Quiz nights can be a fantastic way of making some extra money. Whether you want to increase the takings behind a bar (if you are a landlord) or want to raise some money for your children’s school quiz nights are fairly only to organise and can make a decent amount of money.

The more people you obtain, the more money you’ll make. Pretty simple, eh? Therefore, advertising is key. How you go about this will be determined by the venue and your target audience. If you are planning on running it in an area pub get the landlord’s permission to put up some posters.

Another great way would be to get contacts is put a big jar on the bar with a sign saying “Drop your business card in for your chance to win BIG prizes”. This should get a number of email addresses so you can then email them with the details of your quiz, including of course, the BIG prizes you have mentioned…

If the quiz night will probably be held for a parents evening at a school, or directed at some other club or group then send out letters or flyers telling them concerning the evening and prizes.

Now, let`s say you’ve had a successful marketing campaign you will now want to write or purchase a great quiz. If you have the time you can create your personal quiz, but lots of people don’t have the time or inclination for this so the other option is to purchase a professional quiz pack online. There are lots to choose from and will be of a higher quality than if you tried to create your personal.

If you do desire to write your own quiz pack you then must maintain these rules: Include questions from different generations in order never to exclude people. Don’t make the questions too hard or too easy. Make the questions interesting. If someone doesn’t know the solution to the question but wants to know, this is usually a sign of a good question.

Some people should come along just for the challenge of the quiz, but good prizes is only going to help the popularity of the quiz night. In case you are holding the quiz in a pub you may well be able to persuade the landlord to give the winners some free drinks (in the end, 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 everything else fails, you could provide a cash prize, but this will probably come out of the gains.

Just how much can a quiz night make? Well it isn’t rocket science – the more folks you have the more you make. Let’s assume you have 50 people in the quiz, each paying a �3 entrance fee. That’s �150 immediately. If what is your patronus quiz are who owns the pub you may even get twice the normal takings behind the bar.

If you have hired a hall out or its being in a school hall you can then start selling beverages, snacks and chocolate bars. That 50 people will most likely spend between �2-�5 each, leading to an extra �100-�250.

The bottom line is that you could make anything from �150 to �400 from a single night, which is assuming you only get 50 people turning up. Double the amount of people taking part and you will double your takings. So get 100 people there and you could make �800! Pretty good for