If you already write your trivia questions in Google Docs, the Import from Google Drive feature lets you pick a Doc from your own Drive and pull its content directly into the game setup form. No manual re-typing. Here is exactly how to format your document and what to do when the import does not look right.
The Required Document Format
The parser looks for round headers and numbered questions in a specific pattern. Round headers follow this shape: the word "Round," a number, a separator (a dash, colon, or em dash all work), and a title — for example "Round 1 - Movie Trivia." The round number tells the parser where one round ends and the next begins. The round title becomes the round name in your game. Round numbers can have gaps; they are renumbered 1, 2, 3 on import.
Under each round header, questions are numbered lines: "1. What year did the Berlin Wall fall?" The answer goes on the next line, prefixed with either "a." or "Answer:". So the full pair looks like:
1. What year did the Berlin Wall fall? a. 1989
That is it. The parser reads each numbered question, grabs the answer on the line immediately below it, and populates the game form. You can have as many rounds and questions as you want in a single document.
Specifying the Scoring Format
By default, every imported round uses the Basic scoring format. To use a different format, add a format tag in square brackets at the end of the round header: "Round 3 - Music [WAGER]". Supported tags are [BASIC], [WAGER], [CONFIDENCE], [TIMELINE], [MULTIPLE_ANSWERS] (also [MULTI-ANSWER]), [MULTIPLE_CHOICE], and [CLOSEST] (or [TIEBREAKER]). The bracket tag is required for Multiple Choice and Closest rounds, because those have no reliable auto-detect. Timeline, Multiple Answers, Multiple Choice, and Closest rounds all auto-grade, so make sure your answers are formatted correctly before importing.
A full formatting reference — including how to mark the correct multiple-choice option and the two ways to write a timeline round — lives inside the app under Help. Once you are signed in, open the game setup screen and click "How to format your doc" next to the import button.
Getting Access to Your Document
The first time you import, you connect your Google account and grant access. From then on, click "Import from Google Drive" and a Google picker opens showing your own Docs — choose one and it imports. Because you are picking from your own Drive, the document does not need any special sharing settings. Note that only native Google Docs can be imported: if you uploaded a Word or PDF file to Drive, open it in Google Docs first (File, then Save as Google Docs) and import that copy.
Common Import Problems
The most common issue is a malformed round header. The parser needs the literal word "Round," a digit, and a title — "Round One - Title" (a written-out number) will not be recognized; use "Round 1 - Title." The other frequent miss is a Multiple Choice or Closest round with no bracket tag: those two formats have no auto-detect, so without [MULTIPLE_CHOICE] or [CLOSEST] the round imports as Basic.
The second most common issue is a missing answer line. If a question has no answer line directly below it, the parser skips the question entirely. Check that every numbered question is immediately followed by a line starting with "a." or "Answer:".
If the import completes but some rounds are empty, scroll through the game setup form to find which rounds parsed correctly. Often a single formatting error partway through the document causes everything after it to be skipped. Fix the error in the Google Doc, re-share the link, and import again.
After the Import
After a successful import, review every round in the game setup form before starting the game. The parser does its best, but question numbering that resets to 1 across rounds, smart quotes, or unusual characters can cause unexpected results. Spot-check the first and last question in each round, confirm the round titles look right, and adjust the point values if the defaults are not what you want. The import is a starting point — you have full edit access to everything before you go live.