A 40-minute lecture is a wall of talk to study from. A YouTube to quiz tool reads the whole video and turns it into a set of multiple-choice questions you can actually test yourself with. Paste any watch?v= or youtu.be link, press Quiz, and you get a study quiz instead of a wall of text to reread.
What you get
- 8 multiple-choice questions — drawn in order of appearance from the transcript, so they track the video’s flow.
- 4 options each (A–D) — one correct, three plausible distractors grounded in the video’s own domain (not obviously wrong).
- An answer key — 1–8 with the letter and a one-clause justification, so you know why the answer is right.
- Same language as the video — an English video gets an English quiz, a Finnish one gets a Finnish quiz.
- Works on long videos — hour-long talks are handled, not truncated.
- Works without captions — videos with no caption track are transcribed with AI speech recognition first, then turned into a quiz.
How it works
- Copy the URL of any public YouTube video.
- Paste it into the tool and press Quiz. The caption track is pulled directly from YouTube — no account, no Data API key, no watermark.
- A large language model reads the full transcript and writes 8 multiple-choice questions with plausible distractors, then an answer key.
- Copy the quiz, or press Extract for the full timestamped transcript underneath it.
Why a quiz, not just the transcript?
A transcript answers “what was said, word for word.” A quiz answers “do I actually understand it?” — in a fraction of the reading time. Re-reading a 6,000-line podcast interview is passive; answering 8 questions about it is active recall, which is the study method that sticks. That is exactly what this tool produces, and it is grounded in the real transcript (not a guess from the title and thumbnail).
What people use YouTube quizzes for
- Study & revision — turn a lecture or course video into a self-test before an exam.
- Tutoring & teaching — generate a quick check-for- understanding from any instructional video.
- Training — build a knowledge check from a training or onboarding video.
- Content repurposing — turn a video into a social “quiz post” or a study resource from its key points.
Transcripts, quizzes, and more — same tool
A quiz is one feature of the tool. The same URL also gets you the full transcript with timestamps, an AI summary, a flashcards, a mind map, a study guide, a Q&A chat, SRT/VTT subtitle downloads, translation into 100+ languages, and an REST API + MCP server if you want quizzes in your own pipeline.