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The World's Largest Scavenger Hunt
illuminatedwax writes "Every spring, University of Chicago students attempt to cast off their bookish tendencies and hold the world's largest scavenger hunt. Now, the event has been filmed by the student film group, Fire Escape, as a documentary, and is being sold on DVD and VHS from Periphrastic Films. The film follows the various teams and their effort to procure the off-the-wall 300+ items. For those who haven't heard of the University of Chicago Scav Hunt, its biggest claim to fame is from the 1999 hunt, when
students built a working breeder reactor. Items during the 2002 Scav Hunt featured in the film include "Passports stamped by all three axes of evil", building "terrorist base camps" on the University quads, and students competing in a game show-style contest, featuring a DDR contest, and trivia like "Digits of Pi" and "Taylor Series." The Scav Hunt lists can be found here, and the 2002 list here."
221. Slick looking Linux Interface
222. A secure Windows Web Server
223. A geek with a girlfriend
224. A slashdot firstpost
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Hahaha Great stuff "Take a lap around the block in Greektown with your brand new ``Red Wings Suck, Yzerman Swallows'' t-shirt. Lettering should be in clearly legible bold letters at least 4" in height. [78 points]" "Stand on top of the big JEEP with your top down. [23 points]" We should all wait around and see which way the women interperate that :)
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So umm, any one team get the Nuclear Reactor AND passports with stamps from the 3 "Axis of Evil" nations?
yea yeah, two different hunts i know, but still!
That really doesn't sound that tough. How difficult is it to fly to...
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DUde. WHat the hell happend to stealing street signs. Shouldnt this be one of the primary signs that a scavenger hunt needs to be toned down?
150. a rubber duck
151. a watermellon
152. a hommemade nuclear reactor
153. a sample of the china syndrome in progress
154. george bush
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I already got in trouble for the coffee mug hotplate.
The baby's fine -- please stop sending business cards.
It was an attempt at humor "Worlds Largest Scavanger"... That would be the California Condor, by wingspan anyway.
Wow, this is the first time ever that a joke was actually funnier after it was explained.
Peace in the Middle East ... 2 points!
ScavHunt can be a little detrimental, though. I was actually in the film, apparently dressed up as a Chaotic Evil Half-Elf Ranger. What's not on film is that immediately prior to that I was taking my Organic Chemistry midterm. Now, I don't know about many of the other participants, but since the list of items was released the previous night, I was up reading the list, instead of studying for my exam. And I'm a Chemistry major. So that kinda hurt my grade. But I can say with a decent amount of confidence that I am the only person to have ever taken an Organic Chemistry exam dressed as an elf, with cardboard ears, and with a sword by my side.
...a boy scout built a working breeder from junk he scrounged (for a merit badge no less!); why not two physics majors?
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The makes me all the more sure in my belief that my children had better get a damned fine scholarship, because there is no way in hell I'm paying 20k a year for my kid to do this, and drink beer through a funnel. I did all this at my local community college for 13 bucks a unit, thanks.
"Inattention makes clowns of us all" -Bean
Just because Mr. Royko is dead isn't a reason to take his socks off the list. Presumably, he was buried with some.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
Obviously a fuddy duddy alumni who didn't win.
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The Univerisy of Waterloo also had a bomb ass scavenger hunt every year, until some guy died trying to climb the exhaust pipe of the uni's envrionmental control building. (Anyone remember the Onion article, "Thre stupid kids spoil toy for everyone else"?)
So the University banned Scavenger Hunts.
Now we have Havenger Scunts (take that, laywers!), and every year has a new theme. The year I remember best was the 70s blaxpliotation theme. My shirt "Funky Scunt, 99'" gets a lot of double-takes if you read it quickly.
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