Minnie's Moonlit Madness - Good Thing It's Not Monthly

Minnie's Moonlit Madness sounds rather dubious: does Minnie ease her inhibitions under the full moon, or maybe grow fangs and howl with Pluto while Mickey desperates seeks a silver bullet (and hopes he's pure of heart, as the old rhyme goes)?

No. During Moonlit Madness, Minnie remains prim - actually, she has nothing to do with the event, which is a trivia contest held once a year at Disneyland, according to Mark Eades of the Orange County Register.

The contest pits teams (each consisting of one park employee and three normal people) against one another for a night of often insanely difficult trivia games and scavenger hunts.

In his preview of the event, Mark made my eyes water with a sample challenge from the scavenger hunt portion of the contest involving a multi-variable equation based on signs and objects from Frontierland. (Yes, a multi-variable equation.) Mark worked it out step-by-step and I'm still not certain whether I could have solved it on my own.

Of course, you can't even start the scavenger hunt until your team has answered around 50 trivia questions from Disney character biographies to Disney corporate history.

To enter, it costs $75 per team, with proceeds going to Mercy House for the Homeless. The Disney employee member of your team must register on the company's internal website. Your team can pick easy, medium or hard challenges, and prizes are awarded to the winners. The event starts September 13 at 8:00 PM and ends by midnight.