Quiz Nights
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Organise your own quiz night
Quiz nights are great! Suddenly what was previously a social handicap is now your greatest asset- that slightly embarrasing knowledge of Neighbours, the new romantics, or prime minister’s pets is suddenly rewarded with a pat on the back and a new level of respect from your mates - well, at least until you get one wrong in the next round. Quizzes are straight forward to organise, and can be held in all sorts of venues- from cafes and pubs, to your common room!
We’ve written down below the things you need to think about to get it off the ground.
Venue
Find a venue with enough space that attracts a lot of people anyway:
- Ask local pubs and cafes, maybe somewhere you work or hang out. You’ll find friendly owners and staff will be keen to help you out - it’ll attract loads of extra customers and they may even help you out with a prize!
- If you do it during term time, what about your union bar or cafes, or a cafe or common room at school or college during lunch time?
- Or, you can even hi-jack an aready established quiz for a night and get all the proceeds to come to People & Planet!
Themes
Think about what audience you are trying to reach, what sort of venue or setting you are doing it, and whether or not you have the time to preapre a full Q&A quiz.
Here are some ideas for themes:
- A music quiz if it’s in a trendy music hang out
- Link it in with a forthcoming sporting event such as the Olympics, World Cup or even your school sports day.
- General knowledge
- An ‘ethical quizz’ (popular at the People & Planet Forum in Leeds 2006).
- As part of the previous People & Planet ‘Stop Esso’ campaign , we devised a Stop Esso quiz and a set of accompanying cocktails with names such as ‘oil slick’ and ‘Kyoto Krusher’! Why not devise your quiz around one of your People & Planet campaigns?
Prizes
Can be cheap or blagged! How about…
- Asking a local shop or buisness for a contribution to your charity event?
Ask the venue to contribute something- if it’s in a pub, then a bar tab or bottle of wine
Email the fundraising team - to let us know what you’re doing so we can publicise it on our website
