The ultimate guide to Prague’s English-friendly pub quizzes and trivia nights

How many trivia nights are there in Prague each week? The exact number is impossible to pin down, but it’s a lot. In nearly every corner of the city, especially neighborhoods where the expat wave crests, quizmasters gather groups weekly to test their wits across multiple rounds of questions and challenges for prizes, bragging rights, and heaping dollops of fun.

While each varies on the fine details, the core elements remain largely consistent. Contestants compete in teams of about six to eight (but there’s always room for solo flyers), and questions are delivered in multiple rounds over 2-3 hours. Answers written down on paper and then passed to another team to check and score.

Entry fee is almost always CZK 100, and quizzes usually get underway between 6:30 and 7:30 pm. Nevertheless, double check the location’s website and social pages for exact details, as dates can shift. It’s also a good idea to reserve your spot ahead of time, as most trivia nights are booked solid.

Those ready to test their knowledge while meeting new people in Prague can start here:

In the American parlance, the “third coast” covers the Great Lakes, where Detroit sits at the juncture of Erie and Huron. It’s a fitting name for this Žižkov eatery, which serves Detroit-style pizzas in rectangle slabs of focaccia-like dough slathered with industrial amounts of sauce and cheese.

Each Wednesday, the toppings include mixed-category trivia for four to 10 teams of up to six people. Topics run eclectic here, including tin foil hat conspiracies, grave robbing history and weird laws. Not surprisingly, prizes include pizza and beer.

CZK 100 entry fee; Wednesday at 7:15 pm.

This post of Australian pride, literally down under Vinohradská Street in Vinohrady, games with the best of them. Big screens for sports matches, pool tables, and dartboards proliferate throughout the space, along with tables large and small ideal for trivia and board game nights.

Regular quiz nights take place on Thursday, with themed versions happening every other Monday. All challenge teams of up to eight people over four rounds of 10 general knowledge questions. The prize for the winning team is CZK 1,000 off the table’s bill; second prize is six house-made Aussie pies, and third place gets a bottle of wine.

CZK 100 entry fee; Thursdays at 7 pm.

Irish playwright and icon Samual Beckett has given his name and fame to pubs around the world, including this Irish gastropub a block south of Náměstí Míru. Among the brick-red walls draped in flags and football memorabilia, the Beckett's Pub Quiz takes place every Thursday evening.

Teams of up to six people answer three rounds of 12 questions covering the Trivial Pursuit gamut of science, geography, history, culture, music, with a “picture question” to kick off each one of them. There is also a Formula 1-style scoring system, as teams play in “seasons” of 12 weeks. Nightly prizes are vouchers for the bar, and season champions get a trophy.

CZK 100 entry fee; Thursdays at 7 pm.

Gaming is not incidental to this Vršovice bistro, it’s integral. The space is fully designed to support gameplay of all just about all types, with a particular focus on board games. Long black tables in multiple spaces, including bookable private areas, host more than 80 available games. “Geek Trivia” and “TV Trivia nights are also in the mix and take place once or twice a month, with moving dates.

As “geek” is in the name, questions cover games, shows, comics, and so on. No surprise that prizes are small board games. This is one of the smaller spaces, with a total capacity of 30-35 people divided into teams of up to six people.

CZK 100 entry fee. Varying days of the week at 7 pm.

The dream of Limerick lads Mike and Liam, this pub-slash-dive bar-slash-museum in Letna loves a good craic, and shite talk is encouraged. That’s perfect for the weekly Sunday quiz nights, where teams of up to six compete in three rounds of 20 questions covering the classic Trivial Pursuit categories: geography, entertainment, science and nature, history, art and literature and sports and leisure, with a few Prague-based questions added.

Sally’s quiz nights also come with a soundtrack of curated playlists of songs relevant to each question. Teams form a league with a season running 12 weeks. Nightly prizes include Sally's Pub Quiz medal for each player on the winning team, plus a lotto-style scratch-off that may reveal drink vouchers, Sally’s merch, puppets, fidget spinners, a crocodile stapler and more.

CZK 100 entry fee; Sundays at 7:30 pm.

This “next-generation food market hall” in Anděl is a destination in itself, with a smorgasbord of global cuisine on tap amid its signature pastel-blue scaffolding, aluminum siding, and purple neon. That offers a modern, modular backdrop for the twice-monthly quiz nights, as well as a wide range of food and drink to tap during, with table service included.

Up to eight teams of four-to-six people compete in four rounds of five questions each that cover general knowledge topics and occasional special themes. Special mini rounds also offer a chance for prizes, alongside the Manifesto vouchers given to the quiz night champions.

CZK 100 entry fee; Twice a month on Tuesdays at 7 pm.

If you prefer your trivia oozing with cheese, meat and sauce, this cheesesteak outpost run by two Chicago natives at the Žižkov entrance of Vitkov tunnel is the place to be. Amid the brick walls, wood tables, and checked deli paper soaking up cheesesteaks, po’ boys, mac ’n’ cheese, and buffalo wings, the quizmaster takes up to nine teams of two-to-six people through four rounds of 10 questions each.

Questions cover general trivia, but with a more European focus, including questions about Czech food, culture, and geography. Question forms often get creative, too, such as identifying a song played backwards and deciphering emojis to make a song or movie title. The first place team wins either a bottle of Prosecco or a round of drinks; second place gets whichever the winning team didn’t take, and third place takes home candy bars.

CZK 100 entry fee; Tuesdays at 7 pm.

Opened in the first blush of post-Velvet bliss, this Irish pub on the north side of New Town is dressed for a jig. Dark wood floors and furnishings sit under mustard walls draped in Irish- and Joyce-related ephemera, giving wild rovers much to look at over Guinness pints.

Monday nights, the space is devoted to quiz sessions, with teams of up to six people tackling three rounds of 12 questions each. Topics cover history, geography, literature, art, sport, current affairs, pop culture, and Czechia. Question difficulty makes this one of the more challenging quizzes in Prague, adding sweetness to the CZK 1,000 and CZK 500 bar vouchers for first and second place victories.

CZK 100 entry fee. Mondays at 7 pm.

This Žižkov institution, which has hosted travelers since 1995, does more than provide a bed. It brings its own brand of fun in its pub and garden spaces, be it live music, birthday bashes, or bingo. Thursday nights are reserved for the weekly pub quiz, with teams of six-to-eight people competing in five rounds of 10 questions each on general and Czech topics.

First place finishers get a bar voucher for CZK 600 and a bottle of Bohemia Sekt to pop in celebration, and 2nd and 3rd places get smaller vouchers. A bonus question at the end of the night wins a free round of shots for the answering team. The hostel setting ensures a particularly young and diverse group and actively promotes an inclusive community.

CZK 100 entry fee; Thursdays at 7 pm.

This relatively new place on the Vinohrady scene grew from a juncture of expats from France, Brazil, and Russia, who created the Cabin and named it for the homey, cozy vibes they wanted to create. These manifest particularly strong during the twice monthly pub quizzes, where teams of up to eight people compete in four rounds of 10 questions on a wide range of topics, including Prague and Czech culture.

This may be the only pub quiz with smell-based questions, too. Funky, mid-round games also keep folks on their toes by asking them to build a house from straws and sticky tack, design a logo, or make paper airplanes. Prizes are bar vouchers, alongside free shots, beers, and cocktails.

CZK 100 entry fee; every other Tuesday at 7:30 pm.

As the name of this two-branch gaming hub in Vršovice and Palmovka suggests, board gaming is integral to its identity, with more than 400 across all categories and multiple languages available to play.

Quizzes, tournaments and events are always in the mix, too, including word guessing game nights, and Sunday night trivia in Palmovka, where teams of up to six compete in four rounds of 10 questions each, with questions ranging among general trivia, latest news, music, movies, sports, and more. Separate quiz nights tackle themes like Harry Potter and happen in Czech and Russian, too. Vršovice also hosts quiz nights, but check for times and dates.

CZK 100 entry fee; Sundays at 7 pm.

Founded in 1993, the Globe remains one of Prague’s most vaunted expat hubs. Up front, it’s a bookshop with more than 10,000 titles in English, while out back is a more expansive café and restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating.

That makes it an ideal setting for the Wednesday quiz nights, when teams of up to eight people tackle questions across the Trivial Pursuit-esque categories, with Czechia-focused ones included. Many questions are picture- and music-based, too. First prize is two pitchers of beer and nachos. Second prize is a pitcher of beer and nachos, and third prize is a pitcher of beer.The Globe also hosts themed quizzes on other nights, covering film, Harry Potter, and more.

CZK 100 entry fee; Wednesdays at 7 pm.

Behind one of Prague’s most beautiful facades, the Rott Building in Malé Náměsti, this post of the famous international chain covers three levels and includes the same number of bars. The showpiece is the 5-meter-wide, guitar-shaped chandelier hanging in the center of the atrium.

The rock-n-roll vibe also translates to the trivia sessions on topics like Disney, Marvel, and hit songs from the 1980s and ’90s, as well as themed versions about holidays. There are separate quizzes for adults and kids, too.

CZK 295 entry fee for adult quizzes; CZK 195 for kid quizzes.