This coming weekend, I’ll participate in the fifty-sixth staging of The World’s Largest Trivia Contest^TM, as staged by radio station WWSP-90FM. As per tradition, this week is filled with idle reminiscing about trivia answers that have been especially memorable for me over the years — from both the 90FM Weekend and a kindred contest that takes place on the other side of the Mississippi.

My Trivia team has a lot of lore. Among the catch phrases, number retirements, and rules about ritual imbibing, there is a long list of songs that are embedded in our multi-decade story. To be fair, that last detail is probably true of a lot of Trivia teams. This is a contest conducted over the radio, after all. There are surely others who have favorite selections that crop up in the station’s playlist every year. It can’t be just us who respectfully pause all activity when “The Night Chicago Died” emanates from the speakers to allow one of the stars of TNT New Classic The Shawshank Redemption to belt along with Paper Lace. Well, maybe no one else specifically has that happen, but they likely have their own versions.

In part because of that history, we were especially well-prepared when the following question was read:

A Top 20 hit was originally released as a standalone single by a duo. Twenty-one years later, a cover version by a group made it all the way to #2. While the group had already been performing it live for several years, their version first appeared on a soundtrack album rather than an album of their own. What is the name of this song?

The long-timers on our Trivia squad remembered the bygone days when one of our founding members, a fellow so misanthropic that he wore the number -1 on his jersey, always responded in the same way to the yearly playing of the Bangles’ “Hazy Shade of Winter” during the contest. “I saw them play this live in concert,” he announced. “Their version is much better than the Simon and Garfunkel version.” For us, the answer was at the ready.

Look around, leaves are brown, earn eighty points for your Trivia team.

More info about 90FM’s Trivia can be found at its official website or at the radio station’s online home. More info about KVSC’s Trivia can be found at the radio station’s website.