NTN Encore Question of October 30th, 2010.
Played at The Squire & Firkin in Etobicoke, Ontario.

Headliner:...OZZY OSBOURNE over Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson

Encore Question:...At the beginning of the song "Crazy Train" Ozzy Osbourne shouts:

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:
Tune Up...ROCKET.4500/5000...1st/7...our five boards win round with 4500.   
.............LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/7...I go 0 for 1 in guessing and Rob gets me one.
The LineUp...ROCKET...11500/15000...1st/7...we all get the same score.  
...........LITBOX...11500/15000...1st/7...Phil gets us one.  
We go 7 for 10 for a good score.  
Triviaoke...ROCKET...21380/25000...1st/7...ROCKET wins round.    
..........LITBOX...21360/25000...2nd/7.
I take no -250s this week and get most for near 1000 points.
Opening Act...ROCKET...30380/35000...1st/7...my two won the round. 
................LITBOX...30360/35000...2nd/7.
The Pound key round.  I must have got 9 right for 1000, 0 for +250, 0 for -250, and 1 I didn't answer.
There certainly was a lucky guess or two in this round.
Headliner...ROCKET...51630/56250...1st/7...my two and METLCA and COSMO win round.  
............LITBOX...51610/56250...2nd/7.
OZZY OSBOURNE:...1. Heavy metal pioneer Ozzy Osbourne is affectionately known as:--The Prince of Darkness...2. Ozzy Osbourne has a song
called "_______ at the Moon".--Bark...3. Who replaced Ozzy Osbourne as lead singer of Black Sabbath?--Ronnie James Dio (the only Black
Sabbath band member listed)...4. Ozzy Osbourne is known for his decapitation of birds, nonsensical utterances, and ________.: Tattoos...
5. This 'baby' song is an Ozzy Osbourne song on The Ozzman Cometh:--Crazy Babies...6. Ozzy Osbourne's festival Ozzfest has included all 
of these acts except:--The Kentucky Headhunters...7. This former Runaways guitarist first Top 10 single was a duet with Ozzy Osbourne:--
Lita Ford...8. It's the title of Ozzy Osbourne's latest CD:--Scream...9. Ozzy Osbourne takes his "Road To ________" on his album "No More 
Tears":--Nowhere...10. Which multi-platinum album from Ozzy Osbourne featured the hit song "Flying High Again"?--Diary Of A Madman.   

I was later than usual because I was writing down all the musicians who've played in Marilyn Manson's band. I've written down MM's album titles and Ozzy's too and nothing abour Rob Zombie. Most likely it would be Ozzy I was expecting. I feel better that Sean is here tonight because he said he knows about Ozzy.

I didn't have time while the round was on to read my list of the album matching the song title but otherwise did well. Sean is a fan and could get us all of them. I knew 1, 2, 3, 4 (which I'd read earlier today...Sean said he was had tattoos before it became a real fad). Also 6, 7, and 8. Sean got us 5, 9 and 10 to keep our bonus points rolling.

Now the Encore betting comes up. Well 50% as usual. I was hoping that I'd have the minimum in case we got this wrong that we'd still earn the bonus points. Now I really want this because our bar would have a good score.

Answers:

  1. Next Stop
  2. Sharon
  3. Free Me
  4. All Aboard
  5. Get It Done

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I was thinking of this song all week as the only Ozzy song I really know. I have heard this song at least 25 times in the last three years (but not this year) at Toronto FC games as they always played "Crazy Train" before the players would come out for warm ups. That is an advantage by trying to get to the games one hour before they start. I yell out before I even read the choices shown. Until the night before I thought it was one of his newer songs rather than his first solo album.

Correct Answer:....4. All Aboard

[NTN Extra Fact:...The song is the second track on Ozzy's solo debut album "Blizzard of Ozz".]

I'm right and win as ROCKET with 77445. The Network Top 20 doesn't show for this game neither. I finish 1st on this bar's Hall of Fame listings. I earn 3000+ points for meeting the standard of 18000.
It should have been one of our best scores ever. On Sunday the NTN site did not list us but I saw Monday night they had amended their records and listed us after all.
(NTN.com finally listed our bar in 4th place out of 1457 bars in North America with a 71586 average.)

Here's how the rest of the bar did: 
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank
ROCKET	51630	4	77445	----	  26
LITBOX	51610	4	77415	----	  27
METLCA	49930	4	74895	----	  34
COSMO	48480	4	72720	----	  40
PLBAAB	36970	4	55455	----	 140
JAMIE	 3500	-	 3500	----	3462
JAMIE2	 2000	-	 2000	----	3975
(ntn.com listed 4991 players with 4588 with a positive score)
I figured by looking closely at the boards because of all the multi boards at the same locations that I finished 3rd in NA.

Other games:
I see that none of the Network scores show up so I think we are cut out from the outside world.
7:45pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7587/10000...1st/5...900+ points...I'm 19th in NA.
...............LITBOX...7569/10000...2nd/5...900+ points...I'm 19th in NA.
8:00pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7678/10000...2nd/5...900+ points...I'm 18th in NA.
...............LITBOX...7661/10000...3rd/5...900+ points...I'm 18th in NA...METLCA wins.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...5894/10000...3rd/5...300+ points...I'm 61st in NA.
...............LITBOX...5901/10000...2nd/5...300+ points...I'm 61st in NA...METLCA wins.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8242/10000...4th/5...900+ points...I'm 8th in NA...METLCA wins?
..............LITBOX...8298/10000...3rd/5...900+ points...I'm 8th in NA.
8:45pm...Tuned-In TV...ROCKET...7287/10000...4th/5...1000+ points...I'm 21st in NA.
..............LITBOX...7335/10000...3rd/5...1000+ points...I'm 21st in NA...METLCA wins.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).

I was visiting and didn't bother to look up my P+ points.

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