The Worlds Largest Trivia Contest

Things are a little crazy this weekend in my hometown of Stevens Point. It just happens to be the 42nd running of the Worlds Largest Trivia Contest sponsored by the local College radio station, WWSP 90fm. "The Contest," as it is known by, is 54 hours of nothing but a collection of the most eclectic trivia questions know to man.  For example, the questions they just read went something like this:  According to a magazine article this Boardway musical is described as Circus, ballet, musical comedy, minstrel show, clowns, rock concert, magic, vaudeville, spectacle.  Answer: Pippin


Radio DJs read the questions on the air. Teams call in to the station with the answer. Eight questions per hour, the question is read twice, a song is played, question read again, another song is played and then players hear the dreaded "Phone Down in Back!" At that time the calls cease to be answered. The DJ reads the question once more and then the answer is reveled. 


A couple hours the number of questions vary slightly. In addition to the call in questions there the Trivia Stone (a scavenger hunt/rally done in a car), Music Snippets, Running Questions (scavenger hunt done on foot) as well as a collection of 24 random pictures in which players must identify in one way or another. 


As of hour 39 my team is in 169th place out of close to 394 teams with 2160 points. The top team has 8950 point. Yeah, we'll never reach that, but a top half finish would be stellar!  The number of points is based on the number of teams that get the question correct. The more people who answer correctly, the smaller the point value. Max point value of a question is 500 and the lowest value is 5. 


Only 13.5 hours to go!