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Faizan
I have been doing and running pub quizzes for fifteen years, and now run a pub Quiz in Girona, Catalonia, Spain, for Catalans at a certain level of English learning, and Native speakers. What follows are five ways for winning at, or at least giving the team a better chance at winning in a pub quiz.
1. The Right Size
The optimum pub quiz team size is four people. Whatever the anthropological proofs in the pudding the dynamics of a good pub quiz team and even a not so good pub quiz team are better with four folk. A team of three doesn't quite have the breadth of knowledge needed to win, and a team of five seems to be more liable to argue. Of course, there are plenty of not so good pub quiz teams of four that don't have the knowledge and argue, but I'll go into that later.
Having settled on the Pub Quiz team size we can look at the other four factors in a good Pub Quiz team.
2. Knowledge Spread
There needs to be a good knowledge spread in the team if it is going to do well. Four people who know a lot about football and nothing else will not give the team a good score in a general knowledge pub quiz, and a pub quiz only about football narrows the customer base down. Naturally there will be some specialism within the members in the team, but a wide spread of knowledge across the team is the best starting point to become a competitive team. So why not have three people instead of four? You can have three people it's just you won't have a wide as spread of knowledge as you do with four.
3. The Fourth Person
The fourth person often feels they don't contribute to the team. 'I never know the answer to any of the questions.' they might regularly complain. But this because they only remember contributing three answers out of say forty. What is important with the fourth person, the one who contributes least answers, is not how many questions they answer, but which questions they answer. If they answer three questions that nobody else in the team could answer, and the team wins by two points, then theirs has been a vital contribution to the team. This person's contribution is often along the lines of characters in day-time television soaps, rather than how many moons Jupiter has, but those questions get asked in a Pub Quiz, and a correct answer gets the same number of points as answering correctly which scientist gives their name to the Uncertainty principle.
1. The Right Size
The optimum pub quiz team size is four people. Whatever the anthropological proofs in the pudding the dynamics of a good pub quiz team and even a not so good pub quiz team are better with four folk. A team of three doesn't quite have the breadth of knowledge needed to win, and a team of five seems to be more liable to argue. Of course, there are plenty of not so good pub quiz teams of four that don't have the knowledge and argue, but I'll go into that later.
Having settled on the Pub Quiz team size we can look at the other four factors in a good Pub Quiz team.
2. Knowledge Spread
There needs to be a good knowledge spread in the team if it is going to do well. Four people who know a lot about football and nothing else will not give the team a good score in a general knowledge pub quiz, and a pub quiz only about football narrows the customer base down. Naturally there will be some specialism within the members in the team, but a wide spread of knowledge across the team is the best starting point to become a competitive team. So why not have three people instead of four? You can have three people it's just you won't have a wide as spread of knowledge as you do with four.
3. The Fourth Person
The fourth person often feels they don't contribute to the team. 'I never know the answer to any of the questions.' they might regularly complain. But this because they only remember contributing three answers out of say forty. What is important with the fourth person, the one who contributes least answers, is not how many questions they answer, but which questions they answer. If they answer three questions that nobody else in the team could answer, and the team wins by two points, then theirs has been a vital contribution to the team. This person's contribution is often along the lines of characters in day-time television soaps, rather than how many moons Jupiter has, but those questions get asked in a Pub Quiz, and a correct answer gets the same number of points as answering correctly which scientist gives their name to the Uncertainty principle.
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