Awards

Biggest Question: 500 point math runaround question about the Ole and Sven and their VOID Lottery Tickets. Joe and Jerry worked especially hard trying to come up with the answer. If only we would’ve guessed 88.1 KVSC ($881 & $5872) we would’ve been 500 points richer.
Biggest Question answered by one person: 150 points by Laura who had did some creative internet searching. Without the name of the woman in visual trivia #8, we wouldn’t have been able to find where she worked, so we credit 150 points to Laura!
Biggest Questions by TEAM effort: For 150 trivia points: Rolling stone Magazine featured the top 100 guitarists. List the top 10 as picked by Buddy Guy. (buddy was #30 on the list) names as given in mag.
Fastest internet searcher: Tom Kain – he really pounded out the 20 and 30 point questions and got us into the answer line quickly. He also racked up the most points for our team by having such quick and tireless internet searching capabilities.
Best book contribution: Laura Honkomp – the Oddball Minnesota: A Guide to Some Really Strange Places came in most useful, especially in Hour 50!
Most improved player: Ben, you rock!
Best remote player: Tommy from New York! Next year, when you’re back in Minnesota, we’ll storm the top 10!
Biggest know-it-all: Tommy earned the team 75 points off the top of his head. What is the name of the Chinese mutton stew in the chapter entitled "Xmas in China"? All that time spent in China really pays off sometimes!
Best guesser: Murphy guessed the family heirloom that survived the S. Illinois fire all because of Rubbermaid totes (according to the advertisement) for 50 trivia points!
Best phoner: Loren Ament – “Give me a number! I’ll call!” was probably the most frequently heard phrase from Loren during the weekend.
Best on the dispute line: Josh had a way with the folks at the dispute line. His telephone manner had them eating out of his hand.
Best phone bank worker: Wild Child gave our team the most points with a total of 455 points and was most kind on the big questions giving us both a 100 and a 150 point question!
Work that database: Jerry’s quick fingers make him a wiz on the database!
Best network contribution: Cory Storms brought along the webcam this year! That made it a lot of fun for remote players to play along. They could really feel a part of things.
Best answers: “Can we get a partial on blue? How about red? How about your phone number?” –Josh
Worst answer: Rick Springfield – he didn’t come up at all this year, but we had to try!
Most sleep: John “Mike, you can bring your friends over to sleep here anytime.” - Darren
Least sleep: We must all be getting old (which means eventually we’ll be able to win!) because none of us are trying to stay up all weekend anymore. But Darren slept only a few hours each night, so we’ll have to give him the award this year.
Best team improvement: The firewall that blocked www.addictinggames.com! An honorable mention also goes to the virtual network that allowed Tommy and other remote players to view our database in real time!
Best food contribution: Snacks brought by Terri and Patti Storms when we were all hungry and working hard in the early hours of the game!
Best host: Sandy Lanz who cleaned up the kitchen on her visits to trivia headquarters. At the end of hour 50, the counters shined!