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Creating a quiz just takes a few minutes. Use the links to edit, delete, or start a quiz session. The audience can join the session by flashing the QRCode. You get instant feedback and interaction.

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Once a session starts, the audience has 30s to answer (that delay is customizable). Then you can show the results and directly interact with them.

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QuizZoodle is for any professional who needs to interact with an audience: researcher, teacher, salesperson... It is also useful for individuals, for weddings, parties...

People interact through their own connected devices (smartphone, computer, laptop...)

When a session starts, a QRCode and a session code are displayed. The audience can connect at any time using those codes, which remain on screen during the whole presentation.

When you reach a slide that has a question or survey, a countdown shows up, and the audience is prompted to answer with their devices.

When either the countdown is over, or everybody has replied, the results are shown as graphical diagrams.

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Add support for up to 8 answers

February 2015.

You can now define quizzes and surveys with up to 8 answers in your pdf presentations.

Add pdf support, minor fixes

Septembre 2014.

Create your quiz from your own presentation. By using tags, you can include QuizZoodle into your presentation (powerpoint, Keynote, LaTeX...).

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I'm an Associate Professor at LaBRI/ENSEIRB-MATMECA (Bordeaux INP) since 2006. I teach courses in the computer sciences department. I'm the founder of QuizZoodle and I use it all the time for my presentations. Let me know what you think about QuizZoodle, and of course, spread the word around you!

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I'm an agile coach. In my job I need engagement from working teams or trainees audience. QuizZoodle is an easy tool to interact so I can get live feedback. It's also an effective way to let the participants play with the knowledge we share.

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I'm a mathematics teacher at ESIA. QuizZoodle breaks the rhythm of my classes: 5 minutes, 10 questions! Take your smartphones and go! On each session, an email gives me the results and student scores. QuizZoodle works easily with my Beamer presentation, try it and adopt!

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How to Create a Quiz in PowerPoint

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Step 2. Create the question and the incorrect and correct answers

To make a question slide, move on to the next slide and type the question in the text box. Instead of questions, you can also use incomplete sentences, phrases, or mathematical equations. Add a picture that will illustrate your ideas well and serve visual communication.

Add reply options to your question: the correct answer and the incorrect ones. Go to the Insert tab and click the Text Box button. Type in the first option, then continue to add the rest of them in a presentation.

Multiple-choice questions typically contain one correct answer (also called the key) and three wrong answers (called distractors). However, you are free to add as many options as you like.

Compose the next question-and-answer slides in the same way.

Step 3. Create the correct answer slide

Add an additional correct answer slide after your first question slide saying that the learner has chosen the right answer. In the new slide, enter a congratulatory message, such as “ Correct answer! ,” “ Right answer! ,” “ That’s right! ,” “ Correct! ,” or “ Well done! ”, “Correct answer, Congratulations!” In the Content box, add a phrase that will encourage students to continue, like “ Go to the next question! ,” “ Continue! ,” or “ Let’s move on! ”. 

Great! Your correct answer slide is ready.

Step 4. Create the wrong answer slide

Add the next slide, wrong answer slide, which will be displayed when test takers make an incorrect choice. Add another PowerPoint slide and type in the relevant text in the Title Box , like Oops, that’s incorrect… But this time give your learners a chance to go back to the quiz question slide and try again. So, this is what our wrong answer slide will look like:

To make knowledge checks even more effective for learners, provide feedback on each wrong answer slide. Helpful information presented in your feedback message can explain certain questions and correct or wrong answers in more detail. 

Awesome! The incorrect answer slides are done.

Continue adding the incorrect and correct answer slides after each question slide.

You can also create the next slide, the last one, which states that the quiz has been completed.

Step 5. Add navigation to your PowerPoint quiz

Now it’s time to link the incorrect and correct answer slides to the relevant feedback slide. To do this, click on the Answer Text Box , then go to the Insert tab and tap on Hyperlink . In the open window, choose Place in This Document and select the necessary “ That’s correct ” or “ That’s incorrect ” PowerPoint slide.

To allow continued navigation from a feedback slide, add a hyperlink to the “Continue” text. Once again, you’ll need to repeat the actions for every single slide, because a feedback slide should lead to a new quiz question slide every time.

To let your audience return to the question slide, open the slide for wrong answers and click on the “Try again” text. Add hyperlinks to the question where the learner made a mistake. This time, go to the Insert tab and click Actions . In the opened drop-down menu, select Hyperlink to → Last Slide Viewed . You can see the final result in the slide show mode.

Our short quiz is ready now.

The Limitations of PowerPoint for Creating Quizzes

As you can see, Microsoft PowerPoint doesn’t provide purpose-built features for quizzes — it can take a while to create slides with quiz questions, a feedback slide for every single answer, and link slides to each other manually. Here are some more things that are missing from PowerPoint:

• It falls short when it comes to creating complex types of interactive quiz questions like drag-and-drop, matching, multiple responses, surveys, and hotspot. 
• It lacks the functionality to track learner progress, such as their completion status or the number of points they’ve scored.
• Monitoring who takes your  PowerPoint quiz, their success rate, and analyzing their learning progress isn’t feasible.
• Distributing a PowerPoint quiz also has limitations; You can’t share it on your website, a social media blog, or through email, particularly to individuals who don’t have access to PowerPoint.

Therefore, when you need to build a reliable and interactive quiz that keeps the audience engaged, it’s better to use special eLearning authoring tools . Below, we’ll explain and show you how much easier and faster it is to create quizzes with iSpring QuizMaker.

Method 2. How to Create an Interactive Quiz Fast with PowerPoint and iSpring QuizMaker

iSpring QuizMaker is a simple authoring tool designed to help you create different types of quizzes and knowledge checks, share them online, and track learner progress. We decided to improve our Mt. Everest Quiz using this tool and this is the result:

With iSpring QuizMaker, creating a quiz is a piece of cake. The tool provides you with 14 question templates — you only need to choose the type of slide layout you want for the quiz question (for example: multiple-choice, matching, or hotspot). We’ve broken down most of these in previous articles. Check them out:

• How to Create a Multiple-Choice Quiz
• How to Create a True or False Quiz
• How to Make a Matching Quiz in Minutes
• How to Create a Hotspot Question for an Online Quiz
• How to Make a Drag-and-Drop Quiz in 7 Steps
• How to Create a Likert Scale Survey
• How to Create a Fill-in-the-Blank Quiz that Works
• How to Create a Drop-Down Quiz in 7 Steps

Such a comprehensive variety helps gamify the learning process, engage learners and enhance their experience.

In many situations, knowledge cannot be tested with basic multiple-choice quizzes alone. For example, tests on historical topics require an understanding of how events evolved over time. That’s why we included a sequence question in our revamped quiz.

Sometimes more than one key answer should be chosen. These multiple response questions cannot be created with a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation alone. But we didn’t discard the idea, and used iSpring QuizMaker for this purpose.

How to Create a Quiz with a Score in PowerPoint

There are no tests without assessment; that’s why it’s essential that your quizzes evaluate students’ results. As we’ve already mentioned, PPT doesn’t have such features. That’s why we only added a neutral last slide that did not indicate whether the assessment had been passed or failed.

On the contrary, the enhanced Mt. Everest Quiz grades learners’ results and shows their score, both during the assessment and at the end.

To make your questions gradable, all you need to do is to choose the By passing score under Scoring Type in the Properties dialogue box of iSpring QuizMaker and set the passing score you need. By default, the passing score is 80%.

In iSpring QuizMaker, passing result slides are created by default, so there’s no need to add them manually. You can change the slide message according to your personal taste or needs, and add a graphic image or photo, audio or video.

Once you finish, you can choose publishing options. For example, you can publish your interactive PowerPoint quiz to HTML5. This format will ensure that your learners have the best browsing experience, no matter what device they use.

To collect PowerPoint quiz results, you don’t even need an LMS that automatically tracks learner progress. If you don’t use a learning platform, simply choose whether to get results via email or have them sent to your server in the iSpring QuizMaker Properties window.

How to Make Quizzes Cheat Proof

As a knowledge check, your quiz should be not only engaging but also cheat-proof, so you can get reliable results on how learners progress through the learning material. With iSpring QuizMaker, you can set specific rules that prevent learners from cheating.

For example, you can set the options like assigning scores and penalties for individual questions or shuffling answer options to keep students on their toes. Or shuffle right and wrong answers. You can also set the number of attempts allowed and limit the time to take the test in order to prevent learners from searching for the answer options online.

As for the visuals of your quiz, iSpring QuizMaker provides you with extended editing options, so you can get creative and change the design of all the slides or experiment with typing fonts.

To dive deeper into the process of creating assessments, read our post about how to make online quizzes .

How to Create a Quiz Game in PowerPoint

Games have gone far beyond being just kid stuff. Course developers use them to get learners excited about a topic, to reinforce what’s being taught, or just allow learners to take a break and have a little fun. 

Games connect emotionally and make the material stick. In most cases, they are the same PowerPoint quizzes but presented in a more interactive format. Let’s look at some games you can create with PowerPoint.

The Jeopardy quiz game is a popular American TV show that turned into a widely loved educational interactivity. This is basically a board of categories, each with a series of clues of increasing difficulty and point values. Players select a clue from the board, and after the answer is revealed, they respond in the form of a question.

The Jeopardy quiz game encourages broad knowledge across various areas, from history and literature to science and pop culture. The good thing is you don’t need any special software to create such a quiz game on your own; usually, PowerPoint is sufficient. 

To build a Jeopardy game and amaze your learners, check out our step-by-step tutorial . Or watch a 4-minute how-to video to save time. As a bonus, you can download a free Jeopardy game template and customize it right away: add your questions and answers, and modify the game’s design.

Download the Jeopardy game template →

Memory game

The memory game, when designed as flashcards, isn’t actually a quiz game, but can still be created in PowerPoint with ease. 

Flashcards are fantastic for building associations. Each card has two sides: one side with an image (like a picture of a bird, a fruit, a place, or anything really) and the other side with the corresponding name or concept. For example, when you flip a card showing the image of a bird, the other side reveals its name. This visual association strengthens memory recall and aids the learning process in a more engaging and interactive way.

Such activities can be used beyond learning new vocabulary, incorporating concepts, historical figures, mathematical symbols, or scientific elements, which makes them virtually versatile.

In our previous article, we shared a step-by-step guide on how to create flashcards in PowerPoint . So, if you find them as amazing as we do, check it out.

“Who wants to be a millionaire?”

“Who wants to be a millionaire?” is a famous TV quiz game that we bet you’ve seen thousands of times. Players tackle a series of increasingly difficult questions in order to win money. In fact, this game consists of simple multiple-choice questions that we’ve already discussed in this article, so it won’t be difficult for you to create such a fascinating game on your own.

You can use the first method and create this quiz game through hyperlinks in PowerPoint that will take the player to the particular slide, depending on whether the correct or incorrect answer is chosen. All you need to do is:

• Create a series of slides, each with a multiple-choice question and four possible correct and wrong answers.
• Implement lifelines — add hyperlinks (select Hyperlink to ) or add animations (triggers). For example, a “50:50” lifeline could hide two incorrect answers when activated.
• Design a slide with immediate feedback on incorrect and correct answers and track the player’s progress toward the grand prize visually. Optional: you can also add sound effects for a correct or an wrong answer to make your game more immersive.

The next two slides will take longer to create. Thus, it’s much more efficient to use iSpring QuizMaker to create such a quiz game. In this case, you’ll be able to create the correct navigation in your quiz in a few minutes, set the time limit for each answer option, and provide automatic feedback for each correct or wrong answer.

We’ve created a sample “ Who Wants to Be a Training Expert? ” quiz game to illustrate what this might look like:

Moreover, you can download a game source file and customize it with a free trial of iSpring QuizMaker by adding your question-and-answer options and applying sound effects to amaze your learners.

Download the game source file to customize it →

Download a PowerPoint Quiz Template

We hope this article answered your questions about how to create a quiz in PowerPoint. While making quizzes in PPT is an option, its functionality is limited, and they can be very difficult to create. This classic software is good for creating presentations and adding multiple-choice quizzes to your slide deck. Download the Mt. Everest Quiz source file to repeat the same steps mentioned earlier and practice creating quizzes in PowerPoint. 

To author an interactive assessment that really tests students’ knowledge and engages your audience, more innovative software is required. Try iSpring QuizMaker for free and start creating engaging interactive quizzes in PPT right now.

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How to Create a Quiz for Your Online Classes Using Google Slides

Quizzes are great tools to get your audience involved, as they need to participate and give their own answers. In fact, they are particularly useful when teaching children, as their attention gets diverted quite easily. This way, they will learn in an interactive and entertaining way.  Creating a quiz is not a complex thing to do, but it requires some time. In this tutorial, we are going to teach you how to create some question slides for your students using Google Slides . Let’s get started! 

Creating the Main Page of the Quiz

Creating the “right answer” slide, creating the “wrong answer” slide, linking slides.

• Open your Google Slides presentation.
• Select or create the slide to which you want to add the quiz.
• Type the title and the subtitle of your question using text boxes. Remember to use the fonts of the theme. The resulting slide will be coherent with the rest of the presentation and aesthetically appealing.
• If you need to change the font, size or style of your text, use the edition tools in the toolbar.
• Add images if you need them. If you are creating this interactive game for children, it is worth adding some cute pictures or drawings to make it more appealing. If you don’t know how to insert, crop or mask images , you can learn more about it in this tutorial. Here, we have embedded three different illustrations that will work as reply options.

Pro tip: if you need more images or illustrations go to the Alternative resources slide at the end of the presentation.

• You need to add button-like shapes to your options. Later on, we will link each button to a “correct” or “wrong answer” slide. We are going to use circles for our example. In Insert, select Shape → Shapes → Oval.
• Click and drag the cursor to add the circle.
• Resize it clicking and dragging the squares of the outline. If you keep pressed Shift, you’ll create a perfect circle.
• Change the color of the shape according to the colors of the theme.
• Click Fill color and choose the hue that appears in the inside of the shape.
• Click Border color and do the same for the border of the shape.
• To add more buttons, keep pressing the Ctrl button while you click on your first button and drag the copy close to the image of the other animals. Pressing Shift at the same time will keep them aligned.

Pro Tip: You can add a shadow to your circles to make them look like real buttons. In the toolbar click on More (...) → Format options  → Drop shadow and choose the effect that suits you best. To learn more about how to apply effects to an image in Google Slides, you can read this tutorial. If the screen resolution of your computer is high enough, the More (...) button won’t appear. Instead, the “Format options” button will appear directly on the toolbar.

• Let’s continue with the buttons. As we have three options, we are going to name them A, B and C. Click on each circle and type directly into the shape.
• Change the font and size of the letters in the Font and Font size menus in the toolbar. Voilà!

Once that the multiple-question slide is ready, we need to create two more slides: one that indicates that the answer that your audience has marked is correct and the other telling the opposite thing. Here we are going to show you how to design the “Right Answer” slide. 

• Go to the toolbar. Select Insert → New Slide or simply. You need to create the new slide just after the “question” one, so be sure that you are there when you add a new one.
• It’s time for you to design the contents and layout. Choose the colors and fonts of the theme.
• It’s important for your students that you encourage them. Add symbols as a check mark and a message of the type “Correct!”, “Well done!”, “Yes!”, “You’ve made it” and the like.
• The “right answer” slide is ready!

You need to add a new slide for those cases in which your student gives a wrong answer. The process is quite similar to the one above. 

• Add and format a new slide. If you want to learn more about how to add, duplicate, move delete or hide slides, you can read this tutorial.
• In this case, you could add a symbol that represents that the answer is not correct, such as “X”. Add a message that lets your audience know that the response is incorrect, encouraging them: “Try again”, “Oops!”. It needs to be simple and understandable.
• Make sure that you add a button to redirect the student to the “question slide.” You can add a text such as “Try again” or something similar.
• To create the button, add a shape (as in the previous section) and apply different colors and effects.

The main parts of this interactive quiz are ready. Now what we need to do is link the slides. Let’s see how to do it, although you can learn everything about how to add links, you can read How to Add Hyperlinks in Google Slides. 

• Go to the answer slide. and add a link to each button.
• In our example, the first button/option is an incorrect answer. It should direct to the “wrong answer” slide.
• Click twice on the button and select the text that appears.
• You have two options: go to the toolbar and select Insert link or either right click on the text and select Link.
• As we need to link this slide to another within the same presentation, select the option Slides in this presentation.
• Remember that this corresponds to the incorrect option. Add the link to the “wrong answer.”
• Click Apply.
• If you don’t like it, remove the underlined effect in your text.
• Great! You have added the first link. Option b is wrong as well, so we need to repeat the same steps.
• Now let’s link option C to the “correct answer” slide! The steps are pretty much the same as in the two previous instances, but we’ll select the link of the “correct answer” slide.
• Hence: double click and select the text of the button.
• Go to the toolbar and select Insert link or either right click on the text and select Link.
• Select the option Slides in this presentation.
• Choose the “correct answer” slide.
• Remove the underlined effect if needed.
• Brilliant! You have linked the three options successfully. But we need to link the “wrong answer” slide to the “question slide”. Why? If your students provide an incorrect answer, the slides will redirect the child to the answer once again until he or she gets it right.
• Go then to the “wrong answer” slide. Remember that you created a button reading “Try again”.
• Select that button and select Insert link → Slides in this presentation.
• Choose the “question” slide.
• Your interactive quiz is ready!
• If you liked the presentation that we have used for this tutorial, you can find #StayAtHome Games and other free education templates for Google Slides and PowerPoint on Slidesgo. Download it for free! It’s 100% editable and customizable.   

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How to Create an Exciting Presentation Quiz

• Create a quiz
• Copy the quiz link
• Add it to your presentation

Use an Engaging Quiz Template

Level up your presentation with a fun quiz. Choose from our wide selection of quizzes, add your own touch, and share it with your audience.

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Live quiz experience, knowledge assessment quiz, knowledge test – math, buzzfeed style trivia, matching quiz, trivia quiz, quiz competition, skill assessment quiz, make an engaging quiz from scratch.

Are you leading a corporate training session, speaking at an event, or teaching a lesson in class? Add a quiz to your presentation to give your crowd a fun and interactive experience.

Improve audience engagement in three quick and simple steps:

1. Create a quiz

Click here to start creating a knowledge quiz or here to build a personality quiz . When you’re done, click on ‘Publish’ or ‘Save’ to save your work.

2. Copy the quiz link

Once the quiz is set up, save it and click on “Embed & Share”. You can also access it from your items dashboard .

Select “Share Link” in the pop-up window, and copy the link.

3. Add it to your presentation

Add the link to your presentation notes and message it to your audience during the meeting or convert it to a QR code and add it to the relevant slide so that people can scan it.

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Enhance Any Presentation With a Quiz

Whether you’re a teacher, team lead, corporate trainer, or public speaker, you probably know that a successful presentation can make or break your audience’s focus and concentration.

Adding a game element, like a live quiz to your presentation can help you enhance your presentation and captivate their attention. Whether you use it for a PowerPoint presentation at work or an in-class quiz for your students, it could be greatly beneficial. Read on for some fun audience quiz ideas for you to work with.

Gauge Your Audience’s Knowledge With a True/False Quiz

A  true/false question  is essentially a trivia question with two answer options to choose from – true or false. This quiz type is perfect for live presentations because it’s fast and dynamic.

Use it as an icebreaker at the beginning of your presentation to engage your audience while getting to know them. It will help you understand how familiar they are with your topic and give you a chance to adapt your talk to their knowledge if needed.

You could also use a  true/false quiz  at the end of your presentation to discover how much information the audience retained.

Excite Your Audience With a Trivia Competition

A trivia quiz tests people’s grasp of a subject in a gamified way by asking knowledge questions and measuring how many correct answers they get.   Use a trivia quiz  to create a competition that engages that competitive spirit in your quiz participants.

Here are a few tips to consider when making your presentation quiz competition:

• If you want to grab your audience’s attention or boost engagement in training sessions, let them know that you’ll be ending the lesson with a challenging trivia contest.
• You could also start off the session with a trivia competition and spend the rest of the time going through the answers, keeping the suspense alive while sharing information and knowledge.
• Introduce a time element by defining the winner as the person who gets the most correct answers in the shortest amount of time to make the contest more exciting and make sure it doesn’t take too long. You could add a quiz timer or bring a stopwatch for extra pressure.
• Add a prize to the mix to give people an extra incentive to take part. It doesn’t have to be big, it could be a voucher, a free event ticket, or even a silly sticker set. As long as it gives the winner recognition and puts a smile on their face, it will do the job. Using an online stopwatch during the quiz for each question will also add a bit of suspense.

While people are answering the questions you can look at the results dashboard to see submissions and results. Here you can view the ratio between correct and incorrect answers as well as the timestamp. If you want, you can use this information for live commentary during the contest.

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Use a picture quiz to end your lesson with a bang.

Adding visually stimulating content to your presentation can grab people’s attention and leave a lasting impression. A  picture quiz  uses engaging images to draw people in and illustrate the questions, answer options, and results. Conclude any topic of discussion with an image quiz to sum things up in a way that your quiz participants will enjoy and remember.

Spark Conversation With a Resonating Quiz

Sometimes it can be challenging to get an audience to shift from the comfortable position of being a passive listener to being an active participant. A good quiz can be a big step in the right direction.

All you need to do is ask 2-3 surprising trivia questions or challenging personality questions. After people answer them privately they will be more inclined to discuss the question topics in the group because they are already invested and involved.

Encourage Introspection With a Personality Quiz

While trivia is the classic choice for a quiz night or live presentations, a personality quiz can also enrich any class or lecture, and add depth as well as fun to your audience’s experience.

Unlike trivia quizzes, personality quizzes are less about knowledge and more about self-discovery. They don’t have incorrect or correct answers, they ask for your opinions or preferences and use them to tell you something about yourself.

Use a personality quiz  in your presentation to connect with your audience. Let’s say you’re giving a lecture about learning styles, you could start it off with a “What type of learner are you?” quiz to put them in touch with themselves in the context of your topic.

You could also invite them to share their results and talk about the experience to encourage them to empathize and connect with each other. It’s a memorable and experiential way to introduce a topic that could otherwise seem distant or theoretical.

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Why choose our quiz maker for your next presentation.

Make each member of your audience feel like a game show contestant. Create any  type of quiz  quickly and easily. Boost engagement, get to know your audience, and inspire them to learn.

Quick & Easy

You don’t have to spend hours trying to create a quiz inside a PowerPoint presentation. Our quiz maker is easy-to-use and ideal for making entertaining quizzes quickly.

Start from scratch with our intuitive  quiz builder  or use one of our pre-design templates. No coding, no learning curve, and no prior skills required. Simply sign in and start creating. Your quiz can be up and running in minutes.

Colorful & Engaging

The average person prefers to interact with colorful visuals and easy-to-understand text. Create a quiz that pops with a range of color styles, images, and even videos.

• Get people curious and excited with a bright cover image.
• Keep them entertained by adding pictures to your questions and answer options.
• End off with a visual results page that they will remember.

You can also choose the color theme and design of your quiz to fit the style of your presentation.

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How to create your own quiz.

Creating your own quiz starts with selecting a goal and a topic. Based on that you can figure out which types of quizzes to create.

If, for example, you want to find out how much your audience knows about the French Revolution, make a knowledge quiz. If, on the other hand, you wish to help your audience discover what type of travelers they are, make a personality quiz.

Next, it’s time to write the result cards. Think about what message you want to give your audience based on their quiz answers. It’s usually best to keep these positive and encouraging.

Now move on to your questions. Make sure that they are clear and easy to understand, and don’t forget to include a number of answer options for people to choose from. If you’re making a personality quiz you should also associate each answer option with the relevant result.

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What makes a quiz good?

A good quiz is one that gets people involved and gives them value. So, to make a good quiz you need to focus on your audience and figure out what would interest and challenge them.

On a more practical level, a good quiz usually uses friendly and humorous language, has 5-10 questions, fun images, and feel-good result cards.

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How to create a quiz competition?

To create a quiz competition you first need to make a trivia quiz. Then decide on the rules of the game. Something like the winner will be the first person to get all the questions right.

Introduce the competition dramatically to create a gameshow-like atmosphere. Of course, you could include a prize for the winner and runners-up to seal the deal.

How to integrate a quiz into your presentation?

You can integrate a quiz in your presentation in three ways:

• Copy the title and cover image of your quiz into your presentation and configure them as a hyperlink to your quiz. This option is good if you’re solving the quiz with your audience in person, or if your audience members each have individual access to the presentation.
• Create a slide to introduce the quiz and send the quiz link to your audience members via chat or messaging app. This option is good for remote presentations, where each participant is supposed to take the quiz separately.
• Turn your quiz link into a QR code and add it to your quiz slide for your audience to scan. This one is best for in-person presentations or remote presentations that are screen shared.

How do I host an interactive quiz?

Hosting an interactive quiz is easy, all you need is a bit of gusto and enthusiasm. The rest will take care of itself.

Write an exciting introduction that you can easily relay to your audience. Use it to prepare them for the experience without divulging too much information. After all, you want to keep them curious.

Depending on the quiz goals, you could also include a timer for each question. Add commentary during the quiz based on what you see on your dashboard. Things like “responses are starting to come in”, “I’m seeing some interesting results”, etc.

At the end of the quiz, you can share your dashboard showing the results on the presentation screen. Use the data as a conversation starter for the next section of your presentation, or as a way to announce the winner with flair. Just remember to make it fun, and interesting, and speak to your audience to keep them engaged.

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It's no secret that people love participating in quizzes. That's why they are so perfect for engaging your audience when you're doing a presentation. In this article, you'll learn what kind of quizzes there are and why you should use them. Also, we prepared a list of 50 creative questions about all kinds of topics that you can use for your next presentation or quiz night!

Types of Quizzes and Quiz Ideas

There are many types of quizzes. However, the main distinction is between trivia and personality quizzes. The names are pretty much self-explanatory. In the Trivia Quiz , there are questions about knowledge and facts. In a presentation, they can be used for checking what your audience already knows about the topic you are about to present. But they are also perfect for testing your attendees knowledge after your presentation, making sure they remember what you just talked about. You can also just throw trivia question into the main part of your presentation, just as a little playful element. With Personality Quizzes on the other hand, there is no right or wrong. You're asking about a personality trait, hobby, or whatever else you'd like to know about your audience. Those are perfect as ice breakers in the beginning, and for connecting with your audience instantly. They can be as serious or as fun as you want them to be. The last category here is the Yes-/No-Quiz or True-/False-Quiz . You can either ask personality or trivia questions with this category. When formulating them, be sure that they can be answered with either Yes/True or No/False, and add a "Not certain" option if necessary.

How to integrate a Quiz in your Presentation

Quizzes at presentations are great, but how do you incorporate them best? You can of course just put the question on the slide and then let your audience raise their hands at the answer they like best. But that has many flaws, like no anonymity, people influencing each others votes, and no possibility to record the results. We recommend using a PowerPoint Plugin like SlideLizard , which makes poll creation and conduction as easy as it can be. You type in your questions (or choose one of the templates) and some possible answers, your attendees connect with a link on their smartphone and vote for their preferred answer. You can show the results to your audience immediately afterwards. Simply download the tool for free , install it and open up PowerPoint. In this video, you'll learn how to create your quiz polls.

50 Creative Questions for your Quiz

This is a collection of 50 questions - both trivia and personality - you can ask your audience when doing a presentation. They're sorted into categories.

• Arts and Culture
• Modern Technology
• Movies, Books & TV-Shows

Arts and Culture Quiz Questions

Where can you find the Mona Lisa?

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• The Vatican Museum, Italy
• ✔ Louvre, Paris
• Uffizi Gallery, Italy

Which of the following does not classify as a Standard ballroom dance?

"The Scream" was painted by...

• ✔ Edvard Munch
• Vincent van Gogh
• Claude Monet

In which city does Romeo and Juliet take place?

Funny Quiz Questions

Have you ever… (Multiple Choice)

• Had a crush on your boss?
• Peed in the swimming pool?
• Taken shampoo and conditioner from hotels?
• Told barefaced lies to your mother?
• Denied receiving work emails when in fact you did?

Why did you decide to join this event today?

• Knowledge building
• Speaker line-up
• Networking opportunities
• My boss made me

Would you rather...

• have spaghettis as fingers
• or have potatoes as feet?

Which of these embarrassing things have already happened to you?

• falling over in public
• texting something to someone by accident that they really shouldn't have seen
• calling your significant other by another name
• saying "Thanks, you too!" after the person who sold you the ticket at the cinema wished you fun at the movie.

You're going to a party. Who are you?

• The one who just stands in the corner hoping to go home as soon as possible.
• The one who befriends the house pet and spends their night talking to the pet instead of the people.
• The one who constantly makes Snapchat and Instagram stories about how amazing the party is and meanwhile misses most of the party.
• The one who goes totally crazy.
• The one who constantly plays weird songs that everybody is annoyed by.

Geography Quiz Questions

What is the longest river in the world?

• Mississippi

Which continents have you been to? (Multiple Choice)

• North America
• South America

What is the most spoken language in the world?

• ✔ Mandarin Chinese

Which of these cities is not capital of a country?

• ✔ Rio de Janeiro

Which U.S. state has the second longest coastline (following Alaska)?

History Quiz Questions

Who is the Greek goddess for wisdom and warfare?

Bill Clinton famously a stray cat who was "First Cat" during his presidency. What was his name?

Which colour was Saint Patrick's day originally associated with?

In what year did Neil Armstrong land on the moon?

• He never did.

Which famous leader is also called "the sun king"?

• King Alfred
• ✔ Louis XIV
• Julius Caesar
• Alexander the Great

Modern Technologies Quiz Questions

What Social Media Platforms do you use? (Multiple Choice)

How much time does the average person spend on their phone in a day?

How much time do you spend on your phone in a day (approximately and on average)?

• less than an hour
• more than 4 hours

In what year was the company Microsoft founded?

What was the very first message sent over the Internet?

• ✔ 'lo' // with the intent of typing "login", but the system shut down after typing the first two letters
• 'hello world'

Movies & Books Quiz Questions

What is the best-selling book of all time?

• ✔ The Lord of the Rings
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
• The Little Prince
• To Kill a Mockingbird

How many books do you read in one year?

• more than 40

Which one of these actors/actresses has not won an Oscar (yet)?

• Audrey Hepburn
• ✔ Johnny Depp
• Reese Witherspoon

What's your Harry Potter house?

What's your preferred Genre of movies?

• Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Music Quiz Questions

What music do you listen to? (Multiple Choice)

Which one of these hits is NOT in the Top 10 of the best-selling singles of all time (worldwide)?

• White Christmas by Bing Crosby
• ✔ Y.M.C.A by Village People // sold "only" 12 million copies, the others over 20 million
• I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston
• In The Summertime by Mungo Jerry

Choose a band to listen to on repeat:

• The Beatles
• Backstreet Boys

Choose an artist to listen to on repeat:

• Taylor Swift
• Elvis Presley
• Michael Jackson

The famous soundtrack for Pirates of the Caribbean was composed by...

• ✔ Hans Zimmer
• John Williams
• James Horner
• Howard Shore

Random Quiz Questions

The best pet is...

• a hamster, rabbit or guinea pig
• some reptile
• something not on this list
• no pet for me, thanks!

What is the most common fear amongst the below mentioned?

• ✔ public speaking

My favourite subject in school was... (Multiple Choice)

The best way to spend a holiday is...

• on the beach
• in the mountains

What sports do you do? (Multiple Choice)

• Ball Sports

Science Quiz Questions

Why are flamingos pink?

• There is no specific reason, they are just born that way.
• ✔ because of their shrimp-based diet
• because of a gene mutation
• to stand out more in the wild

How many steps should you walk in a day?

And how many steps does the average American walk in a day?

How much blood does a grown-up's body approximately contain?

The apes that are the closest relatives to human beings are...

• ✔ bonobo and chimpanzee
• gorilla and chimpanzee
• gorilla and orangutan

Which one is the only planet that orbits the sun in a clockwise direction?

Work Quiz Questions

How many PowerPoint presentations are given in a day?

• ✔ 30 million

According to statistics, these are the top 5 time-wasting activities at work. Which one do you waste time on? (Multiple Choice)

• (too many) Meetings
• browsing online (including Social Media!)
• procrastination

How much of the available time at work is actually used for working (on average)?

What are your biggest motivations at work? (Multiple Choice)

• interaction and communication with colleagues
• interesting tasks
• personal growth and taking responsibility
• possible promotions

When is your most productive time in the day? (Multiple Choice)

• in the morning
• around noon
• at afternoon
• in the evening
• late at night
• I have no specific time

What kinds of quizzes are there?

There are trivia quizzes - they test your knowledge on a topic, and personality questions - which each person has to answer individually for themselves.

What are good questions for trivia nights?

You will find questions from various disciplines in our list of 50 questions, which you can read in our article.

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If you don’t know how to make a quiz for a meeting or event, don’t let that hold you back. It’s easy to learn and worth your while.

Quizzes have long been routine in educational settings, but they have a place in other types of gatherings. We can use them in work settings, such as training meetings, to help people retain information and continue learning. But they have less obvious applications, too, where a quiz can boost participation , enhance understanding, and increase attendee confidence. 

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You can use your own quiz in learning events or training meetings in a number of ways. Short-answer quizzes can help you tap into how your audience is feeling. You can see if people are ready to move on to the next topic or if they’re confused about something.

Want to find out what your audience already knows about a subject before you kick off a session? Start with a quiz at the beginning of the meeting, and their quiz results will tell you where they’re starting. On the other hand, you can end a session with some quiz questions to understand how much of your session they understood, or track progress across a series of events or learning sessions by ending them with a quiz. Bonus: You can use the results to better plan your next event or meeting.  

Of course, an interactive quiz can be useful beyond educational purposes. You can create a fun quiz to use as an icebreaker to help your attendees ease into the meeting and diffuse any tension in the room.  

You can also use quizzes to crowdsource ideas and get a better understanding of what kind of information your audience is interested in.  

Or, if you’re looking to grow your business or organization , you can use an online quiz maker to disperse online quizzes to your target audience. In this scenario, an online quiz can help boost brand awareness or drive engagement by interacting with your current customers and also generate leads for potential customers. 

As you can see, there are many reasons to create a quiz. In this article, we’ll show you how to make a quiz that will speak to your audience in a variety of settings.  

How to make a quiz that suits your needs 

MeetingPulse ’s live quizzing platform has just what you need to get started, including several quiz maker formats. With our quizzing module, you can create online quizzes that will enhance your meetings and gauge your audience’s understanding. 

You’ve got more options than a standard quiz as far as question type goes. Using MeetingPulse’s quiz builder, you can create polls and surveys, Q&A sessions, live sentiment analysis and more. As the quiz creator, you can create single answer, multiple-answer (or multiple choice), and numeric poll quizzes. You also can make them more compelling by the use of a team leaderboard.  

Let’s talk about some of these options, and how you can use them during your next meeting or event . 

Crowdsource your agenda 

It’s your meeting, but you can let your attendees weigh in on its direction with a simple quiz question about what they’d like to get out of the meeting. This shows your attendees that you respect their ideas and are interested in meeting their needs. MeetingPulse’s Agenda solution lets you crowdsource ideas for your agenda as well as let the crowd vote on which ideas are most important.

Live Q&A sessions 

A Q&A is a great way to open up the floor and give your attendees the chance to do the asking. The format is also helpful for brainstorming great ideas . 

With a MeetingPulse Q&A, think about what kind of information you’re looking for from respondents. Are you looking for ideas or do you want to see what questions your audience has? Start the Q&A by setting up a general question aimed at your interests, and watch as the responses come in. 

Once all answers have been submitted, you can allow respondents to vote on what they think are the best ideas or most important questions. Specifically, you can choose between three types of voting: 1) upvoting only, 2) upvoting and downvoting, and 3) the more sensitive 5-star ratings. This will allow you to quickly decide what questions you’ll answer, or what ideas are most popular with your workgroup. 

With the right MeetingPulse plan, you’ll also have the option to approve or disapprove and moderate questions or ideas as they are submitted. This will let you select what is ultimately shown to your participants. The best part about a Q&A — especially for brainstorming — is that there are no incorrect answers. And that benefit is multiplied if you allow respondents to participate anonymously. Not only does it guarantee attendees’ psychological safety , but it can encourage participation and lead to better ideation. 

Take your audience’s pulse 

Pulse™ sentiment analysis allows you to check audience sentiment in real-time by letting attendees express themselves with fun emojis. You can use Pulse to get a quick response to the presentations or activities in your meeting or event. 

One way to use Pulse is to ask your attendees if they agree or disagree with a scenario, or if they understand an idea you’ve presented. A series of such questions functions as a quiz. This tool is a great way to crowdsource evaluations and opinions for any improvement in your presentation or direct you to any areas of information that might need to be repeated or more clearly explained. 

You can opt to allow attendees to see Pulse emotions (or responses) bubble up on their screens when anyone presses a Pulse button.  

Polls and surveys 

If you’re looking for a format that feels more like a standard quiz, polls are the way to go. MeetingPulse polls and surveys can be used to get feedback, train or educate employees, and do much more. This is a good option if you have specific questions you’d like to ask your audience, or need the ability to customize your poll or survey .  

You can choose from eight different poll types: single choice, yes/no answer options, rate (point value), multiple choice, open/free text, net promoter score, numerical and ranked choice voting.

To customize each poll to your needs, you’ll be able to choose the text formatting , include a CSV export of your results, allow for a broadcast view, include images in your quiz, hide your poll results from the audience, allow respondents to only answer once, or design entry and exit polls. In the settings tab, you’ll also be able to:

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• Set time limits to encourage participants to take the quiz seriously.
• Prevent quiz takers from changing their answers after a poll has been submitted.  

Attendees can answer questions as an individual if that suits your needs, but you also can group attendees in teams. For either setting, you can use a leaderboard to get some friendly competition going and motivate your audience to play along and pay attention. 

The MeetingPulse quiz module includes the ability to create raffles . You can use the Raffle solution to quickly select a respondent to receive a prize. And once a quiz has ended, the Raffle tool could randomly pick one respondent from the people who answered 100 percent of the quiz questions correctly.  

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We've all been to a presentation where the speaker bores you to death with a mundane PowerPoint presentation. Actually, the speaker could have kept you much more engaged by adding some interactive features to their slideshow. Let's look into some of these options.

1. Add a QR code

Adding a QR code can be particularly useful if you want to direct your audience to an online form, website, or video.

Some websites have in-built ways to create a QR code. For example, on Microsoft Forms , when you click "Collect Responses," you'll see the QR code option via the icon highlighted in the screenshot below. You can either right-click the QR code to copy and paste it into your presentation, or click "Download" to add it to your device gallery to insert the QR code as a picture.

In fact, you can easily add a QR code to take your viewer to any website. On Microsoft Edge, right-click anywhere on a web page where there isn't already a link, and left-click "Create QR Code For This Page."

You can also create QR codes in other browsers, such as Chrome.

You can then copy or download the QR code to use wherever you like in your presentation.

2. Embed Microsoft Forms (Education or Business Only)

If you plan to send your PPT presentation to others—for example, if you're a trainer sending step-by-step instruction presentation, a teacher sending an independent learning task to your students, or a campaigner for your local councilor sending a persuasive PPT to constituents—you might want to embed a quiz, questionnaire, pole, or feedback survey in your presentation.

In PowerPoint, open the "Insert" tab on the ribbon, and in the Forms group, click "Forms". If you cannot see this option, you can add new buttons to the ribbon .

As at April 2024, this feature is only available for those using their work or school account. We're using a Microsoft 365 Personal account in the screenshot below, which is why the Forms icon is grayed out.

Then, a sidebar will appear on the right-hand side of your screen, where you can either choose a form you have already created or opt to craft a new form.

Now, you can share your PPT presentation with others , who can click the fields and submit their responses when they view the presentation.

3. Embed a Live Web Page

You could always screenshot a web page and paste that into your PPT, but that's not a very interactive addition to your presentation. Instead, you can embed a live web page into your PPT so that people with access to your presentation can interact actively with its contents.

To do this, we will need to add an add-in to our PPT account .

Add-ins are not always reliable or secure. Before installing an add-in to your Microsoft account, check that the author is a reputable company, and type the add-in's name into a search engine to read reviews and other users' experiences.

To embed a web page, add the Web Viewer add-in ( this is an add-in created by Microsoft ).

Go to the relevant slide and open the Web Viewer add-in. Then, copy and paste the secure URL into the field box, and remove https:// from the start of the address. In our example, we will add a selector wheel to our slide. Click "Preview" to see a sample of the web page's appearance in your presentation.

This is how ours will look.

When you or someone with access to your presentation views the slideshow, this web page will be live and interactive.

4. Add Links and Menus

As well as moving from one slide to the next through a keyboard action or mouse click, you can create links within your presentation to direct the audience to specific locations.

To create a link, right-click the outline of the clickable object, and click "Link."

In the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, click "Place In This Document," choose the landing destination, and click "OK."

What's more, to make it clear that an object is clickable, you can use action buttons. Open the "Insert" tab on the ribbon, click "Shape," and then choose an appropriate action button. Usefully, PPT will automatically prompt you to add a link to these shapes.

You might also want a menu that displays on every slide. Once you have created the menu, add the links using the method outlined above. Then, select all the items, press Ctrl+C (copy), and then use Ctrl+V to paste them in your other slides.

5. Add Clickable Images to Give More Info

Through PowerPoint's animations, you can give your viewer the power to choose what they see and when they see it. This works nicely whether you're planning to send your presentation to others to run through independently or whether you're presenting in front of a group and want your audience to decide which action they want to take.

Start by creating the objects that will be clickable (trigger) and the items that will appear (pop-up).

Then, select all the pop-ups together. When you click "Animations" on the ribbon and choose an appropriate animation for the effect you want to achieve, this will be applied to all objects you have selected.

The next step is to rename the triggers in your presentation. To do this, open the "Home" tab, and in the Editing group, click "Select", and then "Selection Pane."

With the Selection Pane open, select each trigger on your slide individually, and rename them in the Selection Pane, so that they can be easily linked to in the next step.

Finally, go back to the first pop-up. Open the "Animations" tab, and in the Advanced Animation group, click the "Trigger" drop-down arrow. Then, you can set the item to appear when a trigger is clicked in your presentation.

If you want your item to disappear when the trigger is clicked again, select the pop-up, click "Add Animation" in the Advanced Animation group, choose an Exit animation, and follow the same step to link that animation to the trigger button.

6. Add a Countdown Timer

A great way to get your audience to engage with your PPT presentation is to keep them on edge by adding a countdown timer. Whether you're leading a presentation and want to let your audience stop to discuss a topic, or running an online quiz with time-limit questions, having a countdown timer means your audience will keep their eye on your slide throughout.

To do this, you need to animate text boxes or shapes containing your countdown numbers. Choose and format a shape and type the highest number that your countdown clock will need. In our case, we're creating a 10-second timer.

Now, with your shape selected, open the "Animations" tab on the ribbon and click the animation drop-down arrow. Then, in the Exit menu, click "Disappear."

Open the Animation Pane, and click the drop-down arrow next to the animation you've just added. From there, choose "Timing."

Make sure "On Click" is selected in the Start menu, and change the Delay option to "1 second," before clicking "OK."

Then, with this shape still selected, press Ctrl+C (copy), and then Ctrl+V (paste). In the second box, type 9 . With the Animation Pane still open and this second shape selected, click the drop-down arrow and choose "Timing" again. Change the Start option to "After Previous," and make sure the Delay option is 1 second. Then, click "OK."

We can now use this second shape as our template, as when we copy and paste it again, the animations will also duplicate. With this second shape selected, press Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, type 8 into the box, and continue to do the same until you get to 0 .

Next, remove the animations from the "0" box, as you don't want this to disappear. To do this, click the shape, and in the Animation Pane drop-down, click "Remove."

You now need to layer them in order. Right-click the box containing number 1, and click "Bring To Front." You will now see that box on the top. Do the same with the other numbers in ascending order.

Finally, you need to align the objects together. Click anywhere on your slide and press Ctrl+A. Then, in the Home tab on the ribbon, click "Arrange." First click "Align Center," and then bring the menu up again, so that you can click "Align Middle."

Press Ctrl+A again to select your timer, and you can then move your timer or copy and paste it elsewhere.

Press F5 to see the presentation in action, and when you get to the slide containing the timer, click anywhere on the slide to see your countdown timer in action!

Now that your PPT presentation is more interactive, make sure you've avoided these eight common presentational mistakes before you present your slides.

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Create a new presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint

Note:  This feature is available to customers with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license or Copilot Pro license.

Create a new presentation in PowerPoint.

Select Send . Copilot will draft a presentation for you!

Edit the presentation to suit your needs, ask Copilot to add a slide , or start over with a new presentation and refine your prompt to include more specifics. For example, "Create a presentation about hybrid meeting best practices that includes examples for team building.”

Create a presentation with a template

Note:  This feature is only available to customers with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 (work) license. It is not currently available to customers with a Copilot Pro (home) license.

Copilot can use your existing themes and templates to create a presentation. Learn more about making your presentations look great with Copilot in PowerPoint .

Enter your prompt or select Create presentation from file to create a first draft of your presentation using your theme or template.

Edit the presentation to suit your needs, ask Copilot to add a slide , organize your presentation, or add images.

Create a presentation from a file with Copilot

Note:  This feature is only available to customers with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 (work) license. It is not currently available to customers with a Copilot Pro (home) license.

With Copilot in PowerPoint, you can create a presentation from an existing Word document. Point Copilot in PowerPoint to your Word document, and it will generate slides, apply layouts, create speaker notes, and choose a theme for you.

Select the Word document you want from the picker that appears. If you don't see the document you want, start typing any part of the filename to search for it.

Note:  If the file picker doesn't appear type a front slash (/) to cause it to pop up.

Best practices when creating a presentation from a Word document

Leverage word styles to help copilot understand the structure of your document.

By using Styles in Word to organize your document, Copilot will better understand your document structure and how to break it up into slides of a presentation. Structure your content under Titles and Headers when appropriate and Copilot will do its best to generate a presentation for you.

Include images that are relevant to your presentation

When creating a presentation, Copilot will try to incorporate the images in your Word document. If you have images that you would like to be brought over to your presentation, be sure to include them in your Word document.

Start with your organization’s template

If your organization uses a standard template, start with this file before creating a presentation with Copilot. Starting with a template will let Copilot know that you would like to retain the presentation’s theme and design. Copilot will use existing layouts to build a presentation for you. Learn more about Making your presentations look great with Copilot in PowerPoint .

Tip:  Copilot works best with Word documents that are less than 24 MB.

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