NTN Encore Question of May 24th, 2008.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York, Ontario.
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Tonight I'm playing with three boards as ROCKET and LITBOX and TYGER with Tom CUE, Bill MADDOG, Ronny CHATZ and William LEAFS. William doesn't get here until after the TuneUp round. Gordon GORDO is behind me listening in I'm sure. I have a third board as Kevin left before the game started and I'd just asked for a second board as I wasn't sure when he'd leave.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/7...I win by splitting my boards on a guess I make. ...........LITBOX...4500/5000...2nd/7. ...........TYGER...4500/5000. OnBeat...ROCKET...14000/14000...1st/8...we sweep through this round 9 for 9. ..........LITBOX...13500/14000...2nd/8...Ronny gets us a key answer with Kanye West breaking off his engagement. I had read that a few months ago but forgot about it. ..........TYGER...13500/14000...2nd/8. Jukebox...ROCKET...19995/20000...1st/8...CUE and LEAFS win round with 6000. ...........LITBOX...19495/20000...3rd/8. ...........TYGER...19323/20000...4th/8...can't run a third board as fast as the others. Triviaoke...ROCKET...27853/28000...1st/8...CHATZ wins round. ...........LITBOX...27353/28000...3rd/8...I take no -250 scores this round. Ronny gets us the Fresh Prince tv theme which I didn't know. ...........TYGER...26960/28000...4th/8.
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The others speculate that we may have the top bar score if we get the Encore right. They push the staff that we deserve a beer to our top 5 players if we hit that ranking.
Now the Encore answers come up. Comedians. Isn't this a music game? Well it must be from one of their movies. Ronny thinks it might be Jim Carrey singing "Somebody To Love" from The Cable Guy. Good idea!
Encore Question:...Which funny man has hit the Top 40 charts twice with the same song in or around December?
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The word 'December' gives it away for me. Christmas song...OK got to be Adam Sandler. Yeah I got some lyrics wrong in a Triviaoke round when they had this song in it. I say it first and applause erupts as we know we should rank high.
Correct Answer:....4. Adam Sandler
[NTN Extra Fact:...Adam Sandler's "The Chanukah Song" was a Top 40 hit in 1995 and 1998.]
I'm right and win as ROCKET at 41779. I finish 1st on the Network Top 20 board for all North America and the bar is listed as 2nd on the Network Top 20 with a 40831 average. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard which I miss seeing. I finish 1st on
this bar's newly reset Hall Of Fame board.
(ntn.com kept our bar in 2nd place out of 1773 locations)
I'm given a free beer for being the Number 1 ranked player. I've never been the #1 player in a Playback game in the 12 years that I've been playing. It felt great! It was that bit of help that I need that turn my good scores into great ones.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank ROCKET 27853 41779 1 1 CUE 27441 41161 4 6 LITBOX 27353 41029 5 8 TYGER 26960 40440 6 11 CHATZ 26500 39750 9 19 MADDOG 24883 37325 49 108 GORDO 24740 37110 54 126 LEAFS 19659 29488 365 817 (ntn.com listed 8072 players)
Other games:...I start the game with ROCKET at 3,958,000+ and LITBOX at 1,659,000+ Players Plus points.
7:30pm...Truths, Half True, or a Total Lie...ROCKET...600/????...1st/4...????+ points...I'm 171st in NA.
I joined this game halfway in. I've never played this game before and found myself answering at the wrong time or missing the question not realising it was a followup.
8:00pm...JukeBox...ROCKET...12900/14000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 9th overall in North America...the bar is 6th in NA with a 12256 average.
CUE wins with 13113 and is ranked 6th on the Network Top 20.
8:30pm...Tuned In Trivia...ROCKET...9436/15000...3rd/7...1000+ points...I'm 243rd in NA...bar is 61st in NA.
...........LITBOX...2447/15000...7th/7...500+ points...I'm 5151st in NA...I get this board in time for the last 10 questions.
I need a lot of help in this game. It takes until the last question for me to make the 9000 point standard.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV Countdown...ROCKET...11337/15000...2nd/8...1000+ points...I'm 248th in NA...CUE wins.
.............LITBOX...11317/15000...3rd/8...1000+ points...I'm 249th in NA...bar is 48th in NA.
I start the next game but because William left, his space fills up with Ultimate Fight Fans. I can't even see my friends and finish my extra beer and leave.
I expected soccer to be pushed off the televisions when the playoff hockey started but that got pushed aside when this PPV started. The bar won't see these people until the next PPV however that seems to be happening once a month now.
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