THEME: TRI

PUB DATE	WEEK	TITLE	SYNOPSIS	THEMES	LINKS TO THIS CONTEST	WINNER	LINKS TO RESULTS OF THIS CONTEST (usually published 2-4 Weeks later)
February 18, 2007	702	Unreal Facts	Come up with a comically false factoid.	TRI	Text file
November 10, 2007	739	Lies, All Lies	Give us some humorous fictional revelation about a current or past political figure.	HIS POL TRI	Text file | Post e-version
June 7, 2008	768	The Events Described Herein Are Entirely Fictitious	Come up with fictitious movie trivia.	MOV TRI	Text file
April 11, 2009	812	Rx-Related Humor	Offer up some entirely false medical or psychological "fact."	SCI TRI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
June 19, 2011	924	Doomed to repeat it	Create "Unreal Facts" about history.	HIS TRI	Text file
March 31, 2013	1015	Faux re mi	Give us some humorously false trivia about music or musicians.	MUS TRI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
January 26, 2014	1057	Sportin' lie	Give us some fake sports trivia.	ATH TRI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
June 8, 2014	1075	Falsity is Job One	Send us some fictoids about cars and trucks and driving and stuff.	TRI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
February 1, 2015	1109	Fictoids of Columbia	Tell us some humorously untrue “facts” about Washington, D.C., and the surrounding area. (Conversational text)	WAS TRI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
July 12, 2015	1132	You and what army? Military fictoids	Give us some comically bogus trivia about the military, past or present, ours or theirs. (Conversational text)	TRI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version		Text file | Contest image | Post e-version (pub 8-9-15)
September 25, 2016	1194	Nyetymologies: fake word origins	Provide a humorously untrue explanation for the derivation of a word. (Conversational text)	WOR TRI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
January 8, 2017	1209	Invented facts: A fictoid contest	Tell us a humorously untrue account of how a product or invention came to be, or got its name. (Conversational text)	HIS TRI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
November 12, 2017	1253	Fashion x fiction: More fake trivia	Tell us some totally bogus trivia about clothing or fashion. (Conversational text)	TRI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
February 25, 2018	1268	Playing pinocchio	Tell us some humorously bogus trivia about the news media or the publishing or broadcasting industries. (Conversational text)	TRI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Robert Schechter	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
June 24, 2018	1285	That is so wrong!	Supply a trivia question along with both the correct answer and a cleverly "wrong" guess. (Conversational text)	TRI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
July 22, 2018	1289	Fake gnus: bogus animal trivia	Tell us a fictoid -- a humorously false "fact" -- about the nonhuman animal kingdom. (Conversational text)	TRI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
January 27, 2019	1316	Lies, damn lies, with statistics	Tell us some bogus trivia using "statistics" or some bogus quantitative meaure.	TRI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
August 18, 2019	1345	The confaketionary -- food fictoids	Tell us some comically false "fact" about food, drink or dining.	TRI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
December 1, 2019	1360	The lyin' in winter: Seasonal fictoids	Give us some untrue trivia about winter or things that occur in winter.	TRI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
April 26, 2020	1381	Let's be equinoxious with fictoids about spring	Tell us some untrue trivia about springtime or things that happen or happened in the spring. (Conversational text)	TRI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
August 30, 2020	1399	The lie-zy days of summer	Tell us some bogus trivia about the summer or things that happen or have happened in the summer. (Conversational text)	TRI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
November 15, 2020	1410	Legends of the fall -- more fictoids	Tell us some bogus trivia about autumn, or things that happen (or have happened) in autumn. (Conversational text)	TRI FIC	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
May 30, 2021	1438	Nothing but the untruth: Fake trivia about the law	Give us some bogus trivia about the law -- lawyers, courts, judges, police, odd laws, terminology, what have you. (Conversational text)	TRI POL	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
January 23, 2022	1472	Phony money -- tell us fake financial trivia	Tell us some fake trivia about money or the financial system. (Conversational text)	TRI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
YEAR 31 BEGINS