The ultimate guide to hosting a trivia night that entertains and builds relationships
Trivia nights can serve many purposes for teams, families, and friends. Hosting a trivia night is a great way to bring new hires and already-existing employees together, bring families together for exciting moments, or even raise funds for your organization (for those in the nonprofit sector). To help achieve this, hosts need to establish carefully crafted plans, rules, and questions. Here are some tips to make your trivia night a success.
Your trivia night themes
Hosting a trivia night is a great way to create lasting relationships and have fun. However, every trivia night needs a well-crafted theme to bring a high level of success. Come up with a few themes that you want to focus on - it could be on pop culture, a TV series, or current affairs. When selecting your themes, make sure you take the background and cultural nuances of participants into consideration as well. This helps in choosing ideas that best align with the group and will encourage everyone to take part in the event.
Get your questions ready
Once you’ve locked down the themes you want to pursue, your next step is to come up with the trivia questions. There are many places to find question ideas, including searching on Google, using trivia books, writing trivia questions yourself, or using Bar None Games’ library of themes. Your questions should have varying levels of difficulty to make sure everyone can take part. They should also come in different formats, such as open-ended, multiple-choice, and true or false.
Establish clear rules
When hosting a trivia night, the rules serve as guidelines that help shape the event and create a more enjoyable experience. It is important to establish how the winner is determined, any penalties for cheating, and how many players are allowed. Aside from the rules, it is also important to create a simple goal for the trivia night in order to direct the flow of the event and keep players from getting bored too quickly.
Hand out prizes to winners
The excitement of participating in a trivia night with friends, family, or co-workers and the zeal in answering the questions makes the entire experience worthwhile. However, to keep players even more motivated throughout the night, you can announce that there is something to be won at the end of the event. With prizes for the winning teams and individuals, nothing is too small. Remember, this is to show appreciation for their hard work, and it could be a gift card or even company swag.
