A quiz on a video call.
The same quiz night, for people who are not in the same room: share one screen on the call, everyone answers on their own phone, and nobody has to mark paper over the internet.
Set up in five minutes
- Build or pick a quiz, and start the night. You get a room code.
- Open the TV screen in a browser tab and share that tab on Zoom, Teams or Google Meet. Everyone sees the question, the clock and the scores.
- Players open the join link on their phones and enter the code. No app, no account.
- Put people in teams: each team joins the same table, chats on the side if they want, and the captain locks in the answer.
- Read the questions out on the call, or let the clock run them.
Hybrid: some in the room, some at home
A remote team is just another table. People in the room answer on their phones, people at home answer on theirs, and the TV in the room and the shared tab show the same thing.
Keeping a remote quiz fair
- Searching is the risk. Paste is off on the answer sheet, the clock is the same for everyone, and the host can see which phones left the app during a question.
- Use picture rounds and closest-wins numbers, which are slow to look up.
- Keep the call muted during the clock, so one team does not hear another.
Format
Shorter than a pub night: four rounds of eight is about 45 minutes, which is as long as most people enjoy a call. Put a break in the middle and the scores up after it.