I do a lot of hidden theme rounds and wordplay rounds, so I often find myself scanning through lists of words for good anagrams or specific endings or what-not. What I would really find useful is a big list of proper nouns drawn from Wikipedia, sorted by number of page views per year. Does anybody have anything like this?
Have you ever come across content or had an idea that begs to be made into a trivia round but you just know its far too specialized? I was working on content for a hockey league fundraiser and found this collection of NHL Goal Horns. Perfect Audio round content, but virtually impossible.
What gems have you found and passed over because they're too challenging? Or did you find the right audience for that content and they crushed it? Or, did you do it anyway just for the LOLs?
It occurred to me that I might want to create a database with Access or LibreOffice Base of my questions. I am not new to creating and maintaining databases, but I am far from an expert. Because I don't know what types of queries I might want to run in the future, I am wondering what types of data I should try to capture from the beginning so that I don't end up having to go back and add things later. So far I am leaving space for up to three categories that the question might fit into, the question text, the answer, the date originally asked, and any dates that I have asked the question again. I don't like to do repeats, but I've got a few questions that have come back around over the years.
My goal is to have queries that can pull up questions according to their categories and reports that will essentially compile a full night of random text-based questions that I have asked before. It will help me if I ever need to make something on the fly and the crowd hasn't heard my questions before.
I host in a fairly small town at a brewery and have a decent following. There's a bar in the same town that has trivia on a different night. They just posted an ad for an upcoming trivia night that features a "Secret Bonus Question" in their ad that was used in my last game hosted at the brewery.
Granted, it is somewhat generic trivia knowledge, but the timing of the question to when I last used it makes me raise an eyebrow.
What would you do?
Just curious as to what the age range is at your trivia events and whether/how you try to appeal to different ages in your questions.
At my trivia night, players tend to be mostly Gen X (as am I), with a few Millennial and Boomer players. Younger teams come occasionally, often enjoy themselves but tend to score low.
I do mostly general trivia, and include one “generation gap” pop culture question per game, where players get two choices of question, and only need one right for the point, eg:
“The theme is Beetles in the movies. Option 1) In
the Transformer film franchise, what is the name of the autobot that transforms into a
yellow Volkswagen Beetle? Option 2) In the Disney film franchise, what is the name of the
sentient white V olkwagen Beetle that is painted with racing stripes and the number 53?”
>!Bumblebee (or B-127); Herbie (the Love Bug)!<
I tend to avoid entire pop culture theme rounds, like 80s movies, even though I know many players would enjoy them, because I think it might be alienating for younger teams.
Interested in your thoughts, on any of these:
Do you just write questions that appeal to you and trust that a like-minded audience will find you? Or do you actively court certain demographics? Did your venue come with a ready made audience of a certain age?
How much effort do you put into making questions that are outside your comfort zone, age-wise?
Is it alienating to *everyone* if you try to be Age-inclusive?
Do you have strategies for making rounds or questions appealing to a wide age range?
Do you thinks it’s best (for you and/or players) to just stick to one age group?
I have been hosting for several years. All of them single instances with a nightly prize.
A new location wants me to do seasons/tournaments lasting about 5 games.
Winner of the night gets a prize and winning team at the end gets a grand prize.
My trivias never have the exact same score - my overall points are 50-60 depending on the night.
So, I'm not sure aggregate score with a by-week is the best way.
How do you hosts who have seasons/tournaments score them?
TIA
For context: I've built a Trivia Show Maker that prints off your Host packet. The formatting is clean and has score sheets and such, but I want to open it up to fit as much of a Host's imagination in, as possible.
I've been hosting trivia for ~8 years now, but I have recently added a second location that offers the use of a video screen, which was not an option in the past. I'm using it as a power point featuring the questions and a recap at the end to avoid repeats, as well as for photo questions that don't feature a full hand-out picture round. However, I would like to incorporate actual video. For those who do (or wish to) do you have any creative ways or round styles you're willing to share? For the one I've hosted with video so far, I used it for straightforward questions like "Name this film" or name this "actor," as well as the round I'll share below. I have decent video editing skills, but am mostly using open source software. Thanks in advance!
Mismatched Music Videos
I synced iconic music videos with the wrong music and had teams identify what the music video was for. "Single Ladies" set to the William Tell Overture, Childish Gambino's "This is America" set to "Yakety Sax," etc.
Connections -
For this week, I'm working on a connections round. I will mismatch video and audio clips and ask teams to identify the connection, in one to several words. Any clever examples of this I'd take as well. 😄
Examples I'm thinking of:
-Clips from the Neverending Story set to music by the band Atreyu, with Atreyu being the answer
-Randy Newman's "Short People" with clips of Newman from Seinfeld
Thanks in advance! I'm willing to share pretty much everything I've done, as I've taken a lot of inspiration from this and other boards.
Hello all! Needing to settle a debate here.
My fiance and I are on different ends of the spectrum here. I run a music round every week, and this week I am going to mix it up, and rather than give them the theme ahead of time, I'm going to do another Connections round. Now here's where our differences lie, I'm going to give the participants a chance to get one of two connections, both related, 1 very easy to see, 1 a little deeper look, but still related to the original. I will give extra points if you get the harder one, but you can only guess one. Here are the songs:
One Headlight - The Wallflowers
No Lie - 2Chainz
Animal I Have Become - Three Days Grace
What's Up - 4 Non Blondes
It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere - Alan Jackson
Inside Out - Eve 6
7 Rings - Ariana Grande
8Teen - Khalid
Fiance guessed the easy one easily, didn't get the hard one, I told her the hard one, she said it was dumb. I'll let you all guess, and tell me if I'm being dumb or not. Ive been called worse, today, so let me know lol