3 Questions!!! (1/19/04)

[Andy Grady]

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend, here are today's 3 Questions...

1. Who sang the American National Anthem EVERY year that Disney hosted the competition?

2. In 1997, what Texas robot was famous for its ability to spin the goal as it capped the goal?

3. What team won the first Autodesk Animation award?


They get a liiiiitle bit tougher today...good luck!

I will have the standings when I get home this afternoon.

[Joel J]

Originally Posted by Andy Grady

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend, here are today's 3 Questions...

1. Who sang the American National Anthem EVERY year that Disney hosted the competition?

2. In 1997, what Texas robot was famous for its ability to spin the goal as it capped the goal?

3. What team won the first Autodesk Animation award?


They get a liiiiitle bit tougher today...good luck!

I will have the standings when I get home this afternoon.

I don't know the rules of this game, but:

1. Voices of Liberty?

[Tom]

1.) Voices of liberty

2.) Ratheon Greenville

3.) Plymoth North Team #23

[Raul]

1: Voices of Liberty
2: Raytheon / Greenville - Their team leader went on to start a company called Innovation FIRST.
3: Team 56 - Ethicon

[Karthik]

1. Voices of Liberty
2. Raytheon E-Systems & Greenville HS, Team #148 (although that wouldn't have been their team number back then)
3. Proctor & Gamble & Walnut Hills HS, Team #144 (same thing about the team number). They won the Chairman's award that year as well.

/edit -- typo in "Liberty"

[Joe Ross]

Voices of Liberty

Raytheon E-systems and Greenville (they had a lot of nice robots back then)

Procter & Gamble & Walnut Hills

[Chris Hibner]

1. Voices of liberty

2. Raytheon E-Systems and Greenville H.S.

3. Do not know.

[Andy Baker]

1. Voices of Liberty
2. Raytheon & Greenville HS
3. GRT team 192

[ColleenShaver]

1. Voices of Liberty
2. Raytheon & Greenville
3. Not sure how early they won it, by I'll say Plymouth North. Most of the other teams I can associate a year with :-)

[Chris Hibner]

Originally Posted by Andy Grady

2. In 1997, what Texas robot was famous for its ability to spin the goal as it capped the goal?

Also, a side note:

ITW Drawform and Zeeland H.S. (now known as B.O.B. - Built on Brains) modified their robot to do this same thing for the 1997 West Michigan Invitational held at Zeeland high school.

[Rob Colatutto]

3. X-Cats 191

[lilszek24]

1. Voices of Liberty
2. Raytheon E-Systems & Greenville HS, Team #148 (altho they wudnt have been the same # back then)
3. Proctor & Gamble & Walnut Hills HS, Team #144

[Andy Grady]

Hi all,

Here are the answers to today's questions...

1. Voices of Liberty (for the land, for the land, FOR THE LAAAAND)

2. Raytheon and Greenville

3. Proctor and Gamble / Walnut Hills High School

Karthik is today's winner, good job!

Here are today's standings, I'm only gonna post the top 10 scores from now on because my list is just so big. Dont worry, I still am keeping everyones score.

Raul - 43
Colleen T190 - 39
Joe Ross - 35
Karthik - 21
JVN - 15
Andy Baker - 13
Dave Flowerday - 12
Sigmakid108 - 11
Chris Hibner - 10
Mike Soukup - 8
lilszek24 - 8