NTN Encore Question of November 1st, 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 all alone. One friend stayed home with his sick girlfriend and two others were at a Halloween party. There were two other players who started the game but they fled before the halfway point.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/3...no real guessing needed. .............LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/3. OnBeat...ROCKET...12000/14000...1st/3...I go 7 for 9 on both boards. ............LITBOX...12000/14000...1st/3...I miss the Alicia Keys as top AMA awards nominee after getting the Alicia Keys is a stage name for a question that I got wrong last year. I didn't know there'd be a remake of 'Footloose'. Jukebox...ROCKET...17162/20000...1st/4...ROCKET wins round. ............LITBOX...17123/20000...2nd/4. Triviaoke...ROCKET...19316/28000...1st/2. .............LITBOX...19256/28000...2nd/4...I take four -250s this round. There must have been lyrics to three current songs. I just cross the 20000 line and then take three -250s.
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I really wanted 20000 before the Encore question. Now the question comes up. Oh oh. I only know much about the Foo Fighters. Members of the group? This could be tough.
Encore Question:...Nirvana covered three songs from the ____________ in their 1993 appearance on 'MTV Unplugged'.:
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Hey. I had just played this album within the last two years because I was able to get a CD to replace my old cassette tape of this album. I remember this now. The band certainly has an unforgettable name.
Correct Answer:....4. Meat Puppets
[NTN Extra Fact:...Chris and Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets joined Nirvana in performing the songs.]
I'm right and win as ROCKET at 28974. I finish 16th on the Network Top 20 board for all North America. The bar is 85th in NA with just my two boards playing. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 17000 points.
(ntn.com moved us down to 97th out of 1569 bars with an 11831 average).
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank ROCKET 19316 28974 16 50 LITBOX 19256 28884 18 53 MAXDOG 1602 x 801 7410 5344 (this was not Bill MADDOG) GORDO 1000 x 500 7411 5578 (ntn.com listed 6641 players)
I was shocked that I showed up on the Network Top 20 board especially with the new policy of letting as many players from the same bar appear in the Top 20 as placements. I didn't think my game was that good but it proved that others found the game tough too. I don't know if playing with a group I could have done any better this week. (looking at the scores the next day it appears that NTN stopped listing more than 1 player from each bar in their Top 20 leader board).
Other games:...I started the evening with ROCKET at 4,068,900+ and LITBOX at 1,762,800+.
7:45pm...True/Half True/Total Lies...ROCKET and LITBOX...600/1000...my two are 251st in NA...GORDO wins.
8:00pm...Buzztime...ROCKET and LITBOX...8225/10000...1st/5...900+ points...I'm 31st on my two boards.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8952/10000...1st/6...900+ points...I'm 20th on the Network Top 20
.................LITBOX...8927/10000...2nd/6...900+ points...I'm 21st in NA...the bar is 19th in North America with 7161 points.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7930/10000...1st/5...900+ points...I'm 91st in NA.
.............LITBOX...7930/10000...1st/5...900+ points...I'm 91st in NA.
8:45pm...Tuned-in TV...ROCKET...5781/10000...1st/3...500+ points (couldn't make the 6000 points standard)...I'm 1648th in NA.
..............LITBOX...5781/10000...1st/3...500+ points...I'm 1648th in NA.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
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