NTN Encore Question of September 20th, 2008.
Played at The Squire & Firkin in Etobicoke, Ontario.

Answers:

  1. Bob Seger
  2. Rob Thomas
  3. Gordon Lightfoot
  4. Bob Dylan
  5. Paul Simon

Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX with Rob COSMO/BBBB, Sean METLCA and Phil PLBAAB. LeAnn is here too but not playing.

My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...2nd/6...METLCA wins with 5000. 
............LITBOX...4500/5000...2nd/6.
OnBeat...ROCKET...13500/14000...1st/6...I go 9 for 9 and win this round on my two boards.
.............LITBOX...13500/14000...1st/6...Rob gets us two and I guess one with a few seconds to go.  
Jukebox...ROCKET...19471/20000...1st/6...COSMO wins round. 
............LITBOX...19464/20000...2nd/6.
Tonight's theme was decades like The 50s or The 60s.  This had been done about a month ago.
We did quite well at it with me getting the choices I wanted.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...24459/28000...3rd/7...LITBOX wins round.
.............LITBOX...25727/28000...1st/7...I think I take one -250 in this round.  Also I didn't check what I was 
pressing by looking down on the ROCKET board turning 1000 to -250.  Well at table and looking sideways 
and upward at a monitor it can happen.

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Now the Encore answers come up. Just then the canned music starts playing "Old Time Rock And Roll" and Rob and I notice the message. Male singers but what would this be?

Encore Question:...Born with the surname Zimmerman, which artist got his stage name from a Welsh poet?

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I only needed until the fifth word before I blurted out the answer. I've read this many times over the years and even think this question has been brought up after an answer as an extra fact. I then read out who the poet they were referring to. Let's just make sure we've all answered.

Correct Answer:....4. Bob Dylan

[NTN Extra Fact:...Robert Allen Zimmerman took his stage name from 20th century poet Dylan Thomas.]

I'm right and win as LITBOX with 38590. I finish 6th on the Network Top 20 for all North America. The bar is 4th in North America with a 36590 average.. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 19000 points. I finish 4th on this bar's Hall of Fame. (NTN.com kept our bar in 4th place out of 1553 locations.)

Here's how the rest of the bar did: 
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank
LITBOX	25727		38590	  24	  23
PLBAAB	24501		36751	  44	  34
ROCKET	24459		36688	  45	  35
COSMO	23703		35655	  56	  45
BBBB	23578		35367	  58	  47
METLCA	23179		34768	  64	  59
DOODLE	 -429	     	   0	7809	----
(ntn.com listed 6641 players)

Other games:...I'm visiting so don't know what my P+ points are.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...4156/10000...2nd/2...300+ points.
.........LITBOX...4163/10000...1st/2...300+ points...too far away to see any rankings. I got here in time for the last 5 questions.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...6759/10000...1st/5...900+ points...I'm 301st in NA.
............LITBOX...6729/10000...900+ points...2nd/5...I'm 308th in NA.
8:45pm...Tuned-In TV...ROCKET...8452/10000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 109th in NA out of 6217 players.
............LITBOX...8434/10000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 111th in NA.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).

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