All Things Yummy

I participated in the Genius Bowl with Lawrence, Astha, Preet, Jimmy, and Rowena today. Genius Bowl is a trivia quiz show held by the Engineering Society. This time, there were 30 teams competing, which meant there were over 180 people packed into RCH 101. I really had no expectations of winning, so we kinda fooled around in GAFF while getting ready for the Genius Bowl.

We figured ties are fun, so we all brought ties and wore them. We also figured that Cowboy hats and Hard hats are fun, but we only had one of each… so that didn’t work out so well. But Preet brought different sparkly hair colouring gel and Rowena brought some face paints, so we figured that’d be enough. This is my first time putting any colour on my hair (only after assurance that it’ll come off - and it did ), but the reaction was surprisingly positive. :p I’m not sure whether it was the fact that I had my hair gelled straight up, or the fact that it was yellow.

Anyway, so we went to Genius Bowl and started playing. There are 5 question rounds, and Spot Light questions where you can bet up to 5 points in between the question rounds… And guess what? We did surprisingly well! After vaulting into 3rd place after 3 rounds, we were in first place after 4 rounds. However, pesky 3B guys (from Mech? Civil? I don’t even remember now :p ) ended up completing a come-from-behind victory by a single point, so we unfortunately came in second place… Ah well, we had a blast and won $60 in process. Ugh, I think my voice is still kinda hoarse from all that yelling.

As we were the only 4B team (actually the only 4th year team), we also kindly informed everyone else that our last lectures are in 3 days and banged our Iron Rings incessantly. Lawrence actually asked me whether I was drunk… I guess that’s a side that most people don’t see very often, heh.

Hmm, some of the interesting answers included the Isle of Man (which I got, for 3 points!), Frequency Modulation (come on, how could we miss this one?), and the Peregrine Falcon (fastest animal!). Good times. You can find the pictures here.

I’m in the process of trying to figure out whether I should be doing grad studies, or go out and work… It’s a tough decision… Email me for details, maybe we’ll chat and you can give me your 2 cents.