Questions & Rounds
Topic Rounds
Putting your rounds in to topics can be a great way of structuring the quiz. Sometimes it can be easier to look for questions within a specific topic than it can be to find just random questions that will do. It also helps build up the anticipation if you announce the titles of the rounds (using as cryptic and unhelpful titles as you feel like!) in advance.
Topic based rounds mean that you can employ the Joker feature, letting teams nominate a round in which score will count double. By only revealing the next two rounds' topic at a time, you also add to the tension as teams will wait for a more friendly sounding topic, until realising that the last two rounds are going to be totally disastrous - "Famous Japanese Emperors" and "1930's Cocktails" for example.
Here are a few of the more regularly-used examples - questions provided for some, for others you'll need to do your own research!
| Crime & Punishment | Food & Drink | Sport | Movies |
| Gardening | Current Affairs | History | Geography |
| Transport | Flora & Fauna | Kings & Queens | Science |
| Recipes | Astronauts | Explorers | Cockney Rhyming Slang |
| Pantomime Characters | Movie Stars | Famous Last Words | Car Registrations |
| Weights & Measures | Planets & Stars | Inventions | Chemical Symbols |
| Wonders of the World | Bible Tales | Politicians | Who Said What |
Of course there are an infinite variety of these, and part of the fun is to pick topics that you know are of interest to some of your regulars, and then ask them in such a way that everyone has a chance to get a point. Just watch out for the expert objection though - every pub has someone who knows more than the encyclopedia!
Themed Rounds
Another way of adding interest is to theme the rounds. This refers more to the style and structure of the round than the subject matter of the questions themselves. For example:
- Anagram: the first letters of the first nine answers make up the answer to question 10 - and of course if the teams get a couple wrong, it gets very hard! Or they may be able to work backwards from the 10th answer to see where they went wrong.
- Initials: each answer starts with the same letter(s)
- Colours: each answer includes a colour
- DaisyChain: each answer starts with the last letter of the previous question - teams can go horribly wrong here, especially if the early questions are harder!
- Sums: The answers are all numbers, and question 10 is "What do 1-9 add up to?"
- Common Link: 1-9 are miscellaneous, but no 10 is "What do they have in common?" Perhaps a person, a place, a year or something even more obscure...
Again, infinite variety possible, but adding to the novelty, interest and general confusion...
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