ASU Mid-South takes Trivia Challenge crown

ASU Mid-South takes Trivia Challenge crown

Community comes together for fun fundraiser for DeltaARTS

ralphhardin@gmail.com Do you know which NFL team was the first to add artwork to its helmets?

Hint: It was horns (second hint: it wasn’t the Vikings).

That’s just the sort of thing you’d need to know to be a star in the 10th annual DeltaARTS Trivia Challenge. This year eight teams made up from local businesses from around the community gathered at the Starting Gate Room at Southland Park to test their knowledge of all things trivial.

To mix things up and get more brain power in on the fun, the format was changed for this year’s challenge, with teams as large as eight members all seated around their team’s table and questions divided up into multi-part rounds.

There were also lightning rounds, played out on iPads donated for the evening by Avondale Elementary.

Adding to the fun, teams were asked to come up with a special team name, with bonus points awarded to the team voted to have the best name of the evening.

Participating this year were: Arkansas Distributing Co. “Team Ultra”…

ASU Mid-South “The Periodic Table Dancers”… Fidelity National Bank “The Penny Pinchers”… First Community Bank of Eastern Arkansas “Revenge of the Nerds Part II”… Mid-South Health Systems “Pink Freud” (Winner of Best Team Name, as voted on by teams and audience… Schneider “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? ‘Cause We Brought One!”… Southland Park Gaming & Racing – “In Dog Beers, We’ve Only Had One!”… and the West Memphis School District “Betsy DeVos Fan Club.”

It took a while, but eventually, thanks to their knowledge of such matters as the nation of origin of the word honcho (Japan), the term originally defined by how much land a team of oxen could plow in a day (an acre), and the aforementioned question about the horns on the helmets (it was the Rams), Team ASU Mid-South was able to take home the trophy, with Schneider taking second place, and Team Southland coming in third.

Trudy Jolly of The Trophy Shop in West Memphis donated snazzy trophies to the top finishers as well as the “traveling” winner’s plaque that the champs get to take home for the whole year.

Proceeds from the evening will go toward helping DeltaARTS programs aimed at keeping area children

of all ages engaged in

the arts.

By Ralph Hardin