A Wedding or Birthday Quiz About the Guests of Honour
How well do the guests really know the couple, or the birthday star? Gathering the stories, a question bank, photos, “who is more likely to” polls, and running it at the venue.
By the Giga Quizzes team4 min read
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At a wedding or a big birthday, the room is full of people who love the same person, or the same two people, and each of them knows a different chapter of the story. A quiz about the guests of honour brings those chapters together. School friends learn about the first job, colleagues learn the childhood nickname, and everyone finds out who really knows the couple best. Played on the guests’ own phones with the photos on the big screen, it becomes one of the highlights of the evening.
Gathering the story
The quiz is only as good as the material behind it, so start a few weeks early. Talk to the people closest to the guests of honour: parents, siblings, oldest friends, and for a wedding, both sides. A short message with a few prompts gets far more than “send me some facts”.
Prompts to send to family and friends
- What is a story about them that everyone in your family tells?
- What did they want to be when they grew up?
- What is something they are surprisingly good, or bad, at?
- Where were they living when you first met them?
- Do you have a photo from before most of the guests knew them?
A question bank
| For a wedding | For a birthday |
|---|---|
| Where did the couple first meet? | Where was the birthday star born? |
| What did they do on their first date? | What was their first job? |
| Who said “I love you” first? | What was their childhood nickname? |
| Where did the proposal happen? | Which city did they dream of living in as a teenager? |
| What was the first film they watched together? | What is the most unusual thing they have ever eaten? |
Mix questions everyone has a chance at with a few that only the closest friends will know. The wrong answers matter as much as the right one: for “Where did they first meet?”, offer three places they could plausibly have met, not one real answer and three jokes.
Numbers on a slider
Number questions are perfect for a slider, where everyone drags to a guess and, with close answers scoring, the nearest guesses earn the most. “How many years did they know each other before their first date?” gets a wonderful spread of answers, and a gasp when the real number appears.
Photos make the quiz
Nothing gets a room going like old photos. Ask the family for pictures from every stage of life and use them three ways:
- A photo with the question: “Where was this holiday photo taken?”
- Photos as the answers: “Which of these was the couple’s first flat?”
- A slow reveal: a childhood photo that uncovers itself tile by tile while the room tries to guess the age. Guaranteed laughter.
Check every photo with the guests of honour first. Some pictures are funny in the family album and less funny on a big screen in front of the new in-laws.
Who is more likely to…
A poll has no right answer and no points: guests vote, and a bar for each answer grows on the screen. For a couple, it is perfect for “who is more likely to” questions, with the two names as the answers.
- Who is more likely to be late?
- Who takes longer to get ready?
- Who is the better cook?
- Who will fall asleep first tonight?
Let the guests vote, then ask the couple to answer out loud. When the room and the couple disagree, the laugh is guaranteed.
Running it at the venue
You need a screen the whole room can see and a laptop connected to it; most venues have one for speeches or slideshows. Test it there beforehand, along with the Wi-Fi or the phone signal in the room. Guests open giga-quizzes.com/play on their phones and enter the room code, or scan the QR code, without an app or an account, so even the oldest guests are in within a minute.
Play it between courses or after the speeches, when everyone is seated. Fifteen questions take about fifteen minutes, which is as long as a quiz should run at a party. At a seated event, teams by table are natural: name each team after a table, and the bride’s cousins end up competing alongside the groom’s colleagues.
A few rules of good taste
- No exes, no secrets, nothing the guests of honour have not approved.
- Nothing that only one table could possibly know.
- Keep it short and end on a high: the last question should be a laugh, not a stumper.
- Let the guests of honour present the prize to the winning table.
Afterwards, export the final standings for a keepsake. The guides to hosting a live game and playing in teams walk through every screen.
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