Steventon, Definitely Not a Pub Quiz: (Sponsored by Rotary Club of Abingdon)
Friday 23rd
November, Steventon Hall, 7:00 for a
prompt 7:30 start
SALES ( of tables have been available since 12th October)
You may purchase a table (a max of 7 people per table) for £125
FORMAT
The quiz evening, our ninth, will follow the usual format;
multi-media quiz, bread, cheese, wine (+ Loose Cannon beer
this year), and raffle.
We are now able to take payment for the beer and additional bottles of wine
with a credit card.
Our thanks go to Waitrose and Loose Cannon for their support this year.
large screen to show the questions and illustrate the answers
second screen for the electronic scoreboard (new design this year, thank you for the feedback)
answer book; plus sheets to help the other team members
bread, cheese & pickle and 2 bottles of wine on the table,
Joker: make your choice of joker round before
round 1 starts.
Any team with 3
or more members that have won the quiz in either 2016 or 2017,
are denied the use of a joker; this is to try and share the title around.
7 rounds, each of 10 questions (except in round 6, when there will be 30 questions each worth ⅓ point),
a raffle
a bottle of fizz for each of the 7 winning team members.
THE PROCEEDS
Our surplus last year was £2,250, a sum we would like to achieve again so we can continue to support the many deserving charities who look to us for help.
RAFFLE
Tickets will be sold by Cat, Ben, Emily and ? during the break. The raffle will be drawn between rounds 6 and 7.
THE PROGRAMME FOR THE EVENING:
7:00pm - Doors open
7:30pm - President's welcome
7:35pm - Round 1 (Pictures, Where on Earth)
- R2 (Firsts), R3 (Sport) and R4 (Match the music with a clue)
- Break for Bread, Cheese, Pickle, and Wine
- Sale of raffle tickets during the break
- R5 (Nature) and R6 (Bletchley)
- Draw of raffle prizes
- R7 (Comedy clips)
- Announcement of winners
10:30 pm - Close
TO BOOK A TABLE
Send me an email (quality.methods@btinternet.com)
to request a table,
… I shall reply within a day to confirm there is (or isn’t) a table and give you
instructions on paying; also the time limit on me receiving payment before the
table is released for re-sale.
Once the £125 has been received you
will be advised which table has been allocated.
First come – first served basis, allocating tables from the front.
HOW TO PAY YOUR £125
with the confirmation of an available table, you will be asked to transfer £125
by one of the three methods
… transfer by
internet banking to the club charity bank account
sort code 2 0 - 0 1 – 0
9 account n° 0 0 7 8 7 2 4 8,
Please send a follow
up e-mail to quality.methods@btinternet.com
confirming the money
has been transferred.
… or send a
cheque made payable to Rotary Club of Abingdon Trust Fund
by
hand through a Rotarian pal/by post to
Rtn Richard KIRBY, 6
Sympson Close, ABINGDON, OX14 5RB
… or meet me in
town (at Rotary lunch for example) and I can take a credit card payment.
'What We Do' Main Pages:
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moreOn Saturday the 24th We joined other groups in Abingdon on a River Litter Pick. The Sun shone and we all had a great time. We look forward to being involved with the Plastic Blitz next time.
moreOne of the most popular events on our calendar, the regular DNAPQuizzes raise a lot of money for our local charities, supported by the Rotary Club of Abingdon.
moreWe worked with the Nasio Trust to install water tanks in Tanzania, to provide safe drinking water. Ground water in the region is heavily fluoridised and causes health problems for the population.
moreTwo splendid cups commissioned for our Club's annual Youth Speaks competition. Often won by our talented young people from Abingdon's six secondary schools, our winning teams often go on to the next levels of this national Rotary Competition!
moreThe Club's foreign conscience - here immunising under-fives in India against Polio. There is no cure for Polio but it is preventable with a vaccine. Only two countries now remain endemic. We’ve reduced cases by 99.9% since 1988
moreThe Rotary Foundation is Rotary International's own charity. It does an enormous amount of good in the world. Watch the video The Heart of Rotary for a flavour!
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