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College seeks faculty and staff geniuses
3/13/2009

On Thursday, March 19 at 3 p.m. Pulaski Technical College will hold the second annual PTC Trivia Smackdown. College faculty and staff experts in a variety of subjects are hereby solicited to enter this contest. Winning contestants will represent Pulaski Tech at Economics Arkansas' 2009 Pulaski County Corporate Trivia Challenge on Thursday, April 16, 2009. Contact Tim Jones at thjones@pulaskitech.edu to participate, or for more information.

The location of the March 19 event will be at the R.J. Wills lecture hall on the main campus. The April 16 event will take place at Derek Fisher Court, Jack Stephens Center, on the UALR campus.

According to the Economics Arkansas Web site, "the Trivia Challenge is a fun-filled evening where teams of community leaders compete to match one another's wit and trivia knowledge. The format combines the elements of the game show 'Jeopardy,' the board game 'Trivial Pursuit' and the high school competition 'Quiz Bowl.'"

The Pulaski Tech Trivia Smackdown will follow a similar format.

The teams will demonstrate their expertise in the following categories:

Arts and Entertainment
History
Sports and Leisure
Wild Card
People and Places
Local Community Facts
Science and Nature
Business and Economics

Economics Arkansas is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan, education organization founded in 1962 to promote economic literacy. Their vision is to create a state of people with the real life skills they need to succeed. Economics Arkansas provides resources and training to Pre-K-12 teachers in public and independent schools in Arkansas, empowering the educators to teach the fourth "R:" real-life economics. The organization's Web site is: www.economicsarkansas.org