Big teams, big turnout, a different host every week

A union quiz is not eleven tables of four. It is thirty tables of six, or a hundred and fifty people in a room that was built to hold them, and the scale is the first thing that breaks a system designed for a pub.

Pro covers up to fifty tables per venue, which is enough for most union nights. Ultimate removes the limit, and is what a big weekly night or a freshers' event wants. Neither charges per player, so a night that doubles in size does not cost more.

Teams of eight are normal here, and eight people do not need eight phones. Team mode gives the table one shared score, so whoever is holding the phone answers for the group and the other seven argue at them, which is the actual social experience a union quiz is selling.

It also sidesteps the flat-battery problem, which in a room of students at ten at night is not hypothetical.

Union staff and sabbatical officers rotate, often mid-year, and the person running the quiz may have been handed it that afternoon. Anything that requires training will eventually be run by somebody who did not get it.

The host view is a pack, a question count and a start button, with each question launched by hand. If more than one person needs their own login rather than sharing one, Ultimate covers up to five host accounts, which is usually what a union with a rota actually needs.

Pop Culture and Music carry a student crowd in a way General Knowledge does not, and a quiz that opens with a broad round loses the room before it has started.

The rounds that land hardest are the ones about the union itself: the building, the bar prices, the lecturer everybody has an opinion about. Those are custom packs you write once and reuse for years, since the audience turns over completely every three.