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Peanuts Holidays

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.


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

  1. "Junkyard Wars"
  2. Vogon poetry
  3. "Inside the Actor's Studio"
  4. The XFL
  5. "Lord of the Rings"
  6. The Cuban Missile Crisis
  7. "Young Frankenstein"
  8. Videogames
  9. The portal inside John Malkovich's head
  10. Picasso, The Cubist Years

LIST TWO: MUSICAL STYLES:

  1. An advertising jingle
  2. Reggae
  3. The blues
  4. Techno rave
  5. Folk protest
  6. Heavy metal
  7. Opera
  8. Hip-hop/rap
  9. A la the Elizabethans
  10. 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)