{"id":85266,"date":"2025-03-06T09:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T15:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=85266"},"modified":"2025-03-06T09:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T15:20:24","slug":"ellis-county-historical-society-to-host-trivia-night-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=85266","title":{"rendered":"Ellis County Historical Society to host trivia night fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By RORY MOORE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Tiger Media Network<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ellis County Historical Society will host its third annual Twist and Shout Trivia Night fundraiser this weekend. The event \u2014 which features snacks, games and prizes \u2014 will be from 6 to 11 p.m. Saturday at 121 E. Eighth in Hays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trivia will feature nine categories divided into three rounds and teams of eight members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEach team answers the questions separately for points,\u201d said Amanda Rupp, executive director of the historical society. \u201cThe team with the most points overall is the \u2018smartest people in Ellis County\u2019 for the year. They get T-shirts that say so and a traveling trophy with some other prizes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each category will have a prize related to a theme, and prizes will be given for best team name and spirit.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have pretty cool names,\u201d Rupp said. \u201cSome teams dress up in themes and decorate their table.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be physical challenges for extra points, mulligans if the answer to a question is unknown and chances to double a team\u2019s round total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rupp wants the night to be joyous for all attending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want anyone taking anything too seriously,\u201d she said. \u201cThe goal is to have fun and raise money (for the museum). Most of all, the community members here will get together for something new.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information about the event can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.echshays.org\/event-details\/3rd-annual-twist-and-shout-trivia-night-fundraiser\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By RORY MOORE Tiger Media Network The Ellis County Historical Society will host its third annual Twist and Shout Trivia Night fundraiser this weekend. The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3397,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-area-news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EllisCountyHistoricalSociety.png?fit=1456%2C1458","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85268,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85266\/revisions\/85268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}