Michael Adelman | Gordon Arsenoff | Dan Blake | Andrew Boardman | Jeremy Boardman | Fred Bush | Micha Elsner | George Flevares | Brian Furniss | Marie Guido | Melody Kramer | Anna Lessenger | Ben Lin | Melinda Morrison | Brenda J. Myrthil | Sid Parameswaran | Ben Ratner | Ricahrd Schermeyer | Betsy Shapiro | Kaeti Stoss | Zak Talarek
Class: 2004 | Major: History
Hometown: Irvington, NY | Height: 5' 9" | Weight: 210 | Buzzes: Switch
2002-2003 Tournaments Attended: BRRR, ACF Fall, TRASH Regionals, MLK, Ann B. Davis, NAQT Regionals, TRASHionals
Notes: Mike is a founding member of the Thelion Society, and has been its President since its inception. He has been a member of the University's College Bowl team each of his first two years at Rochester, and was on the team that won Region 2 last year, handing Cornell its first loss since 1993, and earning a trip to Nationals. He also appeared on this year's College Bowl team.
Favorite quotes: "Yes, I rather like this God fellow. He's very theatrical, you know, a pestilence here, a plague there. Omnipotence: gotta get me some of that." --The Family Guy
"I don't know much about Dick." --Micha Elsner, speaking about author Phillip K. Dick
Class: 2006 | Major: Physics
Hometown: University Park, MD | Height: 5'9" | Weight: 158 | Buzzes: two-handed
2002-2003 Tournaments Attended: TRASH Regionals, MLK, Ann B. Davis, NAQT Regionals
Notes: Gordon is the Thelion Society's first Webmaster. He can recite Star Wars: Episode IV line-for-line, though he's never done this for the Thelion Society. He was a member of this year's College Bowl team, which won Region 2 for the second straight year and took 3rd place at the NCT.
Favorite quotes: "Liberals want the government to be your mommy. Conservatives want government to be your daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult." --Andre Marrou
"And Jesus said, "You can't handle the truth!" --Alex Trebek
Class: 2006 | Major: Undecided
Hometown: Candor, NY | Height: 5'10" | Weight: 230 | Buzzes: Switch
2002-2003 Tournaments Attended: BRRR, TRASH Regionals, MLK, Ann B. Davis, NAQT Regionals, TRASHionals
Notes: Dan has the ability to recite the entire alphabet backwards in less than 3 seconds, which would be important, if reciting the alphabet backwards constituted a career.
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2002-2003 Tournaments Attended: None
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2002-2003 Tournaments Attended: None
Class: Grad | Major: English
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2002-2003 Tournaments Attended: BRRR, ACF Fall, MLK, Ann B. Davis, Penn Bowl, NAQT Regionals
Notes: Fred was captain of this year's College Bowl team, and led a spectacular comeback from over 150 points down in a playoff win against Cornell at the regional tournament.
Class: 2005 | Major: Computer Science
Hometown: Rockville, MD | Height: 5'?" | Weight: 120 | Buzzes: Left
2002-2003 Tournaments Attended: BRRR, ACF Fall, MLK, Ann B. Davis, Penn Bowl, NAQT Regionals
Notes: Micha was on this year's College Bowl team.
Class: Grad | Major: Business
Hometown: Warren, OH | Height: | Weight: Infinite at the event horizon | Buzzes:
2002-2003 Tournaments Attended: ACF Fall, TRASH Regionals, MLK, Ann B. Davis, TRASHionals
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2002-2003 Tournaments Attended: TRASH Regionals, NAQT Regionals, TRASHionals
Class: 2005 | Major: Biology - Genetics
Hometown: North Tonawanda, NY | Height: Taller than my roommates | Weight: None of your damn business | Buzzes: My dominant hand
2002-2003 Tournaments Attended: None
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2002-2003 Tournaments Attended: BRRR
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2002-2003 Tournaments Attended: BRRR
Class: 2005 | Major: Political Science
Hometown: Merrimack, NH | Height: 5'1" | Weight: 120 | Buzzes: Right
2002-2003 Tournaments Attended: MLK, Ann B. Davis, NAQT Regionals
Favorite quotes: "The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving." --Russell Green
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." --Kierkegaard
Class: n/a | Major: n/a
Hometown: Dakota City, NE | Height: Just enough to see over the table | Weight: Not quite enough to tip over the table | Buzzes: Right
2002-2003 Tournaments Attended: None
Notes: Brenda has been the Thelion Society's advisor and biggest supporter since its inception, and also runs the intramural College Bowl tournament on campus every year. If you'd like to know more about the Student Activities Office, you can go to their website at http://www.sa.rochester.edu/sao/.
Class: 2006 | Major: Physics, Math
Hometown: Chennai, India | Height: 5'10" | Weight: 140 | Buzzes: Right
2002-2003 Tournaments Attended: ACF Fall, MLK, Ann B. Davis, Penn Bowl, NAQT Regionals
Notes: Sid is sensitive about several things, including his accent, people complaining about being busy, campus food, people who diss fraternities, physics, or math, and has a general, inexplicable fear of Mike. He can often be seen at the Physics Department in Bausch & Lomb, The Pit, Sigma Nu, Danforth, or in his room. His favorite food is anything that is made off-campus, and his favorite quizbowl strategy is prentending to still be learning English to garner sympathy and extra time from moderators, such as when he gets Mira Sorvino confused with Mena Suvari. Sid was on this year's College Bowl team.
Class: 2006 | Major: Undecided
Hometown: Cleveland, OH | Height: Really sexy | Weight: Really, really sexy | Buzzes: Right
2002-2003 Tournaments Attended: BRRR
Notes: Ben was placed by ResLife in Hoeing Hall this year, and wonders if there is any underlying meaning to that.
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2002-2003 Tournaments Attended: None
Class: 2005 | Major: Art History
Hometown: Rochester, NY | Height: 5'ish" | Weight: | Buzzes: Right
2002-2003 Tournaments Attended: MLK, Ann B. Davis, NAQT Regionals
Favorite quotes: "A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read." --Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
"God does not play dice with the universe: He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time." --Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
Class: Grad | Major: Political Science
Hometown: Elyria, OH | Height: 6'0" | Weight: 185 | Buzzes: Switch
2002-2003 Tournaments Attended: ACF Fall, MLK, NAQT Regionals
Notes: Another of the Thelion Society's founders, Zak is the "Father of the Thelion Society Constitution." A graduate of Northwestern University, Zak was the captain of the Region 2-winning College Bowl team that went to Nationals last year. In addition to that, he also attended NAQT Nationals last year.
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