How to host a Trivia Night

Pride has been cancelled and we’re pretty bummed about it, but never fear! We have a lovely night of LGBT+ history trivia for you and your friends that you can play at home or over video chat programs like Zoom. Are you excited? This Pride, celebrate by testing your knowledge of LGBT+ trivia. Here’s how:

SETTING UP THE GAME

STEP ONE: Figure out who you’re playing with and set a time to play

Social distancing is very important! You may already have enough people living in your household to play, but, if not, you can ask friends to play over Zoom. Now is the time to hit them up and ask them what they’re doing Saturday night!

Below, we have included instructions on how to use ZOOM video chat.

STEP TWO: Divide into teams and choose your quiz master

Create between two and four teams. Choose your teams in a way that feels most equalizing in terms of people’s knowledge of queer history.

You also need a quiz master! (This could be you, if you feel you’re up the challenge.) The quiz master is the person who will read aloud all of the questions during the trivia and then reveal the answers at the end of the trivia.

STEP THREE: GAME NIGHT

At the time you’ve set with your fellow teams, come together over video chat. This is the quiz master’s time to shine, as they get to read each of the questions aloud. For each question, teams should write down their responses so that at the end of the trivia, when the quizmaster goes over all of the answers, they can see whether they were right.

Count up your score! Some of the questions are pretty tricky, but the real point is to come together, have fun, and learn about LGBT+ history. In the end, EVERYBODY WINS! Feel free to celebrate with one of our coloring pages or a quarantini depending on your age or preference.

How to set up Zoom and invite teams

Zoom is a fantastic option for video chat conference calls if you are calling multiple people. It is free to use, but you will need to download it here. Here is a very informative video on how to register for Zoom and this one demonstrates how to download Zoom and set up a meeting.

If you don’t like watching videos to learn how to do something, I have typed out how to access Zoom below: Hosting a Trivia Night

If you do NOT have the Zoom app installed, go to zoom.us and select “Host a Meeting” to start the installation. If you DO have the App installed, see below -

1. Open your Zoom app on your desktop and click Sign In. (Note: If you do not have a current Zoom account, please click on Sign Up Free to create a new one.)

2. Log in using the E-mail and password that you have created, or with Google (Gmail), Facebook, or Login with SSO.

3. Click the downward arrow and select Start with video, then click New Meeting to start an instant meeting.

Inviting others to a Trivia Night

1. Click Manage Participants (if you’re the host)

2. Click Invite at the bottom of the participants panel.

3. Choose on the following invite options:

a. Email—Click the Invite by Email tab.

i. Select an email provider:

ii. Default Email: Invite others by using your default email application for your computer.

iii. Gmail or Yahoo Mail: Invite others by using the Gmail or Yahoo website. You will be prompted you to sign in to your account.

iv. Note: A new email will be composed automatically with the meeting information in the email body.

v. Add recipients to the email and send it.

b. URL or invitation text

i. Click Copy URL or Copy Invitation if you want to send your instant meeting information elsewhere.

ii. Copy URL: Copy the meeting join link.

iii. Copy Invitation: Copy the full invitation text.

iv. Paste the URL or invitation using Ctrl + V on Windows, or cmd + V on a Mac. You can also right-click and click Paste. Send it to your friends who you want to join the meeting.

Answers

1) June 28th, 1969—New York City

2) Karl Ulrichs

3) The 1790s

4) Gilbert Baker, debuted June 25th, 1978

5) 1973-- On 15 October the Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry Federal Council declared homosexuality not an illness – the first such body in the world to do so; in December the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-II), based largely on the research and advocacy of Evelyn Hooker. Alternative answer: 1987: The APA removed homosexuality from the DSM but replaced it with Sexual Orientation Disturbance for people "in conflict with" their sexual orientation. Not until 1987 did homosexuality completely fall out of the DSM.

6) From Noho Pride’s webpage: “In 1982 Northampton held the first liberation Pride march in the area despite the overwhelmingly homophobic and discriminatory realities facing LGBTQ people nation-wide.”

7) 1985

8) Felice Yeskel founded the Umass Stonewall Ctr and was the director for nearly 20 years

9) Genny Beemyn, Ph.D—they, them, theirs

10) Sally Ride (died 2012 at age 61, revealed to have been in a 27-year relationship with a woman, Tam O'Shaughnessy, in her obituary)

11) Queercore

12) Quentin Crisp

13) 8 - pink, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, blue and purple.

14) The labrys

15) The Babadook

16) Audre Lorde

17) Frida Kahlo

18) Margaret Mead

19) Sao Paulo, Brazil—upwards of 3 million attendees

20) 2004

21) Lesbos

22) Section 28

23) Alan Turing

24) 2015