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What are Good Subjects for Quiz Questions?
/3 Comments/in News, Quiz Questions /by David McGaugheyI’m not particularly going to write in this post about what actually makes a good question. I’ve done that plenty of times before. This is more about how some topics might lend themselves better to quizzes than others, how sometimes people might think they want a quiz on a particular topic, but they’d be better […]
Running Quiz Nights
/0 Comments/in News, Running Quizzes /by David McGaugheyI’ve run quite a few quiz nights recently, and they’ve all gone smoothly. It’s not for me to judge if everyone there had the best time of their lives (I expect they did!) but there were lots of smiles and cheers and nice comments at the end. Very pleasing, and what I’ve also noticed is […]
Keep On Punning
/0 Comments/in Quiz Team Names /by David McGaugheyAre there still good quiz team names out there that haven’t been used? … these are the type of the big, deep questions I sometimes find myself asking. Who knows? Who knows except the Quizzard of Oz himself (that’s been used, though not overused)? Of course, there are always new ones created by recent events […]
World of Quiz
/0 Comments/in Professional Quizmasters /by David McGaugheyQuizzes seem to be everywhere at the moment. There’s a new show I’ve seen advertised on Sky (I haven’t watched it, I confess) called Quiz Nights, which seems to take a structured look at pub quiz nights around the country, there are the ever-intensifying knockout stages of UC and OC on a Monday evening for […]