How to Make a Quiz

Last Updated: February 16, 2023 References

Quizzes are a fun and entertaining way to learn about a variety of topics. Whether creating obscure trivia questions or writing hilarious personality traits, creating your own quiz can be a fun and challenging endeavor. Check your facts and be creative to make an effective quiz. Use the creative flair and templates of online quiz makers like Buzzfeed to help guide and inspire you.

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Creating a Trivia Quiz

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Choose a topic. Depending on the length of your quiz, organize the questions into categories. You may also want to organize each category under a single topic. For example, you can create a sports trivia quiz with individual sports as each category so you have 10 questions for basketball, 10 for football, and 10 for baseball.
- When choosing categories, choose ones that you're knowledgeable on or passionate about so that it will be easier for you to find the answers and write your questions creatively.
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Title and design your trivia quiz. A creative title and cohesive design can both give your trivia quiz a sense of cohesion and professionalism. Eye-catching design can draw more participants and make your quiz go viral if you are posting it on social media sites.

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Compose fun and comprehensive questions. Create well-written and engaging questions to keep your audience wanting to move on to the next question. Try to create each question as its own game by providing the answer immediately afterwards.
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Vary the difficulty of your questions. Keep your audience in mind. If your quiz is meant for young children, make sure the questions are age appropriate. If your quiz is meant for a broad audience, mix up the difficulty level. A quiz should be challenging no matter who your audience is but it should also be rewarding so keep the difficulty of the questions varied from moderate to expert level.
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Enjoy yourself while writing your questions. If you are not having fun then chances are your audience won’t either. Let your passion come across. Remember that this is a form of entertainment so keep yourself entertained and imagine your audience laughing or becoming amused at each question.
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Base your trivia on facts. Trivia is fun because it’s an entertaining way to learn something new. The element of surprise or having your audience say, “wow, I didn’t know that” should motivate your questions.”
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Keep your quiz short. People have short attention spans especially if you’re planning to post your quiz online. Ask yourself what the best outcome would be because you don’t want to spend 2 hours of hard work creating a quiz that people only want to take for 10 minutes. Keep things fresh and fun for both you and the participants.
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Create answers that not only educate but also entertain. The construction of the answers to trivia questions are just as important as the questions themselves. Make sure that you have the facts correct and that you adequately explain why someone got an answer wrong.
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Post on a social media site. There are several apps available to create trivia quizzes. Whether for fun or business, research what apps are best for creating and embedding your trivia quizz.

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Creating a Personality Quiz

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Design with purpose. People have an innate yearning to know more about themselves. Attention to detail can draw more people to your quiz because it will feel personalized. Create a custom background related to the content of your quiz. Include people in your quiz to give your audience someone to relate to.^{[1]
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- A bland personality quiz can be overlooked because it may subconsciously say to a person that he has a bland personality. Colourful and distinct images are more likely to draw attention to your quiz.
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Create your results first and work backwards. Once you know what personality someone is going to achieve, you can work backwards in writing questions to help them achieve this end result. For example, if your personality quiz is “Which Star Wars character are you?”, you can choose the main characters like Yoda and Darth Vader as possible outcomes. Now you can choose images and construct questions based on either a Yoda or Darth Vader result.^{[2]
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Let fun dictate the results. Personality quizzes are popular because of the final results. If you err on the side of positivity, chances are your quiz will be popular. Have fun and be creative but keep your audience in mind when conceiving your results. Create results that will seem personal and reward the person taking your quiz. Random results can be just as alienating as negative ones because it may make the person feel like he just wasted his time after receiving a random result.^{[3]
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- For example, a personality quiz similar to "what kind of animal are you" could provide bear as a good result. The description could be something along the lines of "While you enjoy a good refreshing slumber and may get cranky when you're hungry, everyone knows how much you love your children and that giant hugs were named after you." This description is fun and seems personal because it reflects how a bear protects her cubs while using "bear hugs" as an indicator of warmth. Both of which can be relatable to a lot of people.
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Inject your personality or a distinct tone to your quiz. Whether you’re snarky or optimistic, create questions with a distinct flair. It is a fine line between creating a result that is fun and personal. Tone and humour don’t translate well over text, especially when the person taking the quiz doesn’t know the person who wrote it.^{[4]
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- For example, a snarky quiz title could be along the lines of "Which 90s one-hit wonder are you?"
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Create unambiguous questions. Write questions that are simple and straight to the point. Be concise. People want to finish quickly and don’t want to be bogged down with complicated description.^{[5]
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Get creative with your title. The first thing that will draw someone to take your quiz is the title. A person will want to know how they relate to your given title so make sure that it is bold and compelling. For example, a good title could be "Which apocalypse are you most likely to survive: zombie, vampire, robot, or puppy?"
- 5 tools for creating a catchy titles are: using the phrase “How much do you actually know about (insert topic)”, using celebrity, using an adjective, placing someone as a type, and comparing people to popular items. For example, you can use a celebrity in your title like “Which Walking Dead Character are you?” An example of using an adjective for a title would be something like, “How fit are you?” A title placing someone as a type would be something like “How big of a Bro are you?” A title that compares popular items would be similar to “Which brunch meal are?”

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Creating a BuzzFeed Type Quiz

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Choose what type of quiz you want to create. Choose from 6 types of quizzes: standard, single question, % correct quiz, personality quiz, checklist quiz, or image checklist quiz.^{[6]
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- A standard quiz has a single correct answer but the person taking the quiz has several options to choose from. As she answers each question, she is immediately told whether she got the answer right or wrong.
- A single questions quiz is just one question and one answer.
- A % correct quiz is not like a standard quiz in that the person taking the quiz does not know whether his answers are right or wrong until he is finished the quiz and learns what percentage of the quiz he got right.
- A Personality Quiz allows the person taking the quiz to choose from a variety of answers. Each answer has been assigned to a different result. The more answers that line up to a specific result determines the final outcome.
- A Checklist Quiz poses a question with numerous possible answers. People can check off all that is applicable to them from this list and share that number with others who have also taken the quiz. An Image Checklist Quiz is similar but uses images over text.
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Create an eye-catching name. Get creative and title your quiz something that will make it stick out. Appeal to an audience using humour and intrigue.^{[7]
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Utilize snark and sass. Create your quiz using a conversational tone, injecting as much personality as you can. Make your reader part of the joke. It’s a fine line between sarcasm and offensive but you want to avoid bland writing as well.^{[8]
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- Write persuasively and emphasize positivity. The person taking the quiz wants to feel gratified for taking the time to answer your questions. Pay them off with humour or a positive message about themselves.
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Choose funny or provocative images. Bold images can help people immediately visualize the message you’re trying to get across. A face can draw a person in while a short blurb tells the rest of the story.^{[9]
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- Use images and content that you have the rights to if using your quiz for the public. Make sure that you only use original content or have received permission to use someone else’s work.^{[10]
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Write with an audience in mind. It will be easier to create your quiz if you picture who will be taking it. Speak directly to that person to keep your quiz focused and fun. This will also make your quiz personal and create a connection with the person taking it.^{[11]
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Keep it short. Most quizzes should be less than 10 questions, especially if you’re creating it for a social media site. People have short attention spans online.^{[12]
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Community Q&A

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Where do I click to create a Buzzfeed quiz?

Community Answer

Log into Buzzfeed, click your profile pic in the upper-right corner, and select "New Post". You can then select "Quiz" as the type of post.

Warnings

If you are posting a quiz for public use, make sure you have permission to use any copyrighted content.

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Edit your quiz for grammar and spelling errors.

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Don't ask offensive or mean spirited questions that could alienate your audience. A dry sense of humor and sarcasm don’t translate well over text.

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Double check sources to ensure your facts are rights.

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