Trivia Champs

At work on Friday, we had a trivia challenge to raise money for the Tom Smith Memorial Scholarship. Tom was a colleague in our tech department that died suddenly of a heart attack just a couple months after getting married back in 2000. They had been attending Trinity Evangelical Free Church in South Bend, which is where Dorene and I used to attend. So I knew hi fairly well. He was a great guy and very much well-thought of at IU South Bend.

A scholarship was begun in his name and is used for full-time staff at IU to pay for books and other expenses they incur from taking classes. The trivia challenge was used to raise money for this scholarship fund.

The format was teams of 8-10. When a question came up, you discussed it amongst your group (quietly) and wrote the answer down. Each category had 5 questions, so the group with the most right after 10 categories was the winner. Our group consisted of student affairs staff, with a couple of our big guns (vice chancellor and associate vice chancellor). We had a very good mix of knowledge, with everyone chipping in one way or another. I came in handy when it was necessary to remember a detail from "Willy Wonka" or to identify a picture of Yosemite State Park.

We finished with 48/50 correct. It was especially sweet because we beat a couple groups comprised solely of faculty from the school of education and the college of arts and sciences (in other words, those groups had all Ph.D.'s in them.