NTN Encore Question of November 28th, 2009.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York, Ontario.
Headliner:...SHANIA TWAIN over Faith Hill and Carrie Underwood
Encore Question:...All of these songs can be found on Shania Twain's 2002 album "Up" except:
Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX with Rob COSMO, Sean METLCA, and Phil CHEESE (as he grabs a board the by the second question on someone who had just left).
Here's how my game went and my comments: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/10...my two and COSMO win round. .............LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/10...nothing to guess at but Los Lobos made #1 but not Richie Valens with La Bamba. The LineUp...ROCKET...11500/15000...1st/9...my two boards win round with some others. ...........LITBOX...11500/15000...1st/9. I got 7 right out of 10 for an OK round. Triviaoke...ROCKET...17380/25000...2nd/9...COSMO wins round and takes lead at 17750. ..........LITBOX...17380/25000...2nd/9...I take three -250 in this round but everything else I guess right away. Opening Act...ROCKET...26630/35000...2nd/9...COSMO wins round and has lead with 27750. ................LITBOX...26630/35000...2nd/9. The pound-key round. I must have gone nine for 1000, and one for 250 for my best game ever in this round. A few guesses turned out to be right. Headliner...ROCKET....44380/56250...2nd/9...we all tie in this round. ............LITBOX...44380/56250...2nd/9. SHANIA TWAIN...I expected it would be her because she's had the longest career although she hasn't put out a lot of albums. The quiz writers haven't had any Country music acts except Johnny Cash since their new format. I had made notes of albums, what year they came out, and the singles that went with them and marked chart positions on both the Pop and Country charts. That certainly helped our round. 1. name of 1997 album--Come On Over 2. Shania Twain born--Windsor Ontario 3. nickname of ex-husband Robert John Lang--Mutt 4. heartthrob mentioned in That Don't Impress Me Much--Brad Pitt 5. 1995 Best Country Album--The Woman In Me 6. song subtitled You Know I Love You--Don't Be Stupid 7. Whose bed have your ______ been under--Boots 8. teamed up on pop version of Party For Two--Mark McGrath 9. First number one country hit--Any Man Of Mine 10. Which pick up line opens up song If You're Not In It For Love I'm Out of Here--Mind If I Sit Down We go 9 for 10 in this round and get the last question wrong. That's better than having to start building bonus points all over again but would have been one of our best games if we could have got this. I went with "What's Your Sign?".
Now the Encore betting comes up. Well 50% as usual. Let's make sure everyone bets the maximum.
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I knew the Encore this week would be a variation of 'All of these songs except' but would have liked to have read through my lists a few more times before I came here. Well obviously "Up" was on there and I knew her first single of this album, "I'm Gonna Getcha Good". "C'est La Vie" I didn't recognize so I said would be an album cut and said not to pick it. So that left two and Rob looking at my list threw out the wrong answer so we've got it and double checked with ten seconds to go.
Correct Answer:....3. Don't Be Stupid
[NTN Extra Fact:...(I missed it but it was something like...) "Don't Be Stupid" was from the album "Come On Over".]
I'm right and stay at 2nd with both ROCKET and LITBOX at 66570. I earn 3000+ points for meeting the standard of 18000. I finish 6th overall in North America. The bar is 3rd in North America with a 64845 average.
(NTN.com kept us at 3rd place out of 1733 bars).
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank COSMO 45500 68250 4 17 ROCKET 44380 66570 6 22 LITBOX 44380 66570 6 22 METLCA 42410 63615 8 28 CHEESE 39480 59220 19 62 GLAIVE 14820 x 7410 3765 3587 GORDO 14180 x 7090 3916 3710 MRBOBO 13480 x 6740 4082 3892 ntn.com listed 7019 players with 6519 scoring more than 0.
Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 4,465,500 and LITBOX at 2,139,200 Players' Plus points.
7:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...2970/10000...6th/10...300+ points...I missed the rankings...GLAIVE wins.
.................LITBOX...2970/10000...6th/10...300+ points.
I'm here in time for the last three questions.
7:45pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...6785/10000...1st/11...900+ points...I'm 141st in NA.
.............LITBOX...6785/10000...1st/11...900+ points...I'm 141st in NA...The bar is 20th in NA with a 6200 average.
that was a tough game!
8:00pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7054/10000...3rd/11...900+ points...I'm 178th in NA.
............LITBOX...7054/10000...3rd/11...900+ points...I'm 178th in NA...the bar is 17th in NA with a 7131 average.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8943/10000...2nd/11...900+ points...I'm 75th in NA.
............LITBOX...8943/10000...2nd/11...900+ points...I'm 75th in NA...the bar is 13th in NA with an 8561 average.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...6356/10000...1st/9...900+ points...I'm 325th in NA.
............LITBOX...6332/10000...2nd/9...900+ points...I'm 331st in NA.
8:45pm...Tuned-In TV...ROCKET...7984/10000...1st/9...1000+ points...I'm 175th in NA.
.............LITBOX...7984/10000...1st/9...1000+ points...I'm 175th in NA.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
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