Fire up your brain and stock up on No-Doz — Kaleidoquiz is here.

On Friday, Iowa State’s student-run radio station KURE 88.5 FM will begin its 34th Annual Kaleidoquiz, a 26-hour trivia marathon.

During the marathon, KURE disc jockeys will read a trivia question, and teams have six minutes to produce an answer. The teams also try to solve music and movie montages, and they participate in scavenger hunts.

Casey Houston, Kaleidoquiz director, said at one time, Kaleidoquiz was the largest trivia contest in the country, with more than 6,000 participants.

“We’ll probably have 12 teams, and I expect 20 to 30 people per team,” said Houston, junior in chemical engineering.

Houston said the majority of the teams that participate are from the residence halls.

“We have an alumni team some years and usually a few different groups off campus,” he said. “Usually, the bigger your team, the better your chances are.”

Houston said some teams keep coming back year after year.

“Barker House [in Lyon Hall] has won the last two years,” he said. “Last year, [Honors Student Board] was second; they were second the year before, too.”

Christine Briedis, junior in genetics, was one of the members of last year’s second-place team.

“It was a lot of fun to do,” she said. “I stayed up for all 26 hours of it.”

Briedis said having a winning team requires a group effort.

“We have a lot of people sitting around computers,” she said. “Other people took books from the library, others work on music montages and others go out on scavenger hunts.”

Last year, Briedis found answers on the Internet and went on one scavenger hunt.

“Scavenger hunts are a lot of fun,” she said. “They give you crazy items to get. [Last year], we had to get a bowling ball, a dubbed tape of Top Gun [and] an old Atari game.”

Since most people use the Internet to find the answers to the trivia questions, Houston said, Kaleidoquiz officials had to make some changes.

“This year, we’re going to make the questions a lot harder than in the past,” he said. “Everybody is using the Internet now, so we made it harder. I hope it’s not too hard.”

Team entries were due last week, but interested people can still register today until 5 p.m. Forms are available on the door of 1199 Friley Hall.

A $25 fee is required for registration, and there will be an additional late fee.