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As of 13 August 2026, AI can write pub quiz questions.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

30 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsThe available tool data does not provide a price for a human pub quiz-writing service.

If this goes wrong: a player spots a wrong or ambiguous answer and you replace the question or award the point differently.

What to actually do

  1. Hand it to a person

    The route this page recommends

    A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

  2. Do it yourself

    Second choice

    A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Decide the number of rounds, questions per round, audience, difficulty and subjects, then write those choices down.
    2. Open a chatbot and paste the prompt, replacing each bracketed slot with your choices and adding any topics or question types you want.
    3. Ask the chatbot to produce the questions, explanations, source links and separate answer sheet in one response.
    4. Copy the draft into a document and remove questions that are too obscure, repetitive, unsuitable for your group or dependent on current facts you cannot source.
    5. Open the supplied source links and compare every answer, date, quotation, spelling and explanation against the source, replacing any question marked CHECK.
    6. Read each final question aloud and edit wording that is ambiguous, gives away the answer or has more than one defensible answer.
    7. Print or share the question sheet and keep the checked answer sheet separate for the quiz host.

    Prompt

    Write a pub quiz for [number of players or teams] in the UK.

Create [number of rounds] rounds with [number of questions per round] questions in each round. Use these subjects and proportions: [subjects]. Set the difficulty at [easy, mixed or challenging] for [audience]. Include a mix of question types, but do not use visual, audio or specialist equipment unless requested.

For each question, provide:
1. The question only.
2. The accepted answer.
3. A short explanation of the answer.
4. A reliable source link for any factual claim that may be disputed or has changed over time.

Use British English and UK-relevant references where appropriate. Avoid trick questions, questions with multiple reasonable answers, obscure spelling disputes, unsafe content and questions based on current events unless I provide the source material. Do not invent facts, sources, quotations, records or dates. If you are not confident that an answer is correct, label the question CHECK rather than guessing.

After the questions, provide a separate answer sheet in round order. Keep the wording suitable for reading aloud in a pub. Do not repeat a question or answer. Make the questions varied and entertaining without relying on puns in every round.

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

  3. Use a tool built for this

    The distant third

What it gets wrong

  • It cannot know what your particular group will find funny, fair or appropriately difficult without examples from you.
  • It invents or misstates facts, especially for current events, records, quotations and niche subjects, so the answer sheet needs checking.
  • It cannot guarantee that a question has only one accepted answer when wording is vague or cultural knowledge is involved.
  • It does not reliably judge the pace, atmosphere or running jokes of your pub quiz.
  • It cannot replace the host's decision on disputed answers during the event.

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: taste, real time truth and verification cost.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs2
Verification1
Liability2
Effort delta2
Total9 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT make a pub quiz?
Yes. It can draft rounds, questions, answers and an answer sheet, but you should check every factual answer and remove ambiguous questions before using it.
How do I get AI to write good quiz questions?
Give it the number of rounds, subjects, audience, difficulty and question format you want. Tell it to use British English, avoid multiple reasonable answers and flag anything it cannot verify instead of guessing.
Can AI write funny pub quiz questions?
It can suggest playful wording and themed rounds, but humour depends on your particular group and setting. Give it examples of the tone you want, then keep only questions that sound natural when read aloud.
Are AI-generated quiz answers accurate?
Not consistently enough to use without checking. Compare each answer and any supplied source with a reliable reference, particularly for current facts, dates, quotations, records and specialist subjects.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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