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.
There's a good idea: do a walking otur for tourists or corporate groups and throw in a pub quiz as you go.
This is an enterprise that's happening in London now and you can find out about it at www.pubquizwalks.com
According to the site, there are 12 of these walks per year, but it looks like these are perhaps concentrated into the summer, as the next one is on March 14th.
Putting a decent quiz together is a pain enough, with haveing to translate it into another language. That's what they do at Beerlingual, a twice-a-week pub quiz in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I'm impressed, and I also like their
Another contestant call has come through, mainly for those of you in the London area. Zeppotron Limited is making a brand new adventure style quiz show pilot for Channel 4 and are looking for contestants to take part.
Auditions are in the capital only and the show is just a pilot but there is a £500 prize pot on offer.
You can't win any money on Only Connect, so I won't be applying, but the show is popular with quizzers and the production team looking for new blood for their 5th series.
Here's the text of the press release they sent me and if you do apply, do
Quizbag.com is an Irish site, run by Cillian O'Ruanaidh. The site uses tag-based organisation for its questions and sells them in packages of 100 to those looking to put on a quiz.
Cillian was running the site pretty much on his own quiz-labour until recently but has now opened up the site so you can make money too, simply by supplying the site with good-quality quiz questions which can then be sold as part of Quizbag's quiz-packs.
At the time of writing, the deal is that you get paid a percentage of each quiz pack sold which is equal to the number of your questions that appear in that quiz, divided by two. So if a 100-question quiz selling for 20 Euros contains 9 of your questions, you'll get 90 cents.
If this sounds complicated, I can personally tell you it isn't. I've already signed up, submitted some questions and made money. Give it a shot. You may not make as much money as you would going out and doing quiz nights yourself, but there could be a few extra quid for you at the end of the month.
Sign up by going to Quizbag.com
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
I have promoted this sites links section to the the main menu so you can find other sites and resources of interest more easily
I like to see what
The National Lottery Who Dares Wins, hosted by Nick Knowles is back and the BBC needs you in the audience.
The show will be recorded at
This page of team sports has been updated. Some questions added and some old in-accuracies corrected.
Topics include womens' football, american sport, ice hockey, rugby positions, team sizes, etc...
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 through the years and get super fast stats on how various countries performed in various years. There is also a version for the Winter Olympics.
Here's a couple of things I found from the map that I didn't know already:
I'm sure you can find plenty more.
Of course, Wikipedia has its own excellent resources (such as the all-time Olympic medal table) that offer more depth but this is a refreshingly visual tool to probe the Olympics and should serve as a jumping off point for a nice bit of question-writing.
I'm off to do a bit now to bolster the dpquiz.co.uk sports trivia pages.
The first new picture questions on the site for a while are some interesting Lyric Cloud questions.
To make the pictures I used Wordle.net, which is a great little resource ofr making these kind of questions. I tarted up some of the images with the Gimp but the basic images provided by Wordle itself are easily good enough to use in your quiz.
the best tihng about Wordle is the fact that its a free service. They say you can use the images you create anywhere as long as you give them some credit.
