Organising a quiz evening can be a great and fairly easy to raise money. This article will talk about how to get punters, how to get a great quiz and how much you can make.

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.

Another fantastic way to get potential punters in a pub quiz is to put a large container on the bar with a note asking people to drop in their business cards for a chance to win some great prizes – hey presto – you have their email address to email them the details of the upcoming quiz night.

If you are trying to raise money for a school then send letters to the parents of the school telling them about the quiz evening and prizes (which I’ll talk about a bit later…)

Quiz Packs

Hopefully you have generated enough interest with your advertising to ensure that you’ll have more than a few people turning up. Next on the list of things to do is buy or create a fantastic quiz!

If you have the time you could create your own quiz, but a lot of people don’t have the time for this so the other option is to buy a professional quiz pack online. There are plenty to choose from and can be of a much higher quality than if you tried to create your own.

If you do want to write your own quiz pack then you must keep to these rules: Include questions from different generations so as not to exclude people. Don’t make the questions too hard or too easy. Make the questions interesting. If someone doesn’t know the answer to the question but wants to know, this is a sign of a good question.

Prizes

Some people will come along just for the challenge of the quiz, but good prizes will only help the popularity of the quiz night. If you are holding the quiz in a pub you may be able to pursuade the landlord to give the winners some free drinks (after all, your quiz is bringing him a lot of extra trade!). If the quiz is to raise money for a school or charity try to get prizes donated. If all else fails, you could give a cash prize, but this will probably come out of the profits

How much can you make?

Well, this obviously depends on how many people you have come along to the quiz. Lets assume that you manage to get 50 people, and you charge them 3 each. Thats 150. If you are in a pub this is probably all you are likely to get, unless you are also the landlord, in which case you could have twice the number of people in the pub that night, resulting in twice the number of takings behind the bar.

If you are able to sell additional snacks, chocolates bars and drinks you may be able to raise another 2-5 per person. This adds up to another 100-250 for the night.

To conclude, if you got 50 people to take part you could make between 150 and 400 in a single evening. And this is only for 50 people. Get the number to 100 and you could be taking home 800! Not too bad for a night’s work and some basic advertising.

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