Forty fresh questions in four rounds, including a round on your own town, ready to print two days before quiz night. Every answer comes with its source.
Three steps, once. After that it turns up every week on its own.
Type your pub’s name, your town and your quiz night.
Your town, this week in history, the news, and odd facts. Ten questions each.
Two days before quiz night, ready to print. Swap anything you don’t fancy.
Type a town or village and get three real questions about it, with answers and sources. Three tries each.
Four rounds of ten. One real question from each:
From the Wikipedia pages for your town and the places, buildings and people within about six miles.
Which Norman baron built Skipton Castle in 1090?Robert de Romille
What happened on the seven days from your quiz night, in years gone by.
In 2005, the discovery of which two moons of Pluto was announced?Nix and Hydra
From the stories in the news and the pages people read most over the past week.
Which baseball team beat the Tampa Bay Rays to win the World Series?Milwaukee Brewers
The odd facts that start an argument at table six.
People in Britain were once paid to eat funeral food. What were they called?Sin-eaters
Every question is built from a passage of Wikipedia, and the answer sheet links to it, so a disputed answer can be settled at the bar. Wikipedia’s text is used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and each sheet credits it.
Sold to pubs, clubs and venues as businesses, not to the public. There are no music or picture rounds, because those need licences and rights.
£19 a month
Sold to businesses only.
Each one is written from a passage of Wikipedia, and the answer has to appear in that passage. The answer sheet links to the source, so you can settle an argument.
It reads the Wikipedia pages for your town and the places, buildings and people within about six miles of it.
It widens out to the places around you, so the round may be about the valley rather than the village. The nearest town usually has plenty.
No. It remembers every question your pub has had and doesn’t repeat one.
Yes. Press Swap on any question and you get a new one from the same round.
They can with any quiz. A local round is harder to look up in a hurry, but that’s for your house rules.
£19 a month. The first 7 days are free and no card is needed. Cancel at any time. It’s sold to businesses only.
All of it from Wikipedia: its pages about places near you, its “On this day” list, its “In the news” stories, its most-read pages and its “Did you know” facts. The text is used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and every sheet carries the line “Facts from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0”.
Your first round about your own town is on screen in about a minute.
Start your free week