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How Many Different New Years Are There?
As new years come and go, you’re probably familiar with the multiple, different new-year celebrations around the world. Many of them aren’t observed on January 1st, when the Gregorian calendar rolls over. So how many [...]
Top Quizzes of 2022
We’re through with 2022, and it was a pretty exciting year for Sporcle. We redesigned the website, hosted our first ever Sporclecon event, and you all played a bunch of quizzes (over 513 million if [...]
New Year’s Celebrations from Around the World
If you like New Year’s Celebrations, you’ve probably made the joke about attending as many New Year’s parties as possible. For those who only plan to maybe spend a couple minutes at each party (for [...]
Why Is it Called Spam? The Meat and the Mail
Whether or not you’re thinking of junk mail or the canned meat, the word “spam” is probably a bit strange in your mouth. It also just… feels kind of right. If you’ve ever prepared spam [...]
16 Holiday Gift Trivia Facts to Get You Questioning Your Choices
If you’re reading this post when it’s first uploaded, then the Christmas season has ended and you’re now decompressing from having to find all those trinkets you got for everyone. Alternatively, you stumbled upon this [...]
Why Does America Put the Month Before the Day?
If you’re American and reading this post, you might be asking the question “why do Europeans put the date down wrong?” You might be thinking this because when writing down the date, Europeans will use [...]
How to Host a Trivia Night From Home
So you want to organize a little online get-together with a bunch of people because it’s 2020 and we all know what that means. But all this virtual communication can be a bit awkward, and […]
Guidelines & Tips for Creating Quizzes with Images
Clickable Quizzes In general, images should be resized to be no larger than 200px in either width or height.* Whenever possible, all question images should have identical dimensions to one another (but not necessarily matching […]
How To Make A Basic Grid Quiz
You may have already heard the news, but Sporcle now has a new quiz type – Grid quizzes! This new format is great for making crosswords, Sudokus, and many other types of word and number […]
How to Memorize the Countries of Europe
With 47 countries, memorizing all of Europe’s nations can be a little tough. The easiest ones, like the UK, France, Italy, and Spain, have guess rates of over 95% on our Countries of Europe quiz. […]
Quiz Design for Colorblindness
When creating quizzes for a general audience, you probably consider your data first and foremost. But as we’ve outlined before, color and formatting choices can drastically affect the player experience. Color can add thematic flavor, […]
16 Paranormal Trivia Team Names To Haunt the Bar
Spooky season is in full swing, which means if you’re hitting the bar for trivia (or really if you need a team name for any kind of function), you’re going to need some on-theme team [...]
18 Legal Trivia Team Names You Can Watch Law and Order With
Going to court is probably closer to the bottom of things you want to do at any given time. There’s a lot of talking–sometimes about stuff you’re not all that interested in–a lot of legalese, [...]
20 Pirate Themed Trivia Team Names
International Talk Like a Pirate Day is a real thing, and it happens every September 19th. But what is a pirate without a crew? So while you assemble your crew for trivia night, here are [...]
15 Dad Trivia Team Names to Grill Out With on Father’s Day
Father’s Day is coming around, which means dads everywhere will be coming out from everywhere with their grills on and spatulas in hand. It also means dads will be cracking open beers as well as [...]
16 Batman Trivia Team Names to Fight Crime With
There’s a new Batman movie coming soon, again. With a new guy playing Batman. Again. That makes Robert Pattinson like the 11th person to play Batman, depending on whether or not you include voice acting. [...]
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