BUDA BEAR

The 22nd Semi-Annual Williams College Trivia Contest. May 14, 1977

(12:00): TCAT (Trivia Contest Admissions Test) -- Fifty types of animals were listed; 17 of those were found in a box of Barnum's Animal Crackers. Teams had to mark off the 17. Like a standardized test, you lost fractional points for incorrect guesses, and neither gained nor lost for blank bubbles.
Comics Couples -- Romantic pairings from the world of DC and Marvel.
McHale's Navy
Sports Books -- Given the title of the book, teams had to name the (ostensible) jock author.
Name all the ways Charlie the Tuna shows he has good taste -- Mike Schiffmiller '77 explains: "I thought that a good bonus question would be, "name all the ways that Charlie the Tuna shows that he has good taste." I could think of a bunch, but I wasn't sure I had them all. So, I wrote to Star-Kist, and got a letter back from their ad agency, Leo Burnett, with a list of ways shows he has good taste, along with a (broken) Charlie the Tuna tie clasp. Great! The night of the contest we announced the question, and started getting answers that were not on the list but that I remembered were correct! Leo screwed us with an incomplete list, so we were forced to give just about everyone credit for that question."

Come down and do the Teaberry Shuffle." (Teaberry chewing gum had an ad campaign in which Herb Alpert's "Mexican Shuffle" was transmuted into a specific gum dance with steps.)