This is a trivia game site, and it's a gas! I love the sports questions, but it also has geography, literature, history and a lot more. There are 'blitz' questions you can play by yourself, or more detailed questions you can play with a friend (live or over the phone). I have to say it's a great intellectual exercise and tests a lot of knowledge across many subjects. So it's great fun if this is your thing.

Sporcle.com is an amazing idea and could have been a great place for me to spend a lot of time as I love trivia. It's just too bad that they have ruined it with intrusive pop-up advertising.

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T N. can you block it with ad blockers? it's a shame to leave a site you love for something that could be fixed?

5/8/11  •  Votes (0)

Eric K. I know what you mean TN., I guess these aren't "full page" pop-ups but big squares that appear i the middle of the screen AND they have deliberately hard to see "close" tabs. I don't think they can be blocked. And I shouldn't have to acquire "blockers" anyway - they just shouldn't do that to us! :) thanks for the comment.

5/11/11  •  Votes (1)

Sporcle is perhaps best known for their geography quizzes such as the excellent "How many countries of the world can you type in 15 minutes?" (with a map). That can get a bit cluttered, so doing them continent by continent in separate quizzes is also possible. I've learned a lot of geography from this site, including how to correctly spell Kyrgyzstan on the first try. There is a lot of variety; use the search feature, and this site can keep you busy for a while.

Logged in users can submit quizzes of their own as well. If well received by other Sporcle users, these can sometimes become "official" and get promoted to the front page. Note that this is a community of trivia buffs so be sure to carefully check your work if you plan to design quizzes. You will hear about it in the comments if you forget that France borders Brazil, that Denmark is the 13th largest country by area, or that the West African country between Liberia and Ghana prefers to be alphabetized under "C", not "I".

User experiments with the flexibility of the quiz design feature have yielded many different types of quiz formats beyond the simple "List all the ___'s". Quizzes have been designed to simulate various game show formats, crossword puzzles, music lyrics, and matching.

The site is quite functional for logged out users, but registering with an email address allow commenting, rating, user statistics, and quiz creation.

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T N. this looks really neat, if you like geography, you should check out the game geosense.net

3/2/11  •  Votes (0)

Peter W. Thanks for that link Tran. I do enjoy that sort of thing.

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MY FAVORITE WEBSITE

Loads of good, accurate quizzes for trivia lovers. Check it out! You too will spend hours loving Sporcle and its greatness.