NTN Encore Question of June 21st, 2008.
Played at The Squire & Firkin in Etobicoke, Ontario.
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Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX with Rob COSMO, Sean METLCA, and Phil PLBAAB. We're the only ones here playing the game.
I've come here directly from the Toronto FC soccer game. I had expected I'd have had time to go home and drop off my stuff and then take the subway here but service was slow and then it was announced that shuttle buses were in service between a segment the line that I needed to use. Some passenger said he could translate the coded messages and he said "someone jumped in front of the train at St Clair station". Well I waited until the subway made it's way to the last station before we were forced off the train and phoned my father to see if he was alright. I just happened to be at the east-west line that would take me to the Squire & Firkin which was this week's meeting place. I also had brought my MP3 player that doubles up as a voice recorder so I should be fine recording the final question.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/5...all five of us get this round right. Nothing to guess at this week. ...........LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/5. OnBeat...ROCKET...13000/14000...2nd/5...I go 8 for 9...COSMO wins round with 9 for 9. ..........LITBOX...13000/14000...2nd/5. At least two questions about the ACM Country Music Awards. I read that Kenny Chesney won again for Entertainer of the Year because he said he felt the fans shouldn't have the power to vote in that category but later took that statement back. I had some help in this category to do this well. Jukebox...ROCKET...18705/20000...3rd/5...COSMO wins round. ...........LITBOX...18724/20000...2nd/5. Another few ACM Awards questions that couldn't be avoided but I did quite well. Triviaoke...ROCKET...26413/28000...3rd/5...COSMO wins round. ...........LITBOX...26433/28000...2nd/5...I take no -250s this week in this round.
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Now the Encore answers come up. Male singers.
Encore Question:...Which hit song from Neil Diamond is subtitled "Good Times Never Seemed So Good"?
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We'd already ruled that it was a Neil Diamond song from just the choice of answers.
Rob says it first which is appropriate as he had the lead tonight. I have to add the line after that one. This seems like another Triviaoke question but it's OK as we all know this.
Correct Answer:....2. Sweet Caroline
[NTN Extra Fact:...In 2007, Neil revealed that Caroline Kennedy was the inspiration for the song.]
I'm right and stay in 2nd place as LITBOX with 39649 points. I finish 9th overall in North America. The bar is 8th on the Network Top 20 with a 38158 average. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 16000. COSMO wins with 39000 and is 1st on this bar's Hall of Fame board. He is 3rd on the Network Top 20 board.
[ntn.com kept us in 8th place out of 1832 bars]
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank COSMO 27464 41196 3 12 LITBOX 26433 39649 9 37 ROCKET 26413 39619 10 38 METLCA 23821 35731 75 188 PLBAAB 23064 34596 111 272 (ntn.com listed 7472 players)
Other games:...I'm visiting so don't know what my Players Plus points are.
7:30pm...Odd Couples...ROCKET/LITBOX...1250/8000 on each board...1st/2...I'm 4148th in NA...I joined this game in progress. I've never played it before...the bar is 1374th.
7:45pm...True/HalfTrue/TotalLie...ROCKET/LITBOX...I get 600/1200 on each board...I'm 1st/2...I earn 400+ points for getting a score over 500 in this game...I'm 201st in North America. The bar is 285th in NA.
8:00pm...JukeBox...ROCKET...10894/14000...2nd/4...1000+ points...I'm 96th overall in North America...the bar is 93rd.
........LITBOX...11401/14000...1st/4...1000+ points...I'm 66th in NA.
I didn't like how 'slow' my ROCKET board was for taking answers so switched between games.
8:30pm...Tuned In Trivia...ROCKET...11646/15000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 156th in NA...bar is 71st in NA.
...........LITBOX...11792/15000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 132nd in NA
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
9:30pm...RetroTV...ROCKET...12623/15000...3rd/6...1000+ points...I'm 105th in NA...bar is 48th in NA.
............LITBOX...12662/15000...2nd/6...1000+ points...I'm 103rd in NA...COSMO wins.
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