Conference Report: 2001 LISA: Quiz Show

This year's Quiz Show began with closing remarks from Mark Burgess, thanking us for attending. Dan Klein then proceeded to introduce our host, Rob Kolstad, and run the game. We've got all new software, mostly new buzzers, a new logo, and new theme music (licensed no less); and the LISA Quiz Show XP (for "extra fun," according to Rob, though based on the number of vendors who contributed items to give away, perhaps "extra prizes" would be more appropriate) was off and running.

We had the usual three rounds with three contestants each:

Game 1
Categories	City Monuments, Acronyms, D Animals, Home Appliances, Exotic Dishes, and TV Shows X
Players	Brandon Allbery (2800 after adjustments), Darrell Fuhriman (3300 after adjustments), Andrew MacPherson (3400 after adjustments)

Game 2
Categories	Cartoon Characters, Sports, Raw Foods, E Animals, Perl, TV Shows XI
Players	Tim (800), Ken Herron (1100), Doug Hughes (1600)

Game 3
Categories	Autos, html, Airports, Ine Words, Animal Children, TV Shows XII
Players	Rich Schultz (300), Mark Logan (1200), David Grieg (2200)

Finals
Categories	Rivers, Novelty Songs, Weather, Ine Animals, Perversions, and RHPS
Players	Andrew (2000), Doug Hughes (1300), David Grieg (2800)

Another new feature of the Quiz Show is automated closing credits, detailing the producers (Dan Klein, Rob Kolstad, and Josh Simon), the testers (Tom Limoncelli, Adam Moskowitz, Hal Pomerancz, John Sellens, and Ronise Zenon), the vendors who supplied prizes (Addison Wesley/Pearson, Computone, Eagle Software, Lumeta, O'Reilly & Associates, OpenBSD, Red Hat, Tadpole, TeamQuest, Tricord, USENIX Association, and VMware), the licensing information ("Music licensed through ASCAP and BMI"), special thanks to the MSI audio/visual team, and that next year's LISA is in Philadelphia in November 2002.

Prizes for the contestants included the following:

Grand Prize — $150 in cash, a cast brass BSD daemon with removable Apache feather or traditional trident, a custom Lumeta network map, and copies of Avi Rubin's White Hat Security Arsenal and Tom Limoncelli and Christine Hogan's The Practice of System and Network Administration
Second Place Finalist — $100 in cash, a smaller standard Lumeta network map, a copy of RedHat 7.2, a Timex watch and software set, and copies of Avi Rubin's White Hat Security Arsenal and Tom Limoncelli and Christine Hogan's The Practice of System and Network Administration
Third Place Finalist — $50 in cash, a smaller standard Lumeta network map, a copy of VMware 3.0, an indoor golf putting set, and copies of Avi Rubin's White Hat Security Arsenal and Tom Limoncelli and Christine Hogan's The Practice of System and Network Administration
Other Contestants — All other participants received a book from O'Reilly (selected at random), along with a boxed set of Stevens' TCP/IP Illustrated: Volumes 1-3, a small prize (an organizer or a hat and a bag for the second-place finishers in the first three games, and a shirt for the third-place finishers), and a selection from the grab bag of remaining small prizes (OpenBSD posters, maglites, and pens)

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