New ideas for zoom based quizzes

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Like lots of people we're participating in regular quizzes via zoom with various groups of friends. Am looking for new ideas for rounds that work well via zoom. We are adults only, and preferably without needing sound as we've had mixed results with sound quality. Thanks

Do you use a PowerPoint?
We did guess the year
Who is my famous twin

We have done a MR and Mrs round - you sit back to back and the host asks a question e.g. who is the messiest? You either raise your hand or point to your partner. If your answers match, you score a point.

I've done a few quizzes on Zoom and I think it's best to match the rounds to your audience. For example, for a youth sports group I did active rounds like "Go get me..." and I'd put up a picture of something they had to run to get and show on screen (banana, something green, their playing shirt which they had to be wearing etc).

Picture rounds work well.

Also, if you have a WhatsApp group, a good round is a guess the number round. The question is something like "how many miles long is the Amazon River" and people have to try and get the closest guess to the answer. They text their answer onto the WhatsApp group chat, so people can either answer quickly, or if they've no idea wait a little to see what other answers are given and choose more their answer more tactically.

Love the Mr and Mrs round, will definitely use that!

If you do share screen on zoom you can click to share sound too and it will share the sound from your computer for better quality.

I did PowerPoint ones but you should check out Kahoot too. Seemingly for kids you can set your own questions with multiple choice answers. Share screen on zoom for the questions then they use their phone as a key pad. They go to kahoot on their phone and put in the code for your quiz and they tap the answers there.

Without outing myself to any family on here:

Tennis

Pick a subject that has maybe 10 answers.

Someone starts with an answer.
Opponent gives another one
Reply back.

If the opponent can't give answer - then that's a point.
You can then either do a 'new game' or try to complete to get all 10!

Good for competitive people

Higher or lower

Give a fact about a subject. E.g Ant's height is 1.73m.
But is Dec taller or shorter?
Each team can then show their answer.

Thank you all. The person running last week's quiz did try to share sound but that didn't make much difference.
Guess the year is a good one. Mr & Mrs would be good but we have no groups without single people.
What is the famous twin one please @MiddleClassProblem ?

Oops @HouseOfSticks that should have been sorry

@CoffeeAndToffee you could use zoom chat instead of WhatsApp?

A match-up round can be quite good. So you have (for example) pictures of food down one side, then a list of countries they come from down the other.

We've done cocktail rounds before, either giving the ingredients and they name it, or give a name and they have to write down the ingredients. Bonus points if they make one.

Or give them 10 historical events, and they have to put them in chronological order. As soon as you get one wrong you forfeit the rest of the points (but you can miss ones out if you're not sure).

@PolkadotsAndMoonbeams love these ideas, exactly what I was looking for thank you

“Guess Who”

Pub from above-only works if everyone is local.

If you are happy to spend a bit of money then there are lots of Jackbox games you can play via zoom. The person who owns the game shares their screen via zoom. Other players then interact with the game via mobile phone. You buy the games in packs - we bought party pack 3 which has I think 5 games, 4 of which are suitable to play remotely.

We had a drawing round on our last quiz.

DS2 does quizzes on zoom every week. One he told me wa guess the famous person made from Lego

He did one himself recently with matching aircraft silhouettes with their name. In his quiz they use multiple choice answers. Match the fact to the country.

Pictionary (use paint in screen share), a music round (either play tracks or get someone brave to play a kazoo) - works best if everyone else mutes themselves and writes down the answer. PowerPoint is great as previous have suggested- you can take zoomed in photos of household objects or use landmarks or whatever.

Our friend has been doing a quiz every week for our group. Last week was excellent as each round was based on a different tv quiz show. So examples of rounds:
Through the keyhole+ he whatsapped to us all pictures of ten houses from films or tv to guess which one it was from.
The generation game- a PowerPoint of 20 items to remember. We all had to put our hands on our heads so we couldn’t write them down!
Countdown
Catchphrase
Family fortunes- that round works really well. You get 3 points of you guess the top answer, 2 points for the second and 1 point for the third answer.
Was a really good quiz!

Morphed heads! Google them and guess who the celebrities are

DS does one with his school friends they each take it in turns to set all the questions with several categories (deciding and depending on who is setting the quiz). They seem quite enjoy them. One lad was going to catch phrases he had taken some photos with some props he had made in advance.

Does anyone have any other ideas??

Need some last minute fun ones for this evening.. we have outdone the general pub quiz types.

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Apologies...

Weve been using Kahoot. But there is a slight time delay on the screen sharing. You get more points if you answer faster so if you are super competitive then it isn't perfect

DVD chapters. Give three titles of chapters from the DVD version of famous movies - guess the movie.

I hosted a quiz a few weeks back and this round got the best feedback.