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About Pint and Pencil

Pint and Pencil publishes free quiz questions with checked answers, a Christmas quiz, Mr and Mrs questions and printable tools for quiz hosts in the UK. It is a small independent website run by WANG PENG in Germany. Every answer in our quizzes links to the published source it was checked against, with the date of the check.

Who runs Pint and Pencil

Pint and Pencil is run by WANG PENG, based in Germany. The site is written for quiz hosts in the United Kingdom, so the questions, spelling and examples are British. We are not part of a pub chain, a quiz league or a music licensing body, and nobody pays us to include anything on the site.

Everything on the site is free at the moment. We do not sell anything yet, we do not show adverts and we do not ask you to sign up. If we start selling quiz packs later, the prices and the terms for them will be on the site before the first sale.

How the questions are written and checked

Our quiz questions are drafted with the help of an AI language model. We do not publish a draft as it comes out. Each question goes through these steps before it appears on the site:

1. A separate check looks up every answer in a published source, such as an official body, a museum or an encyclopaedia, and records the link and the date. This check is also done with AI research tools that open the source page, without seeing the reasoning used to draft the question.
2. The check looks for questions that could have more than one right answer. Those are reworded, for example by asking for the longest river in Great Britain rather than in the UK, or by adding a word such as standard or typical.
3. Answers that can change over time are marked with the date they were true on and are checked again before the season they are used in.
4. The source link and the date of the last check are printed next to every answer on the page.

Most of the sources so far are Wikipedia articles, because official pages are not always available to check against. Facts are public, but the wording, the choice of questions and the order of the rounds are our own; we do not rewrite questions from other quiz sites.

Mistakes can still get through. If you find an answer you think is wrong, please email us with the question and, if you have one, a source. We check reports against the sources and correct the page if we were wrong.

Where AI is used, and where it is not

Part of the site	How it is made
Quiz questions	Drafted with an AI model, then checked answer by answer against a linked source as described above.
Mr and Mrs questions	Drafted with an AI model and edited for the site. They ask about the couple, so there are no answers to check against a source.
Page text	Written with the help of an AI model and edited for the site. We do not invent experiences, reviews or user numbers.
Logo and share image	Lettering in two open-licence typefaces, Crimson Text and Inter, laid out in code. No AI image generator was used.
Photos	Stock photos from Unsplash, used under the free Unsplash licence. We do not use photos of famous people, logos or film stills.
Pictures of printables	Real pages from our own PDFs, made by the same code as your download. The music bingo example uses traditional songs and carols.
Free tools	Ordinary code that lays out your PDF. Nothing you type is sent to an AI service.

What we do not do

• We do not supply music or lyrics. The music bingo generator prints only the song titles you type in.
• We do not keep what you type into the tools. See the privacy policy.
• We do not use cookies, analytics services or advertising networks.

Contact

Email is the only way to reach us; there is no phone line or contact form. Write to us about corrections, questions about the site or permission to use our questions somewhere other than at your own event.

WANG PENG
Erich-Zeigner-Allee 16, 04229 Leipzig
Germany
Email: hello@pintandpencil.co.uk

The rules for using the site are in our terms of use.