	{"id":95341,"date":"2023-08-07T04:57:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T18:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/?p=95341"},"modified":"2023-08-02T12:43:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T02:43:23","slug":"mounties-to-test-trivia-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/mounties-to-test-trivia-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"Mounties to test trivia minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEMBERS of the Mount Clear Junior Football Netball Club are celebrating their community with a trivia night next week.<\/p>\n<p>Taking place at the Ballarat East Bowling Club on Friday 11 August, the event will take the Mounties\u2019 game off the fields and courts and into the clubrooms for a social evening of head-scratching games.<\/p>\n<p>Set to be their first trivia night in more than six years, president Ashley Madigan said the evening will be all about fostering a sense of community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll be a night for parents and supporters of the club,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s about having a social event for the club and getting people together for a good night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll be exciting to catch up with our Mounties community in a social environment rather than a game day environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Questions will be posed by hosts from Trivia with a Twist while attendees are encouraged to dress up in outrageous attire as part of the event\u2019s theme I Can&#8217;t Believe You&#8217;re Wearing That.<\/p>\n<p>The trivia night will be one of the club\u2019s two major social events for the year with the other one, their annual Mounties mixer, having taken place in June.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Madigan said the night will also be about celebrating the parents of Mounties players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re a little bit different to other clubs in that we\u2019re a juniors-only club so the parents put a lot of time into the club donating and volunteering every week,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey do things like coaching or help out on game day so it\u2019s more about keeping them engaged and rewarding them for their efforts and creating that atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $10 per individual or $100 for a table of 10 people and can be booked at bit.ly\/3qgPH0A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEMBERS of the Mount Clear Junior Football Netball Club are celebrating their community with a trivia night next week. 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