Choose the board and prepare the private answer key
Copy one complete five-category board, or select a shorter round using the values below. Keep the answer key private while players use the shared display.
- Use Standard format: five categories with five clues each, worth 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 points. Copy the category, clue, accepted answer and explanation into the creator. The button does not import this article.
- Read every selected clue and check the intended answer before the event. Keep this answer page on the host screen and share only the player display.
- Let a team choose its captain, reader and note-taker. Rotate roles by agreement; invite optional discussion without adding hidden scoring rules.
Set the room up for participation
Test the display from the farthest seat, reduce glare, read the clue as well as showing it and leave time to think. Ask participants what helps rather than making assumptions.
- Select two clues per category for a short ten-clue board. Use the whole board only if the group wants a longer session.
- A captain can operate a shared device while others discuss. Offer reader, note-taker and answer roles by choice; do not require solo performance.
- A cross-decade extension can use a host-selected song or book the group already knows. Verify the exact title and key beforehand; the default board needs no shared popular-culture background.
- Use a generous host-run response window or no timer. Optional memories after a reveal are unscored.
Garden language
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100 points. This is a plant grown for more than two years, rather than completing its life in one season.
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Perennial
Accept perennial; a biennial usually completes its life in two years.
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200 points. This tool has a small scoop-shaped blade for moving soil by hand.
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Trowel
Accept hand trowel.
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300 points. This term means decayed organic material used to enrich soil.
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Compost
Accept compost; the clue does not ask for a chemical fertilizer.
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400 points. This is moving a plant from one growing place to another.
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Transplanting
Accept transplant; potting on is narrower and can be accepted if explained.
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500 points. A rectangular garden is 8 meters by 3 meters. This is its area.
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24 square meters
8 × 3 = 24; distinguish area from perimeter.
Journeys and signs
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100 points. This is the opposing direction to east.
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West
The clue asks for a cardinal direction.
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200 points. This part of a map shows how map distance relates to ground distance.
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Scale
A legend explains symbols.
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300 points. A 150-kilometer trip at a constant 50 kilometers per hour takes this long.
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Three hours
150 divided by 50 = 3; stops are excluded.
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400 points. This is the direction halfway between south and west.
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Southwest
Accept SW.
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500 points. A train departs at 09:45 and arrives at 12:10 on the same day. This is its travel time.
Reveal answer
2 hours 25 minutes
Two hours reaches 11:45; another 25 minutes reaches 12:10.
Music and theater words
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100 points. This person leads an orchestra using gestures.
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Conductor
Accept conductor; no specific musician is required.
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200 points. This word names a group singing together.
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Choir or chorus
Either answer is acceptable in this general clue.
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300 points. This is a solo song in an opera, usually with accompaniment.
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Aria
Accept aria; do not require the original language.
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400 points. This theater term names the written dialogue and stage directions.
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Script
Accept play script.
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500 points. This musical dynamic instruction means gradually getting louder.
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Crescendo
Crescendo changes loudness; accelerando changes speed. Accept crescendo.
Books and memory aids
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100 points. This lists a book’s chapters in order.
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Table of contents
Accept contents page.
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200 points. This is an alphabetical guide to topics near the end of many nonfiction books.
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Index
Different from the table of contents.
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300 points. This word names a brief account of a longer text’s main ideas.
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Summary
Accept summary; it need not include a personal opinion.
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400 points. This device helps memory, such as using the initial letters of a list to form a word.
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Mnemonic
Accept mnemonic; an acronym can be a particular mnemonic.
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500 points. This term names the person who tells a story, who may differ from the author.
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Narrator
The narrator is a role within the telling.
A satisfying calculation
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100 points. A dozen rolls are split equally among four people. Each receives this many.
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Three
12 divided by 4 = 3.
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200 points. Seven days contain this many hours.
Reveal answer
168
7 × 24 = 168.
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300 points. A 36-dollar item is half price. This is the new price.
Reveal answer
18 dollars
36 divided by 2 = 18.
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400 points. Three quarters of an hour is this many minutes.
Reveal answer
45 minutes
60 × 3/4 = 45.
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500 points. A collection has 5 rows of 7 stamps and 4 extras. This is the total.
Reveal answer
39
5 × 7 + 4 = 39.
Run the whole response and reveal loop
Create the board manually, save it and practice one clue with the actual devices before inviting the group.
- In a spoken-answer live room, the participant buzzes in through Quiz Champ, then answers aloud. In typed mode, the first buzzer submits a typed response before the host can reveal and judge it. Meeting chat does not register an in-game response.
- In the current host dashboard, a correct response adds the tile value and an incorrect response adds zero. Announce any manually adjusted house scoring separately. Do not change the rule after seeing an answer.
- For a shorter event, select the first two or three values from each category and keep unused clues as reserves. Any time window in this guide is kept by the host, not a claimed automatic countdown.
- Finish with shared winners or the numerical tie-break guide. That closest-answer comparison is run separately from normal Quiz Champ scoring.