August 17, 2021
Members of some of the biggest indie bands of the 90s have taken part in a milestone virtual quiz, hosted by SpeedQuizzing co-founder (and Shed Seven drummer) Alan Leach, which you can watch here. Happy Mondays legend Bez, radio presenter, DJ and Inspiral Carpets keyboardist Clint Boon, Shed Seven frontman Rick Witter and singer-songwriter Mark.. Read more
October 5, 2020
A Stockport quizmaster is providing hundreds of university students in lockdown or quarantine with some much-needed entertainment. Professional quiz host Tony Murphy has been recruited by Student Castle, which operates a portfolio of high-quality student accommodation in seven cities across the UK, including York, Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh, to run a series of virtual pub.. Read more
August 14, 2020
Fans of Embrace are being invited to take part in a SpeedQuizzing party with the indie rockers this Saturday (15 August, 8pm) to celebrate the launch of the band’s new subscription platform, The Secret List. Created by the band as a new and exciting way to connect directly with fans, The Secret List, which is.. Read more
July 10, 2020
Actress Charlie Hardwick, who played Val Pollard for over a decade in the TV soap Emmerdale, is hosting a virtual quiz on Sunday 12th July to raise vital funds for local charity Children North East. The acclaimed performer, who most recently starred as Sue Carp in the Channel 4 drama Ackley Bridge, will play the.. Read more
May 26, 2020
Think you know everything there is to know about legendary indie band Shed Seven? Well, now’s your chance to prove it! We’re giving Shed Seven fans the ultimate opportunity to prove their credentials in a live contest that will see them go head-to-head with the five members of the band. The Shed Seven themed quiz.. Read more
May 5, 2020
A host of well-known singers and musicians from the UK’s indie music scene have gone head-to-head in a virtual SpeedQuizzing Live event aimed at raising money for good causes, you can watch how it all went down here. Amongst the well-known faces who took part were: Shed Seven frontman Rick Witter; singer-songwriter Mark Morriss, best known for.. Read more
April 21, 2020
51-year old Urmston resident Jon Hindley, better known to many by his DJ name Jonny Spangles, provided local residents and thousands of Facebook Live viewers with some much-needed relief by staging a live DJ set from his street (watch video of it here) His Sunday afternoon set, which he streamed on Facebook Live, saw him broadcasting to people.. Read more
April 14, 2020
Many of our pub hosts are currently using SpeedQuizzing Live to host quizzes direct from their homes via Zoom. We are currently working on a directory of hosts and events to help you navigate these but for the time being get in contact with your local host for more details. Here’s our very own SpeedQuizzing.. Read more
April 3, 2020
SPEEDQUIZZING is looking to save the pub quiz experience and deliver much-needed entertainment to millions of house-bound trivia lovers – thanks to new innovations enabling people to play from home. With pubs and venues closing to help combat the spread of coronavirus, it means thousands of weekly pub quizzes and trivia events around the globe.. Read more
March 9, 2020
Some of quizzing’s biggest names descended on York over the weekend of Saturday 22nd February to take part in the inaugural National Elite SpeedQuizzing event. Run by York-based quiz tech company SpeedQuizzing, in partnership with reigning Brain of Britain and UK quizzing Grand Master David Stainer, the event attracted the very best quizzers, including Egghead’s Barry.. Read more
January 24, 2020
After the success of the 2019 SpeedQuizzing Hosts Connect Day, we’ve booked another one for Friday 19th June 2020. Other than rectifying the ratio of vegan to pig-filled sausage rolls on the buffet that was monumentally miscalculated by our very own plant-based Jane Leach last year, it shouldn’t stray too much from last year’s format… Read more
January 16, 2020
TENS of thousands of football fans from all over the country will get a small taste of SpeedQuizzing’s revolutionary digital quiz at some big games over the coming days. The York-based quiz tech company has partnered with digital advertising company Project11 in a deal that will see a series of football-related trivia electronically displayed on.. Read more
January 9, 2020
SpeedQuizzing launches free Speed Bingo hosting platform for pubs Pubs can now offer customers a fast-paced, interactive digitised bingo experience, thanks to the launch of a new, free-to-download bingo hosting platform. Created by SpeedQuizzing, pioneers of the interactive digital pub quiz, Speed Bingo is an interactive app-based platform that makes it easier and more fun.. Read more
November 19, 2019
Throughout the month of August 2019, the co-creator of SpeedQuizzing, (Alan Leach), rebranded himself as ‘Alan Shed’ and attempted to combine SpeedQuizzing with standup comedy for a daily, hour-long show at The Mash House in the heart of the Ed-Fringe festival. It was Alan’s first attempt at an actual comedy show rather than just hosting.. Read more
April 5, 2016
Imbibe Live is an annual exhibition at Olympia in London aimed at anyone who sources, serves or buys drinks in the licensed on-trade. The event itself is hugely popular with pub owners, landlords, bar staff, mixologists, sommeliers etc and is held over 2 days usually in July. Whilst the exhibitors are mainly the industries finest.. Read more
March 7, 2016
As mentioned in previous article SpeedQuizzing were looking to take on a new business manager to help them steer the company in the right direction and make sure things were running effectively. At the start of February Phil Qua joined the SpeedQuizzing team in that very role. We posed a few questions to him to.. Read more
January 8, 2016
Happy New Year to all our quiz hosts and quiz players. 2015 was an exciting year for SpeedQuizzing and a great year for new quizzes. We saw a bigger growth in US hosts and witnessed brand new European countries sign up to start hosting using the software. We speak to SpeedQuizzing creators Alan and John.. Read more
December 16, 2015
It’s not very often that you can say you host a quiz at a venue where a celebrity owns the venue itself but Radio DJ Paul Fairclough can. The Plume of Feathers in Stoke-on-Trent is owned by non-other than Men Behaving Badly actor and Bob The Builder Narrator, Neil Morrissey. We spoke to Paul about.. Read more
December 4, 2015
As the numbers for hosts in the USA increase, we love to hear from them about how their nights go down. This week we spoke to Anthony J Sabol who runs an entertainment company in Cleveland, Ohio. Anthony gives us the run down on how his nights go down and what makes them tick properly… Read more
November 24, 2015
The Smartphone Quiz is already hugely popular in the United Kingdom and there are many trivia nights popping up around the US at the moment as well. SpeedQuizzing makes sure that the QuizPacks that they sell are tailored for the different audiences, it wouldn’t be any use to a US audience having questions all about.. Read more
November 16, 2015
In 2014 Lisa Thiel from Leeds, became the latest addition to the line up of Eggheads on the popular daily BBC Two programme. She has previous appeared on The Weakest Link, The Chase and the Eggheads spin off series “Revenge of the Egghead“. In the first of our Pro Quizzer Interviews, we spoke to Lisa.. Read more
November 13, 2015
This week we head over to North Wales, Buckley to interview Sam who runs the quiz at The Windmill, a family establishment. Whilst most hosts that we get on board are DJs, Sam is one of the rare few that isn’t. Sam run’s us through how his quizzes run and whats makes them so special… Read more
November 6, 2015
Quiz hosting tends to be a very male driven profession looking at the numbers that host our quizzes. We are always excited to see female hosts taking to the mic. This week in our weekly host interview we speak to Laura Adams, a pub landlady in Wednesbury in the West Midlands. She hosts, the quiz.. Read more
October 30, 2015
Name? (and company you operate for if you do) Charlie Agrusa (TNT) Tournament Night Trivia Fueled by Speedquizzing Where do you live? Liberty, Missouri Are you a DJ and if so where do you DJ? Yes, I also book weddings and corporate events How did you find out about SpeedQuizzing? I was looking for new ways.. Read more
October 23, 2015
Name? (and company you operate for if you do) Owen Andrew (thesmartphonequiz.co.uk) Where do you live? Stotfold, Bedfordshire Are you a DJ and if so where do you DJ? I am, and have been for 27 years! I work all over the home counties north of London. 90% of my work is weddings, but I.. Read more
October 14, 2015
Whilst there are noticeable differences between a standard Pub Quiz and a Smartphone Quiz, such as using your Smartphones, team buzzers, instant answer & scores etc The core of SpeedQuizzing fundamentally is all about the content and the questions that make it so different. Back in the day I would have put together a quiz.. Read more
October 9, 2015
Name? (and company you operate for if you do) Andrew Ritchie – Independent Host Where do you live? Guildford Are you a DJ and if so where do you DJ? I do mobile DJ in the local area mainly through word of mouth How did you find out about SpeedQuizzing? I saw an advert for.. Read more
October 6, 2015
A lot of hosts are starting to use Twitter now to promote their quizzes which is a great sign indeed but Twitter is not as straight forward as it may seem at first glance. Whilst Facebook is fairly straight forward with how it works, there are a few things you should know about Twitter before.. Read more
October 2, 2015
Name? (and company you operate for if you do) Martine Crawford, independent quiz presenter. Where do you live? Swindon, Wiltshire. Are you a DJ and if so where do you DJ? No, not a DJ, just a social butterfly. How did you find out about SpeedQuizzing? I was presenting a quiz at a De Vere.. Read more
September 23, 2015
SpeedQuizzing is always being described as a way of bringing a familiar yet brand new form of entertainment into pubs. Whilst it is still at heart essentially a Pub Quiz, it’s bringing in new elements such as Team Buzzers, Original Scoring Systems, Fastest Finger and above all, no cheating. Imagine how pleased we were to hear.. Read more
September 17, 2015
SpeedQuizzing hosts their amazing software at BPM 2015 at the NEC in Birmingham At BPM 2015, it was SpeedQuizzing‘s 2nd year in attendance and we were hoping for another great response from DJ’s looking for a way of earning some cash mid week. Last year the take on the software was mostly people who had.. Read more
August 23, 2015
As DJ Expo 2015 in Atlantic City has now drawn to a close, we asked our US hosts exactly how they felt it went. So Rob, how was DJ Expo 2015 for you and Will? The expo was amazing. This was my first convention and Will’s third, but first as a presenter. The schedule was.. Read more
August 21, 2015
Name? (and company you operate for if you do) James Boyle, Jump Entertainments Where do you live? Burgess Hill (sussex) Which venues do you host quizzes at? Lots! regular ones, Every monday in brighton (student quiz) Every tuesday (paper quiz) and every other sunday in various pubs around sussex How long have you been hosting.. Read more
August 14, 2015
Three years ago we would have said “yes”, one year ago we would have said “almost”. Now in 2015 we advise hosts to “be vigilant” keeping an eye out for certain things. But in the most part, the games are still too fast for anyone to garner any real advantage by attempting to cheat. Regrettably there are a.. Read more
August 14, 2015
This week we head all the way up to the Wirral and talk to host, Ben Howarth. Name? (and company you operate for if you do) Ben Howarth Where do you live? Wirral Which venues do you host quizzes at? Arrowe Park Hotel, Kings Arms How long have you been hosting quizzes? Over 4 years.. Read more
