LEAD-IN (recorded)
{Arthur's March. Fade down. Fade in wind.}

This is the kingdom of Mercia. Harsh, forbidding, and generally very nasty. Here, in the central north of mid-tenth-century Britain, poor peasants live in utter poverty, and rich nobles live in big castles. Anarcho-syndicalist communes, which enjoyed a brief renaissance in the early 900's, are being systematically wiped out by itinerant kings. In tonight's broadcast, we will trace the development of this caste of itinerant sovereigns, ALL of whom claimed to be Arthur, King of the Britons.

{An explosion, a scream.}

And now for something completely different.

{As per "Flying Circus" intro.}

It's......

{Liberty Bell march.}

Williams College's Flying Trivia Contest!

{Music for a few moments, then fade out.}

INTRODUCTION (live)

Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, Camels and Rocks, Chicagoans and Singlemen, Bruces and Shielas, Arthurs and Patsys, and all those of you who haven't evolved yet (the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys):

Welcome to the semi-annual Williams College All-Night Championship Trivia Contest, brought to you this time around by the mucho macho moo-cow trivia team "Nasty Big Pointed Teeth." The rules are, as always, simple. We read a question and play a song over the air. You, in turn, call us during the song and get one point if you answer the question correctly, and one point if you give us the song's title and artist. In SOME cases, the music will provide an indirect hint to the question's answer, and vice-versa. All of the songs tonight will have been Top Forty within the last thirty years, excepting a select few which are especially noteworthy. Occasionally, there will be three-point plays, in which the question will have multiple answers, the complete answer getting two points, plus one for the music. Every hour, there will be an Hour Bonus worth ten points for the complete bonus. There will also be two Super Bonuses, each worth twenty points total, which will be due after three and three-quarters hours, not four. (This is to allow earlier scoring at the contest close.) In addition, there will be Action Trivia from time to time, which are worth up to three points each. Finally, there is a two-hour deadline for score complaints; that is, we will not track down score discrepancies that are more than two hours old. However, we won't be making any mistakes, so you won't need to complain.

Before we read the phone numbers, a note on teams. Small teams are those with two or fewer phones. Small teams can use any numbers, but big teams may NOT use small team numbers.

The phone numbers are:
Any teams: (six 597- numbers)
Small teams only: (two 597- numbers)
Hour Bonus numbers (two 597- numbers). These lines will open five minutes after the bonus is read over the air or handed out. (If you are unable to call in your bonus answers by the deadline, you have a five-minute grace period to run them in to Baxter.)
Finally, the Pus Line (please use this only if you've got really severe problems)-- the Pus Line is 597-2197.

Those numbers, again, are:
(repeat all numbers)

You'll know you've reached us when the phone is answered with "Run away!"

The first Super Bonus (due at 3:50 SHARP-- no extra grace period) is now available in the basement of Baxter (use the back door). So come in and pick up your Super Bonus, and get your tape recorders ready for the first Hour Bonus.

And now for the first question.