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:: Saturday, February 28, 2004 ::

That's Mr. Font of Useless Knowledge to you, bub!
It's time to dust off a certain old Queen record and cue it to "We Are the Champions." Last night, a team I assembled for an annual trivia night fund-raiser for the women's soccer team at our university opened up a can of you-know-what on the competition -- a dozen or so other teams composed of students, staff, faculty and community folks. Yes, we are the 2004 Champions of UMR Women's Soccer Trivia Night!

Particularly gratifying was overcoming the odds to defeat a table full of trash-talking Ph.D.'s. They put up a good fight in the early rounds, trouncing us rather handily in the "scientists and engineers" category, but after we got perfect scores in the "pop culture" and "artists and poets" categories, we lunged ahead of them. When it came to two sports-related categories, we brought out our star player -- the campus' sports information director -- and pulled away for good. The trash-talking faculty team finished a not-so-close second to Careaga's Commandos

John K., our sports information director, gets the MVP award for racking up so many points in the sports bonus question, in which he (with a little help from me) listed 11 NCAA Division I collegiate programs with team names that don't end in an "s." There are only 15 or 16. It turns out we didn't need all those bonus points, but it was nice insurance for us.

I've also gotta congratulate Mary Helen, who contributed to the perfect 10 in the pop culture category by naming all four of the ghosts from the classic video arcade game Pac-Man.

How many readers know the names of all four Pac-Man ghosts?

How many Division I NCAA team nicknames can you name that do not end in "s"?

:: Andrew 10:15 + ::
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