It started 20 years ago, at the Waterloo Gun and Bocci Club with 20 teams, and raised $13,000 for local literacy programs.

The location has changed to Stockton Memorial Civic Auditorium, as many as 36 teams will compete and about $35,000 will be raised, but otherwise, the Library and Literacy Foundations' Trivia Bee remains the same.

With a theme of The Roaring '20s, foundation members, with the help of librarians, have prepared questions to ask teams of three representing a variety of local businesses, organizations and high schools.

Each paid $550 to compete, with local businesses sponsoring the high school squads, and the proceeds benefit local library and literacy programs.

"This is really our primary fundraising event," said foundation board member Dana Bockstahler. "Our foundation was started to support adult literacy. Twenty years ago there were some government mandates that libraries had to do more toward adult literacy. There needed to be a fundraising activity to fund those programs. Our focus is not that narrow, anymore. In addition to supporting the library, we also support the Reach Out and Read Program (for pre-kindergarten children)."

The questions for the annual event are as closely guarded as the envelopes at the Academy Awards, but San Joaquin Delta College American history professor Wesley Swanson, off the top of his head, could name a number of subjects that trivia teams may face with a theme of The Roaring '20s.