Looking for some help from the bright and fun loving folk out there...
I do a quiz twice a week in my mates pub, previously I did the same in our place, but having clocked up 200, 50 question quizzes, I'm running out of ideas for themed rounds and picture rounds.
The format is normally the same, more or less - each round is 10 questions, first round a theme, such as ten questions where the answer has a fruit in it eg - What is the name of Liverpool's main railway station, or What is the nickname of AFC Bournemouth. Or ten where all the questions are about people called George, you get the picture. Round three is On This Day, which is fairly easy to do with a little help from Wiki and round five is pot luck, where questions can be on anything. Rounds 2 and 3 are generally pictures of some sort, often celebrities in one and flags of the world in the other, but I have used car logos, road signs, foods of the world, famous artists etc.
It's ideas for round one and for pictures I am after, if anyone has any bright ideas. Please bear in mind in the themed round it has to be something where I can glean ten reasonable questions from the subject in hand.
They can't be too intellectual or too easy (it is quite difficult getting the balance right) as befitting a holiday resort, the crowd varies from Gumby's to rocket scientists.
And if anyone wants to use any of my quizzes for their pub/club please feel free to PM me with your e-mail address and I am happy to share a few.
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One thing that works but is hard to do is where the last letter of the first answer gives the first letter of the 2nd answer and so on. The questions can be anything you like but if you have that one right then you have a big clue to the next.
I had ta go home...to get a book, to prove it
All these events took place in a different year during the 1990s (1990 to 1999)
You just need to say which
1. The Channel Tunnel opens
2. Princess Diana dies in Paris
3. The Summer Olympics are held in Atlanta, Georgia
4. Nelson Mandela is released from Jail
5. John Major Leads the conservatives to a general Election
victory over Neil Kinnock’s Labour Party
6. Blur beat Oasis in the battle of the bands when Country House reaches number 1 in the charts ahead of Roll with it
7. The Good Friday Agreement for peace in Northern Ireland is signed
8. Freddie Mercury and Robert Maxwell die
9. The Grand National is cancelled after a false start
10 Britney Spears hits number 1 with Baby, One more time
No goggling
Dead or alive
Prisoner or model citizen
Stanley Matthews Last top flight game / Bob Bylan goes electric at newport folk festival / Post Office Tower opens (1965)
10 Best selling singles of 70's, 80's, 90's...
32 nicknames of NFL teams
anagram round - famous people, capital cities, countries
which clubs have averaged over 40k attendance in a season
County towns (best to avoid Derbyshire et al)
American state capitals.
Last 10 Prime Ministers / Labour Leaders / Tory Leaders
Pictures of football stadia
Phobias - Pogonophobia, fear of beards
Currencies
dying words
famous quotes
Best film oscars
general knowledge questions where the answers are all olympic host cities but the question does not relate to olympics.
And you used 97 twice ; )
Funny and interesting question. Held in U.S, California
I had to run a pub quiz last year and at the forefront of my mind was coming up with rounds/questions that would be difficult to cheat on. Picture, dingbats and guess the song rounds are good. I also did a local geography round where the answers were not easily found on Google. My tip is google a question you want to ask in the quiz, if you can find the answer in less than a minute then you need to take it out.
Similar to Henry's idea, you can have a round where every answer is a certain letter as, say, the third letter
A 'Play Your Cards Right' style round where you have to say whether each answer is higher/lower than the previous answer or before/after the date of the previous answer.
Not an idea for themes, but a round where contestants can choose whether score 1pt or 2pts for each answer but they lose 1pt or 2pts if they are wrong.
At the end of the video everyone sat there ready for the questions but instead we were presented with a block of clay and were told to recreate the clay bust that was made by Lionel's crush in the video. I can't recall how the points were distributed for the best ones but it was incredibly fun and absolutely hilarious.
Something like:
a Charlton player who
3pts worked in fruit and veg in Covent Garden
2pts played during the sixties
1pt the transfer fee received was a record for his position at the time
Ipswich, charlton, spurs, Sunderland, villa, Fulham (loan).
Answer would be darren bent. Stick a few from yesteryear in to throw the smartarses.
Xmas no 1's but only give initials or add year if too difficult ie,
1978 MBC by BM