NTN Encore Question of August 29th, 2009.
Played at The Squire & Firkin in Etobicoke, Ontario.
Headliner:...WHITNEY HOUSTON over Mariah Carey and Beyonce Knowles
Encore Question:...All of these songs are among Whitney Houston's "Ultimate Collection" except:
Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX with Rob COSMO, Sean METLCA, Phil PLBAAB and Cathy CAT.
Here's how my game went and my comments: TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/12...my two boards win round. .............LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/12. Strange moment was during the round they asked a true/false question if any of the BareNaked Ladies were women. Just then the bar's satellite system played their song "Brian Wilson" (not unusual because they are from Toronto) and then the question after that or one song later asked which Beach Boys song charted higher "Surfin' Safari or Surfin' USA". The LineUp...ROCKET...10000/15000...2nd/11...COSMO is in lead. ...........LITBOX...10000/15000...2nd/11...CAT is listed as winning round but I believe a few people tied. I get 5 right of 10 which is pretty bad for this round. Triviaoke...ROCKET...15260/25000...2nd/10...COSMO wins round and takes lead with 15980. ..........LITBOX...15220/25000...3rd/10...I take three -250s in the round. Opening Act...ROCKET...20260/35000...2nd/10...COSMO wins round. ................LITBOX...20220/35000...3rd/10. The pound-key round. I make 5 right for 1000, 2 right for 250 (2nd chance), 2 wrong for -250 and 1 that I don't answer for 0 points. Headliner...ROCKET...38010/56500...2nd/10...COSMO wins round by sweeping all ten questions. ............LITBOX...37970/56500...3rd/10. Whitney Houston...I didn't study her this week at all. I was pressed for time and gambled that it would be about Mariah Carey and wrote a list of her singles and albums. I wasn't having a good scoring game so I didn't care too much that it wasn't her. The Whitney Houston questions were general in nature... first chart appearance which was in a duet, a triviaoke leftover for The Greatest Love Of All, her aunt is Dionne Warwick, Dolly Parton wrote "I Will Always Love You", Whitney sang "I'm Every Woman" with Chaka Khan at some Diva's concert, a Grammy question among others. I got the first nine questions right which was great for building our bonus points. Rob gets the last question right to sweep the category whereas I get it wrong for some song in The Preacher's Wife, I think.
Now the Encore betting comes up. Well 50% as usual.
Answers:
must have been short of margin space
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First thing I think about is that these 'Ultimate Collections' are always Greatest Hits packages. I thought the trick would be there'd be some later song that was released after the hits package. Then there was a song I didn't recognize. Rob mentioned it at the same time I was thinking about it. "Yeah I've never heard that song" and thought they'd reveal it was by another artist. OK. Answers in!
Correct Answer:....4. I'm Knockin'
[NTN Extra Fact:..."I'm Knockin'" is a lesser known track from Whitney's album "I'm Your Baby Tonight".]
If I had have studied a list of her songs that song might have caught my eye and then I would have doubts that it might have been on her greatest hits album so I catch a break on that one.
I'm right and stay in 2nd place as ROCKET at 57015. I earn 3000+ points for meeting the standard of 18000. I finish 7th overall in all North America. The bar finishes 4th in North America with a 56859 average.
Rob wins and is 3rd on the Network Top 20. He takes first spot on this bar's Hall of Fame.
(NTN.com kept us in 4th out of 1924 bars)
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank COSMO 43480 65220 3 10 ROCKET 38010 57015 7 26 LITBOX 37970 56955 7 27 METLCA 36870 55305 14 38 PLBAAB 33200 49800 30 67 BOOTS 21740 21740 571 1077 WILBUR 21260 21260 590 1118 KJC 15910 15910 1012 1813 CAT 14550 14550 1629 2025 ROB 13730 13730 2033 2184 DOPEY 7000 7000 5184 4497 JEFF 5830 5830 5731 5136 ntn.com listed 9537 players with 8836 scoring more than 0.
Other games:...I'm visiting so can't see my Players' Plus points scores.
7:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...3471/15000...1st/2...500+ points...I'm 3323rd in NA.
.............LITBOX...3291/15000...2nd/2...500+ points...I'm 3467th in NA.
...I'm here in time for the last six questions.
7:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7722/10000...1st/2...900+ points...I'm 59th in NA.
.............LITBOX...7704/10000...2nd/2...900+ points...I'm 60th.
7:45pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8346/10000...2nd/6...900+ points...I'm 95th in NA.
.............LITBOX...8346/10000...2nd/6...900+ points...I'm 95th in NA...COSMO wins and is 14th on the Network Top 20.
the bar is 17th in NA with a 7793rd.
8:00pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8199/10000...1st/6...900+ points...I'm 61st in NA.
............LITBOX...8181/10000...2nd/6...900+ points...I'm 62nd in NA.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7047/10000...2nd/6...900+ points...I'm 239th in NA.
............LITBOX...7047/10000...2nd/6...900+ points...I'm 239th in NA...METLCA wins.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8739/10000...1st/8...900+ points...I'm 13th on the Network Top 20 in all NA.
............LITBOX...8715/10000...2nd/8...900+ points...I'm 15th in NA.
8:45pm...Tuned-In TV...ROCKET...7212/10000...I'm 5th/12...1000+ points...I'm 436th in NA.
.............LITBOX...7188/10000...I'm 6th/12...1000+ points...I'm 459th in NA...METLCA wins.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
I have lots of help in tonight's games.
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