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The World's Largest Scavenger Hunt

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hi-cassandra dept.

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."

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  1. Some interesting items... by airrage · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  2. lol... by pr0c · · Score: 4, Funny

    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 :)

  3. Huh? by bravehamster · · Score: 5, Funny
    It took me about 5 minutes to figure out that DDR == Dance Dance Revolutions, not DDR == Double Data Rate. I was trying to figure out how you had a DDR contest. Compare bandwidths, access rates and error checking? Let the man with the best CAS 2 Corsair win? Please tell me I'm not the only one.

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    1. Re:Huh? by orthogonal · · Score: 5, Funny

      It took me about 5 minutes to figure out that DDR == Dance Dance Revolutions

      It took me a second too. I guess I'm just too old, but to me DDR still means the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, i.e., Communist East Germany.

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  4. Axis of Evil Passport Stamps by Landaras · · Score: 5, Funny

    That really doesn't sound that tough. How difficult is it to fly to...
    • One)
      1330 Connecticut Avenue N.W., Suite 300
      Washington, D.C. 20036

    • Two)
      15503 Ventura Blvd.
      Encino, California 91436

      and

    • Three)
      One Microsoft Way
      Redmond, WA 98052-6399
    Oh, wait. They must be referencing the President's State of the Union address. My bad...

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  5. "students built a working breeder reactor" by Unknown+Poltroon · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  6. Re:Reactor by Helpadingoatemybaby · · Score: 5, Funny
    Oh fantastic, you tell me that after . Now what do I do with this dang breeder reactor in my dorm room!!

    I already got in trouble for the coffee mug hotplate.

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  7. Re:Scav Hunt!! by fhqwhgads · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  8. Re:Royko's Socks by PD · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just because Mr. Royko is dead isn't a reason to take his socks off the list. Presumably, he was buried with some.

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  9. Two things please.... by KristsInferno · · Score: 4, Funny
    First off:
    It will not count against you if your guitarists are dressed as ninjas, which are cool. And by cool, we mean totally sweet
    Goddamn, I knw I should have gone to Chicago instead of the University of Maine!!!

    Second:
    The Frankenchrist LP and the Party Music CD, with both containing their original album artworks. [53 points per item]
    Completely impossible, unless you are me! Frankenchrist originally came with a painting called 'Penis Landscape' by H.R. Giger (you all know Him) that was one of the first PMRC cases that was pulled from production (Which I purchased when I was 12, so I could have won 53 points!). Nice Punk Rock Pop Quiz (please say point number one out loud for me). Thank you.