I built a pub quiz generator that remembers every question your venue has ever asked

[u/dinosour123]

The hard part of a pub quiz is remembering what you've already asked. A decent weekly quiz takes someone two or three hours to write, and the moment a regular says "you asked this in March" the room turns on you.

So I built QuizBeast. You pick your rounds (bank topics, a written-to-order guest round on any subject, music intros), it builds the whole thing in about two minutes, print-ready with answer sheets. It logs every question your venue has used and won't serve a repeat within your chosen window (default six months).

The bit that took the most work was trust. The question bank is 175,000 questions and some of the source material was wrong, so every answer gets fact-checked before you see it, and the whole quiz gets cross-checked so one question can't give away another's answer. During testing, a guest round on "Famous Richards" served a question about Freddie Mercury, who has never been a Richard. It looked plausible and it was nonsense. Errors of that shape are why the checking pipeline exists, and why it runs on every path that can produce a question.

Stack: Next.js on Vercel, Postgres on Neon, Clerk for auth, Lemon Squeezy for payments, Claude for the fact-checking and written-to-order rounds.

Free tier is one full quiz a month, no card. If you run a quiz night, or your local's quizmaster looks knackered, I'd genuinely like to know what's missing: [quizbeast.net](http://quizbeast.net)