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January 24-25, 2020

Action Trivia Submissions

Highest-scoring submissions are shown in boldface

Note: in-person performances and those submitted via email might not appear on this page.


Action #1: Cold Open

Create a cold open for a TV show about the Williams Trivia Competition. This can either be from the point of view of a team playing or a team running the competition.


Action #2: Mom Email

Get the mom of one of your team members to explain how special you are in an email. You will get more points the more we are convinced that it is actually your mom and the more special she makes you seem. She should send an email to citationneededteam@gmail.com. When you do this, submit the phrase "YOUR MOM" to the submission page so we can get you points.

  • Bite My Shiny Metal Ass: computer-generated images
  • Coup Croup: YOUR MOM
  • Cylon Boarding Disco Party: YOUR MOM
  • Fun Fact Friends: YOUR MOM
  • Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Garfields: YOUR MOM
  • Left-Handed Disney Villains: YOUR MOM
  • The Canterbury Whales: YOUR MOM
  • Too Early for Flapjacks: YOUR MOM
  • Winston Churchill Fucked Me: YOUR MOM
  • ~\_(: YOUR MOM (its the one about the good kitties)

Action #3: Future Vision

Use your 2020s vision. Pretend it's December 2029 and write a Top 10 list as a retrospective from January 2020 to December 2029. The list can be on any topic.


Action #4: "Improve" CATS

Producers sent a patch to theaters in a futile effort to improve CATS (2019). Send us a newer patch to "improve" it more.


Action #5: An Amazing Alliteration Action

Take a picture of one of your team members with as many objects as possible beginning with the same letter. Include an explanation of what all the objects are.


Action #6: Emoji Chart

Who reads anymore? Modernize the boring old eye chart with fun, fresh emojis. That's right, we're using the "2020 vision" pun again!


Action #7: We Want Pie

We require a pie. Please explain to us how you are getting a pie from wherever you are at to Providence RI in under an hour. You do not actually to have get us a pie.