There no solid rules on what or how you set quiz questions. Some of the most interesting quizzes nights come from quiz masters who have looked outside the box when setting their questions.
An important point to consider when setting the questions is to know your quizzers and their age range. Keep in mind that a 25 year old is likely to know little of the 70's era or before whilst the older generation will have full awareness but will have less of an interest in the later decades particularly trends such as music or computer games. Most know standard history and geography questions or can have a good stab at them.
You've now got the age range to set the questions. If your quizzers have a roughly even match of ages then you need to evenly balance your questions. If on the other hand if they are from a particular era then make 40-50% of the questions based around that era. Very important in any quizzes night but particularly in a pub quiz you get this right to keep them coming back every week.
Make sure you have a good mix of subjects such as music, films, TV, geography and Sports. Keep variety in mind when setting out your quizzes questions. Handout rounds are good in social events but make sure that they are not a major distraction to the whole quiz. Often many quiz teams get too involved in the handout rounds missing some of the vocal questions.
Mark out some questions that quizzers can work out and not all questions that you either know or not. Logical questions are good as often many people that are good at general knowledge are not as good at these. But this gives the quiet quizzer in the team a chance to participate too. Make logical questions hard but straight forward as the last thing you want is to be distracted with questions about the handout round.
Balance is key with general knowledge and you need to spread the topics out throughout the rounds. Depending upon how many rounds you are doing you can do some specialist subjects in there about for example current films. It is always good and you can make them obscure not directly about the film. E.g. "Blah stars in Blah what favourite food did they insist on having?" things like this.
Now if some of your questions are little harder not to worry but make sure you have a couple of clues to give out if in case the majority of your quizzes goers want some. Get quiz teams involved but you're always the boss.
Remember the biggest failings of most quiz nights. Questions are not set to suit your quizzers. Quiz master loses control of the event and quizzes goes on too long. Now 1:30 to 2hrs is about ideal including a break, final scores and handing the prizes out.
Hopefully these guiding points will help you to develop your own successful Pub Quizzes.
John Cragg Article writer and quiz compiler for at quizzesRfun.com. Article write and web developer for http://www.footballbettingbrain.com a free tool to help set up betting systems.
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