subject: Pub Quizzes – Big Mistakes you Need to Avoid When Hosting a Trivia Quiz Part 2 [print this page] Pub Quizzes Big Mistakes you Need to Avoid When Hosting a Trivia Quiz Part 2
Below is the concluding part of "Mistakes you need to avoid when hosting a Trivia quiz that will help you get the customers in and keep them coming back.
Allowing teams to direct the pub quiz. Their banter is good unless it is pushing it too far and these teams can become very disruptive to the whole night. If you have taken the advice of getting the right quiz master you shouldn't have so much of a problem. Occasionally though, the pub manager may need to step in. Deal with a disruptive team in a polite but commanding manner make sure they know not to mess around but don't shout or try to put them down. Fortunately this doesn't happen regular in most quiz nights but when it does other teams will be looking at how it is dealt with. Come across too abrupt and this will put off other quiz teams of entering again. Landlords always firm but fair approach.
Boring quiz. There is such a thing as a boring pub quiz and occurs quite common so to avoid at all costs. What make a boring one is questions focused mainly around one subject such as sport. Lots of question and answer rounds that don't offer anything apart from a general knowledge quiz. If it's going to last a couple of hours put some other sorts of quizzes in there such as true and false, connection quiz or initial answers. Always try and have a handout round, teams members love to discuss sometimes heated with each other which celebrity it is or what film they were in.
Preparation. So often still today you have to find your own stuff as a quiz team to be able to participate. Not only is it a chore but annoying which will make people think twice in coming back again. The audience need the tools to be able to do the pub quiz. The basics are a working pen, a formatted answer sheet, handout round and a bit of scrap paper to do some workings on. Make sure you have this sorted at the beginning once someone pays give them everything even the handout round unless you intend to give it in an interval.
Mobile phones. Not only are mobile phones annoying, people texting questions to friends and family can also a cause of lot of frustration in a pub quiz. With smart phones people can take picture from a handout round use an app on their phones and it will search for people is matches. The best and easiest way of dealing with mobile phones is to ban them make it clear at the beginning. Gone are the days it was a bit fun to knock a couple of points off you have to ban teams or at the very least deduct a high amount of marks to stop them. This will stop other quiz teams becoming annoyed as most want to have fun but have a chance of winning.
Try to keep your events night a fair and fun Pub Quiz.
