AG-onizing Trivia

You might be reading this issue of Going Forward at the American Mensa Annual Gathering (AG). If so, you might find someone who can help you with the answers and then you won't have to wait until the next issue. If you are reading this issue at home, look up a Mensa "old-timer" (pick a name from an e-mail list or the Bulletin or InterLoc) and get help. It's a great way to meet a new friend, and friends are what Mensa is all about. Be creative — and learn some Mensa history along the way.

All answers relate to a Mensa AG in some way. How many of these questions can you answer correctly?

Send your answers to: Editor, Going Forward, 5933 NW 71 St., Warr Acres, OK 73132 or e-mail your responses to TJLundeen@aol.com. We will publish the name(s) of the person having the most correct responses.

1. When was the very first Mensa AG held? (Warning: read the question carefully.)

2. Through 1988, one person held the record for number of AML AGs attended, having missed only one. Name that person.

3. What do the following have in common: "Alienation and Anomie," "Potpourri," "La Republica de Tejas," and "California Dreaming"?

4. What surprise marked the close of the Annual Business Meeting at the 1995 AG in St. Louis?

5. What do the following people have in common as it relates to Mensa: Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Buckminster Fuller, Dr. Denton Cooley (heart surgeon), William Christopher (actor best known as Father Mulcahey on Mash) and Melvin Belli (attorney)?

6. On November 2, 1970, Mensan Arthur Merrill displayed a carved alabaster statuette from Cybis Porcelain Studios. What did that statuette represent?

7. Name five winners of the Margot Award.

8. Which American AG was the only one not held in a hotel?

9. Who is American Mensa's Convention & Travel Coordinator, the person who has brilliantly negotiated most of our recent AG hotel contracts?

10. The 1991 Kansas City AG was co-hosted by an M&M couple. Name them.

11. In what city was the first American AG held?

12. Only one event is mandated at the AG. Name it.

13. The Mensa Boutique is always present at the AG to help Mensans find merchandise imprinted with our Mensa logo. Name the Mensan who owns the Boutique and has made it an integral part of our AG experience.