NTN Encore Question of July 14th, 2012.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York, Ontario.
Headliner:...DRIVIN' SONGS over Makin' Out Songs and Drinkin' Songs
Encore Question:...What group sang 'Going Up The Country' at Woodstock in 1969?
Tonight I'm playing with my two boards with Ron CHATZ and a few others at the bar who salvaged boards from people who've left to get enough P+ boards as they're not members. Ron mostly feeds them the answers. My friends Rob and Phil have gone to the Edgefest'12 concert tonight.
Here's how my game went and my comments: Tune Up...ROCKET...4000/5000..1st/8...my two and CHATZ, KRAP, and DUKE tie this round. .............LITBOX...4000/5000...1st/8. The Line Up...ROCKET...10000/15000...1st/8. ...........LITBOX...10000/15000...1st/8...I go 6 right and 4 wrong for a poor week. My two and CHATZ win round. Ron gets me the Phoenix equals Paris answer or it would have been worse. Can't get number of white keys on a piano despite playing for ten years when I was a kid. Hungarian composer, Havana Brown song (that was from just last year) and a harmonica player named Toots I also missed. Triviaoke...ROCKET...19480/25000...2nd/8. CHATZ wins round and gives me two answers. ............LITBOX...19480/25000...2nd/8. I did very well this round to recover from the last one. No -250s! Opening Act...ROCKET...25730/35000...2nd/8. ...........LITBOX...25730/35000...2nd/8. The Pound key round. I figured I must have gone 6 right for 1000, 2 for +250, 1 for -250, and 1 I didn't answer. My boards win round. Headliner...ROCKET...36480/56250...1st/11. ............LITBOX...36480/56250...1st/11. DRIVIN' SONGS: 1. 'Moonlight Drive' is one of the band's earliest compositions:--The Doors...2. One of the handles used by a trucker in C.W. McAll's (sic) 'Convoy' is:--Rubber Duck...3. Which car model did the singer drive in the lyrics of Don McLean's 'American Pie'?--Chevrolet...4. Which Bruce Springsteen song features the line "I'm ten years burning down the road"?--Born In The USA ...5. 'Little Red Corvette' and 'Delirious' are cuts from this breakthrough Prince album:--1999...6. Which truck driving anthem was a hit for Dave Dudley?--Six Days On The Road...7. Which band had a hit single with 'Highway Star' 1972?--Deep Purple...8. In the 1970s Foghat wants us to take a Slow:---Ride...9. Which singer's first Top 30 single was 'I Can't Drive 55' 1984?--Sammy Hagar...10. 'Drive By' is a pop rock song that became this band's fifth Top 10 hit?--Train
No worries about not having time to study this week as it's general categories. I didn't care what they chose. Q1 I was pretty sure of once I saw the choices. Q2 easy but Ron called it first. Q3 was a 'Chevy' but this was the choice. Q4 I didn't get--Ron even suggested it--but I don't remember that line in this song so went with 'Badlands'. Q5 easy enough. Q6 I didn't know but got it by process of elimination. Q7 I didn't know the song but the year was right as the other bands were too new. Q8 and Q9 Easy enough. Q10 I've seen that song listed but not the group. I went with The Fray. Ha 'Train' was offered as an answer for Q8 as in Slow Train.
Well missing Q4 and Q10 means I didn't build up much in bonus points. I think the others missed Q7 because I didn't call it out as even I wasn't sure.
Now the Encore betting comes up. Well 50% as usual. Good thing the only P+ boards have the top six spots.
Answers:
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This was easy enough with enough time to relay the answer. I've seen this song used in two commercial jingles in the last ten years. One was for a mini van where some hippy in a VW van kept looking in the rear view mirror and the contents in the interior changed from girlfriend, wife, puppy, baby, baby, dog, child etc as he grew older and the van transposed into a mini van as the song played.
Correct Answer:....3. Canned Heat
[NTN Extra Fact:...The song was based on Henry Thomas' 'Bulldog Blues' 1928.]
I'm right and win with my two boards at 54720. I earn 3000+ points for meeting the standard of 18000. I finish 20th on the Network
Top 20 in the Playback East district. The bar is 16th in the Playback East district.
(ntn.com moved us up to 15th place out of 1137 bars with a 47997 average).
Here's how the rest of the bar did: Player preEncore Final Rank ntn.com rank ROCKET 36480 3 54720 20 69 LITBOX 36480 3 54720 20 69 CHATZ 33450 3 50175 45 117 JES 30490 3 45735 70 172 JEREMY 29850 3 29850 238 453 OMAR 23090 3 34635 170 360 DUKE 20040 2 10020 2145 ---- WRENCH 13420 5 6710 3738 ---- KRAP 5000 - 5000 4561 ---- JOJO 2280 - 2280 5870 ---- ART 1910 - 1910 6048 ---- (ntn.com listed 2574 Players Plus players with 2417 having a positive score in the Playback East district).
The guy playing the JEREMY board forgot to bet on the last question or maybe we would have moved up a spot or two in the rankings.
Other games:
7:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...1192/15000...3rd/4...500+ points...I'm 5315th in NA...I'm here for the last 2 questions.
...............LITBOX...1167/10000...4th/4...500+ points...I'm 5328th in NA...JEREMY wins.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...11816/15000...3rd/6...1000+ points...I'm 275th in NA.
...............LITBOX...11859/15000...2nd/6...1000+ points...I'm 267th in NA...DUKE wins.
8:00pm...Playback...(see above)
9:00pm...Tuned In...ROCKET...6927/10000...1st/0...I earn 1000+ points...I'm 191st in NA.
.........LITBOX...6927/10000...1st/9...I earn 1000+ points...I'm 191st in NA.
9:15pm...Speed Freaks...ROCKET...2000/25000...3rd/7...900+ points...I'm 3668th in NA...CHATZ wins.
...........LITBOX...2000/25000...3rd/7...900+ points...I'm 3668th in NA.
I get my 2000 points early and turned my boards over to watch the rest.
9:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...9600/15000...3rd/7...1000+ points...I'm 402nd in NA.
..................LITBOX...9667/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 389th in NA...CHATZ wins.
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