NTN Encore Question of May 31st, 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 but not really playing with anyone except signalling to Ronny CHATZ with our answers if we were uncertain. Phil stops by while I'm playing but doesn't stay as he's upstairs in the party room.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...4th/8...I win as LITBOX with CHATZ and SEANTO. ...........LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/7...I split one answer about Neil Sedaka's song Calendar Girl. A different part of the song appeared last week in the Triviaoke round. OnBeat...ROCKET...12500/14000...2nd/8...I go 8 for 9 and win the round with my two boards. ..........LITBOX...13000/14000...1st/8...I miss the Vanilla Ice question as the story was month's old and other celebs had trials since. Jukebox...ROCKET...18494/20000...2nd/8...CHATZ wins round. ...........LITBOX...18994/20000...1st/8. Triviaoke...ROCKET...23994/28000...2nd/8...SEANTO wins round. ...........LITBOX...24494/28000...1sat/8...I take two -250 scores this round on the Neil Diamond and Michael Bolton songs. One word answers.
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Now the Encore answers come up. American cities. These places sound like hubs of Country music. This could be tough.
Encore Question:...Marc Cohn's only hit on the Billboard Top 40 charts about "Walkin' In" which town?
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Groan. Everyone knows this one. This question has been asked in various forms many times over the years. We're not going to move our bar score up on this question.
Correct Answer:....5. Memphis
[NTN Extra Fact:...This song helped Cohn win a 1991 Grammy for Best New Artist.]
I'm right and win as LITBOX at 36741. I finish 63rd overall in North America. The bar is 30th in NA. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 18000. I finish 5th on this bar's newly reset Hall of Fame which finally has all ten slots filled.
(ntn.com moved our bar up to 25th out of 1852 locations with a 35426 average.)
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank LITBOX 24494 36741 63 165 ROCKET 23994 35991 81 211 SEANTO 23466 35199 108 272 CHATZ 23315 34972 116 292 DEB 22820 34260 147 349 LEAFS 18554 27831 513 1178 GORDO 18343 27514 7940 1214 XFIRE 18096 27144 7941 1266 (ntn.com listed 7689 players)
Other games:...I start the game with ROCKET at 3,965,400+ and LITBOX at 1,664,500+ Players Plus points.
7:30pm...True/HalfTrue/TotalLie...ROCKET/LITBOX...I answered the last two questions and got them both wrong for 0 points.
8:00pm...JukeBox...ROCKET...10115/14000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 54th overall in North America...the bar is 62nd in NA as we didn't pick up a 4th and 5th player until the last six questions.
........LITBOX...10135/14000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 53rd in NA.
8:30pm...Tuned In Trivia...ROCKET...10562/15000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 352nd in NA...bar is 114th in NA.
...........LITBOX...10523/15000...3rd/5...1000+ points...I'm 359th in NA
I get the two The Simpsons questions for 1000 points each.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
I had been to the MLS soccer game this afternoon and had been soaked in the rain during the game. I had enough time to get home and change clothes to come here about half hour later than usual. I wanted to spend some time with my father so I cut out right after Playback and only one beer and went home to spend time with him.
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