Pub Quiz Generator

Write your pub quiz questions and answers as YAML code and let this script generate a HTML presentation (using reveal.js) from it.

An example repository can be found here, with the rendered output:

• Example presentation
• Example presentation with answers visible

Usage

./index.js -d example/

This will create an output directory with following files:

• index.html Main Pub Quiz presentation
• answers.html Pub Quiz presentation with answers visible
• worksheet.html Worksheet for the player teams, intended for print
• solutionsheet.html Solutions in worksheet form, intended for print

Options:

• -d, --directory: Path to the question directory (required)
• -o, --output: Path to output directory, where the HTML is written to
• -t, --templates: Path to template directory, if custom templates are needed

Dependencies

• Node.js

Optional (for YouTube question type):

• Python 3.x
• ffmpeg

Question directory

Folder structure:

Example_Quiz
|_ config.yaml
|_ 1-Category.yaml    # will be read alphabetically
|_ 2-Category.yaml
|_ 3-Category.yaml
|_ media
  |_ c1q3.mp3
  |_ c1q3.png

Configuration

The configuration file has to be named config.yaml. Check out the example.

Options:

• title (String): Used as <title>value for the HTML. Default: Pub Quiz
• worksheet_title: Title on each worksheet
• custom_css (String): Custom CSS to be injected into the HTML
• revealjs_path (String): Path to reveal.js dependency. Default: ../node_modules/reveal.js/
• revealjs_theme (String): Reveal.js theme. Default: black

Categories

All yaml files in the root directory of the question directory other than config.yaml will be treated as categories. They will be added to the quiz in alphabetical order. If you want to have regular slides in addition to categories, just add category yaml files wit no questions attribute. Check out the example directory!

YAML format:

title_page: # each category gets an title slide
  title: Category title
  image: media/category.jpg # optional, displayed below title
  caption: Some caption text # optional, displayed below image
  # if markdown is set, other properties than title will be ignored
  markdown: |
    - a
    - b
    - c

questions: # array of questions, if missing the category will be treated just as a slide
    - type: text # simple text question
      title: Capital cities # optional
      question: What is the capital of Germany?
      answer: Berlin
      source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany # optional, displayed on the bottom in small font
    
    - type: markdown # markdown allows more formatting options
      title: Best fruit? # optional, added as h2 title before markdown
      markdown: |
        1. Strawberry
        2. Apple
        3. Banana
      answer: Banana
      source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit # optional, displayed on the bottom in small font
    
    - type: image # question with an image
      title: Some title # optional, displayed above image
      image: media/c1q3.png # path to image
      caption: A caption # optional, displayed below image
      answer_image: media/c1q3.png # path to answer_image, creates additional solution slide
      answer: An answer
      source: Artist, License # optional, displayed on the bottom in small font
    
    - type: audio # question with an audio file
      audio: media/c1q3.mp3 # path to audio file
      audio_type: audio/mp3 # mime type
      autoplay: true # default: true
      controls: true # display control buttons (volume, seeking, and pause/resume), default: true
      title: Some title # optional, displayed above image
      image: media/c1q3.png # optional,  path to image
      caption: A caption # optional, displayed below image
      answer_image: media/c1q3.png # path to answer_image, creates additional solution slide
      answer: An answer
      source: Artist, License # optional, displayed on the bottom in small font
    
    - type: video # question with a video file
      video: media/c1q3.webm # path to video file
      video_type: video/webm # mime type
      autoplay: true # default: true
      controls: true # display control buttons (volume, seeking, and pause/resume), default: true
      title: Some title # optional, displayed above video
      caption: A caption # optional, displayed below video
      answer_image: media/c1q3.png # path to answer_image, creates additional solution slide
      answer: An answer
      source: Artist, License # optional, displayed on the bottom in small font

    - type: youtube-dl # downloads media from YouTube
      url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ # YouTube URL
      hasVideo: true # default: true
      hasAudio: true # default: true
      start: 0:00 # default: 0:00
      end: 1:00 # default: until the end
      outputPath: media/
      fileBaseName: dQw4w9WgXcQ  # file extension (.mp4 for example) will be added automatically
      autoplay: true # default: true
      controls: true
      title: Some title # optional, displayed above video
      caption: A caption # optional, displayed below video
      answer_image: media/c1q3.png # path to answer_image, creates additional solution slide
      answer: An answer
      source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ # optional, displayed on the bottom in small font

Multiple title pages in a single category

A category can have multiple title pages. To achieve this, replace the title_page attribute with title_pages. There you can supply an array of title pages. Example:

title_pages:
  - title: Example Pub quiz

  - title: Rules
    markdown: |
      - No more than 5 people per team
      - No phones
      - Drink!

Media files

It is recommended to put all media files (images, audio, video) in a folder inside the question directory, like in the example.

Theme configuration

Can be done in the custom_css property of config.yaml.

Category/question numbering

To disable category/question numbering, add this rule to the custom_css property:

  #question_number {
      display: none;
  }