Scav Hunt 2005 Is ON!

Every year in spring, U of C students gather for a weekend of scrounging and engineering and general resourcefulness.

Begin the most random competition between geeks this year.

Questions from the 300+ long list include:

2. Demonstrate the power of primitive technology. Obtain an atlatl, and we'll see whose can go the farthest.

8. Get circumsized. (73 points)

23. Using just a blood pressure pump and an alarm clock, construct a fully functional lie detector. (27 points)

43. Perspective will show Jiminy Cricket to be at the all-time low, the Blue Fairy to be at the record high, and Pinocchio to be at the 82-year average snowfall mark for Keweenaw County. [12 points]

64. Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie. [10 points. 2 bonus points for including the controversial “special ending” as an appendix]

75. Mary on toast? Lincoln on fry? That’s nothing. Sell a Ho HoTM in the image of Mahatma Gandhi. [8 points, but only if sold on eBay]

80. Deliver a singing “Happy Belated Birthday, Wish I Could be There” telegram to Mlle. Lelia, 22 Rue des Rosiers Apt buzzer 2209, door code 41A25. The tune should include a Romanian proverb. [5 points. 3 bonus points for delivering the entire message in Romanian]

97. Let’s get the ball rolling after Judgment this year. The last item to be judged will be your klean-up katamari. Keep your kerfuffle around after we’ve judged your items, but get your team out of the way. [Up to 9 points, based on number and size of objects picked up in three minutes. Needless to say, if you don’t start rolling dressed as one of the Prince of All Cosmo’s cousins, don’t bother rolling at all]

102. /./ crashes /. (!) [2 points]

278. Who knew you were so Mega Musical? We want appropriately 8-bit tunes for stages
inovlving Better Man, Rocket Man, Particle Man, Piano Man, Nowhere Man, Iron Man,Sand Man, Repo Man, and “If I Were a Rich” Man. Remember, it just ain’t “Mega” if the beat’s not blaster worthy. [4 points per tune. Maximum 3 tunes]