Too Many Noodles

January 31-February 1, 2025

Ultra Bonus Guesses

Time Team Guess
10:05 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum 6
10:05 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum yes
10:05 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum looks like that *was* the California flag until 1997
10:05 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum California
10:06 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum bear
10:06 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum Monarch
10:06 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum William Randolph Hearst
10:07 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum grizzly
10:07 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum grizzly bear
10:07 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum Sonoma
10:08 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum Allen Kelly
10:08 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum Republic of California
10:08 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum Republic
10:08 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum Golden Gate Park
10:08 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum Berkeley
10:09 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum Zoology
10:09 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum California Academy of Sciences
10:09 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum Monarch Bear Institute
10:10 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum Monarch Bear Hill
10:10 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum vexillology
10:39 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum Hour1 and Super1 both throw errors when you try to access the answer sheets and the chat rooms aren't working yet
10:52 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum had to allow cookies on the third-party site for the Super to get it to come up
10:52 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum still can't see chat rooms or answer sheets for H1 or S1
11:01 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum if I can't get into the chat rooms, how am I supposed to answer questions?
11:03 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum Q1: A1 has to be "Too Many Noodles" per Trivia tradition but I can't get to the chat rooms
11:10 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum still getting errors for H1, H2, and S1 answer sheets; still can't pull up the chat rooms - though other folks obviously can, or they wouldn't have points >:(
11:14 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum current music: Weird Al / "Like a Surgeon"
11:19 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum thank you!
11:21 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum chat room problem: "traceroute to 20.51.225.255 (20.51.225.255), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 * * * 2 * * * 3 * * * 4 * * * 5 * * * 6 * * * " ... hubby is checking our network to see if there's anything he can adjust
11:27 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum Van Halen / Jump!
11:30 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum re: chat room connection failures: Hubby says, "Everywhere I try and test that IP from it comes back as blocked. Germany, Japan and Brazil. I don't know what's up with it... nothing wants to ping that address"
11:30 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum any chance you have another IP? we've been able to use the chat rooms in previous years (though not May '24 - we were at a wedding then)
11:33 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum whale drone trivia: "Blow Me"? song Aqualung by... Jethro Tull
11:42 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum Moana Q: guessing "Moana" means something obscene (genitalia? FU?) in the local language; music: Manamana song
11:44 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum hubby, on the chat problem: "Anyone running basic Snort is going to be blocked... (http_inspect) INVALID CONTENT-LENGTH OR CHUNK SIZE Snort is the IDS that most people run. It looks for flaws that are vulnerable and then they get denied"
11:48 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum [more on the chat issue via email]
11:51 PM Bender Hates Pond Scum saint Q: patron saint of dogs? (there probably already is one) of lost kids (boys)? music is "Losing My Religion" by - REM
12:01 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum flush
12:02 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum trivia: pink Power Ranger? music Kung Fu Fighting by ??
12:12 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum current song: Man on the Run by Wings
12:15 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum Maps bonus: map #5 is cut off on the PDF :(
12:16 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum Hermitage Q: I've *been* to the Hermitage. Williams Winter Study trip January '91 - just before the coup. Guessing babushkas (grandmas/retirees)
12:17 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum music: Beethoven's Fifth Sonata?
12:19 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum my contact info has been on the team info page since the beginning of the contest - and I'm now emailing the group about the errors
2:06 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum Pokemon
2:06 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum Magic: the Gathering
2:07 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum competitive gaming/gamers
3:26 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum zodiac
3:26 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum constellations (the CA flag bear being Ursa Major)?
3:27 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum python
3:27 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum Java
3:27 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum Linux
4:11 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum Mac
4:11 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum Apple
4:11 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum Tesla
4:11 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum DEC
4:11 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum Unix
4:11 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum VAX
4:12 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum DELL (computers)
4:12 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum Microsoft
4:12 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum perl
4:12 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum end user
4:12 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum gamer
4:12 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum programming languages
4:13 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum BASIC
5:31 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum I'm still guessing with #8 sigh - cartoon characters in newspapers?
5:39 AM Bender Hates Pond Scum social media platforms
10:27 PM BOMO State flags
10:28 PM BOMO California
10:06 PM Charlie state flags
10:06 PM Charlie constellations
10:06 PM Chicago 60609 sites and dates of earthquakes
10:28 PM Chicago 60609 sites and dates of major sporting events that were delayed or cancelled due to disasters, power outages, and other issues
11:56 PM Chicago 60609 DaVinci Code
1:09 AM Chicago 60609 record labels
1:11 AM Chicago 60609 bands with one word names
3:49 AM Floating Turnip Heads Serial killers
5:20 AM Floating Turnip Heads keys on a keyboard
5:24 AM Floating Turnip Heads unicode symbols
10:26 PM Furby: Fully Loaded Left-handed Disney villains
10:26 PM Furby: Fully Loaded Settings of Terminator movies
12:06 AM Furby: Fully Loaded California Games (1991)
12:08 AM Furby: Fully Loaded Straights
12:08 AM Furby: Fully Loaded Wheels
12:09 AM Furby: Fully Loaded Are there more doors or wheels in the world?
1:19 AM Furby: Fully Loaded Mountain Dew
1:26 AM Furby: Fully Loaded Lost
3:09 AM Furby: Fully Loaded Jake Gyllenhaal
3:09 AM Furby: Fully Loaded Taylor Swift exes
3:14 AM Furby: Fully Loaded Programming languages
3:15 AM Furby: Fully Loaded Operating systems
3:29 AM Furby: Fully Loaded types of cables
3:32 AM Furby: Fully Loaded computer hardware/software/peripherals connectors
4:06 AM Furby: Fully Loaded Unix
4:16 AM Furby: Fully Loaded Proprietary technology
5:04 AM Furby: Fully Loaded Fonts
5:45 AM Furby: Fully Loaded computer companies
11:29 PM Jack Is da Bomb I can't answer any of the on-air questions. I'm getting the error message: "Cannot join #thelounge - You have been banned from the channel."
5:03 AM Jack Is da Bomb Unicode characters
10:20 PM Just Visiting State symbols
10:03 PM THEY'RE EATING THE DOGS! Things that are chipped. Things/people named Stone
10:30 PM THEY'RE EATING THE DOGS! Types of rulers (monarch, king, etc)
11:07 PM Tiny Bubbles Board Games
3:27 AM Tiny Bubbles Serial Killers
3:58 AM Tiny Bubbles 12
3:58 AM Tiny Bubbles Groups of gods
4:25 AM Tiny Bubbles Codes
4:33 AM Tiny Bubbles Coding
4:34 AM Tiny Bubbles Ciphers
4:34 AM Tiny Bubbles Programming Languages
4:38 AM Tiny Bubbles Famous Coded Messages
4:42 AM Tiny Bubbles Ways of representing numbers
4:47 AM Tiny Bubbles Bases
4:49 AM Tiny Bubbles HTML
5:10 AM Tiny Bubbles Alphabets
5:20 AM Tiny Bubbles Pangrams
10:03 PM Treebiters Spiritual Awakening
5:47 AM Treebiters characters
5:47 AM Treebiters alphabets
5:48 AM Treebiters symbols
5:51 AM Treebiters energy
5:55 AM Treebiters boards
10:14 PM Triple Deception wildfire
10:23 PM Triple Deception Good Guys!
10:27 PM Triple Deception The Umbrellas
10:34 PM Triple Deception Dollar Tree
10:36 PM Triple Deception Beach Boys
10:21 PM unambitious axolotls xerox
10:23 PM unambitious axolotls trademark errosion
10:23 PM unambitious axolotls erosion
10:24 PM unambitious axolotls things that start with the letter X
10:26 PM unambitious axolotls (trademark erosion is when words that were originally brand names become used generically for the product!)
10:30 PM unambitious axolotls pictures of united states state flags with fun filters and numbers written on them
11:22 PM unambitious axolotls reincarnation
11:36 PM unambitious axolotls recycling
11:43 PM unambitious axolotls unicode
12:15 AM Wombat They're all symmetric
1:27 AM Wombat They're all front sides (Side 1 for the Apple record label)

138 Guesses.