NTN Encore Question of August 1st, 2009.
Played at The Squire & Firkin in Etobicoke, Ontario.
Headliner:...GREEN DAY over Foo Fighters and Matchbox Twenty
Encore Question:...All of these Green Day songs made the Billboard Top 40 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/5...my two boards and COSMO win this round. I go 1 of 2 in guessing. .............LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/5. The LineUp...ROCKET...12500/15000...1st/5...my boards co-win round with 8 out of 10 right.. ...........LITBOX...12500/15000...1st/5. Triviaoke...ROCKET...19580/25000...1st/5...METLCA wins round. ..........LITBOX...19580/25000...1st/5...I take two -250s in the round. Opening Act...ROCKET...24330/35000...3rd/5...COSMO wins round and in lead with 26960. ................LITBOX...24330/35000...3rd/5. The pound-key round. I make 4 right for 1000, 4 right for 250 (2nd chance), 1 wrong for -250 and 1 I don't answer for 0 points. Headliner...ROCKET...31330/56500...3rd/5...METLCA wins round and takes lead. ............LITBOX...31330/56500...3rd/5. Green Day...I miss about four questions scattered around so I can't build up bonus points. I get a break when I'm advised to change an answer but I don't have enough time and get it right.
Now the Encore betting comes up. Well 50% as usual. I make sure to remind my friends to wager this week. They had a laugh on me when I called out an answer in the pound-key round before any answers were shown and then pushed '1' instead of the '#' key so had to wait to the answers cycled through a second time.
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I don't know this. I've made notes from Wikipedia on our three groups that could have been the Headliners category. The details are group members, what band they came from before joining, instruments played, singles issued and what albums they came from but didn't bother writing what chart position they reached. I could have done that but should I use Pop chart, Modern Rock chart, or some other chart? I've also missed the group's first record label from the earlier round which I could have easily written down.
I only had so much time the night before coming home from a soccer game on Friday night and getting ready to go to the Caribana Parade early Saturday in downtown Toronto. I'll just play a theory I've heard, "You can't make the charts if you mention Jesus in the song title" is what I say. "Jesus Take The Wheel" is a partial exception but that was one of Carrie Underwood's lower ranked pop songs. Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" should have ranked higher. I just had this feeling that radio program director's in many places shy away from records with a provacative title. My friends are trying to think of what didn't make the chart.
Correct Answer:....1. Jesus of Suburbia
[NTN Extra Fact:...Jesus of Suburbia made the Modern Rock chart but not the Billboard Hot 100.]
I'm right and stay in 3rd place on both my boards with 46995. I earn 3000+ points for meeting this week's standard of 18000. I finish 18th overall on both my boards in North America. The bar finishes 7th in North America with a 47289 average. METLCA wins and is 9th on the Network Top 20 board.
(NTN.com listed our bar as 7th out of 1976 bars)
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank METLCA 34870 52305 9 48 COSMO 32960 49440 13 65 LITBOX 31330 46995 18 74 ROCKET 31330 46995 18 74 PLBAAB 27140 40710 49 134 ntn.com listed 8124 players with 7309 scoring more than 0.
Other games:...I'm visiting so can't see my Players' Plus points scores.
7:00pm...Countdown...I sign on with both boards as they ask the last question and earn 500+ for not answering any questions.
7:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...6982/10000...1st/8...900+ points...I'm 431st in NA.
.............LITBOX...6982/10000...1st/8...900+ points...I'm 431st in NA.
7:45pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...6414/10000...1st/4...900+ points...I'm 753rd in NA.
..........LITBOX...6414/10000...2nd/4...900+ points...I'm 753rd in NA.
8:00pm...Buzztime...6794/10000...4th/8...900+ points...I'm 440th in NA...COSMO wins.
..............LITBOX...6794/10000...4th/8...900+ points...I'm 440th in NA.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7175/10000...1st/8....900+ points...I'm 159th in NA.
............LITBOX...7175/10000...1st/8...900+ points...I'm 159th in NA.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...6577/10000...3rd/6...900+ points...I'm 378th in NA...METLCA wins.
.................LITBOX...6553/10000...4th/6...900+ points...I'm 385th in NA.
8:45pm...Tuned-in TV...ROCKET...8415/10000...3rd/6...1000+ points...I'm 218th in NA.
..............LITBOX...8390/10000...4th/6...1000+ points...I'm 223rd in NA...METLCA wins.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
I have lots of help in tonight's games and am pleased to earn the Bonus points in each game.
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