Trivia
Summary
The trivia (singular trivium, adjective trivial) are the three lower Artes Liberales, i.e. grammar, rhetoric and logic. These were the topics of basic education, foundational to the quadrivia of higher education, and hence the material of basic education, of interest only to undergraduates. The word trivia was also used to describe a place where three roads met in Ancient Rome.The term had become, during the 20th Century, as forgotten as the system of education it pertained to when it was ironically appropriated to mean something very new. In the 1960s, nostalgic college students and others began to informally trade questions and answers about the popular culture of their youth.
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Q: How Does IMDB Follow Up a Hit App? A: With a Trivia App.
IMDB’s first mobile effort was a hit — the company says that 15 million Apple iOS users and 10 million Google Android users have downloaded the app since 2009. So here’s the next effort from Amazon’s movie database site: A trivia game. IMDB says 25 million users access the service from phones each month, either via apps or its mobile site.
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Baby Got Social Games
“Baby Got Back” rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot is making his mark on the social gaming scene with a new Facebook trivia game, MixNMatch. The game challenges people to answer a list of silly either-or questions — but they have to guess which option Mix-A-Lot (or a Facebook friend) would choose.
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NPR launches new Facebook app
They’re app-happy over at NPR these days, with over 1 million people having downloaded the organization’s iPad app over the last year and plans to introduce a new Facebook app that will let NPR listeners meet each other on Facebook and play trivia games. Original Story:.
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Google teams up with NYT for trivia game
Google's latest experiment - trivia game as advertising - represents an interesting fusion of polarities: the search engine teaming up with the newspaper, the webby outfit working in print, the ad space filled with a game. Original Story: .
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NPR Launches New Facebook App As iPad Downloads Top 1 Million
They’re app-happy over at NPR these days, with over 1 million people having downloaded the organization’s iPad app over the last year and plans to introduce a new Facebook app that will let NPR listeners meet each other on Facebook and play trivia games.
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NPR Launches New Facebook App As iPad Downloads Top 1 Million
They’re app-happy over at NPR these days, with over 1 million people having downloaded the organization’s iPad app over the last year and plans to introduce a new Facebook app that will let NPR listeners meet each other on Facebook and play trivia games.
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Google teams up with The New York Times for its topsy-turvy trivia game
Q: Which search outfit will be running, for the next three months, a standing ad in the weekday print editions of The New York Times?.
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IAC"s Mindspark Buys VoxPop's Gaming Platform
Mindspark Interactive Network, the IAC (NSDQ: IACI) unit that houses various online contest and gaming properties, has acquired the gaming platform created by VoxPop. The VoxPop platform, including its trivia engine, has been used to power pop culture games in genres ranging from music to news. Mindspark will attach the platform to its IWON contest and sweepstakes brand.
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