Taking notice of the recent boom in trivia events both at home and overseas, new quiz materials company 3 Streets Trivia (www.3streetstrivia.com) looks to give potential quizmasters all the help they need. Using new, sophisticated online tools 3 Streets Trivia allows users to design the exact trivia event they need, then print their materials directly from the site.

The “Trivia Event Wizard” taps on a database of over 3000 fact-checked and audience-trialed questions and lets the user to choose only the questions they want, allows them to localize to correct region and even lets them include questions of their own.

Devised by Sian Rodgie and Matthew Pascoe of Brisbane, Australia the system is a world first in interactive materials delivery. The Event Wizard uses the latest online software to allow for a level of package customization that until now has only been available from hours of offline labour.

The system sorts through its database to give unique, balanced and localized sets of questions. “Essentially, once we’d established a high level of quality control of the Q and A’s it was just a case of telling the computer to do what any good quizmaster would do themselves,” said Mr Pascoe.

“Ease of use was our greatest priority,” said Ms Rodgie “We’ve concentrated on delivering a colourful, fun and above all easy online experience. Now absolutely anyone can host a fun, profitable and completely original trivia night without having to invest the hours of research and preparation that’s normally required”

Users are able to print their packages directly from the website or arrange for the materials to be delivered.

3 Streets Trivia is soon to be an invaluable tool to everyone who wants to run a original quiz night of their own and at the moment the service is only available from their website http://www.3streetstrivia.com . A stand-alone CD-ROM version of the online software is scheduled for mid 2005.