FUN!! The last event is always worth the most points. Here they have to write down both the book title and the author based on the movie. Basically just looking for something that would be hard for both kids AND librarians to get. Last Picture Round for ALL the Points!! (10 minutes) So this is goes on for a total of 10 minutes, then we get to the finale!! How many times is the phrase “Shake it Off” said in the Taylor Swift song of the same name? (36 times)Ībout how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie roll center of a Tootsie pop, according to a recent study? (1000 licks) How many pages in all 7 Harry Potter books? (4,224 pages) I try to spice it up with a few weirder questions like: So more basic trivia questions just like we did before, followed by another special round of trivia called “Guess How Much?” In this round, you ask a question like “How tall is the Eiffel Tower?” Then each table gets to submit one answer the one closet to the actual answer gets the point. I’m adding more new stuff here so check back later.Īfter we go over answers, we go back to regular trivia.īasic Trivia and “Guess How Much” Special Trivia Round (10 Minutes) We had a special round guessing what astronauts could eat in space.
This year was a “Universe of Stories,” so I obviously had a lot of space questions.
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You can download a copy of that here for free. Superheroes was the theme a few years ago, so it kids had a great time trying to figure out some of the more obscure ones. It’s a great way to tie in the theme, and it’s just easier to come up with questions that way. I usually base it off of whatever the theme for summer reading is that year. Picture rounds are always the best part of trivia, so I try to include as many as possible. We do this for about 10 minutes total and then go on to another picture round.Ģnd Picture Round Based on Year’s SRP Theme (10 Minutes) Which came first: Backstreet Boys or N’Sync? The answer is Backstreet Boys (album released 1996, N’Snyc was released in 1998.)Ī great place to find questions for this is in a book like “Smithsonian Visual Timeline of Inventions.” It spells out when nearly every invention was created and in what year. Which came first: The zipper or velcro? The answer is the zipper (invented in 1893, velcro was invented 1956.) Sometimes just doing basic trivia can get boring, so we have a few special trivia rounds to keep it interesting, like “Which Came First?” In this category, the team must answer which came first out of two options. I also try to make it fair for both the kids AND the librarians, so I ask the kids questions I think they should know, and I ask the librarians things they DEFINITELY don’t (librarians don’t know a lot about boy bands it turns out.) We don’t have buzzers like on a real game show, so I just ask each table a separate question and go from there. You can download my examples here and here for free.īasic Trivia and “Which Came First” Special Trivia Round (10 Minutes)Īfter that I do a round of basic trivia questions for about 5 minutes. The answers are “They all have FEET” and “They all have TRUNKS.” Wah wah wahhh. The first round is bunch of picture puzzle to try and get the different teams to start working together: “What Do These Items Have in Common?” Picture Round (10 Minutes) I usually divide the hour into a few different rounds to keep it interesting, so this is how I’ve done it in the past: One table will just be for the librarians, we’ve always had two librarians at this table having just one librarian there would get boring for them, so I think two is the way to go. So here’s the setup–first I set up 3 or 4 tables with chairs, depending on how many kids I get. Your job as the host will be to ask questions and keep score!! All you need are some willing librarians to help you out. It’s also a really cheap and simple program to host. We even have parents that want to stick around and watch this one. But it’s also interesting enough that we’ve always gotten a pretty good sized crowd anyway. I’ve always saved this one for the week of 4th of July–the idea being I don’t put too much work into this one, so if there’s low attendance it’s okay. So this is a summer program we’ve been hosting for 5 years now.