New Quiz Night

[hardy49]

Our bowls club is hosting its first quiz night next month and,if possible, I should like some advice.
I had planned to have six categories with twelve questions in each. However,seeing as we are having food and a raffle as well as a couple of quizzes such as dingbats and picture quiz, I feel that we would be going well into the night !!
I woukd like a few suggestions as to how many categories and questions we should have and what prizes are suitable. We were thinking £15 for first prize £10 for second and £5 for third. Not sure of what to give for the picture quiz or the ding bats.
Any help woukd be appreciated.

[smouse]

That seems a lot of questions. Mine has 8 rounds with 8 questions in each round. Food and raffle after 4 rounds. Are you planning to let them mark their own as obviously marking takes time too? Mine takes about 2 hours

[Famous5]

I'd suggest no more than 50 questions, especially if you are having pictures AND dingbats.
Teams to swap sheets for marking
Just one cash prize for the winner (max £10) with 2 and 1 bottle wine for 2nd & 3rd
Establish the rules to save arguments -
Rule 1 The quizmaster is alwys right
Rule 2 If the quizmaster is wrong, Rule 1 applies

[Famous5]

Rule 2 applies especially when typing!

[grumpy01]

Maybe 5 rounds of 10 questions + time between each to swap papers and mark.Also maybe a mixed pictures,dingbats ,anagrams sheet which could be browsed over during the quiz and in any break and then swapped along with the answers to the last round then marked.

[smouse]

If they argue my answer is always if it matters at the end we will discuss it lol

[hardy49]

Thank you all very much