NTN Encore Question of September 13th, 2008.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York, Ontario.

Answers:

  1. Stevie Wonder
  2. Smokey Robinson
  3. Lionel Richie
  4. Marvin Gaye
  5. Michael Jackson

Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX with Rob COSMO/METLCA and Phil PLBAAB.

My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/11...our five boards win this round with MADDOG. 
............LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/11...
OnBeat...ROCKET...14000/14000...1st/11...I go 9 for 9 and our five boards win this round.
.............LITBOX...14000/14000...1st/11...Rob gets us one of these that I may have missed.  
I've brought an old copy of Billboard instead of this weeks.
Jukebox...ROCKET...19768/20000...4th/11...PLBAAB wins round. 
............LITBOX...19757/20000...5th/11.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...26256/28000...2nd/11...ROCKET wins round.
.............LITBOX...26223/28000...3rd/11...we take one -250 in this round.

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Now the Encore answers come up. These artists have all been with Motown Records but what could this question be?

Encore Question:...Who sang a duet with Diana Ross in the 1973 hit "You're A Special Part Of Me"?

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I see duo and immediately think of 'Endless Love' with Lionel Richie but that's not the question! I don't know this. Rob says the answer. I don't have anything better and start thinking who it wouldn't be. Lionel Richie wasn't famous that long ago. That year is just before The Commodores had their first hit. Michael Jackson was very young back then and had a song with the phrase of the answer but that was decades later.

Correct Answer:....4. Marvin Gaye

[NTN Extra Fact:...It was the first of two hits as a duo with the second being "My Mistake (Was To Love You)".]

I'm right and stay in 2nd place as ROCKET with 39384. I finish 12th for all North America. The bar is 3rd in North America with a 39077 average.. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 16000 points. Rob finishes 4th on the Network Top 20 and 2nd on this bar's Hall of Fame. (NTN.com kept our bar in 3rd place out of 1477 locations.)

Here's how the rest of the bar did: 
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank
COSMO	26359		39538	  11	  11
ROCKET	26256		39384	  12	  12
LITBOX	26223		39334	  13	  15
METLCA	26168		39252	  15	  15
PLBAAB	25252		37878	  28	  23
CHATZ	20217		30325	 112	 115
MADDOG	19173		28759	 140	 139
PEDRO	15641		23461	 263	 269
NIK	 7824	x	 3912	3565	3461
JOJO	 6748	x	 3374	4080	3674
ART	 5417	x	 2709	4717	3946
(ntn.com listed 5982 players)

I had enough time to take the transit home from a soccer game, change clothes from the wet then walk through the rain to get here later than usual. The rain was nothing compared the hurricane in the Southern USA so explains the low count of players out this week.

Other games:
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...68xx/10000...2nd/7...900+ points.
.........LITBOX...68xx/10000...1st/7...900+ points...I'm 68th in NA.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...6658/10000...4th/8...900+ points...I'm 395th in NA.
............LITBOX...6645/10000...900+ points...5th/8...the bar is 8th in NA with a 7389 average.
8:45pm...Tuned-In TV...ROCKET...8888/10000...1st/8...1000+ points.
............LITBOX...8849/10000...2nd/8...1000+ points.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
I finish the evening as ROCKET with 4,051,900 in P+ points and LITBOX with 1,745,800 P+ points.

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