Like most people during this weird time, we’re trying to find ways to stay in touch and have fun with our workmates. I saw a post on Twitter from @rossbreadmore a couple of weeks ago about running a pub quiz, with a link to some instructions so I unashamedly used his format as the basis for the Inaugural Stay Inn Pub Quiz last night.
I thought it might be useful to expand on the original by Ross and post the structure and materials we used for ours.
On our What’sApp group I asked everyone to let me know their quiz names in advance, so I had a list of the names and numbers before we started. This helped me to shape some of the questions, and get the scorecard ready.
We used a Premium Zoom account which enabled people to see both eachother and the questions, which I’d prepared in a PowerPoint document. This helped a lot for the image and music rounds.
We structured 5 rounds:
Round 1: Basic general knowledge – 10 questions to get everyone warmed up.
Round 2: Location, Location, Location – we screen-grabbed 6 images of well-known locations (one was our office address) from Google Earth and asked people to guess them.
Round 3: Supermarket sweep. The teams had 3 minutes to grab 6 specified items from around the house. 3 minutes was too long, everyone was back in 2 – so you could shorten this bit.
Round 4: Quantine Partytime. We prepared 6 music intro’s – grabbed from Spotify, cut into music files and embedded into PPT – and played each 3 times in a 30 second segment.
Round 5: Playing to the Audience. I found 11 questions that covered all the areas our players were from.
We put a 5-min break in after round 3 – so people could top up their drinks and at the end of each of the first 4 rounds there was a bonus question. I’ve taken those out of the file, as they were a bit personal – but you can add in some fun ones about the host or players. You can download all of the other questions and answers.
We had really good fun, and it was something nice to look forward to. I even put some make up on for the occasion and a game of bingo is being planned too…
Enjoy quizzing 🙂
