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At 200 MPH, There is No Diplomatic Immunity

The 65th Semi-Annual Williams College Trivia Contest December 11-12, 1998

PRE-CONTEST PUBLICITY

INTRODUCTION (3.5 megs)

SUPER BONI

  1. (12:00): America At 200 MPH

  2. (4 AM): The Geek Boutique

HOUR BONI

  1. (12:00): Stylin' Islands

  2. (1 AM): Name That Stain!

  3. (2 AM): Leitmotifs (audio) Audio clues (1.4 megs) -- Audio answers (longer clips) (3.9 megs)

  4. (3 AM): Codes and Codewords

  5. (4 AM): Questionable Medicine

  6. (5 AM): "Four Trivia Weenies and a Funeral" (Questions only)

  7. (6 AM): The Ballad of Bill and Monica (audio) Audio clues (1 meg)

  8. (7 AM): Other People's Money

ACTION TRIVIA

  1. Show us the trailer for There's Something About the Virgin Mary
  2. Thanks to Monty Python, we know every major philosopher, every kind of cheese, and most sexually transmitted diseases. In the spirit of these skits, come down as Monty Python and perform a new "catalog" skit, cataloging any realm of knowledge you please.
  3. You have been asked to explain to the children at the Williamstown Day Care Center one of the following topics: Cellular Mitosis, The Windows 95 Operating System, or Where Sausage Comes From. Show us how you'd do it.
  4. Reenact any episode of Celebrity Deathmatch.
  5. Star Trek: Insurrection just opened tonight. Come down to the station and show us the scene where Data, Picard and Worf perform Gilbert & Sullivan. If for some strange reason you haven't seen it, make it up.
  6. The Two Minute Titanic
  7. The leaders of your favorite fiscally shaky country have decided the only way out of the economic crisis is to Win Ben Stein's Money!

4 AM

    Immunity began this contest threatening an all hip-hop format. When the four o'clock break arrived, they called for each team to send down its member "who most closely resembled L. L. Cool J." The participants gathered in Baxter Lounge and played a funked-up variation on the "Whose Line Is It, Anyway?" improv game: an Immunity member started a rhyming couplet, and each participant then took turns finishing the previous couplet and busting a phat new rhyme. Anyone who couldn't complete the rhyme given them was eliminated. (Props to the woman whose verses were keepin' it real: she spat out more misogyny than Sir Mix-A-Lot.)

FINAL SCORES