Need Quiz Round Ideas? Here Are 54 Quick, Fun & Easy Examples
Looking to try a few new pub quiz round ideas and keep your pals on their toes? This guide outlines fun quiz rounds for general knowledge, picture rounds, music and the unusual, so you can plan your trivia night quickly and successfully.
Whether you are planning a pub quiz online or in person, a fun family trivia night or a virtual work event, let’s get this party started.
Ps. We’re former teachers and trainers, hence this ridiculous list of starter and plenary tasks jazzed up as pub quiz ideas!
CBA creating your own quiz? Don’t bother! We’ve made quiz them for you!
Check out our trivia quiz catalog featuring music, TV, movies, sports, geography, and decades.
All quizzes include five rounds with a mix of general knowledge, history, and iconic moments.
Prefer to put together your own Zoom quiz ideas? Keep reading.
You may also like our guide to great Zoom games.
For example:
Unusual quiz categories don’t have to be complicated!
Rank mountains, skyscrapers, bridges, or people in height order.
One of the easiest quiz categories.
For example – Rank in order of height, smallest first:
Guess the skylines from images, videos, audio, or hand drawn efforts.
Remove lyrics from songs, words from quotes, text from stories and players decide what is missing.
Guess the movies, books or ads by their famous straplines.
Examples include:
Describe the mythical beast and let the teams guess where it can be found.
For example, Nessie Loch Ness Monster in Scotland.
This a good round for kids.
If you’re looking for more family-friendly options, here’s our guide to Zoom games for kids.
How many legs does a *name of animal* have?
Name the event, players guess the date.
Or vice versa.
Food Related Fun Quiz Rounds
Name the cocktail and players create the recipe or vice versa.
Match the famous cocktail to the country.
Identify which cocktail an actor or actress drinks in famous movie scenes.
Name the craft beer or wine, guess where it’s made.
Name the meal and players create the recipe or vice versa.
Match the famous meal to the country.
Identify which meal/snack an actor or actress eats in famous movie scenes.
Match the food product with the celeb endorsement.
This could be done via images as well, by blanking out the celeb’s face.
Picture Round Quiz Ideas
Looking for ideas for quiz picture rounds to bring some visuals to your virtual quiz?
Here are our faves.
Collect baby pictures of all team players and present for guessing.
Alternatively, source celebrity baby pics if you can’t get images from players.
Players have to sort the images from oldest to newest.
Images could be of a person, country, building, etc.
From the sofa scene in Friends to Winterfell, challenge your teams to name the correct show’s set.
The BBC have collated rounds of images for you here.
This picture round idea is tough, I tell you!
Be mindful of who is taking part as some quiz shows will look different around the world.
Celeb pets, book covers, record sleeves, movie posters, sports stadiums, epic dance scenes, waterfalls, historic castles, cereal boxes, the list is endless.
Zoom into an image really close and let the players suss out whose skin they see.
Can also be used on landmarks, products, cars, logos etc.
Pics of famous peepers, zoomed in or made blurry.
Famous eyes to consider: Bowie, Elton John, Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast at Tiffany flicks), Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Use Instagram Stories green screen feature (free) to photoshop you in different locations and have your teams guess where you went on vacation.
To do this, have your holiday images ready in an easy to find place on your device.
Log into Instagram, choose the Stories circle at the top, scroll until you find the green screen filter.
Next, add an image by selecting the ‘add media’ button.
Make sure your camera is in selfie mode and take a selfie of the attraction behind you.
Players guess the story from the ridiculous headline or newspaper front page.
Draw or say the instructions to famous dances, players guess the dance and song. Could be combined with Un-rap That (below).
Examples:
This is a personal fave of ours as players really have to focus on the game.
Use the emojis on your phone to create emoji challenges and then save to Google Docs.
You can then either download to PDF and send out or screenshot and add to Google Slides.
Alternatively, here’s a website which lets you copy and paste emojis.
Here’s a list of enjoy round ideas
If it’s your turn to create a quiz and you really can’t face it, consider buying this 45-minute game The Puzzle, or even getting them to host it for you.
100 Points Challenge has created this team building challenge to play remotely among friends and colleagues.
It involves ten rounds of puzzles and ends with a ‘master puzzle’ related to the previous rounds, one of the most challenging quiz rounds with a twist.
If you want to cool the pressure, you can remove the 40-minute time limit.
We took around 45 minutes to finish and the master puzzle threw everyone.
It’s up to you how you play it.
You can either choose to self-facilitate (DIY).
This is where a member of the team is in charge and records the scores/keeps time.
The person running the show will need 20 minutes to read over the instructions.
To play, just use the share screen function on the Zoom to show the puzzle PDF.
Alternatively, give the players the password to sign on and see the puzzles on the secret website.
If you want to take part, get 100 Points Challenge team to facilitate for you.
We played The Puzzle a little differently since we only had six friends getting involved.
Instead of competing, we collaborated as one big team.
I’d to play again in teams to add the combative element!
100 Points Challenge has worked with giants such as Google, Spotify and Ikea so they are legit.
Customer service is quick to respond, so if you have any issues on the run-up to the game just give them an email as we did.
Thanks to 100 Points Challenge for provided a self-hosted game for us to try and review.
You may have seen the popular ‘this or that’ quizzes on Instagram. Well, the same idea can be adapted for your fun quiz night just provide a question and two images then get the players to decide if it is option A or B, this or that!
For example, which food can pregnant woman not eat – brie or cooked blue cheese, or choose between a winter or summer vacation.
We have heaps of This or That questions ready for you:
Music and Audio Round Quiz Ideas
Guess the song title and the artist name.
Easy if you know it!
Guess the song title and the artist name with a twist – add an overarching theme such as body parts or a destination.
Players guess the overall theme at the end for bonus points.
Everyone’s fave music round game, play just enough of the song for teams to guess the title and artist.
You can do this with pop songs, songs from TV shows, movies, etc.
Take a number of songs and mix them up together.
Check out Popb*tch for daily examples.
Play the very start of the song or the full theme tune depending on how generous you are feeling!
Examples – Pinky and the Brain, Narcos and X Files.
Here’s a list of over 100 theme tunes.
Play tunes really fast.
You can choose quiz topics for your music rounds too.
For example:
Opposite of speed it up.
You can also combine Speed It Up and Slow It Down and sent over the audio.
It’s way harder than it sounds.
This music round provides part of a song and the players guess the lyrics to the rest.
Deconstruct a song and make it into a news story.
Deliver the story as a news anchor would.
You stay classy San Diego.
Take a story or an event and make it into a rap.
Play a quote from a famous face and the players guess who it is and what they are talking about.
Play a quote from a movie, TV show, political speech etc, and players write down who said and where they said it.
For a huge challenge tag on the question: what were they talking about?
Bleep out the name in the song and leave the surrounding lyrics.
Consider:
Sing a song as you would during traditional karaoke but replace the words for meows.
Yes, all the words.
So, “And I, Will Always Love You would be meow, meooooooooow, meow, meow, meow, meooooow. Duh.
Interactive Quiz Rounds
Draw the presented topic using Zoom’s screen share.
No talking or giving hints.
Make it harder: the pen isn’t allowed to leave the page.
Players have to be the first to grab identified household items or items beginning with the stated letter or item that represents a topic, etc.
Charades are not just for Xmas!
Act out the topic and let the teams guess.
Make it harder: give an action along with something to act out, for example, a caterpillar (thing) as a cowboy (action).
You provide the scene, the teams reenact the still.
You award points.
You act out the scene, film it or take a photo and present to team players.
They guess the movie and the year it was made.
Funny Quiz Round Ideas
Looking to keep it lighthearted?
Here’s funny quiz rounds to play with.
Ask players to choose a number between 1 and X.
At the answers reveal stage play a race video from YouTube and whichever number wins, gets the point.
Example of a T-Rex race here.
Find famous people in hats, remove the celeb and guess the hat.
Heads to consider: Aladdin, Sherlock Holmes, Blossom and Queen Elizabeth.
Same as hats but with moustaches.
Taches to consider: Tom Selleck, Borat, Hulk Hoga, Lionel Ritchie and Pedro Pascal.
Consider: Marge Simpson, Walter White, Jennifer Aniston, and Grace Jones.
Other ‘remove’ themes include guitars, houses, workout DVDs.
Present a series of yoga terms mixed in with made up words and see if your friends know their cat cow from their cowabunga.
Unusual Quiz Rounds
Similar to Yoga or Schmoga, find unusually spelled or spoken town names, mix the questions up with absolute nonsense and let the players decide if it is a place or a p*ss take.
Check out this list of Welsh towns for starters.
Everyone loves that scene when a couple meet for the first time.
Describe the meet cute and players guess the movie and actors.
Players have to guess the colours for logos, sports teams, animals, lakes around the world, etc.
Give movies a new name by describing what actually happens.
For example, man runs through life (Forrest Gump) or magic nanny entertains kids (Mary Poppins).
Fan of the big screen? check out our movies quizzes, featuring 80s and 90s flics.
Interesting Quiz Rounds
It’s time to go back, way back, back to school for a spelling bee contest.
How many people can spell a lot?
Blur out iconic locations, famous door numbers, brand logos etc.
Screengrab a tweet, Instagram or Facebook callout by a celeb or team players and then teams decide who said it.
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