Global warming is your problem too

• A passion fruit [1 point]
• The least and most carbon neutral bananas, and proof of this fact [3 points each]
• A poster explaining the dangers of not sharing cars [3 points]
• Plant a tree [6 points]

The fashionista, they text in TopShop:

• A high visibility jacket [2 points]
• Fashion from the \’50s, \’60s, \’70s and \’80s [1 point each]
• Fashion from the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th centuries [2 points each]
• A novel alternative to the zip [6 points]

For the Arts students

• A completed McDonalds application form – we\’ll return it after judging it so you can submit it, no worries [2 points]
• The most overdue library book [3 points]
• A trilingual dictionary [3 points]
• Copies of the same book in more than two languages [1 point per language above two, max 5 points]

A novel approach

• A complete set of Famous Five books (only Blyton, mind you) [4 points]
• Burn a book! [1 point]
• Ban a book! [8 points]
• Biggles Takes it Rough [2 points]
• A Raffles book [3 points]
• A Flashman book [1 point]

Could you sign this for me?

• An autograph from Neighbours [1 point]
• An autograph from Tony Blair [4 points]
• An autograph from Stephen Hawking [8 points]
• An autograph from a gameshow host [2 points]
• The deed to someone\’s soul – No need to sign it in blood [1 point]

Leadership qualities

• A photo of a team member with a world leader [6 points]
• A photo of a team member with Imre Leader [1 point]
• A photo of a team member with a lead singer [2 points]
• A photo of a team member with a scout leader [4 points]

Sugar!

• A bowl full of only red M&Ms [3 points]
• A team member completing the Skittles challenge [3 points]
• A rude word spelled out with Smarties lids [up to 3 points]
• Candy floss! [1 point]
• A cake with someone inside it [8 points]
• Homemade cupcakes – they had better be good [4 points]

From \’round town

• Animals in Architecture: The Cambridge Information leaflet [1 point per animal, maximum 5 points]
• A college bursar in their office with a team member [3 points]
• A team member punting tourists down the Cam [6 points]
• A rubbing of the Cambridge Brass Rubbing Centre [1 point]
• Photographs of blue plaques in Cambridge [1 point each, maximum 5 points]
• A photo with the Cambridge Metal Dude! [3 points]

The writing\’s on the floor

• Savage Nuneaton [5 points]
• The Key to the Secrets of the Universe [4 points]
• High Maintenance Life [2 points]
• Reality Checkpoint [1 point]
• Duaea Rotae Hic Relictae Perimentur [3 points]

Legalese:

• A birth certificate [1 point]
• A death certificate [2 points]
• A bronze swimming certificate [3 points]
• A gay marriage certificate [4 points]
• A laminated degree certificate [5 points]
• Make us a wig fit for a judge [6 points]

Saving the world!

• Legally change your name to a superhero\’s [9 points]
• Save the world in your superhero outfit! There had better be some footage of your good deeds [7 points]
• Hug a Hoodie! [2 points]
• \”By their powers combined I am… Captain Chime Planet!\” A wind chime, a water chime, a fire chime, an earth chime and a heart chime (Bonus points if you can summon a superhero by combining their powers) [1 point for the first, 2 for the second, and so forth]

In today\’s press:

• The best pun headline [3 points]
• The best page 3 [3 points]
• Wednesday\’s cryptic crossword, complete (from a respectable publication) [3 points]
• Your team in the newspaper [3 points]
• And, with the leftovers, the best papier mache sculpture [3 points]
• Get the phrase \”a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest\” onto BBC News\’ Have Your Say [3 points]

Good Music

• Perform a medley of classic TV theme tunes [1 point per theme tune we recognise, maximum 5 points]
• Opera glasses [3 points]
• A string quartet [8 points]
• Orchestral merchandise [1 point]

Bad Music

• A ticket to Eurovision [5 points]
• An original song about your favourite historical figure (Bonus points if it\’s our favourite historical figure too) [up to 5 points]
• Play a recognisable tune on as many of the following as possible: Wineglasses, spoons, ribs, bottles [1 point each]
• A new blues song about the Scavenger Hunt [up to 5 points]
• A re-enactment of your favourite STEPS music video – Bring the original for comparison purposes (Extra points for costumes) [up to 5 points]

Ugly Music

• A didgeridoo [1 point]
• Krautrock [1 point]
• Marillion [9 points]
• A tattoo of t.A.T.u. [1 point]

Nudge nudge wink wink say-no-more say-no-more

• Sex up Shakespeare [up to 3 points]
• A pitch for a porn movie [1 point]
• A prop from a porn movie [4 points]
• A fascist porn movie [5 points]
• Four bankers in a room with no shoes or socks on [4 points]

G\’day, sport

• A rock. Some paper. Some scissors. Three enter, one leaves [3 points]
• Beat a college fellow at RPS (best out of 3) [3 points]
• A team member included in the world ranking of some sport [3 points]
• An oversized novelty golfball [1 point]
• Half a golf club [6 points]
• Something you win when you get a Blue [1 point]

Gotta Catch\’em All

• A stamp collection [2 points]
• A collector\’s plate [3 points]
• A baseball card collection [4 points]
• A church collection [6 points]

Chips\’n\’dips

• Chips [1 point]
• Mr Chips [8 points]
• Poker chips [1 point]
• A computer chip [1 point]

Walk like an Egyptian

• A human pyramid [1 point per person]
• An inhuman pyramid [5 points]
• A photo of a team member at the Pyramids [1 point]
• Pyramid magazine [3 points]
• Start your own pyramid scheme! [2 points]

The Ayes Have It

• An I Spy book [2 points]
• A Magic Eye book [2 point]
• A human eye (not attached) [8 points]
• I, Claudius [1 points]

Sitting on the fence

• A fence [1 point]
• Offence [3 points]
• Defence [3 points]
• A fencer [1 point]

Wooooooooooooo…

• Woo the judges [judges\’ discretion, maximum of 5 points]
• Woo! The judges [1 point]
• Wool [1 point]
• Woes! [1 point per woe, maximum 3 woes]

Fetch and carry

• Fetch us a plank! [2 points]
• Bring us a shrubbery! [4 points]
• Bring us a bonsai! [3 points]
• Carry water in a sieve [5 points]

Death and taxis

• Taxidermy [4 points]
• Tax evasion [3 points]
• A model taxi [2 points]
• Taxi driver [1 point]

His Royal Highness

• Raspberry beret [2 points]
• Little red corvette [6 points]
• Diamonds and pearls [2 points each]
• Cream [1 point]

Itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny…

• A microdot [7 points]
• A microfiche [2 points]
• A Micro Machine [2 points]
• Microsoft Office! [1 point]

Seedy

• Seed [1 point]
• Secede [10 points]
• Succeed [2 points]
• Fail [1 point]
• Abort, retry, fail? Discuss [up to 5 points]

Building bridges

• A (new) bridge over the river Cam (Bonus points if we can walk across it without harm) [9 points]
• A bridge over the river Kwai [2 points]
• Jeff Bridges [10 points]
• An Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky bridge [12 points]
• Cross the Rubicon [10 points]
• Bridges in Cambridge that vampires can cross [2 points each]

Hit the road

• A home-made self propelled vehicle [6 points]
• A home-made steam engine [10 points]
• Each of the Park & Ride buses [snooker scoring]
• Pimp your ride [up to 6 points]

Food\’n\’drink

• A pumpkin [3 points]
• A napkin [1 point]
• Genuine ration book [5 points]
• A new on-the-go meal capable of rivalling the sandwich\’s tyrannical monopoly on the food market (Bonus points if carbon neutral) [up to 4 points]
• The smallest – and the biggest – teacup ever [3 points each]

Nominae Latinae

• Nepeta cataria [2 points]
• Camellia sinensis [2 points]
• Lavandula angustifolia [2 points]
• Aesculus hippocastanum [2 points]

Personal statement

• Your team mascot [3 points]
• A team member with a demonstrably bad hair day [2 points]
• Show us your party trick [up to 5 points]
• Evidence that your dad could beat up my dad [4 points]

Flying The Flag (For You)

• Capture a flag [2 points]
• A college flag [3 points]
• As much of Wuthering Heights in semaphore as possible [1 point per sentence, maximum 5 points]
• The flag of Derbyshire [4 points]

What the hell were we thinking?

• Snakes on a train [1 point]
• Solid Snake in a cardboard box [2 points]
• Big fish, little fish, cardboard box! [1 point each]
• Largest cup-size bra possible [3 points]
• Fax me, baby [4 points]

Things that sound the same

• A thimble [1 point]
• A thurible [4 points]
• Propaganda [1 point]
• Propagandhi [2 points]

They do things differently there

• A picture of your favourite US president – made out of pasta [up to 5 points]
• A lantern [1 point]
• The best gravestone [3 points]
• A Frenchman, surrendering [2 points]
• None of this modern nonsense: A passport stamped by the original Axis of Evil [6 points]
• A confectionery castle [3 points]
• A chunk of the Berlin Wall [5 points]

Toys and games

• Monopoly set from outside the UK [2 points]
• A Transformer [2 points]
• Megazord! [3 points]
• A pawn [1 point]
• Design your own board game: KERPOW!? [up to 4 points]
• Live action Tetris [5 points]

I feel pretty! Oh so pretty!

• An oil painting [2 points]
• Perform a makeover on a team member, complete with before and after photos [4 points]
• The best celebrity lookalike you can find [3 points]
• Largest ponytail [3 points]
• Largest My Little Pony (bonus points if NIB) [3 points]

Mythical creatures

• A fairy [1 point]
• A gelatinous cube [1 point]
• An owlbear [10 points]
• A toy dragon [1 point]
• A Care Bear [2 points]
• Your pokemans. Show them to us [1 point]

My Politics. Let me show you them.

• A protest banner [3 points]
• A Green Party membership card [2 points]
• A French voting ballot [4 points]
• T-shirts with revolutionary figures on them [1 point per figure, maximum 5]
• Craft an elaborate conspiracy theory and demonstrate how the Scavenger Hunt is actually controlled by Rept(il)oids [up to 5 points]
• An MP [9 points]

Leap of faith

• The highest-ranking religious official you can find (cannot be combined with next item) [3 points]
• A scientologist (cannot be combined with previous item) [3 points]
• Meditate in Sainsbury\’s [3 points]
• Tell our fortunes [up to 3 points]

SCIENCE: It works, damnit

• A working model volcano [up to 5 points]
• Freeze something in ice [2 points]
• Encase something in jelly [2 points]
• A fossil [1 point]
• A complete set of Star Trek movies, minus the bad ones (We\’re not telling you which ones are the bad ones) [1 point per good one, -1 point per bad one]
• As many Isaac Newtons as possible [1 point each]

Film puns

• 12 monkeys [2 points]
• Fried green tomatoes [3 points]
• A girl with a pearl earring [1 point]
• A labyrinth (massive bonus points for David Bowie in the flesh) [4 points]

The World Is Not Enough

• People whose surnames are geographical places (Bonus points for Paris Hilton) [1 point each, maximum 5 points]
• A hat from each continent [1 point each]
• Carmen Sandiego [10 points]
• Ye olde mappe of Cammebridge, beinge a complete descripteion of yon fair citie and environs, and ye felle beasts which dwelle thereine [up to 5 points]

Fabulous Prizes!

• A prize from a gameshow [3 points]
• Gunge [2 points]
• Points win Prizes! So Nectar points must win… [1 point per thousand, maximum 5 points]
• A lottery ticket for Wednesday\’s draw (to be provided before the draw) [1 point]
• A Nobel Prize [9 points]
• A Fields Medal [9 points]

MAKE $$$ IN YOUR SPARE TIME!!!1!

• A new reality TV show [1 point]
• Survey at least twenty members of the public, presenting your results and methodology. You must ask at least these questions: What is justice? What\’s love got to do with it? What\’s she gonna look like with a chimney on her? Who would win in a fight between Superman and Batman? What is the time? [7 points]
• Get your team mentioned on a celebrity blog [5 points]
• Advertisement for a new dessert [2 points]

Education, education, education

• GCSE coursework [3 points]
• A ticket to the Millennium Dome exhibition [6 points]
• Learn conversational Esperanto [5 points]
• MENSA membership [3 points]

The Manly Category

• Manly stubble [up to 3 points]
• Manly scrabble [6 points]
• A chainsaw [4 points]
• A boxing glove [1 point]

Make like a tree and leave

• A family tree that includes both George W. Bush and Kate Bush [4 points]
• A phylogenetic tree of pasta [4 points]
• A Lego palm tree [2 points]
• A shoe tree [2 points]

0 points.

• A pile of bottlecaps.

1 points.

• A magnetic letter of the alphabet.
• A 5 1/4 inch floppy disc.
• A wooden egg.
• A globe (+1 if it\’s out of date.)
• A 2p stamp.
• A reel of light blue cotton.
• A metal crown.
• A death card from a tarot deck.
• A yellow smiley badge.
• A fob watch.
• A bottle or can of root beer.
• A pez dispenser (+2 points if it\’s a WB character.)
• A 10ml measuring cylinder.
• A union jack paper plate.
• A photo of a team member wearing a traffic cone.
• A Kendal mint cake.
• A metal whistle.
• Fluffy Dice.
• Smartie lids spelling a 3 letter word (+2 for a 6 or more letter word.)
• A photo of a shop sign containing the word \’metro\’.
• A balloon animal.
• Compose this sentence entirely out of letters from the Argos catalogue.
• A list of all 150 pokemon, in felt-tip pen.
• A pair of rainbow socks.
• A 10W lightbulb.
• A \”worm/snake in a can\”.
• A nock.
• Write an \’amusing\’ short story (max 500 words.)
• A rubber duck
• A piggy bank (must be pig shaped.)
• Something that goes \”moo\” (must not be a human.)
• A kaleidoscope. (+2 if it\’s homemade.)
• A computer program to either output all primes up to an input \”n\”, or output the word \”cheese\” each with a 50% probability.
• Photograph of the Lion King 2 on DVD for sale in a shop.
• Photo of a smiling horse.
• A plastic slinky.
• A pair of compasses.

2 points.

• Any Encarta disc.
• Photo of a \”welcome to Cambridge/Cambridgeshire?\” sign.
• A chess piece over four inches tall.
• A multicoloured pingpong ball. (at least 4 colours)
• A model of any sugar molecule.
• A four-leaf clover.
• A photo or screenshot of level 19 in lemmings.
• A valentines card.
• A quill pen.
• £15140 monopoly money.
• A business card for the team.
• Evidence of a score of 100000 points (beginner) on a point-blank arcade machine. (+4 if 150000 points with 0 continues)
• 3 different beermats for the same beer.
• Evidence of a completed 1000 piece jigsaw (+2 if you bring it along.)
• A \”paintbrush\” drumstick.
• Photo of a team-member fighting a crocodile.
• A published leaflet entitled \’Red Pages\’.
• A polystyrene plane.
• A pair of sunglasses with mirrors at the edges to let you look behind you.
• Photograph of the whole team in a tree
• A peacock feather.
• Write and perform an original song, about cake. (+3 possible depending on quality.)
• An origami dragon
• Photograph of the \”Bead Shop\”.
• A roadsign, of any size.
• Any Beatles track that would qualify to be on \”Short Music for Short People\”.
• A Russian doll.
• A wooden tennis racket.
• A map of the moon.
• A fireman\’s hat.
• Photograph of a shop called \”Roll on Blank Tapes\”.
• A bottle of Cwella.
• Make an advertising poster for the film \”Return of the Revenge of the Second Coming of the Undead Ninja Killer Bunny Pirates from Mars II.\” (digitally reanimastered.) (+2 possible for quality)
• A laminated copy of this list.

3 points.

• A proof or theorem by Gödel, a picture by Escher, and some music by Bach.
• A non-circular CD.
• A non-black vinyl record.
• Photos of at least 5 sundials in Cambridge.
• A rag magazine.
• A prodigal Sorcerer.
• Thunderbird 1.
• A photo recognisably containing both Homerton and Girton. (you don\’t need to be in this one.)
• Photos of 5 different full-size college coats of arms.
• A tamagotchi.
• A pokeball, (not a picture of one)
• A love heart that says \”fax me\”
• A scarecrow of an assassin (+3 possible for quality.)
• The name of any shop in Cambridge selling a monkey on a tricycle. (See example.)
• Photograph a sign offering buy one get one free in Subway.
• Photograph of the team dressed as superheroes. (+3 possible for quality.)
• A pop-cork gun.
• A poison letter sent to a team member, older than lent 2004.
• A drivers license, with points on it.
• An expired UL library card.
• Photographs (before and after) of a set up 200 piece domino rally.
• A speedstacks cup.
• Autographs of three different bedders.
• A ruler that measures something other than cm or inches.
• Photograph of a team member hugging a banker.
• A photograph from the board in Gardies. .
• A photograph of a model railway.
• The answer to puzzledonkey 1.1.10

4 points.

• Proof of ownership of any stocks or shares.
• The (entire) frontpage of a newspaper over a year old.
• A book token that was awarded to a team member for something.
• Evidence of any decent etch-a-sketch picture drawn by a team member.
• A subutteo referee.
• A flyer for Robinson may ball.
• A football programme from the 2003-2004 season.
• A tour T-shirt for any band containing a female member.
• A losing Saturday lottery ticket.
• An ASNaC.
• A photograph of the entire team with a Japanese Tourist.
• A length of string composed of one piece of string of each colour of the rainbow, tied together with different knots.
• An Advent calendar (+2 if containing chocolates.)
• Build a device that makes a \”plink\” noise 10 times after a suitable item is dropped in the top.
• Photo of the team having a tea party in an obscure location.

5 points.

• A poster (at least A2) of the Mandelbrot set.
• A conker.
• A cinema ticket stub for pirates of the Caribbean.
• A real (i.e. made of cloth) EU flag.
• Photographs of all the other teams.
• Evidence of an unsupported 2ft tall stack of pennies. (+3 for every extra foot up to 11 points)
• The autograph of Rory McGrath?.
• A Zoid.
• A Cadbury’s crème egg.

6 points.

• A letter of rejection for an undergraduate course, from any university.
• An Oxford University scarf.
• A musical domino.
• A book of matches from a holiday inn.
• A Netto shopping bag.
• A left-handed can-opener.
• Half a golf ball.
• A working periscope made from a Pringles tube.
• A series 1 pog.

7 points.

• A Michelin Man.
• A jelly sandcastle.

8 points.

• A Major Morgan.

9 points.

• Photographs of a team member shaking hands with Riley, Hobson and Bence. (3 points for each, +1 if you get them all to sign the book.)

Bonus awards.

(most of these are purely objective. So what?)

• The team with most oversized item on the list. (+1)
• The team with the \’nicest\’ jelly sandcastle. (+1)
• The team with the most obscure version of any item on the list. (+1)
• Any team that returns with a 5 or more point item signed by a dean of any college. (+3)
• The team with the \’prettiest\’ list of pokemon. (+1)
• The team with the best balloon animal (+1)
• The team with the best story behind how they obtained any item. (+1)
• The team with the best faked item. (note: faked items don\’t score points.) (+1)
• The team with the funniest photograph. (+1)
• The team with the best team business card (+1)
• The team with the most amusing story (+1)
• The team with photographs of the largest number of different bike shops in Cambridge. (+1)
• The most obscure tea party (+1)

• 1 point
  • completed crossword for today from any national newspaper
  • Map of Narnia
  • $5
  • A winning Laserquest Scorecard
  • piggy bank shaped like a pig
  • 3 different birthstones
  • Piece of art larger than A3
  • Any political party\’s published manifesto
  • a wasp (bonus points for more than one in the same container)
  • a Girton scarf or a Homertonian science student
  • Someone juggling 5 balls #
  • Photograph 5 different types of duck #
  • Evidence of the team giving an anonymous gift #
  • Queue for the new Harry Potter book (bonus points for getting other people to join in upto 4) #
  • A carved wooden bird #
  • Half a brick in a sock
  • Foreign coin worth less than£0.005
  • Evidence of a team member breaking the rules of a named college #
  • An acorn or beech-nut
  • A team member dressed entirely in one colour of the rainbow (the whole team dressed in the same colour of the rainbow upto 2 #)
  • Evidence of team feeding baby moorhens #
  • A Lego spaceship
  • A Squeaky Dog Toy
  • A Space Marine
  • A pair of silk boxers
  • The score of the Midlands CCC vs. Blues Cricket match
  • A gnome (+2 for acquiring it in a strange way)
  • An ice-cream scoop
  • A creme egg

• 2 points
  • Last week\’s Big Issue (Next week\’s +1)
  • Parking ticket #
  • $15 (too beaucoup)
  • Left-handed Screw
  • Membership Card of the Conservative Party
  • 2 Fire Exit signs
  • A pair of fluffy handcuffs
  • IA Natsci maths paper 2 2005
  • policeman\’s hat
  • christmas cracker
  • the cheapest thing in Sainsbury\’s
  • aeroplane sickbag
  • A tricorn
  • green leather clothing
  • A glove that reaches above the elbow
  • A green monster from Caius Hall
  • A Can of coke mainly printed in a foreign language
  • A biro that writes in yellow or orange
  • Corporate mints from a Careers Fair
  • A receipt showing purchase of an item from XXX / Confidential Shop
  • Rucksack in the shape of an animal
  • A Trinity Mathmo T-shirt
  • \’Classic\’ Game Boy
  • A RAM module less than 16MB
  • A Zip Disk
  • IVFDF Merchandise
  • A \’Where\’s Wally?\’ Book
  • An overdue book from any library
  • A trophy from a secondary school
  • A copy of \’Lord of the Rings\’ printed before 1980
  • A teabag considerably larger than normal size
  • A photo of an arts student at the SRCF Garden party
  • Photos of 4 College flags flying above their respective Colleges #
  • A team member holding onto a punt pole stranded in the middle of the Cam (bonus points for each extra person) #
  • The chaplain of any College labelled as a knife #
  • The team rocking out from a bridge over the Cam (bonus if the photo is taken from the river) #

• 3 points
  • A Children\’s Book for Learning the alphabet
  • State flowers for 6 different US states (upto)
  • official document belonging to someone whose first name begins with a \’Q\’
  • A book of carpet/curtain samples
  • Barbie (R) dressed as a recognisable person
  • 10 metres of rope
  • The Master of Jesus # (or signature)
  • a book in latin
  • Argos catalogue older than 2003
  • A photograph of a tourist taking a photo of the entire team #
  • Star Wars, not digitally remastered
  • Photo of a child under 5 holding a sign with the team\’s name on it. +1 for a picture of the expression on the **parent\’s face at the time, +1 if the child in question is a close relative #
  • A screenshot of Level 6 of Nethack
  • An alphabet die
  • A soft toy depicting a mythical figure
  • A ticket for the recording of a TV or radio show
  • Pure(ish) samples of as many chemical elements as possible
  • A Smarties Lid with the letter Q on it
  • A Windows 95 recovery boot floppy
  • A marble-run that includes a loop-the-loop
  • Something unexpected on a flagpole (+ quality points) #
  • A spork (upto)
  • Giving us \’shout-outs\’ on CUR1350 during the course of the day
  • The team worshipping Reality Checkpoint #
  • A member of the team hugging a banker outside a bank #
  • The team all hailing Imre Leader #

• 4 points
  • Items of clothing from a member of each opposing team (upto)
  • Trilingual Dictionary
  • Business card of a current elected government official
  • The Flag of a Landlocked African Country
  • The Book of Mormon
  • Gold Sovereign
  • Cambridge Monopoly
  • a piece of Acorn Computer hardware
  • A gazebo
  • A condom past its expiry date
  • A VCR recording of a weather forecast made between 9 and 10am on Wednesday
  • Milk more than a week past its expiry date
  • Any \’Now!\’ CD earlier than number 30
  • A radio that receives Shortwave
  • A team member dressed in just their underwear in the middle of Market Square #
  • A photo of Grantchester taken from a punt #
  • A photo of a tea party not involving any team members #

• 5 points
  • Triplets (human) #
  • Geiger Counter
  • A cuppers Trophy (# for 1 point)
  • A National Lottery ticket that\’s won something
  • A windsock #
  • A photo of the whole team in a hammock #
  • Vernier calipers
  • A laminated copy of last year\’s Scavenger Hunt list

• 6 points
  • Circular Slide Rule
  • Something that\’s been mimeographed
  • An Imre Leader Appreciation Society T-shirt
  • 1/4 of a golf ball

• Quality marks (upto 8)
  • Team has to make a recording of an Oasis song using at least 4 instruments (voice counts as an instrument for 1 person)
  • Team has to write (>250 words) or otherwise create a piece of highly obscure fetish porn
  • A model of the CMS made from fruit and vegetables

• Quality Marks (upto 6)
  • Perform a 2-minute mime or progressive dance show
  • Create a Cambridge-specific I-Spy Guide
  • A team member dressed in a furry suit

• Quality marks (upto 4)
  • The worst/silliest advertising slogan you can find
  • Comedy fake of another item
  • A novel use for a sculpture in College grounds (without breaking any college regulations)

• Bonus Points
  • The largest item
  • The most embarrassing CD belonging to any player
  • The best story behind an item
  • The strangest thing that a player chains their bike to during the course of the game
  • The most overdue book
  • Bonus chocolate from Rosie for finding the Smarties lid
  • Having at least one item beginning with each letter of the alphabet (upto 5 points)
  • Team with the largest teabag
  • The team who uses any item to fulfill as many things on the list as possible
  • The second cheapest Sainsbury item acquired gains an extra 2 points
  • Triple the points for getting all the items in the same point band
  • The worst pun associated with an item

Note that the items are divided into categories. By obtaining all of the items and completing all of the tasks in a category, you earn one extra point per item. For those items that are the \’best\’, \’most\’ or similar, you only need to make a reasonable attempt to qualify for these bonus points.

Architecture:

• A spirit level (1)
• Photos of Cripps buildings/courts/blocks (1 each)
• A property deed (4)
• A 5-storey house of cards (6)

Celebrities:

• A photo of a team member with Stephen Hawking (3)
• A photo of the team with Matthew Garrett (3 or more)
• An item signed by someone from a soap opera (3)
• Play Imre Leader at a board game other than Othello (5)
• Carmen Sandiego or the location thereof (9)

Clothing:

• A shoe larger than size 12 (2)
• A snorkel (2)
• An \”I\’m With Stupid\” t-shirt (2)
• Flying goggles (2)
• A tartan kilt (3)

Communications:

• A used stamp for a denomination other than 39p or 23p (1)
• Postcards from each continent (1 each, bonus for Antarctica)
• A Christmas card to the umpires from the team (2 or more)
• A letter from an intelligence service (3)
• A telegram (5)

Computing:

• COMMAND.COM (1)
• A modem under 56 kilobaud (2)
• System Shock 2 (2 – double if you let the judges keep it)
• A model of the internet (4)

Conspiracy Theory:

• A book which specifically denies evolution (3)
• Evidence of time travel other than 1 sec/sec (4)
• Fake the moon landings (5)
• Evidence of extraterrestrial life (10)

Criminal Behaviour:

• A bag marked SWAG (1 or more)
• A legal controlled substance (1)
• A lockpick (2)
• An ASBO (7)

Democracy:

• A copy of the Magna Carta (2)
• A polling card (2)
• A petition signed by 20 members of the public (4)
• A copy of this list signed by a member of Cambridge City Council (6)

Drink:

• Alcohol past its sell-by date (1)
• A bottle of wine more than 5 years old (2 – double if you let the judges keep it)
• A glass significantly larger than 1 pint (2)
• A stein (2)
• The most obscure foreign beverage (3)

Education:

• Graduation bands (1)
• A Bodleian Library card (2)
• A degree certificate (2)
• A university card from a graduate college (2)
• Handwritten lecture notes taken in 2004 (2)
• The World Book encyclopedia (or one volume thereof) (3)
• A photo with more than one college master (6)

Fauna:

• A live snail (1)
• Hello Kitty merchandise (1)
• Mickey Mouse ears (1)
• The most photos of team members with different animal species (with Latin name) (3)
• Build a better mousetrap (4)

Film:

• A clapperboard (2)
• A copy of Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (2)
• A cinema ticket stub for Stealth, or a receipt for the purchase of the DVD (3)
• A short film by the team about the dangers of piracy (5)

Finance:

• A receipt for £6.66 (1)
• A college bill for a negative amount (2)
• A photo of two bankers hugging each other (2)
• A coin from a country which no longer exists (3)
• The cheapest thing bought on eBay today (auction, not Buy It Now) (3)
• £13.75 in coupons (exactly) (3)
• Something worth over £2000 (5 – double if you let the judges keep it)

Flora:

• A bunch of flowers (1)
• A fake flower (1)
• A piece of holly (1)
• A balloon plant (3)

Food:

• A Cadbury\’s Dairy Milk \”with Creme Egg\” (1)
• A complimentary mint (1)
• A non-Cadbury\’s Easter egg (1)
• Bake us a cake (3 or more)
• The best non-destructive egg-launcher (5, to be launched from a 1st storey window, throwing allowed)

Free Gifts:

• A lollipop stick with a joke on (1)
• A toy from a cereal packet (1)
• A Ronald McDonald? toy (3)
• A Hamburglar toy (4)

Geometry:

• A gelatinous cube (2 or more)
• A pentagon constructed using compass and straightedge (2)
• A spirograph (2)
• A home-made d20 (3)

Heritage:

• A castle (1 or more)
• A National Trust membership card (2)
• A photo of a real coat of arms not from an educational institution (2)
• A photo of the Viking fish and chip shop (2)
• A team coat of arms (2 or more)
• A tapestry (3)

Kitchen:

• A colourful spoon (1)
• A lemon juicer (1)
• A pizza cutter (1)
• A George Foreman grill (2)

Law and Order:

• A sheriff\’s badge (1)
• A superhero costume (modelled) (2 or more)
• A homemade security alarm (4)
• A bullet (5)

Literature:

• An Agatha Christie novel (1)
• Harry Potter and the Sorceror\’s Stone (2)
• A D&D Player\’s Handbook from before 3rd Edition (3)
• A book in a non-Indo-European language (3)
• A book first published between 500 and 1500AD in its original language (4)
• Recite a poem about a hunt of greater than 10 lines (5)

Monorail:

• A monocle (2)
• Someone called Monica (2)
• Something from Monaco (2)
• A magnetic monopole (10)

Music:

• Wind chimes (1)
• A NOW! album with a prime number (2)
• A sitar (2)
• A Grade 5 or above music certificate (3)
• Compose and perform a song about an event during the hunt (5)
• Two NOW! albums with twin prime numbers (6)
• 99 red balloons (floating in the summer sky) (9)

Naughty:

• A pack of pornographic playing cards (2)
• A photo of the entire team in a bathtub (2)
• A candle longer than 2 feet (60 cm) (3)
• The scariest (clean) underwear (3)
• A job for Michael Richards (10, must be an offer of employment for at least 8 hours at minimum wage)

Paper:

• The Epoch Times (1)
• A copy of the Big Issue more than a month old (2)
• A giant origami (3)
• The Ewok Times (4)

Pastamancy:

• A photocopy of some pasta (1)
• 100 pieces of pasta, individually labelled \’knife\’ (4)
• A 50cm bridge, made only of spaghetti and glue (4)
• A map of the London Underground made of pasta (4)

People:

• A photo of a parent of a member of another team (3)
• Two people with the same birthday (with proof) (4)
• A foreign tourist (who you don\’t know) (6)
• Someone who has appeared on the Honours List (8)

Pirate:

• A metal hook (1 or more)
• A plank (1)
• An eyepatch (1)
• A letter of marque (6)

Planet:

• A visa from a country other than the USA (2)
• A katamari greater than 20cm in diameter (4)
• Have the team\’s contribution to climate change computed by the Cambridge Carbon Footprint (4)
• Samples of Earth, Wind, Fire, Water and Heart (5)

Rainbow:

• A red key (1)
• Parma violets (1)
• A yellow ribbon tied around an old oak tree (2)
• An indigo plant (3)
• An opaque orange Lego brick (3)
• A blue suede shoe (4)
• A green snooker ball (4)

Religion:

• Rosary beads (2)
• A photo of the entire team with an official of a recognised non-Christian religion (3)
• Jesus\’ face on a piece of toast (3)
• A bishop\’s mitre (8)

Science:

• A Cartesian diver (1)
• A big magnet (1 or more)
• A boiling tube (1)
• An inanimate carbon rod (2)
• An animated carbon rod (4)
• Soap you made yourself (7)

Sean Connery:

• A poster from a Sean Connery film (2)
• The soundtrack to a Sean Connery film (2)
• The best 5 anagrams of Sean Connery films (5)
• Sean Connery (9)

Sport:

• A photo of a team member canoeing (2)
• A photo of Live Action Noughts & Crosses (3)
• 3/4 of a golf ball in one piece (4)
• Memorabilia from the last three soccer World Cups (4)
• A World Cup ticket stub (5)

Supermarket Sweep:

• A labelled product without any English text (2)
• A photo of a giant inflatable in a supermarket (2)
• A photo of the entire team in a supermarket trolley (3)
• A receipt from a Sainsbury\’s other than Sidney St (3)
• The most photos of distinct Co-ops (3)

Toys R Us:

• A flexible pencil (1)
• A rusty nail (1)
• A spinning top (1)
• A decoder ring (2)
• A toy with a string you can pull so it speaks (2 or more)
• A marionette (3)

Transport:

• A photo of a number plate which spells a word (1)
• A unique part of a bicycle (not chain/brake handles/pedal) (1 each)
• A model train, made of train tickets (4)
• A working steam engine (7)

X-Treme:

• The object fulfilling the most criteria on the list (1 each)
• A photo of a team member extreme ironing (3 or more)
• The largest ice cube (3)
• The person whose name is last in alphabetical order (surname, forename) (3)
• A photo of the view from Castle Hill at dawn (4)

The history of the scavenger hunt is shrouded in myth and legend. Suffice to say that members of the Assassins\’ Guild are regularly exceptionally bored, else why would they run around shooting each other? Aside from the guild\’s main and smaller games, a special pre-mayweek event was devised, allegedly after Mr. David Birch \’watched some [awful nonsense] on TV\’. He then set about making a list of many items and a few tasks for teams to find and complete for his amusement.

So successful was the first hunt that it was repeated the year after under the guidance of Mr. Richard Gibson and Ms. Rosemary Warner and the year after that by Mr. Martin O\’Leary and Mr. Chris Field. Then it was decided that it was about time that those nice folks at Chicago, the home of perhaps the most famous hunt, were shown that there exist some equally fantastical tasks for our students to perform, and some equally obscure paraphenalia for them to obtain. Again under the flag of Mr. O\’Leary and Mr. Field, the hunt was prepared for a larger audience. More tasks, more creativity, more mystery and a wider appeal beyond those who might be considered just a little bit on the unusual side. Only a little bit beyond that, mind you.

Now the mantle has been taken up by successive teams of organisers predominantly consisting of members of that college known by some as New Hall. Can a team from another college wrestle the Scavenger Hunt from their grasp?

So here we present for your amusement the lists from the previous years\’ hunts. Perhaps they will provide an insight into what might be coming up this year.