[KLUG Members] (42 - 1) Days to Geek Jeopardy!

[Adam Williams]

One could say "41 days to geek jeopardy",  but then we would miss
mentioning the all important 42 days milestone.   Arthur Dent was
planning on attending this years meeting, but after looking at last
years questions he was too intimidated.  But we KLUGers are intimidated
by no technical challange! (Well, except maybe Win32 browsing protocols,
but who isn't?).

-------The "official" Geek Jeopardy Announcement :)-------

Everyone - other LUGs, other technical groups, etc... - are invited to
send a team to this years 2003 Geek Jeopardy event. Just let us know
your coming - programdirector@kalamazoolinux.org

Come celebrate the true joy of being geek - knowing all that minutia,
arcana, and esoteric information that is so handy when drafting new
pick-up lines! This years categories are sure to result in a cornucopia
of sardonic quips, mythopoetical exclamations, and maybe even a few
broken spectacles. What more thrilling scene is there than the victor's
squeels of pure geeker-joy while the defeated shout curses at them in a
combination of Klingon and Sindarin?

Players: Up to four team members per round, you can switch out as many
players as you want between rounds. Each team is permitted two
substitutions per round at any point. An accidental third subsitition
will cost the team 2048 points in the single jeopardy round, and 4096
points in the double jeopardy round. Any additional substition will cost
the team 10,248 points, regardless of the round. No substitions are
permitted during final jeopardy. Closed book, no laptops (Bruce!).

Team with the final highest (positive scores only [$score > 0], not
absolute value [!abs($score)]) score wins.

The 2003 Geek Jeopardy Categories:

Single Jeopardy: "Geek Cinema", "Fonts", "Kerberos V", Emulators",
"Firewalls", "Groupware", "DNS", "Geek Slang", "SQL", "WiFi", "NASA",
and "2.6"

Each single jeopardy category contains question worth 1, 2, 4, 8, 16,
32, 64, 128, 256, 512, and 1024 points.

Double Jeopardy: "Geeks & Myths", "8 Bit", "LDAP", "True UNIX(s)",
"CLI", "Not IP", "ARPA", "VOIP" "Mono & .Net", "GNOME", "In The Court",
and "C++"

Each double jeopardy category contains a question worth 2, 4, 8, 16, 32,
64, 256, 512, 1024, and 2048 points.

And of course the final Jeopardy question - Well, you'll have to be
there to discover that category.