General Knowledge Quiz: 6 Tips for Contest Masters

Like anything created of quality, when compiling a general knowledge quiz, you should take pride in your work and take it seriously. Gone are the days of accessing a free website and answering your questions as more and more people use smartphones. Quickly type some of these questions into a search engine and quiz goers will be able to find the site you got the question from and, more importantly, the answer. Here are 5 tips to make sure you don’t get caught in this trap.

1. Allow time to compile your general knowledge quiz. To produce good questionnaires, time is a key part and don’t think it is acceptable to quickly produce a couple of questionnaires an hour in advance. Your audience will want quality, and if you want them to come back, you have to give it to them.
2. Look at the free test sites. But it’s best to use them to get ideas for questions and answers, so maybe you can write a question similar to one on the site. Changing just a couple of words is not enough, you must change the entire question for the answer. A better way is to flip the question and just use the trivia you got from the question.
3. 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 questionnaires, but get a couple of questions from here to there and everywhere. That way, if there are any cheats in the audience, you will have to work harder and if you have banned the use of mobile phones, it will be easier to detect.
4. Use other resources. Some better options are to use printed copies, such as question books, to get your questions and answers. Now make sure you have permission to do this and that you are not violating any copyright laws. Some question books allow you to use their general knowledge questions and some do not, so be careful.
5. Run your quiz dry. If you have time, ask a couple of people to try out the general knowledge questions to see how they do. Let them use cell phones on some of the questions they can’t answer and ask them to check which ones so you can see how easy it was for them to get the answer.
6. Mix up the topics. To make life easier, mix up your questions, general knowledge is about different topics. The mix of questions is the harder to fool and the better the quiz.

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 will relax more when you host your quiz night.