The U of C Scav Hunt 2014 is out.
As an aside, would it kill people to spell out abbreviations on first use? I opened this thread because I wasn’t sure if it was University of Cambridge, University of California, or what.
Sorry. I wasn’t aware that there was more than one U. of C.
California
Colorado
Calgary
Cincinnati
Charleston
Connecticut
etc.
etc.
etc.
I was trying to be snarky…
Jeez, I’m glad that started after I graduated UC. Looking at that list just makes my head hurt. I saw some things on the early lists, and this just seems out of control. A picture with Mike Royko proving that it was taken during Scav was pretty good.
mcgato.
I actually put together a list of the best (funniest) entries from 1997-2007. Its a hoot and is contained in a 34-page Word document. I can send you an email through the SDMB to get you the complete list. A sampling of what it includes:
The World Famous: A breeder reactor built in a shed, [500 points]
Note: Completed by fourth year students Fred Neill and Justin Kasper. To verify the authenticity of the breeder reactor, Scavenger Hunt judges brought in a nuclear physicist to examine the device and determine whether the students had accurately constructed the reactor. (They did).
Other fun entries:
A team member who can get off three shots in under six seconds. [23 points].
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes a cigar is a laser interferometer [34 points]
Who wears short shorts? Why, tenured faculty members, of course! [10 points]
A popcorn ball at least 6 feet in circumference [44 points].
A superconductor. Must superconduct. [73 points]
An abacus, a slide rule and a calculator, and someone to operate all three. Judges will provide a different problem to be solved using each. [25 points].
Have someone from Arthur Andersen audit a class. [40 points].
A U of C anthropology professor to dress as Indiana Jones with either a lost Sankara stone, the Cross of Coronado, or the Holy Grail [15 points, 5 bonus points for an archaeologist]
The least kosher milkshake we’ve ever seen. [1 point per edible abomination included. Maximum 10 abominations]
Get circumcised. [73 points.] Note: Completed.
A graduate thesis written on napkins from a dining hall, signed off on by a thesis committee. [20 points]
Give your prof a wedgie, applying normal wedgie etiquette. [16 points. 10 bonus points if it is an atomic wedgie. 3 bonus points if the prof is an atomic physicist.]
Break all Ten Commandments in one, damning action. [10 points]
As the intellectual world revolves around the University of Chicago, proportionately reduce the history of Western Civilization to bring it into line with the new standard. Make sure Western Civ declines, falls. [55 points]
Attract media attention, even if it’s by reporting false news and getting the top local news reporter and his elite squad of idiot news commandos to swing by in “Assault Copter 5,” or whatever the fuck that thing is. [80 points for national news media, 50 points for local]
A cockroach more than 2 inches long. [5 points. 15 bonus points if you put it down your pants]
A team member to read the list of ingredients in a Twinkie with two Twinkies in his/her mouth. [10 points].
Show us what happens when you microwave a flame. [29 points].
A Turing Machine. [1,000,000 base 2 points]
A vacuum (not the kind you clean floors with). [5 points].
Find a Jeeves or an Alfred at Butler University and take a picture of his ID. [80 points]
A free lunch and a U of C economics professor. [20 points] [1 bonus point if he or she didn’t win the Nobel prize (yet) ].
Do something amok, other than run. [3 points]
A sealed bottle of Stolichnaya Vodka that reads Imported from the USSR'' instead of Imported from Russia.‘’ [30 points]
The expressed, written consent of Major League Baseball [15 points.]
The package, the postage, the person, and the proof that the person was mailed in the package with the postage. [330 points]
Using the abbreviation got the thread some traffic, didn’t it? 
I knew right away which U of C it was. Everybody should, therefore!
I must say I particularly like “the expressed written consent of major league baseball”
Ulf the Unwashed - send me an email via SDMB if you want the list. V-E-R-Y entertaining. I gotta update it one of these days.