In the early 90's a bar near the University of Pennsylvania began playing a pub trivia game at the New Deck Tavern in Philadelphia. A woman walked in and said "oh is it bingo night?" to which this host (Pat Hine) said "No, it's more like Quiz-O night" and thus the name Quizo or Quizzo was born. The problem was, Quizzo was also a 1960's board game so neither Pat nor anyone else can own a copywrite on the name Quizzo. Over the years various "Quizzo" games popped up around the area including the earliest in our companies history 1999 at Maynard's in Margate, New Jersey (hosted by DJ Fran & an Irishman named Gavin who brought his version of the game from Ireland). In 2005 Quizzo began expanding as a national brand with major companies like Quizzo Detroit forming in different areas outside of the Philadelphia / NJ area. The Live Network has since brought Quizzo to more than 25 states and Canada. Quizzo has been played in every major chain from Applebee's to TGI Fridays and Buffalo Wild Wings, Chili's, Dave and Busters and many many many more. So there's the history, how here is a little bit about the game.

 

Quizzo is a 7 round 70 question trivia contest played by players who form trivia teams. The contest lasts roughly 2 hours and is usually played once a week. The game rounds are General Knowledge, Celebrity Picture Identification, Sports, Geography/ History, Entertainment and a Bonus round with a top ten question to end the game. Teams can guess (they don't loose points) and they can choose to double the point value in a single round by using the "Joker". Spelling does not count and the only rules are no cheating (using phones etc) and never call out the answer.



Games are hosted by a professional MC that The Live Network provides materials to. There is no electronic equipment needed the facility to play the game, although the host uses space to set up their system which consists of a speaker microphone and mixer.

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The Live Network provides our host venues point of sale materials to help promote the game including posters, post cards and table tents and also creates a custom page in our directory where the venue can feature other promotions and teams can track their Quizzo game scores