We are Too Much Trivia in the Pants — a collective of current and former “townies” who have participated together as an off-campus team in Lawrence University’s annual Great Midwest Trivia Contest each year since 1998. Trivia XLVII in 2012 was our fifteenth consecutive year of drunken trivia debauchery.

The story of our origin reads like the story of so many off-campus teams participating in this contest. We were just a group of wide-eyed and ambitious high school friends, armed with a phone and an almanac, and hell-bent on trivial domination. Reality set in quickly when, following the Super Garruda that opened Trivia XXXIII, we correctly answered only one more question in the next couple of hours, the answer to which, amazingly, was found in said almanac. Of course, the path of our history was altered forever the moment somebody finally came up with the genius idea of using the Internet … and things haven’t been the same since.

To the best of our knowledge, recorded below is the final point total and placement history of our team. We make no claims to absolute accuracy as, to be completely honest, by the time Sunday night rolls around, it becomes difficult to find someone on the team sober enough to remember these sorts of things…

1998	360 points	15th place
1999	270 points	unknown
2000	320 points	22nd place
2001	770 points	13th place
2002	1005 points	9th place
2003	1140 points	8th place
2004	990 points	10th place
2005	872 points	11th place
2006	745 points	13th place
2007	1145 points	5th place
2008	980 points	6th place
2009	1045 points	7th place
2010	845 points	10th place
2011	935 points	9th place
2012	925 points	7th (?) place

The name Too Much Trivia in the Pants is a testament to the pop culture ephemera of the team’s conception in 1997. For you kids too young to remember, the name is a parody of Soundmaster T’s “2 Much Booty (In The Pants)”, which was featured prominently in the commercials for “Booty Mix 2”, a compilation CD released in 1997. Many different ideas were thrown around — such as Joel Edler’s House of Cards sponsored by Jehovah’s Witness Abdominizer Orchestra and Roid-Ex — before finalizing on TMTitP, but there has never been any question in the subsequent years whether we should make a change. Changing our name would mean losing our identity, so Too Much Trivia in the Pants is who we are, and Too Much Trivia in the Pants is who we shall remain.

We could wax poetic about the merits of the contest and attempt to give a brief history and introduction, but those who have come before have done a much better job of it. For an explanation of the contest, a list of rules, and a rather extensive history, check out any of the various websites included on our links page.

The team members of Too Much Trivia in the Pants wish to thank our sponsors, Lawrence University & WLFM, all the people associated with running this year’s trivia contest, Trivia XLVII Grand Master Jake Fisher, the other teams, the poor Lawrence students answering off-campus phones who put up with our stupid shenanigans all weekend long, the inventors of Solar Quest, all the beautiful ladies of the planet Earth, and, of course, all of our current and former hosts, without whom we’d have been left playing each year in a cardboard box in front of Lawrence Chapel with a battery-operated transistor radio (pre-Internet-only days, of course) and a pay phone. Imagine all the quarters that would have necessitated!

email: toomuchtrivia@yahoo.com