The document provides guidance for organizing a quiz night event for students. It discusses preparing questions on various topics to create rounds of questions, setting rules for play including team sizes and prohibiting outside help, designating a quizmaster to lead the event and award prizes, and making the experience fun for participants. Suggested topics for questions include general knowledge, pop music, history, films and more. Formatting and hosting guidelines are also provided.

1. Quiz Night in ELT
Dmitry Nikitin
The Dmitry Nikitin School

2. Introduction and expectations
● What are your expectations from the talk?
● Have you ever conducted a quiz of any
kind with your students? If so, tell us more
about your experience.

3. ● A lesson
● A part of a lesson
● Out of class activity
● Students-parents-teachers activity
● School competition
● SchoolS competition
● Socialising activity
● Promo activity

4. Mini example

5. Venue

6. Preparation

7. Quizmasters

8. Prize

9. Let’s start, shall we?
● 6-8 people per team
● Teams’ names
● Rules

10. Rules
Rule Number One! No more than eight members per team.
Rule Number Two! No shouting out the answers.You are
allowed to make exclamations that are not answers,
especially if you are having fun.

11. Rule Number Three! No outside help. This means no cheating. No consultations or
queries with people or resources outside of your team. No cell phones. No texting,
no calling, no surfing. Turn your mobiles off until the conclusion of the Quiz Night
festivities. You are advised to keep your mobiles in a pocket or purse, not on the
table or in your lap.
Rule Number Four! The answers provided by your Quizmaster have been
painstakingly researched, as have the questions. Therefore, those answers will be
considered to be correct without regard to their actual veracity.

12. Rule Number Five! In a related story, no arguing with the
Quizmaster.
And finally, Rule Number Six! Make some noise, have some
fun, and make everyone around wish that they were playing
the Quiz Night with us tonight!

13. Joker

14. Checking

15. Rounds
General Knowledge, Pop Music, Horse Racing, World War
Two, History, Films, Children’s Television, Classical Music,
Geography, Literature, Numbers, Food and Drink, James
Bond Films, Animals in Literature, Music in Films,
Abbreviations, Lyrics, Sport...

16. How to create Quiz Night materials

17. What is your takeaway?

18. Questions and Answers

19. Contacts
Dmitry Nikitin
The Dmitry Nikitin School
dmitry.dnschool@gmail.com
/dmitry.dnschool
/dmitrynikitin

20. This Quiz Night materials will be available at
www.nikitindima.name