A quiz night can be an effective and reasonably simple way to make money. This article will look at how to run a successful quiz night, including hiring the right venue, getting the quiz packs together and how much to charge as an entrance fee.
Get the Word Out
Without people willing to come to your quiz night, you’ll make nothing. So advertising it is obviously a key ingredient. How you do this will depend on the target audience. If you are a landlord you could put up some posters and let your regulars know about the upcoming quiz.
An excellent method of collecting email addresses of potential quiz participants is to put a large jar or some other container on the bar with a sign telling people to drop their business cards in for the chance to win some great prizes. This can quickly allow you to get a good number of email addresses so you could email them details of you quiz night.
If you are trying to raise money for a school then send letters to the parents of the school telling them about the quiz evening and prizes (which I’ll talk about a bit later…)
The Quiz
Hopefully you have generated enough interest with your advertising to ensure that you’ll have plenty of people turning up. Next on the list of things to do is buy or create a fantastic quiz!
There are plenty of free resources on the internet allowing you to create your own quiz. However, another option for people with not much free time is to buy a quiz pack online – you can usually pick one up for a couple of quid and download them immediately for very reasonable prices, and they can include picture rounds, answer sheets, questions and answers and tiebreaker questions.
If you want to create your own quiz pack then remember these simple rules… don’t make the questions too difficult or too easy. You want to separate out the winners, but you want most people to be able to answer around 40-50% of the questions. Try to be inclusive, so in a music round don’t just ask about recent music that the older generation won’t know. But above all – keep the questions interesting!
Prize
Some people will come along just for the challenge of the quiz, but good prizes will only help the popularity of the quiz night. If you are holding the quiz in a pub you may be able to pursuade the landlord to give the winners some free drinks (after all, your quiz is bringing him a lot of extra trade!). If the quiz is to raise money for a school or charity try to get prizes donated. If all else fails, you could give a cash prize, but this will probably come out of the profits
How much profit can you make?
Obviously, more people = more money. Say you attract 50 people which is easily possible. Charging them an entrance fee of 3 will generate 150 immediately. Pub owners will also see a large increase in bar takings.
If you have hired a hall out or its being held in a school hall you could then start selling beverages, snacks and chocolate bars. That 50 people will probably spend between 2-5 each, resulting in an extra 100-250.
To conclude, if you got 50 people to take part you could make between 150 and 400 in a single evening. And this is only for 50 people. Get the number to 100 and you could be taking home 800! Not too bad for a night’s work and some basic advertising.
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