Fancy Five Quiz Questions Every Friday?

For almost fifteen years now we’ve been running our Friday Brain Teasers on Facebook. Five fab, fun quiz questions to get your teeth into – perfect for decompressing with a cuppa on a Friday afternoon!

Now we’ve created a YouTube channel to give you something extra for the weekend. Five additional questions from our unique, thoroughly researched and checked quiz database that will get your brain cells sizzling over Saturday and Sunday. Why not try them out on your friends?

Just head over to https://www.youtube.com/@BrainMenQuizzes

And don’t forget to like, comment and subscribe!

Booking A Quiz Venue

We’ve run quizzes in venues from simple pubs and bars or small private dining rooms to community halls, all the way up to marquees and swanky ballrooms in posh hotels, and there’s no strict rule you should follow when you pick a venue for your quiz.

That said, we’d always recommend booking a private area, for example a separate room above, or annexed to, a restaurant, club or pub, so that the general hubbub doesn’t interfere with your quiz. There’s nothing worse than teams not being able to hear the questions! Our Quiz Masters always use a sound system, and we can bring a portable PA should your venue not provide one. But a pub full of punters might not be quite as enthusiastic about hearing how your teams are doing, so it’s best to hold your quiz in a completely separate area. Or book the entire bar exclusively for the night!

Small restaurants are often happy to be booked exclusively for lunch or dinner, and most venues will hire their spaces out for free in return for a guaranteed spend on food and drink. We’ve quizzed at many venues in central London and can usually advise on suitable spaces in your area if you ask us when you book your quiz. It’s friendly, free and impartial advice – we don’t get paid by venues to recommend them and never take a percentage of the venue fee if you book with them.

If you’re going to be hosting one of our Gold Package quizzes, which includes on-screen questions, film and TV clips and leaderboard updates, a large TV or projector and screen is essential. Most venues already have these, or will hire them in for you. Or you can ask us to quote for hire. A screen can be rented for as little as £100 a day and we’ll take care of all the technical bits for you.

In terms of the room layout, we find round tables are best for facilitating team discussions. But rectangular tables also work as long as they’re not too big. Don’t forget, we’ll also need a table for our laptops and quiz materials – you’d be surprised how often that gets left off the list!

Our quizzes typically take anything from one to two hours, but we’re happy if you want to run them longer, for example with an extended break in the middle for food. However you prefer to design your night, we’ll work with you to fit the quiz around it.

So call or email Brain Men today! We’re backed by fifteen years of venue experience and guarantee we can run one of our fantastically fun quizzes practically anywhere!

London And Brighton Based

Being primarily a London based quiz company with an outpost in Brighton, you’ll mostly find Brain Men running quiz events in those two cities or somewhere in between.

We regard Sussex, Surrey, Kent, Essex, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Hampshire as our quiz ‘stomping ground’. But we’ve also presented our fun and competitive quizzes in The Midlands and Welsh Borders. We’ve even questioned an audience comprised of 28 nationalities in Poland!

And with our online quizzes now available around the world, we’ve entertained folk right across Europe, the USA, Canada, The Middle East, South East Asia and Australia.

So if you’re looking for a quiz company with global experience and an understanding of the cultural differences a multi-national audience demands, you’ve definitely come to the right place!

A Brief History of Brain Men

Our Quiz Masters are used to being called ‘Brian’ at quizzes, but occasionally they’re also asked where the name ‘Brain Men’ came from. Here’s a potted history…

Back in the dim, dark days of the 2008 global recession, three quiz-obsessed eccentrics wondered if there wasn’t a niche for corporate entertainment that cost a lot less than the traditional guest speaker, who generally charged a ton of money for 30 minutes of recycled gags and anecdotes.

A quiz, we figured, would provide a lot more entertainment bang for the corporate buck. That was the genesis of Brain Men.

But what to call our nascent outfit? Like coming up with a team name, that was the difficult part. All the names we thought of, which did what they said on the tin, were achingly dull. Then inspiration struck. One of our number had published a book called Brain Men – The Insider’s Guide To Quizzing, which had sold quite well and had gained some recognition as a ‘go-to’ for quiz fans globally.

So Brain Men it was!

In the fourteen years since then, we’ve run almost a thousand professional quizzes and evolved into a fully-fledged ltd. company. We’re no longer three blokes with a dream, nursing our pints in the corner of a pub. 50% of our shareholders are women, as are our Quiz Masters and Quiz Producers, and we embrace diversity and inclusion, as we always have.

We’ve kept the name because today we’re recognised as one of the UK’s leading providers of professional quiz nights and quiz event services.

And, to be honest, we find it quite amusing that we get called ‘Brian’.

Buzz!

Your Quiz Master was an absolute star! He received so many compliments. Loads of people said there was such a great buzz!

Great!

The Quiz has been a major talking point here for the last few weeks! Everyone had a fantastic time and it was a great success.

Fantastic!

Thank you so much for last night – it was fantastic! So much good feedback, thanks for the evening.

Entertaining!

Huge thanks for a highly entertaining evening! Everyone thoroughly enjoyed it.

Gold

Our GOLD quiz package comes with all the bells and whistles, including on-screen scoreboard, film clips round, picture and puzzle rounds, plus other visual goodies. It never fails to impress!

Silver

Our SILVER quiz package includes picture and music rounds, as well as our unique, highly interactive ‘Yes/No?’ eliminator round. It’s ideal for a larger venue without access to screens.