On a cold and somewhat rainy night
in November of 2007, we held our first Trivia Night in the band room at
Houston. My one certain memory from that
night was Lori Tingle running to the front to hand me something and wiping out
on the wet floor as she tried to stop.
On this, the 10th anniversary of our first soirre’ into all
things trivial, I remember how much fun we all had. I hope to repeat that experience on this
November 10, at 7:00 p.m. in the band room.
I am asking anyone who can help with this to checkout a sign-up genius
list at:
I need help and, as I am sure you
all know, I no longer have a band of folks who do things because I tell them
to. Now I am hoping you will all help
out because I am begging and the cause (new equipment for the band) is
good. In case you are pre-2007 and don’t
know how this works, the most important thing is to show up. We will build teams of no more than 10 to a
team. There will be 10 rounds of 10
questions (one question each from 10 different categories). We will have limited concessions (drinks,
pizza, candy). It all takes about 2
hours and cost $10.00 to play.
There were also some lessons
learned in the first 10 years of doing this sort of thing. One night, I caught a parent looking up
answers on their cell phone (a big no-no).
Our prizes are not large enough to risk eternal damnation for cheating
on a question like, “Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?” My wife no longer buys tickets for our “Split
the Pot” drawing. Her name was randomly
drawn the first 3 times we did this and, even though we donated the money back
to the band, the optics were really bad.
The most prevalent problem was excited folks shouting out an answer so
loudly that not only other people playing but also some people across the
street would know their answer.
Sometimes that answer was wrong! Once, Audrie Pleasants was running concessions and got so excited about
an answer SHE shouted it out….. and she wasn’t even playing. From picking team names (Nesvick’s Naughty
Nose Pickers) to the exciting battle for last place, I hope all of you will
join us on Nov. 10.
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