WE BEGIN BOMBING IN FIVE MINUTES

QUESTIONS

SUPER BONI

1. (12:00): Americana (partial answers) -- Sections on the three pillars of American life: Ronald Reagan, Geography, and Childhood TV (don't ask too many questions and it'll hold up, we promise). And then a trivia-free section on "How many does it take...." Lightbulb Jokes.

2. (4 AM): Mystery and Suspense -- A hefty bonus with big sections on mystery novels, characters, places, etc., lots of TV and movie chillers, and subsections on Hitchcock, "The Twilight Zone," and more. And then the biggest mystery of all-- a bunch of questions at the end about sci-fi, Monty Python, Douglas Adams, Greek mythology, and those two masters of suspense, Abbott and Costello.

HOUR BONI

• (12:00) Comic Strips -- A short and sweet all-newspaper Comics Bonus, with some Williams Record strips thrown in for local flavor.

• (1 AM) Williamsiana -- From babbling brooks and the sorely-missed Theism Department, to Constitutional vandalism and candy cane crosses. A tough nut of a bonus that left teams sweaty and grateful to get their 3 to 4 points.

• (2 AM) Video Games -- Half paper, half audio blips and bloops, and chock-full of games that dazzled us in 1987.

• (3 AM) XXX-Rated Smut -- WCFM's policy on which words could not be spoken on-air was fucked hard by this parade of musical filth.

• (4 AM) Baseball Futility -- Let's hear it for the losers! Players caught stealing twice in one inning, pitchers who threw no-hitters yet lost, teams who blew pennants, etc., plus the obligatory Red Sox section.

• (5 AM) Star Trek -- The show that never seems to reach its final frontier when it comes to Trivia. The TV series.... the movies.... the parodies.... Kirk out.

• (6 AM) Guitar Solos Audio (answers only) -- A quick (and according to its creator Joe Francis, "super easy") series of 17 twangin' excerpts from various rock songs.

• The Faculty Sing! Audio -- Clips of various professors singing that beloved anthem, "The Mountains."

ACTION TRIVIA

1. Not known. (See NOTE.)

2. Do "DethTongue" live!

3. Marvin the Paranoid Android interacting with Eddie the ship computer.

4. Act out the baseball scene from the Star Trek episode, "I, Mudd."

5. We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes displayed 19 old photos of then-current Williams faculty. Teams were permitted to send up to three players to view the photos and offer one guess apiece.

6. J.J. Caucus, Mike Doonesbury's wife, is an artist. At one point (namely, this past September) she created a performance art piece on commission. It was truly a glorious piece. Come down and do for us J.J.'s performance art piece. You have a choice between the private and public showings.

7. Stage the rescue from Castle Anthrax. (*NOTE FOR VEGETARIANS: The Monty Python and the Holy Grail-inspired "Bring us a shrubbery!" was an infamous Action Trivia from somewhere around this time. It was infamous because several teams simply sent a runner over to Baxter who, just before entering, ripped out some of the nearby vegetation. The unhappy result was noticed when the sun came up.

   Anyhow, pinpointing the precise time of this Action has proved tricky. It was mentioned in the 12/87 contest intro, so presumably happened earlier. This, the 5/87 contest, has six Actions identified, leaving just the vacant first slot. #7 is also a "Holy Grail" scene, which suggests that a second is at least unlikely. Going back to the 12/86 contest, its Actions are listed, and "shrubbery" is not there. The 5/86 contest is largely unknown, but that's a year and a half before the 12/87 intro.

   So all this archive can say for sure is that the mid-1980s was a bad time to be a bush along the Baxter walkway.)

   THE ULTRA BONUS

   FINAL SCORES