NTN Encore Question of November 12th, 2011.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York, Ontario.
Headliner:...RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS over No Doubt and Sublime
Encore Question:...The cover art for the 2011 Red Hot Chili Peppers album 'I'm With You' depicts a:
Tonight I'm playing with my two boards with Rob COSMO/ON J, and Phil PLBAAB.
Here's how my game went and my comments: Tune Up...ROCKET...4000/5000...3rd/7. .............LITBOX...4000/5000...3rd/7...CHATZ wins round with 5000. I go 1 of 3 for guessing. The LineUp...ROCKET...13000/15000...1st/7...I'm in a five way tie for first with COSMO/ON J and CHATZ. ...........LITBOX...13000/15000...1st/7. 9 right and 1 wrong was great but I should have swept with knowing the Crash Test Dummies album because they had BareNaked Ladies as the only other Canadian band in the choices and the title didn't look familiar. Triviaoke...ROCKET...18190/25000...4th/7...CHATZ wins round and has 20240. ..........LITBOX...18220/25000...3rd/7...I take one -250s this week and two I don't answer. First song title was lyrics from the BareNaked Ladies song 'One Week' so I redeemed myself. Rob must have got me one other answer. Opening Act...ROCKET...24940/35000...2nd/7. ................LITBOX...24970/35000...1st/7...my two win round. The Pound key round. I must have gone 7 right for 1000, 0 for +250, 1 for -250, and 2 I didn't answer. Headliner...ROCKET...38190/56250...2nd/7. ............LITBOX...38220/56250...1st/7. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS:...1. Who is the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers?--Anthony Kiedis (the only actual member of the group in the choices) ...2. Red Hot Chili Peppers released the 1991 album 'Blood, _________, Sex, Magik:--Sugar...3. The 2006 album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers is a two DC set titled:--Stadium Arcadium (the only 'real' album title)...4. The 1999 Red Hot Chili Peppers album 'Mother's Milk' featured a tribute song to this NBA legend:--Magic Johnson...5. All of these men were members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers EXCEPT:--Mike Dirnt...6. In 2006 the Red Hot Chili Peppers had a hit with a song called '____ California'--Dani (all four letter girl's names)...7. On the Red Hot Chili Peppers song 'Under The Bridge', where's the bridge located?--Downtown...8. The 2002 offering from the Red Hot Chili Peppers is this alt-rock song:--The Zephyr Song... 9. On which Red Hot Chili Peppers album will you find the song 'Give It Away'--Blood Sugar Sex Magik...10. Which comedian directed the Red Hot Chili Peppers video 'Hump Da Bump'?--Chris Rock
The Skaratings message board expected it would be this band as 'Gwen Stefani/No Doubt' was already a headliner and Sublime's career was too short. Good that helped me narrow in on only reading about Red Hot Chili Peppers on Wikipedia. The soccer season is about over but I'm not finding any extra time to read up on music.
I pull away from everyone playing by guessing 'Magic Johnson' although I didn't know. I thought it was near the time he declared he had AIDS. I was way off with the date on that one. For Q5 I recognized that Mike Dirnt didn't belong but mixed him up with Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit rather than a guy with Green Day. Q7 is the only one I got wrong as not knowing the lyrics I guessed 'across the tracks'. Q10 I just read the night before about Chris Rock directing the video on the set of his television show 'Everyone Hates Chris'.
Now the Encore betting comes up. Well 50% as usual. Will my faded LITBOX board hold out long enough for this question?
Answers:
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This one's easy enough. I bought the album the first day it came out last month. It's only the third album of their's I own. I was waiting for the answers before they came up. "I bought that album" I said. I got it so fast that on the way home I thought I'd forgotten to read in the other choices into my microrecorder. I went over the other side of the bar to make sure the other group had it and they'd already guessed it.
Correct Answer:....4. Fly on a pill
[NTN Extra Fact:...The album is their first with new guitarist Josh Klinghoffer.]
I'm right and win as LITBOX with 57285. I can't see that on the completed faded board but from the overhanging monitors. I earn 3000+ points
for meeting the standard of 18000. I'm listed as 16th on the Top 20 ranking for all North America. The bar is 9th in North America with a 53064
average.
I place 10th on this bars Hall of Fame listing.
(NTN.com lists us 9th out of 1494 bars with a 53064 average).
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank LITBOX 38220 4 57330 16 45 ROCKET 38190 4 57285 17 46 CHATZ 34490 4 51735 30 90 COSMO 33040 4 49560 37 124 ON J 32940 4 49410 38 127 PLBAAB 32230 4 48345 41 137 OMAR 28690 4 43035 59 173 (ntn.com listed 5200 players and 4653 with a positive score)
Other games:
7:30pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...1130/10000...3rd/4...300+ points...I'm 4xxx something. I'm signed on in time to answer two questions.
.................LITBOX...884/10000...4th/4...300+ points...I'm 4xxx something. I'm signed on for the last question.
7:45pm...Buzztime...ROCKET...3607/10000...4th/5...300+ points...I'm 1898th in NA.
................LITBOX...3583/10000...4th/5...300+ points...I'm 1924th in NA...ON J wins.
8:00pm...Topix (The Law on TV with a 3000 point standard)...ROCKET...11748/15000...4th/5...I earn 1200+ points...I'm 102nd in NA...PLBAAB wins.
............LITBOX...11706/15000...5th/5...I earn 1200+ points...I'm 106th in NA...The bar is 11th in North America with a 12012 average
I would have got just over 3000 points on my own with the no -250s and the answers given on the third clue if I was playing on my own. Rob and Phil
got almost everything.
8:30pm...Speed Freaks...ROCKET...2000/25000?...3rd/6...900+ points...I'm 3073rd in NA.
............LITBOX...2000/25000?...3rd/6...900+ points...I'm 3073rd in NA...PLBAAB wins.
I answer the ROCKET board until I meet the 2000+ points standard then turn the Playmaker upside down and answer LITBOX until I make the standard then
turn that board over as well then help the other players.
I wasn't going to risk the -250s by answering before reading the question.
8:45pm...Tuned-In TV...ROCKET...7742/10000...4th/7...1000+ points...CHATZ wins. I miss the rankings.
..............LITBOX...7729/10000...5th/7...1000+ points.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
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