New Website Investigates the Fine Art of Trivia Questions

San Jose, California, USA. (SANEPR.com) November 18, 2007 -- With trivia game shows flourishing on TV and the buzz about trivia games on the Internet growing stronger by the day, the demand for good trivia questions writers is growing rapidly.

To help meet this demand, a new website was recently launched by trivia fans to try and work out the finer points of writing a good trivia question.

The site, www.triviaquestionsonline.com is dedicated to the art and science of writing good trivia questions. It starts of with an investigation into why people actually love to answer trivia questions, hypothesizing that the automatic nature of our minds is behind it, causing us to enjoy the process of understanding the question, searching our collected wisdom and knowledge, and coming up with an answer. According to this view, answering trivia question is in fact a kind of "mental gymnastics".

On this basis, the site analyzes the different approaches to writing good trivia questions – how to choose a category, a topic and possible answers for the questions, as well as wording out the questions and the answers. There are different categories to trivia questions, and the website intends to cover them all, ranging from sports trivia questions to entertainment trivia and of course the core of most trivia games – general knowledge questions.

With the business of trivia games growing so rapidly, the demand is there for many more trivia questions writers. A good online trivia game requires tens of thousands of trivia questions. While the older generation of quiz sites and trivia games relied heavily on buying trivia questions in bulk and even more so on content generated by their users, many of the newer sites recently launched offer games for money as well as free games, as part of the general trend of online skill games, and for this they require a unique database of high quality questions.

Most people think that only real trivia die-hards can write good trivia questions, but with a little bit of information and training, almost anyone can do it. www.triviaqustionsonline.com was set to help people learn this 'craft' which is as much art as it is science.