1999 – “Trivia Renaissance”

KVSC Trivia turned 20 this year and as a follow-on to the 1997 retrospective, Captain F. scoured the audio archives, even dusting off some reel to reel tapes that hadn’t been taken out on a date in a decade. The 20-year retro did feature tag on the end that resembled some early tinkering in regards to how future intros would take shape.

Challenge line calls were mostly not worth saving however a few did make the cut including a German-language song challenge and the first of a new type of call: The Crabby Appleton-Uncle Corn chemically enhanced non sequitur stream of consciousness musical montage.

In the production department, the Posse found time to wish Historical Trivia Individual Al Neff a happy birthday, produce a medieval-tinged taunt to the teams about how many hours were left to play, and produced (More…)

  • 1999 – Intro – Twenty Years of Trivia Madness

    This year Trivia would turn 20 years old and even though Captain F. produced the Retro Trivia Montage in 1997, a birthday is a perfect time to look back. With this in mind Captain F. dug even deeper into the KVSC archives to find even more dusty but delightful trivia audio. This montage also includes clips from several awards ceremonies including a sampling of the “fun” awards whose origin is not entirely clear. Note the end of this production. It includes another “transition audio” piece, thus signaling that Captain F. was getting close to the true form of the “Intro”.

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