trivia

Can You Name All 20 Planets In This Video Game Solar System?

This weirdly engrossing three-minute video delivers 20 stylised worlds evocative of some very familiar video gaming franchises. Like trivia night at a bar, they slowly reveal themselves, with the final clue basically giving everything away. Can you name all 20 on sight before the last tipoff?


‘Hunger Games’ Stud Can’t Shake Off The Super Mario Theme

At the end of a nearly 13 minute interview, Peter Travers, the eminent film critic from Rolling Stone asks Josh Hutcherson, who plays Peeta in current box office smash The Hunger Games to sing the song currently on his mind. OK, Hutcherson says, just one problem: The song has no lyrics.


Ridiculously Easy Game Show Question Was Good For $US100,000

Ridiculously easy for us of course. I’m sure when some neckbeard gets to $US100,000 on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” and goes deer-in-the-headlights when asked “Which Pope commissioned the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling”, every snark on the art history blogs is all lolwut and SMFH and such.


How Many Games Can You Identify In A Pinch?

You may think you know a lot of video games. You may even think you could name hundreds of them from a single screenshot. Time to put that knowledge to the test!


I’ll Take Achievement Trivia For $500, Thanks

Well, it’s time to find out. Achievement Point Trivia is an iPhone app that’s as self-explanatory as it gets.


Project Needlemouse’s Character Reveals Are Trivial

The names on this image represent potential playable characters in Sega’s Project Needlemouse 2D Sonic the Hedgehog revival, and only your knowledge of Sonic trivia can help narrow down the list!


Silly Game Show Gets Silly iPhone Game From Capcom

The only thing more ridiculous than a television quiz show set inside a taxi cab is an iPhone game simulating a television quiz show set inside a taxi cab.


AU Diary: Guess Who Won That Games Trivia Night?

Last night I played trivia at an event put on by Electronic Arts. It pitted the cream of Australia’s gaming cognoscenti in a battle of, well, pretty useless knowledge, to be honest.


AU Diary: Who Was The Guy That Did That Thing…?

In about half an hour’s time, I’ll be playing trivia. Not just any old trivia, gaming trivia. And by that I don’t mean Buzz or Scene It?, I mean proper pub trivia where all the questions are about video games.


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