Gopher Topher
55: Trivia Fiend
This weekend I went to visit a good friend of mine who goes to college in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Why this weekend? Because every year, thousands converge on this small town to compete in the world's largest trivia contest. From 6PM on Friday to the stroke of Midnight on Sunday, questions are spewed out of a local radio station around the clock and teams have to call in with their answers within minutes of the question being asked. My friend has been trying to get me to go for years and I finally caved. So worth it!
The contest is as much about finding the answers as it is about knowing them, so our team wifi'ed it up at a team member's apartment with an army of laptops and cell phones. Here you can see me trying to find the answer to one of the thousands of questions asked this weekend. Of course, one of the problems with an around-the-clock tournament is that...
55: Trivia Fiend
This weekend I went to visit a good friend of mine who goes to college in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Why this weekend? Because every year, thousands converge on this small town to compete in the world's largest trivia contest. From 6PM on Friday to the stroke of Midnight on Sunday, questions are spewed out of a local radio station around the clock and teams have to call in with their answers within minutes of the question being asked. My friend has been trying to get me to go for years and I finally caved. So worth it!
The contest is as much about finding the answers as it is about knowing them, so our team wifi'ed it up at a team member's apartment with an army of laptops and cell phones. Here you can see me trying to find the answer to one of the thousands of questions asked this weekend. Of course, one of the problems with an around-the-clock tournament is that...