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How do you like your Quiz Master?
/1 Comment/in Professional Quizmasters /by David McGaugheyEvery now and then, we have to deal with an enquiry which specifically requests that the quiz host is not a woman. To which we are prone to reply “Certainly, sir/madam. Are there any other types of quiz master you’d like to discriminate against? Jewish, perhaps? Muslim? Disabled? Black? Gay?” Well, no, we don’t say […]
The younger generation
/0 Comments/in Quiz Questions, Running Quizzes /by David McGaugheyI’m almost 35. Not young anymore. Not long since I was young, but not young like the young folks anymore. This is fine. I can’t play football anymore, can’t play cricket without my whole body aching for a week, but it’s fine. It’s not the issue here. I’m talking about quizzes here. What difference does […]
Levels of Questions
/0 Comments/in Quiz Questions /by David McGaugheyAs something of a follow-up to my last post about Corporate and Company Quizzes, I’m going to write a little about the varying levels of difficulty you might find at different quizzes. This is sparked by recently hearing a view from a pub quiz master that he believed that corporate quizzes are generally much harder […]
What’s a Corporate Quiz like?
/0 Comments/in Company Quiz Night /by David McGaugheyWe write a lot in this blog about Corporate Quizzes and Company Quiz Nights, and I realise it may not always be entirely clear what that is, and in and of itself, it may even be rather a forbidding term. Visions of people in suits being questioned on tax in near silence, perhaps. But, in […]