Useful Tips
DJs earn EXTRA £££££ mid-week by hosting Pub Quiz nights...
HERE'S HOW!!!
I've presented mid-week pub quiz nights for over 20 years and have always had regular mid-week work. This is my formula on how to get and keep that mid-week work.
1. Find a pub that suits you, call in and see the manager or landlord. Offer them a Pub Quiz on a four/six-week trail basis at a heavily discounted rate. With the price moving to your regular rate following the trail. (If it doesn't work after the first six weeks, cut your losses and move on)
2. Choose the best night to run the Quiz, taking into account if football is shown in the pub and what entertainment is going on in other pubs in your catchment area. Then set a start date, leaving a few weeks for advertisings. You provide the posters and flyers.
3. Get the Pub manager to rally staff, family and friends and the regulars to get teams sorted out in advance of the launch night.
4. The prize doesn't have to be anything more than a gallon of beer. Make it in the form of a voucher valid for the following weeks pub quiz, that guarantees you a team for next week.
5. On the first night. Point out the rules, 1. quizmaster is always right. 2. It's a fun quiz so no need for mobile phones. (people using mobile phones to gain answers only alienates teams that don't want to cheat)
6. Start your pub quiz by handing out the tabletop quiz, 20 minutes later, offer a few clues on some of the tougher questions. This section is key if teams are struggling they won't stay so make sure they have most of the questions answered. The questions start easy and gradually get harder. Once again, if you feel the questions are too hard, make them easier by offering more info or offer multi choice answers.
7. Don't forget to include five minute breaks between rounds to help keep the bar busy. (don't forget bar sales fund your wages)
8. When you have completed the quiz, ask your teams to swap quiz papers to mark them and read out the answers.
9. Introduce a self-funding, cash accumulating game for the end of the night like ‘Play Your Cards Right'.
10. Set up a facebook account, include the quiz in your status every week on the day of the quiz and constantly remind teams to add you as a friend. Take loads of photos of the pub quiz and tag as many people in the photo as possible. Because of the way facebook networks it gives you massive coverage. Well worth doing.
Useful Tip... BINGO QUIZ
Does your pub quiz suffer from “the same winning team every week” syndrome?
Here’s an idea that will cut that out.
Replace your regular answer sheets with our Bingo Quiz sheet (available free on the ‘free downloads’ page.)
To play… Ask your punters to write the answers down twice. Once in the boxes on the left and again on the bingo board. After reading all 20 questions ask your teams to tear-off the slip on the left and hand it to you. You then read out the answers in random order. (and because you have a duplication of their answers teams can mark their own paper.) The winner is the first team to make a connection of correct answers across the bingo board. (similar to ‘Blockbusters’).
You can take a break, get the beers in then hand out more bingo quiz sheets for the next game. This has the added bonus that late comers can join in.
