'Professional' quizzers.

[brrapp]

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[FN2TypeR]

What a bunch of sad mother fkers

[Hoofy]

I guess you need to include stuff that isn't standard quiz stuff. Maybe history of the organisation with multichoice questions. Or other things related to the organisation that regulars would be relatively good at compared to the outsiders.

[FN2TypeR]

Hoofy said:

I guess you need to include stuff that isn't standard quiz stuff. Maybe history of the organisation with multichoice questions. Or other things related to the organisation that regulars would be relatively good at compared to the outsiders.

Have you ever had sex?

Yes: 50 points
No: 0 points

[0a]

Put in impossible questions and supply your local teams with the answers.

[brrapp]

I suppose we're trying to have our cake and eat it too. The 'professionals' boost the numbers and therefore the revenue so we don't want to discourage them entirely, just level the playing field a bit to give our regular supporters a chance.

[Hoofy]

FN2TypeR said:

Hoofy said:

I guess you need to include stuff that isn't standard quiz stuff. Maybe history of the organisation with multichoice questions. Or other things related to the organisation that regulars would be relatively good at compared to the outsiders.

Have you ever had sex?

Yes: 50 points
No: 0 points

[Some Gump]

3 rounds.
3 envelopes.

Once you win a round, you can't win again.

Split prize 50-30-20% of pot.
Make 1 of the rounds the "not for pros" rounds, gives your local mates a chance of winning something.

Another option (if a pub) is to pay people in beer. The pros don't like beer much.

[williamp]

What is the landlords favourite catchphrase?
Which local thinks shes a total Babe?
How old are these pickled onions??

[stupidbutkeen]

you need to know your local players hobby.
That or what is on the side of the wall on 'anystreet name here'
How many shops on the high street are not charity shops etc etc
Local questions for a local quiz an all that..

[Yipper]

You mean you lost and are starting to sulk

[43034]

Give the teams handicaps

The 3 pisshead regulars, that like to do the quiz whilst necking pints get a good few points head start. The professionals start on 0.

[LordJammy]

Used to get the ‘pro’ pub quizzers at the pub I worked in. Everyone got fed up of the wkers so the prizes became more and more centred around winning dinner at the pub or beer or anything that wasn’t cash basically. They soon fked off.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

brrapp said:

we'd like to provide an entertaining evening and a chance to win something for normal people.

By normal people, you mean those with less knowledge than others who take it more seriously.

But I know what you mean, this really p1sses me off with the Olympics. All the events seem to be dominated by those who practice for years and are really good. It would be nice to see normal people having a chance of winning gold. I swim every day and I'd bloody love to win gold, but some of these bloody blokes who win every time are miles quicker. And 4 stone lighter. I've got no chance.

[glenrobbo]

Ask more abstract quiz questions, i.e.:
"What is the most interesting thing you have ever found in your navel?", and have a panel of three judges to decide who has come up with the best answer.

[Fore Left]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

brrapp said:

we'd like to provide an entertaining evening and a chance to win something for normal people.

By normal people, you mean those with less knowledge than others who take it more seriously.

But I know what you mean, this really p1sses me off with the Olympics. All the events seem to be dominated by those who practice for years and are really good. It would be nice to see normal people having a chance of winning gold. I swim every day and I'd bloody love to win gold, but some of these bloody blokes who win every time are miles quicker. And 4 stone lighter. I've got no chance.

Not really the same is it. That's more some kid getting Usain Bolt to adopt him simply so he can win the fathers sack rack at school sports day

[Henners]

LordJammy said:

Used to get the ‘pro’ pub quizzers at the pub I worked in. Everyone got fed up of the wkers so the prizes became more and more centred around winning dinner at the pub or beer or anything that wasn’t cash basically. They soon fked off.

We had similar, they soon moved on.

Was helped by the landlord renaming them each time they won (and were therefore announced) to a beige / boring name - team Nigel, team Norman, team Eric etc. I think he was more pissed off they all drank lime and soda, nursing their drink for the hour or two tbh.

[StevieBee]

I used to run a quiz night at our local and had the same issue. My fix was to use 10 jokers.

Each team had ten jokers with a value of 1 to 10. They could play their joker on any of the ten rounds and the values of that joker would be added to their score for that round. BUT...they had to score a minimum of the joker value for the joker to count. So if they played their Joker 5 and scored 6 then their score for that round would be 11. But if they scored 4, their score for that round would be 4.

It evened it all out quite nicely.

[Ebo100]

The Christmas quiz my local does has all the answers written onto a bingo sheet where the prizes are awarded for the four corners and/or a line down, and/or line across and then a full house.

This means that knowing all the answers does not necessarily mean you are going to win and adds an element of chance to the quiz. It also combats the people who need a phone to google the answers.
The sheets are proper printed sheets so must be available on ebay/google.

[FN2TypeR]

Ebo100 said:

The Christmas quiz my local does has all the answers written onto a bingo sheet where the prizes are awarded for the four corners and/or a line down, and/or line across and then a full house.

This means that knowing all the answers does not necessarily mean you are going to win and adds an element of chance to the quiz. It also combats the people who need a phone to google the answers.
The sheets are proper printed sheets so must be available on ebay/google.

Ah yes the mobile phone, I don't know why people bother frankly, what's the point in cheating?

You couldn't get decent mobile internet signal to save your life in my old local and the guy who took the quiz user to turn the WiFi off, and quite rightly so imo