Ideas for a charity pub quiz?

[DiscoStu]

I've been asked to make up a charity pub quiz for a friend. I've made normal pub quizzes before, usually 4 rounds and a picture round, and �1 per head, but do any of you have suggestions on how to raise more money from it? Are there extra money-spinning ideas you can think of that I could throw in? Should I have more rounds? How much should we charge per team? Basically, have any of you held a charity quiz before and how did you get maximum money from the players?

[sarumite]

I attend a charity quiz which is held twice a year at a south coast holiday camp, normally out of season in March and October. There are between 25 and 30 teams entered by local companies etc comprising up to 10 players each .. so it is on a fairly grand scale.
The quiz consists of 10 rounds of 10 questions with a break for refreshments mid-evening.
Whilst the charges per team relate to only �1 per head, there is no monetary prize for the winning team as all monies collected go to the selected charity. The kudos gained by winning the quiz is sufficient reward for the team concerned!
However, the biggest contribution to the charity is normally made by running a prize raffle during the evening, and if it is possible to obtain donated prizes to be raffled, the end result will be so much the better.
Good luck (S)

[DiscoStu]

Thanks for the input!
I've already suggested to my friend that she approaches local shops/supermarkets for donations to a raffle for the evening. I agree that people (especially with a few drinks in!) will pay again for raffle tickets if there's a chance of a half decent prize or two.
How do you attract contestants if there's no prize for the winning team?
10 rounds seems quite a lot though? Or maybe my weekly pub quiz is just rather slow???!!!

[gollobfan]

I regularly run Charity quizes and I also do ten rounds of ten questions. I also in the interval have a game of 'stand up bingo'. This works as follows, everyone buys a bingo ticket for a pound, then everybody stands up. You then call out the bingo numbers, when a number is called that is on your card you sit down. last person left standing gets a prize. It's a great fundraiser as no body wants to be seen as not participating.

[BabsG]

If you can get hold of some oversized playing cards the Bruce Forsyth game Higher or Lower always goes down well.

[earthakitten]

I went to a charity cancer quiz recently and it was �2 / head
Nobody seemed to mind and it didn't put anyone off. Probably about thirty teams turned up. Agree with the raffle. They sold out of tickets ... Bottles of wine for the winners so it didn't cost much even giving a prize.Perhaps your local paper would give you a column somewhere at no cost. Whoever did this one also put up in shop windows.
Had a good time and would certainly go again. xx

[Munden]

If you have a lot of people the Bingo round may take a little time as say if there are 100 people there that's 99 tickets needing to be drawn.
I've used a 'heads and tails' game. I've done it using coins or questions. With coins it's simple: players have to hold their heads or bottoms and depending on how the coins fall the losers sit down. You can even use two coins and have one hand on head and the other on bottom. the other method I use is similar: by asking a silly question, to which there two answers given , one being head the other Tails.
the sillier the question the more fun.
Good Luck in the fund raising.