As the NAQT forum member, I would give you this advice:
1. Don't attempt to write the whole thing yourself. It's a lot harder than it looks. The easy part of question writing is the question. The hard part is the answer.
2. What is your audience? Are you going for academic content (i.e. the General Knowledge round of
Mastermind), or are you going for pop culture content, or are you going for a mix of both (i.e.
Weakest Link)? Are you having a bunch of people who would win it all on
Millionaire, or are they the first person voted off
Weakest Link?
3. Once you determine your audience, pick a distribution of the questions. For example, when I write
Millionaire-style questions, I try to ensure the last 9 include one each of movies, music, TV, sports, geography, literature, science, history and miscellaneous.
Of course, Matt as usual is right, do check us out
at naqt.com and check out information about our intramural questions (our easiest set and what would most resemble a pub quiz). We may not be exactly what you want (since we are suppling things of a mostly academic nature), but we really can't be beat on price.
--Mike Burger