Questions, answered

The Party Quiz (thepartyquiz.com) is a web app with free and paid plans for hosting quizzes on a TV, made by EXPX B.V. in Rotterdam. You build a quiz, a Jeopardy-style board, a pub quiz, a quickfire round or a round of Would You Rather, open it on the television, and players play from their own phones with a room code. There's nothing to install and no account for players.

The Party Quiz combines gameshow boards with phone buzzers, written pub quiz rounds, Quickfire on phones and Would You Rather votes. Quiz Starter includes 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins per month. Paid plans increase allowances and capacity; Quizmaster and Quiz Night cover commercial events. Players need no account and pay no joining fee. 1 Quiz Coin = 1 generated question.

A screen everyone can see (a smart TV, a laptop on a TV, or a projector), a phone or laptop for yourself, and, if you want buzzers, your players' phones.

You do, as the host: sign in with an email link or Google. Your players never need one.

About ten minutes for a short one you write yourself, less if the AI drafts it. The wizard sets up the rounds and teams for you.

They scan the QR code on the TV, or go to thepartyquiz.com/buzz and type the five-character room code. Then a first name, and a team, unless it's a solo game, and they're in.

No. Everything runs in the phone's browser.

Quiz Starter: up to 10 phones in 4 teams, or 10 solo players. Quiz Host, Quizmaster and an event with Quiz Night: up to 100 phones in 20 teams, or 24 solo players. Solo play is available in gameshow and Quickfire, and a Would You Rather quiz is always solo; pub quiz is team-only.

Yes. Choose “Everyone for themselves” when you create a gameshow or quickfire quiz: there are no teams to set up, every player who joins gets their own row on the scoreboard, and every point is their own. A Would You Rather quiz is always played this way. The pub quiz is played in teams.

Yes. Run the board with shouts and hands, or a pub quiz on printed answer sheets. You score everything from the host screen.

Yes, if they can see the TV screen, share it on a video call, and join the buzzer room with the code.

Four: a Jeopardy-style board answered out loud with phone buzzers, a written pub quiz with printable answer sheets that you mark, quickfire multiple choice answered on phones and scored automatically, faster answers scoring more, and Would You Rather, where everyone votes between two choices on their phone and the TV shows how the room split, with no points.

Yes, that's the gameshow format. Five categories of five clues go on the TV, worth 100 to 500 (200 to 1000 on the double round), and every player's phone becomes a buzzer: the first press answers out loud, and a wrong answer re-arms the buzzers so someone else can steal. Players join with the room code, there's no app to install, and it's free.

Yes. Choose Combination quiz when you create it, then choose how many gameshow, Pub quiz, Quickfire and Would You Rather rounds to include. Players use one room code throughout.

Yes: paste a YouTube link on a board clue or a pub-quiz question and play it audio-only or as a video.

Tiles on a board that hold a dare instead of a question, hidden, so nobody knows which tile it is until someone picks it.

It can: describe a theme, choose a difficulty and it drafts every round in your quiz's language. You then edit anything you like.

No. Every quiz is written by its host, by hand, or drafted by the AI from a theme, and there's no public collection to browse. The demos are the ready-made ones: play them in your browser without signing up.

Yes, on pub-quiz and quickfire questions: paste the web address of an image and it appears large on the TV. Uploading pictures from your computer isn't supported.

The TV, the buzzers and the host screen come in English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. Questions can be written, by you or the AI, in any of 93 languages.

Yes. It follows the language of the quiz, and so do the phones that join.

Quiz Starter is free: 5 saved quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins per month for private and charity events without paid admission. No card needed. Paid plans add quiz storage, Quiz Coins and capacity; commercial events need Quiz Night or Quizmaster. 1 Quiz Coin = 1 generated question.

1 Quiz Coin = 1 generated question. A pub quiz with 6 rounds of 10 questions costs 60 Quiz Coins. A typical gameshow with two 25-question rounds and a tie-breaker has 51 questions, so it costs 51 Quiz Coins. Regenerating a question you don’t like costs 1 Quiz Coin, including the set of three alternatives to choose from. The same rate applies to action, music and video prompts. You see the cost before generating. Writing or editing questions yourself uses no Quiz Coins. Failed generation is refunded. Music and video questions still need a clip link.

The first name they type, the team they pick and their buzzes and answers, deleted automatically seven days after the party, or straight away when you delete the quiz.

EXPX B.V. builds and runs The Party Quiz. It's an innovation studio at Schiedamse Vest 154, 3011 BH Rotterdam, the Netherlands, registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce under KVK 70364338.

Yes, from your dashboard. It removes your email, your quizzes and the player names recorded against them.