From the Stevens Point Journal April 12, 2003:

Annual Contest Devoted to Life's Minutiae Draws National Media Attention

From the New York Times to National Public Radio, CNN and the BBC, Trivia has had its share of national and international exposure over the years.

Billed as the world's largest media trivia contest, the event drew more than 11,000 participants on more than 450 teams in 2002. Trivia 34: Survivor Trivia started at 6 p.m. Friday and runs until midnight Sunday.

The task of promoting the contest nationally falls to Molly Kreuser. She is promotions director at WWSP-FM, the campus radio station at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, which holds the contest as an annual fund-raiser.

Since 1998, the contest has been featured in newspapers and on TV and radio stations across the state. In addition, nationally-known newspapers such as USA TODAY, the Chicago Tribune and the Christian Science Monitor have written stories about Trivia.
National Public Radio also has conducted interviews with organizer Jim Oliva and Trivia team members in past years. Sports analyst John Madden also promoted the contest's 25th anniversary on his syndicated daily radio program in 1994.
Trivia also has been featured on the British Broadcasting Company's radio network and was the subject of a question on the syndicated TV quiz show, "Jeopardy!", last fall, Kreuser said. "We've also been in Chase's calendar of national events, listed as the largest trivia contest," she added.

According to co-organizer John Eckendorf, Trivia has been featured on an Australian radio network and CNN Headline News, and has been mentioned by Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show," on NBC-TV.
The claim of "world's largest media trivia contest" is good enough for the New York Times, which put the note in its biography of Ray Hamel, a member of the Network Trivia team. Hamel, a member of the national Trivia Hall of Fame, wrote The New York Times Trivia Quiz Book, published in December 1999.

The Web site for Merriam-Webster, the dictionary publisher, also acknowledged WWSP's trivia contest as the world's largest such event in a feature article published in 2001.