I don't know how many people know this in here, but I am a bit of a
bell ringer. Still only learning really, but improving all the time.
Anyway, our local bells having recently been refurbished and retuned
at a cost of thousand pounds or so, we did all sorts of fund
raising and are more or less out of debt now. Last year, we did a Quiz
and Pie Supper sort of night in the church hall (actually, our pie
suppers are much better than that, having several choices of first
course and trifle or fruit pie to follow. Guess who was Quiz Master
and question setter? Yep, it was me, and my daughter played the role
of my glamorous assistant and marked up the scores on the whiteboard.
It was such a success that all the bell ringers agreed to do another
one this year, in aid of general funds for the church rather than
particularly for the bells. That was last Saturday, and yours truly
did the questions again.

This year, instead of the usual General Knowledge and specialist
subject quizzes with the odd picture round thrown in, I decided to do
a couple of "specials". The first was a "True/False" quiz; I printed
out some squares ofpaper with a green 'T' on one side and a red 'F' on
the other. Everyone had to stand up, holding up T or F. It was "sudden
death", so anyone getting a question wrong had to sit down and take no
more part in that event. As numbers grew smaller, I got them to
approach my table so they could see the prize (a nice box of chocs).
That also made it easier for me to see what people had answered. They
were reduced to one winner after about 20 reasonably easy questions.

The second special quiz took a bit more preparation. It was "Name that
cheese". My lovely assistant took plates round with little cubes of
cheese; six of them from A to F, containing (from memory) Double
Gloucester, Emmental, Edam, Danish Blue, Port Salut, and mature
Cheddar. The Port Salut was tricky, as all the little cubes stuck
together. I would have done Camembert, but, well, it just doesn't cut
into cubes at all, does it? :-)

Both quizzes were a huge success, and we are all resolved to do
another quiz next year. Our reputation is growing (it's the food too,
not just my quizzes). So... my question is: what special quizzes can I
do next year to equal or top this year's effort?