Quizzo
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Quizzo, Quizo, Quizzmo, QuizBo is a pub quiz or live trivia game. The game is played in teams where each team attempts to answer the most trivia questions correctly. It was first popularized in Philadelphia in 1995[1], and since has become popular in cities across the United States.
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[edit] Game play
Quizzo is typically hosted by a bar on a particular night of the week. Teams anywhere from one to ten or more players compete in a trivia game against all the other teams in the bar. Standard game play consists of three to six rounds with 10 questions each, although this varies by bar. The questions asked can vary from academic questions to sports and entertainment questions. Answers are either written down on a slip of paper to be collected at the end of each round, or more recently at some venues by specially designed computer devices that are distributed to each team. At the end of the game the winning teams are determined and usually receive prizes, frequently bar tab.
[edit] Rule Variations
The rules of quizzo vary widely depending on the establishment hosting the event. Most variations include variable points per round, varied rounds which might consist of speed elements, visual or audio clues, multiple choice answers and so forth. Some quizzes allow "jokering", which is to say the option of a team doubling the points in one round per game without knowing how well they have done in that round or what future rounds might hold. Jokering is not an element in games with varied scoring per round as this would make no mathematical sense.
