Call yourself a Lopez Long-timer? Now’s your chance to prove it. On Saturday, Nov. 16, at Lopez Center, KLOI’s annual benefit concert, Gretchen Wing and Chicken Biscuit, will once again feature a Lopez Trivia Contest during intermission.  Music will kick off at 7:30 p.m.  The program features Wing’s original folk music plus many familiar favorites. Tickets are $10, available at Paper, Scissors; Lopez Book Store; Blossom; the Southender; the Center, and at the door. Test your expertise with a question from previous years:

1. Bob Adcock fished off Lopez’ south end, and sometimes passing freighters snagged his nets.  What was Bob’s response to those freighters?

A) Get on the radio and give them hell

B) Take aim with his shotgun and fire

C) Take it in stride and haul his nets in for repair

D) File complicated lawsuits against the international freight companies

Oh, the answer? Sorry – you’ll have to read to the end of the article for that.

Although the concert has become a community favorite, many Lopezians admit that the trivia contest is the real draw for them.  Longtimer-in-Training Iris Graville says, “I love the trivia contest. I always learn new tidbits about Lopez.”

Lorna Reese, another Fairly-Longtimer, adds, “Participating in the trivia contest is a great way for newcomers to learn about Lopez lore.”

To flaunt your knowledge of Lopez Lore, no Jeopardy!-style prepping is necessary, as the contest does not spotlight individuals. Instead, the audience is divided into two teams, and everyone receives electronic clickers. When a question is projected on the big screen, each team has one minute to glean the expertise of its gossip-mavens—oops, um… long-timers. Those in the know find themselves in high demand at these pressure-filled moments. Answers are then clicked in, the totals are shown, and the correct answer revealed—to cheers or groans, depending on how well each team listened to its experts.

Need another question to practice?

2. What is written on Hildegard Goss’s gravestone?

A) When I grow old I’ll wear purple

B) Life is art

C) Your turn to walk the dog

D) There goes the neighborhood

Lopez Trivia began in 1994, at the Lopez Community Land Trust annual meeting, the brainchild of Sandy Bishop, and continued through 1996. Appropriately, Sandy will be this year’s emcee, along with a mystery assistant.

OK, last chance:

3. Joan Baez once sung backup to a Lopezian. Who was that Lopezian and what was the song?

A) Lisa Geddes – Diamonds and Rust

B) Ann Marie Fisher –  Blowin’ in the Wind

C) Rhea Miller – Deportee

D) Jamie Cordova – There but for Fortune

Answers: 1 – B; 2 – D; 3 – C. Got ‘em all? Then you’ll be very popular on Nov.16.