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Re: The Mother Of All Bored History Quizzes!

#26 Post by SportsFan68 » Sat Nov 24, 2007 1:52 pm

OK, this is gonna take a while, and there's gonna be a LOT of guessing.

If I got it wrong, I guessed. If I got it right, I knew it. :wink:

Onward!

1. Who had the very first post in Bored history on the ABC Bored when it was recreated after a hacker attack on November 23, 1999?

A. 40love9236

2. Who had the very first post on the Love Boat when it was created on December 5, 2001?

B. Corn9977

3. Who had the very first post on the Ugly Bored when it was created on May 12, 2004?

A. themanintheseersuckersuit

4. On which of these temporary Boreds did Gary Love post the link to the new Bored he created for us?

B. Madigan Men

5. Which of these BB's created the GC on April 14, 2000 at E-Groups as a new home to BB's tired of the Nazi Bored monitor tactics and PC attacks?

A. MVLease

6. Which of these BB's created the Lifeboat on January 29, 2001 as a new home for BB's if the impending Go.com shutdown were to claim our Bored?

D. TomMitch2

7. Which of these BB's created the Phoenix Bored on July 6, 2001 as a place for BB's to get away from the Morlocks who were attacking?

B. Sir_Galahad

8. Which of these BB's created the Phoenix 2 Bored on April 20, 2003 as a place for extra storage space after the original Phoenix's file space and photo album became too cluttered?

D. littlebeast13

9. Which of these BB's coined the term Love Boat for our Gary love created Bored?

B. HF_Jai

10. Which of these BB's coined the term Ugly Bored for the new-format version of the Love Boat?

C. takinover

11. Which BB had the final post on the Love Boat when it was closed down on June 23, 2004?

B. themanintheseersuckersuit

12. Which BB had the final known post on the Ugly Bored when the plug was pulled on October 2, 2007?

D. SportsFan68 :D

13. Put the three major Boreds we occupied in order by the number of posts we made on each of them, starting with the most posts.

C. The Ugly Bored
B. The Love Boat
A. The PRoG

14. What did the acronym in our nickname for the ABC Bored, The PRoG, stand for?

People's Republic of Go

15. What was the exact text that followed "&room=" in the url of the PRoG?

26

16. What was the exact text that followed "&room=" in the url of the Love Boat?

26

17. What was our forumID number in the url of the Ugly Bored?

26

18. What was the name in the url of the interface which was unflatteringly referred to as "The Bumblebee Bored"?

A. abc

19. Which of these better interfaces was in popular use by most BB's until it switched to a horrendous red and yellow dominated background during Labor Day weekend of 2000?

B. go

20. As a result of this assault by the "Hot Dog Stand" Bored, which of these interfaces was recommended, which had that cool galaxy graphic above the message list?

C. money

21. Who discovered the tea interface on July 1, 2001?

C. BackInTex

22. Which of these Boreds was provided as the link when the above BB introduced us to the tea interface?

A. Madigan Men

23. When the tea interface was yanked out from under us on October 12, 2001, all that could be seen was a blank white screen with what two words printed at the top?

"Got lost, idiots."

Oops! That's three words.

I mean, "Under construction"

24. From who did we learn of the affiliate interfaces, which we were forced to after the death of tea?

A. The Morlocks

25. On October 18, 2001, who rescued us from the inferior affiliate interfaces with the discovery of the wnet interface?

D. littlebeast13

26. What Merry Man was the link to wnet posted under?

TPTB

27. Were it not for the brief foray onto the affiliate interfaces, Gary Love would not have noticed us and helped us out with the creation of the Love Boat. As it was, we were disallowed from using wnet or any of the old Go/ABC/Disney interfaces and were forced to use the affiliate interfaces to view the Love Boat after how long on our new Bored?

B. 3 months

28. Which of the affiliate interfaces was the last one standing with a full functioning message Bored format when the Ugly Bored went down on October 2, 2007?

D. KTRK

29. Things began to get screwy with the Bored on August 27, 2007 which was related to a problem with a lack of communication between two servers. Who was the first to diagnose the problem and start the use of BB's who were on Server A and Server B?

B. littlebeast13

30. Who coined the BB's who were located on Server A to be Hufflepuffs?

A. earendel100

31. Who coined the BB's who were located on Server B to be Ravenclaws?

A. LadySoleil
B. MarleysGh0st

It was Marley or LS. ..... I'll say A, Final Answer.

32. The BB's on which server had access to the search function?

Ravenclaw.

33. The BB's on which server were on the fast clock during the time warps that plagued the Bored from December 2000 to July 2001?

KTRK

34. What was the longest time warp gap, in minutes, which was acheived just before the problem was fixed on July 23, 2001?

It was either six or seven. I'll guess six.

35. Who hosted the first Question of the Day contest in July 2000?

C. pamjb

36. Who hosted the first Bored Game in December 2000?

B. Eyegor

37. Who hosted the first Timeline game in July 2001?

C. vandalrmc

38. Who hosted the first Gender Defender game in November 2001?

A. ScrabbleTed

39. Who hosted the first Lyrically Speaking in December 2001?

B. BeeMan521

40. Who hosted the first Seven Clues game on January 5, 2002?

C. SportsFan68 :D

41. Who ran the Question of the Night contest as Merry Man KaRl_FuN_rOvE in March 2002?

A. Booch

42. What was the answer to the very first Question of the Day game posted on July 1, 2000?

Jabberwocky

43. What was the answer to the very first Seven Clues game posted on January 5, 2002?

The St. Lawrence Seaway

44. Which two BB's squared off in the first ever Gender Defender game on November 19, 2001?

Sprots and Taurus

45. Which two BB's split hosting the first ever game of The Battle of the Sexes in January 2002?

Skoop and ............ Pea

46. Who came up with the original concept for Gender Defender, but never hosted the game?

Gotribego

47. Who came up with the original concept for Lyrically Speaking, though did not host its first edition?

TrainInVain

48. Who hosted the September 2002 QoD game, and decided to allow the top players from the previous month to each take a day to write the questions?

Pea

49. In May 2003, which BB hosted a game of Disney trivia?

A. rob_wilson

50. What is the most prodigious month in terms of number of posts in Bored history?

A. January 2001

51. What was the most prodigious posting day in Bored history?

A. January 23, 2001

52. How many posts were made on that record day?

B. 1595

53. What was the least prodigious day in Bored history?

B. December 27, 2003

54. How many posts were made on that record day?

B. 27

55. Who was the most prodigious poster on the PRoG?

B. Sir_Galahad

56. Who was the most prodigious poster on the Love Boat?

A. SportsFan68

57. Who was the most prodigious poster on the Ugly Bored?

C. MarleysGh0st


For each of the following old BB names, give the more well known handle they later used:

58. bigdrawman -- TwoEagleBDM

59. web5709 -- Eyegor

60. 1818reed -- MiniMeToo

61. bjh104 -- Jarnon

62. newtoyou -- OlderNow

63. davexprice -- PaleRider

64. nettlesl78 -- DebInGa

65. markster38 -- Ulysses


66. What was the name of the Bored's original Bored monitor?

ABC_Deb

67. What was the name of her replacement, whose tactics helped spur the move to the GC?

ABC_Lisa

68. What was the name of the Bored monitor who posted the warning about war dialing and the use of the PIN generator on May 17, 2001?

B. Erica

69. Which station's Bored monitor posted the message on the Love Boat of the link to the TUB on May 12, 2004?

D. WLS

70. Which station set up a WWTBAM Bored shortly after the death of the PRoG that we had discussed settling on, though fortunately stuck with the Love Boat?

D. WJRT

71. How far back did the Rot that occured nearly continuously from September 2001 through January 2004 delete past posts?

D. 120 days

72. Which of these BB's gave us behind the scenes insight into Kati Knudsen's infamous WWTBAM appearance?

D. jetsong401

73. Which BB introduced the Bored to Fukola cola on March 20, 2001?

C. hbomb1947

74. After Go disabled the link to poster profiles from the message list in August 2000, in what color did the names of posters on a person's Preferred list show up in?

Green

75. What color did the names of posters on a person's Ignored list show up in?

Gray

76. Which BB was the first to break the news of the first WWTBAM auditions for regular shows in the infamous "The party is over" thread?

A. Sir_Galahad

77. Name the seven cities this first round of auditions in the Fall of 2000 were held in.

Philadelphia
Denver
St. Louis
Chicago
San Diego
Albuquerque
New York

Match each of the following March 2001 audition cities to the city which held a WWTBAm audition at the same time:

78. New Orleans A. Chicago
79. Miami C. San Diego
80. Philadelphia B. Dallas

81. For each of the above pairs, identify which city had Sonny's AP team running the audition.

Chicago
Miami
Philadelphia

82. Which BB had all their previous posts deleted in April of 2000 for questioning the Bored monitor about her questionable deletions?

C. wrs1075

83. Which BB had their account frozen and all their previous posts deleted in September of 2000 after jokingly telling a newbie they'd have to pay him for entry to the GC?

A. Todd_Rundgren

84. The most famous account to get booched of course was that of booch1152. On the night of November 1, 2000 he posted 17 consecutive EOM's on which Go Bored?

D. Travel

85. Which milestone post was he attempting to get?

A. 10,000

86. Later that month, which BB got her account booched when, after being involved in a mini-flame debate, she tried to lighten the mood by talking about lingerie?

B. aussiegirl828

87. How many choices were available on the Go Bored poll feature?

10

88. Which BB hacked Go's poll feature in October 2000 to create a MegaPoll that allowed there to be up to 50 choices?

BiT

89. Which BB revamped the MegaPoll in April 2001 after the site the original MegaPoll feature was posted on was taken down?

LB

90. Who posted the first MegaPoll on October 8, 2000?

B. ScrabbleTed

91. What was the question asked in the first MegaPoll?

How many times will you audition to get on Millionare?

92. The first poll to include WGAS in Gastonia as the final choice was posted on December 31, 2000 by who?

LB

93. What was the station format of WGAS in Gastonia at the time it was discovered on November 15, 2000?

Adult contemporary

94. Which BB won the very first QoD contest held from July 1-14, 2000?

B. Killer_Tomato

95. Which BB was the first to massively overhaul the QoD during their reign in September 2000?

Skoop

96. Which BB did an even more radical overhaul of the game in April of 2001, which began a period of several months at which the QoD was at the height of its popularity?

Jarnon

97. Which BB was the first to award real prizes for order of finish in the final QoD standings?

ScrabbleTed

98. Which city was originally scheduled to hold a stealth audition on September 12, 2001?

Chicago

99. Which BB reported getting a call to be on the show in December 2001 shortly after Bixby returned with the news that the show was shutting down for the season?

C. Mo_Hillbilly

100. Who received the first flyer tipping us off to the new method of stealth auditions in June 2001?

B. hbomb1947

101. Who was the first BB to be called to appear in Syndicated WWTBAM on July 2, 2002?

A. Corn9977

102. Which BB started the legendary "Since We're Making Confession" thread on August 21, 2002?

D. two_eagle_bdm

103. Which BB coined the term Ring of Fire for the 10 finalist seats in the WWTBAM studio?

B. Eyegor

104. Which BB coined the term My Big Fat Fabulous Brain for the know-it-alls on the Bored?

C. Bixby17

105. In which BB's transcript thread was the above term coined?

SilverCamaro's

106. Which BB's misspelling coined the term "taping my watch" on December 19, 2000?

B. Im_Ace

107. What was the BB above impatiently waiting for when he coined the above term?

Posting of the QoD

108. Who was the first BB to ever receive double digit recommendations, which was given to their post made on May 12, 2000?

C. walhal

109. The post above made reference to a quirk in Go's message Bored code at the time that showed a false reccommendation when a post received ___ number of hits, and disappeared after a post made it to ___ hits.

50, 100

110. What was the exact title of the subject line of Post #94789, walhal's 646th and final post made on the night of August 29, 2000?

A word from the dumbbell
Goodbye from an idiot
Farewell from the idiot

Got it! One of the idiots speaks.

111. How many times (the number of 5-day call in periods, not number of individual days) were the phone lines open for the Phone Player Pool during its short life?

Three.

112. Which of the following BB's did not make it on the show in 2001 via the PPP?

B. gotribego26

113. Who broke the news of the rule change to the PPP on March 16, 2001?

A. ScrabbleTed

114. Which BB participated in the final Round 2 game ever held on March 28, 2001?

C. HoosierHoopster

115. Misplacing which music group in the final question cost the above BB a shot at going 5 for 5?

Flock of Seagulls

116. What was the handle used by a supposed WWTBAM insider who correctly predicted the date that the negative PC's would arrive from the first set of auditions in 2003, which was "Black Friday" July 25th?

......... Ugh! ABC_Insider.

117. Besides a gusgerbils PJ party, what was the main impetus behind the posting spike on what was termed Black Tuesday January 23, 2001?

The end of TOPG.

118. Who was the first BB to post the news of the real Black Tuesday on September 11, 2001?

Cal

119. Which BB was the first to respond to that initial 9/11 post, and did not post again for almost 6 years?

KidTejas

120. Which PC was the impetus behind the day dubbed Wacky Wednesday, June 21, 2000?

A. jamesbriangriffin

121. Which BB posted on December 12, 2002 that they had been chosen to appear on SyndieBAM, one day after they taped their episode?

C. lilyvonschtupp26

122. Who brought the term "nihil obstat" to the Bored on September 14, 2004?

C. earendel100

123. Which BB posted TUB message #40649 on August 5, 2004, the first known message that did not show up in threaded view on the new TUB message Bored format?

PSM

124. You couldn't say the words Lohstroh and Geisler on the TUB starting in the Spring of 2005 without the words getting censored, and eventually it would not accept the post at all. While there was never any need to post those words on the Bored, there were 2 other taboo names that were much more commonly come across. What woman's first name and common surname were similarly banned from usage?

Collins, Sandra

Below are a few famous drive-by posters. Briefly describe what they are best known for in their brief visit to the Bored:

125. Steve_Russillo -- Referred us to a Millionaire resource site

126. Cool_Eternity -- 33 g of s etc.

127. gotscrewed69 -- Said Millionaire was all fake.

128. FloridaPete37 -- Invited us all to visit.

129. Allentown7721 -- Said PA never got a fair chance at getting contestants on.

130. TVtrips_com -- Called us greedies.

131. SOX404Guru -- That's here -- said a bunch of really stupid stuff about women, Millionaire, risk assessment, games shows. Thank God and Greyhound he's gone.

132. Keyondoway07 -- I thought he was around more than briefly. Let's see ... I'll say he say in Seat 9.


133. What Bored glitch did you suffer from on the PRoG if you had Spock's Disease?

Vanishing posts

134. Who is Janet Krause?

C. The contestant sjcornman PAF'ed for

135. Who is Jeanie Rae O?

D. A Bored Monitor on the PRoG

136. Who is Meg Hurley?

A. The real name of gusgerbils

137. Who is Judy Bartoletti?

B. The person who started the famous Jipted thread

138. Which BB received a famous response from the Bored monitor mentioned in one of the questions above in September 2000 after a purge and string of deletions?

C. a1mamacat

139. Which BB started the Question Tag game in late July 2000?

B. Todd_Rundgren

140. Which BB started Fast Tag, which was inspired by Question Tag after its questions became so long and tedious that people quit playing?

B. Sir_Galahad

141. Although he didn't start it, which BB became the host of the famous PRoG thread "Here's a toughy" from the summer of 2000 until the Bored was taken down?

D. dougie_monty

142. Which BB added "the Iron Thread" onto the thread's subject line, which stuck for the rest of its Bored life?

A. littlebeast13

143. In February of 2001, due to a glitch caused by some deleted posts, the Iron Thread temporarily got steered out of its main thread and into the thread of a RIP for which famous celebrity?

Dale Earnhardt. I googled it -- I would never have remembered this on my own.

144. Who hosted a set of 5 FF questions on January 2, 2001, awarding prizes to the 5 BB's who answered each question the fastest?

C. ScrabbleTed

145. Four of the prizes in the game above were won by regular BB's. One prize was won by a newbie making his first post, Cyder_Jack. Cyder_Jack's next appearance was two weeks later, after he'd done what?

Been in the Hotseat and won a ton of money.

146. There were many BB's posting callbacks during the audition callback week in December 2000. Which BB reported the first call on December 11?

C. dr_amp

147. Which BB created the concept of the Bored Novel, and started the first story in November 2001?

C. vandalrmc

Below are the "plots" of the first four Bored Novels. Name the Bored Novel number that goes with each plot:

148. Phil Micklestein has an adventure to remember after getting tangled up with a woman named Naomi

2

149. Barry Runkel picks up Tracy Railsback while driving in his Camaro. Convolution ensues, and the former ends up kidnapping Pat Summerall

3

150. Miles Merryman buys a Hermillion watch and becomes a time traveller

4

151. Jacob Keyes and Lila Cole deal with the nefarious plan of Mayor Geezergut Bilco in Thermopolis

1


152. Which BB captured Post #50000 on the PRoG in April 2000 in a spirited pre-gusgerbils contest with the second of a double post?

B. footballguy17

153. Which BB captured Post #100000 on the PRoG on September 15, 2000 with the third of a series of posts in what was the first example of gusgerbils war-posting?

A. BackInTex

154. Which BB captured Posts #50000, 100000, and 500000 (Using the new format's numbering system) on the TUB?

B. 2121peacock

155. The first stealth auditions for a Primetime WWTBAM show, which was the Fathers Day 2001 edition, were held where?

Philadelphia

156. A Merry Man Arthur_King_of_the_Britons fired off a letter about what he (and most of the Bored) thought was an illegal practice by ABC in holding the above stealth auditions, and emailed it to ABC and which government agency?

The SEC.

157. On what grounds did he believe the auditions were unfair and illegal?

Not everyone got an equal chance to enter.

158. Which BB was not the first, but certainly sparked the biggest controversy, to challenge the ranting on MyBigFatFabulousBrain by posting that "You've Gone To Far!" on October 13, 2006?

C. greyhound_dude

159. Prior to SportsFan68 taking over the all time posting lead in February 2002, which BB held the number 1 spot in the rankings?

A. Sir_Galahad

I should have answered each of these questions separately . . . that would keep me at the top spot. :D

160. Which of these BB's never held the top spot in the rankings at any time since the first edition was posted on March 29, 2000?

B. Killer_Tomato

161. Which of these BB's was listed at the top of the very first rankings list posted on March 29, 2000?

C. astrnomr

162. How many BB's have posted at least 10,000 times in Bored history?

D. 37

163. Which BB went to the San Diego audition with a stuffed hamster in their pocket?

SamCat

164. What was the name of the horse Saucy took a tumble from in April 2001?

A. Julep

165. In an April Fool's joke on Steve Beverly's website, whom did he say was chosen to host the newly created Syndicated WWTBAM?

Donald Trump

Below are some acronyms that have appeared on the Bored throughout its history. Name exactly what they stood for:

166. MAWG - Middle Aged White Guy

167. PRoG -- People's Republic of Go

168. ToC -- Tournament of Champions

169. GC -- Gated Community

170. PC (not postcard, the original definition) -- Poster Child

171. OTC -- On The Clock

172. APP -- Associate Producer Pinheads

173. ESST -- Eyegor's School of Spelin and Tpying

174. TMHBB -- The Most Hated Bored Buddy

175. TBOTS -- The Battle of the Sexes

176. MBFFB -- My Big Fat Fabulous Brain

177. MMFF -- Marry Me, Fly Free


178. The gusgerbils Post #456789 on the Love Boat was picked up by the BBTranscriptTeam. It was the transcript of whch memorable contestant?

B. He was a cart pusher at a supermarket

179. ScrabbleTed began most mornings in the Dry Rot era (when posts were being slowly and randomly deleted from months back in Bored history) by putting the title of which song in the subject line of his first post?

Sail Away

180. Which BB has the honor of having the longest existing post in Bored history?

B. themanintheseersuckersuit

Holy cow, you shoulda put Wintergreen as a distractor. I'll guess an attorney.

181. When Eyegor announced he was giving up posting the rankings, which BB volunteered first to take over the task?

C. TheCalvinator24

182. After the BB above gave up the task after a few weeks, I took over the job and have had it ever since. What Bored history event occurred on the same day that I posted my first rankings edition?

D. The Great Purge wiped out 7 months worth of past posts

183. A post by which BB during the early morning hours of June 1, 2001 launched the infamous "Thread that would not die"?

C. okiepat2000

184. The post above had several observations that BB had picked up from a conversation with the AP's at the audition he was at, which was part of the last pair of auditions from the legendary 2001 Spring run. Which city was it in?

Denver

185. What was the other city to hold one of these final old-style auditions?

Albuquerque

186. Which BB threw together the PIN generator, a device able to call on multiple lines at the same time, which for several weeks in the late stages of the Spring auditions helped many BB's easily get PINs?

D. ScrabbleTed

187. Which "cursed" RoF seat was populated by the likes of AlphaDummy, tubadave, and yours truly?

Seat 9

188. Which QoD Meister posted his QoD containing the answer to earendel's $125,000 question he missed on the show on the same day he taped that show?

C. Todd_Rundgren

Ouch! You couldn't ask the answer, which was abscission. I'll guess again.

189. Which BB brought the addictive internet game Marbles to the Bored's attention in May of 2001?

B. ShamelessWeasel

I was hoping this would come up.

190. Which song's title would the above BB post in a reply each time a BB admitted they were getting addicted to the game?

I'm Laughing.

191. The Bored for which defunct ABC show was "hijacked" as a place for posting Marbles scores?

D. Bob Patterson

192. Which BB appeared in the intro to the short-lived game show You Don't Know Jack, as part of the background when Paul Reubens did a promo with Regis on WWTBAM?

C. ShamelessWeasel

193. On which soap opera's Bored did I post the link to the go interface, teh results of which I cross-posted here and caused a mini invasion by some of us of their Bored?

C. General Hospital

194. What did the jamesbriangriffin alter-ego ClaxtonTigers say his first name was?

Idiot.

195. What was artinma's main job on the PRoG?

Posting the transcripts. I still miss him and wish him well.

196. Which BB took over the Gusgerbils list during the last year of the Love Boat after I gave up keeping track due to the many repetetive winners and MM's trying to get milestones?

D. pcmaxey

197. HoosierHoopster's Round 2 try in July of 2000 was a failure due to his lack of knowledge of which TV show?

D. Murphy Brown

198. robertl30 came to the Bored for his short, but memorable stint to prepare as a PaF for which BB contestant?

B. ShamelessWeasel

They were buddies. Still are, I assume. He left in a Huff with Helga. Somebody insulted him, I think.

199. Which BB appeared in the Hot Seat back to back with their spouse in 2003?

RobWilson and MsCheesecake.

200. Which BB appeared in this year's World Series of Poker?

BobJuch

201. Which BB appeared in the first paragraph of the New York Times story on the Bored last October?

Skoop

Below are some BB handles from Bored history which are missing their trailing numbers. Give the numbers that appeared at the end of each BB's Bored ID:

202. HoltDad414

203. etaoin22

204. mwstevens77

205. Tocqueville56

206. CynCty82

207. love (as in Gary Love)99

208. TomL30

209. slam77

210. Reeg2001

211. okiebroker2007

212. Mellowmom80

213. LLMax50


214. Which BB won WWTBAM's AOL ATA contest in 2004?

BobJuch

215. Which BB's WWTBAM appearance story they posted was titled "Better Late Than Never"?

If I think about this long enough, I'll probably get it. I'll guess PSM.

216. What was the significance of that title to their story?

Because she got a bad question and had to wait until after the break to get her makeup Q and post about it.

217. Which one of jamesbriangriffin's alter-ego's was busted for cheating in the Question of the Day contest on November 13, 2000?

C. Uniplatinum

218. Which BB did the above PC copy his answer off of?

B. Sir_Galahad -- typo and all.

219. When SyndieBAM debuted on September 16, 2002, which BB gave the first review of the show?

A. silvercamaro

220. Under what MM handle (since he was Booched at the time) did RevDodd first post of "toffee and chreads"?

RegisMinion

221. Put the following classes in order of their respective eras, starting with the earliest.

C. Old Class
B. New Class
D. Verbose Class
A. Morose Class

222. Who was the first Merry Man to post in the First Annual Merry Men parade on November 21, 2001?

B. AmericasCupWinnerTigerWoods

223. Which BB introduced us to the ESPN profiles link in December 2000 that gave the real name that was registered with each handle?

B. TomMitch2 -- I promptly went home and changed all my real names to JeanLuc.

224. The BB above revealed this tool after he was chastised for revealing the real identity of which handle?

C. Boris_Godunov

225. The profile tool was used to our advantage during the Morlock invasion in July 2001, but it was modified by Go after it was slipped to the Morlocks by which Merry Man?

A. FordPrefect982

226. Which number in the official rules for PT WWTBAM dealt with the Future Player Pool (which, to the best of anyone' knowledge, was never invoked), which basically gave TPTB the opportunity to randomly select past R1 qualifiers to play in a specially set-up Round 2?

15.

227. Which BB was involved in a Round 2 screwup in December of 2000 in which they were given the wrong phone number to call for their Round 2 game?

D. AlphaDummy

228. Which BB was NOT called to appear on Super Millionaire in May of 2004?

A. mikehardware

229. Which famous person was shocked and aghast to find out that he had a "doppelganger" on this Bored, which was of course just someone's Merry Man, and posted about his fake on his blog on June 29, 2005?

The Manolo -- he was a very good sport about it after he found out it was all in good fun.

230. Which BB's son received an email from Ken Jennings just prior to him starting his legendary 74 episode run on Jeopardy! in 2004?

I'll guess RJSeveralNumbers.

231. What did I list as the #1 event in Bored history when I posted my first Top 100 list on November 23, 2001?

C. The move towards auditions

232. What did I list as the #1 event in Bored history when I updated my Top 100 list for the Bored's 5th anniversary in 2004?

A. Creation of the Love Boat

Seven Clues was mired in mediocrity. Thanks for the mention, though. :wink:

233. The first on-Bored PAF demonstration (The Go Bored, not the GC) occured on January 11, 2001 when which BB successfully PAF'ed for John9826?

B. ScrabbleTed

234. On October 20, 2004, which BB was credited with making the Bored's one millionth post in history?

D. MarleysGh0st

235. Define Spock's Law as it pertained to the old phone game?

If there's something on there you never heard of, put it as latest, because it's probably some dumb pop culture thing you never heard of.

236. In February 2002, a major firestorm of a debate began over the effect of which game on the Bored's health?

Seven Clues -- it was very healthy.

237. Two months later, the same debate popped up about which newly created game?

Last Person Standing.

238. Which of these Booch-owned handles posted 809 times over a few days in late February 2002 in a protest over the debate mentioned in #236?

C. S_N_A_F_U -- She was MAD.

239. While about half of the millionaires in WWTBAM history have posted on the Bored at some point, how many of them have posted enough times (300+) to have made it into the rankings?

Ugh. Two.

240. Between artinma and the formation of the BBTranscriptTeam, which BB temporarily took over transcription duties for WWTBAM shows?

Skoop.

Define the following terms as they relate to the Bored and its community:

241. The EOS Bar & Grille -- That's where the Eternal Optimists hang out.

242. The Moratorium Lounge -- That's where you go when you don't want to participate in political discussions.

243. Three Hour Tour -- That's the time frame for when your OTC.

244. PJ Party -- Corn, ScrabbleTed, and I started these, and others too, don't be mad if I missed you, it was a long time ago. That's when a bunch of BBs are hanging around late at night and do Gus chases, post salacious material, make bad jokes, razz the singles about their love lifes (or lack thereof), etc. etc.

245. War Dialing -- Where a bunch of people call in to get PINs for one person.

246. Where Else/What Else? -- New York -- where all the contestants seem to come from these days.


247. Which BB created a series of ordered lists in late 2000 to help out in answering phone game and early audition test FF type questions?

I'll guess Luvtojog, but I really don't remember.

248. What is the title of the novel vandalrmc began writing 2 years ago?

It's a mystery -- can't think of it. I'll guess The Secret of the Old Clock. Sorry, Vandal.

249. On the first night of the PPP, April 15, 2001, what glitch hampered the attempts of most callers to answer all 5 questions correctly?

The fact that you got about 5 seconds per question.

250. RDelo5 (later nestle79) claimed in the subject line of his posts that which actress had no left breast?

Gwyneth Paltrow.

251. What two words were were in each of the above poster's posts

Get lost, idiot. Oops, that's three words.

I'll guess Hello from

252. Which BB had strange troubles in January 2001 with some of his posts being attributed to the name d00d00?

C. skypilate

253. What sport was contained in the question that brought a premature end to walhal's Hot Seat appearance?

Volleyball.
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#27 Post by peacock2121 » Sat Nov 24, 2007 3:35 pm

51. What was the most prodigious posting day in Bored history?

C. February 22, 2002


52. How many posts were made on that record day?

C. 1729


53. What was the least prodigious day in Bored history?

D. April 22, 2007

54. How many posts were made on that record day?

A. 14

55. Who was the most prodigious poster on the PRoG?

A. SportsFan68

56. Who was the most prodigious poster on the Love Boat?

C. MarleysGh0st

57. Who was the most prodigious poster on the Ugly Bored?

D. silvercamaro


For each of the following old BB names, give the more well known handle they later used:

58. bigdrawman two_eagle_bdm

59. web5709 eyegor

60. 1818reed kidtejas

61. bjh104 flockofseagulls

62. newtoyou oldernow

63. davexprice palerider

64. nettlesl78 maninthesearsuckersuit

65. markster38 nope

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#28 Post by SportsFan68 » Sat Nov 24, 2007 5:06 pm

Curses! I KNEW 64!

Sorry, CorrectAnswerDude.
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#29 Post by eyégor » Sat Nov 24, 2007 7:16 pm

This was answered without the assistance of notebooks.

I am surprised at how much I've forgotten.
Spoiler
1. Who had the very first post in Bored history on the ABC Bored when it was recreated after a hacker attack on November 23, 1999?

A. 40love9236
B. MVLease
C. gusgerbils
D. helringer

2. Who had the very first post on the Love Boat when it was created on December 5, 2001?

A. tubadave
B. Corn9977
C. earendel100
D. Sir_Galahad

3. Who had the very first post on the Ugly Bored when it was created on May 12, 2004?

A. themanintheseersuckersuit
B. jtmattox
C. jarnon
D. RJS102254

4. On which of these temporary Boreds did Gary Love post the link to the new Bored he created for us?

A. The Colbys
B. Madigan Men
C. Travel
D. Astrology

5. Which of these BB's created the GC on April 14, 2000 at E-Groups as a new home to BB's tired of the Nazi Bored monitor tactics and PC attacks?

A. MVLease
B. Eyegor
C. Killer_Tomato
D. TomL30

6. Which of these BB's created the Lifeboat on January 29, 2001 as a new home for BB's if the impending Go.com shutdown were to claim our Bored?

A. DaveSenior
B. John9826
C. robertl30
D. TomMitch2

7. Which of these BB's created the Phoenix Bored on July 6, 2001 as a place for BB's to get away from the Morlocks who were attacking?

A. littlebeast13
B. Sir_Galahad
C. wild_bill_76
D. hbomb1947

8. Which of these BB's created the Phoenix 2 Bored on April 20, 2003 as a place for extra storage space after the original Phoenix's file space and photo album became too cluttered?

A. Ritterskoop
B. Linus_Tx
C. takinover
D. littlebeast13

9. Which of these BB's coined the term Love Boat for our Gary love created Bored?

A. kidtejas
B. HF_Jai
C. christie1111
D. deb_in_ga

10. Which of these BB's coined the term Ugly Bored for the new-format version of the Love Boat?

A. BackInTex
B. RJS102254
C. takinover
D. Eyegor

11. Which BB had the final post on the Love Boat when it was closed down on June 23, 2004?

A. Bob46187
B. themanintheseersuckersuit
C. 2121peacock
D. BackInTex

12. Which BB had the final known post on the Ugly Bored when the plug was pulled on October 2, 2007?

A. MarleysGh0st
B. BobJuch
C. gsn309
D. SportsFan68

13. Put the three major Boreds we occupied in order by the number of posts we made on each of them, starting with the most posts.
B. The Love Boat

A. The PRoG

C. The Ugly Bored

14. What did the acronym in our nickname for the ABC Bored, The PRoG, stand for?
People’s Republic of Go

15. What was the exact text that followed "&room=" in the url of the PRoG?
a_WHO_WANTS_TO_B

16. What was the exact text that followed "&room=" in the url of the Love Boat?
kabc_bored

17. What was our forumID number in the url of the Ugly Bored?

26

18. What was the name in the url of the interface which was unflatteringly referred to as "The Bumblebee Bored"?

A. abc
B. go
C. money
D. mrshowbiz

19. Which of these better interfaces was in popular use by most BB's until it switched to a horrendous red and yellow dominated background during Labor Day weekend of 2000?

A. abc
B. go
C. money
D. mrshowbiz

20. As a result of this assault by the "Hot Dog Stand" Bored, which of these interfaces was recommended, which had that cool galaxy graphic above the message list?

A. abc
B. go
C. money
D. mrshowbiz

21. Who discovered the tea interface on July 1, 2001?

A. hbomb1947
B. traininvain
C. BackInTex
D. takinover

22. Which of these Boreds was provided as the link when the above BB introduced us to the tea interface?

A. Madigan Men
B. Making the Band
C. General Hospital
D. The Cellar

23. When the tea interface was yanked out from under us on October 12, 2001, all that could be seen was a blank white screen with what two words printed at the top?
Not recognized?

24. From who did we learn of the affiliate interfaces, which we were forced to after the death of tea?

A. The Morlocks
B. Gary Love
C. The Bored Monitor
D. An unknown Merry Man

25. On October 18, 2001, who rescued us from the inferior affiliate interfaces with the discovery of the wnet interface?

A. Eyegor
B. TheCalvinator24
C. BackInTex
D. littlebeast13

26. What Merry Man was the link to wnet posted under?

27. Were it not for the brief foray onto the affiliate interfaces, Gary Love would not have noticed us and helped us out with the creation of the Love Boat. As it was, we were disallowed from using wnet or any of the old Go/ABC/Disney interfaces and were forced to use the affiliate interfaces to view the Love Boat after how long on our new Bored?

A. 1 month
B. 3 months
C. 6 months
D. 1 year

28. Which of the affiliate interfaces was the last one standing with a full functioning message Bored format when the Ugly Bored went down on October 2, 2007?

A. WPVI
B. KGO
C. WTVD
D. KTRK

29. Things began to get screwy with the Bored on August 27, 2007 which was related to a problem with a lack of communication between two servers. Who was the first to diagnose the problem and start the use of BB's who were on Server A and Server B?

A. 15QuestionsAway
B. littlebeast13
C. Eyegor
D. MarleysGh0st

30. Who coined the BB's who were located on Server A to be Hufflepuffs?

A. earendel100
B. Bob46187
C. Ritterskoop
D. PlacentiaSoccerMom

31. Who coined the BB's who were located on Server B to be Ravenclaws?

A. ladysoleil
B. MarleysGh0st
C. TheCalvinator24
D. BobJuch

32. The BB's on which server had access to the search function?
B

33. The BB's on which server were on the fast clock during the time warps that plagued the Bored from December 2000 to July 2001?
A

34. What was the longest time warp gap, in minutes, which was acheived just before the problem was fixed on July 23, 2001?
7 minutes

35. Who hosted the first Question of the Day contest in July 2000?

A. TankleToon
B. MMCJCL
C. pamjb
D. Catway

36. Who hosted the first Bored Game in December 2000?

A. littlebeast13
B. Eyegor
C. tubadave
D. Corn9977

37. Who hosted the first Timeline game in July 2001?

A. flockofseagulls104
B. adsarc
C. vandalrmc
D. ging5472

38. Who hosted the first Gender Defender game in November 2001?

A. ScrabbleTed
B. Sir_Galahad
C. TheCalvinator24
D. BeeMan521

39. Who hosted the first Lyrically Speaking in December 2001?

A. mrkelley23
B. BeeMan521
C. rubbersnail
D. otherindigo

40. Who hosted the first Seven Clues game on January 5, 2002?

A. gotribego26
B. Dr_J_427
C. SportsFan68
D. Ritterskoop

41. Who ran the Question of the Night contest as Merry Man KaRl_FuN_rOvE in March 2002?

A. Booch
B. mrkelley23
C. ScrabbleTed
D. wintergreen48

42. What was the answer to the very first Question of the Day game posted on July 1, 2000?

43. What was the answer to the very first Seven Clues game posted on January 5, 2002?

44. Which two BB's squared off in the first ever Gender Defender game on November 19, 2001?
Cal & Bix

45. Which two BB's split hosting the first ever game of The Battle of the Sexes in January 2002?

46. Who came up with the original concept for Gender Defender, but never hosted the game?
ScrabbleTed

47. Who came up with the original concept for Lyrically Speaking, though did not host its first edition?
Snail

48. Who hosted the September 2002 QoD game, and decided to allow the top players from the previous month to each take a day to write the questions?

49. In May 2003, which BB hosted a game of Disney trivia?

A. rob_wilson
B. Buffacuse
C. minimetoo26
D. Timsterino

50. What is the most prodigious month in terms of number of posts in Bored history?

A. January 2001
B. April 2001
C. May 2001
D. March 2002

51. What was the most prodigious posting day in Bored history?

A. January 23, 2001
B. March 23, 2001
C. February 22, 2002
D. April 1, 2002

52. How many posts were made on that record day?

A. 1342
B. 1595
C. 1729
D. 1781

53. What was the least prodigious day in Bored history?

A. July 22, 2001
B. December 27, 2003
C. May 13, 2006
D. April 22, 2007

54. How many posts were made on that record day?

A. 14
B. 27
C. 31
D. 35

55. Who was the most prodigious poster on the PRoG?

A. SportsFan68
B. Sir_Galahad
C. TheCalvinator24
D. hbomb1947

56. Who was the most prodigious poster on the Love Boat?

A. SportsFan68
B. PEACOCK2121
C. MarleysGh0st
D. Ritterskoop

57. Who was the most prodigious poster on the Ugly Bored?

A. SportsFan68
B. 2121peacock
C. MarleysGh0st
D. silvercamaro


For each of the following old BB names, give the more well known handle they later used:

58. bigdrawman two_eagle_bdm

59. web5709 Eyegor

60. 1818reed kidtejas

61. bjh104 flockofseagulls104

62. newtoyou oldernow

63. davexprice palerider

64. nettlesl78 suitdude

65. markster38 TheVillageIdiot


66. What was the name of the Bored's original Bored monitor?
ABC_Barbara

67. What was the name of her replacement, whose tactics helped spur the move to the GC?
ABC_Anne

68. What was the name of the Bored monitor who posted the warning about war dialing and the use of the PIN generator on May 17, 2001?

A. Jen
B. Erica
C. Melissa
D. Tina

69. Which station's Bored monitor posted the message on the Love Boat of the link to the TUB on May 12, 2004?

A. WTVD
B. KGO
C. WTVG
D. WLS

70. Which station set up a WWTBAM Bored shortly after the death of the PRoG that we had discussed settling on, though fortunately stuck with the Love Boat?

A. WPVI
B. WLS
C. WABC
D. WJRT

71. How far back did the Rot that occured nearly continuously from September 2001 through January 2004 delete past posts?

A. 30 days
B. 60 days
C. 90 days
D. 120 days

72. Which of these BB's gave us behind the scenes insight into Kati Knudsen's infamous WWTBAM appearance?

A. walhal
B. tubadave
C. sjcornman
D. jetsong401

73. Which BB introduced the Bored to Fukola cola on March 20, 2001?

A. TheCalvinator24
B. BackIntex
C. hbomb1947
D. megaaddict

74. After Go disabled the link to poster profiles from the message list in August 2000, in what color did the names of posters on a person's Preferred list show up in?
green (is good)

75. What color did the names of posters on a person's Ignored list show up in?
gray/grey

76. Which BB was the first to break the news of the first WWTBAM auditions for regular shows in the infamous "The party is over" thread?

A. Sir_Galahad
B. TomMitch2
C. MVLease
D. Killer_Tomato

77. Name the seven cities this first round of auditions in the Fall of 2000 were held in.
St Louis, New York, Chicago, Seattle


Match each of the following March 2001 audition cities to the city which held a WWTBAm audition at the same time:

78. New Orleans A Chicago
79. Miami C San Diego
80. Philadelphia B Dallas


81. For each of the above pairs, identify which city had Sonny's AP team running the audition.
Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia

82. Which BB had all their previous posts deleted in April of 2000 for questioning the Bored monitor about her questionable deletions?

A. Jayhawker536
B. LoriNY
C. wrs1075
D. dr_evil50

83. Which BB had their account frozen and all their previous posts deleted in September of 2000 after jokingly telling a newbie they'd have to pay him for entry to the GC?

A. Todd_Rundgren
B. Sir_Galahad
C. macemace48
D. traininvain

84. The most famous account to get booched of course was that of booch1152. On the night of November 1, 2000 he posted 17 consecutive EOM's on which Go Bored?

A. Astrology
B. Dating
C. Pets
D. Travel

85. Which milestone post was he attempting to get?

A. 10,000
B. 20,000
C. 40,000
D. 80,000

86. Later that month, which BB got her account booched when, after being involved in a mini-flame debate, she tried to lighten the mood by talking about lingerie?

A. samcat23
B. aussiegirl828
C. WANNABE82 n.b the debate was with me
D. Corn9977

87. How many choices were available on the Go Bored poll feature?
7

88. Which BB hacked Go's poll feature in October 2000 to create a MegaPoll that allowed there to be up to 50 choices?
BiT

89. Which BB revamped the MegaPoll in April 2001 after the site the original MegaPoll feature was posted on was taken down?
TR

90. Who posted the first MegaPoll on October 8, 2000?

A. TomMitch2
B. ScrabbleTed
C. macemace48
D. Todd_Rundgren

91. What was the question asked in the first MegaPoll?

92. The first poll to include WGAS in Gastonia as the final choice was posted on December 31, 2000 by who?
Whom
lb13

93. What was the station format of WGAS in Gastonia at the time it was discovered on November 15, 2000?
Religious

94. Which BB won the very first QoD contest held from July 1-14, 2000?

A. Catway
B. Killer_Tomato
C. TankleToon
D. boof8888

95. Which BB was the first to massively overhaul the QoD during their reign in September 2000?
TR

96. Which BB did an even more radical overhaul of the game in April of 2001, which began a period of several months at which the QoD was at the height of its popularity?
Robertl30

97. Which BB was the first to award real prizes for order of finish in the final QoD standings?
KT

98. Which city was originally scheduled to hold a stealth audition on September 12, 2001?
Boston The same day I had reservations at the WTC Marriott

99. Which BB reported getting a call to be on the show in December 2001 shortly after Bixby returned with the news that the show was shutting down for the season?

A. cbgorbett
B. lulu5123
C. Mo_Hillbilly
D. lilclyde's Baboo

100. Who received the first flyer tipping us off to the new method of stealth auditions in June 2001?

A. BobJuch
B. hbomb1947
C. jac070
D. traininvain

101. Who was the first BB to be called to appear in Syndicated WWTBAM on July 2, 2002?

A. Corn9977
B. taurus4848
C. peter5858
D. lilyvonschtupp26

102. Which BB started the legendary "Since We're Making Confession" thread on August 21, 2002?

A. Ritterskoop
B. PEACOCK2121
C. NE1410S
D. two_eagle_bdm

103. Which BB coined the term Ring of Fire for the 10 finalist seats in the WWTBAM studio?

A. MVLease
B. Eyegor
C. Killer_Tomato
D. TomMitch2

104. Which BB coined the term My Big Fat Fabulous Brain for the know-it-alls on the Bored?

A. DevilKitty100
B. silvercamaro
C. Bixby17
D. marrymeflyfree

105. In which BB's transcript thread was the above term coined?

106. Which BB's misspelling coined the term "taping my watch" on December 19, 2000?

A. ScrabbleTed
B. Im_Ace
C. Eyegor
D. TheCalvinator24

107. What was the BB above impatiently waiting for when he coined the above term?
QOD

108. Who was the first BB to ever receive double digit recommendations, which was given to their post made on May 12, 2000?

A. Jayhawker536
B. MVLease
C. walhal
D. jerr87

109. The post above made reference to a quirk in Go's message Bored code at the time that showed a false reccommendation when a post received 2 number of hits, and disappeared after a post made it to 9 hits.

110. What was the exact title of the subject line of Post #94789, walhal's 646th and final post made on the night of August 29, 2000?
One of the Idiots Speaks

111. How many times (the number of 5-day call in periods, not number of individual days) were the phone lines open for the Phone Player Pool during its short life?
2

112. Which of the following BB's did not make it on the show in 2001 via the PPP?

A. andrewjackson
B. gotribego26
C. kidtejas
D. rob_wilson

113. Who broke the news of the rule change to the PPP on March 16, 2001?

A. ScrabbleTed
B. hbomb1947
C. rhoadsc
D. kidtejas

114. Which BB participated in the final Round 2 game ever held on March 28, 2001?

A. bjh104
B. hbomb1947
C. HoosierHoopster
D. Sir_Galahad

115. Misplacing which music group in the final question cost the above BB a shot at going 5 for 5?
O Town

116. What was the handle used by a supposed WWTBAM insider who correctly predicted the date that the negative PC's would arrive from the first set of auditions in 2003, which was "Black Friday" July 25th?

117. Besides a gusgerbils PJ party, what was the main impetus behind the posting spike on what was termed Black Tuesday January 23, 2001?
Phones locked almost everyone out

118. Who was the first BB to post the news of the real Black Tuesday on September 11, 2001?

119. Which BB was the first to respond to that initial 9/11 post, and did not post again for almost 6 years?
BeetleManiac

120. Which PC was the impetus behind the day dubbed Wacky Wednesday, June 21, 2000?

A. jamesbriangriffin
B. teebee54
C. Hellpuzzy
D. Steve Russillo

121. Which BB posted on December 12, 2002 that they had been chosen to appear on SyndieBAM, one day after they taped their episode?

A. Amazonium
B. NE1410S
C. lilyvonschtupp26
D. takinover

122. Who brought the term "nihil obstat" to the Bored on September 14, 2004?

A. MarleysGh0st
B. Kazoo59
C. earendel100
D. NellyLunatic1980

123. Which BB posted TUB message #40649 on August 5, 2004, the first known message that did not show up in threaded view on the new TUB message Bored format?
Jeemie

124. You couldn't say the words Lohstroh and Geisler on the TUB starting in the Spring of 2005 without the words getting censored, and eventually it would not accept the post at all. While there was never any need to post those words on the Bored, there were 2 other taboo names that were much more commonly come across. What woman's first name and common surname were similarly banned from usage?
Collins, ?


Below are a few famous drive-by posters. Briefly describe what they are best known for in their brief visit to the Bored:

125. Steve_Russillo = tried to get R2 answers before time expired

126. Cool_Eternity Something to do with Sir G

127. gotscrewed69

128. FloridaPete37 Sonny loves us more

129. Allentown7721 ”There’s an angry MAWG in Allentown”

130. TVtrips_com

131. SOX404Guru

132. Keyondoway07


133. What Bored glitch did you suffer from on the PRoG if you had Spock's Disease?

134. Who is Janet Krause?

A. The real name of gusgerbils
B. The person who started the famous Jipted thread
C. The contestant sjcornman PAF'ed for
D. A Bored Monitor on the PRoG

135. Who is Jeanie Rae O?

A. The real name of gusgerbils
B. The person who started the famous Jipted thread
C. The contestant sjcornman PAF'ed for
D. A Bored Monitor on the PRoG

136. Who is Meg Hurley?

A. The real name of gusgerbils
B. The person who started the famous Jipted thread
C. The contestant sjcornman PAF'ed for
D. A Bored Monitor on the PRoG

137. Who is Judy Bartoletti?

A. The real name of gusgerbils
B. The person who started the famous Jipted thread
C. The contestant sjcornman PAF'ed for Judybart4044
D. A Bored Monitor on the PRoG

138. Which BB received a famous response from the Bored monitor mentioned in one of the questions above in September 2000 after a purge and string of deletions?

A. tgirl78
B. gailmail5
C. a1mamacat
D. samcat23

139. Which BB started the Question Tag game in late July 2000?

A. Killer_Tomato
B. Todd_Rundgren
C. macemace48
D. walhal

140. Which BB started Fast Tag, which was inspired by Question Tag after its questions became so long and tedious that people quit playing?

A. ndsuspock
B. Sir_Galahad
C. TankleToon
D. pamjb

141. Although he didn't start it, which BB became the host of the famous PRoG thread "Here's a toughy" from the summer of 2000 until the Bored was taken down?

A. Exeter571
B. adsarc
C. HoosierHoopster
D. dougie_monty

142. Which BB added "the Iron Thread" onto the thread's subject line, which stuck for the rest of its Bored life?

A. littlebeast13
B. Im_Ace
C. BackInTex
D. ndsuspock

143. In February of 2001, due to a glitch caused by some deleted posts, the Iron Thread temporarily got steered out of its main thread and into the thread of a RIP for which famous celebrity?

144. Who hosted a set of 5 FF questions on January 2, 2001, awarding prizes to the 5 BB's who answered each question the fastest?

A. Sir_Galahad
B. Killer_Tomato
C. ScrabbleTed
D. Im_Ace

145. Four of the prizes in the game above were won by regular BB's. One prize was won by a newbie making his first post, Cyder_Jack. Cyder_Jack's next appearance was two weeks later, after he'd done what?
Appeared on WWTBAM

146. There were many BB's posting callbacks during the audition callback week in December 2000. Which BB reported the first call on December 11?

A. aussiegirl828
B. macsdaddy1967
C. dr_amp
D. attyLP

147. Which BB created the concept of the Bored Novel, and started the first story in November 2001?

A. ging5472
B. kidtejas
C. vandalrmc
D. Ritterskoop


Below are the "plots" of the first four Bored Novels. Name the Bored Novel number that goes with each plot:

148. Phil Micklestein has an adventure to remember after getting tangled up with a woman named Naomi II

149. Barry Runkel picks up Tracy Railsback while driving in his Camaro. Convolution ensues, and the former ends up kidnapping Pat Summerall I

150. Miles Merryman buys a Hermillion watch and becomes a time traveller III

151. Jacob Keyes and Lila Cole deal with the nefarious plan of Mayor Geezergut Bilco in Thermopolis IV


152. Which BB captured Post #50000 on the PRoG in April 2000 in a spirited pre-gusgerbils contest with the second of a double post?

A. Todd_Rundgren
B. footballguy17
C. SportsFan68
D. llama_master

153. Which BB captured Post #100000 on the PRoG on September 15, 2000 with the third of a series of posts in what was the first example of gusgerbils war-posting?

A. BackInTex
B. ScrabbleTed
C. SportsFan68
D. HoosierHoopster

154. Which BB captured Posts #50000, 100000, and 500000 (Using the new format's numbering system) on the TUB?

A. Ritterskoop
B. 2121peacock
C. SportsFan68
D. silvercamaro

155. The first stealth auditions for a Primetime WWTBAM show, which was the Fathers Day 2001 edition, were held where?

156. A Merry Man Arthur_King_of_the_Britons fired off a letter about what he (and most of the Bored) thought was an illegal practice by ABC in holding the above stealth auditions, and emailed it to ABC and which government agency?

157. On what grounds did he believe the auditions were unfair and illegal?

158. Which BB was not the first, but certainly sparked the biggest controversy, to challenge the ranting on MyBigFatFabulousBrain by posting that "You've Gone To Far!" on October 13, 2006?

A. lov2dish
B. auditioneer
C. greyhound_dude
D. centflaparrothead

159. Prior to SportsFan68 taking over the all time posting lead in February 2002, which BB held the number 1 spot in the rankings?

A. Sir_Galahad
B. Todd_Rundgren
C. TheCalvinator24
D. wild_bill_76

160. Which of these BB's never held the top spot in the rankings at any time since the first edition was posted on March 29, 2000?

A. Sir_Galahad
B. Killer_Tomato
C. Todd_Rundgren
D. hbomb1947

161. Which of these BB's was listed at the top of the very first rankings list posted on March 29, 2000?

A. jmcachran
B. SLK03
C. astrnomr
D. bbking52

162. How many BB's have posted at least 10,000 times in Bored history?

A. 29
B. 32
C. 34
D. 37

163. Which BB went to the San Diego audition with a stuffed hamster in their pocket?
Sir G

164. What was the name of the horse Saucy took a tumble from in April 2001?

A. Julep
B. Sonny
C. Jamie
D. Saucy

165. In an April Fool's joke on Steve Beverly's website, who did he say was chosen to host the newly created Syndicated WWTBAM?


Below are some acronyms that have appeared on the Bored throughout its history. Name exactly what they stood for:

166. MAWG Middle Aged White Guy

167. PRoG Peoples Republic of Go

168. ToC Tournament of Champions

169. GCGated Community

170 PC (not postcard, the original definition) Poster Child

171. OTC On The Clock

172. APP Auditioner Player Pool

173. ESST Eyegor’s Skool of Spelin & Tpying

174. TMHBB The Most Hated Bored Buddy

175. TBOTS The Battle of the Sexes

176. MBFFB My Big Fat Fabulous Brain

177. MMFF Marry Me Fly Free


178. The gusgerbils Post #456789 on the Love Boat was picked up by the BBTranscriptTeam. It was the transcript of whch memorable contestant?

A. His PAF had 9 college degrees
B. He was a cart pusher at a supermarket
C. He was billed as the Unknown Contestant
D. He falsely claimed to be a doctor on his audition application

179. ScrabbleTed began most mornings in the Dry Rot era (when posts were being slowly and randomly deleted from months back in Bored history) by putting the title of which song in the subject line of his first post?

180. Which BB has the honor of having the longest existing post in Bored history?

A. Corn9977
B. themanintheseersuckersuit
C. jtmattox
D. JaypunkRawk

181. When Eyegor announced he was giving up posting the rankings, which BB volunteered first to take over the task?

A. wild_bill_76
B. earendel100
C. TheCalvinator24
D. ShamelessWeasel

182. After the BB above gave up the task after a few weeks, I took over the job and have had it ever since. What Bored history event occured on the same day that I posted my first rankings edition?

A. The PRoG was axed
B. The Spring 2001 auditions were announced
C. The Morlock invasion began
D. The Great Purge wiped out 7 months worth of past posts

183. A post by which BB during the early morning hours of June 1, 2001 launched the infamous "Thread that would not die"?

A. BeetleManiac
B. otherindigo
C. okiepat2000
D. hbomb1947

184. The post above had several observations that BB had picked up from a conversation with the AP's at the audition he was at, which was part of the last pair of auditions from the legendary 2001 Spring run. Which city was it in?
Oklahoma City

185. What was the other city to hold one of these final old-style auditions?
Memphis

186. Which BB threw together the PIN generator, a device able to call on multiple lines at the same time, which for several weeks in the late stages of the Spring auditions helped many BB's easily get PINs?

A. robertl30
B. 1DrunkenIdiot
C. RevDodd
D. ScrabbleTed

187. Which "cursed" RoF seat was populated by the likes of AlphaDummy, tubadave, and yours truly?
#9

188. Which QoD Meister posted his QoD containing the answer to earendel's $125,000 question he missed on the show on the same day he taped that show?

A. ScrabbleTed
B. tubadave
C. Todd_Rundgren
D. TheCalvinator24

189. Which BB brought the addictive internet game Marbles to the Bored's attention in May of 2001?

A. okiepat2000
B. ShamelessWeasel
C. hbomb1947
D. kidtejas

190. Which song's title would the above BB post in a reply each time a BB admitted they were getting addicted to the game?

191. The Bored for which defunct ABC show was "hijacked" as a place for posting Marbles scores?

A. The Hughleys
B. Madigan Men
C. You Don't Know Jack
D. Bob Patterson

192. Which BB appeared in the intro to the short-lived game show You Don't Know Jack, as part of the background when Paul Reubens did a promo with Regis on WWTBAM?

A. John9826
B. AlphaDummy
C. ShamelessWeasel
D. vails11

193. On which soap opera's Bored did I post the link to the go interface, teh results of which I cross-posted here and caused a mini invasion by some of us of their Bored?

A. One Life To Live
B. All My Children
C. General Hospital

194. What did the jamesbriangriffin alter-ego ClaxtonTigers say his first name was?
Jimmmy

195. What was artinma's main job on the PRoG?
Transcriptionist

196. Which BB took over the Gusgerbils list during the last year of the Love Boat after I gave up keeping track due to the many repetetive winners and MM's trying to get milestones?

A. TheCalvinator24
B. RJS102254
C. BackInTex
D. pcmaxey

197. HoosierHoopster's Round 2 try in July of 2000 was a failure due to his lack of knowledge of which TV show?

A. Suddenly Susan
B. Airwolf - HEE!
C. Moesha
D. Murphy Brown

198. robertl30 came to the Bored for his short, but memorable stint to prepare as a PaF for which BB contestant?

A. vails11
B. ShamelessWeasel
C. John9826
D. TheCalvinator24

199. Which BB appeared in the Hot Seat back to back with their spouse in 2003?

200. Which BB appeared in this year's World Series of Poker?
flock

201. Which BB appeared in the first paragraph of the New York Times story on the Bored last October?


Below are some BB handles from Bored history which are missing their trailing numbers. Give the numbers that appeared at the end of each BB's Bored ID:

202. HoltDad 414

203. etaoin 22

204. mwstevens

205. Tocqueville 3

206. CynCty 66

207. love (as in Gary Love) 9444

208. TomL 30

209. slam 1717

210. Reeg 2223

211. okiebroker

212. Mellowmom 50

213. LLMax 00


214. Which BB won WWTBAM's AOL ATA contest in 2004?
BobJuch

215. Which BB's WWTBAM appearance story they posted was titled "Better Late Than Never"?

216. What was the significance of that title to their story?

217. Which one of jamesbriangriffin's alter-ego's was busted for cheating in the Question of the Day contest on November 13, 2000?

A. ClaxtonTigers
B. unstabler
C. Uniplatinum
D. Couch_Potato24

218. Which BB did the above PC copy his answer off of?

A. littlebeast13
B. Sir_Galahad
C. ndsuspock
D. earendel100

219. When SyndieBAM debuted on September 16, 2002, which BB gave the first review of the show?

A. silvercamaro
B. PEACOCK2121
C. kayrharris
D. minimetoo26

220. Under what MM handle (since he was Booched at the time) did RevDodd first post of "toffee and chreads"?
DevRodd

221. Put the following classes in order of their respective eras, starting with the earliest.

A. Morose Class
B. New Class
C. Old Class
D. Verbose Class
CBDA

222. Who was the first Merry Man to post in the First Annual Merry Men parade on November 21, 2001?

A. Barney_Texas_Fife
B. AmericasCupWinnerTigerWoods
C. Prof_Roy_Hinkley
D. Nine_Horizontal_Rows_Of_Stars

223. Which BB introduced us to the ESPN profiles link in December 2000 that gave the real name that was registered with each handle?

A. ScrabbleTed
B. TomMitch2
C. Todd_Rundgren
D. takinover

224. The BB above revealed this tool after he was chastised for revealing the real identity of which handle?

A. the_civil_tongue
B. ImWaiting
C. Boris_Godunov
D. lookingforspace

225. The profile tool was used to our advantage during the Morlock invasion in July 2001, but it was modified by Go after it was slipped to the Morlocks by which Merry Man?

A. FordPrefect982
B. dog_sisiger
C. Im_Jack
D. buyerbeware

226. Which number in the official rules for PT WWTBAM dealt with the Future Player Pool (which, to the best of anyone' knowledge, was never invoked), which basically gave TPTB the opportunity to randomly select past R1 qualifiers to play in a specially set-up Round 2?
#8

227. Which BB was involved in a Round 2 screwup in December of 2000 in which they were given the wrong phone number to call for their Round 2 game?

A. bigdrawman
B. tubadave
C. earendel100
D. AlphaDummy

228. Which BB was NOT called to appear on Super Millionaire in May of 2004?

A. mikehardware
B. jarnon
C. jtmattox
D. sfbazodee

229. Which famous person was shocked and aghast to find out that he had a "doppelganger" on this Bored, which was of course just someone's Merry Man, and posted about his fake on his blog on June 29, 2005?

The Manolo

230. Which BB's son received an email from Ken Jennings just prior to him starting his legendary 74 episode run on Jeopardy! in 2004?

231. What did I list as the #1 event in Bored history when I posted my first Top 100 list on November 23, 2001?

A. The Morlock Invasion
B. Walhal's appearance and lesson
C. The move towards auditions
D. Creation of the GC

232. What did I list as the #1 event in Bored history when I updated my Top 100 list for the Bored's 5th anniversary in 2004?

A. Creation of the Love Boat
B. Beginning of SyndieBAM
C. Marley's happy postcard
D. The beginning of Seven Clues

233. The first on-Bored PAF demonstration (The Go Bored, not the GC) occurred on January 11, 2001 when which BB successfully PAF'ed for John9826?

A. Bob46187
B. ScrabbleTed
C. Killer_Tomato
D. hbomb1947

234. On October 20, 2004, which BB was credited with making the Bored's one millionth post in history?

A. christie1111
B. BobJuch
C. earendel100
D. MarleysGh0st

235. Define Spock's Law as it pertained to the old phone game?

236. In February 2002, a major firestorm of a debate began over the effect of which game on the Bored's health? QoD

237. Two months later, the same debate popped up about which newly created game?
Seven Clues

238. Which of these Booch-owned handles posted 809 times over a few days in late February 2002 in a protest over the debate mentioned in #236?

A. Hellpuzzy
B. KrisPKreme
C. S_N_A_F_U
D. BigAudioDynamite

239. While about half of the millionaires in WWTBAM history have posted on the Bored at some point, how many of them have posted enough times (300+) to have made it into the rankings?
2

240. Between artinma and the formation of the BBTranscriptTeam, which BB temporarily took over transcription duties for WWTBAM shows?
tubadave

Define the following terms as they relate to the Bored and its community:

241. The EOS Bar & Grille Where those who are sure that, despite the evidence, they will make the show, gather to drink liquid optimism

242. The Moratorium Lounge those who wish not to argue politics gather here

243. Three Hour Tour noon-3pm, awaiting the invitation to a round 2 in TOPG

244. PJ Party when the night crew gets its party on

245. War Dialing Pounding the redail button to qualify for an audition spot

246. Where Else/What Else?


247. Which BB created a series of ordered lists in late 2000 to help out in answering phone game and early audition test FF type questions?

Sir G
248. What is the title of the novel vandalrmc began writing 2 years ago?

249. On the first night of the PPP, April 15, 2001, what glitch hampered the attempts of most callers to answer all 5 questions correctly?

250. RDelo5 (later nestle79) claimed in the subject line of his posts that which actress had no left breast? Gwenyth Paltrow

251. What two words were were in each of the above poster's posts

252. Which BB had strange troubles in January 2001 with some of his posts being attributed to the name d00d00?

A. earendel100
B. lilclyde54
C. skypilate
D. wild_bill_76

253. What sport was contained in the question that brought a premature end to walhal's Hot Seat appearance?
Volleyball?
edited to fix some bracketsb

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#30 Post by peacock2121 » Sun Nov 25, 2007 2:24 pm

66. What was the name of the Bored's original Bored monitor? nope

67. What was the name of her replacement, whose tactics helped spur the move to the GC? nope

68. What was the name of the Bored monitor who posted the warning about war dialing and the use of the PIN generator on May 17, 2001?

A. Jen

69. Which station's Bored monitor posted the message on the Love Boat of the link to the TUB on May 12, 2004?

D. WLS

70. Which station set up a WWTBAM Bored shortly after the death of the PRoG that we had discussed settling on, though fortunately stuck with the Love Boat?

A. WPVI

71. How far back did the Rot that occured nearly continuously from September 2001 through January 2004 delete past posts?

C. 90 days

72. Which of these BB's gave us behind the scenes insight into Kati Knudsen's infamous WWTBAM appearance?

C. sjcornman


73. Which BB introduced the Bored to Fukola cola on March 20, 2001?

C. hbomb1947


74. After Go disabled the link to poster profiles from the message list in August 2000, in what color did the names of posters on a person's Preferred list show up in? green

75. What color did the names of posters on a person's Ignored list show up in? grey

76. Which BB was the first to break the news of the first WWTBAM auditions for regular shows in the infamous "The party is over" thread?

D. Killer_Tomato

77. Name the seven cities this first round of auditions in the Fall of 2000 were held in. no way


Match each of the following March 2001 audition cities to the city which held a WWTBAm audition at the same time:

78. New Orleans - A
79. Miami - B
80. Philadelphia - C

A. Chicago
B. Dallas
C. San Diego

81. For each of the above pairs, identify which city had Sonny's AP team running the audition. Miami and Dallas

82. Which BB had all their previous posts deleted in April of 2000 for questioning the Bored monitor about her questionable deletions?

A. Jayhawker536

83. Which BB had their account frozen and all their previous posts deleted in September of 2000 after jokingly telling a newbie they'd have to pay him for entry to the GC?

A. Todd_Rundgren

84. The most famous account to get booched of course was that of booch1152. On the night of November 1, 2000 he posted 17 consecutive EOM's on which Go Bored?

B. Dating

85. Which milestone post was he attempting to get?

A. 10,000


86. Later that month, which BB got her account booched when, after being involved in a mini-flame debate, she tried to lighten the mood by talking about lingerie?

C. WANNABE82

87. How many choices were available on the Go Bored poll feature? 5

88. Which BB hacked Go's poll feature in October 2000 to create a MegaPoll that allowed there to be up to 50 choices? BiT

89. Which BB revamped the MegaPoll in April 2001 after the site the original MegaPoll feature was posted on was taken down? lb

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90. Who posted the first MegaPoll on October 8, 2000?

A. TomMitch2

91. What was the question asked in the first MegaPoll? nope

92. The first poll to include WGAS in Gastonia as the final choice was posted on December 31, 2000 by who? lb

93. What was the station format of WGAS in Gastonia at the time it was discovered on November 15, 2000? country

94. Which BB won the very first QoD contest held from July 1-14, 2000?

C. TankleToon

95. Which BB was the first to massively overhaul the QoD during their reign in September 2000? Cal

96. Which BB did an even more radical overhaul of the game in April of 2001, which began a period of several months at which the QoD was at the height of its popularity? Cal

97. Which BB was the first to award real prizes for order of finish in the final QoD standings? Sirge

98. Which city was originally scheduled to hold a stealth audition on September 12, 2001? NYC

99. Which BB reported getting a call to be on the show in December 2001 shortly after Bixby returned with the news that the show was shutting down for the season?

B. lulu5123
and Bix called her a liar.

100. Who received the first flyer tipping us off to the new method of stealth auditions in June 2001?

A. BobJuch


101. Who was the first BB to be called to appear in Syndicated WWTBAM on July 2, 2002?

I erased the choices but it was Peter###s.


102. Which BB started the legendary "Since We're Making Confession" thread on August 21, 2002?

D. two_eagle_bdm

103. Which BB coined the term Ring of Fire for the 10 finalist seats in the WWTBAM studio?

B. Eyegor

104. Which BB coined the term My Big Fat Fabulous Brain for the know-it-alls on the Bored?

C. Bixby17


105. In which BB's transcript thread was the above term coined? ging's?

106. Which BB's misspelling coined the term "taping my watch" on December 19, 2000?

B. Im_Ace


107. What was the BB above impatiently waiting for when he coined the above term? The posting of the QoD

108. Who was the first BB to ever receive double digit recommendations, which was given to their post made on May 12, 2000?

D. jerr87

109. The post above made reference to a quirk in Go's message Bored code at the time that showed a false reccommendation when a post received ___ number of hits, and disappeared after a post made it to ___ hits. 100, 200

110. What was the exact title of the subject line of Post #94789, walhal's 646th and final post made on the night of August 29, 2000? One of the idiots speaks

probably not it exactly.

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#32 Post by tlynn78 » Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:41 am

Wow, lb, just wow. The few I knew have already been answered, but that's an incredible stroll down memory lane.


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#33 Post by slam » Mon Nov 26, 2007 1:38 pm

I'm excited just to have been mentioned in one of the questions!

Of course, my board name changed when we migrated here, so my posting doesn't give anything away. :)

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#34 Post by ladysoleil » Mon Nov 26, 2007 2:34 pm

slam wrote:I'm excited just to have been mentioned in one of the questions!

Of course, my board name changed when we migrated here, so my posting doesn't give anything away. :)
Ditto. :) No hints from me, though.

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#35 Post by Catfish » Mon Nov 26, 2007 3:46 pm

Truly amazing, LB! Thanks for the shout-outs. :)
Love,
Catfish

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#36 Post by danielh41 » Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:19 pm

Wow, 253 questions, and I think I knew the answer to three of them. I wish I could go back and look at some of my old posts. That's the best thing about the GC -- being able to look at the history there...

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111. How many times (the number of 5-day call in periods, not number of individual days) were the phone lines open for the Phone Player Pool during its short life? 3

112. Which of the following BB's did not make it on the show in 2001 via the PPP?

C. kidtejas

113. Who broke the news of the rule change to the PPP on March 16, 2001?

C. rhoadsc

114. Which BB participated in the final Round 2 game ever held on March 28, 2001?

B. hbomb1947

115. Misplacing which music group in the final question cost the above BB a shot at going 5 for 5? O-Town

116. What was the handle used by a supposed WWTBAM insider who correctly predicted the date that the negative PC's would arrive from the first set of auditions in 2003, which was "Black Friday" July 25th? nope

117. Besides a gusgerbils PJ party, what was the main impetus behind the posting spike on what was termed Black Tuesday January 23, 2001? nope

118. Who was the first BB to post the news of the real Black Tuesday on September 11, 2001? gsn

119. Which BB was the first to respond to that initial 9/11 post, and did not post again for almost 6 years? davesenior

120. Which PC was the impetus behind the day dubbed Wacky Wednesday, June 21, 2000?

B. teebee54

121. Which BB posted on December 12, 2002 that they had been chosen to appear on SyndieBAM, one day after they taped their episode?

B. NE1410S

122. Who brought the term "nihil obstat" to the Bored on September 14, 2004?

C. earendel100

123. Which BB posted TUB message #40649 on August 5, 2004, the first known message that did not show up in threaded view on the new TUB message Bored format? marley

124. You couldn't say the words Lohstroh and Geisler on the TUB starting in the Spring of 2005 without the words getting censored, and eventually it would not accept the post at all. While there was never any need to post those words on the Bored, there were 2 other taboo names that were much more commonly come across. What woman's first name and common surname were similarly banned from usage? collins and I don't remember


Below are a few famous drive-by posters. Briefly describe what they are best known for in their brief visit to the Bored:

125. Steve_Russillo

126. Cool_Eternity

127. gotscrewed69

128. FloridaPete37

129. Allentown7721

130. TVtrips_com

131. SOX404Guru - idiot who wanted to bash women and their ability to know things

132. Keyondoway07


133. What Bored glitch did you suffer from on the PRoG if you had Spock's Disease? posts missing

134. Who is Janet Krause?

B. The person who started the famous Jipted thread

135. Who is Jeanie Rae O?

D. A Bored Monitor on the PRoG

136. Who is Meg Hurley?

C. The contestant sjcornman PAF'ed for


137. Who is Judy Bartoletti?

A. The real name of gusgerbils

138. Which BB received a famous response from the Bored monitor mentioned in one of the questions above in September 2000 after a purge and string of deletions?

D. samcat23

139. Which BB started the Question Tag game in late July 2000?

B. Todd_Rundgren

140. Which BB started Fast Tag, which was inspired by Question Tag after its questions became so long and tedious that people quit playing?

A. ndsuspock

141. Although he didn't start it, which BB became the host of the famous PRoG thread "Here's a toughy" from the summer of 2000 until the Bored was taken down?

D. dougie_monty

142. Which BB added "the Iron Thread" onto the thread's subject line, which stuck for the rest of its Bored life?

A. littlebeast13

143. In February of 2001, due to a glitch caused by some deleted posts, the Iron Thread temporarily got steered out of its main thread and into the thread of a RIP for which famous celebrity? Liberace

144. Who hosted a set of 5 FF questions on January 2, 2001, awarding prizes to the 5 BB's who answered each question the fastest?

C. ScrabbleTed

145. Four of the prizes in the game above were won by regular BB's. One prize was won by a newbie making his first post, Cyder_Jack. Cyder_Jack's next appearance was two weeks later, after he'd done what? won on BAM

146. There were many BB's posting callbacks during the audition callback week in December 2000. Which BB reported the first call on December 11?


147. Which BB created the concept of the Bored Novel, and started the first story in November 2001?

B. kidtejas


Below are the "plots" of the first four Bored Novels. Name the Bored Novel number that goes with each plot:

148. Phil Micklestein has an adventure to remember after getting tangled up with a woman named Naomi Three

149. Barry Runkel picks up Tracy Railsback while driving in his Camaro. Convolution ensues, and the former ends up kidnapping Pat Summerall Two

150. Miles Merryman buys a Hermillion watch and becomes a time traveller Four

151. Jacob Keyes and Lila Cole deal with the nefarious plan of Mayor Geezergut Bilco in Thermopolis One

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#38 Post by MarleysGh0st » Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:48 pm

I don't think anyone else has answered this one correctly yet.
130. TVtrips_com
Owner of a sparkly web site with the same URL, he arrived asking for assistance in getting some of his highly qualified clients past the SyndieBAM written test, offering to send contracts to any who did! His was not only a school for game show contestants, but also a ministry! And he was qualified to teach this class by a superlative record which included, IIRC, winning automobiles on two different game shows!

Far more impressive than the winnings of such BBs as Hermillion and TheConfessor, who were among those rebuffing him. :twisted:

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#39 Post by peacock2121 » Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:34 pm

152. Which BB captured Post #50000 on the PRoG in April 2000 in a spirited pre-gusgerbils contest with the second of a double post?

C. SportsFan68

153. Which BB captured Post #100000 on the PRoG on September 15, 2000 with the third of a series of posts in what was the first example of gusgerbils war-posting?

D. HoosierHoopster

154. Which BB captured Posts #50000, 100000, and 500000 (Using the new format's numbering system) on the TUB?

C. SportsFan68


155. The first stealth auditions for a Primetime WWTBAM show, which was the Fathers Day 2001 edition, were held where? NYC

156. A Merry Man Arthur_King_of_the_Britons fired off a letter about what he (and most of the Bored) thought was an illegal practice by ABC in holding the above stealth auditions, and emailed it to ABC and which government agency? FCC

157. On what grounds did he believe the auditions were unfair and illegal? nope

158. Which BB was not the first, but certainly sparked the biggest controversy, to challenge the ranting on MyBigFatFabulousBrain by posting that "You've Gone To Far!" on October 13, 2006?

C. greyhound_dude


159. Prior to SportsFan68 taking over the all time posting lead in February 2002, which BB held the number 1 spot in the rankings?

A. Sir_Galahad

160. Which of these BB's never held the top spot in the rankings at any time since the first edition was posted on March 29, 2000?

B. Killer_Tomato

161. Which of these BB's was listed at the top of the very first rankings list posted on March 29, 2000?

A. jmcachran

162. How many BB's have posted at least 10,000 times in Bored history?

C. 34

163. Which BB went to the San Diego audition with a stuffed hamster in their pocket? sirge

164. What was the name of the horse Saucy took a tumble from in April 2001?

B. Sonny

165. In an April Fool's joke on Steve Beverly's website, who did he say was chosen to host the newly created Syndicated WWTBAM? Richard Simmons


Below are some acronyms that have appeared on the Bored throughout its history. Name exactly what they stood for:

166. MAWG Middle aged white guy

167. PRoG People's Republic of Go

168. ToC Tournament of Champions

169. GC Gated Community

170. PC (not postcard, the original definition) Poster Child

171. OTC On the clock

172. APP - something about associate producers

173. ESST Eyegor skool of spellin and typin

174. TMHBB the most hated bored buddy

175. TBOTS the battle of the sexes

176. MBFFB my big fat fabulous brain

177. MMFF marry me fly free

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178. The gusgerbils Post #456789 on the Love Boat was picked up by the BBTranscriptTeam. It was the transcript of whch memorable contestant?

B. He was a cart pusher at a supermarket

179. ScrabbleTed began most mornings in the Dry Rot era (when posts were being slowly and randomly deleted from months back in Bored history) by putting the title of which song in the subject line of his first post? nope

180. Which BB has the honor of having the longest existing post in Bored history?

A. Corn9977

181. When Eyegor announced he was giving up posting the rankings, which BB volunteered first to take over the task?

B. earendel100

182. After the BB above gave up the task after a few weeks, I took over the job and have had it ever since. What Bored history event occured on the same day that I posted my first rankings edition?

D. The Great Purge wiped out 7 months worth of past posts

183. A post by which BB during the early morning hours of June 1, 2001 launched the infamous "Thread that would not die"?

C. okiepat2000

184. The post above had several observations that BB had picked up from a conversation with the AP's at the audition he was at, which was part of the last pair of auditions from the legendary 2001 Spring run. Which city was it in? Dallas

185. What was the other city to hold one of these final old-style auditions? Nope

186. Which BB threw together the PIN generator, a device able to call on multiple lines at the same time, which for several weeks in the late stages of the Spring auditions helped many BB's easily get PINs?

A. robertl30

187. Which "cursed" RoF seat was populated by the likes of AlphaDummy, tubadave, and yours truly? 9

188. Which QoD Meister posted his QoD containing the answer to earendel's $125,000 question he missed on the show on the same day he taped that show?

D. TheCalvinator24

189. Which BB brought the addictive internet game Marbles to the Bored's attention in May of 2001?

B. ShamelessWeasel

190. Which song's title would the above BB post in a reply each time a BB admitted they were getting addicted to the game? nope

191. The Bored for which defunct ABC show was "hijacked" as a place for posting Marbles scores?

D. Bob Patterson

192. Which BB appeared in the intro to the short-lived game show You Don't Know Jack, as part of the background when Paul Reubens did a promo with Regis on WWTBAM?

D. vails11

193. On which soap opera's Bored did I post the link to the go interface, teh results of which I cross-posted here and caused a mini invasion by some of us of their Bored?

C. General Hospital

194. What did the jamesbriangriffin alter-ego ClaxtonTigers say his first name was? nope

195. What was artinma's main job on the PRoG? transcripts

196. Which BB took over the Gusgerbils list during the last year of the Love Boat after I gave up keeping track due to the many repetetive winners and MM's trying to get milestones?

B. RJS102254

197. HoosierHoopster's Round 2 try in July of 2000 was a failure due to his lack of knowledge of which TV show?

C. Moesha

198. robertl30 came to the Bored for his short, but memorable stint to prepare as a PaF for which BB contestant?

B. ShamelessWeasel

199. Which BB appeared in the Hot Seat back to back with their spouse in 2003? you talking about me and Sting - not quite accurate, but we did tape two days apart,

200. Which BB appeared in this year's World Series of Poker? flock

201. Which BB appeared in the first paragraph of the New York Times story on the Bored last October? kay

Below are some BB handles from Bored history which are missing their trailing numbers. Give the numbers that appeared at the end of each BB's Bored ID:

202. HoltDad

203. etaoin

204. mwstevens

205. Tocqueville

206. CynCty

207. love (as in Gary Love) 4447

208. TomL

209. slam

210. Reeg

211. okiebroker

212. Mellowmom

213. LLMax


214. Which BB won WWTBAM's AOL ATA contest in 2004? bobjuch

215. Which BB's WWTBAM appearance story they posted was titled "Better Late Than Never"? amazonian

216. What was the significance of that title to their story? she took forever to post it.

217. Which one of jamesbriangriffin's alter-ego's was busted for cheating in the Question of the Day contest on November 13, 2000?

C. Uniplatinum


218. Which BB did the above PC copy his answer off of?

B. Sir_Galahad

219. When SyndieBAM debuted on September 16, 2002, which BB gave the first review of the show?
It really coulda been me, but I don't remember

D. minimetoo26

220. Under what MM handle (since he was Booched at the time) did RevDodd first post of "toffee and chreads"? DevRodd

221. Put the following classes in order of their respective eras, starting with the earliest.

A. Morose Class
B. New Class
C. Old Class
D. Verbose Class

cdba

222. Who was the first Merry Man to post in the First Annual Merry Men parade on November 21, 2001?

A. Barney_Texas_Fife

223. Which BB introduced us to the ESPN profiles link in December 2000 that gave the real name that was registered with each handle?

B. TomMitch2


224. The BB above revealed this tool after he was chastised for revealing the real identity of which handle?

C. Boris_Godunov

225. The profile tool was used to our advantage during the Morlock invasion in July 2001, but it was modified by Go after it was slipped to the Morlocks by which Merry Man?

C. Im_Jack

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226. Which number in the official rules for PT WWTBAM dealt with the Future Player Pool (which, to the best of anyone' knowledge, was never invoked), which basically gave TPTB the opportunity to randomly select past R1 qualifiers to play in a specially set-up Round 2? 4

227. Which BB was involved in a Round 2 screwup in December of 2000 in which they were given the wrong phone number to call for their Round 2 game?

D. AlphaDummy

228. Which BB was NOT called to appear on Super Millionaire in May of 2004?

D. sfbazodee

229. Which famous person was shocked and aghast to find out that he had a "doppelganger" on this Bored, which was of course just someone's Merry Man, and posted about his fake on his blog on June 29, 2005? The shoe guy - Manola?

230. Which BB's son received an email from Ken Jennings just prior to him starting his legendary 74 episode run on Jeopardy! in 2004? RJS

231. What did I list as the #1 event in Bored history when I posted my first Top 100 list on November 23, 2001?

C. The move towards auditions

232. What did I list as the #1 event in Bored history when I updated my Top 100 list for the Bored's 5th anniversary in 2004?

B. Beginning of SyndieBAM

233. The first on-Bored PAF demonstration (The Go Bored, not the GC) occured on January 11, 2001 when which BB successfully PAF'ed for John9826?

B. ScrabbleTed - the All My Children one, I hope

234. On October 20, 2004, which BB was credited with making the Bored's one millionth post in history?

D. MarleysGh0st

235. Define Spock's Law as it pertained to the old phone game? If you don't know it, it is most recent.

236. In February 2002, a major firestorm of a debate began over the effect of which game on the Bored's health? 7 Clues

237. Two months later, the same debate popped up about which newly created game? Last Man Standing

238. Which of these Booch-owned handles posted 809 times over a few days in late February 2002 in a protest over the debate mentioned in #236?

C. S_N_A_F_U


239. While about half of the millionaires in WWTBAM history have posted on the Bored at some point, how many of them have posted enough times (300+) to have made it into the rankings? 2

240. Between artinma and the formation of the BBTranscriptTeam, which BB temporarily took over transcription duties for WWTBAM shows? TubaDave


Define the following terms as they relate to the Bored and its community:

241. The EOS Bar & Grille - Eternal Optomist Society

242. The Moratorium Lounge - where you run and hide when flame throwing topics don't die

243. Three Hour Tour - no idea

244. PJ Party - late night posting

245. War Dialing - getting a pin number for someone other than yourself

246. Where Else/What Else? - New York Actors


247. Which BB created a series of ordered lists in late 2000 to help out in answering phone game and early audition test FF type questions? sirge

248. What is the title of the novel vandalrmc began writing 2 years ago? The Memory Box - you should read it.

249. On the first night of the PPP, April 15, 2001, what glitch hampered the attempts of most callers to answer all 5 questions correctly? Marble Mouth was on speed

250. RDelo5 (later nestle79) claimed in the subject line of his posts that which actress had no left breast? Gweneth Paltrow

251. What two words were were in each of the above poster's posts nope

252. Which BB had strange troubles in January 2001 with some of his posts being attributed to the name d00d00?

C. skypilate


253. What sport was contained in the question that brought a premature end to walhal's Hot Seat appearance? tennis

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#42 Post by peacock2121 » Thu Nov 29, 2007 7:01 am

That was very very fun, lb.

Thank you.

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#43 Post by eyégor » Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:26 am

amendment to my answer for 251

Scientology sucks

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Answers To The Mother of all Bored History Quizzes

#44 Post by littlebeast13 » Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:43 am

I have looked over the answers of everyone who replied, but wasn't about to attempt to grade each BB's answers, so you'll have to do that yourselves if you wish to know how well you did.

Given my tendency to get really verbose with my answer posts, I'm going to do what Pea did and post the answers to the questions in several segments, which will also keep me from having to find about 3 or 4 straight hours to do this all at once....




1. Who had the very first post in Bored history on the ABC Bored when it was recreated after a hacker attack on November 23, 1999?

A. 40love9236
B. MVLease
C. gusgerbils
D. helringer

I was absolutely shocked at how many people missed this question! Apparently the reason for why the Gusgerbils List was called the Gusgerbils List has become lost over time....


2. Who had the very first post on the Love Boat when it was created on December 5, 2001?

A. tubadave
B. Corn9977
C. earendel100
D. Sir_Galahad

Anyone remember Corn Flakes? I refused to change the name of the Gusgerbils List, but during its run on the Love Boat, I did entitle it the Corn Edition....


3. Who had the very first post on the Ugly Bored when it was created on May 12, 2004?

A. themanintheseersuckersuit
B. jtmattox
C. jarnon
D. RJS102254

Break a bottle over the bow. Of course, if you want to get technical, tmitsss had the first official post on the TUB after the death of the Love Boat, but since the Bored was created and linked to specifically for us ala the Love Boat (and not a Bored we merely hijacked), I've always recognized jtmattox's accomplishment even though it is not counted among his 776 career posts....


4. On which of these temporary Boreds did Gary Love post the link to the new Bored he created for us?

A. The Colbys
B. Madigan Men
C. Travel
D. Astrology

Out first temporary home, Madigan Men, went by the wayside as ABC killed all of its primetime Boreds with the exception of Alias and Once And Again on 12/4/01. We weren't on Travel even 18 hours when Gary posted the link, and we were ever closer to moving to the Bored BobJuch & Ace were setting up for us....


5. Which of these BB's created the GC on April 14, 2000 at E-Groups as a new home to BB's tired of the Nazi Bored monitor tactics and PC attacks?

A. MVLease
B. Eyegor
C. Killer_Tomato
D. TomL30

Attention Regulars....


6. Which of these BB's created the Lifeboat on January 29, 2001 as a new home for BB's if the impending Go.com shutdown were to claim our Bored?

A. DaveSenior
B. John9826
C. robertl30
D. TomMitch2

Funny that almost 7 years later, Go.com actually still exists, but that announcement was clearly the beginning of the end for that wonderful message board format and interface...


7. Which of these BB's created the Phoenix Bored on July 6, 2001 as a place for BB's to get away from the Morlocks who were attacking?

A. littlebeast13
B. Sir_Galahad
C. wild_bill_76
D. hbomb1947

And of course, as I'd stumped even Sir G on last month, his first deputy moderator was wild bill...


8. Which of these BB's created the Phoenix 2 Bored on April 20, 2003 as a place for extra storage space after the original Phoenix's file space and photo album became too cluttered?

A. Ritterskoop
B. Linus_Tx
C. takinover
D. littlebeast13

Of course, the file limits are all higher on Yahoo Groups now, but at the time there was a serious storage crunch, and there was hesitance to give up a lot of the stuff that was saved....


9. Which of these BB's coined the term Love Boat for our Gary love created Bored?

A. kidtejas
B. HF_Jai
C. christie1111
D. deb_in_ga

Poor deb missed her chance to step into Bored history by having Jai beat her to the punch by mere minutes....


10. Which of these BB's coined the term Ugly Bored for the new-format version of the Love Boat?

A. BackInTex
B. RJS102254
C. takinover
D. Eyegor

Eyegor actually came up with the term and popularized it, but it was definitely inspired by a post RJS made on the TUB while it still had unofficial status and a horrendous lack of features, proclaiming "This Bored is ugly!"


11. Which BB had the final post on the Love Boat when it was closed down on June 23, 2004?

A. Bob46187
B. themanintheseersuckersuit
C. 2121peacock
D. BackInTex

I missed the opportunity to be present for the closing of the Love Boat thanks to ESPN moving the ballgame I attended that evening up an hour so they could show it nationally. It's the only thing I hate about Wednesday being my designated ballgame night....


12. Which BB had the final known post on the Ugly Bored when the plug was pulled on October 2, 2007?

A. MarleysGh0st
B. BobJuch
C. gsn309
D. SportsFan68

Given the server issues, I found it odd that two BB's from different servers (Marley and earendel) both confirmed this as the final post. I guess there was one last bout of synchronization before the ratbastards yanked the plug out from us....


13. Put the three major Boreds we occupied in order by the number of posts we made on each of them, starting with the most posts.

A. The PRoG - 388,296
B. The Love Boat - 564,853
C. The Ugly Bored - The exact number is unknown, but we were closing in on 300,000 posts when the plug was pulled. The last Gus I gave out was to Sprots with 295000 on 9/10/07. The Bored went down 22 days later, so given our posting rate at that time, we were probably somwhere in the 299,000's...

Thus the order: B-A-C

14. What did the acronym in our nickname for the ABC Bored, The PRoG, stand for? - People's Republic of Go

A term that got coined sometime during the Morlock invasion, and originally referred to the Bored under the heavy moderation, but over time became the ABC Bored's unofficial name....


15. What was the exact text that followed "&room=" in the url of the PRoG? - a_WHO_WANTS_TO_B

All ABC show message boards had this format, with a_ followed by the first 14 characters of the show's title...


16. What was the exact text that followed "&room=" in the url of the Love Boat? - kabc_bored

Gary's use of the word "bored" was a classic...


17. What was our forumID number in the url of the Ugly Bored? - 26


18. What was the name in the url of the interface which was unflatteringly referred to as "The Bumblebee Bored"?

A. abc
B. go
C. money
D. mrshowbiz

19. Which of these better interfaces was in popular use by most BB's until it switched to a horrendous red and yellow dominated background during Labor Day weekend of 2000?

A. abc
B. go
C. money
D. mrshowbiz

This was the interface newbies got linked to when they finally asked the question "Where are you seeing these message numbers and post counts?"


20. As a result of this assault by the "Hot Dog Stand" Bored, which of these interfaces was recommended, which had that cool galaxy graphic above the message list?

A. abc
B. go
C. money
D. mrshowbiz


21. Who discovered the tea interface on July 1, 2001?

A. hbomb1947
B. traininvain
C. BackInTex
D. takinover


22. Which of these Boreds was provided as the link when the above BB introduced us to the tea interface?

A. Madigan Men
B. Making the Band
C. General Hospital
D. The Cellar

And fortunate timing that TiV linked us to this Bored one day before the Morlocks attacked. Of course, it was originally linked to by takinover that April, and he and my Merry Man Ofer37 had posted there at the time...


23. When the tea interface was yanked out from under us on October 12, 2001, all that could be seen was a blank white screen with what two words printed at the top? - Access Denied

I don't think it was up there for that long, but this was one of the few Bored/interface shutdown events I was actually present for, so I saw it with my own eyes.... and I liked it enough to make it the title of my October 2001 Bored History Recap...


24. From who did we learn of the affiliate interfaces, which we were forced to after the death of tea?

A. The Morlocks
B. Gary Love
C. The Bored Monitor
D. An unknown Merry Man

They also gave us the link to the directories, those nice guys....


25. On October 18, 2001, who rescued us from the inferior affiliate interfaces with the discovery of the wnet interface?

A. Eyegor
B. TheCalvinator24
C. BackInTex
D. littlebeast13


26. What Merry Man was the link to wnet posted under? - NeRainbow

Why BiT did this under an MM, or what that MM even means, I have no clue. But what a joyous occasion that was...


27. Were it not for the brief foray onto the affiliate interfaces, Gary Love would not have noticed us and helped us out with the creation of the Love Boat. As it was, we were disallowed from using wnet or any of the old Go/ABC/Disney interfaces and were forced to use the affiliate interfaces to view the Love Boat after how long on our new Bored?

A. 1 month
B. 3 months
C. 6 months
D. 1 year

The day were were forced back to the affiliate interfaces was 5/24/02, my second Bored anniversary....


28. Which of the affiliate interfaces was the last one standing with a full functioning message Bored format when the Ugly Bored went down on October 2, 2007?

A. WPVI
B. KGO
C. WTVD
D. KTRK

And it remained standing right up until the bitter end...


More to come later....

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#45 Post by minimetoo26 » Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:49 am

Ah, gee--and I was about to answer these when I had a spare millennium or so...... :P

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#46 Post by littlebeast13 » Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:35 pm

More answers....



29. Things began to get screwy with the Bored on August 27, 2007 which was related to a problem with a lack of communication between two servers. Who was the first to diagnose the problem and start the use of BB's who were on Server A and Server B?

A. 15QuestionsAway
B. littlebeast13
C. Eyegor
D. MarleysGh0st

I was surprised I had to explain this to Bezark on the Morlock Bored also. I figured they'd be smart enough to figure it out themselves....


30. Who coined the BB's who were located on Server A to be Hufflepuffs?

A. earendel100
B. Bob46187
C. Ritterskoop
D. PlacentiaSoccerMom

This came after the naming of the B's, however....


31. Who coined the BB's who were located on Server B to be Ravenclaws?

A. ladysoleil
B. MarleysGh0st
C. TheCalvinator24
D. BobJuch

Congratulations on your place in Bored history for perpetuity!


32. The BB's on which server had access to the search function? - B - Ravenclaw

33. The BB's on which server were on the fast clock during the time warps that plagued the Bored from December 2000 to July 2001? - B again[/b]

I know I was on the slow clock, as were my fellow Server A BB's were also back then...


34. What was the longest time warp gap, in minutes, which was acheived just before the problem was fixed on July 23, 2001? - 7 minutes


35. Who hosted the first Question of the Day contest in July 2000?

A. TankleToon
B. MMCJCL
C. pamjb
D. Catway

I miss her, and I tried to see if she was still lurking out there on the internet anywhere, but pamjb is apparently a more common username than I had figured...


36. Who hosted the first Bored Game in December 2000?

A. littlebeast13
B. Eyegor
C. tubadave
D. Corn9977

Had it not been for Eyegor's innovative diversion, I may have never bothered tracking Bored history for as long as I did...


37. Who hosted the first Timeline game in July 2001?

A. flockofseagulls104
B. adsarc
C. vandalrmc
D. ging5472

He tried to give out funky character symbols as awards. They didn't work too well on WTVT®'s... or even a lot of regular computers!


38. Who hosted the first Gender Defender game in November 2001?

A. ScrabbleTed
B. Sir_Galahad
C. TheCalvinator24
D. BeeMan521


39. Who hosted the first Lyrically Speaking in December 2001?

A. mrkelley23
B. BeeMan521
C. rubbersnail
D. otherindigo


40. Who hosted the first Seven Clues game on January 5, 2002?

A. gotribego26
B. Dr_J_427
C. SportsFan68
D. Ritterskoop


41. Who ran the Question of the Night contest as Merry Man KaRl_FuN_rOvE in March 2002?

A. Booch
B. mrkelley23
C. ScrabbleTed
D. wintergreen48

I confess I had no idea who Karl Rove was at the time....


42. What was the answer to the very first Question of the Day game posted on July 1, 2000? - Jabberwocky


43. What was the answer to the very first Seven Clues game posted on January 5, 2002? - St. Lawrence Seaway


44. Which two BB's squared off in the first ever Gender Defender game on November 19, 2001? - SportsFan68 and taurus4848

Me and Bixby squared off in the second game the next day, and we managed to pull off the only perfect GD game in its short run in the 1 on 1 format. Bix beat me by seconds on the tiebreaker bonus, though....


45. Which two BB's split hosting the first ever game of The Battle of the Sexes in January 2002? - kidtejas & BeeMan521

In that order. Remember all the Dread Pirate Roberts clues....?


46. Who came up with the original concept for Gender Defender, but never hosted the game? - ScrabbleTed


47. Who came up with the original concept for Lyrically Speaking, though did not host its first edition? - BeeMan521


48. Who hosted the September 2002 QoD game, and decided to allow the top players from the previous month to each take a day to write the questions? - aussiegirl828


49. In May 2003, which BB hosted a game of Disney trivia?

A. rob_wilson
B. Buffacuse
C. minimetoo26
D. Timsterino


More to come... likely not until tomorrow morning....

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#47 Post by peacock2121 » Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:39 pm

He tried to give out funky character symbols as awards. They didn't work too well on WTVT®'s... or even a lot of regular computers!

I had totally forgotten that!

I used mine for a bit.

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#48 Post by littlebeast13 » Sun Dec 02, 2007 9:33 am

More answers....


50. What is the most prodigious month in terms of number of posts in Bored history?

A. January 2001
B. April 2001
C. May 2001
D. March 2002

There were 34,344 posts in the month of April 2001, the high point of the most verbose time in Bored history. The following month, May, was the second most verbose month ever with 31,432 posts....


51. What was the most prodigious posting day in Bored history?

A. January 23, 2001
B. March 23, 2001
C. February 22, 2002
D. April 1, 2002


52. How many posts were made on that record day?

A. 1342
B. 1595
C. 1729
D. 1781

The 1781 posts on February 22, 2002 snapped the old record set on 3/23/01 of 1729, and was largely due to the appearance of Booch's S_N_A_F_U handle posting the same thing over and over and over again. The annoyanec continued into the next day, which at 1764 posts is the second most prodigious day in history. That February wound up with 29,284 posts, and would have easily been only the third month ever to top 30,000 posts had it been a normal sized month....


53. What was the least prodigious day in Bored history?

A. July 22, 2001
B. December 27, 2003
C. May 13, 2006
D. April 22, 2007


54. How many posts were made on that record day?

A. 14
B. 27
C. 31
D. 35

Go figure. I saved the message list from the day when we hit 27 posts on 3/25/06, but neglected to record the record-setting Saturday the 13th snoozefest...


55. Who was the most prodigious poster on the PRoG?

A. SportsFan68
B. Sir_Galahad
C. TheCalvinator24
D. hbomb1947

10,015 posts, pretty good considering Cal's first anniversary was still 5 days away when the PRoG went down. Sprots was second with 8594 posts (Somehow, I was 4th!)


56. Who was the most prodigious poster on the Love Boat?

A. SportsFan68
B. PEACOCK2121
C. MarleysGh0st
D. Ritterskoop

A whopping 27,119 posts for Sprots in 30 months, a little over 3,000 more than second place Pea! 12 BB's in all posted 10,000 or more times on the Love Boat, with silvercamaro and starfish just missing 5 digits. And it was a female gabfest, as aj was the only male in the Top 8....


57. Who was the most prodigious poster on the Ugly Bored?

A. SportsFan68
B. 2121peacock
C. MarleysGh0st
D. silvercamaro

This was the butt-kicking to end all butt-kickings. Marley got 18,306 posts on the TUB in its 39 months run. Sprots was second..... with only 9,918! And once again, only one male BB in the Top 8, as #2-7 were all female, with ghost, of all people, snagging third place.


For each of the following old BB names, give the more well known handle they later used:

58. bigdrawman - two_eagle_bdm

At one point, he was using this alternately with intuitive_bdm...


59. web5709 - Eyégor


60. 1818reed - kidtejas

Who also used kidtejasridesagain for a while after he deleted his handle upon leaving the Bored in a huff in November 2001.


61. bjh104 - flockofseagulls104

As well as the 103 and 105 versions much later on....


62. newtoyou - oldernow

Back when the PRoG went down in November 2001, I got several emails from part-time BB's asking where the new Bored was, and for entry into Phoenix so they wouldn't get lost again. One of those emails came from a BB named SeeHere101, who had originally sent Sir G a set of "answers" to a fake Bored test to prove he was really a BB and not a Morlock at the time of the invasion, which he said must have gotten lost in the cracks since he was not extended an invite. So he sent that list to me as well in his email to me, as well as a couple observations he had made.... one of which was that he believed that oldernow had an alter-ego on the Bored even prior to newtoyou.... mreckland. The more I thought about it, the more I realized there were a lot of similarities between the two. My only sticking point was that I was under the impression that mreckland was male, but I didn't actually know that for sure. Anyway, just thought I'd throw that out.

Oh, and that set of fake answers SeeHere provided? Well, it was a veritable walk down memory lane in itself....
SeeHere101 wrote:However, I can see how you might have some distrust, since you don't
know me
from a hole in the wall and I could be an evil drive-by. If you like,
you
can give me a quiz on WWTBAM and/or the board to prove my fandom. In
fact,
here are some answers in advance:

1) Llama
2) Cabana
3) Kathmandu (nooooooooo..... contacting lawyer)
4) Kati Knudson's husband
5) 52 minutes
6) Pajama party
7) Hamster in the pocket
8. Phrygian; MissKittyandBoos
9) Walhal; volleyball
10) Gusgerbils
11) The History Channel
12) Jipted
13) I'm_Ace and Aussiegirl
14) Claxton Tigers; Jimmmy
15) Lyonnaise
16) Sonny Bifone
17) Moth
18. Empire; Lucerne
19) Doverly
20) Pink feather boa

You get the idea. Don't be scared. Thanks.

63. davexprice - palerider1980

I had to be alerted by two BB's as to the fact that one of my favorite drive-by posters was actually the precursor to a more prodigious BB... though its hard to blame me considering how opposite their ideas were of what should and shouldn't be on the Bored...


64. nettlesl78 - themanintheseersuckersuit


65. markster38 - TheVillageLeper


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#49 Post by littlebeast13 » Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:47 am

Some more answers....


66. What was the name of the Bored's original Bored monitor? - Barbara

ABC_Barbara actually posted on the Bored, unlike the many other anonymous BM's who came after her. In fact, she had Post #6 on the PRoG...


67. What was the name of her replacement, whose tactics helped spur the move to the GC? - Ann

ABC_Ann took over after a farewell post by Barbara on 2/29/00, and all heck broke loose shortly thereafter. It was interesting to note the post someone (I believe TiV) linked to after it was found out that ABC was going to outsource its message boards to another company a couple months ago, which basically stated that ABC's moderation tactics in general were some of the worst in cyberspace, which was supposedly part of the reason for the switch. Perhaps Ann gets too much credit, er, blame for what occured that Spring than she deserves (And since she, nor any other post-Barbara moderator ever posted on the Bored, there's no telling exactly who was behind the moderation mess)...


68. What was the name of the Bored monitor who posted the warning about war dialing and the use of the PIN generator on May 17, 2001?

A. Jen
B. Erica
C. Melissa
D. Tina

The WWTBAM staff had to know war dialing was going on all throughout both of the initial audition runs, if for no other reason that it was openly discussed on the Bored, and even war dialers were recruited publicly. The PIN generator had to be the final straw for them, which along with the fact that so many of the same faces were showing up at each audition, helped spell the end for that method of holding auditions within 2 weeks.


69. Which station's Bored monitor posted the message on the Love Boat of the link to the TUB on May 12, 2004?

A. WTVD
B. KGO
C. WTVG
D. WLS

I just noticed something while looking a little closer at this question. The WTVG administrator first posted that our Bored would be "restored" and that it would be on a new location with a new url on 5/12/04. The administrator then posted that new link 5 days later. What's odd is that jtmattox did indeed get the first post on the new Bored on 5/12/04, but there are two problems:

1. If the link was not given until 5/17, how did he get the first post on 5/12, not to mention the several other BB's (Including RJS with the "This Bored is Ugly!" post) who posted several minutes later.

2. The time recorded for jtmattox's first post is 12:12 PM PDT, but the initial WTVG announcement was made at 12:32 PM PDT. This has to be due to a screw-up with the clocks on the TUB at the time... which, if you'll remember, used to only list the hour a post was made...

Interesting. Even I can learn something from my Bored history quizzes....


70. Which station set up a WWTBAM Bored shortly after the death of the PRoG that we had discussed settling on, though fortunately stuck with the Love Boat?

A. WPVI
B. WLS
C. WABC
D. WJRT

The Chicago Bored. It didn't last long, dying a slow, painful death during the summer of 2002. It's only notable activity was berg's animated smily face post...


71. How far back did the Rot that occured nearly continuously from September 2001 through January 2004 delete past posts?

A. 30 days
B. 60 days
C. 90 days
D. 120 days

Surely everyone remembers 90 Day Rot....?


72. Which of these BB's gave us behind the scenes insight into Kati Knudsen's infamous WWTBAM appearance?

A. walhal
B. tubadave
C. sjcornman
D. jetsong401

It was through sjcornman's story that we heard of Kati's alleged swing she took at her husband as he tried to console her upon being bounced from the seat after her memorable run. Several BB's wondered why the punch was edited out of the GSN repeat several years later. Answer: It was never shown in the first place... we only knew about it because of sjcornman's behind the scenes account...


73. Which BB introduced the Bored to Fukola cola on March 20, 2001?

A. TheCalvinator24
B. BackIntex
C. hbomb1947
D. megaaddict

Harv became the BB that was associated with Fukola since I believe he was the first one to order any, or at least to post pictures of him drinking it after it arrived. But it was brought to light by BiT...


74. After Go disabled the link to poster profiles from the message list in August 2000, in what color did the names of posters on a person's Preferred list show up in? - Green

And yes, green is good, Mr. boardmonitorr....


75. What color did the names of posters on a person's Ignored list show up in? - Gray

With thanks to Eyegor for reminding me about the gray/grey debate...


76. Which BB was the first to break the news of the first WWTBAM auditions for regular shows in the infamous "The party is over" thread?

A. Sir_Galahad
B. TomMitch2
C. MVLease
D. Killer_Tomato

Certainly one of the more infamous posts in Bored history that was unfortunately never archived since October 2000 was one of the first targets of the sporadic Dry Rot that hit in March 2001...


77. Name the seven cities this first round of auditions in the Fall of 2000 were held in. - Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, New York, Sacramento, Seattle, Birmingham

When I was typing up this answer, I was only able to come up with 6 cities, completely blanking on the 7th. I forgot that New York auditions weren't just a stealth audition invention... and we were quite well represented in New York too as I now remember. I believe the above cities are in their correct order, too....


Match each of the following March 2001 audition cities to the city which held a WWTBAm audition at the same time:

78. New Orleans - Chicago
79. Miami - San Diego
80. Philadelphia - Dallas

A. Chicago
B. Dallas
C. San Diego

81. For each of the above pairs, identify which city had Sonny's AP team running the audition. - New Orleans, San Diego, Philadelphia

The fact that these three cities were overly represented on the postcard list (There were no :( postcards back then, just :) cards) compared to their sister audition cities was the spark behind FloridaPete's claim that Sonny's crew was passing far more people than Jennifer's crew was...


82. Which BB had all their previous posts deleted in April of 2000 for questioning the Bored monitor about her questionable deletions?

A. Jayhawker536
B. LoriNY
C. wrs1075
D. dr_evil50

This was a story I'd gotten from Eyegor and not something I knew of first-hand, so it was no surprise that over the years I managed to misremember the specific details of it. Jayhawker explains what occured to her better in her post in this thread...


83. Which BB had their account frozen and all their previous posts deleted in September of 2000 after jokingly telling a newbie they'd have to pay him for entry to the GC?

A. Todd_Rundgren
B. Sir_Galahad
C. macemace48
D. traininvain

Sir G was posting as sir_galahad2k for a week of so until he was given his account back. But onyl a handful of his previous posts were able to be restored...


84. The most famous account to get booched of course was that of booch1152. On the night of November 1, 2000 he posted 17 consecutive EOM's on which Go Bored?

A. Astrology
B. Dating
C. Pets
D. Travel


85. Which milestone post was he attempting to get?

A. 10,000
B. 20,000
C. 40,000
D. 80,000


86. Later that month, which BB got her account booched when, after being involved in a mini-flame debate, she tried to lighten the mood by talking about lingerie?

A. samcat23
B. aussiegirl828
C. WANNABE82
D. Corn9977

WANNABE and her teddy (No, not ScrabbleTed, though he liked to kid her about it)....


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#50 Post by littlebeast13 » Thu Dec 06, 2007 7:24 am

The answers continue to trickle in....


87. How many choices were available on the Go Bored poll feature? - 7

88. Which BB hacked Go's poll feature in October 2000 to create a MegaPoll that allowed there to be up to 50 choices? - TomMitch2

I still have the url of where he posted the 50 choice poll in my original Bored notebook (With the WTVT®, I had to write all those sites down!). On a lark, I typed it in, not expecting to find anything, but apparently it's some kind of astronomy site now....

http://championshipglory.wcwuniverse.com/test.html


89. Which BB revamped the MegaPoll in April 2001 after the site the original MegaPoll feature was posted on was taken down? - BackInTex

This, as well as Eyegor's modifications for tea and wnet can still be found in the Lifeboat and in Phoenix....


90. Who posted the first MegaPoll on October 8, 2000?

A. TomMitch2
B. ScrabbleTed
C. macemace48
D. Todd_Rundgren


91. What was the question asked in the first MegaPoll? - Which state do you live in?

A pretty intuitive choice of topic for a poll with 50 choices....


92. The first poll to include WGAS in Gastonia as the final choice was posted on December 31, 2000 by who? - littlebeast13

Well, since I discovered the station, I decided to use it to replace the old TM standby "WGAS?"... though it would never take the place of the old TR standbys "KT shot JR" or "ô¿ô"....


93. What was the station format of WGAS in Gastonia at the time it was discovered on November 15, 2000? - Christian/Gospel


94. Which BB won the very first QoD contest held from July 1-14, 2000?

A. Catway
B. Killer_Tomato
C. TankleToon
D. boof8888


95. Which BB was the first to massively overhaul the QoD during their reign in September 2000? - Todd_Rundgren

Massively overhaul may be an understatement. Not only was it the first time multiple parts were used in individual QoD's, but the point system was expanded and AM and PM questions were also added...


96. Which BB did an even more radical overhaul of the game in April of 2001, which began a period of several months at which the QoD was at the height of its popularity? - robertl30

By the time Cal ran the March 2001 QoD, there was enough backlash against the TR format that had been used for 7 conecutive months, that only 6 BB's played seriously enough to earn even triple digit points. That month's winner, robertl30, completely turned the QoD format on its side when he dropped the number of questions a day back to one, posted it at the same time, and allowed players to answer individual posts in as many posts as they wished. Plus, the points were no longer awared on a rigid scale with a big fat zero for anyone who didn't answer every part correct, but points were awarded for each individual part, and the number of points gotten would depend on how quickly on answered from the time of the original QoD post. It was complicated, but wildly popular, and the QoD would go on to thrive in ever-changing formats for several years afterwards...


97. Which BB was the first to award real prizes for order of finish in the final QoD standings? - ScrabbleTed

This was in the November 2000 QoD. I finished third and got a small stash....


98. Which city was originally scheduled to hold a stealth audition on September 12, 2001? - Boston

The Northeasterners on the Bored constantly griped that WWTBAM had never held an audition in their neck of the woods other than the occasional New York auditions. Well, they were finally scheduled to get one.... only to have the events of the day before postpone it...


99. Which BB reported getting a call to be on the show in December 2001 shortly after Bixby returned with the news that the show was shutting down for the season?

A. cbgorbett
B. lulu5123
C. Mo_Hillbilly
D. lilclyde's Baboo

This caused a minor stir on the Bored, as lulu didn't have enough Bored cred yet to be completely believed over Bix's news that her shows were the last ones to be taped for the season.


100. Who received the first flyer tipping us off to the new method of stealth auditions in June 2001?

A. BobJuch
B. hbomb1947
C. jac070
D. traininvain

This came so quickly off the sudden halt to the Spring audition tour (Which was chalked up to the aversion of a writer's strike for the upcoming season), and the flap over the stealth auditions for the Father's Day episode held at WDW's Play It attraction, that it too was something that had to actually transpire before many could believe it.


101. Who was the first BB to be called to appear in Syndicated WWTBAM on July 2, 2002?

A. Corn9977
B. taurus4848
C. peter5858
D. lilyvonschtupp26

He was among the several BB's who were called from stealth auditions held the previous Fall, but never received a postcard from it. It was a baffling way for SyndieBAM to select its first batch of contestants, especially since there were so many BB's still wading in the original APP...


102. Which BB started the legendary "Since We're Making Confessions" thread on August 21, 2002?

A. Ritterskoop
B. PEACOCK2121
C. NE1410S
D. two_eagle_bdm


103. Which BB coined the term Ring of Fire for the 10 finalist seats in the WWTBAM studio?

A. MVLease
B. Eyegor
C. Killer_Tomato
D. TomMitch2


104. Which BB coined the term My Big Fat Fabulous Brain for the know-it-alls on the Bored?

A. DevilKitty100
B. silvercamaro
C. Bixby17
D. marrymeflyfree


105. In which BB's transcript thread was the above term coined? - Barbarella09

She may have very well had the longest transcript thread in Bored history, as it made it well over 100, and maybe even to 200 posts (I'm not going to count it, but I did save the entire thread over in my Phoenix archive...)


106. Which BB's misspelling coined the term "taping my watch" on December 19, 2000?

A. ScrabbleTed
B. Im_Ace
C. Eyegor
D. TheCalvinator24


107. What was the BB above impatiently waiting for when he coined the above term? - A Bored Game question

QoD was an almost univesal distractor, but the QoD was on hiatus at the time, so the Bored Game was the only action in town. It was one of my Bored Game questions he was waiting for, as I was late in my specific time I'd set to post it. It was snowing in Atlanta that day, and he'd trudged to work early specifically to have a shot at answering it (Remember when people used to plan their lives around the silliest things on this Bored....?)


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