GREMLINS

May 10-11, 2024

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: Swashbuckling

Submit a video of a member of your team dressed like a pirate, reciting a monologue of their choice (written prior to the contest) in their best pirate accent.


Action #2: Take-generating

Recreate the famed “Quadruple Take” pioneered by Sir Patrick Stewart (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFMrBldVk0s).


Action #3: Hot-Chip-Eating

Create a combination of food that tastes delicious yet looks disgusting. For full credit, it must be (1) hot (either spicy or heated), (2) include chips, and (3) eaten in its entirety by members of your team. Submit a video presenting your creation and documenting its destruction.


Action #4: Crossword-Failing

Fill out a crossword made prior to this contest completely incorrectly. More points will be awarded for using a crossword with plausible answers. Please provide an actual solution key to your crossword.


Action #5: Bing-Chilling

Send a video of any member of your team eating something that is definitively not ice cream and have them explain why it can be interpreted as ice cream.


Action #6: Nonsense-Spewing

Assemble a long collection of letters that looks like nonsense but actually is made out of real acronyms, forming one very long acronym. What does your acronym stand for? Points will be awarded based on length and the creativity of your creative nonsense backronyms. Provide sources.


Action #7: Axolotls

An axolotl named Mango now calls spring street home. Find his instagram and recreate your favorite post from Mango’s feed. Caption your post as if Mango is “lying in wait for an age of liberty when the world was that of the axolotls.”