NTN Encore Question of October 3rd, 2009.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York, Ontario.

Headliner:..."THE" GROUPS over Lead Singers and One-Hit Wonders

Encore Question:...What was the only Number 1 hit of The Mamas & The Papas?

Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX with Rob COSMO/METLCA, and Phil PLBAAB.

Here's how my game went and my comments:
TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/10...our five boards win the round with 5000. 
.............LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/10...no guessing needed this round.
The LineUp...ROCKET...13000/15000...1st/10...my two and PLBAAB win this round.  
...........LITBOX...13000/15000...1st/10.  
I got 8 right out of 10 which was good in this round.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...20500/25000...1st/10...ROCKET wins round.  
..........LITBOX...20480/25000...2nd/10...I take only one -250s in the round so am quite pleased
with this score.
Opening Act...ROCKET...26500/35000...1st/10.
................LITBOX...26480/35000...2nd/10.
The pound-key round.  I make 6 right for 1000, 1 right for 250 (2nd chance),  1 wrong for -250 and 
two that I don't answer for 0 points.    
Headliner...ROCKET....36750/56500...1st/10...my two boards win round.  
............LITBOX...36730/56500...2nd/10.
"The" Bands...I didn't study this week as I didn't have the time and the categories were so general.
We do quite well in this round except we mess up questions '3' and '9' so can't build up our bonus
points very much.  John and Cat came at the beginning of the round and although they didn't have
boards, John got us The Clash answer.  Some questions were about band names, band members,
songs done by a band.  I missed the title of The Yardbirds final album and two guys of The Wallflowers
(and Jakob Dylan was not one of the choices).

Now the Encore betting comes up. Well 50% as usual.

Answers:

  1. California Dreamin'
  2. Creeque Alley
  3. Safe In My Garden
  4. Go Where You Wanna Go
  5. Monday Monday

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I should know this but can only narrow down to '1' and '5'. I was able to pick up a boxed set of their works less than ten years ago all squeezed onto three CDs but hadn't played it in many years. I know they hit the top early but was it their first or second song? I go with their first hit 'California Dreamin' but for the remaining 28 seconds kept thinking that NTN would list the wrong answer first to fool people. Nope I just don't remember and stay on the same answer. The group made the news within the last week as the daughter of John Phillips had a book published in which she claims that her father shared drugs with her and they had a ten year incestuous affair. I actually tried to avoid reading much about that news story and certainly didn't suddenly feel like looking up a list of the group's songs. Too bad, two minutes of looking up their name in my music book and it would have reminded me of their records.

I also notice that two weeks ago's Extra Fact about Married Couples listed The Mamas & The Papas in their blurb as if it was some kind of omen.

Correct Answer:....5. Monday Monday

[NTN Extra Fact:...The song reached the top of the Billboard 100 in 1966.]

The song rankings were #4, #5, #53, non charting (although more famous version by The 5th Dimension), and #1.

I'm wrong and fall to 3rd place as ROCKET with 18375. I earn 3000+ points for meeting the standard of 18000. I finish 394th overall in North America.

MAXDOG wins the game with 32010 points.
(NTN.com listed our bar as 34th out of 1608 bars with a 23221 average).

Here's how the rest of the bar did: 
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank
ROCKET	36750	x	18375	 394	 696
LITBOX	36730	x	18365	 395	 698
METLCA	33180	x	16590	 470	 866
COSMO	33120	x	16560	 479	 870
PLBAAB	30480	x	15240	 544	1031
CHATZ	29190	x	14595	 576	1114
MADDOG	24340	x	12170	 904	1579	
MAXDOG	21340		32010	 116	 216
WALLY	20510		30765	 129	 242
JEREMY	  500		  500	6694	5494
ntn.com listed 6309 players with 5719 scoring more than 0.

Other games:...I keep forgetting to look up my Players' Plus points scores.
7:45pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...2744/10000...6th/7...300+ points...I'm 3387th in NA.
.............LITBOX...2726/10000...7th/7...300+ points...I'm 3402nd in NA...WALLY wins.
8:00pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7837/10000...2nd/7...900+ points...I'm 169th in NA.
............LITBOX...7856/10000...1st/7...900+ points...I'm 166th in NA.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8543/10000...1st/7...900+ points...I'm 84th in NA.
............LITBOX...8543/10000...1st/7...900+ points...I'm 84th in NA...the bar is 18th in NA with a 7795 average.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7549/10000...1st/7...900+ points...I'm 235th in NA.
............LITBOX...7517/10000...2nd/7...900+ points...I'm 241st in NA.
8:45pm...Tuned-In TV...ROCKET...7909/10000...I'm 4th/10...1000+ points...I'm 169th in NA...the bar is 20th in NA with an 8250 average.
.............LITBOX...7921/10000...I'm 3rd/10...1000+ points...I'm 166th in NA...COSMO wins.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
I have lots of help in these games.

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