The Mastermind Australia set

TriviaWorks Productions

Great quiz shows are built on great questions.

We put the “quiz” in “quiz show”.

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Mastermind Australia. Silent clip - press play.

Over 11,000 questions in three months

When SBS and the BBC brought Mastermind - the world’s most prestigious quiz show since 1972 - back to Australia in 2019, there was only one company in the world that BBC Studios could trust to deliver world-class content on a shoestring budget and an accelerated production schedule.

We assembled writers from across the world to research and write questions on 272 specialist subjects and all areas of general knowledge. Ahead of schedule, and under budget.

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The hard part is balance

There is a feeling players never have at our events: not “I should know that”, nor “that is interesting, I learned something”, but the flat frustration of a question nobody in the room could reasonably have got.

The average player does not realise it, but writing balanced and genuinely interesting trivia is difficult. A writer can skew too easy or too hard, too obvious or too obscure, within a single round.

We combine an extensive database and hundreds of thousands of questions worth of experience with close ties to our clients and our players, providing questions, puzzles and verification to immaculate standards.

What we can make for you

Broadcast

Bespoke question content for quiz shows, at the volume and verification standard a production schedule demands.

Apps and digital

Question banks for the latest must-have apps, structured and categorised to your data model.

Corporate and white-label

We adapt our live quiz formats for corporate events, and white-label our quizzes for other hosts.

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