Ever wanted to feel the thrill of a bar trivia night without actually going out to a bar? These seven games have got you covered. We at Trivia Bliss have compiled a list of our favorite bar trivia games for your perusal.
No matter your favorite type of trivia game, this list will surely show you one you’ll like. We’ve got large table games, small card games, and even a trivia book to help you create the atmosphere of a bar trivia night—without the bar. (Looking for a digital alternative to spice up bar trivia? Take a gander at our ranking of the four best electronic bar trivia games.)
Without further ado, let’s get into it. Here are the seven best bar trivia games you’ve simply got to check out.
Ultimate Pub Trivia Team Trivia Game
First up, there’s the Ultimate Pub Trivia Team Trivia Game made by University Games. Fun fact: this epic game originated as a Kickstarter-funded project! Since its release, its popularity has soared, making it one of the most popular new trivia games on the market.
You might be thinking, “Pub trivia? Isn’t that different from bar trivia?”. If you’re curious whether, we’re here to tell you that the answer is no. Pub trivia usually takes place in the U.K., while bar trivia is what the same concept is called in the United States. The more you know!
The Ultimate Pub Trivia Team Trivia Game is a great at-home alternative to a bar trivia night out on the town. The game contains 1100 questions for a few weeks’ worth of trivia nights. Reviewers note that these questions are difficult, so be prepared to search your brain for the most obscure facts you know!
Try out these questions from the Ultimate Pub Trivia Team Trivia Game and see how you fare:
- “What book’s main character is a boy named Jonas, whose life role is the Receiver of Memory?”
- “Who wrote ‘Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion’?”
- “What U.S. Senator read Green Eggs and Ham as a part of his 21-hour-long filibuster?”
There’s no need to worry about gathering notebooks or pencils when playing the Ultimate Pub Trivia Team Trivia Game—they set you up with everything you need to have a fun trivia night. The game comes with 200 answer sheets plus a handful of miniature pencils that teams can use to notate their answers easily.
If you’re a fan of virtual trivia nights, the Ultimate Pub Trivia Team Trivia Game comes with instructions for using the game to host trivia night via Zoom. Steer clear of the bar and enjoy a cocktail from the comfort of your own home instead!
- PUB QUIZ AT HOME: bring the weekly pub trivia night home to play in teams or host your own live-streamed trivia night using questions from the game!
- TEST YOUR WITS: play with original trivia questions covering 5 different categories
- 5 DIFFERENT CATEGORIES: play in teams and answer questions that cover 5 different pop culture categories like sports, past present and future, pop culture, anything goes, and literature
- FAMILY GAME NIGHT: drinking is optional but not required for this game, perfect for 4 or more players ages 12 and up
- BE THE QUIZMASTER: Host your own live stream pub quiz events on Youtube, Twitch, Instagram or Facebook easily and effortlessly with content from the game
Talking Tables Host Your Own Pub Quiz Kit
Next up, we’ve got the Host Your Own Pub Quiz Kit from Talking Tables. This nifty game is great for replicating the feel of a trivia night at a bar, largely because of its fun accessories. It contains a small, foldable chalkboard, chalk, answer sheets, and a small trophy for the winning team. Now that’s what we call preparedness!
The Talking Tables Pub Quiz at Home Kit provides a good mix of multiple choice, true or false, and short answer questions. Example questions include the following:
- “True or False: Charles Dickens once said ‘Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monagamy is the same.’”
- “Who bought Marilyn Monroe’s white baby grand piano in 1999: Mariah Carey, Elton John, or Barry Manilow?”
- “What would you have been doing in 1988 if you were ‘swinging and jumping with a chug-a chug-a motion like a railroad train’?”
- “What U.K. teen drama kickstarted Dev Patel’s career as an actor?”
- “Which organ is the heaviest in the human body?”
Pretty awesome questions, right? We think so, too. The Host Your Own Pub Quiz Kit also allows players to download newer questions on their devices. That way, you’ll never get bored with the questions in the box and you can phase out certain questions as they become dated. You can also use your Amazon Echo device to read new questions aloud to the group. Use the power of smart technology for good fun at your next trivia night!
We love this game for its wide variety of question topics. It features ten categories to choose from: history, sport, geography, science, music, food, literature, nature, movies, and art. There’s truly something for everyone in the Host Your Own Pub Quiz Kit! This makes it a great game for folks to break up into teams to play.
- Test your trivia and general knowledge with Talking Tables Host Your Own Pub Quiz.
- With 1,000 questions from 10 categories this pub quiz is sure to pick your brain!
- OCCASION - Host the ultimate pub quiz night from the comfort of your own home. Play with friends or family gathered around the dinner table or lounging in the living room. Perfect for a birthday party, family games night or as a Christmas present! A great gifts for friends, gifts for him / gifts for her
- CONTENTS - Contains 100 easy to use quiz cards, answer pad and rules of play, wipe clean scoreboard poster, six joker cards, one chalk plus a winner's card trophy
- AGE - Recommended for age 14+ and 2+ players..QUALITY - Our products are designed with quality in mind and are strong, sturdy and made with care.
Ridley’s Bar Quiz Trivia Card Game
Another favorite bar trivia game choice of ours is Ridley’s Bar Quiz Trivia Card Game. This pocket-sized deck of cards makes for the perfect portable game to bring to a friend’s house. The game makers at Ridley are experts at creating small trivia games for fact fanatics, and this Bar Quiz game is no exception from their expertise.
Ridley’s Bar Quiz Trivia Card Game evokes the feeling of a bar trivia night with its colorful chance chips to shake up the game and its charming mini pencils used to write down answers. The answer sheets contain room for five categories worth of questions, leaving space for each team to come up with their own name. Bonus points to the team who has the most creative name!
The game also comes with 200 trivia cards that each contain five questions. These questions come from any ten categories, including pop culture, general knowledge, television, science, and geography. Can you correctly answer these questions from Ridley’s Bar Quiz Trivia Card Game? Let’s find out:
- “Which TV series follows the antics of the hip hop mogul Lucious Lyon and his family?”
- “Who played the role of Robert Barathoon in ‘Game of Thrones’?”
- “Roughly how much of the Earth’s surface is covered in water?”
- “What is the final digit of Pi?”
The answers to each question can be found on the back of the trivia card, so make sure that the person reading the questions aloud conceals the card well!
Looking for a little prize to hand out at the end of the game? Ridley’s Bar Quiz Trivia Card Game has got your back. It comes with a cute cardboard trophy to be awarded to the winning team.
Ridley’s Bar Quiz Trivia Card Game is a great choice for a low-key game night at home with friends. Grab a cold one with a handful of friends and take some time to try your hand at these witty trivia queries.
- TRIVIA GAME – Satisfy your thirst for knowledge with the Bar Quiz card game from Ridley’s! Do you have what it takes to be crowned the ultimate quiz champion?
- FUN FOR THE FAMILY – Gather your friends and family, young and old alike, and get the party started. Ideal for 2+ players, this bar trivia game is excellent for social gatherings, parties and family nights. It’s also an inspired conversation starter!
- EASY TO PLAY – This family trivia game is easy to play and tons of fun for everyone. It includes 10 challenging topics ranging from pop culture to general knowledge.
- INCLUDES – Find out who will take the prize and earn the Bar Quiz trophy! This trivia card game also includes a notepad for answers, pencils, and question cards with a total of 1,000 questions.
- RIDLEY’S – Ridley’s invents exciting, original, quality games and toys to spark imaginations, banish boredom and open up a world of immense fun. Our games offer players a truly unique experience, with innovative bespoke packaging and game play.
Hasbro Gaming Trivial Pursuit Mini Packs
If you’ve ever wanted to play Trivial Pursuit without the hullabaloo of the board setup, the Trivial Pursuit Mini Packs from Hasbro Gaming will do the trick. These tiny decks of cards are perfect for at-home trivia games, and their eras-based categories are sure to invoke the feeling of a themed bar trivia night. Our linked version includes four card decks, one for each decade from the 1980s to the 2010s.
Each card deck in this multipack includes 80 cards that span 240 different questions. That’s a whole lot of trivia! Especially since you can purchase many Trivial Pursuit Mini Packs at once and carry them easily, they are a great investment ahead of your next trivia night.
You only need two players to play with a Trivial Pursuit Mini Pack. However, if you’ve got a large group, you can divide into teams to conquer the questions!
Here’s how the game works: players or teams switch off answering trivia questions from different cards. If you or your team answers a question correctly, they get to keep the card the question is written on. The first player or team to accumulate five cards wins!
Answering five questions correctly might not be a tall order for some trivia fanatics, so feel free to play to 10 or 15 questions if that seems like too short a game for your group.
These games are super portable, so they can be taken anywhere. Whether you’re heading to a friend’s house or on a long car ride, the Hasbro Gaming Trivial Pursuit Mini Packs will entertain you.
- TRIVIA THROUGH THE DECADES: This Trivial Pursuit Game Mini Packs Multipack includes 4 different game packs, giving you 4 decades of trivia questions from the 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s
- TAKE IT TO GO: Because each pack includes cards only, they're great games for parties, road trips, and camping -- you don't need a table or a lot of space to play. Each game is for 2 or more players
- QUICK AND EASY GAMES: With each of these fun trivia games, if a player answers the question correctly, they keep the trivia card -- it just takes 5 cards to win
- FUN TRIVIA QUESTIONS: Do you remember events, trends, fads, entertainment, and more from years past. Each pack includes 80 cards, and features 240 engaging and fun questions about a different decade
- TRIVIA GAMES FOR ADULTS AND TEENS: The Trivial Pursuit Mini Pack Multipack includes 4 games are great for teens and adults ages 16 and up who love trivia and quiz games about pop culture
The Best Bar Trivia Book Ever: All You Need for Pub Quiz Domination
Next up on our list is a trivia book: The Best Bar Trivia Book Ever: All You Need for Pub Quiz Domination. Written by the founder of Pop Quiz Tea Trivia, Michael O’Neill, this book aims to prepare you for your next bar trivia night with example questions that can help you study.
This book is organized into three rounds: pop culture, arts and sciences, and sports and business. These rounds are subdivided into smaller chapters focusing on more specific categories, such as movies, literature, geography, vocabulary, currency, and video games and toys. There’s also a chapter entitled “Miscellaneous Facts To Help You Win It All” that we think is especially handy to help you prepare for a tough final trivia round.
Every chapter contains some trivia questions and lists of categorized trivia facts to help you study for a bar trivia night at home. Try to answer some of the tough trivia questions from The Best Bar Trivia Book Ever: All You Need for Pub Quiz Domination here:
- “What is the top grossing basketball movie of all time?”
- “Who is the only actor to have voiced characters in every Pixar movie?”
- “How many copies does an album need to sell to be certified Gold?”
- “Who has performed more concerts in Madison Square Garden than any other artist?”
- “What band was originally called Mookie Blaylock?”
This book is available in paperback or electronically, so you can purchase it in the medium that best suits your fancy. You can download The Best Bar Trivia Book Ever: All You Need for Pub Quiz Domination for free using your Kindle Unlimited subscription. Score!
Want to use The Best Bar Trivia Book Ever: All You Need for Pub Quiz Domination at your next trivia night? It’s super simple to do so. The trivia night host can highlight some trivia questions in the book ahead of time and curate them to suit the group’s interests. This is an awesome way to tailor your trivia to the people playing—something you can’t do when going out to a real bar trivia night.
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- O'Neill, Michael (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 258 Pages - 09/05/2014 (Publication Date) - Adams Media (Publisher)
Totally Trivia: The Complete Quiz Game by Goliath Green
Our next game comes from Goliath Green. It’s called Totally Trivia: The Complete Quiz Game, and it’s the perfect family quiz game that’s adaptable for a bar trivia setting.
Totally Trivia: The Complete Quiz Game features six excellent trivia categories. The categories include past and present, people and places, science and nature, rock and pop, fun and games, and TV and film. We love how thorough these categories are—they really run the gamut regarding topics! The game’s wide variety of question topics is what makes Totally Trivia: The Complete Quiz Game a great option for bar trivia.
Test out these questions from Totally Trivia: The Complete Quiz Game. Can you get them all right?
- “In the 2016 romantic musical film ‘La La Land’, who stars in the female lead role of Mia, a struggling actress working as a barista in the coffeeshop?”
- “Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and Alfred Nobel, among others, have all had what named after them?”
- “In 1982, Disney opened their futuristic EPCOT park. For what does the acronym EPCOT stand?”
- “What Russian jeweler was best known for his famous bejeweled Easter eggs?”
If those questions interest you, then we highly recommend picking up a copy of Totally Trivia: The Complete Quiz Game. There are 896 more questions where those came from!
This game is truly customizable: you can play it with as few as two players or as many as 25! Choose a category card, then roll a die to determine which of the card’s questions you’ll answer. Each question is worth the same number of points as its die value, so, for example, if you answer the fifth question on the card correctly, you’ll earn five points. This aspect of the game adds an element of chance that can help to shake it up no matter if you’re a trivia newbie or an expert player!
Totally Trivia: The Complete Quiz Game is recommended for players ages 14 and up. It comes in a small package that’s easy to transport to wherever you’re playing trivia.
- Quiz your family and friends and find out who the real know-it-all is
- Includes 900 questions covering a variety of topics
- Categories include Past & Present, Rock & Pop, TV & Film and more!
- Easy to play with a few or a large group
- For 2 or more players, ages 14 and up
Top Trumps Pub Quiz Game
Last but certainly not least, we’ve got the Top Trumps Pub Quiz Game. If you’re a trivia fan or games enthusiast, you’re certainly familiar with Top Trumps—and, if not, (where have you been?), we’ll clue you in. Top Trumps is able to adapt depending on the size of your group: no matter how many or few players you’ve got, the game works in exactly the same way.
Top Trumps Pub Quiz Game includes 500 questions that concern 100 different topics. That’s right, there are 100 individual topics for you to be quizzed on when you play this game! To give you a taste of the material you might be quizzed on when playing, these topics include Football, News, Reality TV, and 1980s.
These individual topics each have their own card that’s held in a double-sided plastic case. The case is designed so that each of two players or teams are able to draw cards opposite one another without showing each other their questions or answers. We love how convenient it is to pop the case open and begin a game of Top Trumps trivia!
Below are some example trivia questions from Top Trumps Pub Quiz Game:
- “The most successful X Factor act of all time is One Direction, but what position did they finish in the series?”
- “In 2017, scientists reported that the hole in the Antarctic ozone layer is closing. Since 2000, how many millions of square miles had it shrunk by?”
- “In 2018, England reached the World Cup semifinals. How many years had it been since they last achieved this?”
- “The words ‘Ladies and gentleman, rock and roll’ set against stock footage from NASA launched which music channel in 1981?”
It’s important to note that Top Trumps is a British game franchise, so some of the questions are going to be more geared towards the U.K. than to America. For example, their football category doesn’t concern American football, but soccer. Keep this in mind when answering your trivia questions!
- Classic Pub Quiz fun with a Top Trumps Twist
- Entertaining, educational card game loved for bringing your favourite facts to life across Sports, Music, Film and TV, Science and General knowledge.
- 500 puzzling and captivating questions that will test your knowledge and memory on 100 subjects
- Easy-to-carry plastic case means there are no limits on gameplay
- Prepare to outsmart your opponents, discover new and exciting facts and duel your way to becoming the Top Trump
Final Words
There you have it, bar trivia fanatics! You’ve made it to the very end of our guide to the best bar trivia games. We hope this gave you a good idea of which game you’d like to play with your friends at your next trivia night.
If you want the scoop on bar trivia nights, look no further than Trivia Bliss. We’ve got all the deets on how to create a bar trivia night at your own business and how to host your own trivia night at home. Peruse our trivia night archives to learn more!
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