Question One sends a quizmaster to pubs in London and beyond for a classic quiz and music bingo night. Quizado is the software a landlord uses to run that same night in-house, with the picture round on the telly and the answers coming in from phones.
Quizado is the Question One alternative for a landlord who wants the weekly quiz to belong to the pub: your own quizmaster, your own questions, picture rounds on the screen you already have, and marking that happens by itself instead of on a clipboard.
Their listings are concentrated around London (questionone.com, checked August 2026). A pub in Leeds or Truro is a longer conversation.
Software travels for nothing. If the pub has broadband and a screen, the quiz can start on Thursday whatever the postcode.
A booked quizmaster works a circuit. Your slot depends on their diary, and a busy Tuesday somewhere else can move or cancel your night.
The person hosting is behind your own bar. If they are on shift, the quiz happens, and any other member of staff can pick up the console.
A traditional picture round means a printer, a stack of grainy photocopies, and a bar full of teams squinting at the same twelve faces.
Media questions put the picture on the big screen at full size from Trivia Pro upwards. Audio and video work the same way, so a picture round can become a clip round.
Somebody has to read forty sheets of handwriting, add the columns and settle the argument about whether a misspelling counts. It always takes longer than the round did.
Typed answers are scored as they arrive and the standings go up on the screen at the end of each round. Nobody adds a column of numbers at eleven at night.
A booking is the same money in January as it is in June. On a wet Tuesday with nine people in, that is a hard line to look at on the P and L.
A monthly software plan does not scale with how quiet the week was, and the free plan lets you run the quiz for nothing while you find out if it works.
Guests praise the host by name. That is a compliment to the quizmaster and a risk to the landlord, because the loyalty walks when the booking ends.
A league table run in your own pub, under your own name, ties the loyalty to the room rather than to whoever holds the microphone. Leagues come in on Trivia Pro.
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Media questions carry an image, a sound clip or a video on the big screen. Trivia Pro and above include them, so the photocopier stays in the office.
A QR code on the screen puts every team into the quiz through the phone browser. No app to fetch, no account to make, no pens to hand out.
Buzzer Race for a fast opener, Everyone Answers for a written round, Everyone Scores so a quiet table still counts, Knockout to thin the field and Wager for the finish. Music Bingo makes a sixth on Hospitality Group.
Name That Tune questions, and a Music Bingo round on Hospitality Group. The pub is responsible for its own music licensing, exactly as it is for the jukebox.
The host controls the pace from a laptop, tablet or phone while the room watches the screen. Open the next question when the bar is served, not when a timer says so.
Use the built-in packs on any plan. Writing your own sets and letting AI generation draft a bar trivia round from a topic both start on Trivia Pro, which comes with monthly AI credits.
Question One describes itself as an entertainment company running pub quizzes and music bingo. Their words for the offer are that the classic pub quiz and music bingo format suits any pub, bar or restaurant, and that it can be tailored for a private event (questionone.com, checked August 2026). The site invites venues to enquire and lists UK and Australian contact numbers.
Their published listings are concentrated around London. Testimonials on the site praise the quizmaster rather than the question sheet, which is what a good hosted quiz sells: a person who can hold a room.
No rate for a venue night appears on the site, so a landlord comparing costs should enquire rather than guess. What is clear from the listings is the shape of the decision: if your pub is inside their patch and the night they can offer suits you, booking is straightforward. If you are outside it, or you want a quiz on a night nobody can cover, the answer has to be to run it yourself.
The picture round is the part of a British pub quiz that everybody remembers and nobody enjoys preparing. Twelve celebrity faces or twelve pub signs, printed on A4, photocopied enough times for every table, handed out with a pen, collected back in, marked. It takes an afternoon of staff time and the copies always come out grey.
Quizado does the same round through the screen. From Trivia Pro up a question can carry an image, and the external display window puts it on the telly or the projector at full size and in colour. Teams look up, argue, and type the answer on the phone. There is no answer sheet in Quizado, printable or otherwise, so if part of the appeal is the paper itself this is a genuine change to how your night feels.
The same mechanism gives you rounds a photocopier never could. Audio questions turn the picture round into an intro round. Video questions let you use a clip. Name That Tune slots straight in. The pub still needs its own music licence for anything it plays, exactly as it does for the jukebox, and that responsibility stays with the pub.
The honest objection to running the quiz in-house is that hosting is a skill. A booked quizmaster has done it two hundred times and knows how to fill the gap while the bar catches up. The first time one of your own staff does it, they will talk too fast and read a question wrong. That is normal and it passes after three weeks.
What software can do is remove everything that is not the talking. The console shows the host the next question and the answer. The screen shows the room the question, the timer and the table. Scores are added as answers arrive, so there is no marking break and no arithmetic. All the host has to do is read clearly, keep it moving and be reasonable about spelling.
Start smaller than you think. Four rounds of eight, one picture round, a wager to finish, done in ninety minutes. Run it once with the staff on a closed afternoon so the mistakes happen in private.
A hosted night is the better answer for plenty of pubs, and it is worth saying so.
Four reasons landlords give for taking the quiz in-house.
Same start time, same number of rounds, same break at halfway, picture round in the middle. Change the technology, not the routine.
The join QR code goes on the tables and on the screen. Ask each team to nominate one phone as the captain, which keeps the huddle exactly as it was with a sheet.
Open a league on Trivia Pro that runs for ten weeks with a table on the wall. It turns the first in-house night into the start of something rather than the week the visiting quizmaster stopped coming.
If you host quizzes for a company, you are already doing the difficult half of this job. You know how to read a room, when to slow down and how to handle the table that argues about everything. What you do not own is the night, the material or the relationship with the pub.
A freelance quizmaster can run Quizado for their own bookings. The free plan is enough to trial a pub that no company covers, using the built-in starter packs. Trivia Pro is where writing your own question sets starts, and it puts your logo on the display, gives you picture, audio and video rounds, monthly AI credits for new material between gigs, and league tables so the landlord can see the night growing. Family Feud, Jeopardy and Music Bingo are on Hospitality Group, which also covers up to three venues and adds custom fonts and colours.
You carry a laptop or a tablet, plug into whatever screen the pub has and the night runs. Question sets you write stay in your account, so a quiz you build for one Tuesday can be reused across the circuit. Check your own agreement before taking work near a venue you already cover for someone else.
Question One supplies a trained quizmaster, writes the questions and turns up. Their guests name the host in reviews for a reason. Quizado supplies none of that: no person, no weekly question service, no arrival at 19:30. We are the software the host drives, we have no printable answer sheet, and we do not work without an internet connection. If what the pub needs is somebody else to run Thursday, book them.
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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