Browse
Recent posts
- Food for Thought 2024April 26, 2024 - 1:45 pm
Quiz FeedbackJanuary 31, 2024 - 11:31 am
Getting people back to the office through the medium of quiz!December 5, 2023 - 1:02 pm
Quiz FeedbackDecember 1, 2023 - 6:35 pm
What does ChatGPT say makes a good quiz event?December 1, 2023 - 6:20 pm
The Rainbow ConnectionOctober 7, 2022 - 1:11 pm
Quiz Book: 10,000 QuestionsSeptember 7, 2022 - 9:57 am
Reflections on Only Connect Series 16April 6, 2021 - 4:37 pm
Quiz Events: adapting to the virtual realityJuly 7, 2020 - 11:29 pm
Only Connect 15: Question Editor’s ThoughtsMarch 31, 2020 - 9:30 am
It’s a Five Quiz dayNovember 28, 2019 - 11:35 am
A Room of One’s OwnNovember 25, 2019 - 9:44 am
Creativity
/1 Comment/in Quiz Night Ideas, Quiz Questions, TV Quiz Shows /by David McGaugheyCreativity – perhaps as overused and meaningless a term these days as “interactive”, “passionate” or “110%”. I remember, for one of the first big question-writing projects I worked on for QuizQuizQuiz, shuffling with my colleague into the imposing offices of a large multinational firm who was our client, and being introduced to the various serious […]
The Hidden Rules
/0 Comments/in Company Quiz Night, Professional Quizmasters /by David McGaugheyWhen people come up to me at the end of a quiz I’ve run in order to pay it a kind compliment, it doesn’t usually extend that much further than “Great quiz”, “That was really fun”, “Clever quiz questions”, “That was tough but we really enjoyed it”, “I’m not normally one for quiz nights but […]
The Code – Trailer
/in TV Quiz Shows /by Jack Waley-CohenEarlier this year we worked on the questions for ‘The Code’, a new BBC1 quiz show hosted by Matt Allwright, along with our own Lesley-Anne Brewis as the resident quiz expert. It starts on Monday 18th April, and is on every weekday at 2:15pm (and of course on iPlayer) until May 20th. We’ll post links to […]
The best quiz you’ve ever been to
/0 Comments/in Running Quizzes /by David McGaugheyWhen I first became a quiz master for QuizQuizQuiz, almost ten years ago, I remember Jack, David and Lesley-Anne, the company’s founders, all telling me independently that even though I’d just started, this, the first quiz that I was going to run might well be the best quiz night that most of the people attending […]