Rounds for a zoom quiz

[honkytonkheroe]

As our families won’t be able to mix for Xmas, I’ve said I’d do a zoom quiz for Christmas night. I’ve never done one before! Firstly, is it best to do this on power point or should I just read the questions? Secondly, any ideas for rounds eg which county (is this town in)? I have bought a quiz book and was going to set questions at some point today!

This is only any good if you are Scottish - but thought this was great and sure there will be others out there for different parts of UK.

Name the place!

A music round and picture round make it more fun. Power point and embedded a few bars of music - Christmas songs, Carols, Film music people name the tune and answer ancillary question about each piece.

Picture they are sent a sheet with various picture clues.
Tell them to have email on and send round just before answering time. They open, do round and come back.

We did a reasonably normal quiz but threw in surprise scavenger hunt ones eg. First ones back to their screen holding a jar of marmite or first couple to successfully swap socks

I did a film round where the answers were Oscar winners (best film). I made it a picture round and used Google images to get a picture for each film. You could do a Christmas film round and email people the pictures.

Second the scavenger hunt here - we gave a point for each of 10 items back plus extra points for the first ones back with all the items - oddly, the couple and adult son who are the most fastidiously tidy were last back.

Stapler, sellotape, clean white socks, beach towel, potato peeler, copy of local paper (any date), a jigsaw - these are some of the items I remember.

Thank you to all who have replied so far. Some great ideas! I’d love to do name that tune but fear I’m not techy enough.

If embedding music clips sounds too techy, you can have 2 devices open (eg phone /tablet /laptop): zoom on one device and use the other to play music clips on YouTube, holding the 2nd device close to the 1st when the music kicks in. It would be a bit rough and ready but that shouldn't matter on a family quiz.

Some easy to prep rounds:

• anagrams (maybe Christmas themed?)
• name 3 things that happened in a year and they have to guess the year (eg could be for the last decade?)

Picture and music rounds essential I would say! Best to just read out questions from a simplicity point of view.

I did a quiz where I asked everyone five questions about themselves in advance (eg as a child, what did you want to be when you grew up). And then shared all the answers for people to match up to family members. Did it on a PowerPoint so the list of answers could stay up for them to see. It’s a good one for ironing out any advantages, we have one person who is very good at quizzes and always wins, but everyone had a good chance with this one.

We did a zoom quiz with family (our household, PIL, BIL and family, SIL and family) earlier in the year. We got each family to do around.
It worked well as there was a variety of ages. We had geography rounds, general knowledge , family knowledge ie what year did Fizbo get married etc, trivia , DS did a couple of multiple choice questions based on his Guinness world record books. Dh nephew did a music round. (Play a clip of music - 1 point for the artist, 1point for the song)

If embedding music clips sounds too techy, you can have 2 devices open (eg phone /tablet /laptop): zoom on one device and use the other to play music clips on YouTube, holding the 2nd device close to the 1st when the music kicks in. It would be a bit rough and ready but that shouldn't matter on a family quiz.

That's how our family did it

Alphabetti round- each answer starts with the last letter of the answer from the following question

Wipe out round- if you get one question wrong on the round you wipe out and score zero so only put an answer if you’re absolutely sure. “If in doubt... leave it out!”

I went on one and the picture round was ‘famous people in masks’.
Scavenger hunt is a good one, maybe something like objects to spell out your last name.

Macmillan have a choice of a few games nights for a donation. We're doing the races for NYE

also YouTube have quizzes such as name that theme tune etc. Just screen share and go.

I’ve run a quiz most weeks since first lockdown.

Scavenger hunts are good fun, generation game memory round (don’t forget the cuddly toy).

And if you are stuck I could probably email you a few rounds, just PM me if you want them.

I've done loads over lockdown and am doing a Christmas one on boxing day. I've found that power point is definitely the way to go.

If including a music round, don't do the two devices and hold one next to the other. At least 2 teams each time can't hear the audio. Embed it in the power point instead.

Mix it up with music, pictures, activities, don't make it too long and vary the difficulty of questions.

I did a quiz the other day where one picture round was guess the rubbish waxwork. Some images here could give you a start :
www.aol.co.uk/2012/10/31/worlds-worst-waxwork-museum-to-close/

Try the website aha slides. It's really good for making quizzes and then you can just share on zoom

Thanks everyone. I’ve gone from not knowing where to having so many ideas for rounds that I want to do that I’m having to cut them down! I’ve even worked out how to embed the music in the PowerPoint. Thanks for all your suggestions, you’ve been a great help.