All hail the pub quiz! This fun and affordable form of entertainment is a staple of bars and pubs everywhere and a favorite of customers.
What’s a pub quiz? Also known as trivia or a quiz night, a pub quiz is a lighthearted competition — usually held in a bar, pub, or restaurant — in which teams compete to see who can answer the greatest number of trivia questions correctly.
The questions are often themed and presented in multiple rounds — for example, a sports round, a pop culture round, a news round, and so on. The highest-scoring team wins a prize.
Trivia nights and pub quizzes are fun and popular, providing customers with an engaging social outing and establishments with more patrons. Many establishments say trivia nights help them pull in additional revenue and expand their customer base.
This article will explore helpful tips for running a pub quiz and explain how you can use Jotform to quickly and easily create pub quizzes.
How to run a pub quiz successfully: A few helpful tips
- Match the topics and questions to your audience’s interests. Trivia nights can be general interest or themed. You can try out different trivia themes to see if any are particularly popular. If you know the bulk of your clientele are sports fans, for example, sports-related pub quizzes will probably be a hit. You can also organize your pub quiz by different themed sections, so people with varying interests and knowledge can find a round to shine in. Aligning theme nights with holidays (like a horror movie theme for Halloween) can also be fun.
- Vary the question formats. Use a mix of open-ended questions and multiple-choice questions to keep the game engaging and exciting. Avoid using only open-ended questions (which tend to be more difficult to answer) or only multiple choice (which might be too easy). Either way, try to craft questions with unambiguous answers to prevent disputes.
- Mix up question difficulty. You don’t want everyone to know every answer, but you also don’t want people to walk away feeling frustrated or defeated. Use a combination of easier questions that have more widely known answers and more obscure questions that can appeal to particular knowledge bases. Trivia participants love being able to contribute an answer that their friends don’t know!
- Include audio and visual questions. Keep things engaging by incorporating images, video snippets, or music excerpts into your questions.
How to create a pub quiz with Jotform
Ready to create your own pub quiz? Jotform’s free trivia maker lets you easily create an online quiz form that participants can easily access. Using online quiz forms keeps things simple — you won’t have to use a printer and paper to distribute answer sheets, and you won’t have to manually count answers.
1. Choose a quiz template
Jotform has a variety of trivia form templates that make quiz creation quick and easy, no matter your theme. Some of our popular ready-made options include a movie quiz template, a musical trivia template, and a versatile standard template — all of which are fully customizable.
You can also build your own quiz form from scratch with Jotform’s simple drag-and-drop builder.
2. Customize the quiz
Add your preferred questions and customize the look of the form, including colors, font, layout, and other visual elements. Jotform offers a broad range of question types so you can keep everyone engaged. You can also include music and videos by using widgets.
3. Share the quiz with participants
You can share Jotform’s online trivia quizzes with your audience however you’d like — copy a link, send email invites, post on social media, generate a QR code, or embed in your website. Participants can access and fill out the quizzes on their phone, tablet, or computer.
4. Track the results with Jotform Tables
Audience responses will automatically populate a database in Jotform Tables, allowing you to easily keep track of teams’ answers. You can also easily create fun visual reports and graphs to keep your audience engaged with real-time results.
If you’re looking to simplify the quiz creation process even more, try out our AI Quiz Generator. It can help you come up with questions on various subjects, automatically creating quizzes based on text prompts.
The Jotform AI Quiz Generator can build quizzes on any theme — history, movies, fashion, sports, TV shows, and more — in minutes. All you need to do is enter a prompt describing the quiz you’d like or upload a file that the quiz will be based on.
Then, specify how many questions you need, the language you want your quiz to be in, and the type of questions you want included. The tool will then generate your quiz.
It’s never been easier to create a pub quiz. Make one of your own today with Jotform — it’s free.
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