1995
Dial T for Trivia poster, 1995
Chronicle, February 7, 1995
Theme: Dial T for Trivia
February 3-5, 1995
Winning Teams:
1. GDI
2. An Un-named Source in the White House (formerly KARE)
3. Animal House
4. Sigma Phi Nothing
5. Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women
Trivial Facts
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Legendary question writer Gary Burt retired, saying the contest was becoming too much work as well as too professionalized and serious rather than laid back and fun like the early years. He was replaced by a new "trivia goddess," Marie Richardson.
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Team Trivia Newton John was awarded Best Team Name and team OJ's Pulp Fiction earned the Good Intentions Long Distance award after they dropped out of the contest because they lost KVSC's reception in the Twin Cities.
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Team Gee-Dee-Eye was a team rumored to consist solely of someone's cat.
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Computer use was becoming controversial. KVSC's rules stated that the contest was for fun and "the use of electronic mediums should be constrained."
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One participant from a team with Internet access said the computer did not help with even one question and only tied up a phone line.
Memorable Quotes:
~ "We've been known to ask inmates the answers to questions. They watch a lot of TV shows," Lynn Jensen, team Pigs 'R Us (all from the Stearns County Sheriff's Department) (Chronicle, January 24, 1995)
~ "The cat kept trying to answer and couldn't pick up the receiver," KVSC alumnus Patrick Kaye, Gee-Dee-Eye spokesperson (Chronicle, February 7, 1995)
~ "Who knows, in five years, the whole contest could be different. It could be elitist with the winners being whoever can work on the computer the fastest," Jo McMullen, KVSC station manager (St. Cloud Times, February 2, 1995)
Questions from the 1995 Contest:
Question: The St. Paul firm of Matthew Breen and John Young started St. Cloud area's first commercial quarry in 1868. What is currently on that site? (35 pt.)
Answer: Minnesota Men's Correctional Facillity
Question: Who were the first two Minnesotans to win the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes? (20 pt.)
Answer: Alfred and Diane Slivnik
Question: In the pilot episode of the TV series "Battlestar Galactica", Captain Apollo's kid brother is killed in the Cylon ambush. What was the name of Apollo's kid brother and what actor/singer portrayed him? (30 pt.)
Answer: Zac; Rick Springfield
Question: Who was the supermarket manager who asked his customers, "Please don't squeeze the Charmin"? (10 pt.)
Answer: Mr. Whipple