Tuesday, October 12, 2010

The Cazadero Retreat 2010 - Part 3 (The Game of Musical Jeopardy)

If you have not yet read parts 1 and 2, do so here and here. Now, onto my favorite part of the retreat, as well as the conclusion to my epic orchestra retreat saga:

Musical Jeopardy

I was placed on team 4. There were seven teams, going up from 1. We came in third.

The seven categories were as follows:
Music theory
Name that tune
Compsers
Instruments
Musical Vocabulary
GGP History and Trivia
GGP Misc.

Membership of my team was as follows:

Me.
Keary (Viola girl that was in senior last year, and camerata this year).
Two girls from camerata.
Bass girl from junior.
Annoying Indian girl (Known for getting really into it and yelling loudly whenever we got a question wrong or right, and same thing with the other team. Every. Single. Time. It got on my nerves really fast).

The first question answered wrong was by team 2. It was a 1000 point question. They never made it very far.

I, as the only guy in the group, (and probably the tallest as well) got declared the "Person-who-stands-up-and-declares-our-question-and-the-answer-to-our-question-loudly-with-testosterone". A role that I had a large amount of fun with. We came up with the answers (usually either me or Keary, although the two camerata girls helped too.) and I stood up and yelled them. Similar thing with what question to pick. Here is how it worked:
Me: "Vocab 1000!"
Mr. Gallegos: "What does con fuoco mean?"
Me: (pauses)
Camerata girl 1: "With fire"
Me: "WITH FIRE!"
Mr. Gallegos: "Correct! Con fuoco means with fire!"

A bit later:

Me: "Misc. 1000!"
Mr. Gallegos: "Which member of the faculty is also a member of the fire department?"
(I didn't even have to pause or ask my teammates for the answer)
Me: "DONNA LIM!"
Mr. Gallegos: "Correct, Donna Lim is a member of the fire department."
Mrs. Murray: "And, I would like to point out, the president of the fire department of her area."

It went on like that. It was very satisfying. It got to the point that Mr. Gallegos just asked:
"Ian, what does your team want to do?"

We basically farmed GGP Misc. and GGP history and trivia. By the time we were done, all of the easy questions were gone and so we got to laugh at all of the people who got those questions, figuring out that they were really easy ones to get right. They were wrong. Every question in those areas asked by people besides us were wrong. It was epic. The only regular question we got wrong was:
Mr. Gallegos: "How many years did the GGP have a wind section?"
Me: "At least 1."
Camerata girl 1: "Eight, I think."
Camerata girl 2: "I thought it was five."
Annoying Indian girl + Junior orchestra bass girl: "We had a wind section?"
Keary: "I don't know."
Mr. Gallegos: "Ian? What is your answer?"
Everyone: "Just take a guess."
Me: "Six!"
Mr. Gallegos: "Incorrect. The GGP had a wind section for 2 years."

The other one that we got wrong was the final jeopardy question, which was:
"Of the three composers Mozart, Schumann, and Schubert, which one died the earliest and yet wrote the most music?"
All three teams: "Mozart!"
Mr. Gallegos: "Incorrect. It was Schubert."

The team that won bet all but one of their points on the final question. Everyone else bet all of their points on it. We lost. Oh well. I impressed a lot of people during it though, so that is a good thing.

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