“Our Wives Don’t Know We’re Here” takes first place in the NEF’s 2026 Trivia Bee
On Wednesday, March 11th, the NEF held its 35th annual Bee, the sixth year featuring trivia, with 48 teams and over 350 participants and attendees. Teams included students and teachers from each of Needham’s schools, local businesses and community organizations, and over a dozen family and neighbor teams. The evening started with an opportunity to meet Officer Rocket and Officer Ghost, the Needham Police Department’s Community Resource dogs, and to take team photos and purchase raffle tickets for a chance to win one of seven themed baskets with items donated by local businesses.
Mike “Sarge” Riley, the public address announcer for the New England Patriots and Revolution and a veteran Boston sports radio personality, kept the evening lively and fun as the event host, sharing fun facts about many of the teams or bantering with the student teams seated in front.
After 5 spirited rounds of trivia, including categories such as science, entertainment, geography, and Needham history, “Our Wives Don’t Know We’re Here” emerged as the first-place winner, with the “Library Bookies” from the Needham Free Public Library in a close second. There was a two-way tie for third place between the Pollard Teachers “Pollard Greens” team and the “Brainy Blitz” team, with “Brainy Blitz” earning third place in the tiebreaker round.
Creativity abounded with the naming of the teams, including the Best Team Name category winner, “Our Wives Don’t Know We’re Here.” There were also a number of teams in custom t-shirts, Bee antenna headbands, and fun outfits. We loved seeing the “Silly Sunflowers” team back again in their suits with a sunflower in the pocket, and the ever-inventive Mitchell Elementary School teachers on the “Despicable Know-it-Alls“ team in their minion t-shirts.
Competition was also fierce among the elementary teams, with the “Newman Nerds Clusters” team from Newman Elementary School earning the title as the top-scoring elementary team this year. They will get to display the top-scoring elementary team trophy at Newman Elementary until next year’s Bee.
The event was recorded by the Needham Channel and will be available for viewing in early April.
Team Winners:
1st Place-Our Wives Dont Know We Are Here
2nd Place-Library Bookies
3rd Place-Brainy Blitz
Top Scoring Elem Team-Newman Nerds Clusters
Team and Event Pictures:
