Stump the Experts

Stump the Experts was a popular session of Apple Inc's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) conference. The first Stump took place at the WWDC92 in San Jose. Stump the Experts was not listed on the WWDC schedule for 2015.

Stump the Experts is chaotically hosted by Fred Huxham and Mark "The Red" Harlan.

This year the experts were victorious by a small margin - winning 7:6. The crazy Swiss guy was here again, after two years of absence, to finish his PhD.

There was a return of the 'Will it Blend'-style question where the audience had to identify an Apple QuickTake that had been run through a Blendtec blender.

A new quiz mode was introduced: The lightning round. 5 questions were asked - the contestant who knew the answer had to prick a balloon to earn the right to answer. No buzzers were provided due to budget reasons.

The T-shirt was red this year and had no apple logo. It was repeatedly said, that one can do with this T-shirt whatever one wants - there were laser cut apple logos and industrial paint to add the apple logo afterwards.

The opening slide read, "Stump The Experts", "Old enough to drink in the USA".

As the Swiss scorekeeper was not present this year, it is unclear who won.

One of the first questions intended to stump the experts was 'How did the WWDC app pass the approval process.' A jab at the fact that the app crashed a lot and had issues throughout the time the conference was running.

One audience member was volunteered to test 15 unmarked flavors of Mountain Dew, and present the answers at the end of the show. He got 3.5 points for the audience which sealed the Expert's fate and gave the audience a convincing lead.

Other highlights included a dance contest and a 'Will it Blend'-style question where the audience had to identify an Apple Pro Mouse that had been run through a Blendtec blender.

The audience won this year.

Bill Atkinson was given a well-deserved standing ovation from the audience for his work on the original Macintosh and a question about the original proposed name for HyperCard, WildCard (hence the creator code of 'WILD').

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