NTN Encore Question of June 19th, 2010.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York, Ontario.
Headliner:...BACK-UP BANDS over Lead Singers and Trios
Encore Question:...British Invasion singer Billy J Kramer was backed up by this band:
Tonight I'm playing as ROCKET and LITBOX with Rob COSMO, Sean METLCA, and Phil PLBAAB however during the game, Rob left and I took over his board and Phil left and Sean answered his board.
Here's how my game went and my comments: TuneUp...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/7...I'm in a four tie with COSMO and METLCA. .............LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/7. The LineUp...ROCKET...13500/15000...1st/7. ...........LITBOX...13500/15000...1st/7...we're still tied. I got 8 right out of 10 for a great round. Triviaoke...ROCKET...18970/25000...2nd/7...LITBOX wins round. ..........LITBOX...18980/25000...1st/7...I take over Rob's board during this round. I take a few -250s in this round. Opening Act...ROCKET...20220/35000...3rd/7. ................LITBOX...20230/35000...2nd/7...COSMO wins round and takes lead. I make an answer that Sean suggested on my two boards then he said 'not' to choose that one so I waited until the right answer came up to answer the COSMO board and get it for 1000 while my own I had to wait for the 250 second chance. The pound-key round. I must have got three for 1000, one for +250, four for -250, and one I didn't answer. It was a hard round with a lot of Country music questions. Headliner...ROCKET...29720/56250...3rd/8. ............LITBOX...29730/56250...2nd/8. BACK-UP BANDS:...1. What was the name of Gary Lewis' 1960's backup band?--The Playboys...2. The Gypsy Sons and Rainbow served as this musician's back up band at Woodstock:--Jimi Hendrix...3. Bob Dylan was a pianist in the back up band for this 1960's rocker:--Bobby Vee...4. Martha & The Vandellas back up ___________ for his hit "Stubborn Kind Of Fellow" in 1962:--Marvin Gaye...5. This funkmaster was the leader of the James Brown back up group The JB's:--Bootsy Collins...6. The Attractions are known for backing which singer:--Elvis Costello...7. The Full Tilt Boogie Band was the last backup band this rock artis recorded with:--Janis Joplin...8. In Outkast's 'Hey Ya' video Andre 3000 plays the back up singing trio named"--The Love Haters...9. What band backed up Mitch Ryder in the mid-1960's?--The Detroit Wheels...10. Which musical artist works with a back up band called The New Power Generation?--Prince
I got two wrong in this round. I missed questions '3' and '8' guessing 'Buddy Knox' as more of a rocker and 'High Rollers' as the Outkast band even though I knew High Rollers was an early name of The Who. Those mistakes really messed up our bonus points.
Now the Encore betting comes up. Well 50% as usual. Got to get this for the point standard.
Answers:
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This was easy enough and I blurted out the answer before I even read through the choices. I have their greatest hits CD. I thought they'd make it really hard and name a drummer and a bassist and expect us to know what group they played in. With all this extra time I run over to ensure the group at the bar know the answer. I wasn't sure.
Correct Answer:....4. The Dakotas
[NTN Extra Fact:...The group had four Top 40 hits in 1964 including "Little Children".]
I'm right and win as COSMO at 44820. I finish 8th overall in North America. The bar finishes 4th in NA with a 56160 average.
I earn 3000+ points for meeting the standard of 18000. Rob wins at 60000 and finishes 7th on
this bar's Hall of Fame ensuring that we now have all ten spots on the board.
(NTN.com keeps us in 4th place out of 1829 bars.).
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank COSMO 29880 4 44820 48 148 LITBOX 29730 4 44595 49 153 ROCKET 29720 4 44580 49 155 METLCA 26750 4 40125 67 209 PLBAAB 20740 4 31110 131 338 DOGGIE 15350 4 23025 201 472 CHATZ 14810 4 22215 209 481 OMAR 2750 4 4125 3812 3593 (ntn.com listed 6652 players with 5879 with a positive score)
Other games:...notes about Player's Plus points in the next paragraph.
7:45pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8374/10000...1st/5...900+ points...I'm 15th on the Network Top 20 in NA.
.........LITBOX...8025/10000...2nd/...900+ points...I'm 29th in NA.
8:00pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7214/10000...1st/5...900+ points...I'm 52nd in NA.
.........LITBOX...7195/10000...2nd/5...900+ points...I'm 51st in NA.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8422/10000...2nd/5...900+ points...I'm 54th in NA.
.........LITBOX...8443/10000...1st/5...900+ points...I'm 53rd in NA.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7394/10000...3rd/6...900+ points...I'm 161st in NA.
.........LITBOX...7420/10000...2nd/6...900+ points...I'm 158th in NA...COSMO wins.
8:45pm...Tuned-In...ROCKET...8106/10000...4th/7...1000+ points...I'm 306th in NA.
.........LITBOX...8118/10000...3rd/7...1000+ points...I'm 303rd in NA...DOGGIE wins.
I get a lot of help in these games.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
I forgot to look at the scores. The next day my scores showed as ROCKET at 4,661,400 Player's Plus points and LITBOX at 63,600.
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