YWS Scavenger Hunt
Summary: Scour the site for the answers to these questions and see if you can find them all!
How to enter: Please PM all entries to Rydia. Do not post them in this thread!
Description: A scavenger hunt brought to you by the two most fiendish minds on YWS: Meshugenah and Rydia!
Ground Rules
1. Absolutely no bumping of topics that may or may not be relevant. If such a topic is found, the posts will be deleted, and participant disqualified.
2. You may beg, borrow, or steal, but you may not bully, bribe, or otherwise harass anyone into helping you complete this. Side note: this is an individual event: EVERY HUMAN, DRAGON, CAT, OR MONKEY FOR THEMSELF.
3. You may use any means necessary available to you, but may not do anything illegal - i.e. try to hack into the super duper secret no one knows about it mod castle secret base where we keep all the good chocolate (hint: it’s definitely not on Mars, nor has it ever been). The same goes for the dungeon where we keep
Easy - All worth one point
You may know most of these off by heart if you’ve been on YWS for a while.
1. In which month and year was YWS established?
2. What colour usernames did the instructors and greeters have?
3. What is the name of the YWS internal e-zine?
4. Which moderator is the Group Leader of the Resources Crew?
5. How many reviews do I need to do to earn my first review star?
6. Who was the Best Overall Member in 2013?
7. Name a member who joined the site on November 16th 2004.
8. Who or what is the official YWS mascot?
9. Who won the silver medal in the ‘The Library of Imaginary Things’ event?
10. List 5 Distinguished Members of YWS, otherwise known as DM’s.
Medium - All worth two points
If you’re extra knowledgeable (or old!) you might be able to manage one or two of these without researching.
1. What is Nate's middle name?
2. What were the three animals involved in the Mascot wars?
3. Who are the two legendary warring cliques on YWS?
4. On which date did the site reach 20,000 members?
5. Which group makes it their mission to ensure every piece of writing posted on YWS gets at least two reviews?
6. What name is given to the YWS administrators as a collective group?
7. Where can you post a full novel on YWS?
8. Name at least two of the ‘junior moderators’ who were moderators for a day in April 2011.
9. What was the name of the infamous zombie storybook first run by Ego in 2007?
10. How many reviews were written in 2010?
Hard - All worth three points
If you can find these, you’re an expert researcher! If you know them already you’re crazy.
1. On what date did Firefox first become a more used browser than Internet Explorer on YWS?
2. How many times was the word Fahrvergnügen used on the review day where the last review was written by LilySoulMahon?
3. On what day was the original YWS e-zine published?
4. What were the names of the four teams for the Summer review event run by Rydia?
5. In the last Olympics, barefootrunner won with a total of 6 points. What medals did she win to achieve this accumulative total?
Fiendish - All worth four points
If you even attempt these you’re at least a little bit crazy. Some of these questions are so fiendish, you won’t necessarily find the answer on YWS...
1. What is the url for the website YWSers flocked to in 2006?
2. Name five members of each of the two YWS rival cults.
3. Name at least two leaders, past or present, of each of the two YWS rival cults.
4. Name two members, other than Nate, who were moderators in 2004.
5. When Nate first began YWS, he advertised in a lot of places. Name at least two of the sites where he posted.
Bonus Round - All worth one point
These questions all relate to one of the two admins who put together this year’s Scavenger Hunt.
1. Name at least 10 YWS’ers who either Rydia or Meshugenah have met in person.
2. Name two YWS’ers who Rydia and Meshugenah have both met in person.
3. What, according to Meshugenah, always happens when Nate goes on vacation?
4. Name something which Rydia is allergic to.
5. In a battle of Monkeys vs Dragons, which team would Rydia and Meshugenah be on?
6. What degree did Rydia do for one year at university, before changing to a new course?
7. Which two YWSers that Meshugenah knows of have (or are working toward) the same/almost the same degree as her?
8. In regard to the hit TV show Supernatural, which of the brothers do Rydia and Meshugenah favour?
9. Find Mesh’s very first post ever on YWS.
10. Name the month and year both Rydia and Meshugenah became mods and then admins.
11. Find the link to Rydia’s old baking/ cooking blog.
Gender:
Points: 6235
Reviews: 2631