The Great Midwest Trivia Contest, Lawrence University
WLFM Trivia: The Tens
Results from the Great Midwest Trivia Contest, 2010 onward.
2010 — Contest 45
| Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lawrence Undead: Alumni with Nothing Else to Do | 1171 |
| 2 | Karen Carr Presents Bucky's Banastitudinal Bicorn... | 1108 |
| 3 | Super Mega Soviet Gang Bang Dream Team Baskytbol... | 1032 |
| Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Food Bank of Kaukauna: Put your buns in our hands. | 1325 |
| 2 | Trivia Pirates Argh! | 1320 |
| 3 | Six Feet Under | 1190 |
Super Garruda
"On the plaque for the 'Walt Haag Memorial Broken Propeller Award', who is listed as the recipient for 2002?"
Answer: "Not Me."
Contest available via web cast only.
2011 — Contest 46
| Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Morgan Freeman's Plus Plantz's Pecorous Pastures Propose Presenting Persnickety Penguins with Ponchos | 1148 |
| 2 | Soviet's Dream of Gangbang and Go America All Over Everybody's Asses | 1096 |
| 3 | Butter Our Bread with Butter | 1078 |
| Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trivia Pirates Argh!!! | 1275 |
| 2 | Trivialeaks | 1260 |
| 3 | Scott Pilgrim vs. The Superbad Iowans in Revolt | 1155 |
Super Garruda
"What was the log entry on September 29, 1961, at 2 p.m. PST in the Alamo Airways daily log at McCarran International Airport?"
Answer: "Drunks called back. Left their pants in the apache. Said for me to take care of them."
Contest available via web cast only.
2012 — Contest 47
| Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Soviet Baskyetbol Team Presents Komrad Bucky's Gangbang Masterclass Endorsed by the Banastitudinal Karen Carr | 1261 |
| 2 | Morgan Freeman Plus Plantz's Pacifist Plurality of Parasitic Paisley Paleontological Parliamentary Pirate Ponies with Pistachio-Wielding Peppermint Prairie Pug Pancreases and Particularly the Pusillanimous Primate Pusculio | 1186 |
| 3 | AA: The Cupola Size of the Nipple of Knowledge | 1085 |
| Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iowans Who Want to Recall Trivia #nerdweasel | 1410 |
| 2 | Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition | 1295 |
| 3 | Trivia Pirates ARGH! | 1224 |
Super Garruda
In a comment card that was later pictured on a fence privacy screen outside the MoMA in NYC in the summer 2011, what does visitor Tonée from Chicago state that they wanted to do when they viewed a Van Gogh exhibit at MoMA on March 28 and why didn't they act on these impulses?"
Answer: He wanted to "take a big bite out of Van Gogh's work" and "lick it", but he didn't because he "wouldn't sully his fine work or disgrace your wonderful museum."
Contest available via web cast at WLFMradio.com.
2013 — Contest 48
| Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shrek Out-Of-Ten: This Isn't Orge Yet | 1275 |
| 2 | Karen Carr Presents, Bastitudianal Soviet Baskyetbol Team of Bucky's Bizarro Group Therapy Session | 1220 |
| 3 | D.C. 20 Will Save Featuring Shazbot | 1085 |
| Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Binders Full of "Winning" | 1145 |
| 2 | Hobgoblin of Little Mind | 1135 |
| 3 | Too Much Trivia in the Pants | 1090 |
Super Garruda
"Within a sculpture by Mike Sullivan, the creator of 'The Sex Life of Robots,' there is a building called 'Kino Ironhole.' What is carved into the pavement to the left of the word 'lulu'?"
Answer: "Big Unit Jizzbot?."
Contest only available via web cast at WLFMradio.com.
2014 — Contest 49
| Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shrek Out of Ten 2: The Shrekoning | 1398 |
| 2 | Bucky?s Banastitudinal Buggery Brigade | 1232 |
| 3 | David and the Bells Decisively and Terminally Bash Discordant Academic Teams by Dominantly Activating Technical Backstabbing, Dosing Amphetamines Triply, Breathing Deeply, and Trying Best | 1207 |
| Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twerking for Trivia | 1300 |
| 2 | Twerking Red Headed Iowans Violating Innocent Appletonians | 1255 |
| 3 | Hobgoblin of Little Minds | 1205 |
Super Garruda
"In the final resting place of Copernicus there are pillars with graffiti scratched into them. One of these pillars has graffiti that reads 'EM is cool' and 'DW is ok.' What does the only music-genre related graffiti on that pillar say?"
Answer: "PUNKS IS NOT DEATH."
Contest only available via web cast at WLFMradio.com.
2015 — Contest 50
| Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bucky’s Brood of Burgeoning Butt Brigadiers’ Bizarre Belligerants Bird-Bondage-Base Burlesque Bonanza | 1374 |
| 2 | Shrek/10 3: We Bought a Sherk | 1347 |
| 3 | Taking the Hobbits to #Octopunks is not Death | 1141.5 |
| Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hobgoblin of Little Minds | 1236 |
| 2 | 50 Shades of Trivia | 1225 |
| 3 | Je suis Iowans | 1217 |
Super Garruda
"Near property previously owned by Rockwell Lime Company is a manhole built in 1921 with an 8 inch diameter pipe leading 226 feet downstream. What is the manhole label and what is written on the manhole cover?"
Answer: “15-47”, “Richard’s Iron Works”.
2016 — Contest 51
wlfmradio.lawrence.edu. Trivia Pirates....Argh! team answered the Super Garruda for 200 points!
| Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | David and the Bucky's Battallion Diabolically Antagonizing Tortured Brood-Makers, Basically Building Batteries, Bungee Jumping Blindfolded, Bizarrely Bludgeoning Bells, and Definitely Ascending toward Brilliance By Dastardly Battling Together | 1315 |
| 2 | Michael Hubbard | 1101 |
| 3 | Nipples of Knowledge: The Matriarchy: Ormsbae Trivia Team (The experience, TM) | 1075 |
| Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds | 1220 |
| 2 (tie) | Pugnugget | 1205 |
| 2 (tie) | Corn Wars: The Iowans Awaken | 1205 |
| 3 | Holy Broman Space Team Presents: 2016: A Honda Oddessey | 1110 |
Super Garruda
"In 1964, a band pretended to play Beatles songs at a battle of the bands called the Letterman Show. What is written in the top right corner of the page that features the band in a KWSS DJ's copy of the lead singer’s 1965 high school yearbook?"
Answer: "Earwigs Rule."
2017 — Contest 52
| Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Team Drinking in the Lounge, Officially Recognized as Quizball, with a special performance by J.C. Smith and the Sunshine Band debuting their new single “All Walk and No Talk” featuring the musical stylings of Marky Mark, David Bell, and Lin-Manuel Miranda; Don’t Injure Thine Leg, Diligently Inquiring Thoughtful Lagrangian, Definitely Investigating Typical Lynxes, Death Invites the Living, Darkness Infiltrating Trembling Light, Forever Haunted by the Ghost of David and the Bells | 1284 |
| 2 | Homemaker, Wife and mother to 3 beautiful children. I love to plan, budget and decorate. My goal is to be my best and a great testimony for (construction worker turned academic turned central banker. opinions here are my own, not pete willis said nor said reserved system) | 1153 |
| 3 | Cult of the Pink Shoes | 1110 |
| Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Holy Broman Literary Society Presents: Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand J** | 1376 |
| 2 | The Cailloutastrophe: Her p***y bald like Caillou, Swag-Swag like Caillou, I’m good, (buddy) how you?, Go way back like Caillou, Hat back like Caillou, I dont match like Caillou, My weed young like Caillou, Go dumb like Caillou, I’m PBS like Caillou, DTF like Caillou, My d*** fresh like Caillou, She get wet like Caillou, The realest in it like Caillou, I dig in it like Caillou, Bad bee, go suck d***, Need 30 minutes like Caillou, I’m up early like Caillou, She get dirty like Caillou, She ain’t worthy, I’m Caillou, I’m nerdy like Caillou, I’m young as hell like Caillou, Don’t fail like Caillou, I go for it like Caillou, F*** Dora, Caillou | 1358 |
| 3 | Hobgoblins of Little Minds | 1313 |
Super Garruda
A number of Lawrentians have taken trips to China to study sustainability. In the third city visited on their 2015 trip, there is a bar on the tenth floor of a building near the intersection of Minquan Road and Fushui North Road. In the fifth issue of a ‘zine they distributed last July, which features a pink robot on the cover, what artist is shown on page eight?
Answer: Dickid.
2018 — Contest 53
| Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Cult of the Pink ShoeTheir prize was a troll doll, signed by all the Trivia Masters | 1170 |
| 2 | WLFM: It’s Our Station So We Win | 1027 |
| 3 | Trivia Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Nips, The Nipples of Knowledge Return | 980 |
| Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Holy Broman Lonestar Republic Presents: Cardboard Davy Crocket Remembers the AlamoTheir prize was a cardboard bra made by team 2, signed by all the Trivia Masters. | 1305 |
| 2 | Get A Load Of That Sandwich (Get A Load Of It!) Get A Load Of That Sandwich (That Sandwich!) Look At That Sandwich (Look At It!) Get A Load Of That Sandwich (Get A Load Of It!) Look At That Sandwich (Look At It!) Woo! (Woohoo!) Woo! (Yeah!) Woo! (Woohoohoo!) | 1285 |
| 3 | Caillouigi | 1185 |
Super Garruda
In the Tanzanian city whose name is an anagram for “A Salad Smear” There is an intersection of two roads near the Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco. One road shares the first name with the former Supreme Chief of the Gogo and a the other road is named for a Tanzanian Sultan whoses skull’s return is discussed in the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. On the wall in front of the intersection there are three large legibly scrawled words in English, what are they?
Answer: “The Jungle, Bob”.
2019
No results were recorded here for the 2019 contest.