Christmas Quiz: Why Christmas Trivia Quizzes Are Popular
Christmas trivia quizzes are popular with large numbers of pubs
, bars, clubs, associations and even churches, so what is the attraction of a Christmas quiz that such venues will hold a trivia quiz at Christmas and New Year but not at any other time? Mainly because people will go out and do things at Christmas that they wouldn't normally do and also because they can't afford to go out much for the rest of the year - but at Christmas. . .Here are a few suggestions on how you can present a fabulous Christmas quiz that everybody will love doing. It won't help you this year by producing a fabulous quiz, but it will next year when the word has got around that your quizzes are the best in the district. I shall split this up into organization, the questions themselves and advertising, because all three of these factors are involved in a good quiz.
Organization of Your Christmas Quiz
A Christmas trivia quiz is no different to any other when discussing organization. Most will be held in bars over Christmas and New Year, and you could even hold a combined Christmas quiz and New Year quiz sometime between Christmas and New Year. Here are some tips on organizing a quiz of any kind:
a) Make sure that there enough seats available for your expected participants. If possible, you should have some separation between tables to prevent peeking, but sometimes you won't be able you do this and you will just have to rely on their honesty.
b) Provide paper for the answers - you could design an answer sheet using Excel and photocopy enough for each team. You could provide pens if possible, but if not then at least have some pens available for those that didn't realize they need pens to write their answers with!
c) Set the rules regarding numbers per team. I have run quizzes that have a maximum of 4, 5 or 6 or even no maximum. It would be sensible for you to insist that large teams of 7 or more should split into two teams, but its easiest if you advertise maximum team size on your posters.
d) State the rules before the start: No visiting the toilet during rounds with a cell phone, no peeking at other teams' answers (deduct 5 points), you are ALWAYS right with your answers (even if you are not): Deduct points from any team arguing.
e) Time limits for questions are difficult to enforce, so give half a minute or so depending on the question. Once everybody seems to have answered it carry on to the next. If some teams are taking longer than you would like on a question tell them they can fill in the answer if they remember it later and carry on with the quiz.
f) When marking a Christmas quiz it is easiest if each team passes their paper round to the team next to them in a clockwise direction - or to the team nearest them. It would take too long for you to mark all the answers personally.
g) I should have made this one of the first tips: Make sure that each competitor knows what the prizes are. Perhaps the venue or bar will donate a prize, and a good idea is for the winning team to be given a free drink or two for each team member, and something that can be shared is better than a single prize. Also provide a booby prize such as some biscuits or chocolates.
I set quizzes regularly in one pub that provides four prizes - a bottle of spirits, a bottle of good wine, a free drink for each member of the team, and a box of wrapped chocolates that they can share between them. The top three teams get first choice, with the last team in the quiz getting what's left. That gives even the poorer teams a positive interest.
Christmas Trivia Quiz Questions
Your Christmas quiz questions or answers should all have a connection with Christmas, and each round should be different. The Christmas quizzes I compile are structured like that and an example would be:
One round on Christmas trivia, where either the question or the answer has a Christmas connection, for example which actress received an Oscar for her performance as best actress in 'The Piano'. The connection is holly: the answer being Holly Hunter.
Christmas music is a good round: questions based on Christmas Hits or with Christmas or a seasonal connection in the title. Another might be movies or TV shows with a Christmas theme - You can likely think of a lot more types of questions you can ask with a Christmas theme. Nor need they all be connected with Christmas, and if you are struggling for questions make you quiz be connected with the time of year: the winter season or Christmas and New Year. Another idea is what I refer to as a 50/50 round: true or false or a guess between one of two answers.
You should always come with extra questions that can be used for a tie break or just to add into the quiz. I usually include 10 extra questions that can be used in place of regular questions in the quiz or as tie breaks.
Advertising Your Christmas Quiz
There's no point in running a Christmas quiz that nobody knows about. There are many ways in which you can advertise:
a) Inside the premises - club, pub or wherever you can hold it.
b) Design posters and put them in places where people congregate - fitness centers, sports clubs,church halls and anywhere else that would appropriate for your area.
c) Advertise in the local press or even local radio: if yours is a charity quiz, then they might offer you a free advertising slot.
d) Word of mouth - tell the public about your amazing Christmas quiz and what's in it for them apart from the fun of answering the questions.
e) Ask for donations for prizes in return for the business or individual getting their name printed on the poster. You might just get a surprise at what they donate. You can make changes to the posters to include the prizes and make it even more tempting to the public.
No doubt you will have your own ideas, but that's the way I do it and I am generally very successful.
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