Family zoom quiz

[Bouledeneige]

Hi I'm not terrifically close with my siblings but I am with my kids and all my nieces and nephews (some are overseas) so I have suggested a regular weekend zoom family quiz. Preferably with alcohol. I have suggested that we take turns in being question master - my fam will host the first one.

Any tips about good sources of quizzes and how to run them? We will have some households with 3 adults and some with one on their own.

I don't think there's much you can practically do about the fact some will be couples / 3s and some on their own - unless you start dictating they have to go in separate rooms and all be individuals, but that seems to not be very sociable

With quizzes generally, I always reckon for it to be an enjoyable quiz, everyone ought to be able to get at least 3-5 marks per round. Lets be honest, none of us want to sit and be reminded we know nothing.
I'd do a real mix of round - so those with a strong, rounded 'academic' knowledge might not be so good on 'pop culture' etc.
Same with 'sport' or 'music' rounds - mix up the sports or the music, don't have all from one genre, or from one decade.

Rounds that involve something personal are quite fun...... maybe interesting facts about your family in this case.

Keep it light hearted. Keep it short - you don't want to be ploughing through 17 rounds, even more so if it is every week.

Kahoot is a good website. You make your quiz on it as the host and they choose their answers on a separate device to what they’re doing their zoom on. Then you screen share to show your quiz and they enter a pin to join the quiz and away you go.
I got members of my family to tell me funny facts about themselves or trivia that others might not know and turned it into multiple choice questions. Works really well.

Do a picture quiz and screen share. I had different rounds with 5 pictures in each, mix of stuff due to mixed ages of people, like identify the wild animals, brand logos, cartoon characters, places people have visited etc.

It’s definitely a nice thing to do! We are on our third weekly group family - 6 x couples.

Agree a picture round is good fun. There are plenty online you can nick if you can’t want to compile your own. The music round proved less successful for us as was hit with tech problems.

We have done it so the loser of the quiz has to be the next week’s quizmaster!

Bear in mind that the free Zoom has a 45min limit. So if your quiz is longer than that you’ll have to all log back in etc.

You could do bonus point for funniest team name etc

Thanks folks. Some great tips here. I hadn't thought about picture rounds or family facts.

Treasure hunt also good fun. First team to find an item in their house and show it to the screen. Things like a toilet roll!

We've used Kahoot (although not made our own quiz just used the ones on there) and air console which has loads of games including quizzes. Both use a phone/tablet as the controller and then another device to screen share on. We use skype not zoom but apparently there was a slight delay in the quiz showing on other people's screens. I dont know if this could potentially be a problem on zoom. Ds1 said it's due to upload/download speeds not skype itself.

Picture quiz with screen sharing works well. Also a music round if you have the Spotify app on your laptop (you can choose to share just the sound) to play guess the intro

We've been doing this with friends each week and really hope it continues when lockdown is over as our friends are all over the country and we only see each other once or twice a year.

The winners of each week are then quiz master the week after which has been working well.

It was our turn this week and we chose six rounds of 10 questions. We didn't do a picture round but did intros to songs with a point for song and a point for original artist/band. That was a game changer as those who had done better on the 'proper' questions did less well with the music so it narrowed the gap on the scoreboard and meant someone who did ok on every round won rather than people who did well in some rounds and badly in others.

Lots of fun! But be warned - my partner and I found putting the questions together as hard as homeschooling the kids 😂😂😂

I've been running a quiz for my extended family for 3 weeks. I do 6 rounds of 10 questions. It lasts just over an hour. Like others have said I try to have a range of rounds/questions so that hopefully there's something for everyone. I make up my own questions. To start with I used an old Trivial Pursuits game we have. Now I make them up from my knowledge or google.
Successful rounds have been:
Family names - a round where every answer includes a name of a member of the family
Weird Laws - lots of googling for this one
Which Country am I in if ... - eg. I'm sunbathing on Copacabana beach
I tried a Name the quarantune round. People scored a point for the song and a point for the artist. I played the songs on my iPhone but people said it was tinny. I'm going to try again with a speaker.
The songs were:
Fever - Peggy Lee
I think we're alone now - Tiffany
U can't touch this - MC Hammer
Night Fever - Bee Gees
Toxic - Brittany Spears

Ironically I'm now seeing more of my extended family then I ever did before lockdown

I did a work one last night via zoom. It worked well.
I did a varied mix of topics due to a large age range of people. I did them all on a PowerPoint that can be share screened to everyone in the zoom roo. Which meant we could have dingbats and picture rounds

We've been doing a weekly quiz with DH's siblings and parents. We compete in family groups (grandparents only have the two of them in their team likewise for one of the siblings as their children are preschoolers) and each team set ten questions on two categories e.g. geography, food and drink, science. We take it in turn to present our topic's questions then read out the answers. Scores are given to one sibling to keep track of. We have eight rounds altogether with a variety of questions including picture rounds, emoji rounds and whatever anyone comes up with - apart from agreeing which topics each team will be responsible for, there's no coordination so we could end up with two picture rounds.

Each of our teams has a different approach to devising questions. We generally use existing knowledge and ask questions we know the answer to because I can think of nothing worse than going to a quiz of obscure questions that take ages to fathom. DH's siblings use Google to find random questions. Last week DD1 put together our first round which was musicals.

I quite like the way everyone contributes each week because it means everyone gets to join in somehow.

These sound absolutely brilliant. I'm a bit confused as to how you can use kaboom and zoom at the same time?