Links
Player pages and miscellany
Reference pages
Trivia sites
Clients
Jeopardy
THOF content
Player pages
and miscellany
Many of the regulars here at the Trivia Hall of Fame (TM)
operate their own Web sites. Let
us know about yours.
- Savvy Cafe: This
Toronto girl band is managed by Catherine Young, a THOFer
and Juno winner. (A Juno is like a Canadian Grammy.)
- Leslie Gilbert Elman has written a distaff
version of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.
- IITIIM:
Produced on behalf of IT and management types by THOFer
Gautam Ghosh, the game brings 20 questions every two weeks.
- Trivia Asylum:
A site from Jim Froeming, one of our top players. Lots of
excellent lists, in particular to the many radio trivia
contents run in the US.
- DreamLyrics: A role-playing site
to which many of our
members belong.
- BeOnScreen: Want
to get on TV? This British site will get you on your way.
Reference
pages
These are some of our favourite sources for information.
- Calculate Me: A
site of conversion and calculations like meters to feet, celsius to fahrenheit and many more.
- Urban Myth Page: A
fabulous collection of false facts, well-presented. Worth a
look.
- The Straight Dope:
Not a trivia site in the traditional sense of the word, this
is a Q&A column originating in Chicago. Unafraid to go after
issues both profound and profane, it also has the sort of
subversive sense of humour that we really appreciate around
here.
- Wikipedia: An open-source online encyclopedia with
articles on anything, including all the impolite stuff
they censor out of Encarta.What more can we say? It's
totally wiki.
Trivia
sites
- Trivia.Com: Trivia quizzes and puzzles, as well as news, jokes, humour
and entertaining facts.
- Complete Trivia: A small cost each month, but it gives you a
shot at fairly
significant prizes. Plus, tell them we sent you and it
helps support this (free) site!
- Trivial Pursuit
Online: Not what it used to be.
- Jeopardy! Some interesting information on the show
itself, as well as lists of where the show goes looking for
contestants. A good message board.
- Trivia Asylum:
A site from one of our top players. Lots of excellent lists.
- Trivia Bowl: Being held in Colorado
in 1999, this trivia
contest raises money for Jaycess. Lots of good samples are
online and ... oh yeah ... this is one of our clients!
- Oxford Quizzing
Society: Wonderful for UK players, but the quizzing
dictionary is especially amusing.
- Leslie Gilbert Elman has written a distaff
version of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.
- Fun
Trivia: It's back! Now part of the
Trivia Portal, this site was a huge favourite with many of
our players.
- Quibs: Mainly
a compilation of lists. Some interesting material. And
terrific for boning up on whole categories that have
mystified you, or for answering questions that haunt and
taunt you in the middle of the night.
- Answers to the
Questions of Life: A Q&A page, largely about science
issues, from Dr. Bill, a THoF member.
- Trivia Tribute:
Interesting stuff about celebrities. Includes quizzes and an
"ask-me" service.
- Internet
Trivia Directory: A rather substantial list of
links to Internet trivia games
- Ultquiz: A random
question generator based on the UK pop music charts
- Mindprobes is
a live trivia games in a friendly community atmosphere, in
which international hosts run games.
- Alltrivia is a neat online take on
Millionaire.
- Useful Trivia: Just want it promises!
- World's
Brainiest: Hundreds of new questions every month!
- 123Facts: Includes a utility for creating your own
quizzes!
- Dr. Quiz : Collection of free quizzes, participate and win prizes!
- Triviaplaza - The Trivia Quiz
site - Trivia quiz questions on Pop Music, Movies, Geography,
Science, Computers, Literature and Classical Music.
- Actionquiz - A Trivia Quiz
game show - Play against computer opponents in categories
such as movies, pop music, science, literature, geography,
computers, and classical music.
- Music quiz at
Popkwiz.com - Pop quiz with 3 new music trivia questions per
day, everyday.
- Braingle - Test yourself and create
quizzes of your own!.
- Trivia of the Day - A site run by
one of our players!
- Trivia888 - Multiplayer trivia games for money!
- Triviad - Let's you make your own quizzes!
- Education Quizzes - Ideal for quizzers in UK
schools!
Trivia from
India
Indians are mad quizzers. And they're a major force on
our site. Here are some of India's top quiz sites.
- Quizician: A site
out of India. Some neat questions, particularly if you know
Bollywood and the Hindu pantheon! You have to register, but
you can compete against other players if you do.
- IITIIM:
Produced on behalf of IT and management types, the game
brings 20 questions every two weeks.
- K-Circle: One of India's
oldest quizzing societies,
K-Circle calls trivia "informational entertainment in its
purest form." We have to agree! As the games posted by its
members show, K-Circle is "committed to the promotion and
popularization of quizzing." Well worth a look, especially
for our players from the sub-continent.
- KQA:
Another Indian trivia site. The Times of India rated
this the number-three trivia site in India, which is more of
an accomplishment that it sounds to North Americans. Indians
are just mad for trivia, it seems. Only drawback ... it's a
Tripod site, meaning lots of cookies and annoying ads.
- Let's Quiz: Yet
another great Indian site. Lots of individual quizzes with a
notably higher standard of questions than you see on most
sites. Also one of the few sites to include visuals.
Clients
- Microsoft, we
wrote 10,000 questions for Encarta's online game
- Uncle John's Bathroom Reader,
for whom we wrote articles and footers
- Reach for the Top, a Canadian high school
trivia
competition (wrote questions and acted as judge for the
Ontario 2002 finals),
- World
Trivia Night, a soon-to-be Canada-wide trivia
competition sponsored by Kiwanis,
- The Trivia Machine, to which we provided
much of our
database content
- Gamegoat, an
online trivia company,
- Slingo, an online
games company
- CaesarsQuiz.com,
France's quizzing leader reaches North America. Enter «triviahalloffame» as a sponsor at
registration and get 10 additional credits
- Paul Martin, we wrote "did you know
factoids" for Canada's former
minister, during his leadership run.
- MPath: Another of our
clients! Play 2-Minute Trivia and Trivia Tonight.
- Trivia Casino:
Yet another one of our clients!
- Playvue.com: You can play other people live ... and
taunt them!
Jeopardy
- Official Jeopardy Contestant Page: This is the Sony page
for aspiring contestants. Start here.
- Karl Koryat has a great site about his own
experience.
He advises potential contestants to have fun with the
auditioning process. (This may have been my undoing. I went
into the mock game with my game face on and was totally
flustered by it.)
- Bill O'Donnell has a terrific
page, notable for the list
of source books (I have a lot of the ones he mentions, so I
can vouch for them).
- The Math of Jeopardy is on Slate.com and
explains what to me
is the absolutely rudimentary game theory behind how to bet
on Final Jeopardy. Lots of second-place contestants could
have won with a little strategic thinking.
- Michael Dupee wrote a book on preparing for
Jeopardy,
but his site seems to have vanished.
- Iago's Jeopardy page: The
mothership of Jeopardy home
pages. As if it were not enough that she seems to have
found almost every single extant player account on the
Web, she's also amassed archives of each of Season 20's
games.
- Bob Harris, one of Jeopardy's most
memorable contestants, discusses his own experiences at
his own site and with us.
THOF content
We're beginning to place our old games on other pages.
