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Quizmasters

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 | Pub quizzes

We arrive at the pub at 8.30 and take our places at the quizmaster’s table, for tonight we are setting the questions, and in our hands is the task of making everyone’s Tuesday evening a fun one. “here for the quiz?” asks the barman, thinking he might have to move us on from the table. “We’re not here for the quiz”, we reply, “we are the quiz”.

I love being the quizmaster. I feel omniscient and powerful as I read out my finely-honed questions. The task, of course, is not to set questions that no-one can get, and not to set questions that everyone can get, but somewhere in between. We once caused uproar in the pub when two teams scored no points at all on one of our rounds, but tonight we’ve got it about right.

My personal favourite of the questions I set was a multiple choice one with two answers. If every team had picked randomly, half would have got it right, but in fact only one team got the right answer. Most of them would have got it right had they not tried to psychologise - they all thought it was a complicated double bluff. Tackle my questions here and see if you fall into the same trap.

 

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