[KLUG Members] GJ followup (was Meeting Notes)

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> >>That's true. One problem is that TV's Jeopardy scales geometrically, but
> >>ours scales exponentially. For the one, if you answer all the questions
> >>in a column and miss only the last, you get 1000. In ours you get -4.
> >>That's a killer problem, and contributes to a lack of nerve.
> > And I try to make the difficulty scale exponentially. :)
> The greater the risk the greater the reward, but the chance of answering 
> disappeared about half-way up the scale.  Movie release dates in Poland? 

That one was a lemon question,  I don't even remember my rationale for it being
in there.  Cinema was the last category completed so I must have been really
bleary.  Otherwise I thought the Cinema category was pretty good,  a variety of
people were able to answer questions.

The top point questions are supposed to be REALLY hard, since answering ONE
would pretty much secure the game for the team.  The 256/512 pointers could have
been softened however.  But I also built for having some M$ types in the room, 
but apparently the're weren't any; which is OK, because they probably would have
used the .Net catagory to smash the Linux oriented teams.

>   Despite the great entertainment in seeing Adam trying to read it (I 
> thought Brian was going to have to administer a sedative or have him 
> reconfigure an LDAP set up or something), it was way beyond my ken: I 
> spent my time checking Peter for an ethernet jack in his neck or something.
> Jon and I also got some other questions right too, like fonts and 
> firewalls.  Even when we knew the answers we couldn't beat Peter to the 
> button, but that didn't hurt our team.
> I'm just glad we didn't have to undergo drug testing.  Is caffeine a 
> banned substance?  Dr. Pepper?

I'm thinking we need to install a metal detector and scan for implants.