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Quiz Setting Made Easy (Paperback)
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Quiz Setting Made Easy (Paperback)
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Dawson explores the very essence of human existence. In his case
the answer to the ancient philosophical conundrum What sets humans
apart from the animal kingdom?' is straightforward. It is not the
ability to form tools, communicate or feel empathy with our fellow
planet dwellers but our desire to acquire (and retain) as much
trivia as possible. In brief, this is his explanation for modern
Britain's obsession with the pub quiz and the consequent growth in
the number of question and answer books, many of which have been
published under the misapprehension that all a budding quiz setter
needs to succeed is a large enough selection of questions that can
be adapted according to circumstance. Yet, as Quiz Setting Made
Easy makes clear, there are many pitfalls for the budding Magnus
Magnusson, not least the murmurs of complaint from contestants
attempting to answer vaguely worded and poorly researched
questions. Then there are the potential disasters and the nagging
doubts that bring the quiz setter out in a cold sweat in the middle
of the night: Does the venue have a PA system? How do I make sure
people turn up? What happens in the event of a tie? Who marks the
questions, them or me? Written in light-hearted vein, Quiz Setting
Made Easy is designed to soothe the quiz setter's brow and bring
back the fun to what is, after all, a leisure-time pursuit. In
addition to his expert advice on the dos and don'ts of quiz
setting, John illustrates the style and expertise required of the
fully fledged question-master. With 72 rounds containing over 1,100
expertly worded questions, John Dawson makes enough suggestions for
alternative topics, interval rounds, tie-breakers and music rounds
to keep a quiz-setter going for years. His ideas could also be
adapted for use in the classroom, during wet weekends in
Cleethorpes or the 90 degrees heat of an M6 traffic jam...in fact
anywhere humans pursue the trivial.
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