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30-20-10s

In years past, it was Berkeley Quiz Bowl tradition to write 30-20-10 style questions about various players to test your knowledge of players on the team. This tradition has fallen by the wayside, but in the interests of history, the questions are preserved here. They date from Spring 2001.

Each 30-20-10 features things said or done by a particular member. (Some quotes and/or deeds may be apocryphal.) All answers are former Berkeley Quiz Bowl club members. Some members may appear in more than one question.

Questions

Question 1

  1. "I have a problem set due today, so it must be Wednesday."
  2. "And Zagallo begat Pele who smiteth the Europeans mightily in '58 and in '62 and '70 also, and Cruyff bringeth into the world the 'Clockwork Orange' but Beckenbauer and Co. was mightier in '74 and..."
  3. Smokes crack (or grapes when crack is not readily available and on hand).

Question 2

  1. Though the reasons behind this action are lost to history, just as Odysseus escaped the cyclops Polyphemus by riding under a sheep, he sneaked past Gaius under a giant hat made of fruit.
  2. Obsessed with his following USDA guidelines, he is known to only eat foods in increments specified by the official serving sizes noted ontheir packaging. On one occasion, he went on a mad rampage, injuring twelve, when a first-year quiz bowler ate the last Tastetation in a bag, preventing him from eating the suggested seven pieces.
  3. He once dashed into practice to tell everyone about a dream he had of a snake biting its tail. He claimed this dream prompted him to invent a new utensil which brought together the best of "spoonness" and "forkhood". When told that (1) his invention already existed and was called the spork and (2) his dream was really about benzene, he suddenly became very quiet and left the room. He never came to practice again and his whereabouts are unknown to this day, though one witness claimed to have seen him wandering into Mexico shortly after the incident.
  4. He drove an ambulance during WWI.

Question 3

  1. "Come on guys, that's like Serial Killer 101!"
  2. Owns more record albums by Leonard Nimoy than anybody else in the club.
  3. His alter egos include Captain Uterus, the God of Evil, and Pussy Large.

Question 4

  1. "That's just not possible; if I calculate correctly, steak is now 2% of your entire weight."
  2. "I can't believe someone beat me to a sports question!"
  3. "Hello Kitty -- need we say more?"

Question 5

  1. He is the only member of the Berkeley Quiz Bowl team that actually enjoys Jon's "Pussy Large" moniker.
  2. He knows way too much about child actors.
  3. His crowning (non)achievement was a 15-0 trash round against Whitman College.

Question 6

  1. Alternately claims Nicaraguan and various other Latin American citizenships, he was especially unhappy with the result of the War of the Triple Alliance.
  2. Much like mighty Al Bundy once scored four touchdowns in a single game for Polk High, he recorded a proud 2-10-0 score against UCSB including an infamous power on N*Sync.
  3. Has heard of many other things, but only knows about three: Babbitt, Andrew Jackson, and the other one.

Question 7

  1. "Oh, so we were about to play UPenn at NAQT nationals when..."
  2. "Yes! It is actually a Nash equilibrium!"
  3. "..but Romanesque Art is so cool!"

Question 8

  1. He strongly believes that the recent bad weather in Berkeley is a manifestation of the moisture god's anger. This moisture god may be Hindu or Aztec, or from a different pantheon entirely, but the point is that people have mocked the title of "god of moisture" every time it comes up in a question, and now we shall bear the consequences.
  2. On a Spring 2001 trip to Southern California he recounted the legend of Anderson's Split Pea Soup Restaurant and the Traveller's Special, lovingly refered to as the Hungry Man's Platter of Delight and Heavenly Ambrosia In a Bread Bowl (Mad Libs extra). Whether said restaurant has any connection to Prester John's kingdom remains to be seen.
  3. The only member of Berkeley Quiz Bowl who has mastered the proper use of the word "hella".

Question 9

  1. "My family has been Catholic for over 200 years."
  2. "Mere mortals need not apply."
  3. "Is my second steak ready yet?"

Question 10

  1. "My modem doesn't go faster than 2400 baud, and I don't have a hard drive yet."
  2. "Oh, Zephyr was the son of Eos and father of Xanthus and Balius. It is rumored he had a homosexual affair with Apollo, begetting the bastard God Bogus, the Wind of Hot Air, but most think the rumors were started by his rivals like Boreas."
  3. "As Club Consul, I think..."

Question 11

  1. "That is not the correct Egyptian god!"
  2. With an idiolect all her own, she has coined phrases such as "el fuego" and "mastodon".
  3. Like Chichikov, she owns many souls of fellow quiz bowlers on the team.

Answers

  1. Jerry Vinokurov (also accept Grapesmoker on the 30 and 20)
  2. Mike Usher
  3. Jon Pennington
  4. Nick Meyer
  5. Matt Levine
  6. Steve Kaplan
  7. Ross Ritterman
  8. Seth Teitler
  9. Gina Braden
  10. Gaius Stern
  11. Fred Carpenter

Scoring

Last edited by Paul Lujan 10/30/2007