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This can be the hard
part, writing charity quiz questions. With a quiz night for charity
it can be difficult because you may not know what type of people
will be attending and what their level of quiz skill is.
When writing other
types of quizzes you roughly know who is likely to attend. At
a pub quiz it will normally be the regulars and quiz teams who
do the "local circuit". With work quizzes you will know
who the people are and their level of general knowledge. The uncertainty
of who will be at a charity quiz night makes it difficult to judge
the level of quiz questions required.
Make the questions
too hard and the teams have to start guessing answers, then the
winning team are likely to think they were lucky and not knowledgeable.
If the quiz is too easy then most teams will leave thinking they
haven't had to use their brain.
So what you need is
a well balanced quiz with mixed categories. Most quizzes tend
to have 10 rounds, each round consisting of 10 questions. For
a well balanced quiz you need a couple of rounds that are generally
easy, but with the the odd hard question thrown in. Then a reasonably
difficult round with the odd easy question. The remaining rounds
should be middle of the road, with each round containing 2 or
3 easy and 2 or 3 hard questions with the rest being of average
difficulty. If the event is for a particular charity like a sports
team, why not have a round about that particular sport and another
one about the history of the team.
By having a well balanced
quiz you will get most teams scoring around 50%-70%, then the
really good teams will score 70%+. The majority of non regular
quiz players would be happy to get 50% of the questions right.
You may decide to write
your own quiz questions. This is great fun, however it does have
some drawbacks. The main one is takes a lot of time in researching
the topics and questions.
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