If you are hosting a quiz night and you've never done one before, I have a template guide for running your event, which I can email to you along with your question and answer packs and template answer sheets.
I can also email a template scoring and leaderboard sheet. You will host your quiz with ease and your teams will never know that it's your debut event! If you're holding a quiz, get custom-written questions from me at TMQuizzes - I have thousands available. 😁 {Hilary - Quiz question writer} Originally posted 08/04/2025
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Quizzes are a great way to gather people together for a fun activity and there are lots of ways to hold a quiz night.
1 - start with the basic practicalities: when are you going to hold your quiz, who is it for and where you will hold it? also will it be online or in person, and will it be a traditional pub quiz style or will you be using multi-media? 2 - think about how long the event will be for as it will determine how you structure and number of rounds for your event. Also, will the event have a theme, what theme? 3 - consider what you'll do about prizes. You could have big prizes for the overall winners and smaller prizes for 2nd and 3rd. Or you might like to have spot prizes that are awarded as you go through the event. There are lots of possibilities. 4 - who will host the event? will you host it yourself or will you invite a host to come in. A professional quiz host will likely be more efficient when it comes to the practicalities and will likely be used to generating the fun atmosphere for the event itself. 5 - similarly, who will write the questions? if you write them yourself be aware that there is quite an art to getting the right mix of knowledge levels and variety. Putting the questions together may take longer than you imagine and obtaining questions from a quiz expert may be easier. If you're holding a quiz, get custom-written questions from me at TMQuizzes - I have thousands available. 😁 {Hilary - Quiz question writer} Originally posted 23-4-22 Every-so-often a quiz question appears to be unanswerable: perhaps it's about a person you've never heard of, perhaps it's something that happened a few decades ago or perhaps it's just worded in a way that seems long-winded and complicated.
It's not unusual to think 'I can't do this, so I won't bother', then leave a blank answer and declare that the question was too hard. Sometimes those long-winded questions are actually hiding a simple question, it's just clouded with irrelevant detail. For example, a question might ask about an English playwright from the 16th century who wrote 154 sonnets. You might not know ANY playwrights who wrote 154 sonnets. But, if you take out the part about the sonnets and concentrate on the 16th century English playwright, you might decide to write down William Shakespeare.... and you'd be correct!! So, the next time you get a seemingly unanswerable question, just check what the question is actually centred on and you might get yourself that extra point 😍 {Hilary - Quiz question writer} Originally posted 18-2-22
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