Trivia no izumi

Hey! Spring of Trivia
Genre	Comedy
Presented by	Katsumi Takahashi Norito Yashima
Judges	Tamori Bibiru Ōki Becky Rabone Megumi Hiroshi Aramata
Narrated by	Shinji Nakae
Country of origin	Japan
Original language(s)	Japanese
Release
Original network	Fuji TV
Original release	October 7, 2002 – September 7, 2006

Hey! Spring of Trivia is the name given by Spike TV to the show The Fountain of Trivia (Japanese: トリビアの泉^?, Hepburn: Toribia no Izumi), 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 (ten in special episodes) evaluate each video segment and votes on how interesting it is by pushing a "hey!"-button (へぇ~ボタン^?, Hē-botan) every time they are astonished. ("Hey" (へぇ^?, Hē) is the Japanese interjection for expressing genuine surprise, equivalent to a mix of the English interjections "Really?" and "Wow!".) The total of all "Hey"s collected during the presentation of the trivia (maximum of 20 per judge) 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 (200 in special episodes), the trivia submitter receives 100,000 yen (200,000 in special episodes). To date no piece of trivia has received 100 Heys.

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