I hosted a quiz, and made an app to help

I finally did what I've been wanting to do for a while: host trivia! The old-fashioned way. Pen + paper. At a pub. Hand-written questions. No, Claude DID NOT write questions for me. I think it's actually pretty bad at that.

Since I'm chronically on Wikipedia, I'm usually gathering trivia anyway. Coming up with questions was just a mindset switch of: how can this interesting fact be a question?

Of course, since this is the first time, it took a LONG time. I pulled about half my questions from my brother, who does this regularly.

The Quizzer app: a sidebar of quizzes and an inbox, and the quiz as a document with numbered questions, highlighted answers, and category and difficulty tags — Fig. 1 — The quiz as a document. Each question has its answer, a category, a difficulty, and tags; the ones from my brother are marked.

I had some ideas about how I wanted it structured: 3 rounds, 13 questions each. I wanted a progression of medium → easy → hard → medium, with evenly distributed topics. I also wanted to fact-check my questions and store them for reference. This is where Claude came in. I had it make a quick application to manage the questions, load in my brother's questions, sort through them, rank the difficulty, and fact-check them. When it was time, I could view the quiz for reading, showing or hiding answers.

The presenter view: a dark full-screen page with one round per tab, big numbered questions, and an Answer button next to each — Fig. 2 — The reading view, exported as one HTML file. Space marks a question done, Enter reveals its answer, and there's a grading view for marking.

Works pretty well! To someone out there who has a business making quiz software: I'm sorry. AI has trivialised this!

Here's the export from the app, which is what I used while I read the questions. See how many you can get!

Trivia 1 →