Organizing a quiz or trivia night can be daunting task. The first time is always the hardest though, once you have successfully organized a couple of quiz nights it will be smooth sailing. There are some useful tips and tricks that it's worth knowing from the start though.
Firstly, if you've never run a quiz or trivia night before make sure you do a trial run with friends and family. Pretend it's the real quiz night and pay close attention to any problems that crop up. It will be tempting to joke around and not take the trial quiz seriously. It will be to your advantage to take it as seriously as possible and pretend that there are fifty strangers involved not just a couple of friends and family members.
This trial run will soon show you where your process is falling down. Did it take too long to work out the scores? Were you asking the questions too quickly? What type of questions did people like and dislike? A trial run can help a great deal.
For the night itself make sure you get a couple more helpers than you think you will need. The more teams participating the more scorers and helpers you need. You may have someone assigned to read out the questions and someone else assigned to score the answer sheets and create a leader board.
On the night unexpected things will come up. Perhaps someone will need to dash out of the room to fetch something, maybe one of your helpers will be called away for family reasons. Making sure there are a couple of extra people assigned as helpers can be a life saver.
Running a quiz night is little bit of a performance, you are presenting and organizing a large group. Even if there are problems or you are confused, stay calm and make decisions and people will be supportive.
Think about preparing some extra trivia questions to use as tie breakers. If at the end of the create quiz multiple teams are on the same score it's helpful to have a batch of extra questions you can use to separate the teams. You don't need to ask these tie breaker questions to the entire audience. You can say something like "The blue team and the yellow team are both on 50 points so they will compete in a tie breaker question. The first team to raise their hand will have the first opportunity to answer."
Quiz and trivia nights are a lot of fun for the participants and the organizers. With a little bit of preparation you can make sure that yours goes off without a hitch.
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