Trivia Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Daily iPhone App: Lie Swatter has you swatting lies for fun with friends

by Mike Schramm (Apr 10th, 2013)

Developer Jellyvision is best known as the company behind the great You Don't Know Jack series -- they've made nearly every version of the best-selling trivia video game, including the really great iOS iteration. Lie Swatter is the latest game from the company, and while it's not related to You ...

App lets you battle Ken Jennings in trivia death match

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 19th, 2013)

If you ever wanted to know how you would stack up against Ken Jennings in a Jeopardy battle, now's your chance. An app called Trivia Death Match with Ken Jennings hit the App Store last week. It allows players to answer trivia questions against Jennings in timed matches. Points are awarded for ...

You Don't Know Jack gets celebrity guests

by Mike Schramm (Feb 7th, 2013)

I am a big fan of the You Don't Know Jack series as a whole, and I think the recently released iOS version is one of the best ways to play the game: It's social, it's quick and easy, and oh yeah, it's completely free. And now that version is getting even better -- Jellyvision has made some ...

Daily iPhone App: You Don't Know Jack returns in Facebook form

by Mike Schramm (Dec 17th, 2012)

You may be surprised to see the classic You Don't Know Jack here in this space again, as we've already covered it as a daily app. But that version is no longer on the App Store, and the new version that appeared yesterday is a completely different game, this time based on the Facebook version ...

Daily iPhone App: Quizboard makes Scrabble more trivial

by Mike Schramm (Jun 18th, 2012)

Since the success of Scrabblous on Facebook and Words with Friends on the iPhone, there have been plenty of Scrabble-like games out there, where you place lettered tiles on a board trying to spell words for a high score. But Quizboard smartly takes that gameplay, and puts a new twist on it: ...

TUAW TV Live: iPads, apps, accessories, and trivia

by Steven Sande (Mar 14th, 2012)

Welcome back to another thrilling episode of TUAW TV Live! On today's show, I'll be doing the regular round of demos along with discussion with the chat room about the new iPad, and ending the show with another fun round of Apple trivia. As usual, the show will get underway at exactly 5 PM EDT / 2 ...

TUAW TV Live at 5 PM EDT: 4G iPads, fun apps, Apple trivia

by Steven Sande (Mar 14th, 2012)

It's Wednesday already, which means it's time for another episode of TUAW TV Live. It's too early to do an iPad unboxing or post-mortem, but I'm sure we'll have an opportunity to discuss all the things about the new iPad that we didn't get around to last week. I'll also be demonstrating some fun ...

You Don't Know Jack coming to iOS

by Mike Schramm (Apr 8th, 2011)

Here's some good news for your Friday: The newest version of the classic trivia video game You Don't Know Jack is coming to iOS. Cookie and the gang, Question Four (the question that cares), and all the rest will be on Apple's handheld platforms sometime in the future, so you'll be able to do ...

Unsung iPad 2 feature: New SIM ejector tool

by Chris Rawson (Mar 12th, 2011)

By now we all know about the iPad 2's A5 processor, its redesigned case, its front and rear-facing cameras. Here's a feature I haven't seen anyone mention yet: the iPad 2 has a new SIM ejector tool. You can see the new tool on the right side of this photo, compared with the original ejector ...

Planning a Super Bowl party? Check out these apps

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Feb 4th, 2011)

With the countdown to the Super Bowl underway, TUAW is here to highlight some apps that will help smooth out your party planning. Apple helped as well, releasing its own list of Super Bowl party apps. We'll share some of those with you, as well as a few of our own favorites. ...

TUAW's Daily App: Movie Triangles

by Mike Schramm (Jan 17th, 2011)

Movie Triangles is a fun Java game where you connect movie stars and their films in a Sierpinski triangle-style grid. Developer Jim Blackler originally had the idea to create a trivia game made up of information straight from Wikipedia, and Movie Triangles is what that idea eventually became. It's ...

Play with your brain: 3 Degrees of Wikipedia

by Steven Sande (Dec 13th, 2010)

I've been a trivia buff forever, and it seems like my brain has an endless capacity for relatively useless information while it has difficulty remembering important things -- like my name, for instance. With over 3,500,000 articles in the English version of Wikipedia, there's plenty of fodder for ...

TUAW first look: JEOPARDY! for iOS

by Erica Sadun (Sep 22nd, 2010)

I'm not one to give up on hope. I've been trying out various incarnations of branded Jeopardy games since dinosaurs roamed the earth (I believe that T. Rex used an early version of Microsoft Windows before going extinct). The latest version to grace us is a US $1.99 mobile app, now available from ...

Quizarium the multiplayer trivia app is nearly ready for prime-time

by David Winograd (Mar 12th, 2010)

Quizarium [free], a multiplayer iPhone/iPod touch trivia game, arrived in the App Store today. I got a chance to look at a pre-release copy and I found some problems with the interface and flow of the game. Some problems will be solved either upon release, since an update is being approved right ...

iSuppli estimates the iPhone 3GS costs $179 to make

by Mike Schramm (Jun 25th, 2009)

Did you know that after it is broken down into all of its composite metals and materials and parts, your human body is really only worth about $4.50? Yup, you're cheap in the broadest sense -- all of that oxygen, magnesium, iron, and sodium isn't actually worth all that much in the rare metals ...