My idea of an excellent Speed Quiz

A distillation of 'What Makes a (Speed) Quiz'

There is a lot of wiggle room on a lot of this. What SpeedQuiz send is like a cake-mix, a pretty damn good one that can basically be used straight from the packet. I wish to reduce variability and complexity to make life easy for the host, and consider maximising pub profits to be the overarching objective of these things. I also want to enjoy them as a competitor and to feel I have been fairly treated. The ADDITION of good stuff (music rounds, short specialist rounds, even the odd bingo or turtle race for spot prizes or low quiz points) can fill in those gaps, the employment of subterfuge and fuckaboutery is like shitting in the cake!
  1. Order the SpeedQuizzing set, medium age, medium difficulty
  2. If you have time, check the SpeedQuizzing question set, not necessarily for mistakes (you will not find many nowadays), more for stuff you don't like, and replace things you don't want with things you do.
  3. Make introductions at 8 PM, your established start time.
  4. Collect £2 per handset and £1 per player and give them one raffle ticket for each £1 subscribed (allowing players to buy more tickets should they wish). Place that money in the jackpot.
  5. Aim for first question at 8:15, though this is such a good recipe you may need to keep going until you've got all the cash, if it does take longer, get an assistant!
  6. Set the scorage to ten for a correct answer, ten speed bonus on a sliding scale.
  7. Ask the questions promptly, keeping scores on any screens and on hand sets.
  8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 for round two with 'go wide' enabled at 8:45.
  9. Repeat steps 6 and 7 for round three with 'evil mode' and 'fast track wheel' enabled at 9:15.
  10. Repeat steps 6 and 7 for the 'Six from Sinha' at 9:45.
  11. Ask the nearest wins question set to a value of, say 50 points at 10.
  12. Announce the winners of the quiz with prizes for top three.
  13. Use a modified 'wheel spin' for a variation of play your cards right. Hell, put a different number in each slot, pick out three raffle tickets and offer them the jackpot for ten correct predictions. Throw away the pulled tickets, keep the the unpulled ones in a bag till next week and keep them in the mix until the jackpot is won.
  14. Repeat every week, come Hell or high water.
14th April 2024