Save the date

The following really only applies to my readers from the Effingham area, but others of you want to come, you'd be most welcome!

The 2nd annual St. Anthony Trivia Night will be held on Saturday, March 29th after 5:30 Mass.

Start putting your team of up to 8 players together and call the parish office now to reserve your table.

Last years event was a huge success. Many shared an evening of competitive (some much more serious than others!) fellowship.

This is your opportunity to get front row seating (and parking) at your choice of Christmas Eve Mass.

We are looking for unique items for our live and silent auctions. If you have any ideas or have an item to donate, please let us know.

The proceeds from this years event will be shared with the students who will be attending World Youth Day in Australia. We also plan to make a donation to the students who will be attending the Summer Work Camp.

The entire team of eight works together in submitting the answers to the trivia questions. At no time is any player asked to answer a question individually. The majority of the questions are not scholastic and at some point during our lives we have probably been exposed to the content of the majority of the 10 categories that will be presented in a question format.

Last year pizza was offered for purchase for those coming directly from Mass and each table brought some type of snack to be shared amongst their group.

Pinned at the End

The Trivia Night at the parish last night was a great success. Twenty-one teams of eight members turned out for the event; a huge success and something like $4,000 was raised to support the music program at the grade and high schools and the newly formed Fellowship Committee.
I was on a team comprised largely of people gathered together at the last minute. Of the eight of us on the team, two were from St. Anthony of Padua Parish - the sponsoring parish - five were from Annunciation Parish - the mission parish attached to St. Anthony's - and I counted for both parishes.

They asked me for possible suggestions for the name of the group but I was late with my responses:

Academic Antonians
Antonian Answers
Paduan Learners
Annunciations

As it turns out, it was just as well that I was late. My team came in dead last, but only by two points... We did, however, win a trophy (see photo above). It says, "Pinned at the End - St. Anthony Trivia Night - Spring '07".

We may have to hold this event more often. In that event, I will have to bush up on more recent trivia. I told my team I was only good for questions regarding something prior to the Reformation, although I did know that Ozzy Ozborne tried bit a bat who bit back. The crowd especially enjoyed that.