Corporate offsites, campus fests, conferences, annual days and training sessions — hosted live by a professional quiz master, with real buzzers, an original question set written for your audience, and a leaderboard on the big screen. We host across 12 Indian cities.
An MC with a slide deck is not a quiz master. Hiring one means somebody owns the room for sixty to a hundred and twenty minutes — the writing, the pacing, the scoring, the tie-breaker nobody planned for, and the recovery when a projector dies four questions in. Here is what is actually inside the engagement.
Written for your audience after a briefing call — your industry, your in-jokes, your milestones. Never a recycled deck. Difficulty is tuned so the room stays in it to the last round.
Wireless buzzer sets for lockout rounds, a live leaderboard on the main screen, and scoring handled by our team — so your people are playing instead of tallying.
Someone who can tell a forty-person leadership offsite from a nine-hundred-seat auditorium and change register accordingly. Pace, banter and round length adjust live.
Table teams of six, individual lockout finals, or hybrid rooms with remote joiners answering on their phones through our own quiz app.
Participation, round-by-round scores and final team standings, so an L&D or HR lead has more to show for the budget than photographs.
Backup buzzer sets, an offline copy of every round, and a host who can run the whole thing on a hand mic if the AV gives up completely.
Buzzers, leaderboards, and a few hundred adults competing considerably harder than they expected to. This is footage from our own events — not a showreel of stock clips.
Manas Chaturvedi founded Quiz Granny and hosts most of what we run. He has taken the mic in hotel ballrooms, university auditoriums, co-working lounges and conference halls — from an ISHRAE industry conclave with a live leaderboard on a twenty-foot screen, to Yuva Mahotsav on a campus stage in front of several hundred students.
When you hire a quiz master, what you are really hiring is a judgement call made forty times an hour: when to push a round harder, when to cut it short, when a wrong answer is funnier than the right one. That judgement is the product. Writing the questions is the easy part.
He also writes about the mechanics of it — why quizzes hold attention when presentations do not — drawing on game-design work such as the Octalysis framework. You can read that thinking on the Quiz Granny blog, or watch past shows on the Quiz Granny YouTube channel.
Same host, seven different builds. The format gets chosen on the briefing call, against your room, your headcount and what the evening is actually for.
The classic championship build: elimination and preliminary rounds, then a stage final with audio-visual questions, lockout buzzers and a live leaderboards and scorecards. Six to eight finalist teams, an audience watching, and a champion at the end of it. The most competitive format we run.
Good for: grand finales, annual days, state and national quizzes, quiz championships.
The quiz plays on the main screen; everyone in the room joins from their phone browser and answers live. No app to install, no headcount ceiling — hundreds of people playing the same question at the same time on QG Playground, our own live quiz platform.
Good for: conferences, large events, town halls, casual and high-energy settings.
Six to eight to a table, around ten teams in the room, and a set built for laughs as much as points. Audio-visual questions, answers taken on buzzers, answer sheets or phones — whatever suits the space.
Good for: café-style evenings, team offsites, get-togethers, small group gatherings.
Your L&D content turned into rounds. Compliance, product or process material that people actually retain, because they competed over it. Scored, so you can report on it.
A room in one city, participants on their phones from multiple others, one shared leaderboard. Run through our own quiz app, so remote players are not second-class participants.
Sangeets, milestone birthdays, reunions. Rounds written about the people in the room — the couple, the family, the batch — which is exactly why they land.
Not a single evening. Our Campus Quiz Ecosystem Program runs a quizzing calendar across an academic year, building a club and a culture rather than one event.
Formats 01, 04 and 07 sit under Competitive Quizzing. Formats 02, 03, 05 and 06 sit under Engagement Quizzing. The hybrid build runs on the QG Playground.
Most events are locked in within a week of the first call, and nothing here requires you to know anything about quizzing.
Date, city, headcount, room, and what the evening is for. We ask about your people — the running jokes, the milestones, the departments that need mixing.
Format, round structure, run time, equipment list and a fixed fee. One page. You know exactly what is included before you commit anything.
An original set, built for your audience, with a difficulty curve tested against the headcount. You get a preview of the round structure — never the answers.
Equipment on site early, AV checked with your team, and the quiz run end to end. Scores and standings sent across afterwards.
Most people book their first quiz host on a recommendation and a phone call, and find out on the night whether it was the right call. These five questions separate a professional quiz master from an entertainer with a trivia deck, and they work on any shortlist — ours included.
If the answer is vague, or the set already exists, you are buying a rerun. Ask when writing starts relative to your date, and ask to see the round structure — not the answers — before the event. A host who cannot show you a structure a week out has not written it.
Projectors die, laptops refuse the venue’s HDMI, and buzzer receivers pick up interference from the DJ rig. The answer you want is specific: backup sets, offline copies, a version of the quiz that runs on a hand mic. “That has never happened” is not an answer, it is a warning.
Every quiz with stakes produces one. What matters is whether the host has a rule they state up front and apply consistently, or improvises under pressure in front of your leadership team. Ask how ties are broken too — the tie-break is the moment the evening is remembered by.
Forty people in a boardroom and four hundred in an auditorium are different crafts. A host who is excellent at one can genuinely struggle at the other. Ask for a comparable event — comparable in headcount and room type, not just in client logo.
If you are spending an L&D or HR budget line, somebody will ask what it produced. Scores by team, participation, round-by-round performance on the training content — these should be offered, not requested. Most hosts do not offer them because most hosts do not capture them.
Client logos. Everyone in this industry has hosted for a recognisable brand at some point, and a logo wall tells you nothing about whether the questions were any good. Ask about the room, not the letterhead.
Planning something specific? We have written at length about corporate offsite activities, team-building quiz ideas, quiz ideas for annual day events, and how to organise an inter-college quiz competition — useful whether or not you end up hiring us.
We do not publish a single number, because a forty-person table quiz in Bhopal and a nine-hundred-seat stage final in Delhi are not the same job. What we will do is give you a fixed, written fee within 24 hours of the briefing call — not a range that quietly moves later.
Five things move the number, and it is worth knowing which before you ask anyone in this industry for a quote:
Tell us the date, the city and roughly how many people. You will have a written proposal with a fixed fee inside 24 hours.
We travel for events, but these twelve cities are where we host most often — which usually means no travel line on your quote, and a host who already knows the venues.
Quiz master in Ahmedabad · Quiz master in Bhopal · Quiz master in Bhubaneswar · Quiz master in Chandigarh · Quiz master in Delhi · Quiz master in Hyderabad · Quiz master in Indore · Quiz master in Jaipur · Quiz master in Lucknow · Quiz master in Nagpur · Quiz master in Pune · Quiz master in Raipur
Somewhere else in India? Ask anyway — we travel, and we will tell you honestly whether it makes financial sense for your budget.
There is no single figure, and be wary of anyone who quotes one before asking about your event. The fee is driven by format, headcount, how much bespoke writing is involved, the city, and run time. A short table quiz for forty people at an offsite and a buzzer-based stage final for a nine-hundred-seat auditorium are genuinely different jobs. We give you a fixed written fee within 24 hours of a 20-minute briefing call, and it does not move afterwards.
Two to three weeks is comfortable. That gives us time to write an original set around your audience rather than adapt a generic one, and to arrange buzzer equipment for your city. We have turned events around in under a week, but the questions are better with more notice. The December-to-February corporate season and the campus fest window book out earlier, so ask sooner if your date falls in either.
Yes, and it is usually the round people remember. On the briefing call we ask about your milestones, your products, your offices, the internal jokes and the people everyone knows. Those become a dedicated round. The rest of the quiz is written against your audience’s general profile — age range, region, industry — so the difficulty curve actually fits the room in front of us.
We bring the buzzer sets, the question deck, the scoring system and the leaderboard. From you we need a screen or projector, a sound system with at least one handheld microphone, and power at the host position. For hybrid events we also need reliable Wi-Fi for players joining on their phones. We run an AV check with your team before doors open, and we carry an offline copy of every round in case the projector fails.
From about twenty up to several hundred. The number changes the format rather than ruling anything out: small groups work best as table teams where everyone plays every round, while large audiences work best as a stage quiz with named teams competing while the room plays along from their seats. Tell us the headcount and the room, and we will recommend the shape.
Yes. We host in English, in Hindi, and in the mix most Indian rooms actually speak. Language is agreed on the briefing call, and the question set is written in the language it will be hosted in rather than translated afterwards — wordplay does not survive translation.
We do. Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Delhi, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Lucknow, Nagpur, Pune and Raipur are where we host most often, so those quotes usually carry no travel line. Anywhere else in India, we will quote travel transparently and tell you honestly whether it is worth it at your budget.
An MC keeps an agenda moving. A quiz master runs a competition — which means writing it, pacing it, ruling on disputed answers, managing a tie-break nobody planned for, and keeping four hundred people invested in the outcome. The hosting is the visible part; the question design and the live judgement calls are what actually decide whether the room stays in it.
That is a large part of what we do. Your compliance module, product knowledge or process material becomes the question set, and people compete over it instead of sitting through it. You get scores by team and by round afterwards, so there is something to report against — which is usually what an L&D lead needs the session to produce.
A 20-minute call, a written proposal with a fixed fee inside 24 hours, and an original quiz written for your people. Hosted across 12 Indian cities.
