Artifact of the month

The “Trivia” Game of Niceville/Valparaiso, Florida, was produced by G&J Ideas as a fundraiser for the 1985 Niceville High School Cross-Country Team. The goal of the game is for players to make their way to the Jackpot Question square in the middle of the board and correctly answer the Jackpot Question to win the game. The game board features advertisements from local businesses that are incorporated into the game. Players must correctly answer two trivia questions when they land on a local advertisement in order to move on in the game whereas they must only answer one correct question when they land on the other spaces on the board. The questions included with the game are made up of a combination of general knowledge questions and questions about the Niceville/Valparaiso community. The board also features the names of the donors whose contributions made the game possible. The game was donated to the Heritage Museum of Northwest Florida in 2016 by Verna Sesso of Niceville.

The “Trivia” Game of Niceville/Valparaiso includes:

· Game board

· Game instruction

· 2 dice

· 8 playing pieces

· 160 general knowledge trivia questions printed on blue card stock

· 10 trivia questions about Niceville/Valparaiso printed on yellow card stock

· 6 blank trivia cards