NTN Encore Question of November 8th, 2008.
Played at The Squire & Firkin in Etobicoke, Ontario.
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Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX with Rob COSMO, Sean METLCA, and Phil PLBAAB.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/5...our five win round. .............LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/5. OnBeat...ROCKET...11500/14000...1st/5...we all go 7 for 9 in this round. ............LITBOX...11500/14000...1st/5...I get help on one to finish this well. Jukebox...ROCKET...17158/20000...5th/6...COSMO wins round. ............LITBOX...17179/20000...4th/6...Sean gets us the two Metallica questions even though it took once voting against the 'O Canada' category. Triviaoke...ROCKET...21089/28000...2nd/6. .............LITBOX...21101/28000...1st/6...I take two -250s this round. Another week of about three current songs that I've never heard and a bunch of one word answers. A few of them I took for very low positive scores.
I did get my 20000 target before the Encore question. Now the question comes up. "Pearl Jam?" was suggested. "Are all these songs done by them?" I wondered. Phil had been to a Meat Puppets concert (last week's Encore answer) so hoped he'd know about this other Seattle band's songs.
Encore Question:...Which Pearl Jam song opens as a soft ballad before kicking into high gear?
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I don't know this. None of us do. Well the only title I can play in my mind is "Even Flow" and that starts out pretty quick. Rob talks about splitting and covering what I don't take. I put both my boards on '3' but it is a one in four guess.
Correct Answer:....3. Better Man
[NTN Extra Fact:...Eddie Vedder wrote this song when he was still in high school.]
I'm right and win as LITBOX at 31651. I finish 2nd on the Network Top 20 board for all North America. The bar is 17th in NA with a 21516 average. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 17000 points.
(ntn.com kept our bar in 17th place out of 1643 bars).
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank LITBOX 21101 31651 2 2 ROCKET 21089 31633 3 3 METLCA 20641 x 10321 440 1290 COSMO 18419 x 9210 486 1455 PLBAAB 16513 24769 58 102 DOODLE 1471 x 735 7188 5670 (ntn.com listed 6737 players)
I have about my best ranking ever but felt ripped off that this question was about impossible to get unless you knew all the songs or this specific song. I only knew the start of 'Even Flow' even though I have the Pearl Jam greatest hits album "Rear View Mirror" which I've probably played only about three times. From the scores it looks like there weren't many other players knew this song either. Lucky guess for me!
Other games:...I'm visiting so don't know what my Players Plus totals are.
8:00pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7257/10000...3rd/5...900+ points...I'm 546th in NA.
..............LITBOX...7273/10000...2nd/5...900+ points...I'm 531st in NA...COSMO wins.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...5339/10000...1st/5...300+ points...I'm 455th in NA.
.................LITBOX...5335/10000...2nd/5...300+ points...I'm 456th in NA.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...5564/10000...2nd/5...300+ points...I'm 510th in NA.
.............LITBOX...5557/10000...3rd/5...300+ points...I'm 512th in NA...not sure who won.
those last two games were tough but less than 500 players across NA (less than 6000 score) would have made the bonus points in the last two games.
8:45pm...Tuned-in TV...ROCKET...6913/10000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 359th in NA.
..............LITBOX...6905/10000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 357th in NA...I needed help this game to make the bonus points at the 6000 level.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...ROCKET...3521/10000...2nd/6...300+ points...I'm 2613rd in NA...I leave my board on and go to the washroom to make up some of the P+ points I lost in the earlier games.
.............LITBOX...3489/10000...3rd/6...300+ points...I'm 2644th in NA...DOODLE wins.
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