ACCESS Pub Quiz at OSiM World

Safe as Milk - Thu, 18/09/2008 - 8:10am

Last night, “the Roaming Gnomes”, a team I put together, participated in the ACCESS pub quiz at OSiM World, organised by Lefty Schlesinger.

Lefty ran a Jeopardy-type quiz which was raucous, fun, energetic, competitive, and replete with a Windows Vista crash and a Flock bug. A bunch of teams had a go at questions in categories that included “Open source personalities”, “Comics and Movies”, “Mobile industry history”, “History of computing” and some general knowledge categories. And in the end, the best team won.Us! (Photos of the competition will follow later)

So here’s the role call of the Roaming Gnomes heros who helped bring the huge trophy to GNOME.

  • Dave Neary
  • Stormy Peters
  • Paul Cooper (a two-time winner!)
  • Alejandro, Alberto and Juanjo of Igalia
  • Thomas Jansson
  • Richard Rojfors
  • Heikki Paajaken
  • Bdale Garbee (our resident computing historian)
  • Jim Zemlin
  • Niels Breet (special mention for knowing the answer to which country has a wife-carrying race)

Congratulations to Lefty on running a very successful quiz - it was a good range of questions, and the rules change mid-game definitely contributed to the animation of the competition. And thanks once more to all the members of the team.