The Mother Of All Bored History Quizzes!
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 8:18 am
Today is, of course, the eighth anniversary of the creation of The Bored As We Know It. Of course, I use that term because the Bored actually did exist as far back as August of 1999 when WWTBAM first went on the air, but that Bored came crashing down in the flames of a hacker attack, and the reborn Bored with whatever posts could be salvaged from the wreckage went back online on this day 8 years ago.
Since I usually try to do something special to celebrate the occasion, I decided to create a Bored history quiz. OK, so this is a bit more than a quiz, but what better way to celebrate our Bored than with a plethora of questions from its rich history!
Of course, the majority of the questions concern events from the Bored's first two years, and I did this over the course of several weeks, so hopefully I didn't repeat any questions. I also didn't get one of my patented doozy questions at the end.... I just stopped writing questions when I got tired and exhausted most of the resourses I have available....
So, if you have nothing to do on this wonderful Black Friday, test your Bored history IQ! Or just stand back and shake your head that I would even create such a monstrosity....
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.
A. The PRoG
B. The Love Boat
C. The Ugly Bored
14. What did the acronym in our nickname for the ABC Bored, The PRoG, stand for?
15. What was the exact text that followed "&room=" in the url of the PRoG?
16. What was the exact text that followed "&room=" in the url of the Love Boat?
17. What was our forumID number in the url of the Ugly Bored?
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?
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?
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?
34. What was the longest time warp gap, in minutes, which was acheived just before the problem was fixed on July 23, 2001?
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?
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?
47. Who came up with the original concept for Lyrically Speaking, though did not host its first edition?
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
59. web5709
60. 1818reed
61. bjh104
62. newtoyou
63. davexprice
64. nettlesl78
65. markster38
66. What was the name of the Bored's original Bored monitor?
67. What was the name of her replacement, whose tactics helped spur the move to the GC?
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?
75. What color did the names of posters on a person's Ignored list show up in?
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.
Match each of the following March 2001 audition cities to the city which held a WWTBAm audition at the same time:
78. New Orleans
79. Miami
80. Philadelphia
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.
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
D. Corn9977
87. How many choices were available on the Go Bored poll feature?
88. Which BB hacked Go's poll feature in October 2000 to create a MegaPoll that allowed there to be up to 50 choices?
89. Which BB revamped the MegaPoll in April 2001 after the site the original MegaPoll feature was posted on was taken down?
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?
93. What was the station format of WGAS in Gastonia at the time it was discovered on November 15, 2000?
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?
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?
97. Which BB was the first to award real prizes for order of finish in the final QoD standings?
98. Which city was originally scheduled to hold a stealth audition on September 12, 2001?
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?
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 ___ number of hits, and disappeared after a post made it to ___ 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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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
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
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?
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
149. Barry Runkel picks up Tracy Railsback while driving in his Camaro. Convolution ensues, and the former ends up kidnapping Pat Summerall
150. Miles Merryman buys a Hermillion watch and becomes a time traveller
151. Jacob Keyes and Lila Cole deal with the nefarious plan of Mayor Geezergut Bilco in Thermopolis
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?
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
167. PRoG
168. ToC
169. GC
170. PC (not postcard, the original definition)
171. OTC
172. APP
173. ESST
174. TMHBB
175. TBOTS
176. MBFFB
177. MMFF
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?
185. What was the other city to hold one of these final old-style auditions?
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?
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?
195. What was artinma's main job on the PRoG?
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
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?
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
203. etaoin
204. mwstevens
205. Tocqueville
206. CynCty
207. love (as in Gary Love)
208. TomL
209. slam
210. Reeg
211. okiebroker
212. Mellowmom
213. LLMax
214. Which BB won WWTBAM's AOL ATA contest in 2004?
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"?
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
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?
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?
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) occured 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?
237. Two months later, the same debate popped up about which newly created game?
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?
240. Between artinma and the formation of the BBTranscriptTeam, which BB temporarily took over transcription duties for WWTBAM shows?
Define the following terms as they relate to the Bored and its community:
241. The EOS Bar & Grille
242. The Moratorium Lounge
243. Three Hour Tour
244. PJ Party
245. War Dialing
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?
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?
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?
Since I usually try to do something special to celebrate the occasion, I decided to create a Bored history quiz. OK, so this is a bit more than a quiz, but what better way to celebrate our Bored than with a plethora of questions from its rich history!
Of course, the majority of the questions concern events from the Bored's first two years, and I did this over the course of several weeks, so hopefully I didn't repeat any questions. I also didn't get one of my patented doozy questions at the end.... I just stopped writing questions when I got tired and exhausted most of the resourses I have available....
So, if you have nothing to do on this wonderful Black Friday, test your Bored history IQ! Or just stand back and shake your head that I would even create such a monstrosity....
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.
A. The PRoG
B. The Love Boat
C. The Ugly Bored
14. What did the acronym in our nickname for the ABC Bored, The PRoG, stand for?
15. What was the exact text that followed "&room=" in the url of the PRoG?
16. What was the exact text that followed "&room=" in the url of the Love Boat?
17. What was our forumID number in the url of the Ugly Bored?
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?
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?
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?
34. What was the longest time warp gap, in minutes, which was acheived just before the problem was fixed on July 23, 2001?
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?
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?
47. Who came up with the original concept for Lyrically Speaking, though did not host its first edition?
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
59. web5709
60. 1818reed
61. bjh104
62. newtoyou
63. davexprice
64. nettlesl78
65. markster38
66. What was the name of the Bored's original Bored monitor?
67. What was the name of her replacement, whose tactics helped spur the move to the GC?
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?
75. What color did the names of posters on a person's Ignored list show up in?
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.
Match each of the following March 2001 audition cities to the city which held a WWTBAm audition at the same time:
78. New Orleans
79. Miami
80. Philadelphia
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.
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
D. Corn9977
87. How many choices were available on the Go Bored poll feature?
88. Which BB hacked Go's poll feature in October 2000 to create a MegaPoll that allowed there to be up to 50 choices?
89. Which BB revamped the MegaPoll in April 2001 after the site the original MegaPoll feature was posted on was taken down?
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?
93. What was the station format of WGAS in Gastonia at the time it was discovered on November 15, 2000?
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?
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?
97. Which BB was the first to award real prizes for order of finish in the final QoD standings?
98. Which city was originally scheduled to hold a stealth audition on September 12, 2001?
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?
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 ___ number of hits, and disappeared after a post made it to ___ 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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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
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
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?
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
149. Barry Runkel picks up Tracy Railsback while driving in his Camaro. Convolution ensues, and the former ends up kidnapping Pat Summerall
150. Miles Merryman buys a Hermillion watch and becomes a time traveller
151. Jacob Keyes and Lila Cole deal with the nefarious plan of Mayor Geezergut Bilco in Thermopolis
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?
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
167. PRoG
168. ToC
169. GC
170. PC (not postcard, the original definition)
171. OTC
172. APP
173. ESST
174. TMHBB
175. TBOTS
176. MBFFB
177. MMFF
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?
185. What was the other city to hold one of these final old-style auditions?
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?
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?
195. What was artinma's main job on the PRoG?
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
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?
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
203. etaoin
204. mwstevens
205. Tocqueville
206. CynCty
207. love (as in Gary Love)
208. TomL
209. slam
210. Reeg
211. okiebroker
212. Mellowmom
213. LLMax
214. Which BB won WWTBAM's AOL ATA contest in 2004?
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"?
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
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?
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?
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) occured 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?
237. Two months later, the same debate popped up about which newly created game?
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?
240. Between artinma and the formation of the BBTranscriptTeam, which BB temporarily took over transcription duties for WWTBAM shows?
Define the following terms as they relate to the Bored and its community:
241. The EOS Bar & Grille
242. The Moratorium Lounge
243. Three Hour Tour
244. PJ Party
245. War Dialing
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?
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?
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?
