2012 Clues are here! Check them out below or download the PDF here: The Hunt 2012 Clue List
~CLUES~
1. Arrange and perform an a capella song. Bonus points if it has Ja Rule in it. (6 points)
2. Take a photo of at least one member of your team with a current presidential candidate. No photoshopping! (10 points)
3. Sometimes the problem can be the solution: Paul has bad gas. His Volvo S70 gets bad gas mileage. Design a solution. Appropriate engineering diagrams and chemistry equations required. (3 points)
4. Rick Roll anyone/anything/anywhere. (2 points)
5. Three on three basketball game. Cellos vs. Trombones, i.e. one team must all play cello. The other team must all play trombone. Points will be directly correlated with team spirit. Bonus points for a celebratory trio by the winning team. (5 points)
6. Midd History! What were “late minutes” and how did you accumulate them? (1 point)
7. Eskimo kiss all five CRAs. (5 points)
8. Slow-motion sports montage of a non-traditional sport. (4 points)
9. Make something impressive out of pasta. (2 points)
10. Write a rap song about Middlebury. Extra points for a cameo verse by anybody on the Finance Committee. (6 points)
11. Present a new way a condom can save your life. (1 point)
12. The Hunt LOVES question marks! Get photos of a question mark in front of famous world landmarks. The further away it is, the more points you get. Multiple submissions accepted. Negative points for photoshopping. (1 point/photo)
13. Reconstruct the teepees outside of the CFA- you must take them down after photo. (7 points)
14. Film a lip dub of “Friday.” (8 points)
15. Write and perform a campaign speech using only lines from the Pokemon movie. (3 points)
16. What was the Pussers Club? (hint: it existed from 1913-1925). Bonus points if you can tell us the name of its successor. (4 points)
17. Enrique! Perform “Tonight” with a more creative radio edit than “Loving.” (4 points)
18. VPR interview….REMIX! (3 points)
19. Best neat repeats find. (2 points)
20. Who ordered the destruction of arguably the most controversial snow sculpture in the history of Middlebury? [Hint: it lasted longer than four hours, but not by much] Tell the story (3 points)
21. Donate to the Addison County Humane Society! They need towels, sheets, cat food, treats and toys. (1 point per item) Bonus points for knowing all of the pets’ names by your departure. Up to 7 points.
22. What happened at Middlebury College during the northeast blackout of 1965? Get someone to tell you the story. (5 points)
23. Bring us a red dirt clothing item (don’t worry you’ll get it back). (2 points)
24. Have you found the Canadian fiction section of the library? Perform a dramatic reenactment of your favorite excerpt. (5 points)
25. Build a rainstick out of recycled materials. Bonus points if you make it a hybrid instrument. (5 points)
26. How many people can you fit in a four door sedan? (.5 points per person)
27. Find the best campus doppelgangers – they can’t be related. (4 points)
28. Submit the pilot episode of “Dancing with the Faculty” (8 points)
29. Fifty quarters, fifty states… – must present when clues are due at Old Stone Mill (0.1 points/quarter)
30. Get someone to visit you from New Jersey. Have them document their voyage. (7 points)
31. Have a team member take a run at the snow bowl in the most ridiculous outfit. (5 points)
32. Compose and record a love song to one of the great presidents from Middlebury College’s history, including as much biographical detail as possible. (5 points)
33. Get someone to use the word “subterfuge” in an all-student email. (5 points)
34. Do something genuinely nice for Public Safety. (3 points)
35. Make Liz Robinson blush. (2 points)
36. Get as many people with the same last name together for a photo. Students/faculty/staff/other people, etc. (1 point per person)
37. Redo the admissions video. Using puppets. (8 points)
38. Film the climactic song and dance from the hit Broadway musical “Salad Bar Sweethearts” (8 points)
39. LOLOMGWTF? Teach a professor some basic texting abbreviations. Their adolescent kids will be grateful to have such cool parents. (2 points)
40. Get someone famous to tweet #thehunt2012. (up to 10 points – relative famousness of person is for us to decide)
41. What national radio program was broadcasted live from Mead Chapel twice? (3 points)
42. Name as many firsts for women at Middlebury as you can (e.g. first female student, first female professor, first female varsity sport, etc.) (1 point per, 5 points max)
43. Connections? Find three Midd students who all have siblings at the same college. Have them meet up in real life and take a picture together with a question mark. (4 points)
44. A Hunt classic! Ask your crush out on a real life date as publicly and creatively as possible. (5 points)
45. Get a brass band together. Have them perform “September” by Earth, Wind, Fire. Bonus points if you can get faculty staff involved. (9 points)
46. Mingle, mingle, MINGLE! (3 points)
47. Choose a stock ticker from the NASDAQ or NSYE and email it to use by 11pm, January 24th. Your stock’s performance (percentage point gain) at the end of the week will equal your total points earned (max 10 points, no negative points for poor stock performance).
48. Get an actual Canadian Mountie to throw a Frisbee to you (10 points).
49. You didn’t get her number, but all is not lost. Post a “missed connections” ad on Craigslist. Be creative. (2 points, possible extra points for creativity)
50. The Mandolin club hasn’t been active since the twenties. Bring it back in a rousing, centennial, very public performance. (10 points)
51. Get all of the Mountain Ayres, Bobolinks or the Old Stone Mill Board to sign your belly. (4 points)
52. Film the trailer for the romantic drama “Heartbreak in Hillcrest” (8 points)
53. Who lived at the Dragon’s Den? (3 points)
54. What’s the name and publishing date of the most ancient book in the library on the origins of soccer? Bonus: Who persuaded Middlebury to buy it? (6 points)
55. Someone from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference just made it big. Who and why? (1 point)
56. Tell the story of the Field House. Include its origins, purchase price, and when it was erected at Middlebury. (4 points)
57. Which current buildings on campus housed fraternities? Which fraternities lived in each of them? Bonus: which house has the secret robe room? Bonus, Bonus: what is in that room now? (3 points)
58. Which building housed all of the sororities at Middlebury at one point? (1 point)
59. Find two professors who played the same varsity sport in college. Super duper bonus points if they were teammates or played against one another. (6 points)
60. Before Samson and Elezear were a Regina Spektor song and a secondary character in the Twilight saga, respectively, they started a College which educated a number of faculty/staff members here at Midd. Name this College (1 point) and as many of these alumni as you can. (0.5 points per name)
61. This former president of Middlebury had a passion for violets. (2 points)
62. Perform Flight of the Bumblebee. Faceoff style. (6 points)
63. Toilet seat horseshoes. (8 points)
64. Parallel parking competition. Scoring based on timeliness, proper signaling, closeness to curb. Meet at the CFA parking lot Wednesday at 2 PM. We’ll bring the traffic cones and the car. (10 points to the winner)
65. Get a professor to record your voicemail message. (4 points)
66. Recut How to Train Your Dragon into a trailer for Inception, 2 minutes max. (8 points)
67. Design and publish an iphone or android app that sends you a message if you’re in danger of receiving a parking ticket on campus. (10 points)
68. Bar-roccoli Obama. Carve it. (5 points)
69. Photoshop the faces of the hunt coordinators in a conundrum. Bonus points for excessive flattery. (2 points)
70. Paint a portrait of a Feb in a snuggie. (7 points)
71. Capture the essence of Middlebury’s distribution requirements in a sculpture. (7 points)
72. Greg likes cake. Paul likes sandwiches. Design a hybrid. Submissions will be tasted Saturday morning at Old Stone Mill. Extra points if it cures a hangover. (10 points to the winner)
73. Miss Frizzle’s class photo. Hair colors must match. (4 points)
74. Post and document at least 5 warning signs on campus for unlikely-but-not-technically-impossible threats. (1 point per sign)
75. Draw a map of the ski trails on Chipman Hill, back when it was a ski mountain. (5 points)
76. Get Stephen Colbert to give Middlebury College the “Colbert Bump.” (25 points)
77. You are an alumnus looking to make a donation to the college. Design a panther habitat on campus. Schematic drawings required. (3 points)
78. A woodcut of a human-panther hybrid. (5 points)
79. Make something adorable out of cardboard. Must be larger than a loaf of bread. (3 points)
80. Design a spaceship that could successfully blast off from “Smog.” (4 points)
81. Find the least appealing job posting on the internet (cannot design post yourself). (2 points)
82. Best $5 buy on eBay. We need a screenshot of your winning bidding page to verify. (Up to 5 points)
83. Write and post the most flattering amazon.com product review possible. (3 points)
84. Learn and a recite a verse of a Hip-Hop song in Latin. (8 points)
85. Open a Netflix account. Just kidding. (0 points)
86. Get someone to tell you a story about Duke Nelson. (3 points)
87. Write a scathing book review of the Scarlet Letter. You must convince us that you have actually read the book…and that you’re not a witch. (5 points)
88. Demonstrate a natural defense mechanism that is worse than a fainting goat’s. (4 points)
89. Start a twitter account for your team. (1 point per 20 followers as of Saturday at 9 AM). Bonus points for humorous documentation of your team’s Hunt experience. (20 points max)
90. Submit a hunt question. Best question wins top points and is used next year. (7 points to winner)
91. List five historically accurate reasons that Middlebury College was more fun in 1912 than in 2012. (5 points)
92. Why the panther? Why blue? We don’t know either. Make something up. (2 points)
93. Jacqueline Novogratz was on the cover of Forbes last month. Were you? No. Come see her speak at Midd Thursday night at 7:30, she’s da illest. One point per team member who attends. Honor system. (up to 10 points)
94. Get an international student to teach you to cook something from their country. Bring us the finished product on judging day. (6 points)
95. Middlebury is all over the world, where should we be next? (1 point)
96. Demonstrate as many possible ways to unlock a door with your key card. (.5 points per method) +10 points if you can provide evidence of a successful ‘wallet toss unlock.’
97. What athletics facilities existed in McCullough Hall? There were three. (2 points)
98. Tell the story of the rocking chair in the field house. (1 point)
99. Stage a SOPA protest somewhere public! (7 points)
100. The most interesting man in the world circa 1950: National ski jumping champion and
WWII flying ace. Who was he and when did he graduate? (3 points)
101. How many total students have been enrolled for at least a semester at Middlebury
College since its founding? Only one person knows for sure, and he/she’s not gonna tell
you, so give us your best guess. Closest team wins (5 points).
102. What was the name of the chemistry honors society established in 1913? (2 points)
103. Find the baby mummy. At night. (7 points)
104. Find the best song by a One-Hit-Wonder that is not their one hit. (3 points)
105. Paranormal Activity 4. Painter Basement. (8 points)
106. Do a photo series dressed as Greek gods and goddesses (complete with props) conducting their daily lives about town. For instance, “Zeus grabs coffee at Carol’s!” or “Athena works out on the TAM!” (8 points for entire montage)
107. Find Champ – the mysterious monster of Lake Champlain (10 points for the real thing,
5 points for the best approximation)
108. Best reenactment of a civil war battle and/or a hudini escape. (6 points)
109. Build a Rube Goldberg machine that does something useful. (7 points)
110. Participate in the “Baby Pool Plunge” Tuesday at 4:15 PM on Battell Beach (3 points)
PRESIDENT’S QUESTION (Entries due Wednesday at 11:00pm) – Answer one of two (Best entry wins $200):
(1) Perform the first verse of the College alma mater in four part harmony, sing it 3 times, each time in one of the 10 languages the college offers in its summer Language Schools (that is, in three different languages; the Bread Loaf School of English does not count as one of the Language Schools in this case)
(2) Produce a computer generated map of the College’s Middlebury campus in 1960, 1990, and 2010, showing all academic, residential, and recreational buildings that are greater than 10,000 square feet in size.
COMMONS QUESTIONS –Best entry for each wins $100 -(possible winnings of $500 if team has best entry for every clue)
Atwater:
Make a one-of-a-kind sweater. Be creative. ($100)
Brainerd:
Make a 3D owl, the bigger the better, and place it around campus for all to see. Must have Brainerd written on it. Don’t forget to take a snapshot of it in its new nest. ($100)
Cook:
Who can make the most entertaining under 3 minute cooking show (brownie points for creativity, no pun intended)? Also, make sure to include a pig in some way, particularly a flying pig. ($100)
Wonnacott:
How is Wonny damaged and how would you fix him? ($100)
Ross:
Think you can Crank That? Know how to Dougie? Well, can you DANCE like Big Sean and Nicki Minaj? Create a 2 minute youtube video, featuring your entire group…oh AND ROCKY THE RHINO. (Keep it NC17 please) ($100)