Which well known retail chain has a clothing line called TU?

Which hugely successful website, whose motto is Broadcast yourself, was founded in Feb 2005 by the former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim?

The Monster Ball Tour was the first headlining concert tour by which artist?

Do you know the answer? Well, I could give it a bloody good shot! That’s what 70 other quiz contenders did on Weds 5th Oct at our charity pub quiz night.

We here at Razor like to put on a good bash or two. So when the opportunity came to raise money for our annual charity (EEA), I couldn’t think of anything better than arranging a pub quiz. Now, some of you might know that I have a semi-famous Dad. It’s not something I shout about, unless you’re a student or over 55yrs and are free on week day evenings around 6pm. Anyway, for those that aren’t aware, my dad (Barry Simmons) is a panel member on BBC 2′s quiz show Eggheads. So what better way of using this to my advantage? Also hosting in a pub with copious amounts of alcohol and creating a brainiac competition with all our Razor friends was too good an opportunity to miss.

Anyway, the seed was planted and a Razor charity team was created. Now I have a few mates who work in Event Management, ranging from corporate events, to new product launches to festivals. However, I never fully realised until now how SKILLED these people are. As I learnt from organising this event, that it can be blumming hard work. To creating a flyer, to booking a venue, to scavenging for prizes, to managing the guest list, to rallying troops to attend, to the overall logistics on the night! Boy it’s hard work, especially when this is outside of your daily workload.

As I learnt, it requires key skills such as team work, collaboration, delegation and adaptability. But what they don’t tell you, which is also important, is to have a good dose of panache to make the night a success! I had an enormous sense of pride when I looked around at all the smiling faces and then learnt we’d raised £595. I’ve never done anything like this before and the challenge was tough! However, i’m certainly up for helping organise events in the future! Massive respect goes to all my event manager friends, the quallies running large scale workshops on regular basis and Chloe and Elle who do this kind of thing all the time for the AQR!

Rache

PS.  We’d set ourselves the challenge as a company to raise £2K for EEA’s opening parade at Word Up! Arts and Ideas Festival.  We did it!  Razor then matched what we’d raised so they’ve got a total of £4K from us (and you!)