Evening all! We're at that time of year again when quiz season kicks off and we all have a chance to pick each other's brains 🧠

As with the last few years we'll be spreading quizzes between The Lounge and the Chart Forum. The quiz season proper will kick off next week but we're opening sign-up threads now so if you want to host one you can get your name down! I'll be handling the organising for the Chart Forum and @awardinary will be taking care of The Lounge.

If you want to host a quiz, let us know the quiz type and the date you want to host in this thread and we'll get you down. Here's the schedule as it stands:

Week 1 (22nd September) - Pointless with PeteFromLeeds

Week 2 (29th September) - Album Covers hosted by @Calum (hosted in The Lounge)

Week 3 (6th October) - Answer Smash hosted by @gasman449

Week 4 (13th October) - TBC hosted by @Mangø (hosted in The Lounge)

Week 5 (20th October) - available!

Week 6 (27th October) - hosted in The Lounge

Week 7 (3rd November) - Which Member Said It? hosted by @Roba.

Week 8 (10th November) - hosted in The Lounge

Week 9 (17th November) - Family Fortunes by @LiamSime

Week 10 (24th November) - hosted in The Lounge

Here's a quick overview of the main Quiz formats on Buzzjack if you fancy giving hosting one a go! (credit to Bré for writing about 90% of these words back in 2019)

FAMILY FORTUNES
(recent example: voting thread / results thread)
In this quiz, the host asks a series of questions (typically 10 of them) and participants answer each question with what they think the MOST popular response will be. Points are scored based on how many other people gave the same answer as you to each question, so for example if the question is 'name a single by El Chombo' and 15 people responded 'Dame Tu Cosita', each of those people would be given 14 points for that question. Most points wins.

POINTLESS
(recent example: voting thread / results thread)
This quiz is basically the inverse of Family Fortunes. The host will, again, ask a series of ~10 questions, but here the participants answer each question with what they think the LEAST popular response will be. Points are allocated the same way as in Family Fortunes but here it's the player with the fewest points at the end that wins (so the best answer to a question - a Pointless answer - is one that no other participant answered). There's also the catch that an incorrect answer is penalised by giving the answerer the maximum possible score for that question, i.e. one less than the number of participants (so if there are 31 participants and someone answered the question 'name a winner of the X Factor' with 'Michelle McManus', they would be given 30 points for that question).

There have been variations on this theme in the past, such as Pointless with Bonuses and Pointless With A Twist (and Pointless Fortune which combined Pointless with Family Fortunes)

NEVER MIND THE BUZZJACKS
(recent example: voting thread / results thread)
The host uploads onto SoundCloud/YouTube a series of short (usually instrumental) clips from songs, usually about 20 of them, and participants simply have to name the songs, scoring a point for each one they get right, or a half-point for guessing the right artist. There's also often some kind of bonus questions based on the songs on the side for additional points. Here's a quick guide RabbitFurCoat put together wayyy back in the day with some instructions for uploading a round of NMTBJ onto SoundCloud.

ALBUM COVER PUZZLE
(recent example: voting thread / results thread)
The host makes a collage of cropped sections from album covers, usually about 20 of them, and participants name the albums that they are taken from. Participants get points for each one they get right - this may just be 1 point per correct answer, or a varying number of points decided by the hosts based on how difficult they think each one is to guess. Like in NMTBJ there may also be bonus questions on the side for additional points.

OTHER FORMATS
You are also welcome to try other formats out which aren't listed above! Other formats we've had in the past include:

Dingbats (courtesy of PeteFromLeeds)
Only Connect (courtesy of Suedehead)
Emoji Quiz (courtesy of awardinary)
Quick Fire Quiz (courtesy of chrissmith276)
Song Title Anagrams (courtesy of jimwatts)
Answer Smash (courtesy of StoneDragon)
Missing Vowels Quiz (courtesy of PeteFromLeeds)

So you're welcome to propose something brand new or use one of these alternative formats as well.

The leaderboard works by giving 30 points to the winner of each quiz, 29 points to the runner-up and so on. If there are more than 30 participants, anyone outside the top 30 will walk away with nothing. If the host is unable to participate in their own quiz (ie if it's NMTBJs/ACP) or wishes to sit out their own FF/Pointless quiz (hosts are allowed to participate in these, on the basis that they write their own answers before others start coming in) then 'host compensation points' are given by taking the average of their points attained from other quizzes.

Count me in for hosting a quiz or two, love quiz season! Hope @Mangø does his song clues one again that is my fave 😍

ERM MY ALBUM COVERS QUIZ WAS WAY MORE RECENT THAT AWARDINARY'S!!!! 😠

(let's not talk about the mess in my results lol 🤣)

1 hour ago, Spiceboy said:

ERM MY ALBUM COVERS QUIZ WAS WAY MORE RECENT THAT AWARDINARY'S!!!! 😠

That's what happens when the quiz descriptions have been effectively copy-pasted every year since 2019 (the 'recent example' bit must have been updated in 2022, I've put a nice little strikethrough through the 'recent' bit as my annual tweak to that section!)

25 minutes ago, PeteFromLeeds said:

That's what happens when the quiz descriptions have been effectively copy-pasted every year since 2019 (the 'recent example' bit must have been updated in 2022, I've put a nice little strikethrough through the 'recent' bit as my annual tweak to that section!)

In that case I'll consider forgiving you... 🤔 😅

2 hours ago, Spiceboy said:

Count me in for hosting a quiz or two, love quiz season! Hope @Mangø does his song clues one again that is my fave 😍

Yeah go on then, since you asked so nicely! Sign me up for week 4 @PeteFromLeeds and btw you've got Oct 6th listed twice.

I'll try running one, could I have 3rd November please!

7 hours ago, Mangø said:

Yeah go on then, since you asked so nicely! Sign me up for week 4 @PeteFromLeeds and btw you've got Oct 6th listed twice.

Whoops! Just updated the dates now, @Roba. let us know which forum you want to host your in as I realise fiddling with the dates changes which quiz is hosted in which forum!

Ooh I love an Answer Smash - I'd be happy to host that in the chart forum on the 6th October!

Edited Tuesday at 10:045 days by gasman449

11 hours ago, gasman449 said:

Ooh I love an Answer Smash - I'd be happy to host that in the chart forum on the 6th October!

Nice - added you in!

I would be up for hosting family fortunes on the week of the 17th November? I’ve never hosted a quiz before but it sounds fun and I’d love to give it a go!

I could probs do 10th November and do a Pointless if nobody else is doing that one.

21 hours ago, LiamSime said:

I would be up for hosting family fortunes on the week of the 17th November? I’ve never hosted a quiz before but it sounds fun and I’d love to give it a go!

Added you in!