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Paper Pub Quizzes, or Virtual?
Mar
When the pandemic hit the country, many pubs and bars had to find new ways to keep in contact with their customers. This resulted in virtual quizzes growing in popularity. Years have passed since lockdown, many of us are still questioning whether in-person paper pub quizzes are better than virtual ones.
At Quiz on Demand, we create easy to use and hassle-free PDF quizzes that you can print out immediately for your next pub quiz, or use as a digital question sheet. This means you can get on with promoting your quiz and preparing your pub, and leave us to do the hard quiz-planning work for you.
Are paper or virtual pub quizzes more popular?
Generally speaking, paper pub quizzes were always the most popular option until lockdown came around. Since then, there has been a rise in virtual pub quizzes, with many people preferring to stay home and complete the quiz instead of venturing out to the pub.
However, that doesn’t mean the traditional paper quiz has become obsolete. Actually, a huge number of quiz lovers have returned back to the pub since the pandemic for the full pub quiz experience, and new quizzers are venturing out too!
Paper vs Virtual Quizzes: Preparation
You may be surprised to learn that the preparation for a pub quiz is essentially the same for both paper and online quizzes. Either way, you will still need to prepare the questions and answers, as well as potentially deciding on a theme, which can be the trickiest part.
However, when you make a virtual quiz, you will have to put in a little bit of extra work by making a presentation that you can use on the night of the quiz. This can be quite time consuming, especially since you will need to make double the slides for the questions and answers.
At Quiz on Demand, we make preparing paper pub quizzes easy and we have a huge number of quizzes to choose from. We research all the questions and answers for you, meaning that all you need to do is print them out and hand them over to your teams on the night.
This leaves you with plenty of time to promote your pub quiz, and you won’t need to worry at all about making any well designed presentations.
Paper vs Virtual Quizzes: Engagement
As long as your quiz is entertaining, you should have great engagement either way. However, you should be cautious with virtual quizzes. If you don’t have a quiz that captures everyone’s attention, it can be easy for people to leave the quiz or be distracted by their phones.
When you host a paper quiz in your pub, there is less of a chance of participants leaving. Generally speaking, even if people aren’t too interested in the quiz, they will still have a good go at it and make a night of it at the pub anyway. Being surrounded by other quiz goers will also usually help to keep the engagement high, as people will want to beat those around them. It may be not as likely to get that sort of engagement with virtual quizzes.
You can also head over to our dedicated guide if you think you will lose engagement by your quizzes being too easy or too hard. At Quiz on Demand, we aim to make the perfect balance of questions, meaning you won’t have to worry about the difficulty levels.
Paper vs Virtual Quizzes: Accessibility
While virtual quizzes are great for encouraging a wide range of people outside of your local area to join, they can sometimes limit your audience. Not everyone is well versed in technology, and some may not have a device like a laptop, tablet or mobile with online capabilities that they can join with, or feel confident in doing so. This may cut out a lot of your regular pub quiz goers.
A paper quiz however, is accessible to just about everyone who comes into your pub. You might miss out on the few who would rather stay at home than travel out for a quiz, but you are much more likely to have your regulars as well as some newcomers.
When you use our paper quizzes from Quiz on Demand, you don’t need to worry about the format being too complicated either. Our answer sheets are extremely straight forward, making them suitable for just about everyone.
Paper vs Virtual Quizzes: Cheating
When you host a virtual quiz, it can be hard to know whether your participants are being truthful about their answers or not. People can hide behind their screens and use their phones to secretly search for the answer.
When you host a paper quiz in your pub, there is a lesser chance of cheating because teams will not only have yourself and bar staff watching them, but they will also have other teams keeping an eye on them too. You can read our full guide on how to stop cheating at your pub quizzes for more information.
