Hey! Spring of Trivia

Hey! Spring of Trivia is the name given by Spike TV to the show The Fountain of Trivia a Japanese variety show on Fuji TV. "Trivia" consists of a series of video segments that introduce and confirm the validity of unusual trivia. Past trivia has included exploding erasers, spiders affected by caffeine, and insects that cannot be killed. Most of the trivia on the show is sent in by viewers. A celebrity panel of five judges evaluates each video segment and votes on how interesting it is by pushing a "hey!"-button every time they are astonished. is the Japanese interjection for expressing... genuine surprise, equivalent to a mix of the English interjections "For real?" and "Wow!". The total of all "Hey"s collected during the presentation of the trivia is then used as the indicator for the degree of surprise of this trivia. For every "Hey" a piece of trivia gets, the trivia submitter receives 100 yen. Should it receive a perfect score of 100 Heys, the trivia submitter receives 100,000 yen. To date no piece of trivia has received 100 Heys.
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