Time to Talk Day – Contribution

In honour of Time to Talk Day, my group was responsible for holding a quiz in which four teams in total took part. These teams included two teams made up of sports journalism students, one team made up of the university’s rugby team and another made up of the netball team.

Individually, I was one of the members that had been issued the task of choosing the questions that would be asked to our panelists. We kept the questions sports-based, and decided on four categories: general trivia, questions from the sportspeople themselves, ‘starter pack’ questions where each question showed a series of images related to a specific sportsperson, and a category where a famous sportsperson had their face covered and the panels had to guess who they were. 

I found it important to balance the distribution of easy and difficult questions, as making the questions too easy would have made the quiz tedious whilst making the questions too difficult would have alienated those watching the quiz on Youtube and would have made it less engaging.

I was also responsible for obtaining videos from various athletes in which they record themselves asking trivia questions about themselves. Table tennis World Champion Charlotte Carey and Team GB bronze medal Sophie Hitchon were the two athletes I had contacted that took part, which enhanced the quiz as it gave it an extra level of authenticity.

If we were to do this again, I think it would be best to shorten the rounds and increase the variety of questions to increase the audience’s engagement even more. I also think we should have marketed the quiz more efficiently as a group on social media beforehand so that a wider audience views the quiz when it gets uploaded to Youtube.