WisCon34: Apocalypse Jeopardy

This was a circus I orchestrated in the first panel slot Friday afternoon (immediately after the Gathering).

I had invaluable help from oursin as well as the hive mind/vagina in advance. I would have completely self-destructed if not for sage advice & dongle from damned_colonial, since my dual HTML-and-Keynote presentation strategy was completely unworkable. (Honestly, at one point I asked everyone in the room to close their eyes so I could display an MP3 file in the finder to play it. AFAICT, they obeyed.)

I maintained my calm principally due to the steadying presences of the Judge of Awesome & Wrong – general_jinjur – and emceeaich as the Time!r. The good-humored panelists were John James Adams, Erin Cashier, and JJ Pionke.

Sadly for a con where the project of deconstructing Imposter Syndrome was a high priority, I had a particularly bad case. I assumed that everyone would be way smarter than me, and made the clues much too hard. The audience was the real star – no matter how obscure, there was at least one person in the room who had an answer.

The end result was not much like standard Jeopardy!, but there was a lot of laughter so I'll call it a success.

I spent many many hours researching the clues, so if anyone is interested, I can give you a spreadsheet full of them.