Team Ready Trivia History

The “World’s Largest Trivia Contest” is held each April in Stevens Point, also known as 90FM Trivia since it’s hosted by the UWSP Campus Radio Station.  Tens of thousands of participants make up the several hundred teams that annually compete to answer relatively useless trivia questions.  Trophies are given to the top handful of teams, but otherwise most teams just compete for pride and camaraderie.

Beginning at 6pm on Friday night and concluding at Midnight on Sunday, 8 questions are asked during each of the 54 hours of the contest.  Questions and answers are read over the radio, with teams given the length of two songs to call in their guesses. Points vary depending upon how many of the teams get the answer correct. Additional bonus points are awarded for completing music snippets, trivia stones and running questions.

1999: You Honk, We Drink!

 

2005: 54th Hour Survivors


Some of our current team members began playing on other existing teams of family and friends. As the number of camp alumni players began to grow, forming our own team only seemed logical.  Originally known as Team Smiley, from the camp logo, the team name eventually switched to Team Ready after being established in the fall of 2000.

Team Ready players are mostly about coming together annually for a good social time.  While never spending much time preparing before the weekend, Team Ready has always finished in the top half of the teams with a goal of cracking the top 100.  But more importantly, the amount of team participation grows each year, which makes for more fun and the opportunity to continue more old friendships.

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YEAR
TEAM NAME
LOCATION
PLACE
TEAMS
POINTS
1996
Team Smiley: Where Trivia is King!
Amherst
141
563
2505
1997
Team Smiley: Year of the MUGFI
Main St
154
528
2585
1998
Team Smiley: It's that darn Sasquatch
Villages
227
520
1755
1999
Team Smiley: Rectum? Darn near killed em!
Clark St
187
476
2180
2000
Team Smiley: Take'r easy, take'r light
Oakwood
215
466
2065
2001
Team Ready: Locked, Cocked & Ready to Rock
Fawn Lane*
202
460
2505
2002
Team Ready: What's Oz eating under there
Bush
221
456
2410
2003
Team Ready: Saddam's not the only one gettin' bombed
Bush
126
465
3420
2004
Team Ready: We're all going streakin'
Frontenac**
144
443
3405
2005
Team Ready: Likes Funyans
Sommers
113
435
3750
2006
Team Ready: We've Pulled the Goalie!
Sommers***
84
428
3355
2007
Team Ready's "R" Us
Sommers
120
441
3325
2008
Team Ready: We're Favre from Retiring
Sommers
119
433
3125
2009
Team Ready: Oz, We need a Bailout!
Sommers
134
415
3230
2010
Team Ready: For another one... or two
Sommers
112
419
3490
2011
Not now Oz! Team Ready is updating Facebook
Sommers
144
395
3390

* - Grocery Bag Winner     ** - Trivia Focus (Radio)     *** - Subway Platter Winner

 

TRIVIA 43:  April 20-22, 2012