General help needed re- charity quiz sheet

[wolf63]

After months of putting this off I have created a charity quiz sheet with 25 questions to be sold in our charity shop.

Normally I would run my thoughts past the manager but he is on leave for a few weeks, I am not at all reliable when it comes to making sensible decisions.

So can somebody help?

1. Would £1 be a reasonable sum to pay for a quiz sheet?
2. What value of prize would you expect for this type of competition?
3. Is there any suggested wording that I should put on the quiz sheet? Stuff to cover us if there is a query or problem – i.e. if someone queries my answers.
4. How long should I allow for the return of the quiz sheet?
5. Is there any way to prevent the customers from photocopying the quiz sheet? I was going to number them (1 of 100) sort of thing or use a watermark or even coloured paper.

This is nipping my head already.

I really would appreciate all the help that I can get with my above questions and any other problems that I have not thought of yet.

[rowanwitch]

clip a raffle ticket to the corners as they have individual serial numbers and include a raffle prize as well as the quiz prize to increase the appeal but primatrily to prevent the photocopy problem.

A month should be long enough.
£1 is pretty normal

Answers accepted will be those determined as correct by the quiz setter and no correspondence will be entered into regarding alternative responses. It give you the option of allowing answers thst meet the question if you wish or not if you don't feel like it.

[mazie]

What sort of quiz is it wolf? I ask as 25 doesn't seem like a lot of questions. If they are really difficult then I would think 25 would be enough

[HowardKennitby]

You would need to state how and where to return the completed forms.

[furrypusscat]

I see the prize hasn't been suggested yet. Either £5 cash or shopping voucher to that value.
I do small quizes (36 questions) for our local patients support group. I can usually get 3 prizes for £10 by shopping around at local supermarkets, £5 biscuits or chocolates, £3 roses/quality Street, £2 Notebook& pen. It depends if the people that buy are local, you don't want to be spending your proceeds on postage. Good Luck with it.

[wolf63]

The questions are not really really hard but they are not simple. I could put another 10 to 25 in with no problem. I am not at my most decisive just now so I am not sure what to aim for.

I 'work' in an Oxfam Book shop so I could get a credit note/voucher for £10 from the shop and I planned to donate £10-£15 myself. It would be a tad hard necked of me to ask local shops to donate a prize to an organisation such as ours. ;-)

I should have done this a couple of weeks back when my brain was feeling well and clear. But then if my brain was well all of the time I would be fit to work and actually have to work for a living.

Should I run bets on whether the above italics work - or not!?

[Salty]

If you are planning to advertise the quiz online (here), I'd suggest you ask for entrants' e-mail addresses. You can then notify winners by e-mail, to save postage. You can also elect to make the prize an Amazon voucher (or similar), and the price itself can also be e-mailed.

You also need to decide whether the quiz is aimed at ardent quizzers or at people just prepared to contribute to your charity. The former are quite likely to download a free quiz and then post it to you with their answers and entry fee. The latter are less likely to return the quiz, so it is better to get their entry fee up front before you release the quiz to them.

Following on from previous posts above, if people offer alternative answers to your questions, which on reflection turn out to be equally valid, I would say you should accept them. Otherwise you will annoy the entrants. If you find a mistake identified in your questions, you may have to exclude that question from the scores - of course, make sure you check the questions very thoroughly!

Best of luck!

[Famous5]

Suggest that if entrants use AB (or other internet site) they ask for and give clues only.

Keep a record of the most incorrect answers and if there is a significant number then you check out the alternative answer and decide whether to allow it.

When you send out the answers by email or post explain that you have accepted alternatives.

Don't publish the full address of winners - John Doe from Swindon is enough. If you have a follow on quiz then include it with the answers sheet/email

Hope these help, and good luck

[Famous5]

....and don't forget to advertise it here, preferably with an email address for entrants so that postage costs can be kept low

[AB Editor]

Have a look at our monthly Quizzes and Puzzles Round up here:

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1139014.html

You can get loads of info about costs and prizes, some quizzes go for months.

Also when you are ready to publish it don't forget to add it on, we usually aim to post a new thread on the first of the month.

Hope this helps.

[wolf63]

Thanks to all of you.

I have a sheet of 50 questions made up. I don't think that I will try and sell any via AB this time but if we make some money then who knows - I may be back.

[mazie]

Good luck wolf. 50 questions make it worth buying x