[KLUG Members] Geek Jeopardy: 75 DAYS!!! (Topic Announcement!)

[Phillip Hofmeister]

Okay, I'm in.  How do we coordinate teams?

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 at 05:40:04PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/meetings/schedule.php3?#M2004-10-26
> 
> Everyone - other LUGs, other technical groups, etc... - are invited to
> send a team to this years 2003 Geek Jeopardy event. Just let me know
> your coming - programdirector at kalamazoolinux.org
> 
> Players: Up to four team members per round, six players per team, 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!).
> 
> ALL ANSWERS MUST BE IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION, OR YOUR RESPONSE WILL NOT
> BE CONSIDERED CORRECT - WE'RE GOING TO ENFORCE THE RULE THIS YEAR!!!!
> 
> Team with the final highest (positive scores only [$score > 0], not
> absolute value [!abs($score)]) score wins.
> 
> Each single jeopardy category contains question worth 2, 4, 8, 16, 32,
> 64, 128, and 256 points.
> 
> Each double jeopardy category contains a question worth 4, 8, 16, 32,
> 64, 256, and 512 points.
> 
> And of course the final Jeopardy question.
> Categories to be announced. 
> 
> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Categories:::::::::::::::::::::
> 
> Single Jeopardy:
> -----------------
> 
> Super Hackers - Answers to questions about legendary hackers, their
> projects and their lives.
> 
> Samba - Everyone's favorite server package.
> 
> Protocol / Port - See your /etc/services file.  We'll name a service and
> the question must contain the most common IP protocol name and port
> number.
> 
> Mozilla - Anything to do with the Mozilla project.
> 
> Image Types -  Image formats from JPEG to TGIF.
> 
> Truly Wacky - Wild, bizarre and shocking claims, who (or what) said
> them.
> 
> Speed II - Every year Geek Jeopardy must contain at least one Sandra
> Bullock reference.  Remember that movie with a certain actress where a
> transit bus had to maintain a certain speed?  In this category we will
> name a bus (USB, PCI, ISA, etc...) and the answer will be it's
> theoretical throughput (emphasis on the theoretical - we all know that
> "in the lab" means "you'll never see anything close to this").
> 
> Beer - Answers to questions about the beverage lauded by Open Source
> advocates everywhere, but according to a recent survey almost no KLUGers
> drink.
> 
> Geek Cinema -  Movies geeks love, or love to hate, or that star Sandra
> Bullock.  Unfortunately Slashdot rarely does movie reviews anymore, 
> that is how we used to determine what constituted a geek movie (besides
> the Sandra Bullock Factor).  If it got reviewed on Slashdot it was a
> 'geek' movie.  Now we are just guessing.
> 
> Collaberation - Answers and definitions concerning collaberative
> technology: groupware, instant messaging, etc...
> 
> Double Jeopardy:
> ----------------
> 
> XML - The technology that is still revolutionizing IT.
> 
> Longhorn -  Answers to questions about that someday-to-be-released OS
> that will bring world peace, be so cool even Sandra Bullock will use it,
> and prove that Bill Gates really is just a nice guy who happens to burns
> rolls of 100 dollar bills as incense during his daily prayers to Azazel.
> 
> Legacy - Remember MVS?  How about CP/M?  Maybe even TurboDOS!  If so,
> this category is yours to run away with while everyone who actually had
> a life waits for you to finish.
> 
> LDAP - An annual staple of Geek Jeopardy.  Everything to do with the
> ultimate network service,  the one that takes the entire network down
> when you screw it up.
> 
> Geek Slang - Another annual staple.  All answers this year come from
> version 4.4.7 of the official Jargon file.
> 
> Open Office - The best office suite ever, and that doesn't cost $499.99.
> 
> Acronyms - Expand that acronym!  We all know that computers were
> actually invented as an excuse to make more acronyms.
> 
> VOIP - The greatest technology to ever have the most numerous lousy
> implementations.  Anything to do with chopping up your voice and
> stuffing it into tiny little packages is fair game here.
> 
> OSPF - Everything to do with the care, feeding, and operation of the
> most pervasive intranet routing protocol.
> 
> CUPS - Everything to do with the care, feeding, and operation of the
> ultimate print service.
> 
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Phillip Hofmeister