NerdTrivia Offers Nerdy Quiz Game on Twitter
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After countless nights of tweeting various trivia questions from trivia nights at bars she frequently visited, Xbox software engineer Laura Massey decided to take the trivia-question-tweeting to a new level by creating a bot that turned Twitter into a bar-room trivia game, but without the free pitchers of beer.
Massey calls her new Twitter trivia game NerdTrivia. As the title suggests, the questions asked by the Twitter bot are specifically nerdy and range from questions about science fiction and fantasy films to video games.
The "Nerd Trivia Host" or @nerdtrivia asks questions like, "In Game of Thrones, what is the Stark family motto?"
Each question is proceeded by a point value. The 'Game of Thrones' question is worth five points. Soon after the question is asked, the Nerd Trivia Host tweets again with a very exact time when the question ends, "You have 4.9987 minutes left to answer my current question." After the time has expired, the trivia bot then tweets how many users tweeted the answer correctly and lists the top responders.
But this year's Mastermind champion Gary Grant is about as far from the stereotypes of weedy nerds and beer-bellied pub quizzers as you can get. When he is not doing quizzes or curing the sick, the 34-year-old GP from Aberdeen can be found risking life