What is the World Quizzing Championship? To the average person, it’s exactly what it sounds like. But to the dedicated bar trivia enthusiast or competitive quiz participant, it’s so much more.
There is a type of trivia questions that we usually name as "True or False" that are considered easy to guess. All you have to do is read the statement and decide if it is true or false . In the worst case you have a 50/50 chance of being right.
After running quizzes for 4 years, I have written an extensive ‘QuizMaster Guide’ to help you run your trivia night the best possible way. The guide has a few observations and suggestions from my experience. My intention is to provide value to anybody who is going to run a Quiz for the first time or wants to become even better.
In the late 1970s, Sharon Burns and Tom Porter founded an association for quizzes distribution into public bars or pubs achieving this activity become really popular among North England population, and mostly those who frequented English Pubs.
The first trivia was created by Scott Abbott, a sports editor of the newspaper Canadian Press and Chris Haney, photographer of the magazine Montreal Gazette. Both developed their first idea on December 1979 when they were discussing about which of them would be the best player on a board game.