Scavenger Hunt List 2007

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]

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