Quiz Night II

Last night we hosted our second quiz evening and it was a cracking success. As we had managed to compile an impressive array of donations to our raffle prize fund we also hosted a raffle which everyone kindly bought tickets too as well as paying to take part in the quiz so we managed to raise £202 in total, fantastic!
Our evening started at 5pm when I met Lynsey at The Outhouse to set up the room. We accumulated our raffle prizes and displayed them on a table in the corner. I have to say they looked extremely impressive. All in all we had tickets for the Rocky Horror Show at the Playhouse, a pair of tickets for the Lyceum, a pair of tickets for Edinburgh Rugby match, a pair of tickets for Hibs match, two spa passes for the Scotsman Hotel, gift vouchers for Pizza Express, Debenhams, Asda, a bottle of Bolanger champagne, Chambord liquer and Hotel Chocolat chocolates. Amazingly they were all kindly donated to us which was even better. I'll try and upload a picture. We decided to ask for £2 per ticket or £5 for 5 in the hope that most people would buy 5 and it seemed to work :) I think because we had such amazing prizes and there was a reasonably high chance of winning everyone dug deep and we sold £102 of raffle tickets.
In the end 20 people came along to take part so we had 5 teams to make it more interesting! We were sort of strict on numbers per team as we had 6 bottles of wine kindly donated by Lynsey's parents as first prize for the quiz so it worked out quite well as most teams were of 4 or 5 so everyone would win one. David had kindly written all of the questions and was quizmaster once again and he did a brilliant job. The questions were just about the right level, everyone got some but not every one right in each round so it was a close competition. Lynsey and I took part just for fun more to pass the time as there were 5 rounds plus a picture round during which we went round the room to sell raffle tickets. Everyone dug deep and purchased tickets which was great. As the quiz drew to a close and the winners were announced we thanked everyone for coming and drew the raffle. Lots of cheers and some very happy winners including Stephen, a Hearts fan who won the Hibs tickets!! They will be put to use though by his Hibs supporting nephews!
Everyone who could stay moved downstairs so Lynsey and I tidied up and counted the money and came to a staggering total of £202 which has pushed our fundraising through the £1000 barrier, yay! Everyone was so generous, we feel extremely grateful.
It was a great night and a great way to finish off our fundraising before embarking on the trek. Not long now...