Thursday, April 23
The Paramount Theater
Charlottesville's Game Show for Trivia Lovers
Calling all trivia buffs, it’s time for Wordplay! Assemble your team, drill those facts, review your pop-culture references, and get ready to compete.
Wordplay is a team-based trivia competition for people who love words, vocabulary, pop culture, history, literature, and showing off how smart they are. Teams of three players compete from the comforts of their seats at The Paramount.
Wordplay is the annual fundraiser for Literacy Volunteers of Charlottesville/Albemarle. LVCA is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes adult literacy through equitable, inclusive, free, confidential, one-to-one English and Citizenship tutoring. Funds raised through Wordplay support adult learners as they achieve their educational goals.
Register a Team
Register and pay your team fees here
Crowdsourcing
Create a fundraising page and raise the fees to play
Support a Team
Help a team rasie their team fees by donating
Roster of Teams & Sponsors
Marquee Sponsor: Bay Ridge Private Wealth
Alley Team Realtors
Belmont Brainiacs (individual team)
Bookie Monsters (individual team)
C-VILLE Weekly
C'ville Scrabble Club
Catering Outfit
CertaPro Painters of Charlottesville
Charlottesville Media Group
Crutchfield
First United Methodist Church
Glitteracy (individual team)
Hark Vineyard
Hexagon Energy, LLC
Hoos For The Ages (individual team)
Ivy Group
Jefferson-Madison Regional Library
Kicking AZ and Taking Names (individual team)
New Dominion Bookshop
Newman's Own (individual team)
Ørsted
Periodic Table Dancers (individual team)
Piedmont Virginia Community College
Tandem Friends School
The Paramount Theater
The Pie Chest
The Trophy Husbands (individual team)
Western Albemarle High School
WNRN
WTJU 91.1 FM
WVIR 29News
Yes. No. Maybe… (individual team)
Frequently asked questions
What's Wordplay?
Wordplay is a team-based trivia competition for people who love words, vocabulary, pop culture, history, literature, and showing off how smart they are. Teams of three players compete from the comforts of their seats at The Paramount Theater in Downtown Charlottesville.
How Do We Participate?
To participate as a team, team sponsorship starts at $600. Teams can pay online, send a check, or utilize online crowd-sourcing to raise their fee. Sponsors can also donate in-kind goods of the same value in place of their team fee.
Who Benefits?
Wordplay is the annual fundraiser for Literacy Volunteers of Charlottesville/Albemarle. LVCA is an independent, non-profit organization that offers free, confidential, individualized basic literacy and ESOL instruction to adults.
Are costumes required?
Wearing a costume is optional, but there will be "Best Team Costume" and "Best Team Name" contests for those participating. The audience will cast those votes. Teams can stack the deck in their favor by encouraging friends, family, and coworkers to buy tickets.
