Assist President-Elect in choosing a committee that is representative of all of the entomological disciplines (approximately 6). This will be especially beneficial in providing useful questions with correct answers. Also choose 3 judges.

Four months before Annual Meeting, write letter to each potential team organization encouraging them to participate. Remind them that it is for fun and that a team does not have to composed of just students, just members of a particular university or organization; it can be a pickup team. Follow up with a telephone call 2 weeks after letters are sent out.

Four months before Annual Meeting, request 16 (2 from each discipline area) questions from each member of the committee, excluding the judges. Request that they be returned 3 months before the Annual Meeting.

Three months before the Annual Meeting, send questions to judges for their comments and suggestions. Request that they be returned 2 months before Annual Meeting.

Make slides of questions after they are approved for projection during the games.

One month before Annual Meeting, be sure that equipment will be available for games including projection equipment, buzzers, score boards, etc.

Prepare some form of recognition for the winners of the games such as a certificate.

Rules and Regulations for the games are as follows:

The Linnaean Games: a question-and-answer competition on Entomological Facts is played between two teams made up of four players each.

Points are scored by correctly answering questions asked by the moderator. The two types of questions are Toss-ups and Bonuses, each worth 10 points.

Each round begins with a Toss-up question. The first player to signal answers the question. He/she must do so without consultation. No player should volunteer an answer to a Toss-up until recognized by the moderator as the eligible respondent. If no player signals within 5 seconds of completion of the question, the next Toss-up question begins.

If a player answers a Toss-up correctly, the team is awarded 10 points and is given a chance at a Bonus question. (All team members may confer on the Bonus answer. When necessary, the captain will act as spokesman for the team, and his/her answer will be the official one.) If a player answers a Toss-up incorrectly, the question is turned over to the other team and if answered correctly, 10 points are awarded. On the turnover, a player must signal and be recognized before answering.

A player may interrupt the moderator before the question has been completely read by signaling. If a correct answer is given, the team scores 10 points and is given a chance at a Bonus question. If an incorrect answer is given, the team is penalized 5 points and the entire question is repeated for the other team. A correct answer by the other team scores 10 points and a Bonus question will be given.

A game will consist of 16 Toss-up questions. The team with the most points at the end of the game is the winner. If the score is tied at the end of the regulation game, the tie is broken by a sudden-death play-off. The first correct answer to a Tie-Breaker Toss-up question wins the game. An incorrect answer through an interruption (answer given before question completely read) to a Tie-Breaker, loses the game.

Participants may be any ESA Eastern Branch member. Teams will be organized by randomly assigning players to teams irrespective of player's affiliation.

Questions and answers will be designed by the Ad hoc Linnaean Games Committee. Toss-up questions will be categorized according to subject-area as follows: Apiculture, Biological Control, Ecology, Economic Entomology, Medical and Veterinary, Physiology and Biochemistry, Taxonomy and Toxicology.

Bonus questions can come from any area of entomology, but will draw heavily on the areas of History and People.

On the average, two Toss-up questions in each game will come from each subject-area category.

The champion team will be determined by tournament format where pairings are drawn at random.