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How long is a piece of quiz?
/3 Comments/in Running Quizzes /by David McGaugheyWhen people book a quiz night with us, they can book us, as long as we have availability, for whenever they like and for as long as they like. But that is not to say that we don’t have a good idea of how much time a good quiz should take up. We can make […]
Pop/Quiz
/0 Comments/in News, Professional Quizmasters /by David McGaugheyHaving thoroughly flogged the cricket/quizzing analogy in my last post, I’ll now delve deeper into the world of ill-considered comparisons by drawing a few parallels between the “art” of quiz and that of pop music. Right now, I don’t know how far I’m going to take this. The chances are I’ll take it too far. […]
Cricket and Quizzing
/0 Comments/in Pub Quiz, Quiz Teams /by David McGaugheyWhat do they know of quizzing who only quizzing know? Fans of both cricket and quizzing might recognise that I am paraphrasing a famous quote by Trinidadian academic CLR James in the great cricket book ‘Beyond a Boundary’ – “What knows he of cricket who only cricket knows?” [Fans of cricket, quizzing and poetry might […]
What makes a quiz team?
/1 Comment/in Quiz Teams /by David McGaugheyA good quiz team name, of course, helps make a quiz team. But we’ve written about that before. Once the team name is sorted though, anything goes. A winning team can be one person or it can be ten people (though perhaps it shouldn’t be!). It can be teetotal or fuelled by booze, it can be […]