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Trivia links
Here are some of our favourite resources, clients and places to play!
Ottawa trivia
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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.
Trivia of the Day - A site run by one of our players!
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.
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