The Big Quiz Thing

Name

The Big Quiz Thing

Legal name

Big Quiz Thing

Website

https://bigquizthing.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Live Event Entertainment Services

NAICS

All Other Amusement and Recreation Industries (71399)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900), Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Bingo Tournaments & Special Events (MPAEAGAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Quiz Bowl & Academic Team Competitions (EDAMAGAF), Virtual Awards Ceremonies & Competitions (Judging, Voting) (MPAGAOAN), Speech & Debate Judging, Tabulation & Tournament Services (EDAMAOAO)

Keywords

• Live trivia hosting
• Corporate team building
• Private event entertainment
• Fundraising trivia events
• Virtual game show

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Professional Trivia Event Hosting: Fees charged for professional quizmaster hosting of trivia events. Pricing is quote-based, varying by event type, location, group size, and customization level.
2. Custom Content Creation: Additional fees for customized trivia content about clients' companies, organizations, or guest honorees. Can be partial (some questions) or full (entire game).
3. Digital System Licensing: Licensing the digital trivia answer system to other trivia hosts for their own events.
4. Host Your Own Package: Self-run trivia packages with presentation materials and optional add-ons including custom questions, digital system access, and victory medals.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The Big Quiz Thing provides professionally hosted, multimedia custom trivia game shows for corporate team building, private celebrations, and nonprofit fundraising events. Events are delivered live in-person, virtually via Zoom, or in hybrid formats by a team of trained quizmasters and use a proprietary web-based Digital Trivia Answer System. The company also offers a Host Your Own self-service package and licenses its digital answer system to other trivia hosts.

Product overview

The Big Quiz Thing is a professional trivia hosting service operating since 2002, offering a portfolio of live trivia event products and formats. The core offering is a multimedia game-show style trivia experience featuring professional quizmasters and proprietary content design. Supporting infrastructure includes a Digital Trivia Answer System (web-based, since 2014) that enables real-time answer submission on any device. Service delivery spans three primary formats: In-Person Events, Virtual Events (via Zoom), and Hybrid Events, each available for corporate team building, private celebrations, and fundraiser applications. The company also offers specialized Themed Quiz Shows (15+ themes) and Alternate Formats (6 variants) that extend the core trivia product for diverse occasions. Content customization options range from basic demographic adjustments to bespoke company-specific trivia creation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Corporate Events Team building trivia events tailored for corporate clients, featuring customized content aligned with company culture, with options for basic, advanced, and bespoke trivia customization levels. Used for team building, deal dinners, gala entertainment, summer events, conference entertainment, and office tournaments.
• Private Events Personalized trivia experiences for private gatherings including birthdays, bachelor/bachelorette parties, reunions, rehearsal dinners, and retirement parties, with content customized to honor guests of honor.
• Fundraisers Trivia night fundraising events for charitable causes, featuring in-game donation mechanics and a referral program that donates 20% of BQT fees back to the referring client cause.
• In-Person Events Live, multimedia trivia events held at client venues, featuring professional quizmasters presenting multiple rounds of trivia content lasting 60-90 minutes, with video, audio, and interactive game elements.
• Virtual Events Hosted trivia events conducted live via Zoom, enabling remote teams to participate in real time with professional quizmasters and multimedia content delivered through web-enabled devices.
• Hybrid Events Trivia events combining in-person and virtual participants, accommodating scenarios such as a remote quizmaster with an in-person audience, or split teams across physical and virtual locations.
• Host Your Own A self-hosted trivia package where clients receive a PDF presentation with BQT trivia content and pre-event consultation, with optional add-ons including custom questions, digital answer system access, and video/audio content.
• Themed Quiz Shows Specialty trivia event formats covering specific themes including Family, Holiday, Halloween, Sports, Food, '80s/'90s, Movie, Music, Theater, Geeky, Science, New York, Political, and Sexy themes.
• Alternate Formats Alternative trivia event formats including Virtual Host Experience (intimate hosted virtual events), Trivia Warm-Up (15-minute conference activities), Trivia Booth (5-minute repeated trade show attractions), Buzzertastic Game Show (individual buzzer competition), Trivia Cocktail Hour (wandering host format), and Table Card (mealtime verbal quiz format).
• Digital Trivia Answer System Web-based answer submission and buzzer system usable on any web-enabled device without downloads, featuring auto-grading and a built-in buzzer for the Buzzertastic Finale. Used internally at every BQT event and licensed to other trivia hosts for their own events.

Quantifiable outcome

• 20+ years of continuous operation since 2002, serving thousands of clients including Fortune 500 companies
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers17 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• The Go Game: The Go Game is a corporate team-building and interactive game-show company that hosts custom events for Fortune 500 clients — directly comparable to BQT in customer base, product (hosted game shows), and premium B2B positioning.
• Crowdpurr: Crowdpurr is a self-serve trivia and quiz platform used to host live and virtual game-show-style events. It is a productized substitute to BQT's professional hosting service and competes for the same corporate event budget.
• TeamBonding: TeamBonding is a corporate team-building event provider offering a broad catalog of in-person programs. It competes with BQT for the same corporate team-building budget at the same Fortune 500 buyer.
• Outback Team Building: Outback Team Building delivers corporate team-building programs including trivia-based events across North America. It overlaps with BQT in target customer (corporate HR/office managers) and event format.

Broad incumbents

• Kahoot!: Kahoot! is a widely adopted quiz-based learning and engagement platform used in corporate training and events. While its primary market is education, its free/cheap self-serve trivia experience serves as the most accessible substitute to BQT's hosted events.

Others

• Quizalize: Quizalize is a quiz-based engagement platform used by educators and trainers. While more education-focused, it overlaps thematically with BQT's quiz-authoring and content-creation capabilities as a low-cost content alternative.

Emerging players

• Mentimeter: Mentimeter is an interactive presentation platform with live quiz and polling features used in corporate meetings. It represents a software-based substitute for hosted trivia in the same enterprise events segment.
• Slido: Slido is an audience engagement platform with live polling, Q&A, and quiz features used at corporate meetings and events. It targets the same corporate event-planner buyer with a lower-cost, self-serve alternative to fully hosted trivia.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/BigQuizThing
• Facebookfacebook.com/bigquizthing
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-big-quiz-thing
• Instagraminstagram.com/bigquizthing

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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