NTN Encore Question of February 13th, 2010.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York, Ontario.
Headliner:...MUSIC FROM THE "HEART" over "Love" Songs and Break Up Ballads
Encore Question:...Which 'Heart' song is sung by Toni Braxton?
Tonight I'm playing 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/11...I'm in a big six board tie for 1st. .............LITBOX...4500/5000...7th/11. I split on the last answer to ensure I get one perfect round. Nothing else that I needed to guess at. The LineUp...ROCKET...11000/15000...4th/11...COSMO/METLCA and PLBAAB win round. ...........LITBOX...10500/15000...5th/11. I got 6 right out of 10 for a pretty bad round. If I'd listened to my friends I would have gotten at least one more. Triviaoke...ROCKET...15570/25000...4th/11...PLBAAB wins round. ..........LITBOX...15080/25000...5th/11...I take four -250s in this round. Opening Act...ROCKET...22820/35000...4th/11...my two win round. ................LITBOX...22330/35000...5th/11. The pound-key round. I got seven right for 1000, two for +250, one for -250 and none I didn't answer. It was a pretty good round for me this week. Hank Snow was the Canadian content this week. Headliner...ROCKET...32070/56250...3rd/11. ............LITBOX...31580/56250...4th/11. MUSIC FROM THE "HEART"...1. 'Owner of a Lonely Heart' was a #1 hit for what British progressive rock band?--Yes...2. 'Listen to your Heart' is an Adult Contemporary radio staple from:--Roxette...3. The album cover Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band is famous for an array of:--Cutouts of famous people... 4. 'Tearin Up My Heart' was a hit from this wildly popular 1990's group:--'Nsync...5. What family band had a #1 hit in 1973 with 'Heartbeat-It's A Lovebeat'?--DeFranco Family...6. Who performed with Teddy Pendergrass on the hit 1981 duet 'Two Hearts'?--Stephanie Mills...7. What playing card is mentioned in the Juice Newton song 'Queen of Hearts'?--Joker...8. 'Golden Heart' is a 1996 album by this guitar legend:--Mark Knopfler...9. Trisha Yearwood's song 'Like We Never Had A Broken Heart' is found on which album?--Trisha Yearwood...10. 'Your Heart's In Good Hands' was a 1995 album by ever popular:--Al Green
I missed question 4 and 8 which stopped me from building up many bonus points. Rob got #8 right to pull ahead of us. He gave me '6' and '10' and suggested we guess '9' to improve my score. I ensured we got '4' wrong by saying it was Backstreet Boys. For '8' I didn't know if Mark Knofler was legendary enough and went with BB King. For '9' it turned out there were three actual Yearwood titles and I only recognized 'Fireflies' wasn't by her so went with Rob's suggestion of self-titled. BB King was offered as '10' but Rob suggested the religious context. '7' more Canadian content!
Now the Encore betting comes up. Well 50% as usual.
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I'm still reading the choices when Rob jumps in with the answer as '5'. Yep that's right. I start checking off the other choices. 4 Black Eyed Peas, 3 Celine Dion, 2 Stacey Q but I can't think of 1 -a man I think? [James Ingram]. This was Rob's game this week so it was appropriate he name the answer first.
Correct Answer:....5. Un-Break My Heart
[NTN Extra Fact:...Toni Braxton is one of the many artists who sing on the new 'We Are The World' recording.]
I'm right and stay in 3rd as ROCKET at 48105. I earn 3000+ points for meeting the standard of 18000. I finish 31st overall in North
America...the bar is 9th in North America with a 50754 average...COSMO wins with 55830 and is 11th on the Network Top 20.
(NTN.com leaves our bar as 9th out of 1878 bars). That's two week's in a row at that position.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank COSMO 37220 55830 11 37 METLCA 36750 55125 13 43 ROCKET 32070 48105 31 97 LITBOX 31580 47370 35 103 PLBAAB 31560 47340 35 104 THEMAN 17250 25875 350 696 MADDOG 14900 22350 463 918 REMMER 14190 14190 809 1696 GGDMAN 13550 20325 535 1070 GORDO 13990 19635 557 1120 WALLY 11730 17595 659 1310 ntn.com listed 7991 players with 7075 scoring more than 0.
Other games:...I start the night with ROCKET at 4,554,500 and LITBOX at 2,229,300 Players' Plus points.
7:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...0/15000...500+ points...10th/10...I'm 7035th in NA...THEMAN wins.
...............LITBOX...0/15000...500+ points...10th/10...I'm 7035th.
I don't sign on until the game is over as I'm trying to convert my account
number which will unusable next month. I left the instructions at home so can't do it.
7:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7005/10000...4th/10...900+ points...I'm 750th...THEMAN wins.
..........LITBOX...6981/10000...5th/10...900+ points...I'm 759th.
7:45pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...5647/10000...5th/10...300+ points...I'm 1090th in NA...THEMAN wins.
.............LITBOX...5654/10000...4th/10...300+ points...I'm 1083rd in NA.
8:00pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7671/10000...3rd/10...900+ points...I'm 497th in NA...GORDO wins.
............LITBOX...7690/10000...2nd/10...900+ points...I'm 502nd in NA.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...9559/10000...3rd/11...900+ points...I'm 97th in NA...COSMO wins with 9848.
............LITBOX...9553/10000...4th/11...900+ points...I'm 98th in NA...the bar is 4th in NA with a 9595 average.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8409/10000...3rd/11...900+ points...I'm 140th in NA...THEMAN wins.
............LITBOX...8397/10000...4th/11...900+ points...I'm 143rd in NA...the bar is 10th in NA with an 8551 average.
8:45pm...Tuned-In TV...ROCKET...8000/10000...4th/11...1000+ points...I'm 122nd in NA...the bar is 18th in NA with an 8109 average.
.............LITBOX...7994/10000...5th/11...1000+ points...I'm 123rd in NA...PLBAAB wins.
There were some repeat questions in this game.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
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