The ingredients for a successful quiz: challenging questions, good atmosphere, a few beers and good company. If you are organising a quiz night these are some of the criteria you should be going for!
Questions
Questions do not need to be really hard in order for them to be good. Quiz participants certainly want to be challenged, and most definitely don’t want to hear the same old questions time and again. Therefore a balance of difficulty needs to be met.
When writing quizzes I aim for 20, 20, 60; that is 20 percent of questions fairly easy, 20 percent fairly hard and 60 percent of average difficulty. This is because you want to allow everyone to contribute to the answers, not just the handful of people who have an encyclopaedic brain.
Prizes
It is a myth that you need a big prize to make a quiz more interesting. Most people taking part in a quiz do so for entertainment, and the challenge of sparring with other team’s knowledge, not for a large prize. However, giving out the prize can also provide entertainment, perhaps by encouraging the winning team to gamble with the prize in order to win another.
Spinning a wheel, answering another question, playing a Higher or Lower game of 5 cards, whatever!
The Quizmaster
The quizmaster needs to be confident speaking to large numbers of people, fair but firm, patient with the quizzers and good humoured. They should never allow themselves to be bullied into giving an extra point for an answer that is almost right. Their decision should always be final.
Alcohol
Not an essential ingredient (unless held in a pub!) but a few beers for a fundraiser or social event can create a fun party atmosphere. You don’t want to make people feel like they are taking part in an exam! Make it as fun as possible.
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