comic-con 2002

adam, jonathan, sumir, and vince on 08/09/2002 12:19:53 -0700

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I only caught about 20 minutes of this (it was supposed to be 90 minutes, but I believe it ran closer to 60).  Basically, you had the geeks from Comedy Central's Beat the Geeks against some comic book "pros" in Jeopardy-style contest.  We've all met the geeks from a UCLA college bowl tournament, so I happened to know two of them (Andy - the music geek on the show itself - and Alan - the comic book geek on the show).

Well, as was to be expected, the comic book pros beat the Comedy Central crew pretty soundly (I believe the score was about 550 to 270), but I think the geeks put on a solid, if not downright impressive, showing for a specialized field of knowledge.  The questions were downright insane (to me).  Want to try one?

Q: What was the name of Aquaman's walrus?

(And no, that is not a sexual joke.)

A: Tusky.

Following the contest, audience members were invited to either field questions for the pros and geeks or field their questions for the chance to win a t-shirt.  I abstained, not wanting to embarrass myself.

- Sumir

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