[GeoStL] Re: NGR Trivia night ideas please
- From: "Team Wheelinb" <teamwheelinbcachers@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 07:51:50 -0600
Nancy - crash the Trivia Night......scary, but I was thinking the same
thing! And The Brad is pretty much a genius, to boot. He knows A LOT about
A LOT of topics. I'm usually pretty good at the fashion, music, make up,
celebrity topics. Some of my best friends are in Star Magazine and The
Enquirer. :) If you decide to make the trek, we'd love to tag along,
too. We LOVE trivia nights. One of our Power Teammates, Ed, recently
passed away, so we'd like to pour some out for him. He was a history and
literature buff. I'd love to spend an evening with Arlene and Dale and
thejonescrew, they are the neatest family! Perhaps a SLAGA table?
Arlene - The Brad and I hosted a Trivia Night for church a few years ago and
he came up with most of the categories. He even MC'd. Some were very
clever. One of my favorites was "East or West" and the MC named locations
around the USofA and the teams had to decide if it was East or West of the
Mississippi River. There was one category with several items in a box and
you had to reach in and feel and identify without looking - a golf ball, a
toothpick, a bracelet. Another category was 10 items in Ziploc baggies and
you had to identify what each was according to appearance and smell. One
was detergent, another flour, another baggie held Comet. The one category
that was pretty difficult was a mnemonic topic. Mnemonics are something we
all use, most of us just don't know they're called mnemonic. Short poems or
acronyms to help us remember stuff.
"Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey" - how to loosen or tighten screws or jar
lids.
"Every Good Boy Does Fine" - these are the notes for the treble cleff in
music.
"I before E except after C." - spelling assist.
"My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas." The order of the
Planets, except Pluto isn't a planet any longer, right?!
Anywho, it was a hard category! We'll look around for the other
categories. Heads or Tails is fun. Another fun game I like to play during
one of the intermissions is Pocket Trivia. Assemble a list of normal things
one might find in his or her wallet, pockets, or purse, then add some
bizarre items to the list. Last team standing wins a prize or gets bonus
points. Please send details about the Trivia Night. We may book a table!
Happy New Year SLAGA! Hope to see you all at MOGA or otherwise on the
trails this year!
Kat
of Kat & Brad
Wheelinb
On 1/8/08, tnsl <sydstyr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ME ME ... Pick ME... I have some categories I'd be happy to dig out and
> send to you. Purple (Laura) is another good resource too. We made our last
> couple of Trivia Nights more like a night of playing games.
>
> A couple of "We'll do anything to take your money" things to do during
> intermission are "Heads and Tails" and "Dead or Alive." For Heads or Tails
> you "Sell" each person two pieces of paper or a 2 sided paddle . One
> represents heads and one represents tails. Everyone stands up and the Emcee
> flips a coin .. if you think it will be heads you hold up the "heads" paper,
> tails for tails. If you're right you keep standing, if you're wrong, you sit
> down. Last person standing wins.
>
> The same for dead or alive. The Emcee reads off a name of a famous person
> .. get it right keep standing, wrong - sit down. We use
> http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/ for a reference. Little Jimmy Dickens
> will get them every time.
>
> We've been to Trivia Nights where these games cost an additional $5.00 -
> $10.00 /player and the winner gets half of the pot. HOWEVER, our people are
> exceptionally cheap and we only charge $2.00 lol. Also, Heads or Tails is
> easily seen as gambling but Dead or Alive takes a bit more "knowledge" and
> you may be able to get away with it easier (although we had a couple of
> people at each leave and send an email because DoA was, in their opinion,
> gambling.)
>
> More "Game" type categories include giving every table a paper bag
> with individually packaged and numbered candy or cereal and they have to
> write down what it is. I have a state license plate category already made
> up as well as a famous St. Louisans autograph category I'd be happy to
> email to you (or anyone who may want it). I've seen other categories that
> were famous baby pictures, pictures of only the eyes/nose/mouth etc of a
> celebrity, the beginning or ending scene of a movie.
>
> We did a hat category and the emcee changed hats along with the category
> (my husband just happened to be one of the emcees..). We also had a "Hats
> Off to" theme and told everyone to wear a hat. Right before intermission we
> made everyone put on their hat and if the entire table had someone wearing a
> hat they got 1 or 2 free points.
>
> I'll send you an email off list with some "fun" categories I have made
> already.
>
> Nancy
>
> Purple .. are you out there? Should we "road trip" and crash their
> Trivia Night?? Laura can vouch for me .. I only know a few answers here
> and there but I make it up by bringing food -- of course lol.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* thejones crew <shitsngrins@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 08, 2008 6:33 PM
> *Subject:* [GeoStL] NGR Trivia night ideas please
>
>
>
>
> Dale and I are helping with a trivia night at out Church. I would love to
> present some different ideas than the same old topics they have done for the
> last few years. Anybody have some fun catagories/ideas. I plan on suggesting
> a sink or float catagory. Thanks in advance gang!
>
> Arlene
>
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