NTN Encore Question of December 6th, 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, Sean METLCA and Phil PLBAAB.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...3rd/12...COSMO and PLBAAB win with 5000. .............LITBOX...4500/5000...3rd/12. I should have known that Elvis and John Lennon don't have the same birthdays. OnBeat...ROCKET...12500/14000...3rd/12...our five boards go 8 for 9. ............LITBOX...12500/14000...3rd/12. The band that went into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame was made a lot easier with Loverboy being the only Canadian band of the choices. Jukebox...ROCKET...17569/20000...3rd/12...LITBOX wins round. COSMO is in the lead. ............LITBOX...17628/20000...2nd/12...I got all the categories I wanted. Triviaoke...ROCKET...22694/28000...4th/12. .............LITBOX...22753/28000...3rd/12. I take two -250s in this round (one of the a Gin Blossoms song--the round before I guessed their home town by throwing out the other choices)...at least there were less one word answers.
Now the Encore question comes up. Songs and Artists? I should have thought there might be mismatches but had to much to dictate into my micro-recorder.
Encore Question:...Which current hit song is *NOT* correctly matched with its singer?
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Process of elimination then. Before I can see the answers again I can match Disturbia with Rihanna although I mixed the song up with Rehab thinking they might ask that Justin Timberlake was in the video and wrote the song. The answers come back and there goes Chris Brown as they asked about him in the OnBeat round. Taylor Swift--song and album title. Now that leaves '1' and '3' which I tell the others. I say I'm going with '3'. I didn't think that was Akon but I know very little about Jason Mraz. I had my Billboard magazine open to the Top 100 as I wanted to read up between rounds and I was glad I didn't put the magazine back in my bag. There's the Akon song named 'Right Now (Na Na Na)' although these days artists sometimes have six songs on the charts at once because of counting downloads. Found Jason Mraz as a matchup. "It's 3 I'm sure of it" I say to break up any thought of answer splitting. So I was right on first thought.
Correct Answer:....3. Better In Time--Akon
[NTN Extra Fact:...'Better In Time' is a hit for Leona Lewis.]
I didn't have time to sort this within 30 seconds from the December 6th issue of Billboard but the listing was #13 Jason Mraz, #40 Chris Brown, #10 Akon, NA Taylor Swift (not currently on the Top 100 with Fearless), #17 Rihanna and #18 for the Leona Lewis song.
On Saturday Night Live, tonight's musical guest was TI probably singing the answer to last week's Encore.
I'm right and stay in 3rd as LITBOX at 34129. I finish 16th overall for all North America. The bar is 6th in NA with a 33276 average. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 16000 points...COSMO wins and places 12th on the Network Top 20.
The Top 20 bar scores were really low with 21K earning a spot on the list. A lot of the other people in the bar either had stopped playing or arrived here late.
(ntn.com kept our bar in 6th out of 1642 locations)
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank COSMO 23047 34570 12 35 METLCA 23042 34563 13 36 LITBOX 22753 34129 16 44 ROCKET 22694 34041 17 45 PLBAAB 19385 29077 57 118 SLADER 12839 x 6419 2142 2309 HAL 12641 x 6321 2219 2350 LAX 6449 x 3225 4644 3812 ART 3590 x 1795 5764 4655 JOJO 3562 x 1781 5775 4662 MGS 1500 x 750 6582 5610 GG 1479 x 739 6591 5709 PATS 500 x 250 6974 6114 (ntn.com listed 6729 players)
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 4,106,400+ and LITBOX at 1,800,000+ Players Plus points
7:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8030/10000...1st/9...900+ points...I'm 70th in NA.
....................LITBOX...8030/10000...1st/9...900+ points...I'm 70th in NA.
7:45pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...9849/10000...2nd/9...900+ points...I'm 4th in NA.
..........LITBOX...9850/10000...1st/9...900+ points...I'm 3rd in NA...bar is 3rd in NA with an 8319 average.
8:00pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8754/10000...1st/9...900+ points...I'm 77th in NA.
..............LITBOX...8754/10000...1st/9...900+ points...I'm 77th in NA.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7923/10000...1st/9...900+ points...I'm 66th in NA.
.................LITBOX...7901/10000...2nd/9...900+ points...I'm 68th in NA.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...6630/10000...2nd/11...900+ points...I'm 407th in NA...COSMO wins.
.............LITBOX...6608/10000...3rd/11...900+ points...I'm 412nd in NA.
8:45pm...Tuned-in TV...ROCKET...7754/10000...1st/11...1000+ points...I'm 97th in NA.
..............LITBOX...7754/10000...1st/11...1000+ points...I'm 97th in NA....I needed lots of help in this game.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...ROCKET...8254/10000...1st/5...900+ points...I'm 63rd in NA.
.............LITBOX...8254/10000...1st/5...900+ points...our bar is 18th in NA with a 7307 average.
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