Organizing a trivia night from A to Z is hard. Sometimes you need someone else to take care of all the busy work while you kick back and enjoy the trivia. If you live in Canada, you’re in luck! There are many trivia night companies you can hire to do the planning and hosting for you. The best part is, each one of these companies offers customizable events. You will be able to build your own trivia night, regardless of the size of your group, your preferred theme and categories, and even your location!
Lay out your criteria and contact one of these wonderful companies. If you’re looking for an even more personalized solution, hire a freelancer! Whatever you do, remember that it’s all in good fun. We’ve come up with a list of a few trivia night companies in Canada, but don’t let this limit you. Search for a trivia night company in your town and contact them to discuss your upcoming event. The world is your oyster!
PS: We also have a list for the US and UK respectively, if you are interested in those.
Quiz Coconut
Quiz Coconut is a trivia night company based in Toronto. The company claims to be the number one virtual event organizer in all of Canada. Expect them to set everything up; all you have to do is show up (physically or virtually). Quiz Coconut offers team-building events and holiday parties. Everyone is welcome to participate; the company can service a group of people of any age, background, occupation, and so on. Expect to be entertained!
Because of the current situation, Quiz Coconut has offered trivia nights via Zoom. The format is the same as with in-person trivia. There is a host that takes care of the entertainment and walks you through the game show-style event. The best part of a virtual trivia night is that you don’t have to be in Toronto. Virtual entertainment from Quiz Coconut is available all over the world.
In the standard package offered to corporate clients, Quiz Coconut provides a quiz that is just under an hour long, so it doesn’t take too much time out of your day. The brand has worked with big and small companies, and serviced groups of as few as 10 and as many as 500. Quiz Coconut is a well-known company that got the chance to work with Google, Disney, Pepsi, Facebook, Deloitte, and other popular brands.
Team Bonders
Team Bonders offers excellent options in quiz games for teams. The brand heavily focuses on corporate events, though a non-corporate event is possible too. You can have a trivia night at home, at the pub, at the office, or at any other location. Virtual events are available too.
With Team Bonders, no trivia night is the same. The company promises to plan a custom event just for you. You can choose from a wide variety of question categories, including pop culture, sports, and even custom-made questions just for your trivia night. Choose a theme if you’d like! Sports, the 80s, pop culture, and geography are all great options. If you can’t choose, mix them all together or create a custom theme.
The brand offers specific Team Bonders gameplay for virtual trivia. There is a minimum number of points in each round that your team has to reach. If you fail to do so, you’re out. Harsh, but fun! All of that is accompanied by an enthusiastic quizmaster who delivers questions and caters to your every need, short of answering the questions for you, of course. The in-person version is very similar, except everyone gets to play from the same location.
Team Bonders have worked with Adidas, PepsiCo, Deloitte, Walmart, and more. The brand offers other unique team building games, including the Espionage Suite Hotel Escape Game and Classic Game Shows. If you’d like to find out what that means, visit the website and check out all the programs. Alternatively, you can book your very own event and customize it to your liking.
Tremendous Trivia Night Productions
Tremendous Trivia Night Productions focuses more on providing entertainment in the form of trivia to individuals rather than corporate and private clients (more on these later). The TTNP team holds weekly pub quizzes in the city of Okanagan in Canada. You can attend one of their events and win an actual prize and a trophy! The company continues to impress its followers with new and improved events and different themes every week.
TTNP cooperates with different bars and pubs in the area, so you can always expect a new venue. At the same time, the brand offers its services to corporate, private, and fundraising partners. If you need to organize a fundraiser, you know who to call!
In these difficult times, Tremendous Trivia Night Productions decided to migrate to the virtual sphere and offer their services there too. You can now attend a virtual trivia night every Wednesday through Zoom. Gameplay remains the same; gather your team and crush everyone! You can donate to save yourself a spot in the next game. If you’re interested in following up on TTNP, you can look forward to the following trivia night themes: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Office, and Friends!
Question Everything Trivia
Question Everything, or simply QE Trivia, is here to shake things up! You can forget about traditional trivia and enjoy the world of pop culture. QE Trivia focuses on organizing entertaining pop culture pub quizzes about your favorite music, movies, celebrities, and more! Naturally, the target audience of QET is predominantly young people in Toronto and Ontario (and other cities in Canada and North America).
The brand holds actual trivia events, where you can win real prizes and money. And while in-person events are on hold, you can participate in one of QE Trivia’s virtual trivia events. These are held every Thursday in support of local charities. If that’s not your cup of tea and you’re looking for something a little more personalized, contact the company for your own custom trivia night. They’re already worked with big corporations like Deloitte and Ubisoft, so you have nothing to worry about!
TriviaMaker
TriviaMaker is a great virtual trivia tool used by corporations, schools, and individuals. In a nutshell, there are four main game styles to choose from: grid, list, trivia, and wheel. We’ve all seen those in popular TV game shows like Wheel of Fortune and Family Feud. In schools, teachers use virtual learning to encourage students to pay attention and engage with the class.
All the games can be viewed on any device, including phone, tablet, and computer. There is no limit to the size of the screen; you can get a projector and display the game on the biggest wall you can find. There is no need for any second device; just share your screen on the TV/projector or in the video call if you’re playing remotely. Customers have used TriviaMaker for large events, such as conferences and concerts, so the app knows what it’s doing.
In order to create your very own trivia night, you can contact TriviaMaker and plan a special event together. The brand can organize a customized game just for you and your team. In order to do that, you need to subscribe to the service for a month, year, or lifetime. If you choose the lifetime option, there is only one payment. The premium account allows you to unlock all the extra features. You can play with up to 50 teams, create custom logos, backgrounds, colors, and theme songs, and add photos and videos to your trivia questions.
Crowdpurr
If you’re looking for an easy way to organize a virtual trivia night yourself, you should try Crowdpurr, which is a popular option in Canada. The app is specifically made for virtual events of any kind, including live trivia. Using Crowdpurr, you can compete against your friends for prizes and watch live rankings.
The application is incredibly easy to set up and host. With the help of Crowdpurr, you can keep team building alive even when times get rough and gatherings are not permitted. All you have to do is create an account, log in, and start playing! There is a subscription fee, which is pretty straight-forward. There are no hidden costs, just the payments you agree to.
At first, you will be greeted with some built-in questions to get you warmed up. If you play regularly, the questions will run out soon and you’ll have to think of your own. In that sense, Crowdpurr is not the equivalent of a trivia night company. It is merely a platform for you and your friends to play a game of trivia, not a quizmaster.
You can make your questions more fun and engaging by adding GIFs to them. You’ll come across a few image-based questions, which is quite fun too. You can invite as many people as you want to your trivia night. The platform is user-friendly and straight-forward. Though you can definitely have a fun night with your group of friends using Crowdpurr, the platform is oriented more towards corporate clients.
Freelance Trivia Hosts
Though Canada has an abundance of trivia night companies, you might still prefer to hire a freelancer. There are several benefits to hiring a freelance trivia host. For starters, they are easier to work with closely. If you’re planning on delivering a highly personalized trivia night, you might need to spend a few hours brainstorming together with your quizmaster. Not every trivia night company has that kind of time. You can also communicate with them more informally while waiting for an email response from a trivia night company can last a few hours or days.
You might save some money by working with a freelancer rather than a trivia night company. One person will usually require a significantly smaller sum to organize an event than an entire team of people where everyone needs to get paid. If money is an object, hire a freelancer.
Trivia night companies are not always more reliable than freelancers, but they have the corporate clients to show for them. On this list, almost every company has worked with Deloitte, which is a giant in the corporate world. I believe that Deloitte only offers the highest quality entertainment to its employees and would never work with an unreliable vendor. Thus, working with a trivia night is often a safer option.
If you’ve decided to give a freelancer a try, you can search on websites such as UpWork, Fiverr, and Freelancer. Give LinkedIn a try too! Surely, you’ll be able to find many worthy candidates. If you’re not sure, ask the freelancer for a sample of their work. That should give you a better idea of their quality.
Work Hard, Play Hard
Though most of the trivia night companies mentioned in this article focus on catering to corporate clients, that shouldn’t stop groups of individuals from reaching out to them. If you are indeed looking for a team building activity for your department, you have a lot to choose from! And if you’re looking for a fun way to spend a night with your friends, you can make use of some of these trivia companies too.
Tremendous Trivia Night Productions and Question Everything Trivia organize weekly pub quizzes that recently transferred into the virtual format. As a result, you can attend from literally anywhere. Don’t worry about the dress code and bring your own snacks!
Have you worked with any of these Canadian trivia night companies? Do you have any experience with freelance trivia night hosts? Which company or freelancer would you recommend to your fellow Canadians? Share your experience with us in the comments!
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