aaamusic | On 07, Feb 2014

The pub quiz is a much-loved British tradition, a staple of the pub environment and fun night out for many. But the experience has been soured; unless you’re particularly lucky, chances are your recent experiences have consisted on keeping an eye on those other teams who keep pulling out their mobile phones, or waiting for your answers to come back just to find your competitor has marked you down deliberately.

A Revolution in Pub Quizzing

No more to the cheats! Since smartphones have become so popular, it’s near-impossible to trust that those other teams are only checking their messages and not looking up the answers – and what’s the point in a quiz, really, if anyone is going to cheat. Short of holding the quiz in an underground bunker where no one can get signal, SpeedQuizzing is the best way to ensure the smartest team win the prize by holding a quiz so fast paced that it’s impossible to cheat.

The Quizzes

The questions for the quizzes can be selected randomly from a massive database of questions of different categories, so you’ll never get the same quiz twice. If you know your audience well, you can also cater to their tastes by only taking questions from themes you know will go down well – so hosts can design a movie or music style quiz for the bar, without having to force anyone to sit through the sports round. Of course what this also means is that a host can use the Speedquizzing system as a fun second income without having to dedicate hours of their life planning out questions.

How It Works

For the host, setting up the quiz can be as simple as signing up to the www.speedquizzing.com system, buying Credits and then activating a Quizpack. There are a number of payment options available for one-off events or regular quizzes, and the website also has a few advertising systems to get the word out. For players, teams of usually six to eight use one smartphone or tablet between them with the free Speedquizzing app downloaded, transforming their device into a buzzer and answer sheet. Since it’s all electronic, questions are marked immediately and it has a feel more like a TV game show than a pub quiz.

No longer just for pubs, the newly redesigned Speedquiz has capabilities beyond pubs and even more upscale bars; it can be used in schools, church halls and at festivals, really anywhere with a suitable router and sound system for the host to use. Forget outdated pen and paper quizzes – this is the future of quiz entertainment.