The 50-hour Trivia Weekend is broadcast Feb. 15-17 on radio, TV and the Internet.
Register for Trivia Weekend, the 50-hour fact contest to be broadcast Feb. 15-17 on radio, TV and the Internet.
The marathon’s theme is “Trivia University,” a nod to St. Cloud State’s Sesquicentennial celebration.
The contest is broadcast on KVSC 88.1 FM‘s terrestrial and Internet channels. UTVS TV will telecast the contest live on St. Cloud Charter channel 180 and on the utvs.com webstream.
Teams will tackle more than 450 questions on all things St. Cloud State. Among the queries will be visual questions and audio questions.
Among the question writers are Chad Schmitz ’98, a St. Cloud State technology coordinator, Bruce Petersen, retired Stearns County dispatcher and jailer, and Tom Steman, university archivist.
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The poster was designed by Wesley Beskar ’13 ’15, TV studio engineer, and Derrick Silvestri ’06, TV studio manager and UTVS advisor.
Peruse the poster for “Easter eggs” — jokes and messages visually embedded in its design.
Community teams are $50. College teams and high school teams are free. Registration closes 4:30 p.m. Feb. 15. Register by mail or in person at 27 Stewart Hall.
The contest runs 5 p.m. Feb. 15 to 7 p.m. Feb. 17. The awards ceremony is 8 p.m. Feb. 17 in Ritsche Auditorium.
Trivia Weekend winners take home the urn as a traveling trophy. The urn is filled with tidbits left by each year’s champion.
The after-party follows about 9 p.m. in the main room of the Red Carpet Nightclub, downtown St. Cloud. Performing will be Shake a Hamster Band, which writes, records and performs parodies of pop tunes exclusively for Trivia Weekend.
The band has worked Trivia Weekend for more than 30 years.
A major logistical undertaking, Trivia Weekend depends heavily on the work of volunteers. Email [email protected] to sign up for a shift, which is typically three hours.
The social media hashtag is #TriviaWeekend. Follow on facebook.com/kvsc881fm and twitter.com/kvsc881fm.
The 2018 contest featured 50 teams. The winning team was It Just Doesn’t Matter. View the results.
Created to ease the ill-effects of cabin fever, Trivia Weekend debuted in 1980 with 25 teams.
KVSC 88.1 FM broadcasts non-stop to a potential Central Minnesota audience of two million people.
The Sound Alternative has delivered music, sports and public-affairs programming from the St. Cloud State campus since 1967.
