Pub Test Tips: Basics for Hosting a Q&A Night

Taking a pub test is often rewarding not only financially, but also in gaining a community spirit in a relaxed environment. There are 2 real elements in a pub contest: the gathering of questions and answers, and also the organization of the event. I am going to focus on the actual accommodation with the aim of providing a foundation on which to build to make the evening turn into a full evening of entertainment. These are the basics.

The first thing is to schedule the night for the pub quiz. You need to plan the night from start to finish. Let’s say it will now be a regular weekly event.

  1. Set the day of the week you are going to host it.
  2. Time often starts at 8pm, but anytime your pub suits you.
  3. It is time for it to end. The less formal pub contest should last between 1:30 and 2 hours, including the interval.
  4. Finally, the wash, read the questions and score, deliver the awards and finally, but very importantly, thank the questionnaire teams and also tell them at the same time next week or let them know if there is a change to come.

Money coming and going. You must first find out how you are going to charge entry to the public contest, usually by team or per person, and set the entry fee. The more you collect, the more money you will have to set aside for prizes.

All prizes depend on how you want to play it. Again, the less formal entry is usually cheap, so a free drink coupon for the winning team is an idea, but not always the best. If the questionnaire is more formal, then better prizes are needed, perhaps coupons for a local restaurant of ancestry. You can also add a cumulative prize where the winning team has a chance to win a bigger cash prize. Open Box is a good option, or if a team answers all the questions correctly, it is also a great way to make accumulators. Remember that the best way to make accumulators is to put a fixed percentage in each week, so that the more money you enter, the higher the result.

Finally announce. At the very least, put up posters on notice boards in pubs, in bathrooms, on doors, and outside the pub. You really should try to get advertisements in shop windows and libraries. Unless your pub contests are set up, it doesn’t make much sense to get them published in a local newspaper or magazine as it costs too much and there are usually hundreds of pub ads. If you already have a regular newspaper ad, just add it.

These are the basics of planning and conducting a pub quiz. He doesn’t talk about the contest master, the questions and answers, but he can help organize the event.

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