Ozarks Literacy Council raised a record $15,140 from its annual trivia night July 28. Forty teams participated in the competition, with the Springfield-Greene County Library’s Cracker Jacks team, above, taking first place. Another library squad, Team Zissou, earned second place, and SBJ Publishing’s contingency, dubbed Three People Who Have Never Been In My Kitchen, finished third.

SBJ’s members are, from left, Chris Roberts, Valerie Pister, Jeff Wells, Dianne Elizabeth Osis, Layla Harding, Mar’Ellen Felin, Jeremy Elwood and Billie Marsala.

The funds raised will help promote literacy among the roughly 9,000 children and 200 adults the council serves each year.