In the 1:30-2:30 hour, teams were asked to perform a Charlie Brown TV special
celebrating any holiday the real "Peanuts" gang hadn't gotten around to doing
yet. Seven teams participated, and amazingly, no two teams selected the same
holiday.
- Chlamydia is Not a Flower chose: Festivus (the festival for the rest of us)
- Sage F chose: The Running of the Bulls (from Pamplona, Spain)
- Thirsty Goat Blowers chose: Flag Day
- Symphony of the Damned chose: April Fool's Day
- Dead Squirrels Can't Jump chose: Guy Fawkes Day
- Please Don't Shoot the Violist chose: May Day
- Neutered Vampires Who Cheat at Kitten Poker chose: National Coming-Out Day
Wheel O' Trivia
At the conclusion of their second Action Trivia performances, each team was
asked to spin the Wheel O' Trivia twice, thereby assigning themselves two
digits between 1 and 10. Only later were they told that these numbers
corresponded to two lists.
The first list was a series of 10 topics; the second was a list of musical
styles. Thus each team's next Action Trivia was determined. The team's
chosen numbers forced them to compose and perform a song about their given
topic, within the style of the designated musical genre.
There were 100 possible combos, and yet 2 teams managed to hit the same topic-genre match (3, 8). Three teams got "rap music."
LIST ONE: TOPICS
- "Junkyard Wars"
- Vogon poetry
- "Inside the Actor's Studio"
- The XFL
- "Lord of the Rings"
- The Cuban Missile Crisis
- "Young Frankenstein"
- Videogames
- The portal inside John Malkovich's head
- Picasso, The Cubist Years
LIST TWO: MUSICAL STYLES:
- An advertising jingle
- Reggae
- The blues
- Techno rave
- Folk protest
- Heavy metal
- Opera
- Hip-hop/rap
- A la the Elizabethans
- Solemn religious prayer
TEAMS' SPINS AND OUTCOMES:
Chlamydia is Not a Flower-- 9, 9 (The portal inside John Malkovich's head, a la the Elizabethans)
Thirsty Goat Blowers-- 7, 6 ("Young Frankenstein" in heavy metal)
Sage G-- 3, 8 ("Inside the Actor's Studio" in hip-hop)
Symphony of the Damned-- 3, 8 (SAME result as above)
Please Don't Shoot the Violist-- 1, 10 ("Junkyard Wars" via solemn religious prayer)
Dead Squirrels Can't Jump-- 8, 8 (Videogames in hip-hop)
Neutered Vampires Who Cheat at Kitten Poker-- 5, 6 ("Lord of the Rings" in heavy metal)