Shirley Pifko of Stuckey Bowl has been having trouble concentrating since who died?
Where did Jonathan Harker conduct research before departing for Transylvania?
What 1984 film shares the title of one of Atari's earliest games?
What geographical connection do the following numbers have: 10 20 21 25 27 31 42 49 57 60 91 101 109?
These are just a small sample of the over 450 questions served up in 2006's annual KVSC trivia contest. (This year, pirate themed.) Thanks to a particular friend, I was drawn years ago into this small college radio station's yearly salute to Google.com.
Once again, I assisted the team Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women with 50 hours of manic net surfing, trying to answer demonically obscure questions. Once again, we managed to take first place and win it all.
In the past, I took part in this trivia extravaganza in the same house as a number of other close friends. Since the last contest, we've been scattered literally to opposite coasts and several places in between. Truthfully, I didn't expect this year to be very much fun without them. And in fact, it wasn't quite as magical. But I was pleasantly surprised to find that I did still enjoy myself quite a bit. Certainly enough to take part once again this time next year.
But after the exhausting times we've just gone through in the last two days, I can't say I'm quite "looking forward to it" just yet. Once a year is probably just about right.
And, to save you the crazy searching we ourselves went through, the answers to the above are: Buddy Ebsen. The British Museum. Bachelor Party. They are a complete list of all elements on the periodic table with abbreviations that match the postal code of a US state.
5 comments:
Grats to all you guys! First place! Woot! Sorry I couldn't participate this time, should be there next year.
Well, those are pretty obscure, all right. Even I wouldn't have gotten the one about the state abbreviations/element symbols.
However, I fell compelled to point out that, unless you inadvertently omitted two entries from that list of element numbers, the question is wrong. 13 = Al (Alabama) and 18 = Ar (Arkansas).
(Also, 59 = Pr, which would be Puerto Rico. Not technically a state, of course, but I thought it was worth mentioning.)
Regardless, good job!
Obviously, chemistry is a required course for all Tal Shiar agents. ;-)
Call the dispute line! Pronto!
That is the list we were given, exactly. So yeah, I guess they had some errors in the question! Wouldn't be the first time... though usually when a question gets messed up, it's cause the silly college DJs couldn't read it right.
Anyway, like Jason said, we'll get right on calling the dispute line. ;-)
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