Date: Tuesday, January 19.

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.

As mentioned above, there will be several categories of people to identify. I will determine which team won each category by how many correct answers were produced by your whole team. Then the final team score will be determined from how many categories were won. (A non-linear scoring scheme.)

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 everyone who might be on the quiz. The pictures may be different on quiz day, but the people will be the same (or a subset). The idea is to make this easy, not difficult, so that people actually get to know each other.