Getting Trivial

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 10^th 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:

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0949adab2d6-trivia

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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