NTN Encore Question of October 23rd, 2010.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York, Ontario.

Headliner:...DEAD MUSICIANS over Midnight and Madness, and Spooky Songs

Encore Question:..."The Sky Is Crying" is the highest charting album by this late musician:

Tonight I'm playing as ROCKET and LITBOX with Rob COSMO/ONJ, and Phil PLBAAB.

Here's how my game went and my comments:
TuneUp...ROCKET...4000/5000...2nd/8...LITBOX wins round.   
.............LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/8...I split one answer.
The LineUp...ROCKET...12000/15000...2nd/8.  
...........LITBOX...12500/15000...1st/8.  
I go 8 for 10 for a good score.  I have one guess right and help from Rob for another.  
Triviaoke...ROCKET...16590/25000...2nd/8...DOGGIE wins round.    
..........LITBOX...17050/25000...1st/8...I figure I took three or four -250 each.
Opening Act...ROCKET...22340/35000...2nd/8...PLBAAB wins round. 
................LITBOX...22800/35000...1st/8.
I must have got 6 right for 1000, 1 for +250, 2 for -250, and 1 I didn't answer.
Headliner...ROCKET...33840/56250...3rd/8...DOGGIE wins round.  
............LITBOX...34300/56250...2nd/8.
DEAD MUSICIANS:...1. What singer died of a heroin overdose in a Los Angeles hotel in 1970?--Janis Joplin...2. Singer Karen Carpenter died
of ___________ in 1983:--Anorexia Nervosa...3. What rock singer died in 2003 of a heart attack at age 54?--Robert Palmer (at least three
of the other choices are still alive)...4. This soul singer recorded "Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay" days before he died:...Otis 
Redding...5. Which Country singer died in a plane crash in 1963 at the height of her popularity?--Patsy Cline...6. What group's lead singer
Bon Scott died in 1980 by choking on his own vomit?--AC/DC...7. The late Joe Pass was a master of jazz _________:--Guitar...8. Which influential
singer died before his 50th birthday?--Nat King Cole...9. In 1973 which popular singer died at age 39 during open heart surgery?--Bobby Darin
...10. This late musician's farewell album is titled "The Wind"--Warren Zevon

I missed out on question 7 by guessing 'trumpet' (well it was a jazz question) Phil guessed right and took the lead. We went with Al Jolson as the died young question--thinking Nat King Cole dieing of lung cancer later in life (they say he died at 45). Music books say Bobby Darin died at age 37. Rob helped us get the Warren Zevon answer. I may have run out of time for that answer otherwise.

These Headliner categories would have fit better with the actual Halloween weekend one week from now but the NTN will be choosing from a choice of three persons/acts rather than a general category theme because of their two week rotation since the whole Playback game was revamped.

Now the Encore betting comes up. Well 50% as usual. That means we need this right to earn 3000+ Players Points points.

Answers:

  1. Stevie Ray Vaughan
  2. Jim Morrison
  3. Buddy Holly
  4. Kurt Cobain
  5. Harry Chapin

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I think I know this when I saw the first choice. When I saw Jimi Hendrix was not a choice I felt even better. Many angles of logic I could have used but only to shoot down Buddy Holly when Phil suggested it because he wasn't an 'albums' artist. Should have thought that '2' and '4' never really had solo albums. Still thinking of a video for a song of him playing guitar in a wind-machine generated rain storm however that was for an album when he was still alive.

Correct Answer:....1. Stevie Ray Vaughan

[NTN Extra Fact:...It was released a year after the blues legend's death in a 1990 helicopter crash.]

I'm right and stay at 2nd as LITBOX with 51450. I finish 54th in all North America out of 5710 players. I earn 3000+ points for meeting the standard of 18000. Phil won as PLBAAB at 51765. The bar was 15th in North America with a 50847 average.
(NTN.com listed kept our bar in 15th place out of 1506 bars in North America.)

Here's how the rest of the bar did: 
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank
PLBAAB	34510	1	51765	  53	 145
LITBOX	34300	1	51450	  54	 146
ROCKET	33840	1	50760	  57	 155
ONJ	33460	1	50070	  60	 158
DOGGIE	33380	1	50070	  60	 160
COSMO	31990	1	47985	  69	 190
JEREMY	25500	1	38250	 162	 369
CHATZ	24610	1	36915	 176	 399
(ntn.com listed 5710 players with 5078 with a positive score)

Glad we got this game over before the UFC pay per view started as the fans who never come here any other week were milling around. Once I was on my way out, my two friends were bumped by restaurant staff to the other side of the restaurant so the monitor could be changed to the channel with the fight broadcast. There now seems to be one every three weeks.

Other games:
7:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...6873/10000...1st/5...900+ points...I'm 193rd in NA.
...............LITBOX...6849/10000...2nd/5...900+ points...I'm 196th in NA...I'm signed on for the last seven questions so this was a good game.
7:45pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...6453/10000...1st/6...900+ points...I'm 254th in NA.
...............LITBOX...6404/10000...2nd/6...900+ points...I'm 264th in NA.
8:00pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7967/10000...1st/6...900+ points...I'm 74th in NA.
...............LITBOX...7967/10000...1st/6...900+ points...I'm 74th in NA...the bar is 12th in NA with a 7312 average.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7512/10000...1st/7...900+ points...I'm 185th in NA.
...............LITBOX...7488/10000...2nd/7...900+ points...I'm 189th in NA.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7481/10000...1st/7...900+ points...I'm 66th in NA.
..............LITBOX...7457/10000...2nd/7...900+ points...I'm 67th in NA.
8:45pm...Tuned-In TV...ROCKET...9596/10000...2nd/8...1000+ points...I'm 39th in NA.
..............LITBOX...9590/10000...3rd/8...1000+ points...I'm 39th in NA...COSMO wins...the bar is 7th with a 9478 average. There were a lot of repeat questions in this game.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).

I looked up my P+ points on my way out. ROCKET with 4,703,800 and LITBOX with 103,000 (after having to start all over again earlier this year).

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