How To Make A Living From Quizzes

By Chris Cook

This book gives you all the information you need to make a living from Quizzes. Making them up, reading them and answering them. It takes you though all the stages of planning a great quiz and the philosophy of the questions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chris Cook
• Release date: May 18, 2017

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How To Make A Living

From Quizzes

By Chris Cook.

Copyright © Chris Cook 2017. All rights reserved. No parts of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the author.

This is dedicated to all the questions I just can’t quite think of the answers to.

Contents

1. Intro

2. Who am I?

3. Quickest way to riches

4. Setting quizzes

5. Presenting quizzes

6. Need the equipment

7. Know your audience

8. Questions should be unambiguous and definite

9. Rounds

10. Pub quizzes

11. The actual hosted event

12. On holiday

13. Events and fund raising

14. Marketing

15. Making a living from Quizzes

16. Lists and things to learn / guessing

17. Admin

18. Review

19. Bibliography

20. CC Biog

Chapter 1. Intro

Quizzes are an amazing phenomenon; starting BIG in the 1970’s if not before and taking over prime time TV and offering fortunes in prize money and filling pubs and clubs and charity coffers.

There are whole life changing amounts of money for contestants organizers and quizmasters alike and this book will help you to get or hand son them.

There are whole careers for yourself and others to be had as quiz hosts and question compilers as well as being overnight life changing winners.

Come along with me on a journey into the global phenomenon that is 21st Century Quizzing.

Chapter 2. Who am I?

I am Chris Cook and I’ve been heavily involved with quizzes for getting on for 15 years now and running the successful QuizR quiz company for 10 years

I have run Quizzes all around the world from UK to USA (23 countries and counting) Asia and every continent except Antarctica (yet).

I have also been winning quizzes in as many places all around the world.

I have been writing questions and designing winning quiz formats to make quizzes more exciting and interesting for participators and viewers.

I have been a top national TV quiz participant with top hosts and Quiz professionals entering big money Prime Time TV quiz shows.

Recently I have also been devising treasure hunts and also car treasure hunts which have been proving very popular and extending my revenue stream along with my TorF True or False board Game.

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Chapter 3. Quickest way to riches

Entering and winning big money quiz shows, is definitely the quick way to riches. In my full-length book, I will give you plenty of guidance into how to Apply, get accepted, suss out any opposition and Win on the day.

You will need the right personality to win the big quizzes and if nothing else you will need perseverance.

Who wants to be a millionaire for example; when it’s broadcast get millions of entries from prospective participants. You need to get ahead of the game to get accepted for the show and then take the money or as much of it as you can lay your hands on.

For this Complimentary book, I shall just hint at the amounts