Ducky's Scavenger Hunt List - 1994
Ok, for those of you who missed it, here is the 1994 Scavenger Hunt
list. There may have been one imaginary item on the list - by
accident. I thought I had looked up the famous physicist/mathematician
to make sure I got the spelling right, but people keep asking me
if I meant "Oliver Heaviside" instead of "Edwin Heavyside". Oh well.
All other items actually exist. Two groups brought in ear spoons
and one group brought in a zarf. The first item turned in was the
red comb in Anne Powell's back pocket.
Three women were on a bike team, and had the best story: they burst into
a hardware store in their spandex and lycra, ran up to the counter, and
said, "We need a left-handed screw!" The young man at the counter
dropped his jaw, bugged his eyes out, and said, "Uh... this isn't
that kind of place." "NO! A left-handed screw, a piece of hardware!"
"Uh... *sure* ladies, riiiiight." An older gent popped his head around
the corner and said, "Oh yes, they exist. Aisle 12B."
Things that nobody got are marked with a * at the end of the line. Comments
that were not part of the original text are offset with square brackets.
The winning team (Sunday's Ladies: Sue, Kieth, Karen, and Kathy) had around
1600 points. [The first team to turn in an item gets a 20% bonus for
that item, so this isn't quite as many items as it sounds.]
30 - manual for DOS 3.0
20 - poinsetta
20 - swahili dictionary
20 - 3-pronged fishook [someone had this in her *car*!]
50 - light blue paper sack
50 - parking ticket
40 - red postit note
10 - electrical outlet face plate
50 - phone cord de-tangler
20 - Picture of Queen Beatrix (photocopy ok) [Queen of the Netherlands]
10 - Winnie The Pooh
10 - fuse
20 - blue fingernail polish on a team member's finger
30 - clip-on earring
20 - hacky sack
20 - purple shoelaces
120 - mango fork*
30 - nesting babushka doll
20 - text of Gettysburg Addr
30 - pink hollyhock blossom
50 - a high school diploma
70 - left-handed screw [note: all bicycles have one.]
10 - receipt from Goodwill
20 - dog biscuit
40 - Susan B Anthony dollar
60 - a old-style metal soda can pulltab*
80 - punch card
50 - photocopy of a journal article by Edwin Heavyside*
100 - rubbing of Rose Broggi's tombstone in Holy Cross Cemetery in Menlo Park
25 - sq inches of neoprene
30 - dog made out of balloons
150 - ear spoon
30 - needlepoint sampler
60 - number of rungs in a CalTrain luggage rack* [78]
20 - heart button
20 - umbrella
10 - frisbee
20 - handbill (flyer) for a rock group
50 - magnetic letters
20 - manufacturer of the manhole cover at either entrance to the Palo
Alto <-> Menlo Park bike bridge [San Jose Foundry]
30 - number of boxes in sculpture on Alma [10]
40 - zarf
40 - World Cup program*
60 - tattoo
80 - dead cockroach
minus 100 - live cockroach*
20 - clean diaper
minus 100 - dirty diaper*
30 - typewriter ribbon
10 - red comb
10 - straight pin
40 - cattail (NOTE: there is no space between "cat" and "tail"!)
10 - Love stamp
10 - ATM receipt
20 - fold-up hand fan
15 - Atomic weight of Strontium [87.62]
40 - a juggler (three balls for 15 seconds)
30 - description of Wednesday's child? [full of woe]
2 each - "My Favorite Things" song favorite things (words)
15 each - "My Favorite Things" song favorite things (physical items)
10 to 60 - Limerick with the word Brazil in it (Judge's discretion on points)
The English translations for:
10 - pomme [French: apple]
20 - Zunge [German: tongue]
40 - (arabic lettering Ash) [Farsi: stew]
80 - trdnjava [Slovene: castle]
Ducky
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