NTN Encore Question of April 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 and Sean METLCA/NOHABS (he doesn't like the Montreal Canadiens hockey team). Our friend Phil was away in Puerto Rico this week.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/14...I'm in an 11 way tie for 11st place. ...........LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/14...I go 0 for 1 in guessing. OnBeat...ROCKET...12500/14000...1st/14...our five boards win round going 8 right and 1 wrong. ..........LITBOX...12500/14000...1st/14...we open up a big gap on the other players...I thought this round was harder than the last few months. JukeBox...ROCKET...18453/20000...4th/12...METLCA wins round. ...........LITBOX...18460/20000...3rd/12...we got outvoted for a Barbra Streisand question but Rob got it early. Triviaoke...ROCKET...24774/28000...5th/12...METLCA wins round. ...........LITBOX...24784/28000...4th/12...we take one -250 score thanks to me giving the Huey Lewis song wrong. About five players near the bottom have stopped playing.
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Now the Encore answers come up. Middle-of-the-Road artists? If it's song and artist I should do quite well on this.
Encore Question:...Who has his guitar destroyed by John Belushi in National Lampoon's Animal House?
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I don't know this. I saw the movie once 30 years ago although it comes on more than once a year. I've also seen this clip on some television history/biography show. I say we all read this question wrong as I don't catch on that the singer is actually in the movie. I even remember the song he sings "I gave my love a cherry that had no stone...". I can only rule out Christopher Cross because I think his career didn't start until the 1980s. I say that I'm going with Stephen Bishop but can't find a good reason to back it up.
Correct Answer:....5. Stephen Bishop
[NTN Extra Fact:...Stephen's credit in the movie is "Charming Guy With Guitar".]
Yep if I'd read the question better, I could have had a good chance of tossing out all the bearded (Dan Hill), non-American accented guys (Leo Sayer/Andy Gibb).
This was pretty obscure I thought but in my Whitburn music book, under his two line biography, they mention this fact. Within the last few weeks, I was marking what songs I owned and must have at least subliminally read this as I own one Stephen Bishop song on a 1970s compilation album.
I'm right and jump to 1st place as LITBOX at 37176. The bar is listed as 12th out of 12 bars in North America with a 22422 average although was about a 12000 point gap between 11th place and us. I finish 57th in North America. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard which I missed seeing at the start of the game. I finish 2nd out of 4 places on this newly reset Hall of Fame board.
(ntn.com drops our bar to 94th out of 1909 with a 22422 average)
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank METLCA 25236 x 12618 2984 2023 NOHABS 25201 x 12601 2992 2025 COSMO 25112 x 12556 3013 2038 LITBOX 24784 37176 57 127 ROCKET 24774 37161 58 128 SPATFUL 16064 x 8032 5117 3468 SQUIER 15570 x 7785 5296 3582 MADDOG 14456 x 7228 5562 3865 EB 13399 x 6699 5815 4143 RIO 12071 x 6035 6133 4504 GORDO 10059 x 5030 6613 5077 DYZLXC 5997 x 2999 7585 6262 (ntn.com listed 9128 players)
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 3,929,500+ and LITBOX at 1,631,000 Players Plus points.
7:30pm...Triviaoke...ROCKET...12668/15000...3rd/8...1000+ points...I'm 41st in North America.
.........LITBOX...12684/15000...2nd/8...1000+ points...I'm 40th in NA...the bar is 7th in North America with a 12605 average....COSMO wins.
8:00pm...JukeBox...ROCKET...12304/14000...4th/11...1000+ points...I'm 14th in North America...the bar is 4th in NA with a 12486 average....METLCA wins and is 7th on the Top 20 with 12857.
...........LITBOX...12334/14000...2md/8...1000+ points...I'm 13th in North America.
8:30pm...Tuned In Trivia...ROCKET...9988/15000...5th/14...1000+ points...I'm 232nd in NA...bar is 12th in NA with a 10755 average.
...........LITBOX...9961/15000...6th/14...1000+ points...I'm 236th in NA...COSMO wins with 12304 and is 15th on the Top 20.
I need a lot of help in this game.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...13340/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 121st in NA.
.............LITBOX...13330/15000...3rd/7...1000+ points...I'm 123rd in NA...bar is 40th.
10:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...10437/15000...3rd/6...1000+ points...I'm 314th in NA.
..........LITBOX...10460/15000...2nd/6...1000+ points...I'm 312nd in NA...the bar is 99th as we now only have four working boards...COSMO wins.
I haven't played a regular Countdown game for a very long time. I stayed an extra half hour as Bill MADDOG was pleased that I'd taken digital pictures of his band last week and sent a beer over for me.
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