NTN Encore Question of June 20th, 2009.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York, Ontario.
Headliner:...THE JACKSON FAMILY over Sister Acts and People Named John
Encore Question:...Janet Jackson hit Number 1 on the charts in 1993 with this song from the album 'Janet':
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...2nd/10...SICDAY wins round with 5000. .............LITBOX...4500/5000...2nd/10. The LineUp...ROCKET...11500/15000...2nd/10...METLCA wins round and leads with 12500. ...........LITBOX...11500/15000...2nd/10...I get 7 out of 10 right in this round. Triviaoke...ROCKET...17317/25000...2nd/10...LITBOX wins round. ..........LITBOX...17352/25000...1st/10...I take a few -250 in the round. I want to concentrate but my friends are talking to the waitress about male nipples. Opening Act...ROCKET...23317/35000...2nd/10...my two boards win round. ................LITBOX...23352/35000...1st/10. The pound-key round. I make 6 right for 1000, 2 right for 250 (2nd chance), and 2 wrong for -250. Headliner...ROCKET...36067/56500...2nd/10...our group wins this round. ............LITBOX...36102/56500...1st/10. THE JACKSON FAMILY...We go 9 right and 1 wrong this round with me controlling the answers. I mess up question 5 so we have to start building bonus points again. Quite a variety of questions but nothing really from their early years. Oldest brother/which sibling (sister Rebbie) was not in the group/lead off song on Thriller, Janet's picture on Rolling Stone magazine (my friends got that for me). The question I missed was a song that Stevie Wonder not Smokey Robinson co-wrote.
Now the Encore betting comes up. Well 50% as usual. I make sure my friends bet 50% instead of forgetting.
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Well it is a number one song so I should know it but I don't. I didn't know the first song so I didn't expect it would ever have reached Number 1. It wouldn't be 'Control' as that was the name of an album. I thought 'Escapade' was on a greatest hits album. Rob had already suggested 'Together Again' and that sounded good....
Correct Answer:....4. That's The Way Love Goes
[NTN Extra Fact:...'Janet' was the follow up to Jackson't hit album "Rhythm Nation 1814".]
I'm wrong and fall to 5th place as ROCKET with 18051. The bar didn't make the Top 20. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of 18000. Wow, first time I've missed an Encore with a 50% bet and still made the point standard. Ron CHATZ wins playing with another group at 34997.
ntn.com lists us as 26th out of 1908 bars with a 26371 average.
I should have got this question. This was the only category I would have seriously studied because the others were too broad. If I'd have spent about 20 minutes looking through my music book under The Jacksons, Michael Jackson, and Janet Jackson just to go through a list of songs and albums and I would have had it.
Where Are You Now--from janet but not a single Together Again--#1 song from The Velvet Rope in 1997 Control--#5 from Control That's The Way Love Goes--the correct answer Escapade--#1 from Rhythm Nation 1814 but also on Greatest Hits collection.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank LITBOX 36102 x 18051 324 657 ROCKET 36067 x 18033 324 658 COSMO 34020 x 17010 353 718 METLCA 32797 x 16398 371 759 PLBAAB 29323 x 14661 444 908 CHATZ 23331 34997 161 62 SICDAY 21136 29591 115 247 GORDO 20720 20720 262 530 JEREMY 18999 28499 129 280 BEAHR 12630 13893 475 981 ntn.com listed 8058 players
Other games:...I forgot to look at my Players' Plus points.
8:00pm...Buzztime...7188/10000...4th/7...900+ points...I'm 237th in NA...METLCA wins.
..............LITBOX...7188/10000...4th/7...900+ points...I'm 237th in NA.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8321/10000...3rd/10....900+ points...I'm 217th in NA...BEAHR wins.
............LITBOX...8343/10000...2nd/10...900+ points...I'm 213rd in NA.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8866/10000...1st/10...900+ points...I'm 29th in NA.
.................LITBOX...8866/10000...1st/10...900+ points...I'm 29th in NA...the bar is 18th in NA with a 7638 average.
8:45pm...Tuned-in TV...ROCKET...8864/10000...5th/10...1000+ points...I'm 240th in NA.
..............LITBOX...8891/10000...4th/10...1000+ points...I'm 233rd in NA...METLCA wins.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...9000/10000...1st/9...900+ points...I'm 154th in NA.
.............LITBOX...9000/10000...1st/9...900+ points...I'm 154th in NA...COSMO and METLCA also tie with me.
I have lots of help in tonight's games.
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