That was 1996. Years are important people!
1997 was Torroid Terror, which led to the āNo intentional detachmentā rule due to some teams scoring using parts of their robots that detached.
After a very long and thorough discussion on our team, we came to the conclusion that some of the categories were lacking, so we slightly changed the categories to fit everyoneās interests 
Games: all about FRC games, ranging from rules, names, and various other game related topics; example: Hexagon Havic was played in what year? (1996)
Technically Speaking: questions about engineering, programming, robot specs, gear ratios, etc.; example: What were the dimension restrictions for the 2009 game Lunacy? (38" by 28" by 60")
**Miscellaneous: *anything FIRST related; includes the media and pop culture categories; example: What company does Dean Kamen work for? (DEKA)
Non-Technical: Questions about anything not relating to the robot, including common knowledge, awards criteria, and anything else FIRST related (primary focus is awards criteria); example: What percentage must your website score to get website excellence? (80%)
All About FIRST: Questions about/relating to FIRST; example: What year was FIRST founded? (1989)
Go Teams!: all about teams, with special emphasis on their accolades and achievements; example: the first team to win the chairmanās award was who? (191 X-Cats, 1992)
*RCA wasnāt introduced until 10 years later, thus the national chairmanās award was the only chairmanās award
I hope these are better 
Those look pretty good but why is there an asterisk after chairmanās award?
Hey, I just wanted to connect this thread to the Interest in Trivial FIRST thread. Please vote there and help us find out how many will need! Thanks!
On the contrary - I believe this is doable:
I feel like Trivial Pursuit could only be played by FIRST-ersā¦ but I do like it. I think a category for every team is a difficult one and rookie teams will be uninformed and left outā¦ maybe the only team to win National Chairmanās or stuff thatās like - indesputable - but categories are difficult to make that remain applicable.
Recalling Game Rules excludes teams who did not play that gameā¦ Maybe include founder facts - things not everyone would know but, theyād be equally uninformed. Thus, everyone would learnā¦
Speaking of Monopoly:
If you made Monopolyā¦ FIRSTers would appreciate it but anyone could play it. You could make properties Regionals and Boardwalk could be Nationalsā¦ the pieces could be the robots from the animations and Chance and Community Chest cards could be based on rule violations and winning awards and such (and have other names I havenāt thought of.)
You could make Chance and Community Chest into Red Alliance and Blue Alliance and railroads could be FIRST founders.
The railroads could be Divisions from the Championships.
It would make more sense, in my opinion (at the risk of some drama) to make the color groups teams rather than regionals. Regionals arenāt bad, though. As long as the Oranges are the best.
I was thinking railroads would equal drive systems (skid steer / mecanum / holonomic / swerve) but I like divisions better
āGoā could be kickoff and free parking could be the pit area and have a robot instead of a car on the space. But what about jail and āgo to jailā??
Go to jail= Penalty box?
How about making jail the offseason? And then there are the utilitiesā¦
I was thinking that IRI would actually be Park Place, with Championship being Boardwalk. What else can compare?
Utilities could beā¦ motors? KOP stuff? cnc machines?
How about FTC and FLL for utilities? Or if you want to stick with FRC for the game, then it could be pit admin and scoring tableā¦Or you could keep electric company and change water works to metal worksā¦
For pieces, there could be safety glasses, a robot, and then maybe some game pieces from past games.
Free Parking ā Pit area
Go to Jail ā Go to penalty box
Jail ā Penalty box
Go ā Kickoff
Community Chest ā Red Alliance
Railroads ā Divisions from the Championships
Chance ā Blue Alliance
Electric Company ā Cost of new tools and stuff
Income Tax ā Registration payment
Luxury Tax ā Team shirts
Water Works ā Lunch/food for those all day builds!
Houses ā Nut or bolt
Hotels ā Gear
Game Pieces ā Safety glasses, screwdrivers, a punch, drill, wrench, hammer, ectā¦
Great idea, but youāre going about this wrong. I wonāt reiterate the concerns about profit margins, law suits, etc, however I am going to present you with another solution.
Make this into a webapp. I realize that you wonāt get any money from it, but it would really benefit the FIRST community. I know that if you made it very technical oriented (ie, quizes about the cRIO and programming and less about the history of FIRST), it would be a PERFECT way to train new team members! Anyways, just a though.
Kinda like how on facebook you can play all of those games. It would be awesome also if someone made a computer game of the past FRC games and you could play the games in a computer animated type. Similar to the sports games they have out there - make one for FIRST!
For what itās worth, Iād have a lot more fun trying to guess how many separate PVC arms the Beatty 2001 machine had than guessing how Iām supposed to flash a cRIO.
Yeah a FIRST history game would be more fun. There could be questions about technical stuff too though.