A quiz night on one page: questions, answers the host reveals, and a scoreboard for the teams.
A quiz night asks three things of a screen: a question large enough to read from the back, an answer kept out of sight until the host says so, and a score the whole room can see. Here is a working night for an architecture studio's Friday social, 15 questions in three rounds, with the prompt that starts yours. The page has no buzzer. The host decides whose hand went up first and taps in the points.
Who it's for
Whoever got volunteered to run the quiz: the office social, a family reunion, a class on the last day of term. You put the page on a TV and read the questions out.
It's made for one host and one screen. If every team must answer on its own phone against a timer, you need a quiz platform with a server behind it. Send this link to the whole room and every phone can reveal the answers.
What a good one contains
- Questions with one settled answer. "What is the capital of Australia?" ends in Canberra and no argument. Skip anything that depends on the year or on who's counting.
- An answer that waits for a tap. The example shows a dashed box until the host presses Show answer.
- A fact under each answer. "Two pump blood through the gills, one around the body" gives the tables something to say after "three hearts".
- Rounds with a breather. Three rounds of five, with a screen between rounds that names the team in front.
- A scoreboard with a minus button. The minus is for the point that went to the wrong table. It stops at zero, because a wrong answer costs nothing.
- Standings and a tiebreaker. The last screen ranks the teams, and level teams share a place. A tie at the top brings up a closest-guess question for one more point, so the night still ends with a winner.
- Type for the back row. With one question on the card, the words can be big and heavy, and nobody reads ahead.
A dry run the night before
Go through all fifteen with someone who hasn't seen them. Any question that draws a "well, technically" gets replaced. Check every answer against a source you trust, because a wrong answer on the big screen costs the host the room. Rehearse on the real TV, zoomed in until the card fills it.
The scores live in the open tab. A reload sets them to zero and a second device keeps its own count, so pick one screen and leave it alone. Team names change with a tap, which saves guessing who'll sit together.
How to send it
As an open link. A quiz night has nothing private in it. Send the link to the host's screen, not the whole room, since anyone holding it can tap to see the answers.
Every page you publish gets one link that opens in any browser. You choose who can open it: anyone with the link, anyone with the password, or only the people and company domains you name, who sign in with Google or Microsoft. Change the page later and the link stays the same.
