Second Quarter 2000 Meeting
This Mass Challenge meeting was held on June 3, 2000 at Max's Allegheny Tavern. The Rascals were called upon to discover the Rascal of the Bi-Millennium, to wit, the most rascally rascal since the year 1 AD. Each competitor was given a century in which to discover the most rascally rascal in that century. Competitors then presented their case for why their rascal should be the Rascal of the Bi-Millenium. The winner of the 2000 Mass Challenge was Lee Wolfson, who made the case for Pope John XII, a 10th century rascal. Winner of the runner-up prize, the McGeoy Bitter Cup, was Tim Esaias with a first-rate presentation about Giordano Bruno. Other presenters were Charles George, arguing for Pliny the Elder, Dan Morrison singing a country-western song for Moses of Crete, John Blair who spun a magnetic top in honor of nobody, Mark Miller who thought Geoffrey Chaucer should be our man, Woody Cunningham, who made a case for Lavoisiere, and Bob Edmunds pleading the cause of Voltaire.
Among those present at this meeting were:
