# Trivia app for wasting time at work.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-app-for-wasting-time-at-work/813060>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [April 24, 2018, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-app-for-wasting-time-at-work/813060 "2018-04-24T21:09:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-app-for-wasting-time-at-work/813060/1 "2018-04-24T21:09:27Z")

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Are there any good trivia apps that aren’t just copies of Trivial Pursuit?

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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-app-for-wasting-time-at-work/813060/2 "2018-04-24T21:57:40Z")

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Have you tried Sporcle?

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**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-app-for-wasting-time-at-work/813060/3 "2018-04-24T22:03:40Z")

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Not a game, but I enjoy just going to wikipedia’s app and hitting their random button to learn all sorts of random shit.

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**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-app-for-wasting-time-at-work/813060/4 "2018-04-24T23:44:23Z")

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That’s always fun. You can make it a little more “gamey” by thinking of some person/place/thing of your choice, then hitting the random button and seeing how quickly you can get from the random page to the page you were thinking of by following links.