NTN Encore Question of August 30th, 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 Phil PLBAAB/METLCA. I rounded up enough boards early enough that we get the five we need to rank the bar. Sean who usually plays as METLCA is not here tonight.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/8...our five boards win this round. ............LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/8...I didn't really have to guess anything this round. OnBeat...ROCKET...12000/14000...1st/8...I go 7 for 9 and our five boards win this round. .............LITBOX...12000/14000...1st/8...I needed help from Rob for three of these answers as I haven't had time to keep up on current affairs. Jukebox...ROCKET...17205/20000...2nd/8...COSMO wins round. ............LITBOX...17183/20000...3rd/8...full marks for me for each of them until the final question when I couldn't get a Beach Boys place name lyric from 'Surfin USA'. The theme of all categories was decades. I got all the ones I wanted. I went with the more recent decades except for the 21st century which may have been some old OnBeat questions. Triviaoke...ROCKET...22432/28000...3rd/8...COSMO wins round. .............LITBOX...22410/28000...4th/8...I take at least two -250s in this round.
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Now the Encore answers come up. I don't really have time to think about the similarities or differences in these choices. I explain who D'Angelo is.
Encore Question:...In 1996 who had a hit with a cover version of Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly"?
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Rob says the answer first which is appropriate as he's winning this game. I back him up as I know the song and know the lead was a woman's voice and this group is the only one with a female singer.
Correct Answer:....5. The Fugees
[NTN Extra Fact:...The remake was on the goup's second album titled "The Score" and was a cross over hit.]
I'm right and stay in 3rd as ROCKET at 33648. I finish 97th for all North America. The bar is 8th in NA on the Network Top 20 with a 33810 average. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 16000 points.
(NTN.com kept us in 8th place out of 1555 bars)
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank COSMO 23606 34590 71 70 PLBAAB 22507 33761 94 88 ROCKET 22432 33648 97 90 LITBOX 22410 33615 98 93 METLCA 22292 33438 103 100 GORDO 8193 x 4097 4221 3587 JOJO 5615 x 2807 5161 4125 A RT 183 x 165 7085 5850 (ntn.com listed 6136 players)
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 4,028,400+ and LITBOX at 1,722,600+ points.
7:45pm...ROCKET/LITBOX...500/1000...place?...400+...I'm 501st in NA. I was fiddling with my P+ scores so missed the first three questions.
8:00pm...Odd Couples...ROCKET/LITBOX...4250/10000...place?...3000+ points (well worth the 15 minutes work to earn this much)...I'm 151st in NA.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET/LITBOX...6261/10000...5th/8...900+ points...I'm 402nd in NA...bar is 12th in NA with 7072 average. PLBAAB wins.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET/LITBOX...8000/10000...1st/8...900+ points...I'm 26th in NA.
the Network Top 20 lists me as 18th in NA...bar is 4th in NA with an 8759 average.
8:45pm...Tuned-In TV...ROCKET/LITBOX...8000/10000...1st/8...1000+ points...missed rankings...I started out with 8000 and took 0's for the last two questions.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
I ended the evening with ROCKET at 4,038,200+ and LITBOX with 1,732,800 Players Plus points so somehow I must have missed how much these games were worth.
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