How to Host an Online Quiz

Despite this, we recommend you go for a DIY trivia night. This is ideal for quizzing with your families or friends, since you can add many personal questions that only people who share a strong bond would know how to answer. You can include questions like ‘who is this baby?’ attached to one of the participants’ old pictures or ‘in what year did this happen?’ with a photo of a past event where you were together. On top of being quite fun, this type of trivia will keep the conversation flowing while you and your family and friends reminisce about the happy moments you’ve shared together.

How to create your own trivia night

Creating a trivia night from scratch isn’t easy. You need to think about what categories to include and consider the participants’ strengths and weaknesses – nobody likes to spend a night going over questions about a theme they don’t know about or have any interest in.

In other words, it’s essential to read the room. If everyone is a huge Lord of the Rings fan, you can design a quiz revolving around it. However, if you have a group of participants with more diverse taste, you should consider including different topics with a few questions each.

When it comes to choosing your quiz topics, the options are endless. There are the most obvious ones such as music, TV shows, movies, history, etc. But things get more amusing if you incorporate some unique games like a snap round where participants have to grab an everyday item as fast as possible.

Best web conferencing platforms for hosting an online quiz

The main thing you need to host an online quiz is a smooth way to share and go through the questions (which can use images, sound clips, or video) and a way to record everyone’s answers.

Considering that hosting an online quiz is something you do just for fun, it doesn’t make sense to purchase a piece of software. Instead, we recommend you go for a web conferencing platform that allows you to host meetings for free. Of course, this means that you won’t have access to the full array of features, but you will still be able to share a PowerPoint presentation with all the questions and then attribute points to the person that answers the fastest either in the chat or by shouting it out first. Zoom’s free version is the perfect web conferencing software for this, as it doesn’t limit the number of participants like other companies do. However, it does restrict your group calls to 40 minutes, so plan your trivia night accordingly.

You can also take advantage of companies’ free trials to get some advanced features for a limited time. Unless you’re doing online quizzes every day, this will more than suffice. BlueJeans, for example, provides a 7-day free trial that allows you to add polls to your meetings, enabling you to gather everyone’s answers within the software.

Another option is to get a webinar platform. Typically, they don’t allow many cameras to be shared simultaneously, but they are built to host online events. In other words, you can add all media to the platform and test everything beforehand. This translates into a smoother online quiz for the participants. In this case, companies don’t usually provide a free version of their services, but you can still take advantage of their free trials.