Daily Trivia Games

Each day's ten questions are multiple choice, four options each, spread over at least seven of eight subjects: history, geography, science, nature, the arts, literature, sport, and food and drink. A right answer scores 10,000 points plus a bonus for the time you have left, so speed separates two players with the same number right. After each answer you see what share of today's players knew it, and the graded sheet at the end marks the questions you got right that fewer than 30% of players did. The shared result is a row of squares, one per question, with a star for those rare ones.

Sixteen pairs a day, eleven seconds each: the fax machine or the American Civil War, Oxford University or the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. You pick the older of the two, and the brass timeline shows both dates and why. A streak of right answers raises your multiplier, and each pair shows what share of today's players got it right, which is often the most surprising part. Every date comes from Wikidata, and more than a thousand of its pairs, with both dates and a source, are on the which came first page.

Five rounds a day, each a list of five things and thirty seconds to drag them into order. An item in exactly the right slot scores 100 and one slot off still scores 40, and a perfect round is worth 1,000 plus a bonus for the time left. The reveal shows the real values and where most people put each item, so you find out whether the whole crowd fell for the same trap.

Five places a day, from capital cities to landmarks, each with a clock of twenty to twenty-five seconds. Drop a pin on a map with coastlines and faint borders but no labels, and score up to 1,000 points for landing within 25 km. Once twenty people have played, the reveal shows the crowd's average pin beside yours, and the end card tells you whether you beat the crowd. The places come in five tiers of difficulty and none returns within 110 days.

Today's answers are never published while the day is open, so the quizzes stay fair. Once a day closes at midnight ET, the questions and answers of that Daily Trivia appear on the trivia questions page, each with its source. Pin Drop keeps its past days to play again, and so does Daily Trivia for its recent days, for fun and off the leaderboards. Want more than one quiz a day? Daily Trivia, Older Than You Think and Rank It each have a Quick mode you can play as often as you like, and the quiz games page adds a world capitals sprint and a flag painting quiz that are never limited to once a day.

In Daily Trivia, the first two questions are the easy ones: answer them fast, because the time bonus is the tiebreaker. In Older Than You Think, trust dates over fame: an object or an idea is often older than the famous version of it. In Rank It, place the two ends first, the biggest and the smallest, and work inwards. And in Pin Drop, use the coastlines and the faint borders to get onto the right country before you zoom in.