Do you have what it takes to be Suvudu’s Grand Poohbah Alpha Geek for Life? Well it’s time put your geek where your mouth is…IF YOU CAN!
But first a warning: yes, you could Google for some of these answers, but then, deep down, you’ll know you’re a bad person. However, you might win a free copy of The Geeks’ Guide to World Domination. So you’ll have to balance total loss of self worth with free geek schwag. It’s up to you.
Email your answers to info@suvudu.com. Don’t comment your answers or you will allow slackers to water down the winner’s pool, thus decreasing your chances of receiving said geek schwag (and you’ll get moderated, deserve a spanking, be summarily executed, etc.). You have until 10:00pm EST tonight. Then try again tomorrow. There’s a free book for each day’s winner, every day this week. The week’s overall highest scorer will earn the title of Suvudu’s Grand Poohbah Alpha Geek for Life (oh, and a $50 iTunes gift certificate). This GPAGFL will almost certainly get his or her face on the cover of Time Magazine*.
To The Geek-Off Already! Remember, email your answers to info@suvudu.com:
1. Geek Culture/Ephemera
Match the following quotes to their speakers in the format of 1) A, 2) B, etc.:
1) Mulder 2) Bill Murray 3) Skeletor 4) David Carradine 5) the Dalai Lama 6) Yoda 7) Linus Torvalds 
Mr. Miyagi
A. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
B. To suppress a truth is to give it force beyond endurance.
C. Sometimes the only sane answer to an insane world is insanity.
D. Which mindset is right? Mine, of course.
E. Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort?
F. Tell me about the loneliness of good…is it equal to the loneliness of evil?
G. The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
H. No such thing as bad student, only bad teacher. Teacher say, student do.
2. Math/Science
Does two actually equal one? Does the following proof demonstrate the failing of math as a rational science and thus the end reason, logic and an ordered society? Or is there a trick? Find the trick, dear geek, and restore logic to the universe.
a = b
a2 = ab
a2 – b2 = ab-b2
(a-b)(a+b) = b(a-b)
a+b = b
b+b = b
2b = b
2 = 1
3. Classic Puzzle
The boys in this class were asked to say their names and were photographed just as they started to pronounce the first letters. Their names are Oom, Alden, Eastman, Alfred, Arthur, Luke, Fletcher, Matthew, Theodore, Richard, Shermer and Hisswald. Match the names to the correct boys. List the correct names in order, starting in the back-left corner and continuing across and then down to the start of the next row, as if reading li
nes of text.
4. Tech
List three English phrases you can spell on a basic calculator, turned upside down. You earn one point per phrase and an additional point per phrase if it’s funny, lewd, heretical or otherwise entertaining.
* Actual chances of Time Magazine cover vary. Obama? A-Rod? Putin? Are you playing the Geek-Off?
Read the contest legal here: Geek-Off Rules
