NTN Encore Question of July 25th, 2009.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York, Ontario.
Headliner:...NIGHT AND DAY over Seasons In Song and Musical Weather
Encore Question:...1976's "I Don't Want To Be A One Night Stand" was the first US chart single for:
Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX with Rob COSMO, and Phil PLBAAB. We have to give back the METLCA board that Rob was using because some more players came into the bar.
Here's how my game went and my comments: TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/10...our five boards win this round. .............LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/10. The LineUp...ROCKET...13000/15000...1st/10...my two boards win round with 8 out of 10 right.. ...........LITBOX...13000/15000...1st/10...almost finished this round we have to give up our fifth board. Triviaoke...ROCKET...16490/25000...4th/13...MADDOG wins round. ..........LITBOX...16520/25000...3rd/13...I take (I think) five -250s in the round. Opening Act...ROCKET...21490/35000...2nd/13...COSMO wins round. ................LITBOX...21520/35000...1st/13. The pound-key round. I make 5 right for 1000, 2 right for 250 (2nd chance), 2 wrong for -250 and 1 I don't answer for 0 points. Headliner...ROCKET...27490/56500...4th/13...HYUK wins round but COSMO is in the lead. ............LITBOX...27520/56500...3rd/13. Day And Night...I miss questions 1, 5, 6, and 9 (at least) so can't really build up much in bonus points. The categories are all over the musical spectrum.
Now the Encore betting comes up. Well 50% as usual.
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I don't know this. They all look like Country stars. Pam Tillis is the first one I see. Rob says Bonnie Raitt or Reba McEntire. He thinks Raitt isn't really a Country star. Good point. The earliest starting career...concentrate on 1976. I only have time to eliminate Mindy McCready for her affair with baseball pitcher Roger Clemens while underage so she'd be too young [good call as she was born in 1975]. OK Reba McEntire it is then both Phil and Rob admit they didn't see the 'enter wager now' warning a minute earlier when we were distracted by two more friends arriving at our table. That will let HYUK win if he gets it right.
Correct Answer:....3. Reba McEntire
[NTN Extra Fact:...Four years later the single "You Lift Me Up To Heaven" became her first US Top 10 hit.]
Wikipedia shows this song reached #88 on the Country chart.
I can't say there's really a way to win this. Concentrating on 1976 would also have put out Trisha Yearwood who was born in 1964.
Having Reba McEntire as a Headliner would have driven more players away from this game which has dropped thousands from its peak.
I'm right and win the game as LITBOX at 41280. I earn 3000+ points for meeting this week's standard of 18000. I finish 25th on both my boards in North America. The bar finishes 13th with a 33211 average. Pretty good in that two of our top boards didn't wager anything and a board we had to give back in the middle of the game.
(NTN.com listed our bar as 90th out of 1928 with a 17121 average.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank COSMO 29110 29110 103 240 HYUK 28800 x 14400 501 967 LITBOX 27520 41280 25 104 ROCKET 27490 41235 25 105 PLBAAB 26110 26110 134 285 CHATZ 25580 x 12790 638 1240 MAXDOG 19870 x 9935 1540 2059 SICDAY 18880 28320 110 251 MADDOG 15620 x 7810 2720 2912 BEAHR 15500 x 7750 2754 2934 LUCY 10340 10340 1315 1907 METLCA 9000 9000 2059 2387 GUIN ???? 8750 2198 2475 SHADOW ???? 4910 4331 4208 GIRL ???? 670 6686 6103 ntn.com listed 6986 players.
Other games:...I forgot to look at my Players' Plus points scores.
7:45pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...4093/10000...1st/4...300+ points...I'm 1761st in NA.
..........LITBOX...4087/10000...2nd/4...300+ points...I'm 1761st in NA.
8:00pm...Buzztime...6375/10000...1st/4...900+ points...I'm 405th in NA.
..............LITBOX...6375/10000...1st/4...900+ points...I'm 405th.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7562/10000...3rd/4....900+ points...I'm 224th in NA.
............LITBOX...7617/10000...2nd/4...900+ points...I'm 214th in NA...COSMO wins.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8701/10000...2nd/7...900+ points...I'm 47th in NA.
.................LITBOX...8762/10000...1st/7...900+ points...I'm 41st in NA.
8:45pm...Tuned-in TV...ROCKET...5166/10000...3rd/9...1000+ points...I'm 799th in NA.
..............LITBOX...5209/10000...1st/7...1000+ points...I'm 733rd in NA...PLBAAB wins.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
I have lots of help in tonight's games.
A 20 question sports game starts up at 10:00pm so I know it's time to leave!
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