WOW!
In total we raised £1369 at the incredible mountain mensa pub quiz!
what am amazing night - a room full of generous, fun and joyful people came together to enjoy the fantastic quiz that Robbie had put together for us. Jim was a fantasic MC - keeping the questions rolling and egging everyone on - Thank you Jim - we love you!
The Emily's round, (bronte, earheart, dickinson, blunt, etc) in recognition of cousin Emily's birthday went down well. Tom also wanted some halloween dressing up, but Rosie and I thought perhaps that might be squeezing in a theme too many...? Thank you to Tom for doing the great music!
51 (same number as our last pub quiz - spooky?) lovely people came, and made the raffle an incredible success; with the beautiful Emilie snatching the top prize - a gorgeous French Connection frock. The handsome Joe won second prize - tickets to see the (see it to believe it) Elvis in concert show at Wembley; and another 10 lucky people won other prizes including the extremely rude Ann Summers "goodie" bag... don't tell your mother.
The quiz itself came to a nail-biting tie breaker situation between The Fogies and Dave's a Trosser for first place. Happily Robbie had prepared some exquisite and weird questions for this eventuality which saw The Fogies win with an anatomy question, luckily for GP Gerard! Well done brains of Lambeth!
The promises auction was a feast of generous favours from the many and multi-skilled people in the room - from cake baking to salsa to holiday accommodation to carpentry; won by generous and lucky bargain-hunters. Some items didn't fetch nearly what they were worth, but that's the thrill of an auction house; and every little helps our fundraising. Barry, our high-excitement and hilarious auctioneer, kept the crowd whipped to a bidding frenzy. Including poor gesticulating Joe, who didn't realise he'd pledged for an adult CPR course. But how handy...
Thank you again to everyone who came and made the evening such a success! Together we raised an amazing £1369 for Marie Curie which will tip our fundraising progress to 50% (once you have all paid up via www.justgiving.com/chloeandrosiedickinson please)
xxxxx
Chloe
Showing posts with label pub quiz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pub quiz. Show all posts
Sunday, 30 October 2011
Saturday, 29 October 2011
mountain mensa pub quiz!
Rosie and I are just putting the finishing touches to tonights very exciting pub evening, packed full of fun including some great quiz rounds, a raffle with a dozen incredible prizes and the auction of promises - comprising the skills of our best freinds and family.
I think we might be able to raise even more than the last quiz, and are hoping to fill that cosy top room.
Cousin-in-law Jim is going to be our rumbunctious and excitable MC, and Barry will be our auctioneer - extracting every last drop of fun and money out of all our friends and family! All for a wonderful ause, of course!
I can't wait! See you all there at 7pm.
top tips -
I think we might be able to raise even more than the last quiz, and are hoping to fill that cosy top room.
Cousin-in-law Jim is going to be our rumbunctious and excitable MC, and Barry will be our auctioneer - extracting every last drop of fun and money out of all our friends and family! All for a wonderful ause, of course!
I can't wait! See you all there at 7pm.
top tips -
- bring cash;
- wear a small outfit as it will get warm up there;
- eat a hearty dinner before you come;
- look forward to a super fun evening!
Friday, 14 October 2011
MCCC Pub Quiz!
Rosie and I are able to up our fundraising total to 26% today after an amazing pub quiz fundraiser last night.
Staff from all depts, volunteers, friends, family, friends of friends, bosses and even ex-staff came together to raise a staggering £489!
Thank you so much to everyone!
It was fun (well, I had fun and thats all that matters) and we raised a great amount.
The winners were "I'm a darby girl, in a darby world" (i loved that name, so you are keeping it). Congratulations to Penman, Patrick, Adam, Janine, Dan, Rebecca and Sam. They were graceful enough to cheat just a little bit by having slightly too much expertise on the team (wink wink). This meant the other teams would feel slightly aggrieved and not at all dumb - very well played I thought. We sort of knew they would win anyhoo.
Coming second were "three idiots and an iphone" who despite their name were fantastically close, and as far as our ajudicators understood, didn't cheat by using an iphone...
The winner of the best team name ever is "are we there yeti?" which is clever and hilarious, yet so simple. Nice job! Sadly you win nothing for that.
Chloe
Staff from all depts, volunteers, friends, family, friends of friends, bosses and even ex-staff came together to raise a staggering £489!
Thank you so much to everyone!
It was fun (well, I had fun and thats all that matters) and we raised a great amount.
The winners were "I'm a darby girl, in a darby world" (i loved that name, so you are keeping it). Congratulations to Penman, Patrick, Adam, Janine, Dan, Rebecca and Sam. They were graceful enough to cheat just a little bit by having slightly too much expertise on the team (wink wink). This meant the other teams would feel slightly aggrieved and not at all dumb - very well played I thought. We sort of knew they would win anyhoo.
Coming second were "three idiots and an iphone" who despite their name were fantastically close, and as far as our ajudicators understood, didn't cheat by using an iphone...
The winner of the best team name ever is "are we there yeti?" which is clever and hilarious, yet so simple. Nice job! Sadly you win nothing for that.
Chloe
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