1986

Trivia Zone T-shirt

Chronicle, March 18, 1986

Theme: Trivia Zone

March 21-23, 1986

Winning Teams: 

  1. Animal House
  2. Phil and the Blanks
  3. The No Nuthins'

Trivial Facts:

• Players called in from the Twin Cities and New London.

• The Trivia Weekend coordinator hoped the contest would grow bigger than the Stevens Point, Wisconsin, contest.
• The youngest team to participate, the A-Team, consisted of Sartell High School students.
• Last year that the contest was not held in February

Memorable Quotes:

~  "It was a lot of fun, but everyone's pretty much wiped out. It's a real slow-going Monday," Ed Gilbert, KVSC announcer (Chronicle, March 25, 1986)
~  "I truly believe that soon we will be the largest [trivia contest in the world] though," Tom Raich, trivia committee coordinator (Chronicle, March 25, 1986)

Questions from the 1986 Contest:

Question: Who created the St. Cloud State University mace? (20 pt.) 

     Answer: David Landwehr

Question: Who was the only president to be a P.O.W.? (5 pt.)

     Answer: Andrew Jackson

Question: By what name was the jazz-rock ground Chicago first known as? (10 pt.) 

     Answer: The Big Thing

Question: What musical group was the main attraction for Apple computers' 1985 Christmas party? (30 pt.) 

     Answer: The Pointer Sisters

Question: Who was crowned the 1985 Princess Kay of the Mily Way? (15 pt.)

     Answer: Stephanie Dickey

Question: In 1955, the TV show "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premiered. What was the title of that first episode? (60 pt.)

     Answer: Revenge