Star Tribune – The books were lined up, the laptops plugged in. Several team members had donned white sweatbands. Just before 5 p.m., someone upped the volume on the radio: “It’s starting!”
“Please give us the name of the alum and his father …”
The first few answers came easy for this team, Stefan’s Dream, whose two dozen members had trekked, as they do each year, from as far as Los Angeles, Seattle and Washington, D.C., to this basement in St. Cloud. But in this trivia contest, more than 400 questions remained.
Over the next 49 hours, the friends would call in thousands of responses, watch dozens of YouTube videos and get too few hours of sleep in their quest to win Trivia Weekend, put on by KVSC, the radio station at St. Cloud State University. Champions for two years running, they knew that a victory this year would make them the winningest team in the contest’s 36-year history.
