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What’s your job?
/0 Comments/in Professional Quizmasters /by David McGaugheyPeople love my job. For the eight years I’ve been a professional quiz question writer and quiz master, when I tell people what I do for a living, I can only think of one occasion when it was meant by mild disinterest … “Oh, right … and moving on …” and on all the other […]
Writing for ‘Only Connect’
/0 Comments/in News /by David McGaugheyI wrote a post a few weeks ago about how, as a professional quiz question writer, I have to adapt to writing for vastly different levels. I gave examples of setting I did for everything from buzzer quiz questions for school children right up to writing for that most thinky-puzzly-quizzy of TV quizzes, ‘Only Connect’. […]
Two rooms of Norwegians
/1 Comment/in Company Quiz Night /by Jack Waley-CohenOne of our most experienced QuizMasters, Brewis, faced an interesting challenge earlier this month: run a 45 minutes quiz for 50 people, all from Norway (+ 1 from Sweden), on an away weekend in the Cotswolds. Brewis picks up the story: “As I was preparing the quiz for this very specific audience, I realised that […]
Killing the atmosphere
/2 Comments/in Company Quiz Night, Pub Quiz /by Jack Waley-CohenWe’ve written before about different methods for marking answer sheets. Our method at QuizQuizQuiz quiz nights is always to mark them ourselves. The Quiz Master or assistant will do all the marking: compared to other methods, it’s quicker, more accurate, and crucially (for the purpose of comparison in this blog post) helps with the atmosphere of […]