NTN Encore Question of December 27th, 2008.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York, Ontario.
Answers:
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/8...our five boards win round. .............LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/8. OnBeat...ROCKET...14000/14000...1st/8...our five boards win round with CHATZ and GORDO. ............LITBOX...14000/14000...1st/8. We go 9 right and 0 wrong. Only one we didn't know but it just seemed like a song title and secret way that Prince would do business. Maybe Sean would have got the "Rockstar guitar game will feature Metallica" a second before me if he'd have been here tonight. Jukebox...ROCKET...18750/20000...1st/8...my two boards win round. ............LITBOX...18750/20000...1st/8. We all took -250 on the lyrics to a Dave Matthews Band song when the last clue didn't give away the answer. Triviaoke...ROCKET...24983/28000...2nd/8. .............LITBOX...24075/28000...4th/8. I took one -250 on each board and one more on the LITBOX board when I switched my answer from a +600 to a wrong one but it didn't take for my ROCKET board thankfully.
Now the Encore question comes up. This is a mix. Three Country acts plus two others. What could this be about?
Encore Question:...Born in Georgia in 1958 he has recorded a dozen albums on the Arista Nashville label:
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I don't know this exactly but think I should be able to get the right answer. That music label confirms that it would be a Country music artist so that puts out jazz/R&B singer Al Jarreau and REM singer Michael Stipe (I don't know if he's had any music released that wasn't part of his group). The place of birth puts out New Zealand born Keith Urban (I know he was raised in Australia) so that leaves two choices. I figured George Strait was older that Alan Jackson to have enough time to release albums like "50 Number Ones". Alan Jackson has had more than 12 albums but not on the label they listed but he is younger than George Strait. I was born in 1958 and just turned 50 last week and thought I had something in common with Alan Jackson that I must mentally have made a note of years ago. I scored big many years ago on an Encore for Alan Jackson about a week after seeing a Biography episode. His wife whose maiden name was also Jackson but no relation was a flight attendant who slipped a cassette tape that Alan made to singer Glen Campbell. [yep that game was February 28th, 2004]
Correct Answer:....2. Alan Jackson
[NTN Extra Fact:...The Country superstar has sold more than 50 million records since 1989.]
I'm right and stay in 2nd place as ROCKET at 37474. I finish 3rd overall in North America. The bar is 2nd in NA with a 36403 average....I earn 3000+ points for making this week's 19000 standard...COSMO wins and places 2nd on the Network Top 20...He is about 6th on this bar's Hall of Fame.
(ntn.com kept our bar in 2nd out of 1817 locations)
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank COSMO 25036 37554 2 14 ROCKET 24983 37474 3 15 METLCA 24748 37122 4 16 LITBOX 24075 37122 5 17 PLBAAB 22504 33756 14 43 CHATZ 18486 27729 90 205 GORDO 17426 26139 129 272 MADDOG 14578 21867 264 524 (ntn.com listed 8683 players)
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 4,131,300+ and LITBOX at 1,824,900+ Players Plus points
7:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...5369/10000...2nd/6...300+ points...I'm 430th in NA.
...........LITBOX...5360/10000...3rd/6...3rd/6...300+ points...I'm 433rd in NA...COSMO wins.
I'm here in time for the last 7 questions.
7:45pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8251/10000...2nd/6...900+ points...I'm 14th on the Network Top 20 in NA.
..........LITBOX...8257/10000...1st/6...900+ points...I'm 15th in NA...the bar is 7th in NA with a 7753 average.
8:00pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8089/10000...3rd/6...900+ points...I'm 122nd in NA.
..............LITBOX...8077/10000...4th/6...900+ points...I'm 124th in NA...The bar is 12th in NA with an 8387 average.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7574/10000...2nd/6...900+ points...I miss the standings.
............LITBOX...7597/10000...1st/6...900+ points...I miss the standings...bar is 8th in NA.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...6856/10000...2nd/6...900+ points...I'm 243rd in NA...PLBAAB wins.
.................LITBOX...6841/10000...3rd/6...900+ points...I'm 246th in NA.
8:45pm...Tuned-in TV...ROCKET...8688/10000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 28th in NA...the bar is 7th in NA with an 8778 average.
..............LITBOX...8708/10000...1st/7...1000+ points...I'm 27th in NA...I needed lots of help in this game.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...ROCKET...8856/10000...1st/8...900+ points...I'm 45th in NA.
.............LITBOX...8854/10000...2nd/8...900+ points...I'm 45th* in NA...bar is 12th in NA with an 9535 average.
I didn't have a tie score yet both my boards were ranked 45th.
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