July 12 CWPA Weekly Trivia Question Posted; Answer Correctly & Win Prizes

BRIDGEPORT, Pa. -- Do you want free Collegiate Water Polo Association merchandise? Think you know everything? Love water polo? The Collegiate Water Polo Association has posted the organization's July 12 Trivia Question. Answer correctly and you can win a CWPA T-shirt or other great prizes.

This week's question returns to the old pattern:

As the men's season rapidly approaches, attention turns to which team will be the best in each club division.  The biggest question of the season will be if Cal Poly and 2008 National Collegiate Club Champion Michigan State University can make it back to the 2009 title game.  In the history of the championship, a team has advanced to the title game in consecutive years 10 times with Cal Poly (2001-02-03-04, 2007-08) and Michigan State (2005-06-07-08) leading the way to account for seven of the instances.  However, they were not the first to achieve the feat.  Since 1993, which other three teams have made back-to-back national title game appearances and in what years? (Hint: They played each other both years)

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July 5 Trivia Question

13 people correctly answered the trivia question:

The sport of water polo has started to enter the "pop culture" environment more and more over the last few years, from appearances in popular television shows to mentions in other forms of entertainment. One of the biggest movies of 2009 has been Star Trek. The sport of water polo was prominently mentioned in one of the Star Trek series "Enterprise" as one of the ship's captains played for Stanford University in the 2134 North America Water Polo Regionals. What CWPA team did he play against and lose to as this CWPA team became National Champion?

The correct answer is: Princeton University