Re: He's done it again. 2/2

• From: darwins_bulldog1138
• Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 19:13:37 -0800
• Message-ID: <000T2M2V1.00043CVG6.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

>>Given that you allege theft, plagiarism,
and favoritism, a few more seem to be in order to
justify what you're
saying.<<

Agreed.

My own discoveries are the Credit Mobilier question
as posted, a question on Casey Kasem which was
lifted from Philly Experiment 2 and made its way into
the set which was sold to the 1998 Midlothian Holiday
Classic in which my team played and from which we bought
packets (the actual copy is in the GSGIS files in
Richmond, not in front of me here in Pittsburgh, but I can
have them verify that it is a verbatim steal), and a
Rubik's Cube question which was taken from a Perpetual
Motion IV packet and wound up on Twenty Questions. For
this one, I can provide full text from both
sources.

Question 9 from the April 2000 Twenty
Questions
>>Begin by standardizing notation - here, the symbols
generally used are U, D, R, L, F, and B. Next, choose a
color. Then, align the edge pieces so that the face with
the chosen color at its center now displays a "plus"
constructed from the color. After the edges are correct, move
the corner pieces such that one face shows only the
previously chosen color. This describes the beginning to the
solution of what eighties toy craze? <<

First
tossup of Iowa State's packet from Perpetual Motion
IV:

>>Begin by standardizing notation - here, the symbols
generally used are U, D, R, L, F, and B. Next, choose a
color. Then, align the edge pieces so that the face with
the chosen color at its center now displays a "plus"
constructed from the color. After the edges are correct, move
the corner pieces such that one face shows only the
previously chosen color. FTP, this describes the beginning
to the solution of what eighties toy
craze?<<

Someone else, who has not given me permission to post his
name but is welcome to come forward on this board,
found that both the Ares and regions of Transcaucasia
questions were also taken from packets on the Stanford
archive and provided documentation from the
archive.

-M.W.