One of our favorite activities is to attend Trivia Nights a couple times a year. I'm learning this may be more of a St Louis thing and other cities don't really have these....so in case you don't know-- These are used as a fundraiser (the one we just did is for a new school opening up in the city). You get a team of people together, usually 8 or 10, and each person pays usually $25. Most of the time with the fee you get unlimited beer included and then everyone brings a bunch of snacks for the table to share. Your table will compete against the other tables- usually about 30. There are 10 rounds of 10 questions. There will be an emcee type person who reads the question and then you huddle at your table and write down the answer. At the end of the round, someone collects the sheet and it's graded. then the emcee will read the answers aloud to everyone. It's really a great time and sometimes the categories are really boring things like Presidents, Politics, In the News, etc. But other times we get great categories for Music, Pop culture, Tv Shows, etc. We never come close to winning, but just have fun!
Then they usually do several fundraising events throughout the night. Usually there is a silent auction and a 50/50 raffle. So noboday was bidding items up at this last trivia night....it was actually really sad! There would be a $25 gift card to a restaurant and someone only bid $5 on it and the auction closing in 5 minutes! So Dustin and I came away with a lot of stuff and spent only $106 total. Here is what we won:
Free stay at drury hotel (anywhere in US)
$50 to St. Louis Gast Hous (German restaurant we like here)
$20 to Blues City Deli
$20 to 9th St Deli
$20 Friendly's Sports Bar
3 Rounds of golf at nearby course
$100 to Floral Shop
So couple this along with all the coupons I've bought recently on Groupon and Restaurant.com, we are in coupon overload now....and we are going to use up a bunch of these before buying ANY more.
Also, don't think I mentioned this, but I won a prize at my work happy hour a few weeks ago for a free stay at the Moonrise Hotel, which is in the loop here...so that will be really fun to do sometime!
