NTN Encore Question of October 17th, 2009.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York, Ontario.
Headliner:...DUETS over Side Projects and Tours
Encore Question:...Barbra Streisand has song hit duets with all of the following except:
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/7...my two boards and COSMO win round. .............LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/7...I was 2 for 2 in guessing. The METLCA board died so that left us playing with only four boards. The LineUp...ROCKET...14000/15000...1st/7. ...........LITBOX...14000/15000...1st/7. I got 9 right out of 10 and my fault for the wrong answer on what turned out as an R Kelly song. Triviaoke...ROCKET...22280/25000...2nd/7...COSMO wins round. ..........LITBOX...22280/25000...2nd/7...I take only one -250s and do quite well this round. Opening Act...ROCKET...28530/35000...2nd/7...COSMO wins round. ................LITBOX...28530/35000...2nd/7. The pound-key round. I got 7 right for 1000 and 3 wrong for -250 including pulling myself a right answer on the second pass. There was a question about Run-DMC in this round and the Tune-Up round. Headliner...ROCKET....49780/56250...2nd/8...our five boards all co-win round. ............LITBOX...49780/56250...2nd/8. Duets...I didn't study at all this week because all the categories were general in nature and I'm still busy with the soccer season. We went 10 right and 0 wrong to sweep the category and earn all the bonus points available. Questions were general in nature including duets by Elton John/George Michael, Ozzy Osborne/Lita Ford, and David Bowie/Queen and an album title "Duets" by Frank Sinatra. Phil got us an answer with Johnny Cash/Bob Dylan and Rob got us one that I didn't know.
Now the Encore betting comes up. Well 50% as usual. This could be our best game if we get this right!
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Rob says the answer first while I'm still reading the choices into my micro recorder. Yep, I agree and start putting names of the duets she did with these guys.
Correct Answer:....4. Michael Jackson
[NTN Extra Fact:...Jackson recorded hit duets with Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger.]
I named Barry Gibb--Guilty, Neil Diamond--You Don't Bring Me Flowers, Donna Summer--Enough Is Enough, and Rob said Don Johnson--Till I Loved You.
That's the second time this year that Michael Jackson has been the correct answer for something he has NOT done. Back in May they asked that he was not an artist performing "That's What Friends Are For."
I'm right and stay in 2nd place with both ROCKET and LITBOX at 74670. I earn 3000+ points for meeting the standard of 18000. I finish 3rd overall in North America. Rob wins with COSMO at 77250 and finishes 2nd on the Network Top 20 and 1st on this bar's Hall of Fame. The bar is 2nd in North America with a 66287 average.
(NTN.com kept our bar as 2nd out of 1567 bars).
Thanks to Ron CHATZ for getting us 2nd best bar overall as our 5th board. He was over earlier to say how well we were doing. I forgot I was going to go over to the bar and let the other players know what we answered but forgot in the excitement.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank COSMO 51500 77250 2 4 ROCKET 74670 74670 3 5 LITBOX 49780 74670 3 5 PLBAAB 46050 69075 6 12 WALLY 29660 3 14830 637 1359 CHATZ 23680 35520 156 364 MADDOG 19830 3 9915 2354 2423 METLCA 2000 x 2000 5920 4761 ntn.com listed 5946 players with 5437 scoring more than 0.
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 4,423,100+ and LITBOX at 2,096,800+ Players' Plus points.
7:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...0/10000...300+ points.
.................LITBOX...0/10000...300+ points...I sign on in time to get points although not to answer any questions.
7:45pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8039/10000...3rd/7...900+ points...I'm 105th in NA.
.............LITBOX...8052/10000...2nd/7...900+ points...I'm 103rd in NA...COSMO wins. The bar is 19th in NA with a 7105 average.
8:00pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8562/10000...2nd/7...900+ points...I'm 336th in NA.
............LITBOX...8537/10000...3rd/7...900+ points...I'm 342nd in NA...WALLY wins.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8169/10000...4th/7...900+ points...I'm 166th in NA.
............LITBOX...8187/10000...3rd/7...900+ points...I'm 163rd in NA...COSMO wins. The bar is 12th in NA with an 8224 average.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...6991/10000...1st/8...900+ points...I'm 172nd in NA.
............LITBOX...6961/10000...2nd/8...900+ points...I'm 176th in NA.
8:45pm...Tuned-In TV...ROCKET...6945/10000...3rd/8...1000+ points...I'm 361st in NA.
.............LITBOX...6933/10000...4th/8...1000+ points...I'm 366th in NA...PLBAAB wins.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
I have lots of help in these games.
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