Five question packs, included on every plan

Five packs are included on every plan, including the free session. You do not have to write a question to run your first quiz night.

You choose how many questions a session uses, which is what makes a pack last. Taking twenty questions from a pack of many leaves the rest for next week, and a venue running one night a week gets months out of the five before anything repeats.

It also means you can size the night to the room. A quiet Tuesday with three tables wants a shorter quiz than a full Friday, and that is a number you set when you start the session rather than a different pack.

Most venues do not run one pack end to end. They take a round from General Knowledge, a round from Music, a round from whichever pack suits the crowd in front of them, and finish on something the room will argue about on the way out.

The order matters more than the content. Open with something broad so every table scores in the first round and nobody writes the night off early; put the hardest round third or fourth, while people are still concentrating; finish with a round that is fun rather than difficult.

Any pack can be previewed in full, questions and answers, before you host it. It takes five minutes and it is the single most useful thing you can do before a quiz night.

You are looking for three things: a question that has gone out of date since it was written, three questions in a row about the same subject, and anything that is going to start an argument you do not want to referee.

The included packs cannot know that your village lost its post office in 1994, or that the away end at the local ground holds four thousand. A local round is the thing regulars talk about, and it is the reason most venues end up writing some of their own questions eventually.

Custom packs sit alongside the built-in ones rather than replacing them, so the usual shape is four rounds from a pack and one you wrote yourself.