UniSFA usually holds an annual quiz night with UCC every year. It's one of largest events run by either club.

It is usually held in the UWA Tav with tables of 8. There are several rounds and interrounds. The biggest prize is used as a door prize. Popular prizes are gift vouchers and items from stores that offer us sponsorship.

Sponsorship

Places that we have approached in the past that have given us sponsorship are:

Personnel

You will need:

(some of these people may be the same - you probably need five or six bodies at a minimum)

Start meeting about a month beforehand to work out questions and get started on sponsorship.

Timing

2009 timings (we ran mostly to time - slowed down as people got drunker):

In previous years we tried 10 rounds, but you end up rushing to get to the end. Also be aware that the interround on-table questions take a while to mark, so you might want to consider taking those in earlier. When you finish each round, go back over all of that rounds questions again (once).

Give yourself plenty of time on the day - suggest meeting up at 5pm to work out AV, final running order, prizes breakdown, etc. (In 2009 this would have helped a lot.)

Numbers

In 2009, we used the Tav (as usual). We had 17 tables of 8, which fitted surprisingly well, and we could probably have had more if we'd used upstairs as well. This allowed us to presell about 100 tickets, and sell about 40 on the door. Presale tickets sold out about four days before the event.

Tickets were $5 presale in 2009, $10 at the door. It might not be a bad idea to up the price a bit as $5 is basically nothing; perhaps $10 each or $70 for a table of 8, more at the door.

There's a number of non-CH people who attend, and it is arguably these people who we want to give us lots of money rather than our potentially tight-fisted student friends. Moving to a bigger venue (although where?) is an option.

AV

The presentation is traditionally done up in PowerPoint or Google Documents. It takes a surprisingly long time to put together. Keep it to black-on-white for the questions and make sure your images are high-brightness and high-contrast (pictures of spaceships tend to suck).

The problem with the Tav is that the connection for audio is at the other end of the building to the connection for video. This makes playing videos suck, hard. In 2007 and 2008 we used VNC to remotely control the other computer; in 2009 we tried PulseAudio with wireless, but that didn't work so well, and ended up using SSH-forwarded VLC. Running a CAT5 cable from one end of the Tav to the other might be awesome for PulseAudio, but Keep It Simple if possible.

Questions

Rounds

Previous rounds:

Interrounds

Projected onto screen:

Active participation

On-table questions:

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