CAKEFAERIES' SCAV HUNT ITEMS LIST

This Items List is for Mayweek 2019.

Each Items List section belongs to a CakeFaerie Suit, as per the badge on its section title. Different sections in the same suit have different card names, i.e. 2 to 10, J, Q, K, A :)

Doubles * 2 of each Suit *

Any Suit's means of doubling score can be used for any item in the list, as can "made out of Lego" at our all-day Lego Event. Doubles are not cumulative.

* Bakey Doubles * are "In Cake Form" and "Made out of Fondant"

* Scouty Doubles * are * "Appearing as if by Magic" and "with a Little Wand of Its Own"

* Duelly Doubles * are "Casus Belli", and "Item is temporary Toy Gun Decor".

* Hunty Doubles * are "with Themed Epic Music" and "As a Meme".

* Listeny Doubles are "with a Kindly Note" and "As a CakeFaerie News or Safer Space Awareness Page Contribution"

* Silly Doubles * are "with a Plushie Sidekick" and "As a Contribution to our Chainwriting"

Hailene (Scouts and Vanguard) * Hunty * 3

Teams can score up to 1000 points prior to the start of the Hunt off this section.

1) Deliver a Kindly Note to pidge of a CakeFaerie with Exams [5]

2) Deliver a Silly Note to pidge of a CakeFaerie with Exams [5]

3) Deliver a Plushie to pidge of a CakeFaerie requiring a such [8]

4) ... with an Ace Awareness Badge, when asked for [+8 bonus]

5) Help Chainwrite some such Silly Notes [2 points per line]

6) Bonus [+2 points per silly made-up word in the previous, +2 points per layer of silliness]

7) Bonus [+3 points per distinct college]

8) Recruit a Team-Mate [10 points if they sign up, from their own email account, + 10 points if they turn up to a judging point, +20 if they substantially participate in one of our Mayweek Events.] If trying to do this, you Must ask organizers what people you try to sign up need to know beforehand.

10) Provide a Silly Name for your Team [10 points per silly name]

11) Provide the Silliest Team Name So Far [40 point bonus]

12) Give your team an artwork flag matching its name [40 points, 1 max]

13) Give your team a matching themed song (original or parodied) [10 points per block of verse, small bonus for own variations on known music, large bonus for own music.]

14) Explain the title of this Items Section [6]

15) Turn up to Start of Hunt on June 13 Most Dressed for this part [Superlatives score something like 4n + 6 for n the number of teams]

16) Tell us the right formula for superlatives :P [5]

17) Per typo located on the Hunty Scores Page [2]

18) Per typo located in the Hunty CakeFaeries' Rules [3]

19) Explain what each of Bakey, Scouty, Hunty, Listeny, Duelly and Silly CakeFaeries do [2 each]

20) Invent further kinds of CakeFaerie ending in 'y', including saying what they do [2 points each, 50 max]

21) Bake a Cake for some CakeFaeries with exams (pidge or same-college room delivery only) [5 points per portion; 80 grammes min]

22) Buy a Cake for ditto [3 points per ditto]

23) Distribute cake [2 points per cakefaerie caked, 3 points per distinct college]

24) Per typo located in the Duelly CakeFaeries' Rules. [3]

25) Per word not in the Dictionary found on one of our Safer Spaces' websites [1 point each, 50 max]

26) Bonus [+1 point for proposing a definition for it, +2 if that closely matches intent.]

27) Duel someone else who's finished exams/is a Grad or Cantab, off university property only [10 points per round, 5 max per pairing]

28) 'Kills' are + 2 bonus. Winning 2 on 1's are + 15 bonus. Winning 1 on 2's with no csualties (including limb hits) is +5 bonus.

29) Per necessary website update (e.g. sysadmin upload, publicity photo for website use) [5]

30) Arrive at the start of hunt meet 'on a War-Pterodactyl' [15, or 5 for explaining why.]

Start of Mayweek Icebreaker: Terry Pratchet's Discworld *Hunty* Q

1) A Plush Turtle [5, 10 if a green-sea-turtle, + 40 if additionally a gift to the Judges]

2) Plush Elephants [5 each, 5 max]

3) A disc

4) Largest Plush Turtle (superlatives score 4 times number of teams + 10 for first place, 8 less for second place, and 4 less for each subsequent place)

5) Smallest Plush Elephant

6) Assemble 1) to 3) into Terry Prachett's discworld [20, with superlatives on most translationally stable, most rotationally stable, and least pipecleaners used in the binding ^,-,^]

Explain what happened to the Fifth Elephant, with superlatives on

7) Accuracy

8) deliberate Inaccuracy

9) General Silliness

And so you arrive at my part of the Discworld: Uberwald.

10) Superlative on largest pronounced umlaut.

11) Superlative on largest written umlaut

12) Portrait of Terry Pratchett's character Lady Margolotta... [10 points monochrome, 20 points colour]

13) Superlatives on Most Fabulous, Most Beautiful, Most Gothic, and Most ... Temperate.

14) You can rescore 12)'s points for drawing up to 50 of Lady Margolotta, e.g. within other Scavenger Hunt Items you draw ^,-,^

15) Explain what Lady Margolotta's Temperance League is (within Terry Pratchett's Universe), and thus the name of Cambridge's current Scavenger Hunting Team Champions: BlackRibbonners. [6 + 12]

16) The centre of Terry Pratchett's world is however Ankh-Morpork. Draw a view of some part of this city [2 per Pratchettian detail included, 50 max].

[10 point bonuses] if one of your 10 max postcards of Ankh-Morepork include each of the following.

17) Sergeant Colon attempting to place a Parking Ticket on the Opera House for causing congestion.

18) Lord Vetinari in dark shades of grey-and-green attire.

19) Susan Sto Helit and her Father.

20) The Unseen University's Librarian.

21) The Fools' Guild on fire. 22) One of Bloody Stupid Johnson's creations.

23) A bureaucratic scene from Going Postal

24) Vimes and Angua

25) Nobby, Cheery Littlebottom and Sergeant Detritus

26) A piece of Granny Weatherwax's Headology.

27) All of Bloody Stupid Johnson's creations (interpreted literally as regards the Pratchett character, thankx)

28) A bijection between Cambridge's Colleges and an equal number of Ankh-Morporkian buildings of note, with reasons [10 points per College, 2 points per reason, 10 max per college]

Jurassic Park * Hunty * J

Trivia

Per Cretaceous species featuring nonetheless [3]

Per Triassic species featuring nonetheless [6]

Estimate the average size of each Pterodactyl species in Jurassic World [10 each]

Dr Wu's Experiments

Draw a T-Rex hybrid with, [for 6 points each]

1) Velociraptor and cuttlefish.

2) Just cuttlefish.

3) Drosophila Melanogaster

4) Mantissss.

5) The Mosasaur

6) Nessiteras Rhombopterix

7) The Alien from Alien

8) The Predator from Predator

9) The Joker

10) The Balrog

11) The Basilisk

12) The Dowager Countess of Grantham

13) Basilisk, Dowager and Mantissss.

14) A Porg

15) That Verdilactescent Seacow

16) Catra

17) Des Lynham

18) Any, or all, of the Bourbakis

19) Provide a fake scientific latin name for each hybrid you draw [3 points each, superlative on silliest, most accurate, longest, and most poignantly anagramatic.]

20) Draw an ecological diagram for the above hybrids. [2 per meaningfully labelled arrow, 500 points max]

21) Draw a cartoon strip featuring any but the first of these hybrids let loose by mistake [6 points per tangibly distinct vignette, 2 points per caption, 1000 max.]

22) Draw a cartoon strip featuring any two of these hybrids, in the manner of Alien versus Predator (cannot be the first hybrid, the Alien or the Predator one however). [6 points per tangibly distinct vignette, 2 points per caption, 1000 max.]

23) Sing an 'ultimate showdown' song listing superheroes, none of whom are in the original song, combining forces to kick one of these hybrids' 'cowboy ass out of town'. [2 points per superhero, superpower, heroic deed, 1000 points max.]

Global-Analytic Park * Silly * J

1) Explain why this section exists [5 + 3 per extra reason you make up: 20 max]

Find ways in which the following mathematicians could be an active danger to visiting Velociraptors, tourist T-Rexes and philanthropic Pterodactyls [3 per way, 10 max per Mathmo]

2) Pythagoras

3) Euclid

4) Archimedes

5) Fermat

6) Sir Isaac Newton

7) Gottfried Leibniz

8) Leonhard Euler

9) whichever Bernoulli [+ 10 bonus for the whole set]

10) Evariste Galois

11) Karl Friedrich Gauss

12) Bernhard Riemann

13) Georg Cantor

14) Henri Poincare

15) Emmy Noether

16) Felix Hausdorff

17) Srinivasa Ramanujan

18) Andrey Kolmogorov

19) Alan Turing

20) Rene Thom

21) Robert Oppenheimer

22) Saunders Mac Lane

23) The Bourbakis [+50 bonus for using the whole set]

24) Alexander Grothendieck

25) Paul Erdos

26) Grigory Perelmann

27) Roger Penrose

28) Professor Gowers

Draw... [5 max of each]

29) a paradox [5 each]

30) a nonlinear nightmare [6 each]

31) a topological nightmare [7 each]

32) a categorical nightmare [8 each]

33) a Grothendieckian nightmare [9 each]

34) a topos-theoretic elephant [1 max, but can be in parts]

35) Act out some mathematicans escaping and/or massacring their Velociraptor creator-captors using each of the preceding 6 items. [10 points per person per minute of action, 500 points max]

36) Draw a cartoon of 1 or more of 29 to 34 [6 points per vignette, 2 points per caption, 500 points max].

Bakey

Remember, you can bake dinosaur-shaped cakes or make pictures of them or anyting else on this list with Fondant ^_^ The same applies for Chekhovian, Chronicles, Pratchett, and Supercali items ^,-,^

Chainstories * SILLY * K

1) We will start 5 of these. [4 points per line added]

2) [4 points for variation on an existing line]

3) [6 points] for splicing 2 pieces of story

4) [6 points for solicitedly adding a line before the first line, i.e. backwards extension]

5) Turn a line into a picture. [8]

6) Put music to a set of lines [10 per line, 4 lines minimum]

8) Extend the story past a picture by providing a subsequent picture [8]

9) Find a line describing a picture with no lines that additionally follows from the previous line that already exists {12]

10) Judges may announce more advanced chainstory moves at a later date; you only complete this section if you pull off one of each of those moves too...

Note: no team can score above 500 per chain.

Chekhov's Arsenal * Hunty * 10

Enact:

1) Chekhov's Doctor's Hand [5]

2) Chekhov's Ricin Cigarette [5]

3) Chekhov's Box Cutter [5]

4) Chekhov's Death Star [5]

5) Chekhov's Earring [5]

6) Chekhov's Human Statue [6]

7) Chekhov's Great Big Bushy Beard [6]

8) Chekhov's Crusty Jugglers [6]

9) Chekhov's Mandrake Root [6]

10) Chekhov's Lighting Bolt Shaped Scar [5]

11) Chekhov's Ford Anglia [5]

12) Chekhov's Luggage [7]

13) Chekhov's Mosasaur [7]

One-Up each of the previous for items 14) to 26) [double its score]

100 max of each of:

27) Examples of Chekhov's guns that are guns in films [1 point each]

28) ... but fail to go off... {1 each]

29) ... as red herrings, or [3 each]

30) ... ironically [5 each]

31) Examples of Chekhov's guns that aren't any kind of ranged weapon ... [2 each]

32) or any tangible kind of weapon. [4 each]

Public Transport

1) Officially printed timetables [1 point per disjoint timetable, superlative on the furthest service from Cambridge]

2) A locomotive headplate [8]

3) Something with the CURC logo on it (must have existed before the Hunt began) [5]

4) A Whippet dog [6]

5) A Stagecoach [8]

6) A licence to drive a public transport vehicle [8]

7) Models of public transport vehicles [5 points per mode]

8) Models of London Buses [5 points per type]

9) A working self-powered model railway [12, bonus points for functional signalling or other impressive features]

10) A model aeroplane [4 points, plus 2 points per 10 seconds of sustained flight]

Picture taken by team members at (N.B.: for Safer Space reasons, none of these pictures can contain any people!)

11) A bus station [4]

12) A railway station [8]

13) Another railway station [16]

14) A closed/former railway station [24]

15) A former tram line [24]

16) On public transport on the Varsity Line [24 per mode of transport]

17) On the X5 (24, or 72 if you take a picture with date proof in Oxford, e.g. the daily newspaper with a recognizable Oxford background).

The Kingkiller Chronicles (incl The Name of The Wind) * Hunty * K

Impersonate (all are additionally superlatives on most accurate, most ironic, most over-the-top, and generally silliest)

1) Bast [5]

2) Kvothe [10]

3) Ambrose Jakis [10]

4) Kvothe and Jakis pranking each other [10 points per escalation, 10 max]

5) Tempi [10]

6) Felurian [20]

7) Elodin [30]

8) The Ctheah [40]

Perform:

9) music in Kvothe's style [30 per piece, 120 if your original composition, 1 minute min.]

10) Sympathy [5 per tangibly distinct such]

11) Sygaldry [5 per ditto]

12) Naming [-1 per conceptually imperfect attept, 40 per novel and conceptually correct such, 20 successes max.]

13) The Lethani [20 + superlatives on most optimized, plyometrized efficientized such, and also on least such, and version most in the style of each of the Pythons.]

14) A battle between two Factions of Librarians using rival cataloguing systems [same superatives as for the previous :O :S :S ]

Most Ridiculous Theory about... 15) The Chandrian

16) The extent to which Kvothe tells the truth.

17) How a medieval society could support a city the size Tarbean is said to be.

18) The extent to which the Ctheah has sown discord on our own planet.

19) Who the titular king is

20) Build a Cluedo Game out of each team's ansewer to the previous, plus thematic murder weapons and Kingkiller chronicles locations. [4 per card, 1000 max :S]

21) Draw a cartoon strip featuring whichever of of 13) to 20) you please [6 points per tangibly distinct vignette, 2 points per caption, 1000 max.]

Supecalifragilisticexpialidocious * SILLY * Q

Thematically parody this word in providing any other item to score 15 points per conceptually distinct use (1500 points max; you only complete this Sec by batting your way to a Supercalicentury!)

Example: Sumptiouscutlassopugilisticflexipointeelungidoccioes for some kind of fighty faerie :)

Tom Lehrer * Silly A *

This is "the End of Hunt" section, much as Hailene was the "Preliminary" section :)

1) Name Tom Lehrer songs other than those mentioned below [2 each]

2) How might Tom Lehrer be a danger to dinosaurs? [3 points per reason, 10 max]

3) Since 2) could have been in another items list section, [2 points] for each item you can find that could have been in another Items list section (including a fair reason for that)

4) Sing the Lobachevsky song [20, double if accompanied by live music]

5) Sing the Professor's Song [30, triple if sung backwards]

6) Reinterpret "Oedipus Rex" as a harmless song about Bagpuss [5 points per Bagpuss reference]

7) Reword the Smut song to the subject of honest no-double-entendre baked goods. [5 points per type of backed good].

8) Rehash "the Masochism Tango" to be instead "the Machiavellian Tango" [5 points per conceptually distinct piece of moustachio-twirling villainy]

9) Redo "Fight Fiercely, Harvard!" for some Cambridge College [5 points per specific reference substitution]

10) Rehash the Lobachevsky song using rhyming place names from another country [40 per country the song is rerun in, 10 max]

11) Mix up: Lehrer's Elements song and Lehrer's Aristotle's Elements song. I.e. rewrite the cameo songlet of Aristotle's Elements to a (different) Gilbert and Sullivan tune. [100 per line, for the given number of lines].

12) Lehrer-Clementine a song that's not had this done to it before [200 for parodying the song per musical style that Lehrer parodies "Clementine" in]