NTN Encore Question of June 11th, 2011.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York, Ontario.
Headliner:...SANTANA over Styx and Sublime
Encore Question:...Which of these Santana albums were released in the 1980's?
Tonight I'm playing as ROCKET and LITBOX with Ron CHATZ. My phone call to Rob was answered that he and Phil were in New Orleans this week. I've been at soccer games for the last six Saturday nights and have lost track of them.
Here's how my game went and my comments: Tune Up...ROCKET...4500/5000...1st/4...my two and CHATZ win this round. .............LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/4...I go 1 for 2 in guessing. The LineUp...ROCKET...14500/15000...1st/4. ...........LITBOX...14500/15000...1st/4. I go 10 for 10 for an excellent score. Triviaoke...ROCKET...22980/25000...2nd/6...CHATZ wins round. ..........LITBOX...22950/25000...3rd/6...I only go with one of two of Ron's suggestions and he took the lead. I only take one -250 this week. Opening Act...ROCKET...29730/35000...2nd/6...TDJ wins the round. ................LITBOX...29700/35000...3rd/6. The Pound key round. I must have got 7 right for 1000, 1 for +250, 2 for -250, and 0 I didn't answer. Headliner...ROCKET...39980/56250...2nd/6. ............LITBOX...39950/56250...3rd/6...I immediately say "Santana, we're sunk". I had wasted my time writing down albums and songs by Black Sabbath as someone on the Scaratings message board had said the categories were Black Sabbath, Rush and Def Leppard. I didn't have time because of soccer games to write anything else down. I found some old notes on 'Styx' and didn't expect 'Sublime' had a long enough career to have ten questions about them. SANTANA:...1. All of these songs were recorded by Santana except--Lowrider (hey that was War)...2. Carlos Santana grew up in--Mexico... 3. The cover of the 1969 self titled album features--A Lion...4. Michelle Branch provides the vocals on this hit Santana song from the album 'Shaman':--The Game of Love...5. A painting titled 'The Annunciation' adorns the cover of this 1970 Santana alebum:--Abraxas...6. After leaving Santana Neal Schon and Gregg Rolie formed ___________ in 1973:--Journey...7. The rousing 'Maria Maria' is found on the same Grammy showered Santana album as:--Smooth...8. Who sings the vocals on Santana's 1999 hit song 'Maria Maria'?--Wyclef Jean...9. Santana had a hit with this song originally recorded by The Zombies:--She's Not There...10. Santana has won Grammys in all of these categories except:--Best New Artist
I did pretty well I thought only missing questions '3' and '9'. I went with a 'red guitar' on question 3 as a suggestion from a non-player and something like 'Time of the Season' for The Zombies song on question 9. I got help on '8' as I was looking for The Product GB for vocals but it was not listed as a choice.
Now the Encore betting comes up. Well 50% as usual.
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I don't know this. I just know it wasn't '5' because they gave that away in the Headliner round (when they said 1970) and I know it wasn't 'Shaman' as that was one I own in the 2000s. I can only say "not 2 nor 5" when Ron asks for help. I end up choosing '3'.
Correct Answer:....1. Freedom
[NTN Extra Fact:...The 1987 album didn't do well only reaching #95 on the charts.]
I'm wrong and stay in second as ROCKET at 19990. I earn 3000+ points for meeting the standard of 18000. I finish 228th overall
in North America with both my boards.
(NTN lists our bar as 55th out of 1776 sites with a 16628 average).
I could have had that if I'd done any studying because I usually write down albums and singles besides members of a band. When I saw a list of about 100 members who've played on Santana albums, I decided not to bother.
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank CHATZ 41590 4 20795 204 341 ROCKET 39980 3 19990 228 378 LITBOX 39950 3 19975 228 381 TDJ 18940 ? 9470 990 1696 BOOM 12910 - 12910 556 1019 BOOMEA 6000 - 6000 2887 2622 JEREMY 4500 ? 2250 4937 4180 (ntn.com listed 6300 players with 5554 having a positive score)
The bar was pretty empty tonight with no hockey nor basketball final playoffs and this bar was NOT showing the Ultimate Fighting PPV. They were actually playing the Gold Cup Canada vs Guadeloupe match on some of the televisions. I was taping it at home. After that match John suggested I ask for them to show the USA vs Panama match instead of some west coast baseball game. That was on a sports channel I don't get although it was rerun later. Well that made the evening rather than the Playback game results. Actually the best thing was walking both here and home without my heart going off the charts. Probably because I had no alcohol.
Other games:
7:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...4118/15000...2nd/3...500+ points...I'm 2975th in NA.
.................LITBOX...4124/15000...1st/3...500+ points...I'm 2971st in NA.
I'm here in time for the last five questions.
7:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8323/10000...2nd/3...900+ points...I'm 59th in NA.
.................LITBOX...8325/10000...1st/3...900+ points...I'm 59th in NA.
7:45pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...7948/10000...1st/3...900+ points...I'm 135th in NA.
.................LITBOX...7942/10000...2nd/3...900+ points...I'm 136th in NA.
8:00pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8928/10000...1st/3...900+ points...I'm 5th in NA.
...............LITBOX...8898/10000...2nd/3...900+ points...I'm 7th in NA.
8:15pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...8392/10000...1st/3...900+ points...I'm 19th in NA.
...............LITBOX...8356/10000...2nd/3...900+ points...I'm 21st in NA.
8:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...6710/10000...1st/3...900+ points...I'm 142nd in NA.
..............LITBOX...6710/10000...1st/3...900+ points...I'm 142nd in NA.
8:45pm...Tuned-In TV...ROCKET...6924/10000...2nd/4...1000+ points...I'm 334th in NA.
..............LITBOX...6905/10000...3rd/4...1000+ points...I'm 3??th in NA.
Ron is here for this game and helps me get the bonus points.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
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