A Brief History of the NBA Shot Clock
Why does the NBA have a shot clock? The newly founded National Basketball Association was struggling in the early 1950s. The league was having trouble attracting fans, positive media coverage was...
View ArticleThe Voynich Manuscript – The Unsolvable Mystery Book
The Voynich Manuscript – what is it and what does it mean? Few artifacts have baffled historians like the Voynich Manuscript. It began attracting modern scholars’ interest after antique bookseller...
View ArticleMonday Morning Links: January 9th, 2017
“Mondays are the start of the work week which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!” — David Dweck Here we go again with ‘Monday Morning Links’. We took a week off as we recovered from New Years, but...
View ArticleCurator Knows Best: Cutthroat
When it comes to Sporcle, curators truly do know best. In this blog series, some of the great curators of Sporcle share their expert opinions on curating, top-notch quizzes, up-and-coming Sporclers,...
View ArticleWhy is Friday the 13th Unlucky? The Origins of a Superstitious Holiday
The origins of Friday the 13th as an unlucky day. Lock your doors, stay in bed, and pick a different day to play the lotto. If you’re feeling at all uneasy this week, perhaps you can rest a little...
View ArticleCurator Knows Best: PrincessMartell
When it comes to Sporcle, curators truly do know best. In this blog series, some of the great curators of Sporcle share their expert opinions on curating, top-notch quizzes, up-and-coming Sporclers,...
View ArticleA Brief History of Sporcle
Sporcle isn’t just a website, or an app, or an entertaining evening in a bar at night. Sporcle is a company dedicated to trivia and the all important mentally stimulating diversion. Here is its story....
View ArticleHere Is Why So Many Countries End In ‘-Stan’
The Seven Stans If you’ve been around Sporcle for even a little while, you’ve probably noticed that we have a slight obsession with the fine nation of Kyrgyzstan. Being able to properly spell this...
View ArticleCurator Knows Best: william2
When it comes to Sporcle, curators truly do know best. In this blog series, some of the great curators of Sporcle share their expert opinions on curating, top-notch quizzes, up-and-coming Sporclers,...
View ArticleWhat Is Newspeak and Is It Now A Reality?
What is Newspeak and why does it matter now? When Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway appeared on “Meet the Press” and declared press secretary Sean Spicer’s comments to be “alternative facts,”...
View ArticleWhatever Happened to the Left Shark?
The brief and odd history of Left Shark – a Super Bowl phenomenon. It has been over two years since the Left Shark from Katy Perry’s Super Bowl halftime performance has entered our pop culture...
View ArticleCurator Knows Best: tim_parr
When it comes to Sporcle, curators truly do know best. In this blog series, some of the great curators of Sporcle share their expert opinions on curating, top-notch quizzes, up-and-coming Sporclers,...
View ArticleHow to Impeach a President in the United States
How to impeach a president and what does it actually mean? Cries of “impeach ’em!” can be very common in our political conversations, but what does it mean to actually impeach a politician? Given how...
View ArticleCurator Knows Best: Scuadrado
When it comes to Sporcle, curators truly do know best. In this blog series, some of the great curators of Sporcle share their expert opinions on curating, top-notch quizzes, up-and-coming Sporclers,...
View ArticleWhy Do Some Countries Drive On The Left?
Left Vs. Right It was once said that, “the sun never sets on the British Empire.” This phrase, along with similar variations, became popularized in Britain during the 19th century, as British imperial...
View ArticleNew Badges: Honky Tonk, Nicely Polish-ed, and Making History
How come we never see Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer on History quizzes? He’s in there. Honky Tonk: If you play an EDM song backwards, you get back EDM. If you play a country song backward, you get...
View ArticleWhat is the Franchise Tag in the NFL?
What Offseason? The Super Bowl might have come and gone, but if you’re a football fanatic, you know there really is no such thing as an NFL offseason. Even now, mere weeks since Brady and Belichick...
View ArticleCurator Knows Best: DesertSpartan
When it comes to Sporcle, curators truly do know best. In this blog series, some of the great curators of Sporcle share their expert opinions on curating, top-notch quizzes, up-and-coming Sporclers,...
View ArticleHow to Learn All the Flags of the World
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post written by Sporcle user Tr4pD00r, curator for Asia and Flags. He hops on the blog to offer some guidance on how to earn one of Sporcle’s toughest badges. Learn the...
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