Planning The Perfect Quiz Night
Planning The Perfect Quiz Night
Hosting trivia night is a great way to get people into your bar or pub community centre or school or any other social or fundraising gathering.
Because trivia nights are team events, they tend to work better than other types of events. Events that involve teams put an obligation on each of the team members to come out to the event. No one team member wants to let the other people on the team down. Therefore, the turnout tends to be higher. If you want to get more hi-tech or advanced, you can prepare a PowerPoint presentation containing the questions that you can display on overhead screen, television or you can even run the event through your computer and include video and picture questions. The advantages of going the simple route are that it’s just that….simple. It’s easier to prepare for and you don’t have to worry about any technical issues that may disrupt the event.
That being said, however, using a PowerPoint presentation or bar trivia questions that include pictures and video is more professional, provides more variety, is more engaging and overall, more entertaining. The downside of course, is that it takes more effort to prepare and run the event each week. It’s not too difficult to organize but it does take some preparation to run a successful trivia night. Tiebreaker In the event of a tie, a tiebreak question can be used, these questions can increase in difficulty depending on if the tie continues after the first question. The final tiebreak question will usually have a number, year or distance as the answer and the winner will be the contestant closest to the correct answer. |
The basic premise of a trivia night is that you prepare an assortment of questions in a variety of categories to ask your customers who have formed themselves in teams of anywhere from 1-6 players per team.
The simplest version of the game would be to have a question sheet divided into rounds of questions in many different categories. The teams each have an answer sheet where they write down the correct answers. The organizer him or herself can be the quizmaster or you can have one of your staff or a customer ask the questions. There is an alternative, however. There is a company called Freequizdatabase.weebly.com that will do it all for you for free. Pre prepared quiz-packs are also available for a small fee. Here is a list of what they give you to help you run your own bar trivia night:
Things to Keep in Mind When Hosting a Trivia Night
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