The Student Activities Board (SAB) hosted its annual “How well do you know your roommate?” contest in the Den this past Saturday.
Although the title name of the event suggests otherwise, the event was not strictly restricted to just roommates, but other students were also encouraged to join the contest with their friends.
The contest required two friends to come forward each turn and answer several questions about one another. Under a time limit, each partner had to write their answers on a sheet paper, and afterwards have the answers checked.
“How well do you know your roommate?” was run in a tournament format, in which the winning partners from the first round were eligible to proceed to the next round until the final round. The teams were eliminated right away after their first wrong question.
The questions asked varied in difficulty levels, ranging from some easier inquiries like, “What is your friend’s favorite movie?” or “What is his/her favorite ice cream flavor?” to more demanding questions such as, “What was his/her first word that he/she spoke?”
Among the high-scored partners were Claudia Giles ’12 and her friend Susanna Rademacher ’12, who answered nine out of ten questions about each other correctly.
Giles said, “It was really fun, but in the end we didn’t win … We had sat down for about two hours before this, and just asked each other questions. … We also had this strategy where if we didn’t know the answer to a question, the both of us would just write down ‘Apple’ no matter what, so that our answers would always match up.”
Like the Giles and Rademacher combo, other partners at the event used special strategies. To certain teams, the strategy they had come up with hindered their performance.
Kennedy Edmonds ’12 and Jack Sykes ’12 answered five questions correctly. Edmonds said, “We ended up over-strategizing when they asked us about the other’s favorite movie. … I wrote down his actual favorite movie, as opposed to the name of a specific movie that we had planned to write down, and it got all jumbled up.”
After numerous rounds of question-and-answers, Daniel Gottfried ’12 and Ian Palin ’12 made it all the way to the final round, after winning their preliminary round.
Of the most difficult question encountered, Gottfried answered, “It was definitely the final question that we were eliminated on. They asked us what the other person’s Halloween costume was last year. That was pretty tough!”
The contest ended with the winning team Julia Torabi ’12 and Mariana Budge ’12, who each received a $15 iTunes Gift Card as their prize.
“It was really fun because we know each other really well … and this allowed us to test out the extent of how well we know each other,” said Torabi.
Adding to Torabi, Budge said, “I have known Julia for three and a half years, but it sure feels like a lifetime.”
After the event, SAB said that the event had been quite successful with many students participating in the contest.
Some members mentioned room for improvement. Fatima Liaqat ’12 said that the show would have been better for the audience with speakers. She said, “It was difficult to understand the happenings on the stage without all the contestants speaking into the microphones.”
However, the contestants, as well as the audience members, seemed to have thoroughly enjoyed the show, with the teams laughing and giving each other knowing looks, and the audience eagerly waiting to see who would win.