If you're interested in this approach, there's a similar spreadsheet-based pattern available for building trivia-style games for the Google Assistant platform:
This was a quick side project my partner and I created using ChatGPT. We've been competing every day on the daily trivia quiz which has been a lot of fun!
We would love some feedback on how we could best organise the topics into a nice site layout because right now we don't really have any ideas.
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.
After running a successful quiz night for my brother's birthday party, I thought it would be cool to create some sort of web app that makes it really easy for people to download quiz sheets to print so they can host quiz nights easier.
I found a lot of sites that already provide this service to be way stuck in the 90s and were cluttered with way too much information - so my aim was to make it really simple and straight to the point.
I did the design of the site (character was created by Pasquale D'Silva), question resources, branding, front end development etc.
My friend @sesh handled all the magical back end stuff which was built using django.
I had originally built the site www.trivia-lab.com and used the Trivia Lab name, but realised that the word "trivia" was more associated with where I come from - Australia - and that Quiz is a more common name for the rest of the world. Therefore I now have two sites:
That sounds much better than the other trivia games I have tried, which have been pretty awful, and reflect poorly on Alexa. They seem to fit a 5 question, multiple choice template.
I have also been thinking about the problem of trivia questions, and have come up with my own solution.
I found that multiple choice takes a lot of fun out of the competition, and makes it more guessing.
Instead, what I have done is hide the answer in a grid of letters and have the contestant find the answer. You will always be able to get the answer, but if you know it, you will find it faster.
I've mentioned this in another thread, but a GPT-3 that could reliably generate quizbowl questions like the ones on https://www.quizbowlpackets.com would be great in this domain. My experience with it indicates it's no where near being able to do this, though.
I love these simple web games! Great idea. One way to improve it is to add some more juice when you answer a question. Right now, the text in the number just swaps to the next question, so any sort of small visual feedback will help first time players get it more.
I also like to make these small web mini games on the side. Here's one where you guess the year that famous events happened: https://guess-the-year.davjhan.com/
I'm looking for a huge amount of trivia questions which need to be in the format of Multiple Choice and also need to be separated by category.
Ideally I would like them to be downloadable but a good api that I can access would be suitable.
I also would prefer them to be free - this is a small project for my studies and do not want to be paying hundreds for like I was just quoted by one company.
TLDR, I made a bookmarklet to autofill connections answers. Why? Because I was doing an experiment teaching my own AI Model the words/answers to see if it could beat an out of the box ChatGPT prompt that was not fairing well against the tricky nature of the game itself (there's a lot of overlap between words intentionally). I figured i'd share it, even though you should still play the game legit. PS, I used jQuery and didn't write it as DRY as i'd like, two things that bother me, but it got the answers reliably to test against the AI models. Soon i'll publish the results of the AI model/ChatGPT and share here.
That is an excellent idea. I want to do something where once you complete an exercise, only then can you see how others answered the same one. Kind of like Project Euler if you've ever used that.
Hey, I'm one of the guys that built StackQ this past weekend. It can generate quizzes on pretty much any subject (by pulling from the appropriate Stack Exchange site). It was a lot of fun to make and actually works pretty well too!
https://triviatemplate.com/
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