Black History Month Game Show
The Month of February is designated as Black History Month
and we’ve created a custom edition of Survey Says to celebrate!
A few years ago one of our regular game show college clients asked us if we could create a custom show for them for Black History Month. Our answer was YES WE CAN.
Now it’s available to everyone and WOW is it a great show!
Our former host, Gus Davis and Bettina Johnson (an African American Studies graduate from the University of Texas in Austin) were up to the task, and
they knocked it outta the park!
The goal… to create a show that was a celebration of African American Culture… without getting preachy or too dry. And that’s exactly the goal that was accomplished.
Using the format of our most popular show “Survey Says” they created survey questions that would celebrate and explore the rich African American heritage and contributions to our country and at the same time open discussion about the contributions made to America by African Americans.
Survey Questions are similar to these (though they vary from show to show, year to year):
– Name an influential African American woman.
– Other than Barack Obama, name an African American politician.
– Name a civil rights protest method.
and many, many more.
Please consider making this special Black History Month edition of Survey Says, a part of your Black History Month college programming.
With only 28 days in February and the popularity of this program, dates fill up quickly and every year we get calls for show dates that are already booked. Avoid that disappointment and Call TODAY or fill out a form for full pricing and availability and to get your date on the calendar today.
What Clients are saying about Fast Action Trivia:
We were so happy with how our event went, and (our host) was a wonderful host. Our students were so engaged during the entire event, and we’ve heard great feedback from them!— Megan AzzalinaSt. Joseph’s University
Fast Action Trivia was a hit! Students want to participate and other students enjoy just hanging around and spectating. There’s always much excitement and buzz in the Student Union Building for this event. The host was easy going, low maintenance and always seems to be enjoying himself.— Loreal RobertsonTexas A&M University – Kingsville
It was pretty cool because you asked questions that really got us going, and you did it so quick and then you integrated the alcohol questions in there which really made us aware. Some of didn’t know some of the answers so it really did bring awareness to the questions being asked. It was very fun. We’re going to see if we can get you guys to come back out. It’s an important topic and it was very good how you integrated that into it. We had a good time.— Dean Boyd University of North Texas – Dallas
Everything was great! Gus phenomenal as always! We even had an active shooter drill that occurred during the event, and Gus went with it and got the students to come back after the drill was over!— Amanda Rose San Jacinto College – Central Campus
Frequently Asked Questions about Fast Action Trivia
About 60-70 people per hour depending on how well any one particular player does.
There is a new round every 4 minutes. 3 minutes for the game and an estimated 1 minute to change players and award prizes.
It can go slightly faster than that if there is a line of people so rules don’t have to be re-explained each round.
- Alcohol and Drug Awareness
- Earth Day
- Black History Month
- Safe Spring Break
- Title IX Sexual Harassment & Discrimination
- Distracted Driving
- Holidays/Christmas
- LGBTQ Awareness
And we can create a custom show just for YOU and your specific teaching needs!
The short answer is YES.
The longer answer is that we can mix in 20-30 custom questions that rotate throughout the show.
Because of the fast nature of the game, we can blaze through 600-1000 questions in 2 hours! So we can’t write that many questions just for your event for fully customized questions without a significant extra fee.
However – we do have a lot of themes that are ready to go and mix in to your show.
Very simply we’ll need:
- an 8×12 minimum space
- Outdoor events must be in a covered area and out of direct sunlight.
- Power and a power strip.
- A sound system appropriate for your venue (it helps to have one speaker (a monitor) pointed at the players so they hear the questions clearly).
For all college and school events the show includes prizes of $5 per round, which averages around $200 for a 90 minute to 2-hour period when we include the bonuses for someone who wins 4 rounds.
If your group requires gift cards instead of cash we will ask that you provide the prizes or we will need to add a 20% surcharge to handle Amazon Gift Codes as it’s a labor-intensive process.
We fully participate in coop pricing through APCA and NACA for colleges.
Teaming up with other clients while we’re already in the area gives us some pricing flexibility.
Other than that we have set fair and competitive prices for all of our shows and we stand firmly by our price sheets except for routing.
We schedule Fast Action Trivia for a 90-minute block as the standard time when the audience may be coming and going.
If you are doing a stage show – we recommend about 75 minutes. 90 Minutes is the MAX amount of time that we recommend.
If your event is a “come and go” type of event, such as at a festival, in a lobby, or cafeteria, we can arrange for longer times for a minimal additional fee.
We recommend that if it’s going to be more than two hours you schedule a 10-15 minute break for the host – as it’s a LOT of reading of questions – so his voice will need a break.
