# I ♥ IRC trivia! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 4, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irc-trivia/302305 "2005-05-04T00:30:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irc-trivia/302305/1 "2005-05-04T00:30:21Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irc-trivia/302305/2 "2005-05-04T00:36:27Z")
I just wanted to say that I (heart) the heart symbol in your thread title. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irc-trivia/302305/3 "2005-05-04T00:38:18Z")
linkie poo? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irc-trivia/302305/4 "2005-05-04T00:44:36Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > linkie poo? to what? MIRC? The room it’self? IRC = Internet Relay Chat. You need a program such as [MIRC](http://www.mirc.com/get.html) to access it. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irc-trivia/302305/5 "2005-05-04T00:47:31Z")
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](http://eu.undernet.org) to access this trivia room. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irc-trivia/302305/6 "2005-05-04T00:50:12Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > I just wanted to say that I (heart) the heart symbol in your thread title. > That is all. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irc-trivia/302305/7 "2005-05-04T01:00:54Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > 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](http://eu.undernet.org) to access this trivia room. 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](http://sorcery.net). ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irc-trivia/302305/8 "2005-05-04T07:09:22Z")
We (as in #straightdopers) already have a trivia channel, but no one’s ever in there. #sd-trivia ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irc-trivia/302305/9 "2005-05-04T07:53:39Z")
Trivia is fun. But Acrophobia is even more so. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irc-trivia/302305/10 "2005-05-04T14:06:34Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#): > > We (as in #straightdopers) already have a trivia channel, but no one’s ever in there. > > #sd-trivia 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. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irc-trivia/302305/11 "2005-05-04T15:21:14Z")
_obligatory disclaimer stating that #straightdope has no official affiliation with The Straight Dope, Cecil, or the Reader_ ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-irc-trivia/302305/12 "2005-05-04T19:49:44Z")
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…