All-Nighters
The annoying habit of not getting any sleep the day (or numerous days in advance) of a tournament and then attempting to drive home. This can be very entertaining if you are following in the car behind them.
Atlantic Coast Conference
The other ACC. Despite our acronym, we are not particular fans of it. Why? Because it confuses people at Activities Night and it contains the University of Maryland.
Ballantyne, Cory
Cory was a player at the University of Pittsburgh. She makes the list due to her theft of David's breadstick at Baby Hen 2000. Even though he really didn't mind it, we all out voted him due to the principle of the thing.
Baltimore, Maryland (John Hopkins University)
Has a local restaurant right off campus that claims to have a Philly cheesesteak. Delaware is only 40 minutes from Philly, we know what a good Philly cheesesteak taste like. THEY DO NOT CONTAIN SOY SAUCE!!!
Chicken Legs
The place, Organizational Feud. The question, "Name an animal which you eat the leg of?" Our two geniuses, Rob and David, say Turkey and Pig, respectfully. They of course miss the most popular (and logical) answer, chicken, and cost us the 200 points in the finals. Luckily, we still won the event.
Comcrap Academic Challenge
Nickname coined by Bill Tressler to describe the annual tv trivia show for Delaware high schools. Previously known as Texaco Star, Star, & Motivia, and currently know as the Comcast Academic Challenge, this show features questions that are everything from being plagiarized to just being completely wrong. Just don't get stuck in the consolidation round, where they use the questions from the previous year and seeding doesn't matter, just when you show up.
Delaware Science Olympiad
When originally choosing a date for the first BHI, the founders placed it as a different weekend to avoid conflict with this event, and the following three years went smoothly. For whatever reason though, in 2003 the Science Olympiad decided to move their weekend back one week onto OUR weekend! To allow the Delaware students the chance to participate in both events, we did move our date back one week, despite having it on our traditional weekend and having it announced a year in advance.
Full Contact College Bowl
The brainchild of Dave DeForge, the concept is very simple: 8 people, 1 buzzer. Using this format, Delaware would instantly become a national contender.
Gasoline
FILL UP THE CAR BEFORE LEAVING!
George Washington University
Let's see, they are located right off Pennsylvania Avenue in DC, and they are hosting a tournament on Inauguration Day. It was also the site of one Delaware team getting lost trying to find the building where the tourney was being held. Lastly, they insult our state on their lexicon by calling Delaware the Toll-Booth State!
Ghetto
The favorite word of Nathan in describing another player, a question, a tournament, any other person, place, thing, idea, just about anything!
Goss, Andy
Makes the list for several different reasons. Andy was the tournament director for De-Affiliation Bowl, a tournament that was canceled 24 hours prior to the event, after a team from another school had already left for it and too late for Bill to get a refund on plane tickets. Also makes the list for his tendency to tick off people in the chatroom or mailing list and for making smart-ass comments about Delaware in an e-mail a few years back.
Hurricane Floyd
Stupid hurricane canceled the second practice of the 1999-2000 school year; plus the final game of the Mills Cup. Oh yeah, the storm also did millions of dollars of damage all along the eastern seaboard.
Jewel & all other Lilith Fair artist
The main reason why David B.'s car always fills up last.
Kenney, John
Member of the University of Virgina's club. As a moderator, he was taking forever to read and was allowing time to be ticked off the clock. He got annoyed with us for telling him to "hurry up", "were on the clock", or "go to the next question". He repeated responded, "Don't tell me to do . . . .", which would not have been necessary if he could read faster than a turtle.
LSAT Exams
At the BHI IV, despite the ACC having the rooms reserved for 5 months, when we were setting up buzzers in our rooms, we discovered them taking their exam in our spaces. David, being the nice guy that he is, gives them a half an hour to be out of there before we kick them out. By the time the tournament game play began, they were gone, despite the fact that removing them might have invalidated their scores. Opps . . . next time maybe they will check beforehand.
Las Vegas International Airport
Nickname given in 1996-97 to the new Trabant University Center. The biggest criticism about this building is even though it is positioned right by 10 or so buildings on the National Historic Register, the designer insisted on putting in huge neon lights that says, among other things, "PIZZA", "ICE CREAM", "BANK", and "CAMPUS SHOP". At least they finally took down the scrolling sign that did not work for 3 years. Coming soon, slot machines!
NSBE's Family Feud
Their 2nd annual event was once again going to be using our buzzer system. Once we got there though, they had already found another buzzer system and the competition was full. Since we could not play, we decided to sit around and watch it. For 30 minutes, we watched as opposing teams yelled at each other from across the room, while the crew tried to correct a computer problem. Once everything was set to begin, the announcer for the evening came out and said, "Let's get this ghetto booty party rollin!" With that, we left.
Negs
Negs are minus 5 points your team receives for buzzing in before the question is finished and giving an incorrect answer. ACC appears to have a long history of aggressive (a.k.a. reckless, a.k.a. stupid) players. This tendency is particularly evident in questions when other members of your team know the answer. Mark is doing a great job of keeping this tradition alive.
Newark, New Jersey
The only city with skyscrapers that have busted out windows on the top floors. Plus they tried to steal the name of the Delaware city (which is of course home to the Fightin' Blue Hens). They might be bigger but at least we pronounce the name correctly!
Ohio
The third state, behind Delaware and Pennsylvania, in which Justin has acquired a speeding ticket. This ticket was earned by traveling on I-80/90 going 110 mph in a 15-person van. It took the Ohio State Trooper about five minutes to catch up to us, as he had to go make a u-turn and then try to catch back up.
Penn Bowl
Makes the list for the tendency of ACC questions written for the tournament to be either unused or used & attacked on the QB mailing list. Also makes the list for always putting Delaware C in the hardest division possible and watching them get killed.
Penn-ding Bowl XI
Term coined by Erin Milligan to describe Penn Bowl XI. Highlights of this event include the 30-45 minute delay in getting things started & Bill's Judge vanishing on the first night. The second day featured a 29:32 minute delay (as timed by our moderator) for round 9, that included a Chinese Fire-drill by the entire bracket, and the 30 some minute delay getting the packets after lunch.
Quiz Bowl 2000
This is the ultimate Quiz Bowl Video Game, see it for yourself here!
Quiz Bowl 2001
"The Sequel to the Original", with more options than ever before! See it for yourself here!
Quiz Bowl Etiquette
A lot of people have bad experiences with QB Etiquette. Here at Delaware, we try to be extremely nice and polite. Jason and Samantha took it to a whole new level though at Beltway Bandits V, where after the other teams negs a buzzer race, both individuals are allowing the other to buzz in. Jason says out loud, "After you", to which Sam replies "No, after you." After going back and forth about 3 or 4 times and Jason saying "I don't know it", the moderator had no choice to call them for conferring. Through it all though, they were polite.
Speedway (Cleveland, Ohio)
What is there to do at midnight on a Saturday night in Cleveland? If you answered hang out at the gas station across from your hotel, you are correct! Armed with a handheld camera, and a newly bought microphone from Wal-Mart, we spent over an hour and half there interviewing people on whatever we could think of. Highlights of the evening would include an in-depth talk with a "gangbanger" who moved to Cleveland because peeps were after him in Miami, the 400 pound night worker who talked about his daddy shooting at him, and a hotel worker offering us a joint as thick as a cigar.
Spermologist
Noun. 1. One who treats or collects seeds. 2. One who collects trivia. While we don't think too many of us are the first part of the definition, the second one does describe us accurately.
Trash Czar
Self imposed nickname of a certain Delaware trash player (cough, cough, Tom). The "trash czar" lost his only chance at the crown though at TRASH Mid-Atlantic Junior Bird, when he came in SECOND in the tournament, and lost (even worse) to a GIRL.
UD's Honor Program
While we have had (and currently still do have) many students in the honors program as members of the ACC, they have also been known to turn down potential freshmen, who then go on to other institutions and then beat the crap out of us in future tournaments.
Who Wants To Get Hit In The Head With A Dictionary
Never give children their own television show, or crap like this might be created. WWTGHITHWAD was a skit done by three 12 year olds on a public access television station in Charlottesville, Virginia; which we just happened to turn on upon arriving to our hotel room there.
Wives Of Generals
According to Mark at Penn Bowl XI, U.L. Washington, Jerry Terrell, Rawly Eastwick, Darrell Porter, Ken Phelps, and Willie Wilson were wives of generals. Unfortunately for Mark's team, they have never been someone's wife, as they have always been men and were instead members of the 1980 Kansas City Royals World Series team with George Brett.
Wok 'N' Roll
Upon seeing the name of this Chinese restaurant, we knew we had to eat there. Located in Manassas, Virginia, what we originally thought was a joke, for $10.99, turned out to be a great buffet.