NTN Encore Question of August 9th, 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. We are working much like a team for this game with William LEAFS, Bill MADDOG, Gord GORDO, and Ronny CHATZ. My game so far had gone like this.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/6...my two boards win. ...........LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/6...didn't really have to guess any but Ronny got me one. OnBeat...ROCKET...13000/14000...1st/6...I go 8 for 9 with my two boards to win with CHATZ and LEAFS. ..........LITBOX...13000/14000...1st/6...Ronny got me one...we couldn't get the one about which airport DMX was arrested in. That would make three arrests in two weeks. Jukebox...ROCKET...17206/20000...2nd/6...MADDOG wins round. ...........LITBOX...17275/20000...1st/6...I didn't want the category "Sounds like a movie" which were movies named after songs. Movie title and who starred in it then five oldies song titles. I'm not a movie buff. Triviaoke...ROCKET...21421/28000...2nd/6...my two boards win round. ...........LITBOX...21490/28000...1st/6...I take three -250 scores which doesn't please me at all.
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Now the Encore answers come up. Male singers. I don't really think about this except to remember that Paul McCartney was last week's answer.
Encore Question:...Although Jimi Hendrix hit it big with "All Along The Watchtower" it was recorded first by:
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I know this. I've read this in various places but what I remember most was...Bill...who had talked about this years ago. Bill swore in discust, then told the others the answer then stomped off. He had been upset by the last round because he said he started with 16000 and finished with 16000 in the rough Triviaoke round. Bill had a friend that years ago was writing a book about Jimi Hendrix. Well William said later he didn't know and Ronny said the same thing so maybe only Bill felt it was too easy.
Correct Answer:....3. Bob Dylan
[NTN Extra Fact:...Although Bob Dylan is the orginal songwriter, he now thinks of it as a tribute tune to Hendrix.]
I'm right and win as LITBOX at 32235. I finish 57th in North America. The bar is 19th in NA with a 29905 average. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 17000 points.
(ntn.com moved this bar up to 18th out of 1700 bars)
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank LITBOX 21490 32235 57 113 ROCKET 21421 32131 60 125 CHATZ 21140 31710 69 149 LEAFS 18972 28458 170 368 MADDOG 16662 24993 349 704 GORDO 15870 23805 407 841 (ntn.com listed 7761 players)
After this game I went home for three reasons. I wanted to get home to check my taping of Olympics coverage, I hate the new "Know Your Server" NTN game, and the PPV for Ultimate Fighting started with the volume turned up to full blast causing all talk about impossible.
Other games:....
I didn't get here until after 8:30pm as it was raining hard and the Olympics were on television.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...4000/10000...3rd/5...3564th/8463 players...LEAFS wins.
...........LITBOX...4000/10000...3rd/5...3564th/8463 players...I'm here in time for the last six questions.
8:45pm...Tuned-In...ROCKET...7082/10000...2nd/6...262nd/9121 players...LEAFS wins.
...........LITBOX...7082/10000...2nd/6...I'm 262nd/9121 players.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
I ended the evening with ROCKET at 4,023,500+ and LITBOX at 1,722,600+ Players Plus points. I don't know if any other game I play now besides Playback earns me P+ points.
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