Our public library's literacy program has run an annual trivia bee for nearly two decades.  Income comes from registration fees for the 3-player teams (usually sponsored by local businesses or community organizations), from spectator ticket sales (admission includes dinner), and from drink and raffle ticket sales at the event.  (IIRC, there have also been silent auctions held concurrently with the raffle.)

http://www.benicialibrary.org/literacy/trivia


Kenneth A MacLennan
Benicia, CA

"Feelings are indispensable to man, but they become terrible the moment they see themselves as values, as criteria of truth, as justifications for behavior."
--Milan Kundera, Jacques and His Master (1981), Introduction (tr. Simon Callow, 1985)


--- On Fri, 1/30/09, Heather McClenahan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Heather McClenahan <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [MUSEUM-L] History Bee
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, January 30, 2009, 10:26 AM
> Please excuse the cross postings, but I haven't received
> any feedback from the Small Museum listserv.
> 
> One of our board members thought it would be fun to have a
> community history bee -- like a spelling bee only for
> history. Has anyone out there done such a thing and, if so,
> how did it work? Was it successful? Any advice is
> appreciated. Thanks,
> 
> Heather McClenahan, museum assistant/web master
> Los Alamos Historical Society
> http://www.losalamoshistory.org
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> PO Box 43
> 1921 Juniper St.
> Los Alamos, NM 87544
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> 505-470-2912 (cell)
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