32 prompts you can paste into an assistant that’s connected to Quiz Master — whole nights, music and picture rounds, bilingual quizzes, every question format, and the dull library chores. Each one says what it makes the AI actually do.
The AI does what you ask, and very little of what you meant. Five habits that turn a vague request into a night you’d actually run.
01
Give it the shape of the night
Number of rounds, questions per round, points per question, where the break goes. “A quiz about the 90s” gets you something; “five rounds of eight, picture round third, break after round two” gets you Thursday.
02
Describe the room
Who’s playing and how hard it should be. Teams of four in a neighbourhood pub want different questions from a room of history students. Say “mostly medium, one or two stinkers per round” and it will tag each question’s difficulty to match.
03
Make it read the authoring guide first
Quiz Master hands the AI a built-in guide to every question format, the running order of a pub quiz, and how media works. Starting with “read the authoring guide” is the cheapest quality win there is.
04
Ask for a fact-check pass
A model will state a wrong answer with total confidence. Ask it to check every answer, flag the ones it isn’t sure of, and note its source in the host notes — then read the flagged ones yourself.
05
Work in small steps
One round at a time is easier to steer than a whole night in one breath. It can always open the quiz again, swap a question, or move a round.
Words in [square brackets] are yours to swap. The music and picture prompts assume your assistant can search the web — without that it can’t find clips or images, and will tell you so. The tool names in each card are listed in full in the MCP tool reference.
32 prompts · 8 categories
The prompts.
Whole nights
From a blank page to a running order you can press play on.
The standard Thursday
Read the Quiz Master authoring guide first. Then create a quiz called “Thursday at [the Anchor]”: a welcome slide, house rules, then four rounds of eight questions — general knowledge, geography, film & TV, and a “name the year” round. Give every round an intro slide, its answer reveal and a scoreboard after it. Put a 15-minute break with a countdown after round two, and finish on final scores counting down from fifth place, then an outro. Mostly medium difficulty, for teams of four in a pub.
What it does Builds the whole timeline in one create_quiz call. An inline timeline is taken exactly as given, which is why the prompt spells out the answer reveals.
get_authoring_guide
create_quiz
Round by round
Create an empty quiz called “[Quiz name]” with a welcome slide and rules. Then add one round at a time — eight questions each, topics of your choosing — and after each round show me the questions and wait for my OK before adding the next.
What it does Starts small and grows the timeline with add_segment. Each round added this way gets its answer-reveal slide inserted right after it automatically.
create_quiz
add_segment
House rules, whole points only
Open my quiz “[Quiz name]”. Switch half points off — whole points only — and rewrite the rules slide to match: no half points, no phones, the quizmaster’s decision is final.
What it does Changes the quiz settings, which the scoring screen follows, and patches the rules slide. Settings have no panel in the builder yet, so asking the AI is currently the way to change them.
list_quizzes
get_quiz
update_quiz
update_segment
Pick the look
List the Quiz Master presenter themes, choose the one that best suits a [90s music] night, and set it on my quiz “[Quiz name]”. Tell me why in one sentence.
What it does Reads the ten themes and sets one as the quiz’s default. Themes only change the audience screen, not the questions.
list_themes
update_quiz
Music rounds
YouTube clips play straight from the question, cut to the bit you want.
What’s this song?
Add a music round to “[Quiz name]”: eight songs from [1997], each using the official video from the artist’s own YouTube channel, clipped to 20 seconds of the chorus and played audio-only so the screen gives nothing away. One point for the artist, one for the title. Reveal the answer after each song rather than at the end of the round.
What it does Puts each YouTube watch URL straight on the question as audio with a start and end time — the player stays hidden until the answer, when the video is the reveal. YouTube is never run through import_media.
add_segment
Name that film scene
Add a round of six film scenes to “[Quiz name]”. For each, find the official trailer or clip on the studio’s YouTube channel and play 15 seconds that don’t show the title or the lead actor’s face. Teams name the film. Use the split layout so the video sits beside the question.
What it does Uses YouTube as on-screen video with in and out points, and sets the round’s default question layout to split.
add_segment
Intro round, three clues
Write five “name the song from the intro” questions for “[Quiz name]” round [3]. Each one gets three clue stages before the question: the first 3 seconds of the intro, then the first 10 seconds, then a written hint about the artist. Order clues from vaguest to most obvious.
What it does Uses clue stages — progressive reveals the host steps through before the question appears — each with its own clipped YouTube media or text hint.
get_quiz
add_questions_to_round
Three songs, one link
Write one question with three sub-questions: three song clips whose titles share a word. Each sub-question is its own clip (audio-only, 15 seconds) and asks for the song; a fourth sub-question asks for the shared word. Add it to the music round of “[Quiz name]”.
What it does Uses sub-questions: the parent becomes a shared setup card, and each sub-question carries its own clip and answer, played and revealed in turn.
get_quiz
add_questions_to_round
Picture rounds
Images are copied into Quiz Master, so they still load on the night.
Landmarks from odd angles
Add a picture round of ten famous landmarks to “[Quiz name]”, photographed from angles that make them hard to place. Find each photo on Wikimedia Commons, import the direct image file (the upload.wikimedia.org link, not the article page), and use the split layout so the picture gets its own column.
What it does Copies each image into your Quiz Master storage with import_media, attaches the returned URL to the question, and sets the round to split layout.
import_media
add_segment
Describe it, then show it
Write six questions that describe a famous painting in two or three sentences without naming the artist. Teams name the painting. Import an image of each from Wikimedia Commons and hold it back until the answer stage. Add them as a new round in “[Quiz name]”.
What it does Attaches imported images with reveal-on-answer, so the picture is the payoff rather than the clue.
import_media
add_segment
Rescue borrowed images
Open “[Quiz name]” and find every question whose image or audio points at another website instead of Quiz Master’s own storage. Import each file with import_media and point the question at the new copy. Leave YouTube links alone. Tell me which ones you couldn’t import.
What it does Re-homes hotlinked media before it breaks mid-round. Edits the questions themselves, so the fix reaches every quiz that uses them.
get_quiz
import_media
update_question
Themed & seasonal nights
One idea, carried through every round.
Christmas special
Read the authoring guide, then create a Christmas quiz: five rounds of eight — Christmas number ones (as a music round with YouTube clips), Christmas around the world, festive films, a true-or-false round on Christmas myths, and a mixed final round. Break after round three, final scores with confetti.
What it does A full themed night in one call, mixing a music round, a true/false round and ordinary rounds.
get_authoring_guide
create_quiz
Eurovision night
Create a Eurovision quiz: a music round of eight past entries (official YouTube videos, audio-only, 20 seconds), an ordering round putting winners in date order, a round matching songs to countries, and a general round. Set the theme to Flag — I’ll pick the country in the app.
What it does Combines music, ordering and matching formats and sets the Flag theme. The flag’s country can only be picked in the app, not by the AI.
create_quiz
list_themes
The pub’s birthday
[The Anchor] opened in [2016]. Build a ten-year anniversary quiz: one round per year from [2016] to [2025], five questions each about what happened that year, and a final round of eight questions about [the neighbourhood]. Mostly easy — it’s a party.
What it does Builds many short rounds with consistent difficulty tags; you supply the local facts it can’t know.
create_quiz
Bilingual DE/EN quizzes
Every text field holds more than one language. Berlin-tested.
Bilingual from the start
Create a quiz in English and German, English as the primary language. Every slide, question, option and answer in both languages. Set the display so the German appears as a smaller subtitle under each English question. Four rounds of eight, general knowledge.
What it does Writes every field as an { en, de } pair and sets the quiz’s multilingual display to primary-with-subtitle.
create_quiz
update_quiz
Translate an existing quiz
Open “[Quiz name]”, add German to its languages, and add a German translation to every question, answer and slide — leave the English exactly as it is. Keep proper nouns as they are known in German.
What it does Patches questions and slides one by one. A patch replaces the whole text field, so it has to resend the English with the German.
get_quiz
update_quiz
update_question
update_segment
German first, English on request
Create a quiz for a mostly German-speaking crowd: German primary, English second, shown one language at a time so I can switch the screen language during the night. Accept English and German spellings of short answers.
What it does Sets German as the primary language with single-language display, and fills in accepted answer variants for both languages.
create_quiz
Question formats
One prompt per format, so you can see what each looks like on screen.
Multiple choice
Write ten multiple-choice questions about [the solar system], four options each. Make the wrong options plausible enough to argue about, and add a one-line explanation to every answer. Add them to round [2] of “[Quiz name]”.
What it does Writes multiple-choice questions with explicit option ids and explanations that show at the answer reveal.
get_quiz
add_questions_to_round
True or false
Write a round of twelve true-or-false questions about [common food myths] — roughly half true — each with a short explanation of the real story. Add it to “[Quiz name]” as a new round.
What it does True/false questions with explanations, as a new round with its answer reveal.
add_segment
Closest wins
Write five numeric questions where the closest team wins — heights, distances, years, populations. Include the unit on each. I’ll use them as tiebreakers, so make the numbers hard to know exactly.
What it does Numeric questions with a unit and closest-wins marked, created in your library rather than in a quiz.
create_question
Put them in order
Write four ordering questions, five items each: put these in order of [release date / height / population]. Reveal the correct order one item at a time.
What it does Ordering questions with the correct order set and a step-by-step reveal. The screen shuffles the items for the audience.
add_questions_to_round
Match them up
Write three matching questions with six pairs each: [capitals to countries], [authors to novels], [inventors to inventions]. Reveal the pairs one at a time.
What it does Matching questions authored already paired — the screen shuffles one side and letters it, so teams write “1-C, 2-A”.
add_questions_to_round
Name any five / top eight
Write two list questions: one “name any five [Beatles albums]” where any five count, and one ranked “top eight [most populous countries]” in order. Reveal the list one item at a time.
What it does List questions — nothing shows during the question, the items reveal at the answer. One unranked, one ranked.
add_questions_to_round
Pick all that apply
Write four “pick the three that…” questions with seven options each — for example, which of these are [landlocked countries]. Explain each correct pick at the reveal.
What it does Multi-select questions. The “pick three” on screen comes from how many options are marked correct.
add_questions_to_round
Who am I?
Write three “who am I?” questions about [famous scientists]. Each has four clue stages shown before the question, from vague to obvious, then the question itself. Hard difficulty.
What it does Text-only clue stages the host steps through one by one before the question appears.
add_questions_to_round
Difficulty & fact-checking
The pass you’d do with a pen the night before.
Fact-check pass
Go through every question in “[Quiz name]”. Check each answer against a reliable source. Fix clear errors, list any you’re not confident about, and put the source in the question’s host notes. Don’t change anything else.
What it does Reads the whole quiz and patches questions where needed. Edits are live-linked: a fixed question is fixed in every quiz that uses it.
get_quiz
update_question
Even out the difficulty
Rate every question in “[Quiz name]” easy, medium or hard and update the tags where they’re wrong. Then reorder each round so it climbs from easy to hard, and tell me any round with no hard questions at all.
What it does Re-tags difficulty, then reorders by removing questions from the round and adding them back at a position — there’s no separate “move question” tool.
get_quiz
update_question
remove_question_from_round
add_questions_to_round
Harder for the regulars
My regulars find “[Quiz name]” too easy. In each round, replace the two easiest questions with harder ones on the same topic. Write the new ones as new questions — don’t edit the old ones, my other quizzes still use them.
What it does Removes the old questions from this quiz only and adds new ones. The old questions stay in your library untouched.
get_quiz
remove_question_from_round
add_questions_to_round
Library housekeeping
Your question repo, searched, tagged and tidied.
Tag the untagged
Search my question library for questions with no tags. Give each one two or three lowercase topic tags, like “geography” or “90s music”. Show me the tags before saving them.
What it does Searches the repo and replaces each question’s tag list. Nothing about the question itself changes.
search_questions
update_question
A round from what I’ve got
Find ten geography questions in my library — mixed difficulty, no two about the same country — and add them as a new round to “[Quiz name]”. Don’t write any new questions.
What it does Reuses existing questions by reference, so the round shares them with the quizzes they came from.
search_questions
add_segment
add_questions_to_round
Spot the duplicates
Look through my question library for near-duplicates — the same fact asked twice in different words. List each pair with the quizzes they appear in, and suggest which one to keep. Don’t change anything.
What it does Read-only. It can point out duplicates but can’t delete them — deletion is left to you, in the app.
search_questions
list_quizzes
get_quiz
Fix it everywhere
Search my library for every question that mentions “[Pluto]” and check each one is still correct. Fix any that aren’t, and tell me which quizzes the fixed questions appear in.
What it does One fix per question, and it reaches every quiz that uses it — including ones you’ve already played.
search_questions
update_question
list_quizzes
get_quiz
Then what
The AI writes it. You still run it.
Everything a prompt creates lands in your account: the quiz in your library, every question in your question repo. Open it in the builder, fix what you’d phrase differently, and play it through in preview before the night — that’s the step that catches a clue that gives the answer away.
The connector can create and edit but can’t delete a quiz or a library question, so the worst a bad prompt does is leave you a round you don’t want. Want to see what a finished night looks like first? Walk the live demo — no account needed.