2008

Vote Trivia '08 poster, 2008

Chronicle, February 11, 2008

Theme: Vote Trivia '08

February 8-10, 2008

Winning Teams:

  1. Pull Start Diesel
  2. Stefan's Dream 9: Ich Bin Ein Stefan
  3. Feelin's Comfortable
  4. Neo-Maxi Zoom Dweebies
  5. (Tie) Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women AND Wellstone Temple Pilots

Trivial Facts:

• The most distant participant was a soldier in Iraq. 
• One team got called out for finding the answers on Wikipedia and then changing them. They were shunned at the awards ceremony and the crowd booed and hissed at them.

Memorable Quotes:

~  "Anything is fair game," Chad Schmitz, question writer (Chronicle, January 28, 2008)
~  "Wikipedia is the new evil," Chad Schmitz, question writer (Chronicle, January 28, 2008)

Questions from the 2008 Contest:

Question: Please give us the first and last name of the person voted in as Saint Cloud State University's 1950 Homecoming Queen? (70 pt.) 

     Answer: Emma Orberg

Question: Who was the first United States president to visit all 50 states? First and last name, please. (10 pt.)

     Answer: Richard Nixon

Question: What is the most common industrial chemical produced in the United States? (15 pt.)

     Answer: Sulfuric Acid

Question: In reference to aviation, who was the Lone Eagle? First and last name, please. (20 pt.)

     Answer: Charles Lindberg

Question: We would like the name of the group that accompanies Juan Mann's personal journey in his 2006 award winning video. (55 pt.) 

     Answer: Sick Puppies, "All the Same"

Question: You refresh Internet Explorer. What is it called in Firefox? (10 pt.) 

     Answer: reload

Question: The Division of Forestry exhibit at the 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition consisted of six principal classes. Please give them to us now. (150 pt.) 

     Answer: (Forest) Botany, (Forest) Technology, Timber Physics, (Forest) Culture, (Forest) Conservancy, (Forest) Literature