Three ways to get your own material into QuizBlast: build a deck in the app, import one from a spreadsheet, or start from a built-in deck and make it yours. All three end the same way — a deck that's a plain file you own. Running Jeopardy? Boards have their own builder, covered below.
On the Question Deck step of a new game, click New Deck. The editor opens with the name selected — type over it, add a subject if you like, and you're already saving: every change autosaves as you type. There is no Save button to forget.
Click Add Question. Type the question, fill in the four choices, and tap the letter to mark the correct answer — the letter lights up blue. Each question has its own point value (100 by default) and an optional image. That's the whole anatomy of a question.
The list on the left grows as you go, showing each question's correct letter and point value at a glance. Click any question to edit it. Twenty questions makes a solid class-length game, but a deck can be three questions for a warm-up — there's no minimum. Click Done when you're finished.
Your deck now sits in your library next to any built-in decks you've added, ready for every game mode — the same deck runs a classic quiz, a flashcard race, or a team buzzer game. The ⋯ menu on the card has Edit, Duplicate, and Delete — Duplicate is handy for making a period-2 variant without touching the original.
If your questions live in Excel, Google Sheets, or came out of another quiz tool, export them as a CSV and use Import → Import CSV on the Question Deck step. Not sure about the format? Import → Download Quiz CSV Template gives you a ready-made file to fill in.
The importer looks for these columns:
| Column | What goes in it |
|---|---|
| question (or text) | The question text |
| a, b, c, d | The four choices |
| correct (or answer) | The correct letter — A, B, C, or D |
| points | Optional — point value per question (defaults to 100) |
A two-line example, straight from a spreadsheet's File → Export:
question,a,b,c,d,correct,points
Which planet has the shortest year?,Mercury,Venus,Mars,Jupiter,A,100
The Content Library ships with 25 decks and 8 Jeopardy boards — about 500 questions, K–12. Built-ins are read-only, but Add to Library puts a copy in your library that's fully yours: open it in the editor, delete what doesn't fit your class, reword the rest, add your own. Halfway between "write everything" and "use it as-is," and often the fastest path to a deck that feels like yours.
Jeopardy boardsA Jeopardy board is its own kind of content: categories holding point-valued clues, not A/B/C/D questions. Pick Jeopardy as the game type and the deck step becomes a board step — same Content Library, New Board, and Import buttons, now board-shaped.
Click New Board. A fresh board starts with a name, three ready-to-fill categories, and five clue slots per category at 100 to 500 points. Rename the categories, and use Add Category to grow the board — the built-in boards run six categories, classic game-show size.
Each slot takes a clue (what the class sees on the projector) and an answer (what a team should say). There are no multiple-choice options here — in a Jeopardy game, teams buzz in and answer out loud, and the answer text shows only on your control panel so you can judge the response. Cheap clues easy, expensive clues hard: the point values do the difficulty curve for you.
Boards use an explicit Save Board button (unlike the deck editor's autosave) — click it and the board is saved, selected for the game, and listed with Edit and Select for next time. Prefer a spreadsheet? The board Import menu takes a CSV too, with its own template: columns category, points, clue, answer — one row per clue, and rows sharing a category name become one column of the board.
A board CSV looks like this:
category,points,clue,answer
Founding Documents,100,This 1776 document declared the colonies free of British rule.,The Declaration of Independence
Founding Documents,200,He wrote most of the Declaration at age 33.,Thomas Jefferson
Revolutionary Battles,100,"The war's first shots, April 1775.",Lexington and Concord
Every deck and board is a plain file on your Mac — not a row in someone's cloud database. Nothing you write can be paywalled later, and your questions never leave your machine unless you share them.