John Jackson.
"Speaking of Little Known of Long-
Forgotten Gems..."
It was Sunday, November 6, and
five buses made their way through the
mountains of central Pennsylvania. On
four of these buses, the Erie-bound
passengers, Behrend students on the
way home from a fun-filled weekend at
University Park, were catching up on
the sleep they had missed the night
1-efore. But on the fifth bus, a live
ly contest was being waged. Ten of the
illustrious passengers and a competent
judge were engrossed in a wit-taxing
trivia match.
"How many seeds does a naval
orange have?" the girl fro.: Team A
queried the opposition.
Team B huddled around its cap
tain. After fifty seconds (they are
allowed sixty) of careful consulta-
tion, the captain of team B spoke up,
"Uh, none'?"
"Oh,if@A-0 / 4 40" the lefuddled
jeune fille slumped into her seat a
little farther as she received chas
tising looks from her teammO:es for
giving the other team such al easy
question and the sang frotd judge
added three points to Team B's total.
Team B then offered this ques
tion to 'he pondered by Team A: Who
played the role of Nick Charles in
the erstwhile TV show, "The Thin
Man?"
Sixty seconds later, the best
answer Team A could come up with was
"that guy in Lawrence of Arabia,
Peter...uh...0'Rei11y...n0...0...
0...0..."
"O'Toole? Close.
Peter Lawford, old chap."
Team B's players took a deep
breath and primed themselves for
the next question to be posed by
Team A.
After two exhausting hours of
digging up little-known or long-for
gotten data, the combatants took a
hiatus and readied themselves for
another match. To say that the teams
were booked for a contest between
halves of the Rose Bowl is overstat
ing the case a bit, but suffice it
to say that this fascinating new
methdd of venting frustration upon
the opposition has become almost
accepted by the intellectuals and
pseudo-intellectuals of the campus,
needing only perhaps an explanation
of the procedures to be universally
"in" (or "out" depending upon the
degree of conformity in the individ
ual).
Two teams, of a fixed number,
pose questions alternately; each
team gets points only by correctly
answering the questions. The ques
tions are rated on a 1 to 5 point
scale by a neutral judge. The
judge also okays the pertinence of
the question to the assigned topic.
A match consists of ten or fifteen
of these each-team-ask-a-question
segments, or rounds. At the end of
the game, the team with the most
number of points wins.
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