British Quizzing Championship

1. Create Your Free Player Account

You can register for a free account here. It’s quick, easy, and free to do. Don’t forget to click ‘yes’ to sign up for our newsletters – we don’t spam anyone and we don’t pass on your details, we just keep you up-to-date with quiz goings-on.

2. Register For The Event

1. Go to our schedule page here
2. Enter the event you want to play
3. Choose the venue where you participate
4. Sign in to your player account if you are logged out
5. Check the details (The times are displayed in your local time zone, and the venue addresses are listed.)
6. Confirm your registration
7. A pop-up confirms your registration and you can find your quiz entry here too.
8. That’s it. You’re all set! 

3. On The Day

1. Grab a pen (even better, bring two or three!), and head to the venue.
2. You can either pay your host, or you can pay via PayPal – payments@quizzing.co.uk
3. Your host will read out the answers and you swap with another player to mark your papers.
4. We don’t take queries during the quiz to keep things running quickly, but you will find a challenges slip on the reverse of the front page. If you want to challenge any answers, you should write your challenge here and hand it to your host, who will raise it with the organisers.
5. Later in the day, you will be emailed a copy of the answers.
6. Upheld challenges are then sent out to all players, so you can then update your scores if you are owed any additional points.
7. Results and Quiz Rankings can be found on our results page.

4a. Playing In The Individual Quiz Championship

• This written quiz is in two halves, each of 50 minutes. Each paper has three of our genres, and only your top five genre scores will count towards your final score. Your dropped score comes into play if there is a tie to be broken.
• The rules are on the front page, along with a space to put your name and scores.
• There are 40 questions each worth one point for each genre.
• If a question asks for a name, unless otherwise specified, the last name only is sufficient.
• The quiz is NOT a test of your spelling, it’s a test of your knowledge. As long as your answer is phonetically correct, then you may have the point.

4b. Playing In The Pairs Quiz Championship

• This is a written paper for pairs of players with 10 rounds of 10 questions that cover all aspects of general knowledge.
• All questions are worth one point.
• No pairs partner? No problem! We can pair you up on the day.

1. Register For The Event

1. Fill out the Google form here
2. Pay the team fee of £60 via PayPal to payments@quizzing.co.uk
3. That’s it. You’re all set!

2. Venue and Times For 2022

Venue:

Northampton International Academy
55 Barrack Road
Northampton NN1 1AA

Times:

Times are tbc, but the event should run from 10.00am – 18.00pm, with lunch provided

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Event Details

This quiz is for teams of four players plus a reader or scorer provided by each team. Most teams will rotate five players to achieve this.

If you haven’t played in a buzzer quiz before, the best way to describe it is that it is like ‘University Challenge’, where a starter question is read out and the first team to buzz in with a correct answer takes control of the following three bonus questions.

Starter Questions

• • Questions are worth 10 points all the way through
  • 15 starters per match
  • Starters in each match use the standard UK GP genres twice plus an additional three questions on any subject – must include at least one high and one low brow within the additional three questions. This ensures there are high and low brow questions
  • Penalty for an incorrect buzz is a five-point fine plus the question being finish for the other team.

Bonus Questions

• • Bonuses are not linked to subjects of the starters
  • Each bonus set is written on one topic
  • Bonus questions are each worth five points
  • Bonus questions will not be repeated
  • Teams can confer and can signal to each other
  • Controlling team has five seconds to answer
  • Incorrect answers or questions that were not answered go to the opponents who must answer immediately
  • These bounce-backs are worth five points.

General Event Information

• • Matches will run for 40 minutes
  • Players will be told when there are five minutes remaining
  • The match will stop at the end of the question being asked when the timer sounds. Eg: if the buzzer sounds part way through bonus number two, the question can be finished and the team (and the opponent if it passes over) may answer, but bonus number three will not be played at all.
  • Precise tournament format details will be released once we know numbers of teams, but it is intended that there will be a round-robin stage followed by placement matches for all teams.
  • In addition, there will be a final between the top two teams that will be played with everyone watching.

All questions from the British Quizzing Championships will be available from the Monday after the event in our store here.