P1020433 Tim Morgan gives out rattling hands

with which "Science: fact or crap?" players will be able announce their readiness to answer a question.

Tim Morgan conducted the "Science: fact or crap?" game at Fencon 2008. It was played by a team of pros against a team of fans... I think. The most prominent pro on the team was Gregory Benford, a physics professor, science fiction writer, and Fencon guest of honor. The purpose of the game was to score points by answering science-related questions. Each question had two parts: a fact-or-crap, i.e. yes-or-no part (but you could not answer "no", you had to say "crap"! :-)), and a follow up freeform" question. The questions drew from many different sciences: anatomy, anthropology, archeology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, physics. For the most part they were not very hard. See examples of questions here. Sometimes the participants' confidence in their knowledge lead to comical situations.

Read all about the game in my blog post.