I've run a couple of pretty big quizzes recently, with upwards of 200 people, which both went very well, I think, but I was surprised to find when I started speaking and stared out on the large mass of humanity in front of me, my hand was unaccustomedly shaky - I had no other reason to be nervous (I rarely am) than the very size of the crowd, so I wonder if the bigger and bigger an audience gets the more other 'performers' feel the weight of entertaining them.
In the past, I've generally found that numbers in themselves make no difference at all and an audience of one can be just as intimidating as 50,000, but perhaps not.
Equally, I tend to find I thrive and perform more the bigger the crowd, move around and make more of an active effort to generate excitement.
It would be brilliant some time to do a quiz for a really huge number, to hear the roar of hundreds and hundreds, or thousands, of people. Who knows? Stadium Quizzing?
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