NTN Encore Question of July 11th, 2009.
Played at The Squire & Firkin in Etobicoke, Ontario.
Headliner:...1990s R&B over 1990s Grunge and 1990s Alt Rock
Encore Question:...Which of these was the best selling R&B album of 1995?
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/8...my two boards win with COSMO and METLCA. .............LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/8. The LineUp...ROCKET...13500/15000...1st/8...my two boards win round. ...........LITBOX...13500/15000...1st/8...I get 8 out of 10 right in this round which was a lot better than last week. I get help from my friends and one and guess one more. Triviaoke...ROCKET...19660/25000...2nd/8...METLCA wins round. ..........LITBOX...19670/25000...1st/8...I take three -250s in the round but get full marks for most of the other questions. Opening Act...ROCKET...24410/35000...2nd/8...my two boards win round. ................LITBOX...24420/35000...1st/8. The pound-key round. I make 5 right for 1000, 1 right for 250 (2nd chance), 2 wrong for -250 and 2 I don't answer for 0 points. Headliner...ROCKET...38910/56500...2nd/8...my two win this round. ............LITBOX...38920/56500...1st/8. 1990s R&B...I miss questions 1 and 10 but get everything in between which helps me build up bonus points. I couldn't study at all for this but the questions are general enough for me.
Now the Encore betting comes up. Well 50% as usual. I make sure my friends bet 50% instead of forgetting.
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I've done pretty well for a night I wasn't counting on coming out. As I know I won't be playing next week because of going to a soccer game, tonight I've driven here right after a soccer game and have to make sure I don't have any alcohol. No problem as I stick to diet colas.
I don't know the answer. It would be great if I could peel off some answers because they were not from the year 1995 but I'm not good at matching albums with specific years. I'm not good with singles either from the 1980s onward...they seem to blend together. I have chosen '5' but can't place any songs right now. Were all these albums from 1995? Rob has suggested '1' and I think it won all the awards when it came out but that doesn't necessarily make it a best seller. Was the Whitney Houston soundtrack a bigger seller (that's what I was most likely to change to). I switch to '1'.
Correct Answer:....5. CrazySexyCool
[NTN Extra Fact:...TLC's album sold 4.4 million copies and featured the Grammy winning song "Waterfalls".]
I actually own all these albums and don't even realize "Writings On The Wall" was by Destiny's Child. I look down to see if I changed my answer too late...Nope! Well Rob saved us last week.
I'm wrong but still win the game as LITBOX at 19460. I earn 3000+ points for meeting this week's standard of 18000. I finish 326th in North America. The bar ranking is not listed.
(NTN.com listed our bar as 90th out of 1928 with a 17121 average.
The proper way to know this was to peel off the years of the albums. My book lists the years as 1998, 1996, 1995, 2000, and 1995 although TLC had the bigger seller of two 1995 sellers.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank LITBOX 39920 x 19460 326 605 ROCKET 38910 x 19455 327 608 COSMO 32890 x 16455 ? 897 METLCA 32150 x 16075 ? 919 PLBAAB 28340 x 14170 ? 1179 UWE 8990 8990 ? 2563 MO 7550 7550 ? 3213 LOMU 5500 5500 ? 4312 ntn.com listed 9188 players.
My tape ran out so I didn't catch our individual rankings.
Other games:...I'm visiting so couldn't see my Players' Plus points.
7:45pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8213/10000...3rd/6...900+ points...I'm 271st in NA.
..........LITBOX...8249/10000...1st/6...900+ points...I'm 262nd in NA.
8:00pm...Buzztime...6979/10000...3rd/6...900+ points...I'm 259th in NA.
..............LITBOX...7009/10000...2nd/6...900+ points...I'm 249th...COSMO wins and is 2nd in NA.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7365/10000...2nd/5....900+ points...I'm 297th in NA.
............LITBOX...8708/10000...1st/5...900+ points...I'm 292nd in NA.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...6434/10000...2nd/7...900+ points...I'm 336th in NA.
.................LITBOX...6446/10000...1st/7...900+ points...I'm 333rd in NA...COSMO wins
8:45pm...Tuned-in TV...ROCKET...8741/10000...1st/8...1000+ points...I'm 34th in NA.
..............LITBOX...8716/10000...1st/7...1000+ points...I'm 36th in NA...the bar is 6th in North America with an 8377 average.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
I have lots of help in tonight's games.
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