Built for smart rooms and fast nights
The Smart Set Live is an interactive event brand designed for lively, mixed-age crowds: eclectic, competitive, and allergic to easy mode.
What you’re booking
- Hosting with clear structure, pacing, and room control.
- Original writing tuned for bars and private events.
- Slide decks and workflows that stay tight in loud rooms.
- Formats beyond trivia: tournaments and live dating-game nights.
The rules (short version)
- Grade-your-own. Honor system.
- No Google. No Shazam. No ChatGPT. No lifelines.
- If you’re getting half right, you’re doing well.
- Trust your gut. Thinking long usually goes wrong.
Mark Lloyd
I host because I genuinely love trivia — researching it, writing it, and watching a table finally land on the answer they’d been circling for five minutes. The shows are built to feel classic: team debate, pen and paper, no apps, no second screens. They just move faster than people expect.
Every night is part curation and part creation. Questions come from widely known facts and reputable references, then get written to be clear, fairly worded, and worth arguing about. Accuracy matters more than cleverness, cheap trick wording doesn’t make the cut, and the subject matter stays broad enough that a mixed table can all contribute something.
Competitive, entertaining, and not easy. You leave having laughed, learned something, and already planning who to recruit next time. Think long, think wrong. Trust your gut.