NTN Encore Question of January 31st, 2009.
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, Phil PLBAAB, and LeAnn MS M. I had wanted to move closer to a monitor I could see and my friends agreed when a group left our favourite table at 8:00pm. I had lost a fare in an automated subway turnstile and had to pay a second time getting here as a possible omen of the rest of the night. It also took that long to get a second board. The place crowded up earlier tonight for the PPV mixed martial arts fighting on after the hockey game.
My game so far had gone like this: TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/6...my two co-win with COSMO, METLCA, and MS M win with 5000. .............LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/6...maybe one guess that we weren't sure of but otherwise easy. OnBeat...ROCKET...13000/14000...4th/6...LITBOX, PLBAAB, and MS M win round with 9 for 9. ............LITBOX...14000/14000...5th/5...I split my two on the question of which of the Outkast members turned 34. I said there were only two guys in the group. Was it Big Boi or Andre 3000? I didn't notice the choice listed was actually 'Andre 300' or I would have ruled him out. Jukebox...ROCKET...16570/20000...6th/6...PLBAAB wins round. ............LITBOX...17561/20000...2nd/6...not a good round for me this week. Triviaoke...ROCKET...21795/28000...5th/6...METLCA wins round. .............LITBOX...22793/28000...3rd/6...I take two -250s this round.
Now the Encore question comes up. Pop songs? I know all these songs and who sang them. What could this be about? Since we had a question about Christina Aguilera winning a Grammy I have the Grammy's on my mind.
Encore Question:...Which of these songs was *NOT* a hit in 1999?
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Hmmm. I don't say anything. Wouldn't Avril Lavigne be too young to popular in 1999? She did start young and her 'Complicated' song was out about a year earlier in Canada than the US. Sean held out his hand for '5' which was appropriate as he had the lead. Yeah. I grit my teeth thinking for some reason that it might be the TLC song 'No Scrubs' as famous earlier in the 1990s but I was thinking of a different song. I should have got the answer with no doubts much sooner.
Correct Answer:....5. Complicated
[NTN Extra Fact:...Avril Lavigne's lament about her two-faced boyfriend didn't hit the airwaves until 2002.]
I'm right and stay in 3rd with LITBOX at 34189. I finish 9th in all North America. The bar is 4th in North America with a 34430 average...I earn 3000+ points for making this week's 19000 standard...METLCA wins and is 4th on the Network Top 20.
(ntn.com kept us in 4th out of 2017 bars).
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank METLCA 23987 35980 4 25 PLBAAB 23849 35773 5 27 LITBOX 22793 34189 9 35 COSMO 22344 33516 13 52 ROCKET 21795 32692 16 58 MS M 21773 32659 17 59 (ntn.com listed 10052 players)
Other games:...I'm visiting so I don't know what my P+ points scores are.
7:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...3695/10000...4th/5...300+ points...I'm 3046th in NA...BAILEY wins.
I'm not here right at the beginning but don't do well anyway.
7:45pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...5988/10000...4th/7...300+ points...I'm 697th in NA...METLCA wins.
I can't get a mere 12 points on the last question and don't get the bonus points.
8:00pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7797/10000...1st/10...900+ points...I'm 365th in NA.
..............LITBOX...7743/10000...2nd/10...900+ points...I'm 368th in NA.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8375/10000...4th/10....900+ points...I'm 68th in NA.
............LITBOX...8412/10000...3rd/10...900+ points...I miss my placing.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7552/10000...3rd/8...900+ points...I'm 90th in NA...COSMO wins.
.................LITBOX...7623/10000...2nd/8...900+ points...I'm 82nd in NA.
8:45pm...Tuned-in TV...ROCKET...8895/10000...5th/8...1000+ points...I'm 180th in NA...MS M wins.
..............LITBOX...8897/10000...4th/8...1000+ points...I'm 179th in NA.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...ROCKET...5766/10000...1st/7...300+ points.
.............LITBOX...5758/10000...2nd/7...300+ points...I miss seeing the standings as I'm on way out.
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