Sorry, Julie, I don't have the original 'Ten Sexiest Men of Midwestern Quiz Bowl' around anymore, but I guess I could compile a new list on the fly: 10. Jeremy Horwitz of Stanford. Some of those dumb negs arouse a motherly instinct. 9. Patrick Friel of UCLA, who has cool pants. 8. Dwight Kidder, because he did damn well in that Minnesota Singles Tournament, and besides, he's funny. 7. That team from Imperial College, London that came to the first NAQT ICT. Damn, they were cute! Can we bring them back sometime? 6. Ken, Dave and Earl of BYU, 'cause they're cool and they write good packets with lots of questions about the Simpsons. 5. R. Robert Hentzel. We might not worship 'The Man' just because he looks like Jesus anymore, but we can still love him for writing good science questions and coming up with the 'Previously Answered Questions' franchise. If he knew what an EZ-Bake Oven was, he might have been ranked higher for his perfect game. Better luck next year, Rob. 4. Nick Meyer of UC-Berkeley. It's the hair, folks. If only he were an Australian mathematician, he might be ranked higher than... 3. Rory Molinari of Michigan -- I'll just jump on the bandwagon for everyone's favourite Australian mathematician. The cricket-playing lends a certain exotic air. 2. James Rogers of Johns Hopkins, who can play quiz bowl and, apparently, sing, (gotta love that!) and has read Infinite Jest. 1. Richard Mason of Caltech, because sometimes he lets me ride shotgun on quizbowl trips instead of getting squashed in the middle of the back seat because I'm the smallest, and because he has a lot of cool books, and he thought of the QuESADILLA acronym (which I think is a damn funny name for a tournament), and because he doesn't mind if I watch 'Felicity' when 'Frontline' is on, and because if he found out I ranked him less than first, he wouldn't take me to go see '10 Things I Hate About You' tonight.
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