NTN Encore Question of February 19th, 2011.
Played at The Squire & Firkin in Etobicoke, Ontario.

Headliner:...BARBRA STREISAND over Janet Jackson and Christina Aguilera

Encore Question:...With whom does Barbra Streisand sing the duet 'Tell Him'?

Tonight I'm playing as ROCKET and LITBOX with Rob COSMO, Sean METLCA, and Phil PLBAAB. Sean's board dies as the game goes on but he signs onto Lee Ann's board LIZZY between rounds and keeps his points.

Here's how my game went and my comments:

Tune Up...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/6...our five win round.     
.............LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/6...we're 1 for 1 in guessing.
The LineUp...ROCKET...12000/15000...1st/6.  
...........LITBOX...12000/15000...1st/6. 
We go 7 for 10 for an OK score but we run the first seven and mess up the last three.  
Triviaoke...ROCKET...17290/25000...1st/6...ROCKET wins round.   
..........LITBOX...17240/25000...2nd/6...I take two -250s and stay out of one question this week.
Opening Act...ROCKET...26040/35000...1st/6...I either won the round or tied. 
................LITBOX...25990/35000...2nd/6.
The Pound key round.  I must have got 9 right for 1000, 0 for +250, 1 for -250, and 0 I didn't answer.
Headliner...ROCKET...47290/56250...1st/6.   
............LITBOX...47290/56250...2nd/6.
BARBRA STREISAND:...1. All of these were hits for Barbra Streisand EXCEPT:--Feel Like Makin' Love...2. The duets 'Guilty' and 'What Kind of
Fool' were sung by Barbra Streisand and written by:--The BeeGees...3. Barbra Streisand sang in a 1974 hit that she had "___________ memories
of the way we were":...Misty watercolor...4. Who performed the duet with Barbra Streisand on the single 'I Finally Found Someone'?--Bryan Adams
...5. Which song from Funny Girl became Barbra Streisand's first Top 10 single?--People...6. Barbra Streisand has sung hit duets with all of
these artists EXCEPT:--Michael Jackson (other choices were Frank Sinatra, Neil Diamond, Donna Summer, Don Johnson)...7. What was Barbra 
Streisand's first #1 single?--The Way We Were...8. Which singer duets with Barbra Steisand on the song 'All I Know of Love'?--Josh Groban...
9. In 2005, he and Barbra Streisand released their first album together in 25 years:--Barry Gibb (Eminem was a choice!)...10. Who co-wrote
the song 'Evergreen' with Barbra Streisand?--Paul Williams 

I didn't make any notes on Barbra Streisand whereas I wrote the names of singles and albums of the other two possible headliners. I saw her career as easily having 50+ albums and figured I'd take my lumps this week if it was her. I don't own any of her albums. The questions turned out to be pretty mainstream. Something like five duets already (who knew about the Encore question?).

The extra fact in the first question and Rob said Roberta Flack had a hit with that song whereas I couldn't think of her singing the Bad Company song of that title! Rob helped on '3', backed me on '8' and got us '7' when I couldn't decide between the right answer and 'Evergreen'. Wow, we swept the category!

Now the Encore betting comes up. Well 50% as usual.

Answers:

  1. Whitney Houston
  2. Aaron Neville
  3. Babyface
  4. Melissa Manchester
  5. Celine Dion

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Wait. I have this song. By the other artist in this duet. Rob is thinking the same thing too. OK we're in with 27 seconds to spare.

Correct Answer:....5. Celine Dion

[NTN Extra Fact:...It's found on the 1997 album 'Higher Ground'.]

Well I've got it on Dion's albums 'Let's Talk About Love' and a greatest hits collection. Both Dion's and Streisand's albums made #1 for one week each. (I looked that up later).

Three questions now left over from last week's Canadian artists week? Barenaked Ladies album 'Maroon' (in The Line Up round) which I needed Rob's help to get when I froze. The Bryan Adams duet and the Encore answer.

I'm right and win as ROCKET at 70935 points. I earn 3000+ points for meeting the s standard of 18000. I finish 4th on the Top 20 board in North America. The bar is 4th in North America with a 68349 average. I finish 5th on this bar's Hall of Fame. (NTN kept our bar as 4th out of 1941 of bars).

Here's how the rest of the bar did:  
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank
ROCKET	47290  5	70935	  4       28
LITBOX	47240  5	70860	  6       30			
METLCA	45450  5	68175	  7       37
COSMO	45200  5	67800	  7       38
PLBAAB	42650  5	63975	 10       48	   
LIZZY	 1000  -	 1000  6986     6763  
(ntn.com listed 8298 players with 7443 having a positive score)

The bar now has a juke box to be an alternate for the piped in satellite music channels they have. Phil finds out that it only counts as one selection to play the entire Rush '2112' suite which clogs up the other selections by a good twenty minutes.

Other games:
8:00pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...6789/10000...1st/5...900+ points...I'm 228th in NA.
...............LITBOX...6679/10000...2nd/5...900+ points...I'm 256th in NA.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8678/10000...1st/5...900+ points...I'm 27th in NA.
...............LITBOX...8678/10000...1st/5...900+ points...I'm 27th in NA...our bar is 16th in NA with a 7xxx average.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7966/10000...2nd/5...900+ points...I'm 264th in NA...METLCA wins.
..............LITBOX...7966/10000...2nd/5...900+ points...I'm 264th in NA.
8:45pm...Tuned-In TV...ROCKET...9474/10000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 45th in NA.
..............LITBOX...9474/10000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 45th in NA...our bar is 13th in NA with a 8594 average.
I had a lot of help in this game.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).

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