Scavenger Hunt List 2004

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  • A globe (+1 if it\’s out of date.)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)

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