Top tips for running your pub quiz

Posted by Toby Hoyte
29 July 2010

With Sound Leisure’s Smart Quiz application on your digital jukebox you have everything you need to host a brilliant pub quiz, without the need for expensive quiz masters or mobile PAs. Here are our top five tips for a great quiz night.

Pub quiz top tip: Number 1

Promotion

Quiz nights are a huge draw, so spread the word about yours in advance, giving would-be masterminds plenty of chance to pencil the date in their diaries (in between learning England monarchs by heart...).

Pub quiz top tip: Number 2

Have a break

With the Sound Leisure pub quiz application you can run an automated quiz, building in breaks so punters can pause for drinks and to dust off their thinking caps. If you’d rather be hands-on, there’s an option allowing a staff member to push all the right buttons using the intuitive interface.

Pub quiz top tip: Number 3

Make it immersive

Aside from saving you a fortune, the Smart Quiz application allows you to take full advantage of your digital jukebox, seamlessly integrating music and video clips to illustrate questions and make your customers feel fully immersed in an ultra-modern quiz experience.

Pub quiz top tip: Number 4

Keep it fresh

The Smart Quiz comes with an initial bank of a thousand quiz questions. That’s not all – the smart technology randomly selects questions which haven’t been used before, ensuring you don’t repeat yourself and give regulars an easy ride.

Pub quiz top tip: Number 5

Keep it regular

You’ve got a packed-out venue, and everyone’s talking about your slick, immersive quiz – so why leave it there? Turn it into a regular monthly, or even weekly, event and watch the regular, loyal customers flock in.