NTN Encore Question of September 12th, 2009.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York, Ontario.
Headliner:...THE WHO over Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin
Encore Question:...Which Who album ends with the song "Love Reign O'er Me"?
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/10...our five boards win the round with 4500. .............LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/10. The LineUp...ROCKET...12500/15000...1st.10...our five boards win the round. ...........LITBOX...12500/15000...1st/10. We get 8 right out of 10 which I thought was pretty good. My friends get me two of them or it wouldn't have gone so well for me. Triviaoke...ROCKET...19400/25000...2nd/10...COSMO wins round and has lead with 10890. ..........LITBOX...19340/25000...3rd/10...I take two -250s in the round. Rob helps me get one. Opening Act...ROCKET...26650/35000...3rd/10. ................LITBOX...26090/35000...4th/10. The pound-key round. I make 7 right for 1000, 2 right for 250 (2nd chance), 1 wrong for -250 and 1 that I don't answer for 0 points...that's better than most weeks. Headliner...ROCKET....34650/56500...2nd/10...FIRST wins this round (started playing this round). ............LITBOX...34590/56500...3rd/10. The Who...I have made notes on the three artists from Wikipedia. On the way to the soccer game this afternoon. I have to turn back to get them when I was two blocks from home. I wrote down The Who's albums, singles that were on their albums, loose singles, band members and replacements, and record labels. I didn't write down the name of their box set and that's a question they asked. About three questions were about song lyrics. I missed questions 4, 5 and 10 so didn't have a good run of bonus points.
Now the Encore betting comes up. Well 50% as usual.
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I don't know this. Rob suggest 'Who Are You' which I press first. Phil suggest 'Tommy'. Actually by the song title, it seems like a good name for something that would be at the end of a film or rock opera so I switch to that.
Correct Answer:....4. Quadrophenia
[NTN Extra Fact:...The double disc concept album centers around a young man named Jimmy.]
I looked down at my notes and find that I had matched the song with the album. I didn't count on searching through my two pages of notes in 30 seconds but if I'd spent time on the subway home from the game on reading through them again instead of reading the soccer program they handed out at the game, I might have matched up this question.
I'm wrong and fall to 3rd place as ROCKET with 17325. I earn only1500+ points for not meeting the standard of 18000. I finish something like 590th overall in all North America. Our bar score wasn't displayed.
Ron CHATZ wins the game with 37740 points. I went over to congratulate him when I left and he said he guessed the answer.
(NTN.com placed our bar in 113th place out of 1608 bars with a 21430 average).
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank COSMO 36140 x 18070 * 1142 ROCKET 34650 x 17325 * 1199 LITBOX 34590 x 17295 * 1201 PLBAAB 33330 x 16665 * 1264 METLCA 31118 x 15905 * 1326 CHATZ 25160 37740 * 399 GORDO 20280 x 10140 * 2231 JEREMY 19880 x 9940 * 2276 WALLY 16270 16270 * 1260 ROOTER 12780 12780 * 1731 FIRST 10750 10750 * 2095 ntn.com listed 6012 players with 5496 scoring more than 0. *I thought I was dictating the rankings into my little MP3 player but I must have had the pause button on.
CHATZ was about 179th and I was about 580th from what I remember.
Other games:...I keep forgetting to look up my Players' Plus points scores.
7:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...2242/10000...6th/7...300+ points...I'm 3419th in NA...GORDO wins.
.............LITBOX...1756/10000...7th/7...300+ points...I'm 3832nd in NA...I'm here in time for the last four questions.
7:45pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7132/10000...3rd/8...900+ points...I'm 471st in NA.
.............LITBOX...7101/10000...4th/8...900+ points...I'm 481st in NA...METLCA wins.
8:00pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8713/10000...1st/8...900+ points...I'm 21st in NA.
............LITBOX...8706/10000...2nd/8...900+ points...I'm 21st in NA...the bar is 4th in NA with an 8320 average.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7194/10000...4th/8...900+ points...I'm 177th in NA.
............LITBOX...6568/10000...2nd/11...900+ points...I'm 396th in NA...WALLY wins.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7988/10000...4th/8...900+ points...I'm 237th in NA.
............LITBOX...7978/10000...5th/8...900+ points...I'm 242nd in NA...GORDO wins.
8:45pm...Tuned-In TV...ROCKET...7088/10000...I'm 1st/9...1000+ points...I'm 214th in NA.
.............LITBOX...7076/10000...I'm 2nd/9...1000+ points...I'm 218th in NA.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
I have lots of help in tonight's games.
I looked up my P+ points and find out that I have ROCKET at 4,401,400 and LITBOX at 2,075,100.
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