h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This one dead, Clive???



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Wakey Wakey Elf!!!!



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I lost my scoring grid for this QI and found it again yesterday when I was tidying.

I was just thinking about QI again and what new clues I might come up with and what I should do with this one.

As it is the weekend I'll wrap this one up score it and then move on to some new (hopefully) better QIs.

Clive!!

Good to see you are still live and kicking!!


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I've not been around as much, that's true, but there's life in this old bird yet!

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Not forgotten, just been a bit preoccupied and ill.

Also been thinking up some new QIs think I've got some good 'uns but it's a wrench between try them out now or give em more time to settle iron out the kinks?

I posted this one a bit too quickly see and I think the flaws showed as it was quiet hard to solve.

Okey-dokey, here are the scores thus far.


QI - Ad Hoc
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Correct (+3)
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None



QI Bonus (+6)
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Bob Stafford (26) - "Body Swap"




DGI Bonus (+1)
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Bob Stafford (26) - "*Local* Police"
Geggs (33) - "Took a lot of planning."
Gandalf's Twin (54) - "Put your message where the maximum number of people will see it."
Gandalf's Twin (66) - "Staying out late or going out early."
Hygienic Dispenser (69) "Things moved from where they were supposed to be."
Geggs (73) - Students
Geggs (73) - Pranks
Arg0n (85) - "A model of the eagle."
Mu (90) - Dome (domo )
Hygienic Dispenser (116) - "crazy anarchic physics professors stickin' it to The Man!"
Gandalf's Twin (127) - "*Urban* running."
Hygienic Dispener (128) - "Drunken Urban Climbing."
Kilted (129) - Smelly cruiser and some bent tin foil"
Taff (137) - A Monorail

Klaxon (-5)
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Gandalf's Twin (32) - "In A Museum"
Rod (105) - "Hacking the Interwebs."
Hygienic Dispenser (111) - Post Graduation Ritual.
Geggs (120) - "Fraternity/Sorority Hazing


Elf Bonus (+2)
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Clive



Current Scores:
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Bob +7
Clive +2
Argon +1
Mu +1
Kilted +1
Taff +1
Geggs -2
Gandalf's Twin -2
Hygienic Dispenser -2
Rod -5


Some fairly large undifferentiated groups in there, and reading back the answer was never quiet reached so I can either

a) call it quits, write up the solution and we move on.

or

b) someone can try to get the all important +3 score to move them ahead of the rest of the field.


Over to you, minions....

I've just returned from a longish hiatus and it's way too late to jump in on a QI but I'll have a look tomorrow that's for sure

Welcome back Keith.

I've not been about much either - been thinking of new QIs this morning.

Going once, going twice.... final call before the points given above stand.

Nothing from here.

It has until the morning, I'll have to collect up my notes from before and review them to do the write up as I can remember the general gist of it but the specifics.

The key to this QI was the phenomenon of Urban Exploration known to some as "Hacking" - the unauthorised exploration of tunnels and roofspaces.

In pursuit of this, there have been a number of stunts pulled most notably at MIT The Massacheusets Institute of Technology.

These stunts have included a mock-up of the campus police squad car being placed on the dome.

http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1994/cp_car/cpcar-closeup-ii.gif

"The car turned out to be the outer metal parts of a Chevrolet Cavalier attached to a multi-piece wooden frame, all carefully assembled on the roof over the course of one night. The hackers paid special attention to detail. Not only had the Chevy been painted to look just like a Campus Police car from all sides, but a dummy dressed up as a police officer sat within, with a toy disc gun and a box of doughnuts. The car, numbered pi, also sported a pair of fuzzy dice, the license number IHTFP, an MIT Campus Police parking ticket ("no permit for this location"), and a yellow diamond-shaped sign on the back window proclaiming "I break for doughnuts."


In 2009, The Apollo Moon lander was erected on the site

http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2009/apollo_lander/


Earlier that year a solar-powered sub-way car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf8_lP8MrkU


And in 2008 - the working flush lavtory appeared not on the Dome but on the roof of Building 37

http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2008/toilet/



In 1990, the hackers hid the entrance to the President's Office.

http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1990/vest_bboard/



A complete list of the MIT "Hacks" can be found here.
http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/?year=ALL



"Ad Hoc" came not from MITs IHTFP(I hate this ****ing place) but was from Rival Columbia Uni in New York, which has an extensive tunnel network.

Ken Hechtman is one of the most infamous former Columbia tunnelers. In 1986, he led an underground group of tunnelling students called AD HOC (Allied Destructive Hackers of Columbia). Hechtman was expelled during his first year at Columbia for stealing Uranium-238 along with many dangerous chemicals including Chloroform and Pure Caffeine