star. Our group was talking about the Canadian group Motherlode's song "When I Die" last month. Will Mashmakhan's "As The Year's Go By" be next?
Correct Answer:....2. Candle In The Wind
[NTN Extra Fact:...This tribute to Marilyn Munroe begins with the lyrics "Goodbye Norma Jean".]
I'm right and win as ROCKET with 34098. I finish 13th on the Network Top 20 for all North America. The bar is 6th in North America with a 32855 average. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 15000.
(ntn.com keeps us in 6th place out of 1968 bars)
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank ROCKET 22732 34098 13 39 METLCA 22427 33640 16 43 COSMO 22332 33498 17 45 LITBOX 22218 33327 18 46 PLBAAB 19809 29713 49 111 CHATZ 14735 22102 229 577 GORDO 8622 x 4311 10000 4788 MAC 8193 x 5736 10001 4009 WEBBY 4621 6007 10002 3886 LEAFS 2216 3324 10003 5517 (ntn.com listed 9674 players)
Other games:...I started the evening with ROCKET at 3,885,500+ Player's Plus points and LITBOX at 1,577,000+.
7:30pm...Triviaoke...ROCKET...11859/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 13th in NA.
................LITBOX...11855/15000...3rd/7...1000+ points...I'm 14th in NA...the bar is 8th in North America with an 11485 average.
only two 0 questions but now I'm glad practising on this game didn't carry over to the Triviaoke round in Playback...COSMO wins and is 10th on the Network Top 20.
8:00pm...JukeBox...ROCKET...11544/14000...2nd/6...1000+ points...I'm 24th in NA...COSMO wins and is 9th on the Network Top 20.
................LITBOX...11541/14000...3rd/6...1000+ points...I'm 25th in NA...bar is 8th in NA with an 11325 average.
8:30pm...Tuned In Trivia...ROCKET...12607/15000...3rd/9...1000+ points...I'm 152nd in NA...bar is 20th in NA with a 13672 average.
..........LITBOX...12635/15000...2nd/9...1000+ points...I'm 148th in NA...I'm not sure which one in our group won.
I needed a lot of help this game.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...13574/15000...1st/10...1000+ points...I'm 129th in NA.
.............LITBOX...13568/15000...2nd/10...1000+ points...I'm 130th in NA...bar is 248th.
(lots of help in this game too).
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