Like anything quality-built, when compiling a general knowledge quiz you should take pride in your work and take it seriously. Gone are the days of going to a free website and answering your questions as more and more people use smartphones. A quick type into a search engine of some of these questions and quiz participants can find the site from which they got the question and, more importantly, the answer. Here are 5 tips to make sure you don’t get caught in this trap.
- Allow time to compile your general knowledge quiz. To produce good questionnaires, time is a key part and do not think that quickly producing a couple of questionnaires an hour before will be acceptable. Your audience will want quality and if you want them to come back, you have to give it to them.
- Look at free quiz sites. But it’s better to use them to get ideas for questions and answers, so maybe you can write a question similar to one on the site. Just changing a couple of words is not enough, you need to change the whole question for the answer. A better way is to turn the question around and just use the trivia you got from the question.
- If you’re running out of time, get some of your questions and answers from a general knowledge quiz site as a last resort. Don’t get full quizzes, but get a couple of questions from here and everywhere. That way, if you have any cheating in the audience, it will have to work harder and if you have banned the use of mobile phones, it will be easier to detect it.
- Use other resources. Some better options are to use hard copies, such as question and answer books, to get your questions and answers. Now make sure you have permission to do so and that you are not breaking any copyright laws. Some quiz books allow you to use their general knowledge questions and others don’t, so be careful.
- Run your test dry. If you have time, ask a couple of people to try the general knowledge questions to see how they do. Let them use mobile phones on some of the questions they can’t answer and ask them to mark which ones so you can see how easy it was for them to get the answer.
- Mix the themes. To make life easier, mix up your questions, general knowledge is about different topics. The combination of questions is harder to cheat and the better the test.
In the end, you need to develop a good set of resources that you can trust because they are trusted for their trustworthiness. The systems you develop should work for you so that you can enjoy the process of creating your own trivia quiz. If you trust your quizzes, you’ll be more relaxed when hosting your quiz night.