Trivia Quiz Maker

Make a trivia quiz, play it and print it

This trivia quiz maker lets you write multiple-choice, true/false and short-answer questions, group them by category and points, and then use the same quiz three ways: play it on screen with instant scoring, print it as a question sheet with a separate answer sheet, or export it as JSON to share or edit later.

It is handy for pub quizzes, classroom tests, team icebreakers, family game nights and revision. Options and question order can be shuffled from a seed, so every printed set is identical while answers are not in a predictable position.

It also works as a free quiz maker for students and test maker for teachers: switch on test mode so answers are graded only at the end, print versions A–D with matching answer keys, or copy a self-grading link that opens the quiz on any phone or laptop — no accounts and no server.

Your questions are stored in this browser only and all pages are generated locally — including the vector PDF (pdf-lib) and PNG exports.

How to use the Trivia Quiz Maker

1. Under Questions, choose a Type, write the question, fill in the options (A–D) or the accepted answers, pick the correct one and press Add question. Edit, reorder or delete questions from the list.
2. Give the quiz a title, set a shuffle seed, and tick whether to shuffle questions, shuffle options and show categories.
3. Open Play to run through the quiz: answer, submit, see feedback and the running score, then review every question at the end.
4. Open Print, choose paper and orientation, and Print or Download PDF. The question sheet has tick boxes and answer lines; the answer sheet follows on its own page.
5. Use Export JSON to back up or share the quiz and Import JSON to load it on another device.
6. To let students take it on their own devices, press Copy self-grading link and send the link; it opens straight into the quiz in test mode and shows the score and review at the end.

Trivia Quiz Maker features

JSON format

Export produces an object with title, seed, the shuffle flags and a questions array. Each question has type (mc, tf or short), q, cat, pts and ans: the index of the correct option for multiple choice (with an opts array), true/false, or an array of accepted strings for short answers. Import accepts the same structure or a bare array of questions; invalid entries are skipped.

Sharing a self-grading quiz

The link carries the quiz in the part after #, which browsers never send to a server, so the questions stay between you and the people you send it to. Because the answers are inside the link (encoded, not encrypted), a determined student could decode them — use links for practice, homework and revision, and printed versions for anything that counts. Very long quizzes make very long links; if a chat app cuts the link off, send the exported JSON file instead.

For a formal exam paper with sections, marks per question, internal choice and a school header, use the question paper maker.

Writing better quiz questions

• Keep every option plausible and about the same length — the longest option is often the right one in badly written quizzes.
• Use true/false sparingly; a guess scores 50%. Give those questions one point and harder short answers two or three.
• For short answers, list alternative spellings and partial names (Jane Austen | Austen) so a correct player is not marked wrong.
• Group questions by category so the printed sheet reads in rounds, or shuffle questions for a mixed bag.
• Pair the quiz with a riddle round, a crossword or a word search for a longer evening; for drilling facts one at a time, the Flashcard Maker works better.