[KLUG Members] Only 97 Days Until Geek Jeopardy

[Adam Tauno Williams]

This years Geek Jeopardy event will be held on October 25th.  That is
just 97 days away!

And did you know that 97 is the largest two-digit prime number?  And
that there are 97 leap days every 400 years?   And that the number
formed by the concatenation of the digits of all the odd numbers from 1
to 97 is also prime?   

AND that Shakespeare's 97th sonnet has a curious property. First, of
course, 97 is prime. Next, the 7th word of the 7th line of the sonnet is
"prime." Finally, if the entire sonnet is summed up using the alphabet
code (A=1, B=2, etc.), its value (5501) is also prime.

Who knew 97 was such a 31337 kind of number?

To find out more exciting details concerning the number 97 see -
http://primes.utm.edu/curios/page.php/97.html
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Everyone - other LUGs, other technical groups, etc... - are invited to
send a team to this years 2005 Geek Jeopardy event. Just let me know
your coming - programdirector at 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? Did we mention FREE PIZZA and
PRIZES?

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!). 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, 128, 256, and 512 points. And of course the final Jeopardy question.