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U of Chicago Scavenger Hunt List - 2004
nightsweat writes "The list of items and tasks for the 2004 version of the infamous University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt (or scavhunt for short) is up as a PDF. As a veteran of the first hunt in 1985, I'm glad to see the youngsters carrying on the madness. Some of the highlight items - the URLs of the blogs of the judges, five pages of Queer Eye for Doctor Doom, A McDonald's Sad Meal, Mrs Potatohead giving Mr. Potato head, Eudaemonia (300 points!), and a permanent tattoo that says 'Sorry about the syphilis, can we still be cousins?'"
Items
A teammember in lox. A teammember in stocks. Two smokin' teammembers in barrels. [32 points]
A scratch-and-sniff map of Chicago. [36 points]
Mandelbrotwurst. [17 points]
The Last Annual ScavHunt All-Star Game. By 7:00 PM Thursday, submit three résumés from your team's All-Star ScavHunters (résumé forms supplied at The Conclave of the Captains). These All-Stars will compete for items on Saturday afternoon with All-Stars from opposing teams. [1 + 2 + 3 points]
Legally change your name to the maximum length. [37 points. 10 bonus points for numbers or special characters, like those dumb California plates.]
Give a Judge déjà vu. [11 points]
Haw flakes. [2 points]
A teammember's umbilical cord, to be eaten by that teammember. [96 points]
Give a Judge déjà vu. [11 points]
You've already gotten married, renounced your citizenship, and been declared legally insane for ScavHunts past, now might be a good time to beat a dead horse. [1 point]
Fantasy ScavHunt. Bring a teammember to Ida Noyes before the party to draft an All-Star team. The All-Stars will be from other teams, but they will represent your ScavHunt Team. [0 points]
Give a fitting performance at Eno Hall. Then go round back and give him the clapp. [17 points]
Photograph yourself on the escalator of Ta j Mahal's lobby. Up or down? You pick. It's a gamble! [7 or 0 points]
Enter the Seminary Co-Op wearing only backpacks and shoulder bags. [28 points]
Create two mappings: One from a CTA map into a US map and one from the US map into a CTA map. We want it to look real bad-ass, and by bad-ass, we mean "like something that came out of Kai's Power GooTM
An Easy-Bake Oven with the Special Edition Sylvia Plath inaction figure. [15 points]
A Willie Nelson doll from Super Bowl XXXVIII. [38 points]
Hi. . . we're in Delaware. . . Set up a blue screen at Judgment to magically whisk the Judges away to a tropical beach, the gates of Hell, Delaware, and your favorite place in this world. [112 points. 20 bonus points for facial imposition that makes us look sexy or possibly like a Jedi Master. Forget about the Judges who don't need the latter]
m=maroon; x=bluegreen; o=olive; p=purple; r=red; d=dark grey; l=light grey; b=black; w=white; g=green. For more information, please see http://scavhunt.uchicago.edu/2004pattern.txt. [36 points]
An out of order sign that is out of order. No infinite regressions. [5 points]
Abraham did what to Isaac?! . . . Only in New Jersey. [6 points]
Ride the white horses. Don't get too wet. The AC's on full blast. [12 points]
Holiest of water, AC style. Trump Trump baby, give us a bottle. [13 points]
Eat the World's Worst Apple Pie in the biggest rocking chair. . . ever! [30 points]
We couldn't get this one past Lori. Venus de Midol. [34 points]
"We are still on top of the wave. . . We, who know about Aristotle, Plato, who weave words like anachronism, transcendentalist, cosmos, metaphysical, corollary, integer, monarchical, into our breakfast speech as a matter of course--" Who are we, and according to whom (at least in 1953, when this previous Pulitzer prizewinning author described us as such)? [19.53 points]
Have a computer combust through nothing but its own internal workings. [32 points]
Proverbs IV: 7 - Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with al l thy getting get understanding. Calligraph then place on parchment, the Scavenger Hunt RSO bylaws. Put them behind glass after you have aged the document 200 years. [49 points]
Real quicksand that can sink the Tiniest Judge. [73 points]
The ScavHunt list of the 1992. [192 - 92 points]
The Rations of the Christ. Bring us a tasty dish combining the ingenuity of the Funnel Cake, the physics of Dippin' Dots, and the
Thank you.
Please don't read any of my other posts. They are simply dripping with geeky in-jokes.
-Peter