Urban Challenge 2003
August 30, 2003
Washington, DC

Anders and I prerace	With Diana and her boyfriend	Postrace
Anders and I with Scott, our ground support		Our Course: 11.5 miles

Checkpoint 1: Simba, is that you? Get your photo with a stone cat and a couple of cubs within a half-mile east of MCI Center. Answer: Law Enforcement Memorial	Checkpoint 2: Can You Lick 'em? Checkpoint 2 is located west of the White House and has something in common with the following: Templars' Chapel in Laon, Globe Theater, The 1856 British Guiana one-cent magenta stamp, Dome of the Rock. Answer: The Octagon	Checkpoint 3: General Ticktackteau? Checkpoint 3 is the statue of a man who shares his name, but not always his spelling, with a popular children's game that Cartman twisted into something painful on South Park. Find it within a mile of the White House. Answer: Rochambeau	Checkpoint 4: Ars Gratis Artis Choose the best answer to the question posed below and get your photo with the artwork associated with the correct answer. Why is a liberal considered to be left-wing and a conservative considered to be right-wing? A. In the air force, traditional flying formations for battle required pilots to line up off the lead plane's right wing; to have a pilot fall in off the left wing was considered more radical. B. In the early 1900s, British conservatives called their liberal adversaries the "left-wing" as a reference to the Old English word lyft, meaning "weak" C. It describes the seating arrangement in the French National Assembly during the early stages of the French Revolution D. None of the above. If A, then Action in Chains is Checkpoint 4. If B, then Horse and Rider is Checkpoint 4. If C, then The Burghers of Calais is Checkpoint 4. If D, then Cesar's Thumb is Checkpoint 4. Find them all on the National Mall. Answer: The Burghers of Calais
Checkpoint 5: On the Rocks Find the waterfall in Rosslyn. It's Checkpoint 5. Answer: Waterfall	Checkpoint 6: Cheesy Clue Time! Checkpoint 6 is on M Street in Georgetown. To find out where, solve the equation below and substitute the answer for A in this equation: 52A – 46 Busby loves a cheesy pizza. He is planning to bake an 18" pizza pie on a pizza stone. He is at the Safeway and remembers that he needs 1/4 ounce of mozzarella cheese per square inch of pizza to make it taste the way he likes it. At minimum, how much mozzarella should Busby buy? Round your answer up to the nearest ounce so Busby doesn't run short. Answer: Pizzeria Paradiso	Checkpoint 7: Twenty-two! The lines below are taken from a movie starring the actor who shares his name with Checkpoint 7. Find the establishment in the Georgetown area. "You know what he'll do when he comes back? Beat my teeth out, then kick me in the stomach for mumbling." , "She tried to sit in my lap when I was standing up." , "I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings." Answer: Bogart	Checkpoint 8: I Saw One in a Park! Checkpoint 8 shares its name with the most massive of living forms and one of the longest living species on earth. Find it south of M Street and north of the Potomac. Answer: Sequoia
Checkpoint 9: O boy, he's da bust! Find the bust of the man who many credit with saving a towpath from becoming a parkway. Find it in Georgetown. Answer: Douglas bust	Checkpoint 10: Food fight! Find the embassy of the country in which the following event takes place: When the day of the great battle dawns, local shopkeepers diligently cover their shop fronts with sheets of plastic and twenty thousand local folk and tourists take to the streets, as trucks loaded with around 125,000 kilos of ripe ammo roll into the plaza. Between 11am and 1pm, the streets are awash with juice, pavements are spattered with pulp and the participants transformed into walking, talking Bloody Marys. Answer: Spanish Embassy	Checkpoint 11: Thanks DAR! Find the "Presidents Trees" between Union Station and the Capitol. Once you locate the trees, find the plaque that commemorates them and get your photo there because it is Checkpoint 11. Answer: Presidents Trees near Union Station	Checkpoint 12: Aim for the Correct Answer! Evaluate this statement: The center scoring zone on an archery target is colored red. If True, then the Garfield statue is Checkpoint 12. If False, then the west fountain at the Capitol is Checkpoint 12. Answer: West Fountain