I just spent the last hour playing IRC trivia. Great fun!
The last question I got right was the name of the female star of the comuter game ‘Tomb Raider’. I’d have to hang up my geek hat if I lost that question… But I won it 
The room was #Trivia-Addicts
I did quite well.
We Dopers should set up a room and make a date of it. Whadda you think?
I just wanted to say that I (heart) the heart symbol in your thread title.
That is all.
linkie poo?
to what?
MIRC?
The room it’self?
IRC = Internet Relay Chat. You need a program such as MIRC to access it.
I think all chat rooms are accessable from all servers (FYI there’s #straightdope) but in case I am wrong I use eu.undernet.org to access this trivia room.
And finally…
charmap is your friend. Anything that you can find in charmap with a standard font, you can display in a thread title. There’s some interesting stuff there.
Start->Run and then type ‘charmap’ and press enter.
Only sort of correct.
All Undernet servers have access to the same channels (except in the very frequent case of a netsplit - why none of the channels I go to are on Undernet any more), but you have to be on an Undernet server to access Undernet channels.
I go to two different networks regularly - a small, private one, and sorcery.net.
We (as in #straightdopers) already have a trivia channel, but no one’s ever in there.
#sd-trivia
Trivia is fun.
But Acrophobia is even more so.
I was going to mention it - I’m rarely on the straightdope IRC these days, but I always pop by the trivia room at the same time, to see if anyone’s playing. I loves me some IRC trivia.
obligatory disclaimer stating that #straightdope has no official affiliation with The Straight Dope, Cecil, or the Reader
Ah, the memories… Back in my IRC days, I wrote a bot which did, among other things, trivia. Not that it hosted the games, mind you: That was done by a human, in our channel (which has the advantage that spelling didn’t count). No, nothing so simple: My bot played in the trivia contests. We didn’t have any penalty for multiple guesses, so Chronotron would keep an eye out for multiple choice, yes/no, true/false, and the like, and instantly guess all possible answers. It also recognized questions asking for a country (in which case it guessed the US, Russia, China, Australia, and a couple of other common ones), a color, “how many” (guessed numbers up to 6 or 8), and a few others. This led, of course, to fewer such questions being asked, but every so often I’d code in a new category of questions Chronotron could answer.
This same bot could play around with pushing other bots’ buttons, and about the time I drifted away from IRC, I was programming it to flirt…