Quiz Scoring Methods from "Tell the Children"

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Balloon Race Quiz Scoring Method Set out the 12 balloons in three rows of four as above. Randomly hide one position or penalty card under each balloon. As each side answer questions correctly, they choose a balloon and receive whatever score or penalty is concealed beneath it. Place the score cards in a vertical column on each side to aid adding up. The winning side is the one with the most points at the end. Busy Bees quiz scoring method Set up the board as above placing the numbered hexagons randomly behind ten of the flowers and the two bee keepers behind the remaining two. As each side gets a question right they pick a flower. Put up the corresponding number of plain yellow hexagons on the score board on their side. If a bee keeper is chosen, that team lose all the hexagons they have so far gained! Where one or both bee keepers are left until last, the game stops and the winner is determined by counting up which side has the most hexagons, otherwise, the next team to answer automatically loses. Cake Bake Quiz Scoring Method Set up the title and the 12 squares on the board with one of the 12 ingredients hidden randomly behind each. Decide which side will make which cake. As each side correctly answers a question, they choose one of the 12 squares available. If it has hidden behind it an ingredient they need, it is put up under their recipe card. If it is one they already have, or if it is one needed by the other side, it is put back under the square. The first side to gather all six ingredients is the winner. Fraud Squad Quiz Scoring Method Set up the 12 squares with one of the the 12 bank notes behind each. As each side correctly answer a question they choose a number between 1 and 12. Before the square is removed they must decide whether to keep the bank note or pass it to the other side. If they keep it, it is put up on their side of the board. If they pass it, it is put up on the opposite side. At the end of the quiz, add up the positive numbers and take away the negative ones (fake notes) to obtain a final score. An alternative way is simply to pick a square and all keep whatever bank note is under it. However, this method is less exciting.
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Girls & Boys Team Names with rosettes in 4 colours Use as a visual record of scores during a single quiz, placing a rosette up for each point scored or as a tally of winning teams from week to week or day to day. Print out as many rosettes of each colour as you need. There are 4 of each colour on each sheet. Globe Trotter Quiz Scoring Method The globe is set up in the middle of the board with space around them for the country names and flags, as in the diagram above. The 12 flags are hidden under the 12 pieces of the globe. The 12 country names are divided between the two sides. (You could play in three or four teams dividing the countries up further.) Explain that each side is trying to collect all the flags by visiting the countries named on their side. As questions are answered a rectangle is selected. To do this they will say for example, Iccle Family Wall Quiz Print out all 20 pieces, on coloured paper if you like. Put them up on the walls round the room as people are arriving for an event. Explain, using one of them as an example (I usually use number 2, bicycle) that they are trying to find out the names of all the iccle family. They are called that because they all end in the sound Lions & Tigers Quiz Scoring Method Use as a visual record of scores during a single quiz, placing a rosette up for each point scored or as a tally of winning sides from week to week.
Girls & Boys Globe Trotter Iccle Family Wall Quiz Lions & Tigers
       
Motor Races Quiz Scoring Method Set out the four races as above and hide the 12 trophies under them at random. As each side correctly answers their question, they choose a race and a car in that race, e.g. Pairs Quiz Scoring Method Set out the 24 tiles in four rows of six as above. Randomly hide one animal under each tile. As each side answer questions correctly, they choose a pair of tiles. If they choose a pair, they choose again until they fail to get a pair. The tiles are replaced over the animals if a pair is not chosen. The chosen pairs are removed and put up on the side of the team that chose them. The winning team is the team with the most pairs at the end of the game. To make it much harder, the tiles can be replaced even after removing the pair of animals. Shuttle Launch Quiz Scoring Method Set up the pieces on the board as above with both sides of the countdown board showing 10. (It is best to use magnets to hold the pieces over the countdown board as they are easier to change. blu-tac may be used but is less convenient.) As each side correctly answers questions, replace the number on their side with one less and so on until Snakes & Ladders Quiz Scoring Method If you can, use a big dice. It is much more fun! As each side get their question right, let them throw the dice. The fastest possible completion is in four throws. It has happened! You can either have plenty of questions and play to the end, or set a fixed number of questions for each side and see who gets the furthest in that number of questions. Both ways work well. It is up to you whether you pass questions over or not. The key is to be consistent.
Motor Races Pairs Shuttle launch Snakes & Ladders
       
Two of a Kind Quiz Scoring Method Set up the 12 numbered squares in three rows of four and hide one of the 12 items under each at random. As each side answer questions correctly, they choose a square and are awarded the item underneath it. If they are the first to get that item, they keep it and aim to collect the other one. If the other side already have the other one of the pair, it goes back under its square. The winning side is the first one to collect three or more pairs. This scoring method is available as the title and numbered squares with a choice of four sets of pairs. It is illustrated here using the animal pairs with the fruit, insects and transport pairs shown below.      
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