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One place the information age has failed us so far is with trivia/quiz questions. There are surprisingly few open repositories of quality questions. There is t
by ficklepickle 7y ago
One place the information age has failed us so far is with trivia/quiz questions. There are surprisingly few open repositories of quality questions.
There is the Open Trivia DB, which isn't really open but exposes a free API. It's also a bit heavy on video/computer game questions for my tastes and doesn't support multiple categories per API request. It's either all categories or one.
I like to play trivia games on my phone on transit, etc. All I could find was crap, often full of ads. So I made one, a couple years ago. It's kinda crap too, so now I'm making another.
The back end uses the open trivia DB, but supports multiple categories per game. I'm currently caching the questions in to a DB. When I have them all, I will be able to improve the initial load times, which is currently 1-2 seconds per category selected at the beginning of each game. It won't scale well until then. I should be posting a Show HN in the near future.
Anybody know of any other trivia DB's out there? I found a dead github repo. There is a fair bit but it is really rough. There should be some from IRC trivia bots from back in the day, but I haven't found them. Commercial ones are out, as there will be no ads, tracking or monetization of any kind. Just a simple & light trivia mobile-friendly web app.