From the Stevens Point Journal April 21, 2007:

Parade ushers in weekend competition

Editor's note: This is the second in a three-part series chronicling a reporter's first look at Trivia. The final column will appear Monday.

If you are an average person, you will be reading this paper after a full-night's sleep, perhaps sitting at your kitchen table with a cat in your lap and a cup of coffee in your hand.

If you are an average Trivia player, this paper is probably being stepped on by the pizza man. You have been up for more than 24 hours, you are riding the crest of your umpteenth sugar high, the cat is buried under an avalanche of TV Guides and you are on the phone with a government official in some faraway country, asking who the local water commissioner was when Rocky IV came out.

Photo: The Trivia team TFC 27 had some larger than life characters in the parade Friday. THOMAS KUJAWSKI/STEVENS POINT JOURNAL

Welcome to Trivia 38.

As I am writing this column, however, I have done little but watch the Trivia Parade, where I was pelted by a woman in a banana suit, a man in a sailor suit, even by the mayor, with everything from candy to poker chips. One parade-goer said somebody tossed her a condom.

Take that, Mardi Gras.

The biggest clue I got into what Trivia was all about, however, came from a chatty group of ninth-grade girls who are participating in their second year of Trivia under the team name, "9 Girls, 3 Robotic Babies, and a Llama."

This year, they will play their second year of Trivia while tending to, yes, three mechanical babies, per an assignment for their "Successful Teens" class at P.J. Jacobs Junior High. Makes you wonder about the llama. Last year, they are proud to say, they came in 385th place.

"We are the future of Trivia," said ninth-grader Susan Kawleski taking a somber tone, "If we don't do it, nobody else will."

"Susan, you're a dork," responded fellow ninth-grader Hannah Galbraith. "We're just here to have fun."

Aren't we all? Each and every last dork among us.