Quiz nights can be a great way of making some extra money. Whether you want to increase the takings behind a bar (if you’re a landlord) or want to raise some money for your children’s school quiz nights are fairly simply to organise and can make a decent amount of money.

Get the Word Out

The more people you get, the more money you’ll make. Simple. So, advertising is key. How you go about this will depend on the venue and your target audience. If you are planning on running it in a local pub get the landlord’s permission to put up some posters.

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 the quiz night is going to be held for a parents evening at a school, or targeted at some other club or group of people then send out letters or flyers telling them about the evening and prizes (which Ill come onto later).

The Quiz

Assuming you have had a successful marketing campaign you will now want to write or buy a great 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!

Prizes

To entice people to come along, the prizes should be half decent. If you are in a pub you may be able to convince the landlord to give up some free drinks for the winners on account of the extra trade you will have generated. If the quiz night is for a charity event you may be able to get some prizes donated, or if the worst comes to the worst you could offer cash prizes from the entrance fees, although this will affect your margin.

How much could 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 managed to get hold of a hall (school hall or town hall for example) you may also be able to sell snacks and drinks. This could lead to an additional 3-5 per person, so another 150-250

The bottom line is that you could make anything from 150 to 400 from a single night, and that is assuming you only get 50 people turning up. Double the number of people taking part and you can double your takings. So get 100 people there and you could make 800! Pretty good for a night’s work!

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