# Catfishing, a daily Wikipedia trivia game
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [March 9, 2026, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323 "2026-03-09T20:49:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2026, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323/1 "2026-03-09T20:49:50Z")
[Link](https://catfishing.net/)
Each day, guess ten Wikipedia articles based on the categories that they’re in. For example, here are the clues for an entry from a couple days ago:
> 1979 disasters in the United States | 1979 in the environment | 1979 in Pennsylvania | Radiation accidents and incidents | 1979 industrial disasters | March 1979 in the United States | Civilian nuclear power accidents | Disasters in Pennsylvania | Environment of Pennsylvania | INES Level 5 accidents | History of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania | Nuclear accidents and incidents in the United States | Nuclear history of the United States | Presidency of Jimmy Carter | Susquehanna River
With the answer being The [Three Mile Island accident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident).
Because it’s from Wikipedia, the topics can be almost anything. It’s a fun general knowledge trivia game, and like any good daily challenge game, it has a shareable emoji score. Here’s mine for today’s quiz:
#624 - 5/10
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(The cats are the ones I got right, the fish are the ones I got wrong)
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### Author:  [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2026, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323/2 "2026-03-09T21:09:00Z")
Fun game! In most cases, the answer seemed obvious where I knew anything about the subject; I had one I-have-no-clue and one dang-should-have-known-it.
#624 - 8/10 🎉
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Example from today: Members of the Manson family; people pardoned by Gerald Ford; say no more, that’s gotta be
> **Summary**
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> Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme
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### Author:  [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2026, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323/3 "2026-03-10T01:51:00Z")
> **[catfishing - the Wikipedia guessing game](https://catfishing.net)**
>
> Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories. 10 interesting people, places, and things to guess every day.
#624 - 2/10
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Eh.
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### Author:  [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2026, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323/4 "2026-03-10T13:51:48Z")
> **[catfishing - the Wikipedia guessing game](https://catfishing.net)**
>
> Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories. 10 interesting people, places, and things to guess every day.
#625 - 3/10
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I got the three easy ones: The Handmaid’s Tale, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Jakarta.
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### Author:  [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2026, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323/5 "2026-03-10T15:47:27Z")
#625 - 5/10
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> **Spoilers**
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> I only got Elba because of the “Prison Islands” category. Good ol’ Napoleon
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> On the Jakarta one, I thought, “Ok, it’s the capital of Indonesia. What city is that? Jakarta? Or is it Manila? I always get those two mixed up.” and then I guessed Manila. 🤦
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2026, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323/6 "2026-03-10T16:44:15Z")
#625 - 6/10
I missed the 4 most-commonly missed answers.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2026, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323/7 "2026-03-10T20:39:34Z")
Catchy name.
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### Author:  [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2026, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323/8 "2026-03-10T21:05:59Z")
#625 - 3.5/10
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That last one is “Close Enough,” which I wouldn’t have thought was worth even a half point. I guessed “no idea” on the last one, and that was Close Enough to:
> **Spoiler**
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> Nick Kyrgios (tennis player)
(btw I am having some difficulty not answering Jeopardy-style, e.g. “Who is Lizzie Borden?” I wonder where that would get you in the scoring.)
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### Author:  [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2026, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323/9 "2026-03-10T21:16:02Z")
> [@Briny\_Deep](#):
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> That last one is “Close Enough,” which I wouldn’t have thought was worth even a half point. I guessed “no idea” on the last one, and that was Close Enough to
I think you misunderstood that. You get to decide for yourself if a guess is close enough. The “Close enough” button appears when you make a guess that doesn’t match the title. If you don’t think your guess was close enough, you click the “Next” button.
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### Author:  [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2026, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323/10 "2026-03-10T21:27:47Z")
Huh. So if the answer is George Michael and I guess George Harrison, I can just decide “oh yeah, I get them mixed up all the time” and call it close enough?
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### Author:  [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2026, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323/11 "2026-03-10T21:39:16Z")
Yeah, it’s the honor system. It’s not like there’s a prize to be won by getting the highest score, and even if there was, half a point is unlikely to make a big difference. But it’s more fun if you don’t do that, and the game statistics show that most people don’t.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2026, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323/12 "2026-03-10T22:48:15Z")
Fun game. The more I played the worse I seemed to do, but was always on the right side of the stats, so that was pretty cool. I was kinda stoked when I nailed one for a 7!
Way too many “18th Century XXXX Authors” however.
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### Author:  [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2026, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323/13 "2026-03-11T09:33:10Z")
> **[catfishing - the Wikipedia guessing game](https://catfishing.net/)**
>
> Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories. 10 interesting people, places, and things to guess every day.
#626 - 5/10
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5/10 for a new personal best!
I got Lollapalooza, yurt, Atlantis, Toy Story, and Garfield.
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### Author:  [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2026, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323/14 "2026-03-11T14:00:31Z")
Fun game.
#626 - 8/10 🎉
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I actually knew them all, but blanked on Meiji and for some reason thought that Butch Cassidy was a fictional character.
Sometimes the longer entries have enough red herrings to throw me off a bit. The shorter ones are often easier.
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### Author:  [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2026, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323/15 "2026-03-11T14:32:39Z")
I, for one, had no idea that Butch Cassidy was a real person.
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### Author:  [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2026, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323/16 "2026-03-11T16:29:08Z")
#626 - 7/10
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Embarrassing not to be able to call to mind:
> **Summary**
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> Carnegie
> Butch Cassidy
> Meiji (though more of an “I should learn more” moment than a head smack, TBH)
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> Also Rothko was a lucky guess; I don’t know much about him, only his work, which I love.
btw, someone remind me how to do a blur spoiler?
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### Author:  [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2026, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323/17 "2026-03-11T16:35:17Z")
#626 - 6/10
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I did fairly well, but
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> I mixed up Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Mellon. I forgot that the university was named after two people.
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> And for the third one, I thought, “It must be someone associated with the Meiji Restoration, but I don’t know the names of any people involved.” Oops.
Oh, and for a blur spoiler, in the editor, there’s a plus button that opens a menu of options. Blur spoiler is at the bottom of that. You can also just type “[spoiler]content[/spoiler]”
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### Author:  [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2026, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323/18 "2026-03-11T16:47:15Z")
> [@Strinka](#):
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> And for the third one, I thought, “It must be someone associated with the Meiji Restoration, but I don’t know the names of any people involved.” Oops.
#626 - 9/10 🎉
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Same issue with me. I didnt know (or at least didn’t remember) that the Meiji Restoration was named after the actual person. I thought it was a descriptive term.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2026, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323/19 "2026-03-11T18:03:51Z")
#626 - 7/10
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2026, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catfishing-a-daily-wikipedia-trivia-game/1028323/20 "2026-03-11T18:23:02Z")
> [@Jas09](#):
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> Sometimes the longer entries have enough red herrings to throw me off a bit.
Also, they are listed alphabetically, so maybe the first dozen or so don’t help, but down in the center is a Dead Giveaway.
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