Trivia Resources

Trivia Warehouse has been writing questions and supplying trivia hosts for years. This is where we put what we have learned — how to host, how to write questions, what equipment actually holds up, and how to make a trivia night worth a venue's money.

Everything here is written from operating experience, not rewritten from other websites. Where a fact can change — a price, a product, a legal requirement — we date it and say where it came from.

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Start a Trivia Business

For anyone weighing trivia as a side income or a full company.

Pillar guide

The Complete Guide to Starting a Trivia Business

  • What it actually costs to start
  • How much trivia hosts make
  • Pricing a weekly night
  • Licensing and insurance questions
In development

Host Better Trivia Nights

For working hosts who want a tighter, better-run room.

Pillar guide

How to Host a Trivia Night: The Complete Guide

  • Pacing, timing and how long a night should run
  • Explaining rules so nobody argues later
  • Handling cheating, phones and disputed answers
  • Breaking ties and ending on time
In development

Write Better Trivia Questions

For hosts and companies writing their own material.

Pillar guide

How to Write Great Trivia Questions

  • What separates a good question from a bad one
  • Avoiding ambiguity and alternate answers
  • Fact-checking and sourcing
  • Building difficulty across a game
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Equipment and Supplies

For hosts buying or replacing gear.

Pillar guide

The Complete Trivia Night Equipment Guide

  • Speakers, microphones and how much power you need
  • Preventing feedback in a loud room
  • Answer sheets, pens and table supplies
  • What to keep in a backup kit
In development

Bar and Restaurant Trivia

For venue owners and managers deciding whether to run trivia.

Pillar guide

The Complete Guide to Running Trivia at a Bar or Restaurant

  • What trivia costs and what to pay a host
  • Choosing a trivia company
  • Trivia compared with karaoke and live music
  • Why some trivia nights fail
In development

Corporate and Private Trivia

For anyone planning trivia for a company, school or fundraiser.

Pillar guide

How to Plan a Corporate Trivia Event

  • Virtual compared with in-person
  • Team sizes and run time
  • Holiday parties and client events
  • Charity and school fundraiser planning
In development

Trivia Game Design

For people building the game itself, not just running it.

Pillar guide

How to Design a Great Trivia Game

  • Round structures and wagering systems
  • Scoring, bonuses and a fair final question
  • Preventing runaway scores
  • Picture, audio and name-that-tune rounds
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Marketing and Growth

For hosts and venues trying to fill tables every week.

Pillar guide

How to Promote a Trivia Night

  • Launching a brand-new night
  • Getting teams to come back
  • Table tents, social posts and listings
  • Local search for trivia companies
In development

History, Culture and Psychology

For the curious — why any of this works at all.

Pillar guides

Why Do People Love Trivia? · A History of Trivia and Pub Quizzes

  • Where the word trivia came from
  • Why it feels good to know an answer
  • Memory, recall and competition
  • The psychology of team names
In development

Occasion and Holiday Guides

For planning a themed or seasonal night.

Guides

Christmas, Halloween, New Year’s Eve and more

  • Suggested categories and timing
  • Audience considerations
  • Promotion for a one-off night
  • Decade and theme nights
In development

About this resource center. We are building this in phases rather than publishing everything at once. Each department gets a comprehensive pillar guide first, then focused articles that answer one question thoroughly.

Want to know how we research and check what we publish? Read How We Write and Fact-Check Trivia.

TRIVIA QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Served just the way you like it.

You’re hosting a successful trivia night… and everybody’s having a good time! But all of a sudden, you know you’ve got a problem. The answer you gave to the last question was wrong, and people are on their cell phones, furiously Googling the right answer. As a trivia host, it’s the worst feeling in the world. It can destroy your credibility in an instant, and we’re here to make sure it never happens to you. OR You’re hosting a great trivia night but your questions are getting stale. It takes a few hours each week to research and write new questions, and you’re pretty sure your regulars have heard some of your material before. It would be so much easier if there was an easy source of quality questions out there. We know it’s not easy coming up with great trivia questions week after week, but we’ve got your back!

We’re here with a few options! The easiest would be to sign up for our paid weekly questions below. We custom craft 60+ high-quality trivia questions and send them directly to your inbox for as little as $0.10 per question or just north of $6 a week. It sounds too good to be true!? Right!? Give us a shot, if you sign up for the monthly plan, you get the first month FREE!

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