If you love getting together with friends and family for game nights, but find you are growing tired of the usual board game selection, consider creating your own quiz night, inspired by pub quizzes and trivia nights.
This is a fun game that anyone can play and show off his knowledge of subjects including history, sports, pop culture, movies, literature, and more.
First, decide on someone who will be the 'quiz master' or game leader.
This is a person who creates the questions, looks up the answers to make sure they are accurate and who is in charge of the organization of the game as well as the scoring.
It is important that this person does not participate in the actual game because, having come up with the quiz night questions theirself, they is privy the answers.
Once the 'quiz master' is selected, they will decide which categories will be covered.
The best quiz nights use a variety of questions from many different categories and fields of interest, rather than just a select few.
It is a good idea for the players to tell the quiz leader what subjects interest them the most or which subjects they have the most knowledge in, so they can create questions to suite the people who will be participating.
Though the number of categories is variable, usually a game with five to six categories, each category comprising one round works best.
Traditional categories such as history and science are always good choices, but some non-traditional categories can be fun as well.
One fun category is called 'Name that Person.
' For this round, the quiz master projects childhood pictures of celebrities, politicians, or other sports stars, which can be found with a simple image search" on the internet, and the players must guess who the person is.
Another round, called 'Guess that Song,' is created by playing two to three second clips from songs and having the players guess what song it is.
They must write the correct song title and recording artist to get credit.
After the quiz master has decided which categories they will select questions from, they should write each category title on a piece of paper and create 10-15 quiz questions for each one.
These questions should vary in difficulty level, so that some are easy to answer, even if the player is not an expert in the field, and others are much more difficult and require special knowledge.
If the category is something such as history or sports, which span over large periods of time, make sure to use questions from all different time periods rather than just a few.
The game leader should not show anyone the questions.
They are also in charge of looking up the answers to make sure the correct one is written down.
The quiz master can use already-created questions from trivia games such as Trivial Pursuit or he can create his own questions and look up the answers in reliable sources.
Once all of the trivia questions are created, you and your friends are ready for a great quiz night.
The players can be divided into teams or play individually.
This depends on how many players there are, but usually, three to five teams works best.
Each team is given a sheet of paper.
The team is responsible for labeling the round number and the question number.
The leader begins by announcing the first category, which will consist of the questions for round #1.
They must read the quiz questions slowly and clearly and is allowed to repeat the question once if asked by one of the players.
They should always be clear what the number of the question is so each team can write the answer next to the corresponding number.
After all the rounds have been completed, the leader collects all of the answer cards and adds up the number of correct answers.
The team with the most correct answers wins! If there is a tie, the leader can create a 'sudden death' round, in which the teams with the same number of points go head-to-head to answer questions (on any topic).
The first team to incorrectly answer a question loses and the other team is crowned the winner of quiz night!
This is a fun game that anyone can play and show off his knowledge of subjects including history, sports, pop culture, movies, literature, and more.
First, decide on someone who will be the 'quiz master' or game leader.
This is a person who creates the questions, looks up the answers to make sure they are accurate and who is in charge of the organization of the game as well as the scoring.
It is important that this person does not participate in the actual game because, having come up with the quiz night questions theirself, they is privy the answers.
Once the 'quiz master' is selected, they will decide which categories will be covered.
The best quiz nights use a variety of questions from many different categories and fields of interest, rather than just a select few.
It is a good idea for the players to tell the quiz leader what subjects interest them the most or which subjects they have the most knowledge in, so they can create questions to suite the people who will be participating.
Though the number of categories is variable, usually a game with five to six categories, each category comprising one round works best.
Traditional categories such as history and science are always good choices, but some non-traditional categories can be fun as well.
One fun category is called 'Name that Person.
' For this round, the quiz master projects childhood pictures of celebrities, politicians, or other sports stars, which can be found with a simple image search" on the internet, and the players must guess who the person is.
Another round, called 'Guess that Song,' is created by playing two to three second clips from songs and having the players guess what song it is.
They must write the correct song title and recording artist to get credit.
After the quiz master has decided which categories they will select questions from, they should write each category title on a piece of paper and create 10-15 quiz questions for each one.
These questions should vary in difficulty level, so that some are easy to answer, even if the player is not an expert in the field, and others are much more difficult and require special knowledge.
If the category is something such as history or sports, which span over large periods of time, make sure to use questions from all different time periods rather than just a few.
The game leader should not show anyone the questions.
They are also in charge of looking up the answers to make sure the correct one is written down.
The quiz master can use already-created questions from trivia games such as Trivial Pursuit or he can create his own questions and look up the answers in reliable sources.
Once all of the trivia questions are created, you and your friends are ready for a great quiz night.
The players can be divided into teams or play individually.
This depends on how many players there are, but usually, three to five teams works best.
Each team is given a sheet of paper.
The team is responsible for labeling the round number and the question number.
The leader begins by announcing the first category, which will consist of the questions for round #1.
They must read the quiz questions slowly and clearly and is allowed to repeat the question once if asked by one of the players.
They should always be clear what the number of the question is so each team can write the answer next to the corresponding number.
After all the rounds have been completed, the leader collects all of the answer cards and adds up the number of correct answers.
The team with the most correct answers wins! If there is a tie, the leader can create a 'sudden death' round, in which the teams with the same number of points go head-to-head to answer questions (on any topic).
The first team to incorrectly answer a question loses and the other team is crowned the winner of quiz night!
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