Trivia Night Rocks Campus Hard

Trivia Night is not for the faint of heart. WRBC’s annual trivia and stunt competition, lasting 12 hours, tests contestants’ knowledge of minutia, sense of decency, ability to use Google and willingness to humiliate themselves to win points.
In its 30th annual celebration last Friday night, WRBC put over 20 teams through 12 one-hour rounds of trivia where teams were asked to name the song and artist playing at that time and answer a trivia question. Each right answer was worth one point.
But the first points of the night were awarded for the team with the best name. “My Couch Pulls Out, But I Don’t” won the contest by a landslide vote among the WRBC board. Other team names included “I Hate Doug Ray” – a shot at the WRBC Chair of Trivia Night, Doug Ray ’10 – “Full Throttle Erection,” “The Wet Dream Team,” “The Big Skadoosh” and “Piff Nation.”
While the trivia questions filled the bulk of the time, hourly physical challenges netted teams significant bonus points.
The “Come Make Out With Hank” challenge was the night’s first lively challenge, with eight girls from four teams rushing to the studio to lock lips with the DJ, Hank Mastain ’09. With a line of girls waiting for their turn, the studio became crowded with WRBC board members judging the contestants.
Most physical challenges required teams to be creative, which opened the options to wild possibilities.
Perhaps the night’s most ostentatious challenge, “Blank in Your Mouth,” required the teams to come to the radio station and visually complete the phrase.
One contestant arrived at the studio with a drinking straw, poster and MagLite flashlight asking the judges which object they wanted to see her deep-throat. Eventually, she demonstrated all three.
Others followed the same sexual theme: one group brought in a digital camera with a photo of a team member with another woman’s nipple in her mouth, but the photo was disqualified because it did not happen at the radio station.
Another team sent two girls to the station with a 15-inch dildo. One of the pair attempted to fit the massive rubber penis in her mouth, but she could not get past the tip.
“Who has that in their room?” asked WRBC board member Anthony Timberman ’09.
Taking the challenge in another direction, John Borchert ’11 rushed into the studio, picked up a bottle of TexasPete hot sauce and chugged the bottle down in under 25 seconds — feat that only netted John’s team only 10 points.
In an annual challenge, WRBC asked teams to send over two members for a competition to be announced at the station – phone your parents to find out when and where they lost their virginity.
The first student to call her parents was told it was “none of her business” and was hung up on.
 The recent advent of Google has forced WRBC to change the nature of the trivia.
“It’s too easy to just type the question into Google and instantly get the answer in the first few pages,” said Ray.
Instead of a simple one part answer that people might happen to know, the radio station opted for multi-part questions that require contestants to research multiple things.
For instance, the first question in Nelson Harris’ hour-long set was “What time do the ski lifts close in January in the Prince of Wales’ favorite alpine ski resort.”
Some teams reported a new performance enhancer – the iPhone application Shazam, which can be held up to a radio to identify the artist.

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