Awards
Our yearly trivia awards given out in many categories.
Biggest Question: 480 point math runaround question about the Brady Bunch wedding in Las Vegas. The question was WAY too long to write here! It was a blast to work on. We get closer to getting the big point questions every year. Just wait until next year.
Biggest Question answered by one person: 270 points by Mike “During the 1999-2000 theater season, the US Bank at the Ordway featured 9 events. Give the exact name of each event.” We’re so glad you’re a packrat, Mike!
Biggest Questions by TEAM effort: We had a tie between these two 150 point questions:
The Crayola Crayon online store offered a special crayon for the Fourth of July 2002 if you placed an order of $35.00 or more. What was the name of this color? True Blue Hero (Thanks to Sara, who guessed blue and got a partial and Josh, who was then able to pick out the color from a list.)
And the question that depended on our bookkeeping skills and our memories requiring us to put together the second words of two earlier answers. What did we get? Rick Springfield!
Best internet searcher: Tonya Sand – you really know how to milk those internet sites for information. If we ever need to know the wedding certificate number for someone married in Las Vegas again, we know who to turn to.
Best book searcher: Sara McKeever – the World Almanac you buy every year finally paid off!
Best remote player: Mike Szafranski’s mom for finding the US Bank Ordway performances in Mike’s Ordway brochure for 270 points.
Biggest know-it-all: Joe Lanz with 215 points pulled and Aaron Murphy with 190 points pulled! How do you guys think of this stuff???
Best guesser: Loren Ament – Guess two!!!
Best phoner: Danielle Johnson – Between calling bookstores and the answer line Danielle logged a lot of telephone hours for us!
Best on the dispute line: We need Tom back because we didn’t get any points from the dispute line, but during a lull moment Sara argued on religious grounds that the answer “God” should be the same as “one that has always existed.” Along with “a carnivore is NOT the same as an omnivore.” But the question writers would not be convinced.
Best phone bank worker: Boobs! “I heart boobs!” – Sean Connery, SNL
Work that database: Darren spent most of his waking hours entering information on the database not to mention the time spent programming it.
Best computer contribution: Cory Storms who helped set up the network and contributed four computers (poor Big Red), a router, and numerous cables.
Biggest lifesaver: EMR Innovations – Thanks for lending us a projector that actually worked!
Worst question: It was an audio trivia of Gloria Steinem from a book she published in 1997, but the book was actually published in 1987. We had the answer but never called it in because it was the wrong year. Thankfully, the question was thrown out!
Best answers: Yayyyyyyyy!!!! and “We’re not gonna take it. NO! We ain’t gonna take it! We’re not gonna take it anymore.”
Worst answer: “It’s all fun and games until someone gets humped by a dog.” Phone bank worker: “That’s when the fun just begins.”
Most sleep: Bob Craven – on the couch, in the papasan…. was there anywhere Bob didn’t sleep?
Least sleep: Loren Ament - with a grand total of 2 hours all weekend! Wow!
Best sleeping position: Joe - with the dog’s tongue in his mouth
Longest distance traveled to come to trivia: Kevin Fuller who drove up from Nebraska to experience trivia for the first time, bringing Scupper the Sailor Dog with him! Too bad that wasn’t a bigger question!
Best team improvement: Team t-shirts!!! Big thanks to Joe for getting them made, Chris Beck for the artwork and Peter Wocken for helping design the artwork.
Worst addition to our team: addictivegames.com I’m not coming up with anything on this question, I’ll just “Spank the Monkey.”
Best meal: Barb McKeever’s taco soup!
Best host: Sara McKeever who gathered up a lot of garbage, emptied out a lot of warm pop, made countless trips to the garbage can and did several loads of dishes. All to keep those search engines hopping!