Fun, interactive quizzes turn passive observers into active, enthusiastic (& clicking) participants<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Online quizzes (like the BBC’s Riddle-powered ‘Quiz of the Year’<\/a>) work wonders for engaging your audience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Think about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There\u2019s a reason that pub quizzes, TV shows like Jeopardy!<\/a>, and paid apps like Kahoot<\/a> have been popular for so long. <\/p>\n\n\n\n People love testing their knowledge \u2013 and showing off a bit to their friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Creating a live online quiz is a proven way to grab your audience\u2019s attention \u2013 plus grow your marketing list<\/a> by collecting each contestant’s email address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, you\u2019ve got a ready-made event to promote and run for your audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Check out our more in-depth blog post about using online quizzes for contests<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ready to learn more about hosting your live online quiz? Let\u2019s dive in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The most common way to run a live online quiz is as a session using Zoom<\/a>, Microsoft Teams, or other video conferencing tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The organizer assumes the role of MC to keep things running smoothly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Live quiz events work like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more suspense, you can hide the right\/wrong answers & the \u2018correct\u2019\/\u2019wrong\u2019 messages<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The advantage? <\/p>\n\n\n\n The correct answers and scores will only be shown at the very end \u2013 after the live online quiz entry (lead generation) form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We also recommend you add an ‘M.C.-led’ question every 4-5 questions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Your question block could be a multiple choice one, showing just the answers – or be ‘free text’ entry without any question text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Over-eager quiz takers will need to wait for you to read these questions aloud – keeping them from jumping ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Want to create an online quiz contest \u2013 not as a realtime quiz, but as a longer online event? <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can easily do that as well with Riddle\u2019s quiz maker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead of a live online quiz with a MC\/moderator and your participants taking your quiz at once, you\u2019ll post the quiz on your site \u2013 and leave it running for a certain time period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You\u2019ll just need to follow those steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can also add a quiz leaderboard to your Riddle<\/a> live online quiz (or use our WordPress leaderboard option<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, let\u2019s face it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you\u2019re running any sort of live online quiz contest, it\u2019s going to be possible to cheat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After all, Google is just a click away for each quiz taker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, you can make life more difficult for cheaters by following our above tips, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most cheaters are lazy \u2013 and just want a quick win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can also do a sort\/filter in Google Sheet \u2013 to make sure there are no double entries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course, people can come up with ways around this \u2013 such as using multiple different email addresses to take the quiz. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But these steps just add a bit of friction and pain for would-be cheaters \u2013 meaning your quiz will still be fun for everyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can also prevent hackers using scripts or bots for automated entries with our ‘enhanced security’ options<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It limits how many votes come from an IP address. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Imagine you have set the limit as 20 votes per day from the same IP address (see our example image below):<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s imagine Sneaky Steve from Sydney created a script to automatically enter your live quiz contest with 1,000’s of entries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019re always amazed at how creative our online quiz maker community is \u2013 especially when they create a live quiz for promotions or contests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s show you one of our favorite examples – by the NBA\u2019s Chicago Bulls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They\u2019re keen users of engaging their fans with quizzes \u2013 and regularly create sponsored content or promotions that challenge their fans\u2019 knowledge of their team like this \u2018How well do you know Zach Levine?\u2019 quiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This isn\u2019t a live online quiz per se \u2013 but by adding a specific time and date (e.g. ‘Join us at 8PM CST!’), it could easily made into one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And we\u2019re not stopping \u2013 we\u2019re always adding new features to our online quiz maker (like Riddle 2.0<\/a> – the culmination of two years’ effort from our quiz experts)<\/p>\n\n\n\n So if you’ve got questions about running a live online quiz (or ideas how we can make Riddle better) – give us a shout at hello@riddle.com<\/a> or on Riddle\u2019s support chat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019re (frankly) ridiculously fast at replying to every message \u2013 everyone from our CEO Boris on down races each other to respond first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Put us to the test \u2013 we look forward to hearing from you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boosting engagement & collecting entries with a live online quiz Making your own live online quiz contest with Riddle\u2019s quiz maker is easy. 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