# Pub Quiz Idea & Help Needed

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-quiz-idea-help-needed/261149>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 23, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-quiz-idea-help-needed/261149 "2004-08-23T21:57:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![yastobaal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/258eb7/32.png) [@yastobaal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yastobaal)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-quiz-idea-help-needed/261149/1 "2004-08-23T21:57:20Z")

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I run a pub quiz fortnightly. All the time all I’m doing is testing their long term memory and i would like to be able to do something testing their short term, even if it is a minor part of the quiz. Does anybody have any helpful hints or ideas?

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-quiz-idea-help-needed/261149/2 "2004-08-23T22:11:47Z")

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Make ‘unintentional’ mistakes in reading the first few questions…and later ask them what the mistakes were.

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**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-quiz-idea-help-needed/261149/3 "2004-08-23T22:53:41Z")

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I actually saw this game played at a wedding shower. The guest of honor (or in your case, the quizmaster or your assistant) goes away. The gathering is then asked to try and recall what s/he was wearing. For your quiz, you could ask about shirt color, which hat you were wearing, stuff like that.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-quiz-idea-help-needed/261149/4 "2004-08-23T23:18:12Z")

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Put out some bowls of chips/snacks on the tables (maybe a little dish of jelly beans too) - when they are all gone (which will be quite early on, I would wager), ask them to identify all of the flavours.