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15 Spider-Man Quotes to Go Home With 

Another superhero winter cycle, another seasonal Marvel movie to watch around December. Almost like clockwork. Anyway, Tom Holland’s Spider-Man will be seeing another outing with Spider-Man: No Way...

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Trivia Hunt XII – 11/20/21 Recap

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Why Do Things Taste Better When Other People Cook?

Have you ever had someone else do you a favor and make you food? That’s not really a question, because everyone has had food made for them by virtue of not being born with the [...]

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7 Weird Pieces of Consumer Technology You Might Regret Buying

Now that Black Friday is over you probably have a lot of stuff that you just like… Bought for no reason because you convinced yourself it was a good deal. If you were able to [...]

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Who are our hosts?

If you’re like me, when you go to a trivia event hosted by Sporcle you wonder: how does someone end up reading trivia questions each week? Even more mystifying is the question of how they [...]

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Why Are Red and Green Christmas Colors?

If you’re getting into the festive December mood, then you’re probably seeing lots of red and green everywhere. Aside from the fact that red and green are complementary colors, you might be wondering...

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10 for 10 Tournament Event Recap

Sporcle Presents: The 10 for 10 Trivia Challenge Tournament Event Thank you for being a part of the final 10 for 10 Trivia Challenge event of this season, and for your continuous love for our [...]

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What Are the Most Common Flag Colors?

If you’re out here trying to learn all the flags of the world you might have noticed a handful of colors keep coming up again and again. They might symbolize different things, but there are [...]

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What Is the Most Useless Body Part? | Organs You Don’t Need

We have… A lot of things inside our bodies. It’s a very complicated organic machine and our understanding of it is always evolving. But with complication comes redundancy, and you might be wondering...

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Trivia Hunt – Invitational – Recap

Trivia Hunt Invitational: December 20th, 2021 Trivia Hunt 2021 season ended with a dramatic contest where all the previous winners gave it their best for one last big prize. Getting an invite for this...

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What Is a Yule Log?

You’ve probably heard something about Yule logs heading into the holidays, especially if you’re anywhere YouTube or Netflix. Because you know, now everyone seems to have their hour-long video of a...

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Why Do People Have Christmas Trees? | Christmas Tree Origins

It’s probably a pretty fair assumption that a good chunk of people who are reading this have seen a big fir tree sitting in someone’s home. Maybe it’s actually your home right now, and you’re [...]

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17 Space Trivia Team Names to Gaze Into the Abyss With

If you haven’t heard, we shot a new telescope into space recently to look at new galaxies and planets. We won’t be seeing the first images from the Webb telescope for the next like 6 [...]

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A Holiday Present from Us to You: Bonus Badges!

A bonus bonanza of badges to celebrate the new year! Hey Sporclers! As we ring in the new year, we’re making some major changes to the way badges work — there’s a post in groups [...]

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Top Quizzes of 2021

Oh, 2021. We had such high hopes for what the year might have in store, only to find ourselves back in a repeat of 2020. It’s been another tough year for so many, but hopefully [...]

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Badge of the Week: Almost Useless-er Trivia

We’re starting a new era in badges…with a sequel badge! If you missed the announcement over the holiday break, in addition to the eighteen bonus badges we released right before 2022 started, the badge...

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Why Do We Make Lemonade When Life Gives Us Lemons?

Things happen. Lots of them are cool, but also lots of them are super inconvenient or awful. When those inconvenient things happen, your friends and family have probably told you “well, when life gives...

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What Is the Story Behind “Three Blind Mice”?

Before they ended up in Shrek’s swamp, the Three Blind Mice had top billing in a classic nursery rhyme that was published on October 12, 1609. At this time in England, James I was king, [...]

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What’s the Difference Between Snails and Slugs?

Ever just step outside after it rains and see slugs everywhere? Maybe you saw both slugs and snails coming out after watering your garden or something. Either way you probably didn’t want to touch...

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Sporcle 2021 Year in Review

Congrats folks, we did it. We made it through 2021. Last year we saw the capital stormed, had supply chains falter, the Taliban returned to power and lost Betty White. BUT we also had some [...]

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