Here are a few common queries we get from bar owners regarding our Vogue Minogue music trivia. It may help you out:

• Why should I run a regular music trivia night?

  Vogue Minogue music trivia nights attract a very loyal following of people, who have a distinct interest in entertainment, specifically music. Once established, the teams will turn up, week after week. It's a highly addictive hobby! Cost-wise, it's also very effective, as the turnover far exceeds the outlay. And it's entertaining and involves music - what more could a pub, bar or club ask for?

• How often should I run a music trivia night?

  The majority of our Vogue Minogue clients also run a Believe It Or Not quiz one night every week, usually one or two nights apart. Weekly is best - providing you have a catchment area that can service a regular crowd. Their is quite often a crossover between the two quiz crowds too - often some team members will come for both nights.

• Who do the questions cater for?

  The questions are aimed at a wide audience - men and women, young and old, and are designed to cater for as many people's music interests as possible. That means music from the '50s to today, and the topics are mixed up every week to ensure a wide variety. We want teams to get more right than they get wrong, or they'll not come back the following week!

• Is it a team event or is it done as individuals?

  It's done as a team. All the answers are written, so maximum participation is guaranteed, and no-one is put on the spot, by having to call out answers.

• How long does the quiz take?

  A quiz can be run in as little as 90 minutes, or as long as 3 hours. Ideally though, you should aim for 15 minutes per round, so around 1.5 - 2 hours for the 6 rounds. This is obviously affected by additional activities, but if you drag the night out to keep teams there longer, they will become discontented, and seek an alternative venue. The fact that music is playing for every question obviously lends itself to a great atmosphere too, so the night flies by!

• How many players are in each team?

  The most simple answer to this is to say teams of at least two people. There are two good reasons for not limiting team size. If you limit teams to say, 6 people, and a team of 7 arrives and you try and enforce the 6 per team limit, two things could happen. Firstly, they might all turn around and leave. Terrible result - $200 turnover just walked out the door. Secondly, Jane Doe will tell you she isn't playing and move her chair back a metre. Of course the moment old Jane knows an answer in she'll come - and then you have ten other teams moaning that "they've got 7!" At the end of the day, teams will structure themselves accordingly and economes of scale will kick in - after all, the first prize split between 10 goes nowhere, compared to being split between 4.

• Should we charge teams to enter?

  We advise against this. If you have 50-120 people in your venue on a night of the week when you'd normally close early, your turnover will far exceed your costs for the night, so charging teams can be both a nuisance in terms of collecting the fee, and may stop some people who happened to be onsite from playing at all. Often, a team who were in the bar just for a drink, can be cajoled into playing if it's free, and often they'll be the last team to leave, despite their protests at the start that they were not "staying for long".

• What equipment do we need?

The Vogue Minogue music trivia quiz is a windows based product. You will need a laptop or PC which has a CD-     ROM, plus a big screen or plasma/LCD TV which all the teams must be able to see. You will also need a VGA/HDMI/S-Video cable which transfers the pictures to your viewing source, plus an audio cable from your headphone socket to your audio output (usually your venue's sound system, or straight into the TV). 



• Troubleshooting - What if I cannot get it to work?

  See this box for the most common reasons why you cannot see or hear the quiz:


• If another venue is running Vogue Minogue that week, will the questions be the same?

No. We have several different quizzes we can access. We take care to ensure that your questions will differ from any other Vogue Minogue music trivia night run on a different night to yours.

• Do you supply any bar tabs or prizes?

  In short - no. We leave that all up to you.

• What should we offer as prizes?

  Bar tabs and restaurant vouchers usually do the trick. There's no need to put any cash up for grabs. Teams are there for the pride of winning, but do expect a reasonable prize. Usually first, second and third, plus perhaps a second-to-last prize, with a couple of spot prizes thrown in. Or you can get a sponsor involved (perhaps even a music shop) and that's taken care of.

• Do we organise the Vogue Minogue music trivia host or do you?

  We can sometimes recommend a quiz host in your area, however we prefer to leave that side of it to you. Our core business is to make the best product we can, and deliver it to your door every week.

• Are the questions New Zealand biased?

  Our questions certainly have New Zealand content, but there is enough variety there to keep people from other parts of the world interested. Entertainment, especially music is universal all over the world.

• Why don't we just make the questions ourselves?

  Well in short you can. However, economies of scale means we can charge you a really fair price for an outstanding quiz product. Our Vogue Minogue multimedia quiz takes approximately 15 hours to make from woe to go. But by duplicating it and sending it across New Zealand and Australia, we ensure you get great value for money. If you're running a far superior quiz to what is on offer down the road, then you can also expect the benefits in feet coming in the door too.