The title of the quiz should be fun and timely
If the title of the quiz makes people smile, you have a winner you can run any time of the year (“Famous Movie Quotes”).
If it’s timely, you have a winner for a particular season (“Test Your Holiday Knowledge”).
But, if you combine them at the right time, you’ll hit a home run (“Holiday Movie Quotes”).
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Strategize the topics your questions will cover
10 question trivia quizzes are perfect because you can easily compute your percentage. You got 8 out of 10. What is your percentage? It’s easy to calculate – 80%.
If you’re ready to get the quiz out the door, use the AI quiz generator to help you quickly craft questions and answer options all from a single prompt. If you’re looking to wordsmith your questions a bit more, first come up with a strategy. For a Holiday Movie Quotes Trivia quiz, research the top holiday movies ever made and potentially what the top quotes from those movies were.
Make it as engaging as a roller coaster
Make the first question funny and easy. It gives people the confidence to continue on with the quiz. Put the harder questions in the middle and right towards the end.
Think of it like a roller coaster – don’t just go up and then down; go up and down and all around at different heights.
Here’s an example of how you could order a Holiday Movie Quotes Trivia quiz:
Also consider adding a timer and gamification to your quiz. A set amount of time to complete a quiz adds a thrilling aspect, and the ability to gain or lose points and share your results with your friends will help increase the viral nature of your quiz.
The real art of writing trivia is the wrong answers
Have a goal in mind before you set out. For example, your goal could be for the average person to get 7 out of 10 correct.
Have at least one tough question. Make it tougher by having all the answers seem nearly identical. You can tell immediately here that this quote is from an old movie…but which one?
However, if you make all your answers really tough then people will score poorly, and why would they share a trivia quiz that they bombed? Here’s an example of an easier question:
However, if you make the quiz too easy, it’s also not quite as fun. If the other 3 answers in the example above had been A Christmas Story, White Christmas, and It’s a Wonderful Life, it would have been too obvious. VCRs didn’t even exist in the era those movies are set.
You should also avoid questions like, “What year did such and such happen?” If it’s nearly impossible to guess the answer, it just isn’t as much fun. Your quiz should be a game of skill and not blind luck. If you do use years, at least spread out the possible answers over decades or centuries.
You can tell if you’ve done a good job by getting friends, family, and coworkers to play your quiz and then looking at the distribution of answers.
Make it sharable
One of the best things about taking a quiz is seeing how you compare to others and sharing it with family and friends. Turn on summary of all choices that led to their result and cumulative results for everyone who took the quiz so users can see at a glance what they got right and wrong and how they compare to the rest of your audience.
Happy Quizzing
Quizzes can be a blast to make. If you consider these 5 tips, you’re much more likely to build a viral winner. At the end of the day, your real goal should be for the player to want to invite others to play as well.
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