Movie trivia event to be held in Columbia
Tickets are $20 each.
Published Feb. 5, 2009
Movie fans will be able to test their skills in a trivia game today at the "I Love Movies" Trivia Night, which will be held at the Quality Inn at 1612 North Providence Road.
The "Jeopardy!" style event will consist of 10 categories that are made up of all movie-related questions. Fifteen tables of eight people each will be participating, with each table playing together as a team. The tables that finish first and second will receive prize packages. Door prizes will also be given away throughout the night.
"We work with marketers for movies, so we have movie T-shirts, CDs, things you can't buy," said Andrea Sporcic, Missouri Film Commission office project coordinator. "So it's really unique."
This is the second year the event has been held in Columbia, but Sprocic said she has set up these sort of events before in St. Louis. She said the Missouri Film Commission Office recently moved to Columbia.
Tickets to the event cost $20, and 10 of the 15 available tables have already been reserved. The price does not include refreshments, and tables are welcome to bring any kind of food to the event. The money from the event goes to benefit the MFC and the Missouri Motion Media Association.
Sherri Helm, an administrative associate for MU Extension Business Development, said the MFC are associated with the university through a business outreach program. Both associations try to encourage more movies to be filmed in Missouri.
Sporcic said only two movies are being made in the state. One starring George Clooney, entitled "Up in the Air," is based on a novel of the same name. It is being filmed in St. Louis. Another entitled "Winter's Bone" is being directed by Sundance Dramatic Directing Award winner Debra Granik and is being filmed in Missouri using only local actors.
