NTN Encore Question of April 5th, 2008.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York, Ontario.

Answers:

  1. The Big Valley
  2. Bonanza
  3. Family Affair
  4. SWAT
  5. The Rookies

Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX, with Tom CUE, Richard BERGIE, and Harry SUPER (usually THEMAN but didn't change the board he was given the game before). The usual guys I play with were at The Squire & Firkin this week as we usually rotate but I warned them I'd be here because of wanting to see the band upstairs--Loose Wire.

My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...3rd/8...BERGIE and CUE win with 5000.
...........LITBOX...4500/5000...3rd/8...I shouldn't have had to guess on the one I didn't know if I'd thought 
about it another second longer because I've seen Entertainment Tonight before.
OnBeat...ROCKET...10500/14000...2nd/8...BERGIE wins with 8 right and 1 wrong.
..........LITBOX...10500/14000...2nd/8...I go 6 for 9 in this round with two other players and was disappointed.
JukeBox...ROCKET...16500/20000...2nd/9...my two boards go perfect and sweep this round.
...........LITBOX...16500/20000...2nd/9...Another player down the bar gives us the Cinderella song before the answers
come up.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...24473/28000...2nd/9...ROCKET wins round.
...........LITBOX...24454/28000...3rd/9...I don't take any -250 scores this round and sweep easily through this round.  

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Now the Encore answers come up. Television shows? These shows aren't even famous for their music. Someone mentions that SWAT made Number 1. Yeah that's right. Canada had a different group take it to the top. [US was Rhythm Heritage and Canada was THP Orchestra]. I was thinking of Lorne Greene's #1 song 'Ringo'. Don't know much about the others.

Encore Question:...Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, and Lorne Greene sang a lyric version of which show's theme song?

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I know this by the second word of the question. I'd say in our group, we all do. This is more like something we'd get in the television games before or after this game. OK. We'll take it. I've actually heard them sing this song on some nostagia special.

Correct Answer:....2. Bonanza

[NTN Extra Fact:...I missed it as I was getting ready to go upstairs and hear the band...]

I'm right and stay in 2nd place as ROCKET at 36709. The bar finishes 11th in North America with a 36480 average. I finish 103rd in North America. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 20000. BERGIE wins with 38691 and is 10th in North America on the Network Top 20. He's first out of three in the recently reset Hall of Fame board.
(ntn.com kept our bar in 11th out of 1756 bars)

Here's how the rest of the bar did: 
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank
BERGIE	25794		38691	  10	  41
ROCKET	24473		36709	  35	 103
LITBOX	24454		36681	  36	 104
CUE	23751		35626	  57	 147
SUPER	23131		34697	  76	 199
GORDO	22713		34069	  92	 249
CHATZ	22552		33828	  98	 262
SARA	19097		28645	 312	 741
LEAFS	11297		16945	2646	2719
(ntn.com listed 8193 players)

Other games:...I didn't look at my Players Plus points tonight.
7:30pm...Triviaoke...ROCKET...9615/15000...1st/6...1000+ points...I'm 111st in North America.
.........LITBOX...9585/15000...2nd/6...1000+ points...I'm 113rd in NA...the bar is 18th in North America with a 9143 average.
8:00pm...JukeBox...ROCKET...13359/14000...1st/6...1000+ points...I'm 5th in on the Network Top 20 in North America...the bar is 5th in NA with a 12677 average.
...........LITBOX...13359/14000...1st/6...1000+ points...I'm also 5th in North America.
8:30pm...Tuned In Trivia...ROCKET...11165/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 48th in NA...bar is 9th in NA with a 10552 average.
...........LITBOX...11060/15000...3rd/7...1000+ points...I'm 53rd in NA...BERGIE wins game.
I need a lot of help in this game.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...didn't play this game as I went upstairs to see the band. I missed their opening numbers as I was finishing the last game.

I think we put up enough high scores for my other friends at the Squire & Firkin to see us.


Loose Wire playing at The Frog & Firkin. They played 50s and 60s rock and blues songs. This was the band's first gig together after forming within the last six weeks. They were great!
The guitarist and bass player hadn't played on stage together for 35 years. They were in the band Copper Penny back in the 1970s.


Bill on bass and shares lead vocals. We know him as MADDOG in the NTN games.

Upstairs watching the band play, I saw many NTN players from my Hannibals and Joe Grinders days, many I hadn't seen for many years.

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