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Tararua Tramping Club

Te rōpū hikoi o te pae maunga o Tararua   -   Celebrating 100 years of tramping

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!
e.g. From a Tararua map I have in front of me
Q. "What peak will I reach if I climb from the highest/most distant source of the Otaki River?
A. Pukematawai
  • 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).

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