Most of what I add to Bloomington Online is practical: the business directory, the news hub, the events calendar. This one is just for fun.
B-Town 500 Trivia is a free trivia race about Bloomington. Pick 1 to 8 teams and take turns. Every right answer moves your bike around a little 3D version of the Little 500 track, and a perfect game is all 200 laps.
What you’ll find
There are 81 questions. Some are friendly, like IU’s school colors. Some are for people who have been here a while, like who Kirkwood Avenue is named after. There are three levels: Classic, Hard, and Ramp up, which starts easy and gets harder halfway through.
I borrowed a few things from the real race:
- Quals. One question per team sets the starting grid, and the pole team gets a green badge.
- Exchanges. List the riders on your team and they trade the bike every turn.
- Flags. A white flag for the last round and a checkered flag at the finish. In a rematch, last game’s winner wears yellow.
The photos in the game are mine, from the Little 500 Spring Series in April 2025.
Try one
What sits on top of the Monroe County Courthouse dome?
Show the answer
A copper fish weathervane. It has topped Monroe County’s courthouses since the 1820s, and it’s about five and a half feet long.
Play the full game for 80 more.
Built to work for everyone
This is the part I care about most as a web designer. You can play the whole game with a keyboard (A to D to answer, Enter to move on). The text is large and high contrast, sound is off unless you turn it on, and if your device can’t show the 3D track, the game switches to a simple progress bar instead.
Taking it to Career Cruise
On Thursday, November 5, I’ll be at the Greater Bloomington Chamber’s Career Cruise, where about 1,000 7th and 8th graders meet local businesses. They’ll play a shorter version with a round about what web designers do. If you teach or run a youth group, B-Town 500 Junior takes about two minutes a game.
Tell me if I got something wrong
I checked every Bloomington question against sources, but local facts change. If you spot a mistake, send a note and choose “Story tip or correction.” I’ll fix it.
And if you play it at game night, let me know who won.
I’m Dave Martin. I run Bloomington Online, and I build websites for small businesses, practices and nonprofits at David Martin Design. B-Town 500 Trivia is built the same way I build client sites: plain, fast, and usable by everyone.
B-Town 500 Trivia is a community project from Bloomington Online. It is not affiliated with Indiana University, the IU Foundation or the Little 500.