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How To Run A Pub Quiz
Preparation – Setting a quiz
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Always use a reputable supplier – either someone
locally who can research interesting and factually
correct questions or a national supplier (such as
Freequizzes! – browse this website for details). |
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Decide what form your quiz will take – a quiz
running from 9pm to 10.30pm can comfortably contain
6 – 8 rounds. Take a look at our website
www.freequizzes.co.uk.acatalog for some ideas on
different quiz formats. Next decide how many there
are in a team and how much, if any, you will charge
as an entrance fee. We suggest no limit on team
numbers with a charge of £1 per person to play.
There is no real advantage in having a bigger team
and small teams of 2 are not discouraged from
entering by a per team entrance fee. |
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Next decide on prizes. Big cash prizes are great but
you will attract quiz anoraks from far and wide
lured by the prize. You want a full pub for a fun
night so we suggest a gallon of beer or similar for
the winners – that way they’re encouraged to come
back to your pub and it remains fun. Then the real
draw – what to do with the entrance fees - either
keep them, use them to pay your quizmaster or (the
best idea) have a rollover cash jackpot and run a
weekly quiz. You could even have prizes for
different rounds – why not ask your local brewery or
other suppliers to donate prizes to the quiz? |
The Jackpot
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Think of a number between 1 and 1000 and put it in a
sealed envelope. At the end of the quiz each team is
allowed on a piece of paper to guess the number. The
number is the same every week and stays in the same
envelope until it is finally guessed and the jackpot
won. You collect all papers and write on each Higher
or Lower depending on the guess. I.e. If the number
is 50 and they wrote 142, you write Lower on the
paper and return it to the team. The beauty of this
is that a lucky team could win the cash at any
point, a regularly attending team is guaranteed to
get the answer within 10 weeks (Because they keep
their weekly guesses) and missing a week could lose
a team the jackpot. Each week, advertise the
ever-increasing cash jackpot prize. Make sure that
the person running the quiz knows the number and can
be trusted not to sell it or pass it on! |
And Finally…
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The most important point – Advertise!!!!!!
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Let people know that you are running
a quiz by posters, word of mouth, local media such
as radio stations, newspapers etc. and boards
outside your pub.
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Once you have advertised the quiz –
think about where you can advertise some more!
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Running The Quiz
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Who will run it? Make sure it’s someone who won’t be
fazed by public speaking and that they can
confidently and clearly read out the questions. |
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How will they be heard? Unless it’s a really small
venue, you will need a P.A system capable of being
heard above general pub conversation – not everyone
will be taking part in the quiz. |
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Who will mark the questions? Most question masters
can mark up to 10 teams’ answers between rounds, but
they may need a helper. Alternatively you may let
teams swap papers and mark each others’ quizzes
between rounds then hand in marked answers for you
to keep score. |
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Where will the quizmaster sit? Make sure space is
kept for them. |
On The Night
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The quizmaster announces that the quiz will start in
30 minutes, 20, 10, 5 etc. and collects team names
and entry fees. Give each team some answer sheets
for them to complete with their answers and have a
stock of pens for them if needed. Download your
answer sheets below - right click each link and save
to your hard drive. Then print off and cut out as
many as you need. There are 4 sets of 10 answer
sheets to a page and 2 sets of 25 and 20 answers. |
10 answer sheet -
click, open and print or right click and save to your
hard drive before printing
20 answer sheet -
click, open and print or right click and save to your
hard drive before printing
25 answer sheet -
click, open and print or right click and save to your
hard drive before printing
Scoresheet -
click, open and print or right click and save to your
hard drive before printing
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Record the team names on your scoresheet then start
the quiz by reading out team names (giving everyone
a name check) and begin the quiz. |
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Each question should be read out once, a short break
then repeated, then at the end of the round, quickly
recap all 10 questions. |
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Collect sheets from teams for marking (perhaps
announcing that if they’re not handed in within a
minute, the team gets 0 points) or get teams to swap
papers then read out each question then its answer. |
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Remember the golden rule – the quizmaster is
always right and the idea of the quiz is to get the
answer on his or her answer sheet. |
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Give the cumulative scores at the end of each round.
At the end of the quiz give out final scores with
perhaps the top three in reverse order. Have a
tiebreak question ready (usually a number answer
with the first correct answer or closest answer as
the winner). |
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Run your cash jackpot if applicable, give out the
prizes. |
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Then finally, announce the date and time of the next
quiz and start preparing! |
GOOD LUCK! |
