Adelaide Pop Culture Festival 2010

With record numbers in attendance this year, The Adelaide Pop Culture Festival was off to a flying start from day one of the nine day event as an official part of National Science Week at The South Australian Museum located in the heart of the city of Adelaide..

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Quiz Night
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Our workshops on Alien Makeup and Prosthetic construction conducted by Prosthetic Artist Stu Blair and Lynne Cook from The Australian Costumers' Guild really had their work cut out for them this year with workshops attracting as much as 100 people for a single workshop with many workshops having been conducted throught the festival.

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Prosthetic Artist Stu Blair and Lynne Cook instructing the enthusiastic audience and what about those crowds!

A static display of Pop Culture Memorabilia was on exhibition inside The SA Museum for visitors to view and remenisce upon viewing various exbibits that they themselves may have had either during their childhood or even their parents!

The grand finale of The Festival is The Ultimate Quiznight and now, in it's third year, was a fantastic success and this year's event started with a message of awareness from The Foundation for Australia's Most Endangered Species helping to save and protect Australian Wildlife and Habitat.

Special guest in attendance was Adelaide 36ers National Basketball League Forward and League MVP - Mr Mark Davis, who, with his own table of competitors, along with the capacity audience, simply had a great time with all the fun of the quiznight which included the now famous "sing along section" a real highlight for all that exercised the vocal chords to earn extra points during the event!

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Festival Organiser, Stuart Blair addressing the audience with a member from the Wildlife Foundation and Mark Davis speaking to the audience about his charity The Mark Davis Camp for kids
 

As the rounds counted down to the big finale, plenty of prizes were on offer and at the mid quiz break each table was given a selection of magician's baloons to create a creature and present it to the audience for the chance to win valuable points and prizes for each table of competitors.

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Wow..,what imagination there is out there!

A real crowd pleaser.. our Quizmasters, Gerri, Eugenia and Marlene, singing their way to the next question posed in the "singalong" round.

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Quiz Night

After the tenth and final round was played and the placegetters were announced, prizes were given out to almost the entire audience!

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Quiz Night

The Ultimate Quiznight, as with all events conducted as part of the The Adelaide Pop Culture Festival are a year in the planning and Special thanks to Eugenia, Therese, Marlene, Gerri, Connie and Sarah for their expertise with the Quiz Night.

Images courtesy of Ilona Solinska and Des Farkas.