~From JETAA Canberra~
Every year, JETAA Canberra holds a trivia night as an outreach event, as well as to catch up with our fellow Canberran Japanese groups, including the Australia Japan Society in Canberra and Canberra Japan Club.
This year’s event was held on 26 May at our good friend Aizawa Mamoru-san’s restaurant, IORI PLUS in Deakin.
It was a great turnout with around sixty people arriving to test their mettle against the Mighty Trivia Twins, Keith and Ken Parker (from JETAA Canberra and JETAA QLD respectively).
There was a nice mix of JET alumni, YETs (soon to be JETs) various Japan groups, Embassy staff and people who are just plain interested in Japan. We tried to ensure that every table had a mix of people given that the questions were equally split between in their Japan/Australia focus.
Everyone had a chance to win a lucky door prize of a choice of five Japanese DVDs and I have to say I was surprised to see Battle Royale stay on the table for the first two picks.
During the evening there was also the opportunity to buy mystery envelopes for $5 and receive either a beautiful Japan/Australia book or a restaurant voucher of a higher value.
I would like to say that my table came from behind in an upset victory but it wasn’t to be as we managed a tightly fought third place, with team Kobe Dentetsu taking the honours and the spoils of victory, being a mixture of red and white wines!
In a stroke of genius, the Parker brothers awarded a prize for second last, insightfully reasoning that it is easy to try and lose, but it is much harder to try and come second last!
Overall a great time was had and hopefully this provides a solid foundation for more big events in the future!
From the 3rd to the 13th of December, eight selected swimmers from the Fukuoka Swimming Association visited NSW, where they participated in joint training sessions with a local school and competed in the 2024-25 Speedo NSW Senior State Age Championships.
