Host a Trivia Night

Hosting a trivia night is an excellent way to impact a new audience in a fun, casual environment. Why should you host a trivia night? Here's af few good reasons:

• Educate through Entertainment

  • Trivia provides a lighthearted platform where people can learn while having fun.

  • Address misconceptions and promote a more balanced understanding of nuclear energy.

• Spark curiosity in a non-nuclear audience

  • Trivia nights cast a wide net for an audience and are great opportunities to introduce the technology benefits to those who are unfamiliar.

  • Craft questions to highlight nuclear technology that goes beyond electricity production

Content:

Coming up with trivia content is typically the most time consuming. Thankfully we have already created a good base for you with the following templates.

•  Slides and Graphics

• Answer Sheet Sample

• Additional Questions

• Localized Questions:

  • It is best to fit in a few questions that pertain to the local community, state, or country. This will add a meaningful perspective for the audience.

• Use questions that will be fun for your audience:

  • If you have a general audience, don’t get too technical with your questions. Pick questions that are interesting and have an element of fun. References to pop culture, current events, and history are often hits.

  • Even if you have a highly scientific and technical audience, make sure you are fitting in plenty of questions that have an element of “fun”. Trivia shouldn’t feel like an exam. 

• Vary the format:

  • Another way to keep the game interesting, is to vary the types of questions you ask. Here are a few ideas

    • Multiple Choice

    • True/False

    • Matching

    • Ordering

    • Two Truths and a Lie

    • Use photos that are part of the question

    • Math puzzles that aren't overly complex for the audience

Various Methods:

• Be a guest host

  • Generally, we have found it is easiest if you can act as a guest host at an already established trivia night. This is because they already have an established audience and you will save a lot of time trying to market your event to get people to show up. 

  • Just look at local bars, breweries, or other venues that may have a regular trivia night and find a way to contact the organizer. Be open to how they may want to approach it regarding how much you are “hosting” vs just providing content, prizes, etc. 

• Create your own event

  • This will take significantly more work then piggy backing off someone else’s trivia night. You will need to recruit an audience. Use social media platforms like Meetup and Facebook Events, invite your friends and them to bring their friends. Know any college science professors? Ask them to invite their students! (perhaps for extra credit) 

  • Use your network and creative thinking to recruit as many people as you can!

• Be a guest at a community, college or high school club

  • Researching local clubs that focus on science, environment, or energy can also be a good platform that already have an established audience

Tech Gear:

Make sure you do your due diligence on what gear is available and what you will need to avoid last minute surprises; Projector, PA system, pens, answer sheets, etc.