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The Professional Pub Quiz Night
/0 Comments/in Company Quiz Night /by David McGaugheyWhen people ask me what our company quiz nights are like, they’ll often ask “Are they like pub quizzes, or different?” and generally I’d say, yes, basically, it’s a pub quiz night, but better than other pub quiz nights you’ve been to. Don’t get me wrong – we are innovative, we do use clever technology […]
Understanding the Pub Quiz
/0 Comments/in Pub Quiz /by Jack Waley-CohenI travelled to Durham on Wednesday to take part in a pub quiz – which is a long way to go from London (where I live) at the best of times, but it was even further to go given that on Wednesday morning I was in Lithuania. But there was a good reason for the […]
Jokers in Quiz Nights
/1 Comment/in Running Quizzes /by Jack Waley-CohenThis post is all about why we don’t use jokers in QuizQuizQuiz Quiz Nights. And by jokers we mean a device with which a team can get extra points (usually double points) for a round in the quiz. Jokers are ideally suited to 10×10 style quizzes – quizzes in which there are 10 rounds of […]
Checking Quiz Questions
/0 Comments/in Quiz Questions /by Jack Waley-CohenEvery quiz question needs to be checked, whether the question is for use in our Friday Quiz, our quiz nights or in a question pack we’ve written for an app. Checking quiz questions is about more than just checking the facts (although that is, of course, massively important). This post is mostly about multiple choice quiz […]