The difference is scoring: Question slides gather input from your audience without calculating scores, while Quiz Competition slides (called Quiz competitions in the slide picker) score participants' answers, can run a countdown timer, and reveal a winner on a Leaderboard slide. Use Question slides to learn about your audience's preferences, feedback, and ideas — use Quiz slides when you want them to compete.

Question slides (listed under Interactive questions when you add a slide) include a variety of question types designed to gather input from your audience: Word Cloud, Open Ended, Multiple Choice, Scales, Ranking, Q&A, Guess the Number, 100 points, 2 x 2 Grid, Quick Form, and Pin on Image. You can learn about your audience's preferences, ask for feedback or ideas, and visualize their answers in creative and useful ways.

To see all Question slide types, click the New Slide button in the top left corner of the editor — they appear under the Interactive questions heading in the slide picker.

Question slides do not calculate scores. If you want to reveal a winner at the end of the presentation, use Quiz Competition slides instead.

Quiz Competition slides (listed under Quiz competitions in the slide picker) are designed for competition. You can test your audience's knowledge, run a countdown timer, calculate scores, and include Leaderboard slides to reveal the winner of the competition.

There are two types of Quiz slides:

Learn more in How to create a Quiz Competition, or get started right away with a ready-made Quiz template.
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Note: Quiz slides are designed to be used in a live presentation, so it's not possible to switch the quiz question types to Survey mode. This is because the audience needs to complete the questions together at the same time for the points to be calculated.