Quizlaget møtes her.

It is a compound noun:

• quiz = quiz
• lag = team, side, group

So quizlaget literally means the quiz team.

Norwegian uses compound words very freely, much more than English does.

Because Norwegian normally writes compounds as one word.

So:

• quizlag = quiz team
• quizlaget = the quiz team

If you split it into two words, it would usually look wrong in Norwegian. This is very common for English speakers, because English often writes similar expressions as separate words.

The ending -et marks the noun as definite singular for a neuter noun.

The base noun is et lag = a team.

Its forms are:

• et lag = a team
• laget = the team

So:

• et quizlag = a quiz team
• quizlaget = the quiz team

Not necessarily. It is capitalized here because it is the first word in the sentence.

In the middle of a sentence, it would normally be:

• quizlaget

Only proper names are normally capitalized in Norwegian, just as in English.

Here, møtes means meet in the sense of come together or meet each other.

So the idea is that the members of the quiz team gather here.

A useful way to think about it is:

• møtes = meet each other / get together

This is a very common question.

• møter is the ordinary present tense of å møte = to meet
• møtes is used when the meaning is more like meet each other or gather

Compare:

• Vi møter læreren her. = We meet the teacher here.
• Vi møtes her. = We meet here. / We meet each other here.

So in Quizlaget møtes her, the -s helps show that the team members are meeting one another, not meeting some outside person.

It is related to the -s form, which can sometimes look like a passive, but here it is best understood as a reciprocal meaning: meeting each other.

So in this sentence, it does not really mean:

• is met here

It means more naturally:

• meets here
• gathers here
• gets together here

Yes. Møtes is present tense.

Depending on context, a Norwegian present tense can mean:

• a habitual action: The quiz team meets here
• a current arrangement: The quiz team is meeting here
• sometimes even a near-future plan

Without extra context, The quiz team meets here is the most neutral reading.

Because that is a very normal, neutral word order in Norwegian.

The sentence follows the common pattern:

• subject + verb + place adverb

So:

• Quizlaget møtes her.

This sounds natural and straightforward.

If you move her to the front:

• Her møtes quizlaget.

that puts more emphasis on here.

No. In Norwegian, verbs do not change for person or number in the present tense.

So the verb form stays the same:

• vi møtes
• de møtes
• quizlaget møtes

This is simpler than English, because you do not need a special -s form for he/she/it.

Because quizlaget is grammatically singular, even though it refers to a group of people.

This works much like English the team. A team has many members, but the noun itself is singular.

So Norwegian says:

• Quizlaget møtes her.

even though the action involves multiple people within the team.

You would use the indefinite form:

• Et quizlag møtes her.

Compare:

• Et quizlag = a quiz team
• Quizlaget = the quiz team

So the difference is the same basic definite/indefinite distinction as in English.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

• Quizlaget ≈ KVISS-lah-guh
• møtes ≈ MØH-tes
• her ≈ hehr

A few notes:

• quiz in Norwegian is often pronounced close to kviss
• the vowel ø in møtes does not exist in standard English
• in many accents, the final -et in laget is pronounced weakly, and the t may be very soft or not clearly heard

So the full sentence is approximately:

• KVISS-lah-guh MØH-tes hehr

Dialect can change the pronunciation quite a bit, though.