The World Series of Pop Culture is a VH1 game show tournament program sponsored by Alltel Wireless, based on Entertainment Weekly's Pop Culture Quiz. Sixteen teams, comprising three people each, compete in a tournament to determine which team, collectively, knows the most about elements of popular culture. Taping took place in New York City from April 29 - April 30, 2006 at the Ziegfeld Theater (a movie theater named in homage of the former Ziegfeld Theatre). A wide range of topics are covered such as movies, music, TV and other miscellaneous pop culture. The top prize is $250,000. The show began on July 10, 2006, and the finale for the initial tournament aired on Thursday, August 3, 2006. The hosts were Pat Kiernan and Lisa Guerrero.
The second season of the show premiered on July 9, 2007. The auditions for the second season were held in January and February, and the tapings took place on March 22 and 23 at the Grand Ballroom of the Manhattan Center. There were two online qualification tests this year which took place on February 14 and February 20. Kiernan returns as host, with season 1 competitors "Cheetara" (Erin Davidson, Katherine Gotsick, and Amber Tillett) replacing Guerrero as the backstage interviewer.
Taped at the Ziegfeld Theater.
Almost Perfect Strangers had an 'almost perfect' Sweet 16 round, in which they answered every question correctly, with the exception of a steal from the opposing team, Men of Vision.
In one instance, two contestants exhausted the list of possible tiebreaker answers (the category was "American Idol" (2002) finalists), which necessitated a second tiebreaker. Notably, they listed the Idol finalists in order from the first to the fourth season.
Even though the Semifinals were to be continued along with the Finals, VH1 revealed the teams that would be in the Finals by showing a commercial with the teams following the first showing of the Semifinals.
Velvet Rope Revolution team member Dave Callaham co-wrote the 2005 feature film Doom (2005).
Two members of Peanut Butter & Ginelli invented the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon trivia game.
