Geeks Who Drink sends a quizmaster to venues on their route, seven rounds over two hours. Quizado is the software for the bar that wants that night on its own evening, with its own questions, run from the laptop behind the bar.
Geeks Who Drink hands your venue a booked quizmaster and a fixed weekly format; Quizado hands your own staff the console, the phone buzzers and the big-screen scoreboard, so the length, the night and the questions are decisions you make.
A hosted network needs venues close enough for a quizmaster to drive between, so rural bars and small towns often fall outside the route.
Quizado has no route. A bar with a screen and a connection can run its first night the same evening it signs up, in any town.
The flagship quiz is seven rounds over two hours. That is a proper night out, and some rooms want forty minutes before a band, or a short round between kitchen services.
You build the night. Three quick rounds on a Thursday, a full two hours on a Tuesday, or a ten-minute Knockout round while the pizza oven catches up.
Their pub quiz asks players to get a team of up to six. It keeps the game fair, and it also means a party of nine has to split up or sit one out.
You set the rules. Individual play, pairs, big tables, or a work party of twenty on one team, with no cap on paid plans.
A quizmaster covers several venues each week, so your evening is the one that fits the round trip. Holiday weeks, sports fixtures and staff changes all have to be negotiated.
Move your own night by texting the regulars. Add a second one in the same week if the first fills up. Nobody has to approve it.
National question sets are written well and checked properly, but a set that runs in hundreds of venues cannot mention the mural on your wall or the pub two doors down.
Name a topic and AI generation writes the bar trivia round, from Trivia Pro up. Edit anything you do not like, then drop it between two packs from the library.
A hosted night is a fixed cost per week, and quiet months do not know that. Owners watching a thin January feel it first.
One software plan covers every night you run in the month, and the free plan means the first few weeks cost nothing at all.
Built from the ground up for modern bar trivia and live events.
A QR code goes up on the TV, guests scan it and pick a team name. Answers arrive scored, so nobody spends the break marking sheets with a red pen.
The external display window puts the question, the timer and the live table on your TV or projector. Standings after every round are what makes people stay for the last one.
Type a topic and get a full bar trivia round back. Monthly AI credits start on Trivia Pro, which is how a venue writes a round about its own beer list in a lunch break.
Leagues and seasons track points across weeks from Trivia Pro up. Teams turn up in February to protect a lead, not because they happen to be passing.
From Trivia Pro up, the display carries your logo, and custom fonts and colours come in on Hospitality Group. Guests photograph the leaderboard, and the photo has your bar on it.
Buzzer Race for speed, Wager for drama at the end, Knockout to thin the field, Everyone Scores so a quiet table still counts, and Music Bingo on Hospitality Group when the room wants noise.
Geeks Who Drink puts on more than 800 events a week (geekswhodrink.com, checked August 2026). The flagship is a fast multi-round quiz that runs about two hours. Players bring a team or join one at the bar, it is free to play, and answers go in through their Digital Answer System. They also run Small Batch Trivia, bingo with a digital card generator, private events, a House Party take-home quiz, and a Jeopardy! Bar League built with Sony Pictures Television.
The quizmasters are the product. They are hired to be entertaining, they know how to hold a room that has had three pints, and they arrive with the questions already written and checked. If your venue has never run a quiz, having one of them turn up is the shortest possible route to a full Tuesday.
They do not publish a venue rate on their site, so if you are working out whether the night pays for itself, ask them and use their number rather than one from a forum. Also check whether they cover your address at all, because coverage is the reason most venues on this page ended up looking for software.
First: is there anyone on the rota who would enjoy it? Hosting is not hard with software doing the scoring, but it is not nothing either. You need someone who can read a question clearly, keep the pace up and take a bit of heckling. If one bartender is already the loud one, you have a host. If nobody wants it, keep booking a company or hire a freelance quizmaster.
Second: what does the room look like? You need a screen everyone can see and a signal that reaches the corners. The host device carries the game, so put it on the best connection in the building. Guests mostly use mobile data, and the player screen is only a question, a few buttons and a timer, so it stays light even on tired bar wifi.
Third: what do you want the night to be? A hosted company gives you a consistent, professionally written quiz that is the same standard everywhere. Running it yourself gives you a night that is specific to your bar: local rounds, your branding on the screen, a season table named after the pub, and the freedom to turn Thursday into Music Bingo on Hospitality Group when trivia goes quiet.
Set-up is a laptop plugged into the TV, or a tablet casting to it. The host console lives on one screen and the display window on the other, so the room never sees the answers. Guests scan the QR code, type a team name and they are in. Nobody downloads anything, which matters more than it sounds when half the room is over fifty.
During the night the host reads the question, watches the answers land and moves on. Scoring is automatic. In buzzer rounds the host console locks the first buzz it receives and shows the queue in order, so you always have one ruling to work from. Between rounds the leaderboard goes up on the big screen, and that is usually when the next round of drinks gets ordered.
Over a season you build something the venue owns. The team names, the running table, the regulars who come at the same time every week. If you have several sites, Hospitality Group covers up to three venues from one account. Family Feud, Jeopardy and Music Bingo are on Hospitality Group, and the first two are host-run formats where the host reads the question and awards the points out loud.
A booked quizmaster earns the fee in a lot of venues. Be honest about which one you are.
These come up again and again from owners who moved the night in house.
Free account, one built-in starter pack, ten minutes with the staff after close. It is enough to learn the console and to find the spot where the wifi is thin.
Put your quiz on a different evening from any existing hosted game. You keep both crowds while you find out whether your own night stands up.
Start a league on Trivia Pro, print the table for the wall and put a bar tab on the top spot at the end of the season. That is the part that turns one good night into a habit.
Hosted trivia companies hire quizmasters and bingo callers. If that is your job, or you want it to be, working for a company is a good way to get paid to host without writing a single question.
The bookings that come to you directly are a different matter. A wedding, a fortieth birthday, a staff Christmas party, a fundraiser at the rugby club: those are yours to price and yours to run, and they need software you control. Quizado is that console. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, iPadOS, Android and the web, so the laptop in your gig bag is enough.
Build a set of rounds you can reuse, generate a custom bar trivia round for each client with AI, and put your own logo on the display from Trivia Pro up. Start free while you learn the console, then move up when the private work justifies it. The pricing page has the current plans.
Geeks Who Drink sends a trained performer to your bar with a quiz already written, checked and rehearsed, backed by a long run of doing exactly this. Quizado sends nothing and nobody. We give your staff the tools; a human still has to hold the microphone and care about the room. If nobody in your building wants that job, a hosted quiz night is the better buy and we would rather say so than sell you a console that sits unused.
New to running a night in-house? Start with the bar trivia software overview, then look at the trivia host app if you would rather run everything from a phone or laptop behind the bar.
Start free with the built-in packs, put the QR code on the TV and see how the room reacts. Writing your own question sets starts on Trivia Pro.
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