NTN Encore Question of January 17th, 2009.
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/METLCA and Phil PLBAAB.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...3500/5000...6th/11...BEAHR wins with 4500. .............LITBOX...3500/5000...6th/11...not a good round for us. OnBeat...ROCKET...12500/14000...1st/11...our five boards sweep this round. ............LITBOX...12500/14000...1st/11...Phil got us one but otherwise I am the one calling out the answers. Jukebox...ROCKET...18427/20000...1st/11...my two boards win this round. ............LITBOX...18427/20000...1st/11...we do quite well this round although I'm agitated by serving staff constantly interrupting us to ask how the guys like their food. Their fault for fiddling around not ordering food sooner. We let Rob choose the Folk-rock category and the questions were easy. Triviaoke...ROCKET...22698/28000...3rd/11...COSMO wins round. .............LITBOX...22678/28000...4th/11...I take two -250s this round. Rob gets one of those right and pulls well into the lead...Rob got me another where I actually listened to him.
Now the Encore question comes up. Song titles. All from around the same era. I know all the songs and who sang them so what could they ask?
Encore Question:...Which of these hit songs from 1979 would best be played at a disco?
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I've just got to think of which one is the most danceable with a perky beat. Many of these are slow but I have to wait for the answers to come up before I can remember the choices.
Rob says the answer first. Of course, the video I remember had the group under a disco ball. I was thinking of this group earlier this game under Music Museums when discussing turning down entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and I was going to mention the group turning up with members who had already left the group to share a spot on stage. I saw this group at the CNE Stadium with a then almost unknown group named Duran Duran.
Correct Answer:....4. Heart Of Glass
[NTN Extra Fact:...Blondie got a lot of heat from other bands for recording the song in a disco style.]
This was fairly easy as compared to the Encore of the last month or so. I had a feeling that tonight would be easy. I wonder if people had been complaining? I didn't think we played a good game to rank too as one of the best bars though.
I'm right and stay in 3rd with ROCKET at 34047. I finish 12th overall in all North America. The bar is 4th in North America with a 34648 average...I earn 3000+ points for making this week's 17000 standard.
Rob wins and is #4 in North America and 8th on this bar's Hall of Fame (last week he was 7th).
(ntn.com left us in 4th place out of 2003 bars).
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank COSMO 24518 36777 4 17 METLCA 24222 36333 6 21 ROCKET 22698 34047 12 48 LITBOX 22678 34017 13 51 PLBAAB 21378 32067 29 80 CHATZ 20386 30579 59 130 HABSES 17626 26439 197 387 GORDO 15097 22645 396 857 RIO 14128 15540 898 2051 BEAHR 12356 18534 601 1543 BEAN 5122 x 2561 7455 6504 (ntn.com listed 9724 players)
Ronnie CHATZ comes over after the game and says he can't beat us. He had got 7 of 9 in the OnBeat round and that was the only difference as he stayed just behind us the rest of the game. If I'd have played solo he could have beat me.
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 4,165,400 P+ points (the same as last week so maybe by scores didn't record) and LITBOX at 1,848,300 P+ Players Plus points.
7:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8600/10000...1st/6...900+ points...I'm 4th on the Network Top 20 for all North America.
...............LITBOX...8581/10000...2nd/6...900+ points...I'm 5th in NA...the bar was 2nd in NA with an 8066 average. Only Rob and I are here and I run the METCLA board into 3rd place to help our bar average.
7:45pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...5747/10000...3rd/6...300+ points...I'm 614th in NA.
..............LITBOX...5726/10000...4th/6...300+ points...I'm 622nd in NA...I couldn't make the 6000 point standard...COSMO wins
8:00pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...6503/10000...2nd/6...900+ points...I'm 451st in NA.
..............LITBOX...6503/10000...2nd/6...900+ points...I'm 451st in NA.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...9775/10000...1st/6....900+ points...I'm 13th on the Network Top 20 in NA.
............LITBOX...9733/10000...2nd/6...900+ points...I'm 17th in NA...the bar was 2nd in NA with an 9575 average.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...5480/10000...1st/6...300+ points...I'm 671st in NA.
.................LITBOX...5437/10000...2nd/6th...300+ points...I'm 689th in NA...I can't make the 6000 point standard for the second time tonight.
8:45pm...Tuned-in TV...ROCKET...7841/10000...2nd/6...1000+ points...I'm 222nd in NA...COSMO wins.
..............LITBOX...7778/10000...3rd/6...1000+ points...I'm 237th in NA...I got lots of help in this game.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...ROCKET...7841/10000 (same score as at 8:45pm)...1st/7...900+ points...I'm 149th in NA.
.............LITBOX...7820/10000...2nd/7...900+ points...I'm 153rd in NA.
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