Trivia

TRivia Night....

well so far we have some danations and we have the $500 frm the Parents Association at school. this night is looking to be good so far...

Game Ideas
-guess the serial number on a $100 dollar note(the winner gets the note) gold coin per guess.
-throw gold coins at a prize
- stand up sit down game

well thats just to start off i have to go

Macca's Girls

Hey Jennie and i were discussing the possibility of having a kids program during the trivia night.
We could get some takers if it means people don't need babysitters,
I was thinking having it for kids 10yrs and under
We could have a pizza dinner in a classroom or something and then show a movie
(maybe in the theatre)
if we did that we could charge about $20 per kid

For the trivia night i was doing some calculations
If we push 2tables together to make squares with approx 80 tables then take 16 for prize display/ catering-food tables/ and registration tables
we could make 32 table sets seating 8 each = 256 people

If we charge $50 per head with a good meal plus 1 glass of wine or non-alcoholic beverage
(additional glasses @ $2)
Then if everyone entered the raffle @ $2 per tix(i have another idea bout this which i will post next)
+ maybe 15 kids @$20 per head we would make
(256*50)+(256*2)+(15*20) - (costs, food, crockery hire)
$13,342 before expenses thats about $1,100 each

This is my idea for the raffle

If we did two ways of entering the raffle
-guaranteed entry at $4.00

Then we can do a competition entry,
This would be by completing a brain teaser or 2, the entry would be $2.00
but the final entry would depend on if their answer to at least one of the brainteasers was correct.

correct entries would go into the draw for the Raffle prize.

This will be drawn at the end of the night.

Also i don't wan't to sound mean but i think that whoever gets an auction item donated should get the profits from that item,
It just means that everything is fair, if someone works hard and calls lots of people, that they arn't just giving those profits to someone that didn't do anything.
Profits from everything else will be split between everyone.

woah lisa, we already went over the table calculations. It came to about 225 people (we need tables for the projector (so people can see the questions and answers!), ushers, judges, auction items etc).
other than that little nit-picknig idea, i think we should *ahem* (and remember, this is just what i think, feel free to say "thats a crap idea, go jump in albert park lake".
*like lisa said, have a night care for kids
*have a raffle, tickets $1 each or 3 for $2.50
*have a proper three course meal + glass of wine. if we make the tickets $65, it is a reasonable amount.ESPECIALLY! if we include a goody bag too (filled with things like chocolate, gift vouchers - $5 at the body shop. muahahaha, or body products or something. etc
*have a large area for the games which will be continually going (throwing money at the small object - rig it so it is impossible to win. muahahaha
*sell wine by the glass. depending on how good the wine is, make the glass cost about $3.50. if we do champagne, that could be good too
anyway, i must dash. it is time for John Saffran

see you all tomorrow
Meeting on tuesday (but i have to leave at 1pm. sooo sorry!)
jennie

hi guys
where exactly are we looking at getting a 3-course meal and about 20 cases of wine, not to mention glass and crockery hire?? and i also wonder how many people will be willing to spend $50 each for a meal. i thought maybe we should keep it simpler, with nibbles and wine rather than a full-blown meal. we could run more than one of these nights, if they are kept simpler and cheaper (and that doesn't necessarily mean less people!). anyway, just an idea
rosa

Ok, so no alcohol. I just thought it could a really nice classy touch, but i can see why it would be a problem.
If we want to organise more than one trivia night, it will be ultra ultra hard. this is taking us a lot of effort already and we aren't even past the first stage yet.
Here is my random list of things we need to figure out

*How many tables fit into the hall

*Will we fit less tables once we have included chairs?

*In reference to catering: i researched and there was a guy who did mobil catering. He includes tables, tablecloths, cutlery, crockery. We can find out what he charges per person, what he serves, and all that stuff

*I don't think we discount the alcohol yet (i am not fixated). like i said before, it is a nice classy touch. We want to distinguish ourselves from being school kids running a charity event, and a group of young women organising a trizia night. But, like i also said, I can see why you might have reservations and Rosa, your point was a really good one (where will we keep the alcohol, or something like that). Maybe just a glass of champagne. I went out and they charged $6 for a glass of Yellowglen. It could be a nice idea. I am sorry to harp on about this. I will leave it alone. Anyway, don't close your mind to the possibliltly.

*I love the child care idea! It is so good, we can make them watch video's. WE should finetune the idea though. Shmeh, we'll figure it out on tuesday!

Thats all from me about the trivea night.
Jennie

look, sorry rosa but i do still agree with jennie about the wine.
or at least i think we should have byo coz i don't really think the parents would enjoy drinking soft drink or water all evening (well some might) and we can provide this too for a small fee per can or glass (not for water)

from speaking to other people that have run these sorts of events $50-$60 is quite reasonable.
There are alot of caterning places which do a meal 3 courses or just dinner if you wish, as well as supply the crockery, cutlery etc.. for a reasonable price. Infact my swim club is having a dinner this sat and we payed $40 for just a one course meal. i can talk to the organisers about the caterers and cost plus i can try their food out

And also, I WOULD LOVE to run the kids club!!! (we can discuss that later i just thought i would let you all know) and my mum has offered to help, she is a registered intensive care nurse and this could give the kids parents piece of mind that its not just unexperienced teens looking after their kids.

see you all soon LUV LISA
p.s everyone should do something on this forum coz there seems to only be a few people using it out of the 17 of us, more if the teachers wanted to post something.

um also, getting prizes for multiple trivia nights could be a bit hard. and yeah it will take alot of organisation

we could possibly move this triva night foreward and if REALLY successful then we could consider doing another one. (for all of you that didn't know we booked the school hall for 2nd september) well at least i think thats right, i don't have the best memory.

I support lisa's idea of putting forward, if we all start getting donations organised and plan out a time line so we can keep all the things in check, it will be great. Also if the first night is a big success and not too expensive in terms money vs value we will have people eager to come back again next time with more friends!!!!!
The idea of the meal is good, but i think it should be byo when it comes to alcohol as ross pointed out in the meeting that people come to trivia nigths expecting to be giving money away in the name of fun and games ( and our cause of course!!) Rosa's point of nibbles and finger food would be good too, it all depends on the relative costs and projected profits of each. Kids club is a great idea and yeah... peace out

I agree with splitting the groups for the trivia night and stuff,

i know we have had alot of conflict bout catering and alcohol etc for the trivia night,
my suggetion is that the girls that are happy to go ahead with BYO and catering could do trivia and the girls that really don't do something that won't require that sort of food and drink organisation.
I know some of you will tell me that this is not fair but i spoke to some of my friends parents and they said that they would expect alcohol service or BYO coz they wern't to keen bout the suggestion of non alcoholic drinks (they said it was kinda kiddy stuff)

i am talking with my swimming organisers bout what they did for our presentation night coz we had catering and BYO there.

Now not really related to all of you, Hilary i need to meet up with you sometime this week to discuss some things with you, and colect the choc forms(i think you said you had them?)

Cu all soon
luv lisa

hey guys
i thought maybe we should look at serving Vietnamese food, to start a theme going. I think it would be nice to keep it relevant to the trip.
rosa

Hey my friends family did some catering for my swim presentation night i think i could ask them.
We had rice and stir fry which is kinda asian, and before that we had nibbles of dimsims, springrolls and something else(i don't know what it was called).
I could always ask if they could do something kinda viet?

It was really good too coz it was in a noodle box with chopstix so afterwoods you don't really need to clean just throw the boxes out, Plus no need to hire plates and cutlery. (but we would still need glasses)
i think this could work but i still need to ask if they can do it and for how much.
Also i need to be able to tell the when the night would be(are we changing it to earlier???)

lisa