Your Brain Can Help the World Affairs Council

You've got just one week to register for the World Affairs Council's second annual Transnational Trivia Championship. Brainiacs from around Seattle will gather and compete at 7pm on Friday, October 10, at the Seattle Center Fisher Pavilion.

At $40 per person, the entry fee is steeper than the usual pub quiz, but your donation helps the WAC "bring the world to Washington and connect Washington to the world." (If you want to donate more, of course, you're welcome—and you'll be rewarded.)

Fabulous prizes can be yours—someone's winning a bottle of Ethiopian honey wine, and each player on the winning team gets a Zune. But as usual, glory is the real prize at stake. We know there are geography fans out there (we did a survey at the Old Pequliar), and the Transnational quiz promises to take you "around the world in 40 questions."

And if your brain fails you, there's always lady luck. There's a Round the World Raffle the same evening, offering a Rick Steves seven-day tour for two as the grand prize.

(Psst! You can rifle through some of our old geography rounds to prep yourself. You could even come to Seattlest Trivia at the Old Pequliar on Tuesday—we'll grill you.)

"SprizeeCam™ Metsker's Maps," the answer to the question "Where are you?" comes courtesy of the invaluable sprizee and our Flickr pool.