List of trivia contests

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The following is a list of trivia contests:

[edit] College-based

• WWSP radio - Stevens Point, Wisconsin (University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point) - Since 1969; bills itself as "The World's Largest Trivia Contest"
• Williams College Trivia Contest - WCFM radio - biannual contest held continuously since 1966
• Great Midwest Trivia Contest - WLFM radio Appleton, Wisconsin (Lawrence University) - also began in 1966, and is likely the world's oldest by a few days over Williams College's
• KVSC radio Saint Cloud, Minnesota (St. Cloud State University) - started in 1980; held every February the week after the Super Bowl
• KaleidoQuiz - KURE Iowa State University's trivia contest since 1967 [1] [2] [3]
• Trivia Bowl - University of Colorado at Boulder [4] - 1968 to 1993, resumed in 2001

[edit] Other

• The Mad Trivia Party - A call-in comedy trivia panel show airing on WHRW since 1979
• WEMB Attic trivia (Johnson City, Tennessee) - trivia with weekly theme dealing with U.S. fads
• 4K1G radio Townsville, Australia
• World Trivia Night - Ottawa [5]
• Planetary Radio - The space trivia contest held by Bruce Betts of The Planetary Society

[edit] Defunct

• WISS Trivia Contest / Hometown Broadcasting Berlin, Wisconsin - billed itself as the longest running annual commercial trivia contest because it recycled the last question of the previous contest as the first question of the next (1982-2005)