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INCOGNITO HONOR CODE (worth a big wet one)
I will never use a cellular phone. They can listen in. I will shred my garbage. They can pick through it. I will wash myself twenty times a day. They could've laced me with "spy dust." I will turn my television set to the wall whenever I'm not using it. It transmits both ways. I will never speak in a room with windows. They can map the vibrations on the glass. I will always use somebody else's internet account. They think that they are so darned clever; I will beat them. So there.
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In the spirit of such long-standing trivia traditions as sustained physical exertion, puzzles, and scattering team members far and wide across campus, ELVIS NEEDS BOATS presents

The 7x7 Superbonus

Instructions: Provided is a 7x7 matrix of blanks, with punctuation added. The object of this bonus is to determine the 49 words which occupy these blanks. They correctly answer, as well as on the answer to the final question.

--Seven wonderfully unhelpful words are provided as gimmies.
--Also attached are seven trivia-equations, which are self-explanatory. The answers to these equations will yield seven more words of the final question
--Bundle up out there!
--Many of the clues you will encounter are in locations that you cannot mess with; others, however, are quite open to defacement, removal, alteration, etc. WE opportunity to ruin the chances of other teams to get a given clue, you will grin evilly at the thought of doing so and then do NO SUCH THING.
--If, however, a team suspects that a clue has been defaced, destroyed, etc., that team should call the PUS line immediately (x2197) and we will decide what th around us, we will be watching for such agents of evil. Any team caught interfering with this bonus will be terminated with extreme prejudice.


_______   _______   _______   _______   _______   ___a___   _______
   1         2         3         4         5         6         7

_______.  _______   _______   _______   _______;  __we__   _______
   8         9        10        11        12        13        14

_______   _______   ___of__   _______   _______   _______   _______.
  15        16        17        18        19        20        21

_______   _______   __you__   __are__   _______   _______   _______
  22        23        24        25        26        27        28

_______   _______,  _______   __the__   _______   _______   _______
  29        30        31        32        33        34        35

_______:  _______   _______   _______   _______   _______   ___in___
  36        37        38        39        40        41        42

_______   _______   _______   _______   _______   _______   _______?
  43        44        45        46        47        48        49

ANSWER: _________________________________________________

NOTE: There were messages on the answering machines connected with the phone numbers that will be calculated from the following equation-questions. These gave the equation-questions are contained herein.

  1. a - (b * (c - d)) + (e * (f + g + h)) + i


    a = Jean Valjean's number in Les Miserables
    b = the number of Angstroms in a nanometer
    c = ____: A Space Odyssey
    d = -e^(i*pi)
    e = The number of items in a gross
    f = _____ Degrees of Separation
    g = The number of arms Zaphod Beeblebrox has
    h = Riker's number, to Captain Picard
    i = "The _____ Year Itch"

    x_______

  2. (a - (b + c)) * d - (e * f) + g


    a = The year Williams College was founded
    b = The _____th Seal
    c = The number of ghosts (excluding Marley) that visit Scrooge on Christmas Eve
    d = Car _____, Where Are You?
    e = The number of Maniacs in Natalie Merchant's former band
    f = "Not the _____ O'Clock News," starring Rowan Atkinson
    g = _____ Years of Solitude

    x_______

  3. a + b + (c * d) + (e * f * g) + h + i


    a = The year of the Norman conquest of England
    b = NCC-_____-D (Registry Number of the USS Enterprise)
    c = The Number of The Beast
    d = The _____ Amigos
    e = The number of blackbirds baked in a pie, in a famous nursery rhyme
    f = The number of pips on a die
    g = "_____!" (Get out of the way of the damn ball!)
    h = "Red Red Wine" by UB_____
    i = "The number of awesome calories in a can of Diet Coke...Taste them All!

    x_______

  4. ((a)^b * c) - ((d)^e * (f - g)) - (h * i)


    a = The frequency, to the nearest whole Megahertz, of the radio station you're listening to right now
    b = "I will tell you _____ things," said the Gian in Twin Peaks. "If I tell them to you, and they come true, then will you believe me?"
    c = "WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU MULTIPLY _____ BY NINE?"
    d = The number of (small) squares on a chessboard
    e = The smalles prime number
    f = _____ Jump Street
    g = The numerical equivalent of a "D" used for calculating GPA
    h = Music _____ (F): Jazz Theory and Improvisation
    i = The number of fingers (including the thumb) on Lisa Simpson's right hand

    ____ - _______

  5. (a)^b + (c * (d + e)) - f


    a = The number you fear if you are triskaidekaphobic
    b = "Bring me these," said the With in Into the Woods, "before the time of midnight in _____ days time, and you shall have, I guarantee, a child as perfect as
    c = The number of bones in the normal human body
    d = _____ Again! (Starring George Burns)
    e = National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon _____
    f = "...your daughter and the Moor are making the beast with _____ backs"

    x_______

  6. (a * b * c) - (d)^e


    a = The number of the Psalm that begins "The Lord is my shepherd..."
    b = The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything
    c = The number of licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll, Tootsie Pop, according to Mr. Owl
    d = _____ Brides for _____ Brothers
    e = Breakin' _____: Electric Boogaloo

    x_______

  7. (a * b) + (c * d) + (e * f) - (g^h * i) + (j * k^l)


    a = The number of items in a baker's dozen
    b = The number of books in the Torah
    c = "If I Had a _____ Dollars"
    d = "_____ Weddings and a Funeral"
    e = _____ Leagues Under the Sea
    f = _____something
    g = A movie starring Bo Derek
    h = Number of U.S. Presidents assassinated
    i = "It Takes _____ To Tango"
    j = The number of keys on a standard piano
    k = The number of starting players on an NBA Basketball team
    l = "1 inch = _____.54 centimeters"
    m = Hank Payne is the _____th President of Williams College.

    _____ - _______
    extension m