Review Of The Year 2019 Quiz 1

The first of two pub quizzes looking back on events from the year 2019, this quiz is particularly suitable for New Year's Eve parties and for quizzes run towards the end of 2019 or early in 2020. It takes on a similar format to that of our weekly quizzes and is made up of the following rounds...

Round 1: In Memoriam 2019
This picture round features photos of 15 famous people who died in 2019. The aim for teams in your quiz is to identify them.

Round 2: Music
10 questions on music from 2019, such as "Of the three acts who headlined the Pyramid Stage at the 2019 Glastonbury Festival, which is the only one who has had a UK number one hit single?"

Round 3: Connections
9 questions on General Knowledge, plus a final question asking for a 2019-related question between the previous 9 answers.

Round 4: Sport
10 questions on sport in 2019, such as "Following on from Derby County in 2008, which football team became only the second ever to be relegated from a Premier League season before the end of March?"

Round 5: Initial Letter Link
10 questions on events from the year 2019, where the answer to question 10 can be spelt out by rearranging the first letters of the words in the first 9 answers.

Round 6: TV and Films
10 questions on TV and Films from 2019, such as "Before being edited out for future broadcasts, the fourth episode of the final series of which TV show featured a brief glimpse of a disposable coffee cup when it was first shown in May?"

Round 7: Which Month?
10 questions asking teams to name the month of 2019 in which various events took place, such as "In which month of 2019 did Thomas Cook collapse after 178 years in business?"

Round 8: 2019 Mix
10 questions on events from 2019, such as "A position that dates back to the 17th century, it was announced in May that Simon Armitage would become the UK’s next what?"

The pub quiz pack is made up of 6 separate files as follows...

First of all there is a professionally designed 2 page answer sheet that you can print out and hand out to each team at the start of the quiz for them to write their answers on as you read out questions. This also features a round by round scoresheet to make it easy to see how each team has performed after all the answers have been marked at the end of the quiz.

Secondly, there is the handout round, which again is to be printed out and handed out to teams at the start of the quiz for them to work on straight away, and carry on working on throughout the quiz and during any breaks you have.

Next there is a 6 page document with all of the questions in rounds 2 to 8 for you to read out, along with all the answers to these and the answers to the handout round. This also features 2 tie-break questions to be used at the end of your quiz if two or more teams end up with the same score, along with a set of substitute questions to help you tailor the difficulty level of your quiz.

There is also another version of this 6 page document, but where all of the answers have been removed. This may not be needed, but is included in case the quiz-master would like to take part in the quiz too.

Next, there is a 4 page sheet with instructions and advice on how to run a great quiz.

Finally, there is a quizmaster's scoresheet to help keep track of teams' scores.