Stump Trivia built its name on a travelling host, a stack of paper and a marker pen. Quizado runs the same kind of night from your own bar, with the questions on your TV and the answers typed on the phone every guest already carries.
Quizado is the Stump Trivia alternative for a bar that wants the quiz on its own calendar: you host it yourself, guests answer on their phones instead of a paper answer sheet, and the scoring adds itself up on the screen behind the bar.
A hosted trivia company can only put a night in a room where it has a free host on a free evening. Plenty of bars sit on a waiting list, or sit outside the map altogether.
Quizado does not care where your bar is. You pick the night because it is your slowest one, not because a host had a gap in the diary.
Every paper round ends the same way. Sheets come in, one person reads twenty of them, and the bar goes quiet for five minutes while everybody waits for a score.
Typed answers are scored as they land. The leaderboard is on the TV the moment the round closes, so the next round starts while the room is still loud.
Was that a five or an S. Did they write Reagan or Regan. Paper answer sheets create a small dispute almost every week, and the host has to settle it in front of the room.
Answers arrive typed and time-stamped on the host screen, so there is nothing to squint at and nothing to reconstruct after the fact.
A booked night comes with a question set written for a wide audience. None of it is about your beer garden, your street or the local team.
From Trivia Pro you own the question list. Add a round about your own beer garden, the local team or the street outside, and generate it with your monthly AI credits when you are short of time.
A hosted night is a line on the weekly invoice whether forty people turn up or eleven do. The quiet weeks cost exactly the same as the busy ones.
Start free with the built-in packs and run a real night for nothing. Move to a paid plan when the room is big enough to need it, and see the pricing page for the current figures.
A single quiz night is entertainment. It only turns into a habit when teams have something to come back and defend.
Leagues and seasons, on Trivia Pro and up, keep a table running for weeks, so the team in second place has a reason to book the same table again.
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Guests scan a QR code and answer in the phone browser. There is no app to install, no account to make and no stack of sheets to print before doors.
An external display window puts the question, the timer and the standings on any TV or projector, so the whole room can see who is winning without asking.
Buzzer Race, Everyone Answers, Everyone Scores, Knockout and Wager, with Music Bingo making six on Hospitality Group. Change the shape of the night without changing the software.
Type a topic and AI generation writes a bar trivia round. Edit anything that is wrong before it reaches the screen. Monthly AI credits start on Trivia Pro.
Run a league across a season so results carry from one week to the next. Teams chase a position rather than a single bar tab. Leagues and seasons are on Trivia Pro and up.
There are apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, iPadOS and Android, plus the web app. The office laptop behind the bar is enough.
Checked in August 2026, stumptrivia.com no longer serves its own site. The address returns a permanent redirect to the Sporcle events pages at sporcle.com. If you are searching for Stump Trivia because you played it in a bar in New England, that is where the trail now leads.
The Sporcle events site describes live pub trivia at bars around the country, with roughly 20,000 people playing in a given week (sporcle.com/events, checked August 2026). It has a section for pub owners who want a night added, a page for private events and a virtual trivia option. No venue rate is published on that page, so ask them directly for a quote.
That is a real service and a lot of venues are happy with it. What it is not is something you control. The night exists while a host is assigned to your room, and the format is theirs. If you want the quiz to belong to the bar, you need the console rather than the booking.
A classic answer sheet round is simple. The host reads a category and eight or ten questions. Each team has one printed sheet with numbered boxes, and the captain writes the answers in while the table argues. At the end of the round a runner collects the sheets, the host marks them against a key, and the running totals get read out before the next category starts.
It has genuine strengths. Paper needs no signal, costs almost nothing, and the shared sheet forces a team to talk to each other instead of six people staring at six phones. The weaknesses are just as familiar: the printing, the pens that vanish, the marking gap between rounds, and the argument about whether that letter was an S or a five.
Quizado replaces the sheet with the phone. There is no printable answer sheet in the product and no PDF to run off before doors, so if paper is the part you love, this is not the tool for you. What happens instead is that each player joins by QR code, sees the question on their own screen, and types the answer there. In an Everyone Answers round every phone in the room submits and everything is scored at once. In a Buzzer Race round the host console locks the first buzz it receives.
Teams still work the way they always did. Most venues that switch keep the table as the unit and nominate one phone per team as the captain device, which puts the huddle back and stops six people entering six different guesses. The sheet is gone, the conversation is not, and the marking gap disappears because the totals are already on the TV when the round closes.
Hosted trivia companies quote per venue and per night, and they do not publish rates, so the only honest advice is to ask for their number and put it beside your covers. Whatever it is, it repeats every week, and it repeats on the quiet weeks too.
In-house the shape of the cost is different. Start free with the built-in packs, phone buzzers, the big-screen display and up to sixteen players, on no card. Paid plans lift the player cap and add the premium question library. Writing your own question sets starts on Trivia Pro, which also adds media rounds, monthly AI credits, leagues and a custom logo. Hospitality Group adds Family Feud, Jeopardy, Music Bingo, bulk import and up to three venues. The pricing page has the current numbers.
The part nobody puts in the spreadsheet is the labour. A booked host is somebody else standing at the microphone for two hours. In-house, that is one of your people, and the honest test is whether anybody on the rota wants the job. The console is not the hard part, but the microphone still needs a human holding it.
Booking a company is the right call more often than software vendors like to admit.
These are the reasons bars give when they take the quiz in-house.
Make a free account, put a ten-question round from a built-in pack on the TV on a Monday and let the bar staff play it. You will know within twenty minutes whether the room takes to phone answers.
Print the join code on the table tents and put it on the screen between rounds. Teams keep their names from the paper era, which matters more to them than you think.
Open a league table on the first in-house night, on Trivia Pro or above. It gives the room a reason to treat week one as the start of something rather than the week the old host left.
Hosts are half the audience for this page. If you already run another company show two nights a week, you know the format works and you know the venues in your area by name. What you do not have is a night that belongs to you.
A freelance quizmaster can run Quizado for their own bookings. The free plan is enough to audition a room with the built-in packs. Trivia Pro puts your own logo on the display instead of a company one, and adds media rounds with image, audio and video, your own question sets, monthly AI credits, and leagues so a venue can see the night building week on week. Hospitality Group covers up to three venues if you are booked in more than one.
Nothing here stops you doing both. Keep the shifts you are given, take the bookings the company cannot cover, and use the same laptop for both. The question sets you write in Quizado stay yours.
A hosted company sends a trained person who has done the job hundreds of times, brings their own gear, writes the questions and handles the room. That is a service, and Quizado is not a service. We are the software the person at the microphone drives. We also do not print answer sheets, do not work offline and do not supply a host. If what you actually want is somebody else to show up on Wednesday, 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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