Daily Trivia

How to play Daily Trivia

Daily Trivia is a quick general-knowledge quiz you can play once every day. Each day the game serves the same ten multiple-choice questions to every player in the world, chosen from the current date so that friends and strangers alike are all answering the exact same quiz. Every question has four answer options and only one is correct. You tap your answer, find out at once whether you were right, read a short explanation, and move on to the next question. The faster you answer correctly, the more bonus points you earn. When you have finished all ten questions you get a score, a full review of your answers, and a place on the leaderboard. Prefer to keep going? A Practice mode deals endless fresh quizzes from the same question bank.

The goal

Your goal is to answer as many of the ten questions correctly as you can, and to answer them quickly. Each correct answer is worth a base number of points plus a speed bonus that shrinks the longer you take, so a confident, fast run scores much higher than a slow, hesitant one. There is no penalty for a wrong answer beyond missing those points — you simply score nothing for that question and move on. Your final score is the sum of the points from every question you answered correctly.

The daily quiz — the same questions worldwide

What makes Daily Trivia a “daily” game is that the quiz is built from the calendar date rather than at random. The game uses the current UTC date to seed both which questions appear and the order their four answer options are shown in, so everyone who plays on the same day sees an identical quiz: the same questions, in the same sequence, with the answers in the same positions. That is what makes comparing scores fair — you are all attempting the very same challenge. The date of the current quiz is shown above the questions so you always know which day you are playing. At midnight UTC the quiz rolls over and a brand-new set of ten questions appears, drawn afresh from the bank.

How a round works

• Each quiz has ten questions, shown one at a time. A progress counter (for example “Q 3 / 10”) tells you where you are, and your running score and number correct are always on screen.
• Every question shows a category label — such as Geography, Science or History — and four answer buttons labelled A to D. Tap the one you think is correct.
• The moment you answer, the correct option turns green and, if you were wrong, your choice turns red. A one-line explanation often appears, so you learn something even when you miss.
• Press Next to move on. After the tenth question you reach the results screen with your total score and a full review of every question, your answer and the right answer.

Scoring

Each question you answer correctly earns a base of 800 points plus a speed bonus. The speed bonus starts at 200 points for an instant answer and falls smoothly to zero over the first twenty seconds, so answering within a few seconds is worth nearly the full bonus while a long pause is worth little. Wrong or unanswered questions score nothing. With ten questions the highest possible score is 10 × (800 + 200) = 10,000 points, and every score is capped at 99,999 so it always fits on the leaderboard. Higher is better. Your best daily score is saved on your device and, when you are signed in, uploaded to the leaderboard. Only the once-a-day ranked quiz counts toward the leaderboard; Practice rounds are just for fun.

Original questions about real, public facts

Every question in Daily Trivia was written in-house for AppFreeGame from public, widely known facts — the sort of general knowledge found in atlases, science primers and history basics: capital cities, the planets, simple arithmetic, the parts of the body, famous inventions and everyday nature. We did not copy any commercial trivia database, quiz book or third-party question set; the wording and the answer choices are our own. The questions are drawn from a bank of several hundred, spread across ten categories, so you will rarely meet the same one twice in a short span. Because the facts are basic and public, the quiz is family-friendly and safe to play anywhere.

Practice mode

Once you have played today’s ranked quiz — or any time you simply want more — switch to Practice. Practice deals a fresh, randomly seeded set of ten questions from the same bank, with no daily limit and no leaderboard submission. It is the perfect way to warm up, to keep learning, or to enjoy the game after you have used your one ranked attempt for the day. Every practice round reshuffles both the questions and their answer options.

Tips for a high score

• Read carefully but decide quickly. Because the speed bonus fades over the first twenty seconds, the difference between a snap answer and a slow one can be almost a full bonus per question — trust your first instinct when you know it.
• Rule out the obviously wrong options. With four choices, eliminating one or two clearly wrong answers turns a blind guess into a much better bet even when you are unsure.
• Watch the category label. Knowing whether a question is about Geography, Science or Language helps you frame the answer and avoid being tricked by a plausible-looking distractor from another field.
• Learn from the explanations. The one-line note after each answer is there to teach; practising with it is the fastest way to raise tomorrow’s daily score.
• Warm up in Practice before the daily. Since your ranked attempt only counts once a day, a few practice rounds to sharpen up first can make the real thing count.

Frequently asked questions