Junee High School (JHS) held a trivia night on Wednesday, March 26 at 6pm at the Junee Ex-Services Memorial Club.
The Year 12 VET Hospitality class provided supper and a door raffle was drawn on the night. All proceeds will be donated to the Newborn and Paediatric Emergency Transport Service (NETS).
Jen Hoy of JHS said,“the Trivia Night was a huge success. We had about 140 people there. People indicated that they were going to attend, but you just don’t know how many you’re going to have on the night.
“Everybody remarked that the questions were great. Our students hosted the event.
“There were raffle prizes and it was really successful.
“We did quite a lot of advertising through the paper, but we also contacted a lot of community groups and services clubs. This is a town that really supports, you get good support from the community in Junee and they were there in force. It was great.
“Each year our year 12s choose a charity and then work through the year through a number of different initiatives to raise funds for that charity. So my year 12 work studies class are studying a unit called teamwork and enterprise, so they did the lions share of the organisation for the event with all the proceeds going collectively to the year 12 group toward their charity for the year with was NETS.
“We raised a really good profit and our expenses were limited, it was really the supper and the venue hire and some of the trivia quiz questions which we purchased from a group called FameTrivia.
“They were great questions, two rounds of 20 and it was a really slick and really fun evening.”
There were a range of questions asked on the night, as Hoy explains, it kept the audience on their toes.
“The questions varied from geography to sport, there were listening questions, such as which band recorded this next song or what year was this song released? People like those and they really mix it up.
“We had participants from age 13 through to over 80, and if the tables had a range of different ages on them, they usually had somebody there that’s got a bit of knowledge about an aspect.
“The group that won was a Junee High School staff team.
“It always brings out the competitive side in people. For me, I just go along to be involved, but I’m always surprised at the degree of competitiveness that some people display. It was all in good fun of course, but some people really take it seriously which was good to see.
“It was a really fun night and I’ve had so many positive comments from members of the public that were there and even our kids from school, they all had a smile on their face and really enjoyed themselves.
“I’ve had people request that it happens again this year, but I don’t know if we will, but certainly it’s something that I would get our current Year 11s to think about running next year because I think there’s a strong community support for it.
“We’ve got the running sheet and we’ve done a lot of the prep work to be able to run one again and using this one as the carbon copy.
“Thank you to all of the community that came and celebrated and joined in and just to be a part of our school community on that night and to support our school community was a very positive experience.”
-Jack Murray
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