For the past 14 years, when the time changes it has been time for trivia. Way back in 2016, the Carmi Rotary club held their first trivia contest, and it has been a roaring success ever since. With two events per year – coinciding with the time change, there have now been over one thousand questions asked and answered, $5600 in prize money paid out, and an unknown amount of food consumed during these lively events.
This year’s Spring event will be held on Saturday, March 7th at the American Legion in Carmi. The first question will be asked promptly at six pm, and the night should wrap up around eight. As in year’s past, the cost per four-person team is only forty dollars, and the top three teams will win that back and more.
There will be four rounds of ten questions each, with questions coming from such categories as: history, sports, pop culture, the Bible, geography, and a few other surprise topics. The questions (theoretically) get harder each round, and the points awarded also increase as the night moves along.
Some questions from past contests:
Pop Culture: Clara Peller became famous for a single line in a TV commercial back in the 70’s. What was the line? “Where’s the Beef?” from a Wendy’s commercial
Sports: Which major leaguer came the closest to Joe Dimaggio’s hitting streak? Pete Rose
History: This US President later became a Supreme Court Justice? William Howard Taft
If you were able to answer one or more of these sample questions, you need to be on a trivia team.
Besides being a lot of fun, the trivia contest also helps fund the good works Rotary does in our community and around the world. The Carmi Rotary is a major sponsor of such local organizations as: the Baptist Children’s Home, Carmi Little League, White County Build, the Brownsville School Foundation, and many more.
Get three friends, three family members, three co-workers, or three strangers, and be at the American
Legion on Saturday, March 7th for Rotary Trivia.
