NTN Encore Question of January 24th, 2009.
Played at The Squire & Firkin in Etobicoke, Ontario.
Answers:
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/5...COSMO and METLCA win with 5000. .............LITBOX...4000/5000...5th/5...Rob points out that the Olivia Newton-John birthplace question could not have the right answer. She was born in Cambridge England but the choices were Scotland and Australia. He figured out the NTN answer would be Australia which was where she was raised from the age of five. I chose Scotland and was wrong. Phil got us an answer and I split another. OnBeat...ROCKET...13500/14000...3rd/5...our five boards sweep this round. ............LITBOX...13000/14000...5th/5...Phil got us one. Jukebox...ROCKET...18542/20000...4th/5...PLBAAB wins round. ............LITBOX...18041/20000...5th/5. Triviaoke...ROCKET...24503/28000...3rd/5...ROCKET wins round. .............LITBOX...23999/28000...4th/5...I take one -250s this round.
Now the Encore question comes up. Country artists? Well one of them isn't. We've got a good score until now.
Encore Question:...The Academy of Country Music Awards named ________________ as the Artist of the Decade for the 2000's:
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Well I can put Ted Nugent out as expected because he's not a Country Artist. Now what? Well we're in for Kenny Chesney. Hmm couldn't be Shania Twain as she had those 'all time best selling albums' but that was in the 1990s. Similar logic I give a glance not to take Reba McEntire seriously. That left two. Yes it could be either of Kenny Chesney or George Strait and I say that to the guys. George Stait had the album '50 Number Ones' (although that doesn't mean they've all been from this decade). The decade isn't even over yet!
Correct Answer:....2. George Stait
[NTN Extra Fact:...At last cound George has had 43 #1 hits on the Billboard Country chart.]
I don't think I've watched that awards show although I'm sure I taped it. Album sales vs Singles sales? Doesn't Kenny Chesney usually win Entertainer of the Year for a few times in a row or is that the other Country awards show? I've been playing Chesney's newest album within the last week comparing his version of 'Lucky Old Sun' with Brian Wilson's version also released within the last few months.
I'm wrong and stay in 3rd with ROCKET at 12252. I finish 8099th in all North America. The bar is 132nd in North America...I earn 1500+ points for not making this week's 15000 standard.
(ntn.com moved us down to 150th out of 2020 bars with a 12065 average).
That's the first Encore I've got wrong in quite awhile. If it wasn't for my friends though this would have been the third time wrong in the last six weeks. For each of them I would have chosen '1' as the first logical choice I could find. Another reason why I should have moved on to the other choice.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank COSMO 25080 x 12540 8097 1236 METLCA 24518 x 12259 8098 1273 ROCKET 24503 x 12252 8099 1275 LITBOX 23999 x 12000 8100 1315 PLBAAB 22556 x 11278 8101 1461 (ntn.com listed 9576 players)
Other games:...I'm visiting so I don't know what my P+ points scores are.
7:15pm...Countdown...ROCKET...3640/15000...3rd/5...1000+ points...I'm 4567th in North America...COSMO wins.
...............LITBOX...3682/15000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 4527th in NA...I was here in time for the last five questions and made the standard.
7:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7121/10000...4th/5...900+ points...I'm 243rd in NA.
...............LITBOX...7129/10000...3rd/5...900+ points...I'm 242nd in NA...the bar was 19th in NA with a 7299 average.
7:45pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7361/10000...2nd/5...900+ points...I'm 150th in NA.
..............LITBOX...7380/10000...1st/5...900+ points...I'm 147th in NA.
8:00pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...9786/10000...2nd/5...900+ points...I'm 10th in all NA.
..............LITBOX...9790/10000...1st/5...900+ points...I'm 9th on the Network Top 20 in NA...the bar is 3rd in NA with a 9585 average.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...6571/10000...2nd/5....900+ points...I'm 290th in NA.
............LITBOX...6589/10000...1st/5...900+ points...I'm 290th in NA.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...6623/10000...3rd/5...900+ points...I'm 540th in NA...COSMO wins.
.................LITBOX...6599/10000...4th/5...900+ points...I'm 549th in NA.
8:45pm...Tuned-in TV...ROCKET...5919/10000...4th/5...500+ points...I'm 697th in NA...COSMO wins.
..............LITBOX...5971/10000...3rd/5...500+ points...I'm 683rd in NA.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...ROCKET...4077/10000...4th/5...300+ points.
.............LITBOX...4096/10000...3rd/5...300+ points...I play the first question then go to the washroom and get ready to leave before starting to play again.
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