Date: Friday, January 26.

Time: 7:00 PM

Place: 7th Floor Playroom.

Commissioner: Erik Miller.

This event is all about getting to know the people around you. It's amazing that there are people who've been here for years, and who work no more than 2 or 3 doors apart who have never spoken to each other! This is a probably futile effort to change that. Nevertheless we will try to battle people's extreme isolationism by using their extreme competitive nature!

The event is fairly simple. You will be shown, with a projector, slides of various people you've seen creeping around the lab in the wee hours, trying not to be seen. Every member of each team will be given a sheet of paper with numbered boxes. You will simply have to write the name of each person in the box. For most categories of people, getting the first name or the last name is sufficient and spelling won't matter. However, one category will be "names which are frequently misspelled" and for this category, spelling will matter and the full name is required.

A new scoring system will be used this year. Every slide will be worth 100 points. The score will be evenly divided among the people who get that person's name correct. Thus, it will be advantageous to identify obscure and unknown people, and identifying someone like Rod Brooks is not going to get you much. The team with the most points at the end will win.

There will be a zero-tolerance policy on cheating, since cheating will be very easy. If I detect anyone cheating, the whole team will get 0 points for the event!

Start studying now! Here is a link to a directory of pictures of people who might be on the quiz. You should also look at all of the olympics team pictures. Finally, I recommend looking at the Olympics 98 photo album (on the web) for additional study materials! I'll be taking more pictures as the olympics progresses. Stay tuned here for where you can find them.