Online trivia game - a trivia treasure hunt.

Have you tried any online trivia games? They can be a lot of fun and if you like learning new facts, having trivia tidbits to add to conversations and competing in fun quizzes they can while away many minutes in a lazy afternoon.

Did you know for example that fried spiders are said to have a taste similar to nuts? Or that Roy Rogers real name is Leonard Franklin Slye. Of what use is this - unless of course someone is offering you fried spider on a plate and you're unsure whether to eat it! Yet it is interesting and next time you are offered nuts you will think of it and perhaps say "Did you know..."

The internet has made it possible to find dozens of odd facts simply by throwing a keyword in the box and seeing what comes out. You'd think that everything there is to know is there on the web just a keyword search away - well you might think that, but it isn't true.

The reason I know is I have been playing Complete Interactive Trivia at complete trivia and this online trivia game continues to pose me questions that I cannot find and its got me hooked like a treasure hunt. Now a question like "What was Adolph Hitler's favourite movie?" isn't so bad, I found a possible answer on the sixth result on the page.

Conan Doyle's ships was another matter all together, the question said that he had sailed on two ships, what were their names. I think I got the first name on page twenty and the the second around page forty and I think I changed the keyword search terms several times before I even started to read through the articles looking for the names.

They were there though, so that's good. There have been questions where the only way to find the answer is to get on the phone - to a library, a company, the zoo - wherever the answer might be found because the only way to get past the question is to answer it or pass on it.

Now I don't like to pass, I know I havn't got a cat in hells chance of finishing the quiz first, and winning the money, but I like to feel I've done everything possible to finish with a no pass score. I want to be on the scoreboard and I like to be in the top 20 who finish and if I pass neither of those things are possible. Sometimes its the only thing to do but I don't have to like it.

This online trivia quiz really is like a trivia treasure hunt - quite unlike anything I've seen on any other site, most of which are multichoice and timed.

I admit I was a little wary at first because you have to subscribe and I didn't want to throw my money away, but I tried the sample quiz (its a bit confusing on the page - but you click on the click me link under visitors) and well it seemed a bit too general knowledge but then I threw caution to the winds and broke my no creditcards online rule because I saw they had a secure page and signed up.

I've been playing near every month now for over a year and I'm not going to stop because I'm hooked. Even though I don't really care what the ship's names that Conan Doyle sailed on were and couldn't bring them back to mind right now - (I can't remember - after all that searching, I can't remember!) it is the activity itself which pleases. I'll tell you more about it tomorrow.