Social Committee Guide-Quiz Night

Organising the TTC Quiz Night

• The quiz night is held in JUNE (indicative date the third Tuesday in June).
• The quiz is arranged by the previous year's winning team. Its tasks are to compile the quiz questions and answers, appoint a Quiz Master, and run the quiz on the night.
• The Social Committee provides nibbles and drinks on each table, fun giveaways, raffle prizes, and prizes for the winning team members.
• The evening commences at the earlier time of 7:00 p.m. People attending can organise themselves into teams of up to five when they enter the hall. Others can be joined up into teams.

Compiling questions and answers

• Solicit questions from other club members. Let them know the proposed categories of questions, and give them some guidelines for setting questions.
• Compile questions for display on quiz night, using a Powerpoint presentation
• Prepare a question sheet for the host to read from, and an answer sheet for quiz competitors to fill in. Print copies.

Suggested guidelines for question setting

• Have enough questions for 45 minutes
• Allow 30-60 seconds to pose each question
• Have a variety of questions, organised into categories: mountaineering, TTC history, New Zealand general knowledge etc
• Include some questions with photos/images. e.g. of huts and flowers, for teams to name
• Questions can be multiple choice
• Questions can invite an open answer, but it should be easy to determine whether it is right or wrong
• The question and any picture associated with it should fit on one page of a Powerpoint presentation.
• The questions should not be all deadly serious - it's good to have questions that are just for entertainment/comedy value!!

Some ideas for questions

• Tararua (huts, plants, tracks/navigational knowledge)
  Target expert local knowledge in the club - subjects could be quite arcane!

• New Zealand parks, mountains, climbing and tramping trips
• TTC
  • The club's history
  • recent club events, including well-attended club nights
  • folklore / satire on club bureaucracy/characters/seminal moments
  • 'what happened next?' – display a before/after picture of an ‘incident’?
• Bushcraft, snowcraft, navigation
  • questions about good old tramping knowledge
  • a current MSC bushcraft manual could prove a useful source
• Random
  • Other questions, about outdoor, activity-based New Zealand topics.

Marking answers

• Allocate one point for a correct answer. Avoid subjective or complex answers.
• Show the answer on a duplicate of its Powerpoint question slide.
• At the end of each section, ask teams to swap their answer sheets, score the answers and hand in sheets to the collector.
• The marker enters scores onto a sheet, with a running total (to save time when adding up team scores at the end of the quiz).