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]