NTN Encore Question of December 19th, 2009.
Played at The Squire & Firkin in Etobicoke, Ontario.
Headliner:...GOING HOME over Feast of Food and Gift Exchange
Encore Question:..."I'll Be Home For Christmas" was one of the songs on her 1992 album "Home For Christmas":
Tonight I'm playing 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...2nd/6...JENO wins with 5000. .............LITBOX...4500/5000...2nd/6. The LineUp...ROCKET...13500/15000...1st/6...my two boards win round along with COSMO and PLBAAB. ...........LITBOX...13500/15000...1st/6. I got 9 right out of 10 for a good round because Sean got us two and Rob got us one. Triviaoke...ROCKET...21890/25000...4th/6...METLCA wins round. ..........LITBOX...21890/25000...4th/6...I take only one -250s in this round. I called out most of the answers by title or racing through the lyrics for full marks. The others didn't take the one answer I went for. Opening Act...ROCKET...29890/35000...2nd/6...my two boards win round. ................LITBOX...29890/35000...2nd/6. The pound-key round. I got eight right for 1000, one for +250, and one for -250. At least I answered every question this week. A great round this week. Headliner...ROCKET....37890/56250...2nd/7. ............LITBOX...37890/56250...2nd/7. GOING HOME...This was a general category with a variety of questions with the work 'Home' in the title of each song. None of them were Christmas in nature unlike some of the questions in earlier rounds. 1. Major breakthrough hit "Sunny Come Home"--Shawn Colvin...2. What crooner sang "Take Me Home" in 1986? --Phil Collins...3. "Feels Like Home" is title of 2004 album by Norah Jones and a 1995 release by--Linda Ronstadt... 4. Grammy winner "Who Says You Can't Go Home"--Bon Jovi...5. Alanis Davis did cover of "Can't Find My Way Home" by --Blind Faith...6. Baby boomer icon released "The Naked Ride Home"?--Jackson Browne...7. "No Place Like Home" country song by--Randy Travis...8. debut album "Can't Take Me Home"--Pink...9. band who asks "Who's going to drive you home tonight?--The Cars...10. "Goin' Home" 2007 double disc tribute to Rock'n'roll pioneer--Fats Domino. I missed 5, 7, and 10 which is not the way to build up bonus points. Rob got us 3, 5, and 6 although I didn't listen to all his offers.
Now the Encore betting comes up. Well 50% as usual. I remind them to bet this time.
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I read this question wrong. I had loaded Mariah Carey's Christmas album and CDs by nine other artists on my MP3 player earlier in the day and regretted not reading the song list but should have just seen by the title that it wasn't her. Rob is saying it was Amy Grant but none of us listened to us. I could imagine Mariah singing this song and didn't want to have me owning an album but being wrong so didn't change my answer. I had my doubts because I would have put Mariah's album as 1994.
I hadn't thought that Mariah Carey was the answer to last year's Christmas week question. I really didn't spend any time thinking about the other three answers.
Correct Answer:....4. Amy Grant
[NTN Extra Fact:...Grant has also released "The Christmas Album" and "A Christmas To Remember".]
I'm wrong and drop to 4th on both boards with 18945. I earn 3000+ points for meeting the standard of 18000. I finish 394th overall in North America. The bar is 19th in North America with a 30699 average. Rob COSMO wins with 63915 and is 2nd on the Network Top 20 in all North America. He is 3rd on this bar's Hall of Fame. (NTN.com kept us at 10th place out of 1794 bars).
Phil forgot to bet again this week and not being wrong left him with a high enough average to finish in the Top 20.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank COSMO 42610 63915 2 6 METLCA 39500 x 19750 126 636 LITBOX 37890 x 18945 394 690 ROCKET 37890 x 18945 394 690 PLBAAB 31940 x 31940 368 238 JENO 15510 15510 539 1007 BINDA 1820 1820 5916 4863 ntn.com listed 6053 players with 5513 scoring more than 0.
Other games:...I'm visiting so don't know what my Players' Plus points totals are.
7:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...2000/10000...3rd/4...300+ points...I'm 3794th in NA...I'm not sure who won.
.................LITBOX...2000/10000...3rd/4...300+ points...I'm 3794th in NA.
I get here in time for the last two questions and this week get them both wrong.
7:45pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...6466/10000...1st/6...900+ points...I'm 338th in NA.
.............LITBOX...6485/10000...2nd/6...900+ points...I'm 334th in NA.
8:00pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...5780/10000...2nd/7...300+ points...I'm 468th in NA
............LITBOX...5822/10000...1st/7...300+ points...I'm 457th in NA.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...6172/10000...4th/7...900+ points...I'm 422nd in NA.
............LITBOX...6069/10000...5th/9...900+ points...I'm 447th in NA...JENO wins.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7690/10000...4th/7...900+ points...I'm 154th in NA.
............LITBOX...7707/10000...3rd/7...900+ points...I'm 151st in NA...METLCA wins...the bar is 17th on the Network Top 20 with a 7735 average.
8:45pm...Tuned-In TV...ROCKET...8193/10000...?th/7...1000+ points...I'm 61st in NA.
.............LITBOX...5976/10000...?th/7...1000+ points...I'm 61st in NA...METLCA wins.
I had a lot of help in this game from my friends and a few repeat questions I recognized.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
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