NTN Encore Question of March 28th, 2009.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York, Ontario.
Headliner:...MADONNA over Grunge Rock and American Idol
Encore Question:...All of these were actual names of Madonna concert tours except:
Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX with Rob COSMO, Sean METLCA and Phil PLBAAB.
Here's how my game went and my comments: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/13...my two win round with COSMO and METLCA. .............LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/13. The LineUp...ROCKET...12500/15000...2nd/13...METLCA wins round getting 9 right out of 10. ...........LITBOX...12500/15000...2nd/13...I go 8 for 10 this week.. Triviaoke...ROCKET...18240/25000...3rd/13...PLBAAB wins round and takes lead. ..........LITBOX...18205/25000...4th/13...I start by taking three -250s on the first three questions then do fine the rest of the round with help on two questions. Opening Act...ROCKET...26240/35000...2nd/13...my two boards win round. ................LITBOX...26205/35000...3rd/13...METLCA is in lead with 26532. The pound-key round. I got eight right for 1000 (1st pass) and one for 250 (2nd pass) and one wrong for -250. Headliner...ROCKET...43990/?????...1st/13...my two boards win this round. ............LITBOX...43955/?????...2nd/13...All ten questions are about Madonna. I chose to 'study' American Idol this week because I think it is what we know the least about. Rob had e-mailed me which bar we were coming too and that he hoped the round would be Madonna. Phil is a fan of Grunge rock. I've never seen a complete American Idol show (nor a full Canadian Idol episode either) but found a summary of winners and runners up on Wikipedia and wrote them down. I don't know if I'd be fast enough to find any answer or not. Also with Earch Day getting this bar to dim their lights it might have been tough to read anything anyway. Didn't matter. This week I ran through the first nine Madonna questions in a row with help from Rob on two and was building big bonus points on each one. The last question I got wrong so in the number or 'right' questions although my friends gave me the answer of who Madonna banned from her shows on their last tour but I picked someone else. I was about the same on the wrong and right but they tripped up on a middle question and so were thousands behind me having to build their bonuses again.
Now the Encore betting comes up. Well 50% as usual. One more Madonna question.
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I recognize three of them in a split second (including her current Sticky & Sweet tour) and say that it's 'Blessed Mother' although I have my doubts that it's 'Drowned World'. Rob says he has the same idea as me. Well 'Blessed Mother' would be appropriate during her 'Like A Prayer' years although I have an idea that would have been the tour's name. Ok we're all in.
Correct Answer:....2. Blessed Mother
[NTN Extra Fact:...The tours were in 1993, 2008, 2001 and 1987 respectively.]
I'm right and win as ROCKET with 65985. I finish 4th on the Network Top 20 for all North America. The bar is 4th in North America with a 59142 average...I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard which I miss seeing at the beginning of the game.
(ntn.com keeps us at 4th out of 1968 bars).
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank ROCKET 43990 65985 4 31 LITBOX 43955 65933 5 32 METLCA 39282 58923 7 41 PLBAAB 35017 52526 19 70 COSMO 34896 52344 19 71 CHATZ 22665 x 11332 803 1850 PUTZ 14185 21278 498 584 GORDO 13295 x 13295 591 1330 KAINAI 13177 x 13177 803 1361 SALOPE 10293 x 10293 1503 2215 ROSE 9159 x 9159 2268 2693 STING 4117 x 4117 5667 5682 BRIT 3750 x 3750 5914 5921 (ntn.com listed 9594 players)
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 4,234,200 Player's Plus points and LITBOX with 1,915,700.
7:45pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7373/10000...1st/8...900+ points...I'm 298th in NA.
..............LITBOX...7351/10000...2nd/8...900+ points...I'm 303rd in NA.
8:00pm...Buzztime...5710/10000...4th/10...300+ points...I'm 872nd in NA...PUTZ wins.
..............LITBOX...5685/10000...5th/10...300+ points...I'm 902nd in NA.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...5350/10000...3rd/10....300+ points...I'm 1052nd in NA...ROSE wins.
............LITBOX...5350/10000...3rd/10...300+ points...I'm 1052nd in NA.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7644/10000...3rd/10...900+ points...I'm 176th in NA...COSMO wins.
.................LITBOX...7624/10000...4th/10...900+ points...I'm 180th in NA.
8:45pm...Tuned-in TV...ROCKET...8845/10000...4th/10...1000+ points...I'm 170th in NA.
..............LITBOX...8800/10000...5th/10...1000+ points...I'm 178th in NA.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...ROCKET...8091/10000...1st/12...900+ points...I'm 30th in NA.
.............LITBOX...8058/10000...2nd/12...900+ points...I'm 32nd in NA...the bar is 14th in NA with a 7475 average.
lots of help in tonight's games to get me those scores even though two of them I couldn't reach the 6000 point standard..
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