2. Fun, Memorable and Informative!?
• Want you to remember
• “Pointless” style quiz
where obvious answers
mean nothing and
obscure answers mean
everything
3. Fun, Memorable and Informative!?
• Three rounds of IT/Library
questions – aim to get the
lowest score
• We’ve put our questions to
100 people but this is
Pointless so we are after the
obscure answers they didn’t
get.
• To stay in the game, all teams need to score as
few points as they possibly can
4. Remember!
• What each team is trying to do is find a
Pointless answer, an answer that none of
our 100 gave.
PLAY!
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8. Tim Berners-Lee
Melvil Dewey
Charles Babbage
Chairman Mao
Philip Pullman
Laura Bush
Reveal All
Inventor of internet
Inventor of the library decimal
classification system
Inventor of the first computer
University librarian and founder of
the People’s Republic of China
Librarian and Author of
“His Dark Materials” trilogy
Librarian Wife of George W. Bush
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20
60
40
35
0
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Rachel Weisz
Actress who played Evelyn Carnahan,
the librarian in “The Mummy”
18 ?
Clue
X
Reveal answer
Fun, memorable and informative aren’t usually the words used to describe a library induction. We’ve decided this year to do something different so you do remember that you had a library induction!Explain that you are going to run a quiz based on the BBC show “Pointless” – how many have seen it? (show of hands) Organise your teams as required (need 4 teams so divide the room up into sections or ask for volunteers (four pairs) to come to front to give answers with rest as audience)Make sure volunteers at front stand to the side and not with backs to audience
Go through to make sure clear that they need a low score
From this point onward the first part of the Pointless slides auto run. When it has finished just use the normal slide progression.
music of the gameshow -
ScriptRight, let’s play Pointless.In the first round each team gives one answer. The team that has the highest score at the end of the round will be eliminated so try and make sure that is not you. If anyone gives me an incorrect answer they will score the maximum of 100 points so do try and avoid those.OK, our first category today is general knowledge on Famous People from the computing and IT world.
*Top right (everything below the ‘Reveal answers’ only): Select one button and the count down will begin!*When the score countdown has finished, simply select the next slide button and it will return to this page again – revealing the answer.*The red button with an ‘x’ at the bottom is for wrong answers! (Nothing is unveiled and it gives other students an opportunity to have another go)N.B. Over selection of pages will reveal the answers – you can quickly reset them by going back a slide! Even if the students see the answers it is all part of the fun of learning.Script We gave 100 people clues to famous people in the computing and library world. All you have to do is find the correct answer to the clues and decide which is the one nobody knew to get that all important pointless answer.(Ask each team to give an answer, run the countdown and allocate their score. If they answer incorrectly they get 100 points. Go through correct answers at the end by revealing all. Say congratulations to anyone in the audience who got all 7 correct.)Script: At the end of round one the losing team with the highest score is …… We’re sorry to say goodbye but you have been brilliant contestants.
Choose next slide to move on from here.Script: For the remaining three teams, things are about to get even more exciting now as we enter the second round and the winners will go through to the head to head to play for the prizes. . . For each question each team just needs to give me one answer. All you have to do is come up with an answer that scores less than the other teamsand you will win that question and get through to the final.Let’s play Pointless
*To get the countdown working, just select the letters (do not select anything else)*The button with an ‘x’ at the bottom is for wrong answers! (Nothing is unveiled and it gives other students an opportunity to have another go)N.B. Over selection of pages will reveal the answers – you can quickly reset them by going back a slide! Even if the students see the answers it is all part of the fun of learning.Script We showed our 100 people these pictures of university Library and IT systems and asked them to name them. All you need to do is find the one which the least number of people knew; that all important pointless answerTeam …. has played best so far, so you go first.(take an answer from each team and then play countdown – the two teams with the lowest score win and goes on to the final)Script: At the end of the Head to Head, the losing team with the highest score is Team …At the end go through each answer highlighting what each thing is, and that these were the things that students had asked to be covered
Choose next slide to move on from here.That means Teams … and … have won and go forward to the Pointless final to win the prizesAll you need to do to win is find the answer that the fewest of our 100 people knew. We chose this topic as we need you to understand that every subject has a number assigned to it. You need to know the subject number to find your books.
*Top right (everything below the ‘Reveal answers’ only): Select one button and the count down will begin!*When the score countdown has finished, simply select the next slide button and it will return to this page again – revealing the answer.*The button with an ‘x’ at the bottom is for wrong answers! (Nothing is unveiled and it gives other students an opportunity to have another go)N.B. Over selection of pages will reveal the answers – you can quickly reset them by going back a slide! Even if the students see the answers it is all part of the fun of learning.Script For the final, we gave 100 people some library subject numbers shown as anagrams (jumbled up words). All you need to do is work out the anagrams of the subjects and decide which is the one that the fewest number of people knew