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Here's a nice little innovation for those of you running the less-serious type of quiz. I've been using Top Trumps for a long time at my quizzes to elminate contestants.

I often use a format where

I found this article with a  few ideas about writing quiz questions based on the Alexa ranking of various websites.

There are some decent ideas in the article, but remember to keep your questions up to date. For example, Facebook may well take over from Google as the number one site sometime this year.

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Naveen from Indian site Quizblogs.com was in touch and he had this to say about the questions on dpquiz.co.uk

By the way, I've noticed that the style of quiz questions is quite different in UK when compared to those we have in India. While your questions tend to be on whether on not someone KNOWS a particular bit of trivia, we guys actually try to

Here's a great tool for quiz question writers who want to look for Olympics info in a new way, a really nice interactive map from the New York Times

You can search

A lot of quizmasters will now organise their questions with a dizzying array of software, none of which is

Remember: things always change. I used to have a true or false question along the lines of:

True or False: The Irish blood transfusion service gives you a free pint of Guinness every time you give blood.

Answer: True

I was about to include this in a recent quiz when I thought I'd better

When you’re a quizmaster, and people find out what you do, they often say “Oh, what a great job, what’s your favourite question?”

This itself is a great question, so to co-incide with the dpquiz.co.uk contest to find the world's best quiz question, I asked around my favourite quizmasters and here's what

Here's a tip which rewards your regulars without upsetting newcomers (until they find about it, by which time they are regulars!)

It's called the Belgium question because

Here's an idea from Andy Bee in Bournemouth on how to use a Facebook group to get quiz teams coming back.

Every week Andy takes