Every year, I probably receive around 100 emails asking for my quiz show services for free, or at least very heavily discounted. All entertainment providers will tell you that it's quite a common thing...good-intentioned folk putting on quiz events to raise much-needed cash for a wide variety of worthwhile causes. And any entertainer with empathy [...]
As a quiz host, I genuinely love writing corporate quiz shows for my clients, but sometimes looking at fresh ideas or casting new light on old formats is really quite a headache! It's not as if I need to make any changes at all to be honest...the format I created some time ago has been [...]
As the nights draw in, I find myself in the home office for longer, writing new shows and creating new images and challenges for the gigs ahead. This Autumn sees a new regular monthly quiz show, in addition to the Olde Dog Inn quiz in Brentwood. I'll be appearing at the superb David Lloyd Fitness [...]
Happy New Year everyone! Yes, I know it's a tad late (9th January!) but I've been busy! Here at QuizHire HQ (i.e. my office), I've been putting some plans in place for the coming months and of course continuing to create all-new quiz shows. There's always the temptation to change the format of my shows, [...]
It's been really lovely over the past few months to once again be presenting quizzes for corporate clients around the country. It almost seems like we're slowly getting back to normal! At the beginning of November, I was very pleased to be asked to compile and co-host with the one and only Graham Norton, a [...]
I know that I'm the one usually posing all the questions, but clients repeatedly ask me what is the most popular subject in the pub quiz shows that I compile and host? Over the past few months, I've made some rough notes of the scores achieved in all the different subjects (hardly scientific, but it's [...]
There's no getting away from it...I do travel around quite a bit for this job! When I originally took on a pub quiz as a stand-in back in 2004, I never envisaged travelling further than the local pub to ply my trade. Oh wow, how things have escalated! Below is a list (by no means [...]
We all learn from our mistakes, right? I'm sure a famous old sage once said, "He who makes no mistakes makes nothing at all." And yes, in my early years as a quiz compiler and host, I foolishly relied on a single source for confirmation of facts and it failed me a couple of times. [...]
I've been a professional quiz host and compiler for almost 20 years now. Recently, my corporate quiz night business overtook my other career as a DJ quite considerably. And to think that I only started down this road as a last-minute replacement at my pub residency! Since that momentous day, I guess I've probably hosted [...]
Welcome back to my blog! Last week saw a brand new adventure for QuizHire. I hosted the first of many monthly quiz shows in the lovely surroundings of The Olde Dog Inn, in Brentwood, Essex. It’s been a while since I have committed to a quiz residency, but it’s one that I’m absolutely sure will [...]
