{"id":47617,"date":"2021-09-30T19:22:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T23:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=47617"},"modified":"2021-09-30T19:22:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T23:22:51","slug":"tom-baker-shares-tips-on-writing-a-pub-quiz-at-japan-writers-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2021\/09\/30\/tom-baker-shares-tips-on-writing-a-pub-quiz-at-japan-writers-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Baker shares tips on writing a pub quiz at Japan Writers Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Posted by&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TokyoTomBaker\"><em>Tom Baker<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>JET alum and Jeopardy champion Tom Baker will lead offer tips on how to write trivia questions at the Oct. 15-17\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/japanwritersconference.org\/\" class=\"aioseop-link\"><em>Japan Writers Conference<\/em><\/a><em>, a free event that is happening online. The official description of his talk appears below.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TokyoTomBaker\" class=\"aioseop-link\">Tom Baker<\/a><\/strong><br>Trivia Tips: How to Write a Pub Quiz<br>Short Lecture with Q&amp;A<\/em><br><br>\u201cI once attended a pub quiz in Bristol where a dispute over an answer resulted in a wild west-style brawl and the police had to be called,\u201d a woman told the BBC in 2005. \u201cArrests were made, including the quizmaster.\u201d<br>Quizzes should be fun. If you wish to host one that doesn\u2019t end in tears \u2013 or behind bars \u2013 well-written questions are essential.<br>Drawing on my experience as both a contestant and a quizmaster, I will offer tips on how to write questions that are clear, entertaining, and minimally disputable.<br>Using examples from quizzes seen on TV and at pubs around Tokyo, I will discuss a variety of question formats, writing with brevity and clarity, ways of organizing categories, anticipating hecklers and nit-pickers, making obscure questions guessable, and the importance of flattering your audience by writing easy questions that sound hard.<br>Tom Baker appeared on four regular-season episodes of the U.S. quiz show \u201cJeopardy!\u201d in 2004, before returning for the season-ending Tournament of Champions. He first guest-hosted a round of a Tokyo pub quiz in 2019, and has written and presented more than 20 rounds since then. Topics have included \u201cThe FBI 10 Most Wanted List,\u201d \u201cPigs and Rats,\u201d \u201cLiterary Works,\u201d \u201cOfficeholders,\u201d \u201cPrime Numbers,\u201d \u201cTraveling Around Japan,\u201d \u201cBody Parts\u201d and \u201cMotorcycle Gangs and Clubs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For details, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/japanwritersconference.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/japanwritersconference.org\/  (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"aioseop-link\">http:\/\/japanwritersconference.org\/ <\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by&nbsp;Tom Baker JET alum and Jeopardy champion Tom Baker will lead offer tips on how to write trivia questions at the Oct. 15-17\u00a0Japan Writers Conference, a free event that is happening online. The official description of his talk appears below. Tom BakerTrivia Tips: How to Write a Pub QuizShort Lecture with Q&amp;A \u201cI once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53,1427,6],"tags":[314],"class_list":["post-47617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-japan-writers-conference","category-writers","tag-japan-writers-conference"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-co1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47664,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47617\/revisions\/47664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}