Best source for trivia quizzes
March 9, 2022 11:14 AM Subscribe
My partner and I developed a ritual of asking each other trivia before bed when we acquired the Good Job Brain book and are looking for more of that style. Any suggestions?
Sadly, we ripped through that book quickly and we are now looking for more of the same. I thought grabbing some old Trivial Pursuit games from the thrift store would do the trick, but we've tried the 20th Anniversary Edition (which we found full of errors and either too-easy or too-obscure) and the 80's Edition (in our wheelhouse for pop-culture, but the sports and politics questions are way too insidery). We really liked the themed quizzes in the GJB book (such as "Brad Pitt or Lasers" which asks a series of "which of these two wildly random things are older"* or "Belgium or Not Belgium" which asks if a variety of things were invented in Belgium) and would love more of that style. I tried searching for trivia books on Amazon but was hit by an avalanche of results that I could not filter in any meaningful sense.
What we liked: the themed quizzes as show above; pop-culture, science, and geography topics; riddles and (to a lesser extent) puns; keeping the quiz to less than 5 minutes.
What didn't work: "matching" quizzes where you pair items in one list to items in another (we are reading these to each other in bed so visual recordkeeping needs to be minimal); word / picture hunts (see above); sports / politics topics; long, involved puzzles.
Any other books fit that bill?
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* (it's lasers)
Sadly, we ripped through that book quickly and we are now looking for more of the same. I thought grabbing some old Trivial Pursuit games from the thrift store would do the trick, but we've tried the 20th Anniversary Edition (which we found full of errors and either too-easy or too-obscure) and the 80's Edition (in our wheelhouse for pop-culture, but the sports and politics questions are way too insidery). We really liked the themed quizzes in the GJB book (such as "Brad Pitt or Lasers" which asks a series of "which of these two wildly random things are older"* or "Belgium or Not Belgium" which asks if a variety of things were invented in Belgium) and would love more of that style. I tried searching for trivia books on Amazon but was hit by an avalanche of results that I could not filter in any meaningful sense.
What we liked: the themed quizzes as show above; pop-culture, science, and geography topics; riddles and (to a lesser extent) puns; keeping the quiz to less than 5 minutes.
What didn't work: "matching" quizzes where you pair items in one list to items in another (we are reading these to each other in bed so visual recordkeeping needs to be minimal); word / picture hunts (see above); sports / politics topics; long, involved puzzles.
Any other books fit that bill?
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* (it's lasers)
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posted by jacquilynne at 11:51 AM on March 9, 2022