I am a 37 year old who currently resides in Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin. I enjoy traveling, seeing new things and taking pictures of those new things I see! I think photography makes you slow down a little and pay attention to those things and moments that are all around.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Trivia 40.
Ok. Here are some photos from Trivia 40: Here's looking at you kid. Not some of you may not know what Trivia is. Well here in Stevens Point Wisconsin the local college radio station puts on the worlds largest trivia contest every year. 54 hours straight of trivia questions. How it works is 8 questions are asked every hour. They ask a questions play a song, repeat questions, play another song then read the answer. In those two songs you have to find the answer and call into 90FM on a phone number given when you register. You give the operator your team ID and your answer. If its right you get points ( determined by some sort of equation I do not understand). So you have teams ( 400 some) and over 10,000 players and you play all weekend in someones basement...garage...hotel room...living room..whatever. Also there is the Trivia Stone which is liek a scavanger hunt by car...running questions which are going around downtown or whevere looking for answers to questions given on a sheet of paper...and trivia photos which they ask questions about during the contest. Our team...Substation...plays in a wood shop off someones house. Perfect setup for us. It's a great time for the weekend and it will be held again next April. Visit the Trivia website at http://90fmtrivia.org/ and you can listen to 90 FM at http://www.uwsp.edu/STUORG/WWSP/. This is all a huge fundraiser essentially for 90fm. Which is a great station playing all kinds of great music. Please check it out and listen online for a bit!
Our teams website is http://www.triviaasylum.com/sub/substatn.html
This year we finished 36th out of over 400 teams.
Our team headquaters.
Tiny teaching Dan his religon lessons!
YAY!
Lots-o-Food
Books...WTF!
Picture questions. Smiley face means we got it right. Sad face means we got it wrong.
Also they made a documentary of it a few years ago..check out the trailer for it here. And visit the movies website at http://www.triviatownmovie.com/
In regards to scoring, there are 2000 total points per question. That 2000 points is divided by 3+the total number of teams that answer the question, rounded up to the nearest five. So if one team gets the question, it is 500 points. 2 teams = 400 points, 3 teams = 335 points, etc.
I actually didn't know that until recently. I was always under the assumption that there was 1000 total points per question, divided by the number of teams that got the answer right + 1, until I read through the rules a week or so before the contest.
I actually didn't know that until recently. I was always under the assumption that there was 1000 total points per question, divided by the number of teams that got the answer right + 1, until I read through the rules a week or so before the contest.
Our team headquaters.
Tiny teaching Dan his religon lessons!
YAY!
Lots-o-Food
Books...WTF!
Picture questions. Smiley face means we got it right. Sad face means we got it wrong.
4 comments:
In regards to scoring, there are 2000 total points per question. That 2000 points is divided by 3+the total number of teams that answer the question, rounded up to the nearest five. So if one team gets the question, it is 500 points. 2 teams = 400 points, 3 teams = 335 points, etc.
i was just to lazy to explain it...thanks man!:)
I actually didn't know that until recently. I was always under the assumption that there was 1000 total points per question, divided by the number of teams that got the answer right + 1, until I read through the rules a week or so before the contest.
I actually didn't know that until recently. I was always under the assumption that there was 1000 total points per question, divided by the number of teams that got the answer right + 1, until I read through the rules a week or so before the contest.
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