Sunday 13 November 2011

Trivia in abundance but what a night!

Saturday night saw 170+ people making up 20 teams gathered at the St Heliers School Hall for a night promoted as "FUN, LAUGHTER & TRIVIA".  It was all of that.  Teams comprised some Rotary club, corporate, political and mixed teams. 

Quiz Master extraordinaire, Steele, ensured that the thoughful, interesting and sometime outright obscure questions developed by our resident knowledge-bank Frank were delivered and answered professionally and with the Four Way Test in mind ... possibly.  This of course was helped by the wine (yes we had a licence for the wine, beer .. and soft drink) and the atmosphere created by the teams of whom most dressed up to represent their values (or lack of) and intent to have a FUN night out.

Being reponsible hosts the table decorations included plentiful snacks to nibble on, followed by delicious pizzas and finshed off with desserts on a stick.

However, in addition to the fun, the other purpose of the evening was to raised funds for the club's community projects in the year ahead and give members of the community the opportunity to support this.  To this end, in addition to the admission investment of a whole $25 per person there were a series of raffles, the opportunity to purchase quiz answers (a certain political group did this well - thank you and please come back next year) plus an auction with some amazing items donated including an impressive painting done by Brenda (what talent).

The total for the evening was over $8,000.  Thank you everyone for taking part - come back next year and bring even more friends.

To see a 3 minute video from the evening CLICK HERE