When you want to start organizing pub
quizzes you should try and follow some simple tips and tricks. In order to make
it a successful quiz you don’t need many preparations, but it should meet some
basic requirements. Here I have a list of some details that I recommend you
to use in your organization based on my experience. You want your pub to become famous and more and
more people to be present on every next quiz night.
Consistency
You should be consistent in the quiz. It
means that you should hold it on regular nights at the same hour. You should
always use the same fee, regardless the popularity the quiz gets. The number of
team members should be limited. You should also think of some game structure.
The longitude of the quiz should be constructed in a similar way on every
quiz-night.
Marketing
You should come up with a marketing plan
in order to promote your quiz. You can always go the easy way, print out some
posters and stick them all around the neighborhood. Adding to this, you can
always do a free marketing online. Use social media to share the news. Create a
web page for your bar, or just a regular Facebook page and update your status.
Tell people about the upcoming quiz night. You can even make an online
registration pool.
Team management
Always go with the team version of quiz
instead of the individual one. Team game makes it more social and funny. You
should try to limit the number of people in one team. Make a minimum and a
maximum number of team members. The appropriate amount of people should be from
two to ten. If you exceed the number of teammates it might become chaotic. But
anyway, you should always be flexible.
Entry fee
You should put a modest entry fee. Not
too expensive. People won’t participate if it is too expensive. You might also
attract “professional” quiz players and your regular customers will be bored.
With a high price, you might ruin the fun for everyone. The price for the
winners should also be modest. If you put a high reward, you might encourage
cheating. With an entrance fee of 1$, your price should be in the range of 50$.
A good alternative is giving food or drinks instead of regular money. Nobody
plays for the cash, it is always the fun.
Quizmaster
You should definitely pay attention to
picking the perfect quizmaster. He or she should be a fun, charismatic person.
The quizmaster should be able to preserve the attention of the people. He
should be loud and read the questions at least two times. He needs to have the
ability to oversee the situation and to be able to tell a joke in the perfect
moment. The is the master, and he tells the rules. The right answer is on his
sheet. If the quiz lasts two hours, he should make a 10-minute break in the
middle.
Questions
There should be a good range of
questions, from a variety of subjects. You can use questions from science,
history, art, geography, sports, celebrities, movies, songs or some other
facts. Balance the questions. You don’t want the quiz to be either too hard or
too easy. You should make about 20% hard questions, 30% easy questions, and the
rest of them, normal ones. Put in a good number of fun questions, because that
is the purpose of the quiz. You can always download free examples of questions.
Always be prepared to have a tie-breaker questions. Do not leave out anything
by chance.
I hope these tips are useful for you.
